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Joe Cole insisted he is not interested in Coventry's money and joined the Sky Blues because he is desperate to play again.
The ex-England midfielder made a shock loan move to the Ricoh Arena from Aston Villa on Friday.
He is expected to make his Coventry debut in their Sky Bet League One game at Rochdale on Tuesday.
Villa are subsidising most of Cole's wages during his 35-day spell and the 33-year-old said money is not an issue.
He said: "If I was coming here for the money I wouldn't be here. I've been playing in an era where we are very lucky and we appreciate that as footballers.
"Most of us come from council estates and working class. You have an opportunity to lead a good life and finances are not going to be a problem for me. That wasn't an issue for me coming here."
Ex-Chelsea and West Ham star Cole has played just once for Villa this season and has made just three league starts in 16 appearances since joining on a two-year deal in 2014.
And Cole, who became a father for a third time on Sunday, revealed he dropped down to the third tier because he wants to play again.
"I just want to play football, regardless of the level, proper football, competitive football. I want to play for the right time and the right manager who plays the right way. I'm just excited to play a game," he said.
"I'm sure once I get the cobwebs off I'll be back to myself and looking forward to it.
"I've not really thought about the ideal scenario. One thing I have learnt is you only think of the next game.
"I know it's boring but anything could happen. I'm just excited I've got a game to play tomorrow. There's seven games in the 35 days and we'll review it after then."
Coventry boss Tony Mowbray added: "He came to us, it's not something I went chasing. The boy wants to play football and he still has part of his illustrious career to go."


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Today I stumbled across the LaTeX font catalogue, which lists all available fonts for LaTeX. I am really surprised that I had not been aware of it earlier. I was also surprised at the number of fonts there. While some new projects such as XeTeX are making all open-type and true-type fonts available to the TeX typesetting system, I still use regular (pdf)LaTeX most of the time, and every once in awhile I like to play around with fonts. And, I think I have finally figured out the correct way to install new fonts using texlive.
- Copy files to the appropriate place under texmf
sudo texhash
This will tell TeX that there are new files in its path
sudo updmap-sys --enable <newfont>
This will update the font handling parts of LaTeX
Here is a sample of one font I found pretty cool, and the LaTeX source:
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The liberals at whom I used to laugh were the ones who were right—for they were living in the present while I had been living in the past. They had been using science while I had been using romantic antiquarianism.
— H.P. Lovecraft, letter to Jennie K. Plaiser (8 July 1936)
In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
— John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. In a universe where Lovecraft's stories are true, science would stumble upon the differences sooner or later, and adapt to them. For instance, Johansen's tale in The Call of Cthulhu has been suggested to constitute "nontechnical observations of an intelligent man who did not understand how to describe what he was seeing", namely spacetime curvatures local to R'lyeh.1
Fertile topics
|Material relevant to this article has been archived by the Fairfield Project at Faster-than-light discussion.
Some concepts in science that can be useful in explaining Mythos phenomena and why they are not understood by humans.
- Quantum fluctuation. The amount of energy in a point in space varies even in a perfect vacuum and without radiation. This can be described as "virtual" particles and antiparticles forming and annihilating from apparently nothing.
- Quantum foam. According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, energy curves space time, and therefore, at small scales, the energy of quantum fluctuation should give space-time a "foamy" character. This has been called the foundation of the fabric of the universe.


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Designing for a Cause
October 24th, 2012
Yesterday afternoon, I took a tour of Holiday House—an Upper East Side mansion that transforms into a holiday-themed designer showhouse every fall. This year, 27 designers were given the task to thoughtfully design each of the many rooms—picking a theme for each space. It was amazing to see so much creativity housed in one building—from the eclectic mix of fabrics, textures, furniture and artwork, to subtle touches, such as aromas and sounds. Holiday House 2012 will benefit The Breast Cancer Research Fund. Every room was spectacular. I especially loved Ally Coulter Designs LLC "Father's Day" themed room, with the slight scent of cologne, as well as a mixture of leather, faux fur and bold accents—like a larger-than-life rifle mounted above a fireplace and a cactus resting on a coffee table. Coulter describes the space as "James Bond's room if he were to get married." Although I would love to describe each and every room, there's nothing better than being there. Holiday House will be open to the public October 25th thru November 18th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Tuesdays and Thursdays open until 8 p.m.).
Pictured: "Remembrance of Things Past" designed by Geoffrey Bradfield Inc.


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New Delhi: India has conveyed its concerns to China about its activities in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir (PoK), Minister of State for Defense Rao Inderjit Singh said on Friday, in response to a question on the presence of Chinese personnel in Gilgit-Baltistan region of PoK.
The government has seen such reports and has conveyed its concerns to China about their activities in PoK and asked them to cease such activities.
He stated his response in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
Further, the government keeps a constant watch on all developments having a bearing on India's security and takes all necessary measures to safeguard it,
In response to another question, the minister denied any air space violation by Pakistan along the Line of Control in 2015.
There has been no airspace violation by Pakistan along the LoC in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir in the year 2015. The Indian Air Force (IAF) is suitably equipped, trained and organized to detect and tackle any intrusion of Indian air space,
He also denied any violation of India's maritime boundary.
The government regularly reviews the threat perception from time to time and takes appropriate measures to safeguard the sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of the country. The joint efforts of various stakeholders like Indian Navy, Indian Coast Guard and various State Governments have contributed towards strengthening the Coastal Security apparatus,
"There has been no violation of the Indian maritime territory by Pakistan in the Arabian Sea in the recent past," the minister said in a separate reply.
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By Bryan Cranston
4 out of 5 stars
This is probably going to sound like a love letter to Bryan Cranston. It pretty much is. I loved him before I started reading this book and I love him even more after finishing it. I felt like he was sitting on my couch with me, just shooting the breeze and talking about life. He talked about his childhood. His father always had big dreams and how his mother drank. Somehow he pulled himself out of it.He has such a strong work ethic (you can see that in his performances) but he has worked a lot of other jobs along the way, from paper routes to egg gathering to waiting tables. (The story of killing the chef is hysterical!) All this has brought him to who he is today.
It was very interesting to read about his process, how he never stops learning. I loved his appreciation for being a soap actor. You don't get a lot of people who think that it's a good thing and look down on their past as one. And who didn't love Hal on Malcolm in the Middle. He never failed to make me laugh. Then of course, there is Walter White. Wow. I look forward to whatever he does next.
But the heart of this book is his love for his wife Robyn, so apparent in everything he writes, and his daughter Taylor. He says you need to have a solid foundation at home and he is so right. You can see that is where his heart is.
Pick this one up, my friends. You won't be disappointed. And like I say whenever I read a memoir, I wish I had the audio book. Even though in my mind, I heard his voice loud and clear while I was reading, hearing him read it would be wonderful.
I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.


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Alec's Automotive, a fixture on Vancouver's Fraser Street at 23rd Avenue since it opened as a blacksmith shop in 1909, is leaving Vancouver. The family-run operation is moving to the Metrotown area of Burnaby. It's an unfortunate trend where Vancouver's old-time automotive businesses are being forced out of the city by high taxes and encroaching development.
Walter Quaife opened his blacksmith shop on a hill in southeast Vancouver 110 years ago. Back then, Fraser Street ran from False Creek in Vancouver to the north arm of the Fraser River and was called North Arm Road. It was originally a wood plank roadway enabling horses pulling wagons not to get stuck in the mud. A century-old city directory indicates Quaife's blacksmith shop was taken over by H.J. Miles and D. Day who shod the horses that pulled the firewagons from Hall No. 23, a block away, and milk wagons for Dairyland.
Soon the area filled in with residential housing and streetcars started running on Fraser Street. And so Alec Eaton turned the blacksmith shop into a service station that did mechanical work. He had an ability for machine work and started rebuilding engines. He had rows of rebuilt four, six and eight-cylinder engines ready to install in Model T, Model A and later Ford cars and trucks along with other vehicles of that era.
Leslie Borden bought Alec out in 1946 and continued pumping Chevron gasoline at the front of the old wooden building facing Fraser Street while servicing cars and installing the engines he rebuilt in the shop. He raised his family in a small cottage behind the garage that is now more than a century old.
That cottage along with everything else will be leveled by the developer who bought the property to make way for a rental apartment building.
The size of the original blacksmith shop was doubled with an addition to the building many years ago. A tour of the shop is like a trip back in time. The office is lined with old parts books and boxes of auto parts – many for cars from half-a-century ago or more.
In the Sixties, Alec's Automotive had the contract for Yellow Cabs and would install a completely rebuilt slant-six engine in one day. They would then rebuild the one they had removed from the taxi to put in another car. Not surprisingly, the shop is crammed with engine building machinery. At one point, the shop had an engine for a 1909 Cadillac on the bench alongside another for a 2009 model – a 100-year span.
Alec's Automotive has been a family owned and run operation for the past 70 years. Leslie Borden's sons Don and Doug ran the business for years. Now Doug's sons Kevin and Rob operate Alec's Automotive. Rob points to the ceiling that was damaged when a pot holding molten alloy metal about to be poured for babbitt engine bearings blew up before he was born.
The attic has yielded many items from the past illustrating the long history of Alec's Automotive. There is a yellowing Vancouver business license from 1948. And a portable grinder used for resurfacing crankshafts while they were still in the car.
"My grandfather would drop my grandmother off to shop and then go to where cars and trucks were parked, pull off the crankcase pan and bearing caps to loosen the connecting rods," Rob said. "He would then use this machine to grind the crankshaft while it was still in the car."
An invoice from 1965 shows that a rebuilt engine for a 1957 Mercury cost $189.76. And that included removal of the engine and installation once it was rebuilt. A head gasket for the engine cost $1.68. That same engine would cost up to $5,000 to rebuild today, depending on availability of parts.
Alec's Automotive continues to rebuild engines for other shops all over British Columbia. Their wall of fame features photos of hot rods, racecars and trucks that have received engines rebuilt by Alec's.
The company is following the path of other traditional Vancouver automotive shops that can no longer continue in business in the city.
It's the end of an era for Alec's Automotive in Vancouver – a shop that can trace its roots over 70 years of being operated by the same family in a building dating back to 1909. Beginning in January Alec's Automotive can be found at 6909 Russell Ave. in Burnaby.
Alyn Edwards is a classic car enthusiast and partner in Peak Communicators, a Vancouver-based public relations company. email@example.com


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If you love an old fashioned grammarian throw down, we've got a good one for you. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of William Strunk and E.B. White's The Elements of Style and Geoffrey K. Pullum isnt celebrating. In a delightfully vitriolic essay for The Chronicle Review, Pullum complains that the tiny guide "does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students' grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it."
Brutal. Then, in the very next breath, this: "The authors won't be hurt by these critical remarks. They are long dead." You get the distinct sense that Pullum would have been glad to see the book buried with the men who made it. "Both authors were grammatical incompetents," he writes. "Strunk had very little analytical understanding of syntax, White even less. Certainly White was a fine writer, but he was not qualified as a grammarian."
Pullum isn't pissed about the style advice, which he calls "mostly harmless"—all of his punches are aimed squarely at the grammar rules and the grammar itself:
"Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs," they insist. (The motivation of this mysterious decree remains unclear to me.)
And then, in the very next sentence, comes a negative passive clause containing three adjectives: "The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place."
That's actually not just three strikes, it's four, because in addition to contravening "positive form" and "active voice" and "nouns and verbs," it has a relative clause ("that can pull") removed from what it belongs with (the adjective), which violates another edict: "Keep related words together."
"Keep related words together" is further explained in these terms: "The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, be separated by a phrase or clause that can be transferred to the beginning." That is a negative passive, containing an adjective, with the subject separated from the principal verb by a phrase ("as a rule") that could easily have been transferred to the beginning. Another quadruple violation.
A 50th anniversary is a big deal, and Geoffrey K. Pullum knows how to party.
Source: The Chronicle Review


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Do you know about Hometalk? If not, let me tell you – it's an amazing website that connects the largest online community of homeowners, renters and home improvement pros who love sharing ideas and advice on all things relating to the home and garden.
In other words, it's one of my favorite places!
So, needless to say, I was thrilled when Hometalk asked if I would curate a collection of end table upcycles for them. I had SO MUCH FUN scouring their site to find end tables that I deemed truly inspirational. (In the interest of full disclosure, I included one of my own. I am shameless.) You won't believe the creativity of some people – I think you will love this collection!


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Housing strategy launches
21 November 2011
The government has launched a new strategy in response to our growing housing crisis.
The new homes plan, which was announced by the coalition government today, includes a variety of proposals to address the problems currently facing the housing sector. These include:
- delivering a £400million 'Get Britain Building' fund to kick-start development on sites where building has been approved but stalled
- supporting a mortgage guarantee scheme to underwrite mortgages on new-build homes for first time buyers; this could mean that first-time buyers will be able to borrow up to 95% of the property value – with the government underwriting part of the risk
- offering social housing tenants the opportunity to buy their properties for as little as half the market value, by extending discounts available on the 'right-to-buy' scheme
- refurbishing empty homes, particularly in deprived areas
- making more public sector land available for building
- holding an independent review to look at increasing investment into private rented homes
- consulting on plans to make higher earning tenants 'pay to stay' in social housing.
In response to the proposals, Shelter's chief executive Campbell Robb said: 'Whilst we welcome the government's commitment to tackle our housing crisis, today's announcement falls far short of the quarter of a million new homes we need each year just to meet demand.
We are concerned that schemes to help first-time buyers and council tenants will simply encourage people to overextend themselves, while doing nothing to address the sky-high cost of housing.
This strategy also does almost nothing to help the growing number of families living in insecure private rented housing with hardly any protection from rogue landlords or unexpected rises in rent. Unfortunately these aren't the bold and radical solutions we need to solve a housing crisis that's been decades in the making.'
Read the housing strategy on the Communities and Local Government website.


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Oklahoma TE Mark Andrews a nightmare matchup for opponents
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) Oklahoma tight end Mark Andrews' mere presence on the field is creating problems for the opponent.
At 6-foot-5 and 254 pounds, the two-time All-Big 12 selection is coming off career highs of seven catches and 134 yards in last Saturday's 56-7 win over Texas-El Paso . He'll need to be productive again on Saturday when the fifth-ranked Sooners travel to No. 2 Ohio State.
''We just need to keep getting him the ball,'' Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield said. ''He's going to make competitive plays, and obviously you want the football in his hands after the catch.''
Andrews' touchdown against the Miners gave him 15 in 27 career games. His emergence is critical now that last year's Biletnikoff Award winner, Dede Westbrook, is with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Oklahoma also lost running back Joe Mixon, the team's No. 2 receiver last season, and Geno Lewis, who was third on the team in receptions and fourth in yards last season.
''With that type of lost production, there's going to be a lot of things that have to make up for that,'' Andrews said. ''I'm definitely a guy that can do that. I'm looking forward to doing that.''
UTEP coach Sean Kugler knew what was coming. He noticed Andrews' 16.3-yard average per catch and his blocking skills, among other things.
''I think they're got one of the best tight ends in the country in Mark Andrews,'' Kugler said. ''This guy is a great route runner, but he's a complete tight end, and those are rare to find nowadays.''
Andrews and Mayfield have been connecting since 2014, when they were on scout team together. Andrews believes that experience can make him a key target, like Westbrook last year and Sterling Shepard the year before.
''It's a long time to play with a quarterback, so I definitely feel like we have that chemistry to be able to do that,'' he said. ''I'm kind of his blanket when he needs me. Just to be able to be that guy in go-to situations, I think I could definitely step up.''
Mayfield certainly was a believer after the opener. Five of Andrews' catches went for first downs, including a 45-yard gain on a third-and-8 in the second quarter. Another went for a 5-yard touchdown.
''Big-time guys have to make plays when it counts,'' Mayfield said. ''So if that's third downs and it's in the red zone, that's when you need your guys the most in those critical situations. That's something we emphasized in camp as well: We've got to make plays when - (offensive lineman) Orlando Brown calls them the money downs. You've got to make plays when it's those, and Mark did that today.''
Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley won't put number goals on what Andrews can do. He made it clear that expectations are high.
''What would a good year be? I don't know that you can define that, but we expect him to be very productive, a matchup we can really exploit,'' Riley said.
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I am a normal girl. I like flowers and sunshine like most other girls. This was my work life tonight.
Me: Hey how's your night going?
He: Nah I'm going staunch. I just wanna snort drugs off your arse crack
Me: Ok babe. Just keep seeping those std's out your penis
(Walk away)
5 mins later in the smoking room when he tries to scab a cigarette
Me:No I don't think so. I thought you were just going staunch and wanted to snort drugs off my arse crack?
He: Yeah I do.
Me: like I said, keep seeping them std's out your dick. Seeping. Such a great word. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to use it. I'm not into financing the bad habits of dirty misogynist.
He: I'm not a misogynist. I'm just a pig.
Me: No…pigs are too cute. You're just a sexist imbecile. Well done. You're now getting a talking down by a stripper in front of a room full of people. (Guy nodding in the background, everyone else is silent. It's not comfortable. It's all I can do to maintain my smile)
He: why would you even say that? (Obvi trying to imply I'm the one with a problem with what I do for a living)
Me: Cause from what I've gathered about you so far, you're a horrible person with little man syndrome who comes to places like this to try and demean us. Textbook misogynist.
He: Oh am I?
Me: yes you are. Imagine that? A woman smarter than you are and not reduced to tears by your attempt to demean her.
He: I wasn't aggressive to you.
Another dancer: yes you were rude from the start!
Me: truckers keep on truckin. You're actually a caricature of a shit character in a shitty movie no one wants to watch.
He: Says she with the dirty regrowth
Me: Regrowth is my personal choice as a free woman.
He: Fucking feminist.
Me: No. I don't think there are feminists anymore babe. Just misogynists, sexists, then the rest of us normal people.
Guy witnessing the scene: boom
Sigh. PS – this guy is married. Poor woman.
As much as I slayed this utter fuckwit and I'm proud of myself for maintaining a smile the whole way through, I was shaking by the end and am still saddened by it all. Night after night having to persevere, having to fight to be treated like a human being, fight to be afforded the respect that should be given freely. It's enough that I am also now fighting with myself to keep my eyes dry. Even though I'm home safe now, the accumulated effect of this, on top of the 3 customers who asked the price for extras, for me to allow them to touch or kiss me, to take me home – it's too much. It's awful that this behavior is so prevalent and yet people seem surprised to hear of domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual coercion. The media focuses on it every now and then as though it's a recent developments, a sudden epidemic. It's not. This is our culture. This is the world we live in. This behavior is never outwardly endorsed but it is ignored and thus perpetuated.
Westerners have no right to be be critical of other cultures and religions when this shit is so prevalent in our society. If you want to see what the real cultural climate is, work in the sex industry for a week and have your eyes opened.


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Reese was taken in for disorderly conduct after her husband, Jim Toth, was pulled over for suspicion of DUI. Witherspoon got into hot water with the cops after she got out of the car while officers were trying to give Toth a Breathalyzer.
The videos show Reese as she tells cops, "I'm pregnant and I have to use the restroom," "I'm an American citizen" and asks "I'm obstructing your justice?"
As the officer reaches to handcuff her, she says, "You better not arrest me." At one point, while she's in the back of the cop car with Toth, he says, "All you should have done is let me get arrested."
A never-before-seen clip also shows Reese after the arrest, speaking with another officer. She tells him "I'm pregnant, early pregnant, it's an early pregnancy."
Witherspoon knows she and husband Jim Toth were in the wrong when they were arrested in Atlanta last month, but she explained herself on "GMA." "I saw him arresting my husband [for DUI] and I literally panicked," she said. "I told him I was pregnant. I'm not pregnant. I said all kinds of crazy things."
Reese pled no contest to the disorderly conduct charges against her, while Toth pled guilty to the charge of driving under the influence.
The "Mud" star isn't the first person to get into an argument with cops. Check out this video of a man going off on an officer in Maine. (Warning: The video includes profanity.)


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There's a reason why we've been talking about it. It's something we should really take seriously.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has just released a new report, War in the West, detailing why. When Jerad & Amanda Miller opened fire at a CiCi's Pizza and a Walmart in the Northeast Las Vegas Valley last month, we knew it didn't come from nowhere. When they proclaimed their murderous rampage the "start of the revolution", we could sense exactly where this came from.
In April, Cliven Bundy declared his "Range War" against federal law. And once he declared war, he summoned "Patriot Movement"/"sovereign citizens" from across the nation to help him fight this "Range War". Yet when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) warned of the dangers of the escalating armed conflict in & around Bunkerville, plenty of politicians & pundits (especially those of the "TEA" tinged variety) condemned Senator Reid for his "poor choice of words".
While "TEA" flavored politicians and pundits were attacking Senator Reid for refusing to mince words, Jerad & Amanda Miller wanted to spread the #BundyRanch "revolution" elsewhere. They shared the same extreme anti-government ideology as the Bundy family. Yet unlike the Bundys, the Millers weren't afraid of spreading the "revolution" into Las Vegas. So they walked into a pizza place and opened fire on 2 Metro Police Officers.
They weren't alone in their "revolutionary" fervor. Even before #BundyRanch dominated cable TV in April, radical right militia groups were on the rise. The "Patriot Movement" has roots going all the way back to resistance to post Civil War Reconstruction in the 1870s. The "Posse Comitatus" movement sprang from the ashes of that resistance nearly 100 years later, after the contemporary civil rights movement scored key legislative and judicial victories. And in 1995, this movement seemed to reach its pinnacle when Timothy McVeigh and his "Patriot" cohorts bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
But after the onset of "The Great Recession" and the first election of President Obama in 2008, the "Patriot Movement" and other anti-government militia groups made a major comeback. And while the "Patriot Movement" has "rebranded" itself in recent years, it hasn't actually strayed from its xenophobic roots.
Just take a look at the current revitalization of the anti-immigrant militia movement. They're trying to take advantage of the Central American refugee crisis and claim this "invasion" is grounds for "war". Last week, Jim Gilchrist called for the revival of the very Minutemen Project that spawned the likes of Shawna Forde & JT Ready. And now, several "Patriot Movement" leaders are calling for armed patrols of the US-Mexico Border.
While their "call to arms" in South Texas has gone mostly unheeded as of late, this may only be the calm before the storm. After all, it looked like #BundyRanch quieted down in late April. Many didn't realize the "Range War" was only the beginning.
When a number of G-O-TEA politicians and media personalities rallied around Cliven Bundy and his "Range War", they either didn't realize or didn't care to acknowledge that they were endorsing something awfully frightening. And when the Bundy family decided to bring these "Patriot Movement" acolytes into Southern Nevada, they didn't care to think about the danger they were importing here and the extreme ideology of violence they were embracing.
Like Pandora, they have opened this box full of evil. That's the reason why we continue to talk about it. This is something we must take seriously.


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- Fabric – 86% nylon (polyamide), 14% elastane (Lycra microfiber)
- Sizing – See chart above.
- Opacity (0 – sheer, 10 – total opaque) – 7 when standing, 5 when bending (will probably show more opaque with lighter colors).
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- Waistband – 37mm width, thin material, and very soft.
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- Colors – From what I've seen, these are offered in Black, Navy, Chocolate, Tan, Graphite and Rubine (plum), depending upon the retailer.
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The photos came out a little more opaque than they actually look, though still of reasonable density for me to be satisfied.


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Weekly Announcements 4.15.18
2018 WOMEN'S SEASON: Women's Season 2018 continues! This is the week! Revival 2 with Bishop Millicent Hunter this Weds., April 18th at 7 p.m. This event is open to all.
Next up…sisters, come get your blessing Fri., April 27th at 6 p.m. for the God is a Wonder…Wakanda Praise Party! w/ 104.1's DJ Soul! African attire is optional. Cost is only $5 which includes food, games, giveaways and more. Please register in the Narthex after service.
And that's not it! The "Walk It like I Talk It" Workshops for Young Women is Sat., April 28th. The cost is $10 which includes lunch. Register young ladies ages 4-18 in the Narthex-for this day of life changing workshops to address real life issues our youth they face every day.
Sisters, bring your mothers, grandmothers, daughters and friends to the 20th Annual Women's Health Awareness and Sporting Day Sat., May 5th. The day includes free health screenings, expert panels and workshops featuring doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals, exercise sessions, cooking demonstrations, vendors, and more. Admission is free, but pre-registration is requested. Register online at ebenezerame.org or godisawonder.com.
Calling all educators! During this Women's Season, the Education Ministry will sponsor and host a Teacher's Brunch on Sat., May 19th. Registration is required. Go to Ebenezerame.org to register today!
Finally, don't forget to register for the 2018 God is a Wonder Spiritual Retreat and Restoration Conference at godisawonder.com. God IS a wonder!!!
PASTOR'S ENGAGEMENT: Please continue to pray for our Pastors. Pastor Jo Ann Browning will be a presenter at Greater Allen Cathedral AME Church's Women's Conference in Connecticut this week.
NEW MEMBERS' CLASS: New Members' class will be held this Sat., April 21st and will focus on Church History.
CHRISTIAN BUSINESS MINISTRY (CBM): The Christian Business Ministry will host its 2nd monthly Business Capacity Building Workshop, "2017 Tax Reform Legislation – Get in the Know!" Thurs., April 26th at 7p.m. The presenter is Benjamin F. Copeland, Jr., President of Copeland Financial Services, LLC and renowned tax expert. The presenter will discuss the implications of this new legislation and key facts that all business owners should know.
Calling all business owners to become a part of the CBM Business Directory! By dropping off your business card on Business Card Sunday in May, you will not only be listed in the directory, but your business will be registered to win a prize.
POETRY MINISTRY: Join the Poetry Ministry as they celebrate the 15th Anniversary of National Poetry Month Fri., April 20th at 6 p.m. with performances by the Anointed P.E.N.S. (Poets Empowered to Nurture Souls), African drumming, dancing, awards presentations and an open mic session. Plus, Poet Stanice Anderson, and choreo-poets, Nadira Akina and Nehemiah Amari Sellers. Refreshments will be served.
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COMFORT/CAREGIVERS SUPPORT: The Comfort Ministry invites caregivers and our church family to share your downsizing and organizing tips. Also glean some Spiritual Maximizing & Prioritizing advice while enjoying goodies, games, & giveaways at their Spring Cleaning & Gleaning Meeting, Sat., April 28th at 1 p.m.
EBENEZER INSTITUTE: The Ebenezer Institute's mission is to provide a place and space for members and community to continuously learn, develop and grow. The more you learn, the more you know. Registration is a one-time fee of $50 for all four sessions. You can register for May classes today in the Narthex.
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35th PASTORAL ANNIVERSARY: We continue to celebrate our Pastors 35th pastoral anniversary!
We will host a Homecoming Weekend, June 23-24 with an Ebenezer Choir Reunion Concert! We are seeking all former choir members to join the Reunion Choir.
Also, don't forget you can continue to give your 35th love offering to Pastors anytime throughout the year. A designated basket is available each Sunday.
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Welcome to EnvironmentaLEE ,please move your mouse over the words above for more pages .We will update these pages often .
Excerpt: A study commissioned by environmentalists contends the state-approved plan for monitoring the safety of a coal ash repository in Chatham County is unlikely to detect groundwater contamination.
The study by a hydrogeologic and engineering consulting firm also found that an increase in groundwater contaminants there, including arsenic, cobalt, lead, copper and zinc, could be related to coal ash.
The environmentalists' report also claims that the original study paid for by Duke Energy mischaracterized groundwater flow patterns, saying its findings were "incorrect, meaningless, and demonstrates a lack of understanding of the fundamentals of groundwater flow" — notably, that water would have to flow uphill for the previous study's findings to be accurate.
Headed back to court again....
NC appellate judges send Chatham, Lee coal ash case back to lower courts; new EPA emails could be pivotal
A three-judge panel of the NC Appeals Court today ruled unanimously that Lassiter improperly dismissed the case, which concerns the disposal of coal ash in former clay mines in Chatham and Lee counties. And Fox improperly reweighed and rewrote Lassiter's decision without explanation.
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MAY 16th 2017 UPDATE : —DEQ and Charah Inc have appealed the judge ruling that areas are limited to prior excavation. Charah wanted to continue to dig in Moncure during the appeal process, but ruling will stand until hearing is complete. Charah Inc will not be able to dig new areas.
April 6,2017
Judge Fox rules in our favor!!!
the DECISION:
1. The Final Decision is AFFIRMED as it relates to the use of the areas already mined or otherwise excavated in the two coal ash disposal sites (Brickhaven and Colon Road), and
2. The Final Decision is REVERSED as to areas not already mined or otherwise excavated, and the two mine reclamation permits were issued improperly by the Respondents and are hereby REVOKED.
This may not be all we need to completely stop it but it goes a long way down that road. The losing parties (DEQ and Charah) can appeal to the Court of Appeals but we'll face that if they do. Right now it's a major win.
Court Rules for Communities on Duke Energy Coal Ash Landfills in Chatham and Lee Counties
April 6, 2017
Therese Vick (919) 345-3673 [email protected],ail.co
Court Rules for Communities on Duke Energy Coal Ash Landfills in Chatham and Lee Counties
Superior Court Judge Carl Fox has issued a ruling which will halt any further excavation at the Brickhaven and Colon coal ash landfills, owned by Charah, Inc. The ruling, issued March 31, 2017, states in part "…the two mine reclamation permits were issued improperly by the Respondents [The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)] and are hereby REVOKED." The legal challenge was brought against permits issued by DEQ by Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL), Chatham Citizens Against Coal Ash Dump (CCACAD) and EnvironmentalLEE (ELEE) in 2015.
Judy Hogan, president of Chatham Citizens Against Coal Ash Dump said that Judge Fox's decision "gives me great pleasure in so many ways." She continued, "We watched our comments at open hearings being ignored, the permits to do this being given rapidly, and the trucks running, then the trains- but we kept saying to our skeptics: It's not a done deal!" ELEE co-chair Marsha Ligon echoed Hogan, "Good things come to those who wait, we are thrilled that Judge Carl Fox ruled in our favor agreeing that the plans for future use of the Colon and Brickhaven clay pits cannot be entirely considered an act of reclamation."
BREDL organizer Therese Vick stressed that "not one more shovel of dirt should be moved at either site. The DEQ improperly issued the mining reclamation permits- and they knew it. Based on the evidence, Judge Fox agrees. The DEQ is under new leadership. It is time for Secretary Michael Regan to right this injustice, and stop trying to defend the indefensible."
With many clay mines across the state, the ruling has major implications for all communities. There has not been another permit application for coal ash being used as "mine reclamation" since Charah submitted their applications for the Lee and Chatham sites in November 2014.
Also The Rant wrote about it too!
For the record there is a WWI African American Soldier McKinley Johnson and his family #buried at the #Colon site. Yet Duke Energy & Charah seems to care less about this family's resting place.
If anyone would like to learn more about the graves go here https://www.environmentalee.org/.../1994853-gravesite-story-
We were so excited when Sarah Briggs one our youngest members told us she had a project to help fight coal ash dumping in Sanford . Here is the finished product
From the Sanford Herald in May — Lee County High School senior Sarah Briggs was recently filmed for Alliance for Climate Education's ongoing film project.
ACE staff member Wen Lee traveled Monday night from Los Angeles to Sanford to film Briggs speaking out about coal ash set to be dumped in Lee County. ACE, a program that strives to educate young people on the science of climate change and empower them to take action, updates its assembly presentation with new teen interviews, including Briggs'. The LCHS senior's film is on coal ash, with a focus on fossil fuels.
Briggs said a couple of the features before her included a teenager from California, speaking about the drought and why it's concerning. Another featured another from New Jersey talking about Hurricane Sandy and its effects.
Lee said ACE heard about Briggs' story and wanted to document it.
"We thought it was such a great story," she said. "We were excited to come out and do a story on her and the personal impact of coal ash."
One of the ways the nonprofit organization does so is by giving assembly presentations to schools in several regions across the U.S. The 40-minute presentations include music, video and interviews of teens personally impacted by environmental issues.
Briggs said she didn't know of ACE prior to being asked to participate.
"The way I got in contact with them was through one of their regional headquarters or bases," she said. "There are five of them and one is in Raleigh. Each of the regional offices reaches out to environmental organizations about teenagers who are interested in environmental issues. I was forwarded [ACE's email request] by EnvironmentaLee."
Lee met Briggs Tuesday morning, and the pair dove into filming over the next two days.
"On Tuesday, [Lee] filmed me at school, engaging with my peers, with the school's permission of course," Briggs said. "She filmed EnvironmentaLee's meeting and just of my daily life and day-to-day activities.
"Wednesday she interviewed me, which was the main piece. We spent three hours in my backyard doing that, in all the greenery. The focus of the film was on coal ash, so she asked me why I care about coal ash, why I'm concerned about it. Then she asked me some general questions like why I care about the environment."
Environmental issues sparked Briggs' interest in ninth grade.
"In my freshman year of high school I took AP environmental science with Dr. [Stephen] Snyder, who no longer teaches here," she said. "By diving into the material as deeply as we did, it opened my eyes to all of the environmental degradation that's happening."
A couple years later, when fracking and coal ash first became environmental issues for Lee County, Briggs decided to reach out and join EnvironmentaLee.
Press Release
June 9, 2016
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
For immediate release
June 9, 2016
Groups file appeal of coal ash permits to superior court
Pittsboro- Almost one year after the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) granted permits for Duke Energy's coal ash landfills in Chatham and Lee Counties, community groups Chatham Citizens Against Coal Ash Dump (CCACAD) and EnvironmentaLEE (ELEE) and the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL) filed an appeal in superior court challenging Judge Melissa Owens Lassiter's ruling on the structural fill and mining permits. The appeal, which was filed in Pittsboro shortly after a hearing there on the groups' challenge to the 401 water quality certification, is based on DEQ's manipulation of the permitting process, which allowed Charah, Inc. and Duke Energy to claim that the two sites- one in Lee and one in Chatham County to me called "mine reclamation " in order to get them out from under solid wastes rules for landfills which would require a lengthier process and siting requirements which include local government approval. Therese Vick, community organizer for BREDL, reviewed thousands of pages of DEQ documents in researching this issue. "We feel that Judge Lassiter ruled in error. It is clear from emails provided by the Department of Environmental Quality that the DEQ collaborated with Duke Energy and Charah to come up with this scheme to side-step the permitting process for what are clearly landfills. This translated into legislation, the Coal Ash Management Act (CAMA) which created sacrifice zones in Lee and Chatham Counties. There are almost 100 clay mines in North Carolina, and Green Meadow/Charah has established another LLC with the Secretary of State- "Green Meadow II". What is happening in these two counties will impact the entire state."
Coal ash is currently being transported to Brickhaven, in Chatham County. Members of CCACAD have observed hundreds of trucks and train cars laden with coal ash coming into their small community. Judy Hogan, CCACAD Chair said: "The whole scheme of transporting hazardous coal ash from across North Carolina has been shot through with misinformation. Don Kovasckitz, Director of Lee County Strategic Services testified at the December 7th court hearing and made it clear that not only were the old clay mines (now wetlands) only a small portion of the planned landfills, but they would rise high above the natural terrain. Despite this, Judge Lassiter ruled for the state. All such landfills leak, which the state refuses to admit."
In Lee County, Marsha Ligon, co-chair of ELEE describing the flawed process observed "The clay holes purchased for Duke's use by Charah were "reclaimed" years ago. Nature reclaimed the unearthed structures transforming them into complete ecosystems sustaining a wide variety of plant and animal habitats. Now those habitats are being destroyed, and coal ash deposited in NEW holes dug where none exist...that is NOT a reclamation. "
No decision has been made on the 401 certification challenge heard on June 1, 2016.
The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League was founded in 1984. The organization has a thirty-year track record of victories over polluting facilities. BREDL and their member chapters EnvironmentaLEE and Chatham Citizens Against Coal Ash Dump have filed legal challenges against the permits issued in June and August 2015.
Chatham Citizens Against Coal Ash Dump was founded in December 2014 in opposition to Duke Energy's plan to dump coal ash in the county.
EnvironmentaLEE was founded in 2011. ELEE works to protect the environment of Lee County.
https://www.environmentalee.org/water-well-info After testing wells near the proposed coal ash dump site . We learned that some wells in Colon/ Osgood area were already contaminated from past dirty industry.
To see pictures of the grave site click here .
Here are ARTICLES very Important to read.
Coal Ash: SIX MYTHS the Utility Industry Wants You to Believe and SIX FACTS You Need to Know
PDF ash in the lungs
Coal Ash: The Toxic Threat to Our Health and Environment
Coal ash, one of the dirtiest secrets in American energy production....
Duke Energy- Charah must apply for various permits for both the Brickhaven & Colon sites. One of the permits includes submitting to the US ARMY Corps of Engineers & the North Carolina Division of Water Resources. They will take public comments until APRIL 6th on the current proposal.
Please see bullet points below on why these permits could be denied.
Please call Craig Brown with details, why this permit should be denied, and Karen Higgins at NCDWR.( email addresses included)
Yes, there will be a public comment in April, but we want our fight to start now.
Shame, Shame,
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Duke Energy- Charah must apply for various permits for both the Brickhaven & Colon sites. One of the permits includes submitting to the US ARMY Corps of Engineers & the North Carolina Division of Water Resources. They will take public comments until APRIL 6th on the current proposal. Permits can be denied for the following reasons: If citizens make clear points related to:
- Conservation
- Economics (decline of property values, the increase of EMT availability, minimal jobs creation, lawsuits, etc.)
- Aesthetics
- General environmental concerns, (lack of air monitors, air has no boundaries…)
- Wetlands ( wetlands surround are within site borders)
- Land use
- Recreation( Golf course fishing, boating, hunting)
- Water supply ( The sites are within the Cape Fear Watershed)
- Water quality ( many residents still depend on wells)
- Energy needs
- Safety ( constant flow of truck and train traffic will increase accidents, health problems, air pollution, lack of air quality rules)
- Food and fiber production (private farms will be affected by air particulars, large horse show facility nearby, goat milking farm nearby….)
- Mineral needs
- Consideration of property ownership, and, in general, the needs
- Welfare of the people, ( those adjacent to the property do not have the moneys available to relocate and will devastate property values)
The 404 Army Corps permit could be rejected, and an environmental impact statement required. We must act on this permit during the present period open for public comment until April 6.
Any comments received will be considered by the Corps of Engineers to determine whether to issue, modify, apply conditions or deny a permit for this proposal. Comments are used in the preparation of an Environmental Assessment (EA) and/or an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Comments are also used to determine the need for a public hearing and to determine the overall public interest of the proposed activity. The more citizen comment the more overall public interest!!
Comments should be submitted to US Army Corp of Engineers:
Craig Brown, PLEASE CALL HIM have your list of all the reason why:
at (919) 554-4884 ext 35. Raleigh Regulatory Field Office, 3331 Heritage Trade Drive, Suite 105 ,Wake Forest, North Carolina 27587,
NCDWR Central Office: 401 & Buffer planning permit
Attention: Ms. Karen Higgins, 401 and Buffer Permitting Unit
(USPS mailing address): 1650 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1650
[email protected] (919) 807-6360
Contact the Lee County BOC: DON'T BACK DOWN FROM DIRTY DUKE
Board of Commissioners Lee County:
BOC: Robert T. Reives [email protected] 919-774-4434
BOC: Reverend Dr. Ricky Frazier [email protected] 919-776-0083
BOC: Amy Dalrymple [email protected] 910-890-1389
BOC: Dr. Andre Knecht [email protected] 919.770.1875
BOC: Doc Oldham [email protected] 919-776-6615
BOC: Tim Sloan [email protected] 919-770-3861
BOC: Kirk Smith [email protected] 919-935-3197Blood Money stains!!
EPA Ruling on Coal Ash is SAD
The rules don't regulate coal ash disposal as tightly as environmental and community groups had wanted.
They put coal ash into the same disposal category as household trash and non-hazardous industrial solid waste, and leave the enforcement largely up to states and local governments.
The rules call for the closure of active surface impoundments and landfills that "fail to meet engineering and structural standards," according to the EPA.
They will also require regular inspections of the structural integrity of surface impoundments at active sites, the agency said, as well as monitoring and cleanup of unlined surface impoundments that are found to be leaching into groundwater.
The rules also require that new surface impoundments not be built in "sensitive areas such as wetlands and earthquake zones," and will require that they be lined.
Thanks Arlene for pointing out this article .
We are very proud both Lee and Chatham has a resolution on Coal Ash Dumping
This is the what the proposed Coal Ash Dump is supposed to look like in Sanford .


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I am a responsible gun owner.
I bought my first gun when I was 12. It was a Browning 12-gauge shotgun, and I saved money from my paper route and cleaning a drive-in restaurant to buy it in time for dove season. In the years before I could legally drive, I'd tie the Browning across the handlebars of my bike and ride to the fields outside town to hunt.
I've owned several guns since – deer rifles and target rifles, shotguns and a handgun. I bought that gun, a semiautomatic Ruger, to keep my family safe, and locked it up to keep them safe from it. Like I said, responsible.
Although I'd like to believe I'm not party to the gun violence that stains the United States, I can't. My grandmother shot and killed herself with a gun, and a few years ago my father shot and didn't quite kill himself with one. A family friend lost a teenage son in an accidental shooting while he and his friends were playing with a gun. My stepbrother died in a murder-suicide with a gun, and the husband of one of my sister's co-workers was killed in a mass shooting by a guy carrying three of them.
None of that happened with my gun, of course, but after every new mass shooting, I'm reminded that I, as a responsible gun owner, bear a portion of the responsibility for our nation's gun violence.
And now it's time for responsible gun owners to help end it.
After the recent shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon – after every mass shooting on a college campus, at a movie theater, in an elementary school or wherever – someone from the National Rifle Association or some other gun-rights group, or someone in Congress or running for president, goes on television and says we can't fund federal studies on gun violence or have universal background checks of gun buyers or do anything that even hints of gun control because it infringes on the rights of responsible gun owners.
My gun is being used to argue against doing anything to even try to reduce gun violence in the nation. That's what being a responsible gun owner means now – I'm responsible.
I'm a bit ashamed of how slowly I came to that realization. For most of my life, I never thought about guns, and I certainly didn't weigh in on the gun control debate. Until recently, I didn't even connect the tragedies in and around my family to guns.
I was at a restaurant when I first learned about the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., watching news reports on the television over the bar. Like most of the nation, my reaction was horror and disgust. But I could also overhear a guy talking at the bar, and his first reaction was, "They're gonna use this as an excuse to come after our guns."
The authorities were still trying to figure out how many 6- and 7-year-olds had been killed, and he was worried about his guns.
I thought Sandy Hook might prompt a sober discussion about gun control or even legislative action, but that didn't happen. The NRA's proposed solution was more guns – arming teachers and guards at every school. The church shooting in Charleston, S.C., happened about a week after I'd visited that city for the first time, and again, the gun lobby opposed any hint of gun control, ostensibly on behalf of responsible gun owners.
I thought about giving up my firearm then, but I didn't. In the face of so much gun violence in our society, disarming is bit frightening (even though I know statistically I'm safer without a gun in the house than with one). I still told myself I wasn't part of the problem.
That ended a week ago.
After the Umpqua shooting, and the gun lobby's predictable response, and a visibly angry President Obama admitting that there's no political will to try to solve our country's gun violence problem, I realized it's not their problem. It's mine.
The Monday after the shootings, I disassembled my Ruger, clamped the pieces in a vise and cut them in half with an angle grinder. I sent the proper paperwork in to the state to report it destroyed. And then I wrote about it on Facebook, and included a hashtag: #ONELESSGUN.
I'm not an activist, I'm an angry American. I'm angry about the senseless killings, and the more senseless "stuff happens" response to them. I'm angry that the gun industry's special-interest spokesmen claim to speak for me, and that politicians believe them.
Mostly, I'm angry about what it says about the United States. The idea that kids getting slaughtered at school is too big a problem for us to solve infuriates me. If there is truly nothing we can do, nothing we can try – if we just have to accept it – then we have failed as a nation and as a culture. I don't want to believe that.
Instead, I believe that the overwhelming majority of Americans – including American gun owners – want to reduce gun violence and are open to solutions: policing, education, training, technology, mental health, media and, yes, gun laws.
I believe that claiming the NRA speaks for all gun owners is like saying the Westboro Baptist Church speaks for all Christians. It doesn't. The gun lobby in this country is considered an all-powerful political force, but it is a narrow special-interest group, same as any other. It has exactly the amount of power we give it.
And I believe people are ready for change.
More than 46,000 strangers shared my Facebook post and picture of my destroyed handgun with their friends and networks. A few mocked it, but the overwhelming majority of the messages were positive. Some of those comments came from other gun owners. Some came from men and women who had gotten rid of their firearms, or are considering doing so or who support my decision but aren't going to part with their guns. That's okay. At least they're in the conversation.
None of us individually can stop gun violence in America, but responsible gun owners can change the debate, and individuals can act when politicians won't. I know I will no longer allow myself to be used as a justification for doing nothing.
Maybe cutting up a perfectly good gun is just a symbolic – some say stupid – gesture that will accomplish nothing. Maybe. But at the very least, there is one less gun.
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AccuWeather forecasters say a massive shift in the weather pattern is on the way for North America next week. Summerlike heat is expected to build over the western United States as a surge of Arctic air is projected to plunge into the eastern half of the nation. Both high and low temperature records could be broken amid the extreme weather setup.
Cold wave for the eastern half of the US
An outbreak of the coldest air since last spring will sweep across much of the eastern half of the U.S. next week.
"The change in the pattern will come in two waves," said AccuWeather Long-Range Meteorologist Tyler Roys. "After a warmup during the second half of this week, an area of low pressure sweeping across southern Canada will usher in an initial cooldown again from the northern Plains through Great Lakes and into the Northeast during the second half of this weekend into early next week."
The first push of cooler air will serve to bring temperatures back to near normal, or a little below normal for late September, and it will be limited to northern areas. Across the Southeast, temperatures will remain a few degrees above normal.
Normal highs are generally in the middle to upper 60s in the northern Plains, Great Lakes and Northeast during late September. Farther south, temperatures typically climb into the lower to mid-70s in the mid-Atlantic through the Ohio Valley and into the mid-Mississippi Valley, and upper 70s to low 80s across much of the Southeast and lower Mississippi Valley this time of year.
"The real cold shot will be ushered in later next week as a stronger storm system pushes from the northern Plains through the Great Lakes," Roys explained. "High pressure building down from northern Canada and a deep dip southward in the jet stream will bring a continuous flow of cold air straight from the Arctic, directed toward the eastern U.S. It may take until Friday or Saturday of next week for the cold to peak."
The core of the cold is expected to be aimed from the Midwest and Mississippi Valley to the Appalachians. From Wisconsin to the central Gulf Coast and from eastern Kansas to West Virginia, temperatures are forecast to be 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit below normal during the height of the cold shot.
Interior portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, areas weary from the record-setting tropical season, could have afternoon temperatures topping out in the 60s and overnight lows dropping into the 40s. Some communities still cleaning up and without power from Laura, Sally and now enduring flooding rainfall from Beta will face chilly weather.
Frosts and freezes could threaten sensitive agriculture from as far south as parts of the Ozarks in northern Arkansas to the Blue Ridge Mountains straddling Tennessee, North Carolina and far northern Georgia.
Even in Atlanta, low temperatures could drop to the mid-40s, with lower 40s in some outlying areas. The normal low in Atlanta at the end of September and beginning of October is around 60 degrees.
"While the Great Lakes and interior Northeast were hit with a cold snap that led to the end of the growing season last week, this next shot of cold will target areas farther west, and will likely end the growing season across much of the Midwest and Ohio Valley," Roys said.
Afternoon temperatures are expected to be stuck in the 40s and even some in the 30s across the Upper Midwest and northern Great Lakes. Lake-effect rain showers and a raw, gusty wind will also add to dreariness and the feeling of chill. During the overnight hours during the height of the cold, some parts of the Great Lakes may see their first snowflakes of the season.
Overnight lows will plunge with widespread temperatures projected to be in the 30s and 40s and even some 20-degree readings for locations from the eastern Plains to much of the interior Northeast and mid-Atlantic.
Along the Eastern Seaboard, the cooldown will be felt, but the core of cold will grip areas farther west. "Most locations east of the Appalachians and along the Interstate 95 corridor will be around 5-10 degrees below normal," Roys said.
Normal high temperatures along the I-95 corridor for the start of October range from the mid-60s around Bangor, Maine, to the middle to upper 70s around Raleigh, North Carolina.
Heat wave to grip western US
While the eastern U.S. shivers, people in the West will be cranking up air conditioners again as an expansive heat dome envelops the region.
"As is often the case when the jet stream dives south in the eastern U.S. bringing cold air, the jet stream will bulge northward in the western U.S., allowing a ridge of high pressure and heat to build," Roys explained.
Even though some in the Northwest are getting a respite from dangerous wildfire conditions this week, for many in the West the heat wave that will build next week will only add to what's already been an arduous wildfire season fraught with widespread drought.
Las Vegas' record dry streak continues, and the city is also challenging the record for most 100-degree days in a calendar year. As heat intensifies next week, both of these tallies will continue to grow.
As temperatures plummet 10-20 degrees below normal in the East, they will soar 10-20 degrees above normal across much of the West.
Triple-digit high temperatures will become widespread again from Central and Southern California and across the Desert Southwest. Even San Francisco, usually kept cooler by marine air and an onshore flow, could climb into the 90s as winds begin to blow offshore instead.
Portland and Seattle will experience well above-normal warmth and sunshine after picking up heavy rain and feeling a big cooldown this week.
The switch to an offshore flow could also become particularly troublesome for firefighters still battling many large fires across the region.
"When the winds blow offshore, they transport the hot and very dry air from interior areas right to the coast. In some places, where they blow from higher to lower elevation, the air heats up even more as it descends," explained AccuWeather Meteorologist Brett Rossio.
In Northern California and western Oregon, where some of the largest wildfires have burned, winds will turn gusty early next week as well.
"As the strong high pressure that will eventually help deliver the coldest air to the East first moves across the Northwest, it will cause a greater difference in pressure between the Northwest and Southwest," Rossio said.
The setup will create large differences in pressure and in turn drive stronger winds. "Early next week this will be focused over Northern California and Oregon," Rossio said.
Rain this week may alleviate what may otherwise have been an extreme fire threat in Oregon, but Northern California is unlikely to be as lucky. Very little to no rainfall is expected to reach the parched region ahead of increasing winds.
In the Los Angeles area, gusty winds could also hinder efforts to contain the Bobcat Fire, now one of the largest fires in Los Angeles County history. The fire is burning very close to Pasadena, California. As high heat, very low humidity and gusty northeast winds develop early next week, they could bring the potential to drive the fire right into the highly populated L.A. suburb.
During the first full week in October, this extreme kink in the jet stream is expected to ease, bringing conditions back closer to normal across the nation. However, that could also mean a return in activity in the record-setting 2020 hurricane season.
"Computer forecasts continue to show the development of a large counterclockwise wind pattern over Central America, commonly referred to as a gyre, later next week. This could lead to the development of an organized tropical system in the southern Caribbean during early October," said AccuWeather's lead hurricane expert Dan Kottlowski.


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Every day, individuals make dozens of choices between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option. Optimal decision-making requires self-control. We propose two hypotheses about the neurobiology of self-control: (i) Goal-directed decisions have their basis in a common value signal encoded in ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), and (ii) exercising self-control involves the modulation of this value signal by dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to monitor brain activity while dieters engaged in real decisions about food consumption. Activity in vmPFC was correlated with goal values regardless of the amount of self-control. It incorporated both taste and health in self-controllers but only taste in non–self-controllers. Activity in DLPFC increased when subjects exercised self-control and correlated with activity in vmPFC.


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Disclosure: I received a race entry to the Statesman Cap 10K as part of being a BibRave Pro. Learn more about becoming a BibRave Pro (ambassador), and check out BibRave.com to review find and write race reviews! All opinions are my own.
Just two weeks ago, I capped off my 2017/2018 training season for the summer with the Statesman Cap 10K here in Austin. It's the largest 10K in the great state of Texas, at 23,000+ attendees, and it takes place in April of each year.
Personally, it's my favorite way to stay motivated through the end of spring, since the best running months in these parts are roughly September through April. The crazy Texas weather has been different each year I've run it, which is part of the adventure, in a way. This year, it was quite chilly (between 40 and 50 degrees is RARE for this area, especially after February), but still amazing!
Hey there, Leo Manzano!
Per usual, signing up was easy, and I really appreciated that the Cap 10K provided a $5 off discount code for friends to use.
I was also impressed by the expo this year. In years past, it's been smaller, though still significant when you consider it's just a 10K. However, the quality of vendors at the expo was even better than in previous years. They had a lot of natural product companies with samples, a fairly expansive Cap 10K store, races later in the year providing discounts and running stores offering great deals (Garmin products were $50 off at one booth). It's a fun opportunity for someone who's dipping their toe into races to see all a race weekend has to offer.
Packet pickup itself was line-free and simple. Swag this year was a women's or men's tech shirt in a pretty blue color, sweat towels from one of the sponsors and finisher's medals. Obviously, you don't receive the last one until you cross the finish line.
Race Day!
Parking is tough every year. Last year, we lucked out and found some of the free parking in the TxDot lots, but we had to get there quite early. This year, when we pulled up at 7:30, parking was nearly gone. They ended up opening the stroller parking to the public (which also felt kinda weird) and we got a free spot. Moral of the story: take public transportation or get there about an hour early if you are wanting free, close parking 2 blocks from the start. And if you get there less than 45 minutes early, prepare for lots of traffic to find paid parking spots.
Race start time is 8 a.m., so it's not a super early morning (yay!). Finding corrals is also easy, and there's a staggered start. Corral B started on time at about 8:10, which they controlled effectively.
The Race Itself
If you're looking for an awesome crowd and awesome music at at least every mile, this is the race for you. If you're looking for a bit of a challenge with a whole lot of scenery, this race is also for you. The course is lively, and goes through some of Austin's most scenic areas, like the Capitol and Lady Bird Lake, with some tough hills! I've said it before – look back at the SEA of people at some point – it is an incredible sight.
Great aid stations are just under 1.5 miles from each other, and they had Nuun on the course this year.
I clocked in this year at 1:02:27, which was pretty awesome! It wasn't quite a PR, but I was still proud. I've improved my time by more than four minutes over the years.
Post-Race Party
The Cap 10K finish line festival was another Texas-sized party in 2018. Food trucks were lined up with delicious post-race meals and coffee. Auditorium Shores had a lovely view of the skyline and more live music to enjoy. We sampled a few things, but it was quite chilly out, so we headed back home sooner than usual.
I'll be back again and again and hope you'll join me next year. You can sign up right now for just $35!
What's your favorite race distance and why?
Cheers to keeping at it through the best and worst of the weather!