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By Doc Vega
A lot has been said and written, but this promises to break the case wide open!
There have been many theories and accusations about the Benghazi fiasco that not only cost Ambassador J. Christian Stevens his life, but the lives of his staff and one Navy Seal body-guard as well. This action which led to a complete conflagration of terrorist attacks against US diplomatic buildings throughout the Middle East and North Africa still remains largely uninvestigated by the government, unprosecuted by AG Eric Holder's Depart of Justice, and refuses to bring the guilty parties to justice while many know the truth and are not coming forward. Even though President Obama is implicated in this oversees tragedy still the truth has not emerged.
That has all changed. Finally, an authoritative figure with the proper credentials has stepped up to the plate to tell the true story of what did happen without the lies and cover-ups that have so far kept those guilty of murder from standing trial. The admission on the part of this man will likely blow the Benghazi scandal wide open and lead to arrests if we can get our legal system to act as it should. That, however, is a big if.
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The story as it truly unfolded
According to a report from the Washington Times, retired 4 Star Admiral James Lyons reveals the entire plot that led to the deaths of Americans in Libya that could have been prevented, who gave the orders, and why events took place as they tragically did. Admiral James Lyons is probably the highest ranking figure ever to intervene in a federal government criminal case, and testify. Thanks to this man's dedication to his country and the truth, we will finally know the truth and who was responsible.
In his words Lyons says that the attack on Benghazi was a bungled kidnapping attempt to be perpetrated upon Ambassador Stevens. This was to appear to be a hostage exchange for a terrorist prisoner who was to be released in trade for a supposedly captured US ambassador. The trade would have been for Omar Abdel Rahman an international prisoner, known as the Blind Sheikh.
This apparent abduction by terrorists of our ambassador and then negotiated trade for the Blind Sheikh would have been the "October Surprise" that would have elevated President Obama's flagging popularity and boosted his approval ratings for a re-election. A dramatic prisoner exchange that saved our ambassador's life However, something went horribly wrong. A cunning and illegal bit of treachery by the Obama White House turned into something entirely different. Obama's October surprise turned into a carnage orchestrated by the White House itself as the President, Leon Panetta, and CIA Director, David Petraeus watched via a UAV real-time feed as a 7 hour attack on the Benghazi Embassy raged. Reportedly, stand down orders were given several times to different units within striking distance.
A plot of pure deception
With what should have been only a staged kidnapping of Ambassador J. Christian Stevens, instead, Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty refused a stand down order and began doing their job of protecting the ambassador using force. Immediately the well-trained Seals began inflicting heavy casualties upon the terrorists who thought they were merely in a cake walk to abduct Ambassador Stevens without mishap. As a result of the plan going awry, a massive attack arose from the anger of the terrorists who felt they had been betrayed by President Obama. In the aftermath of the battle which saw Navy Seal Glen Doherty was killed after the embassy had been overrun along with the ambassador's staff. Ambassador Steven's whose body showed up 5 hours later at a Benghazi hospital supposedly overcome by smoke as the initial press reports indicated was, in fact, raped, tortured, and dragged around Benghazi in retaliation for the botched Obama White House plan.
Obama hands over Libya to Al Qaeda
Was this just a freak occurrence that belies the true nature of dealings in Libya with American diplomatic efforts, just one glitch in normal standard operating procedure? No, according to former Admiral Lyons and many others such as Glen Beck, who have all uncovered evidence that lead to much more sinister deeds being undertaken. Evidence of a working relationship between the US and its alleged terrorist enemies had already delivered Libya to the Al Qaeda terrorist organization through infiltration of the government, media, and general society prior to the rebellion against Muammar Gaddafi that toppled the dictator last year. That the US has worked with Al Qaeda awarding them security contracts for all US embassies and consulates as well as border protection has instead allowed Libya to become a haven for numerous terrorist operators who have automatic access to Libya's territory to carry out their training. All this with the support and blessing of the Obama administration. This is not only unthinkable, but beyond excuse or rationalization. There should already be indictments for many in the state department, in the DOJ, all the way up to the oval office, yet, so far nothing has been done.
Treason plain and simple
It goes even farther than that. Evidence indicates that Ambassador Stevens was being used as an arms dealer to supply Jihadists in the region to support yet another uprising in Syria. Just prior to the murder of our ambassador, he was trying to locate guns that had been walked across Libya's border to other countries just as the ATF had done in operation Fast and Furious on the border of Mexico. These are not the actions of inexperience or bad intelligence. They are the actions of traitorous intention. President Obama will, no doubt, be linked to these deaths and operations if Congress will only act, and do its duty in prosecuting a treasonous president who is endangering national security.
There is no where else for a Congressional investigation to turn other than naming the conspirators, determining when officials knew, and assembling the evidence that murder was committed on behalf of the White House to silence those who knew and could testify. Through out the Obama presidency over the last four years the administration has master minded operations that have caused numerous controversies and crises.
When will the GOP take action?
The Republicans have missed opportunities to discredit the President, to impeach Obama in the wake of waging war against Libya without Congressional approval, and allowed executive privilege to quash subpoenaed demands for evidence on Fast and Furious never released by AG Eric Holder. John Boehner, Speaker of the House, has refused to exercise initiative whenever the GOP could have used much-needed momentum to stem the tide against the incessant assaults against state's rights, constitutional rights, and the traditional institutions of America. Will the recent damning evidence now uncovered over the Benghazi fiasco thanks to Admiral James Lyons be implemented to convict the President of potential high treason, or will we see yet another case of criminal acts ignored and hidden at the expense of the American people? If you bother to take interest and act as a responsible citizens contact your congressman and demand action!
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Why has it taken so long for the good Admiral to come forward? Is this a fact that the Admiral will testify? If he does, how could this possibly be anything BUT a case of High Treason? This goes along for Boehner also, who may be part of the conspiracy to let Holders' crimes go scott free. Golfing buddies certainly have become extremely friendly over the past few months? Sincerely , Steve Ford
Was there a vid from the Islamic website that had this pic on it? OR, does anyone have the website where this pic came from?
Debka is reporting that a US Citizen was stabbed outside of the US embassy in Cairo Thursday: "An American stabbed outside US embassy in Cairo An assailant stabbed an American man outside the US Embassy in the central Cairo neighborhood of Garden City on Thursday. He was rushed to a nearby hospital."
End times prophecy is not easy to explain in a short forum, such as this, but suffice it to say that any who study 2 Timothy 3 verses 1-9 will come to see that we are indeed in the very end times. That said, prophecy cannot be overruled nor changed by the likes of obama, his minions, his ilk or any that follow the democrat.
Prophecy is explicit in that the US does not exist immediately before Rapture or immediately after it. How? That is not so easy, but a good guess would be all out civil war starting with riots in the inner cities and then when the inner city rioters come into the well armed rural areas looking for food, the war really gets bad, leaving the Union in absolute destruction with nothing but regional confabs of various states left to pick up the pieces with a total of maybe 50 million left standing in what was the US.
If this don't do it NOTHING will?
if Congress refuses to act, I can only think of one thing they are in bed with the white house and are guilty to. somebody is pulling John Boehner chain, he has something to lose OR HIDE. that why he refuses to act, therefore he is guilty to. People, heads need to roll.
There is no "GOP", the fact is, Elvis left the building with Nixon, and we have a left wing of the communist party, and we have a putative "right wing" of the same communist party, which controls the full gamut of our politics.
The mass uprisings of the Tea parties upset this arrangement, but they have a century and more of infiltration and establishing entire agencies with their own people.
There is no political establishment other than the simple "mass of Sovereign Citizens" willing to stand up, demand action, and refuse to back off, which can even confront the issue, much less change the situation. At some point, we have to acknowledge we must either follow Jefferson, and pray, or roll over and give up. My hips and shoulders hurt too much to do any rolling, it's easier to stand at this point.
Semper Fidelis, John McClain, GySgt, USMC, ret.


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A judge rugby-tackled an accused sex offender to the ground to prevent him escaping from court, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.
Judge Douglas Marks Moore wrestled Paul Reid twice as he ran out of the judge's door at Woolwich Crown Court last August. Reid, 34, who had escaped from another court two years before, made his bid for freedom after giving evidence in his trial, jurors heard.
Rupert Gregory, prosecuting, said: "The jury were just leaving when the defendant jumped up and ran across the clerk's bench to get to the judge's door.
"As he went through the door, his honour Judge Marks Moore grabbed him round the throat to try to bring him down.
"Mr Reid broke free and ran down the judge's corridor. The judge gave chase [and] rugby-tackled him around the throat and waist and brought him crashing to the ground."
Gregory added: "There is only one reason why a Crown Court judge would rugby-tackle a defendant to the ground – because he is trying to escape."
Reid, originally from south London, denies escaping from Inner London Crown Court and attempting to escape from Woolwich Crown Court. The trial continues.


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The fall meeting of the MSU STEM Education Alliance will serve as a welcome reception and a networking opportunity for current and new faculty, specialists, staff, post-docs, and graduate students engaging in and supporting undergraduate STEM education. The theme of the meeting is Connecting STEM Education Research and Practice. We invite colleagues from across campus to share their stories about how education research has informed and impacted teaching methods, curricular development, and the culture around teaching and learning in their units. The overall goals of the meeting are to:
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The top LMS companies in Dubai that could be a great eLearning solution for your company
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(Persia Digest) – Seventeen churches in Iran in need of works are being restored.
Iran has numerous churches across the country, many of which have been registered by the Unesco World Heritage Site for their ancient, specific structures. Some of the unregistered ones in need of repairs are also being currently worked on. Restorations have begun on seventeen old churches nationwide; according to the director of World Heritage Center of churches in Iran, 70% of the restoration works has been completed.
Center Director, Shirley Avdian, has told Mehr News Agency: "Over 70% of the works have now been completed on the 17 churches. None of these are registered by Unesco. These include the churches in the cities of Mashhad, Salmas, Shiraz, etc… We have also plans to restore the church in Abadan in cooperation with the Arvan Free Zone Organization."
On the restoration of Saint Stepanos Monastery, she said: "We are currently getting the murals inside the Monastery ready for public viewing. The restorations here begun last year and will continue until March and the Nowruz New Year. Restoring the altar will carry on into June. Otherwise, the internal works have been completed and the Monastery will be open to the public soon. We also intend to hold a handicrafts fair here and do the landscaping."


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Duck Dynasty "Commander" Phil Robertson rallied for Judge Roy Moore in Alabama Monday night, celebrating Moore's commitment to faith and the Constitution.
"These Ten Commandments 'trump' politics – pun intended," Robertson said.
Robertson, 71, highlighted Christian conservative Moore's rise to national attention when, in the 1990s, the then-county judge hung a wood Ten Commandments plaque on the wall of his courtroom.
In 2000, Moore ran and won a race for Chief Justice of Alabama's Supreme Court. He was later ousted, however, after he refused to remove a 5,280-pound granite Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state judicial building.
"Roy Moore's a godly man," Robertson said, "or I wouldn't be here."
Robertson then recited a scripture passage of one of St. Paul's letters to the Romans.
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Since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved man to do what ought not to be done. They became filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity.
Sounds like America, doesn't it? I'm quoting what the apostle Paul said 2,000 years ago.
When you look on our streets in America, you see people running around with signs on top of their head, all puffed up … won't even acknowledge the flag of the United States of America – the national anthem! You say what in the world's going on? They're senseless! Faithless!
"Remember, as soon as you get God out of your psyche, he's giving you a list after list … of what people do," Robertson told attendees about St. Paul's letter.
"They not only do these things, but they approve of those who practice them," he added.
"When a nation slaughters its offspring – one million a year – they always collapse those nations do – you can't do that!" he added, warning attendees to vote for Moore because "he's a godly man," and not another establishment politician.
The Alabama primary runoff election is Tuesday. The winner of that race will face the Democratic candidate – former Clinton U.S. Attorney Doug Jones – on December 12.


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The King Estate Trail in Pittsburgh, PA connects King ave to N Negley, just south of the Highland Park Reservoir #2.
This trail has 3 exit points and some interesting crumbling old architecture directly behind the estate. The northwest section of the trail is interesting, but can be a bit dangerous hiking up and down the steep hillsides. It leads down to the small creek and up the immediate hillside, passing along the fence until you reach a section of the hill that juts out above the Zoo's overflow parking lot. There's a small bushcraft shelter and a small overlook section looking down into the gorge below near the powerlines.
In the Fall, you can see the wooden bridge structure for the PGH Zoo's train, which curves through a section of the woods adjacent to the trail. In the winter, you can see large ice formations hanging from the gorge's ledges further down the hill as well.
Note: you can mountain bike through the eastern portion of this trail; however, on the west portion is a small staircase and the trail becomes more narrow. There are sometimes downed trees on the western portion as well.
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The mysterious circle
Photo: Hans Jacob Brekke
This perfect 10 meter in diameter circle was noticeable already in the 80s, it is formed by a waterplant called Lobelia Dortmanna. The amateur botanic Jostein Andreassen eagerly says that this plant is common in these areas but hes never seen anything like this. In 2001 he swam out to it to investigate and saw that its shape is inflected by the formation at the bottom of the 5-10 meter deep lake. On the deepest areas the plant doesn't reach the surface.
Noone can explain whats down there. Rumors says that a bomb from second world war was detonated there for safety reasons, that is the closest explanation I can find.
Location : Søgne in south-Norway, the lake is called Lindelitjønna
More on Søgne here : Wiki.


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The original Valiant was created outside of Chrysler's Highland Park headquarters, in a building on Midland Avenue. It's now called Midland Street, but then it was Midland Avenue, by Oakland and Davison.
That building never belonged to Chrysler; we leased it. That was the source of some consternation too. It was a good 10 to 15 minute drive at that time from the Highland Park headquarters, through the mid-day traffic.
In the later press releases, they said it was secret. I don't know whether it was secret, because it wasn't secret within Engineering; everybody knew we were there and knew we were doing it, because we bothered the hell out of them.
Using the Midland Avenue building was a simple, easy way to get a big enough space for all of us to work together; it would have been hard to do in Highland Park, which was pretty tight at that time, space-wise.
At the beginning, nobody really believed we were going to build a car. Over at Midland, we were working like the dickens on this car, and engineering management and top management didn't believe they were going to do the car, so they just totally left us alone. We were able to get a few believers in Manufacturing and Purchasing; occasionally there were a few guys that would come and help.
It wasn't until the last two or three months of winding down the release process that it really became obvious that we were going to build a car, and the manufacturing guys really came and helped. Prior to that time, Chuck Kelly did his absolute best to get it, but he was a one-man gang, and though he would get some people over and they would come and work on this stuff, it was not as effective as it could be.
I just wish that we would've had more resources — we could've done a lower-cost and probably a lower-weight car if we'd done things differently.
Photo note: When the Valiant was being created, the building front was yellow brick with large front windows at the north and south ends, and an industrial style door where the front door is now. The employee entrance was off the parking lot.
It was a high-tension, full-time process — from six or seven am sometimes to six o'clock at night. Those hours were based on the fact that union rules said that if we went after six, we had to pay guys the usual time-and-one-half overtime rate, and give them time off for supper. If it was a Saturday, we ran from eight to one. That was every day, so it was a fairly intense activity.
Some of the Body guys were working in job shops in the evenings too, so every chance they got during their lunch hour, they would climb up on the drafting table and sleep. They brought pads.
One time, one of the guys used a whole lot of drafting tape while a Body guy was asleep and taped his legs down to the table. He woke up and he screamed, "I'm paralyzed! I can't move!"
One of the body guys, a model maker and I think a watch maker, a very talented guy, made little harnesses for the flies. This was in the summertime, and there was no air conditioning; we had a lot of windows open and a lot of flies. He would catch the flies, numb them with an ice cream, then put a little harness on them, made from the little red cellophane thing used to open cigarette packs. He would attach that to the back of the harness, let the flies go, and we would have five or six flies flying around the design room with little streamers.
During the end of the program, Dave Cohoe had one of the first cars, and he started bragging about the fuel economy, so some of the guys decided to help him. They would go out and sneak a gallon of gas into his tank, and he finally got up and he was telling us that he was getting 60, 70 miles per gallon on the car. After he said that, the guys would go out and they would siphon a little gas out every day, and he got down to eight miles per gallon, and then they finally tipped him off.
Another person was very nice, a super woman, but gullible, in a separate office with the administrative people. They convinced her that you had to change the air in your tires every season — to have winter air and summer air. Summer was coming, and she went to a gas station and asked the guy to let the air out of her tires and put summer air in. That's the kind of hijinks that went on.
One winter, we had a lot of snow, and the driveway and parking lot became impassible with ice. We continually asked the Chrysler facilities management to get their truck over there, plow the place out, and put some salt on the driveway. This turned into some kind of a pissing contest between Chrysler and the building owner, each insisting it was the other's job, so nothing got done.
The guys – union and non-salaried people — stayed one Saturday and shoveled the driveway, cleaned it out, put some salt on it, and started a collection to pay for having somebody come in and plow it. The kind of spirit they had — they could've gone on strike, but they didn't do that. They had enough concern and interest to take it on themselves to get that fixed.
I always thought what real Chrysler spirit that was — and I always faulted Chrysler for not being able to deal with that kind of a problem.
We had an embedded materials engineering specialist.
Before this project, the original drawings were sent to a group which specified the materials on the drawings and signed them, a process that typically took four or five days, but could take up to two weeks. When we worked at Midland Avenue, the materials engineering people were not very responsive, and I didn't want to let the original drawings out of our possession and haul them over to engineering.
This drawing is older than the Valiant blueprints by around three decades.
I told them, "We'll call you and talk about it and put your material specifications on the blueprints," and they said, "Absolutely not. We've got to do this the old way."
I said, "I am not giving up our design time to do this. We will release the drawings with what we think the correct material should be."
There was a big flap, and the matter went up to the director of engineering. I thought I was going to get fired. He said, though, "No, you're right. Materials guys, get over it and take care of it some way." So they sent a materials engineer over to us.
Someone on high chose to put our people and Russ Cooper's Body Engineering people all together in one room. That really was a stroke of genius; it made our communications with Body easier. When we had been in separate buildings, communication between us had been tenuous and difficult.
A design leader in Body Engineering was trying to figure out some of the packaging issues, and they made a little sketch of a buried spare tire in the Valiant. They came to Bill Shelman, our design leader, who spent some time every day with his counterpart in Body, continually trying to route components under the car such as exhaust systems, assuring we had enough space for the drive line, and similar kinds of things.
He said to me "Al, you've got to see this." The guy had made this sketch of the buried spare, but their question to us was, "Can you guys get a fuel tank in there?"
I said, "That is so good, we'll do it." Right there. It was a five-minute discussion, which in Central Engineering would've taken 17 weeks.
We said, "Get the spare as far back as you can, and we'll get the tank in." That brought up another issue; the manufacturer of the tank, either a vendor or Chrysler itself, could not get the draw [depth of the stamping] that had been promised, so the tank ended up a couple gallons short of what it was designed to be.
That Valiant fuel tank is two halves, cut on an angle, with two deep draws. Top and bottom are deep draw, using deep stampings. They weren't able to get it quite as deep as they had promised. As time went by, Don McDonald went back to one of the departments in charge of fuel tanks and such, and he was able to fix it, so we got the Valiant fuel tank capacity up to where it should be.
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text: 13 Ways to Make Team Meetings More Productive Posted by: The Teamwork team / July 13, 2016 We spend a lot of our time at work in meetings. As if you didn't know. While the usually accepted figure is 11 million meetings a day in the U.S., Elise Keith argues that the true number is between 36.5m and 55m. Think about that for a moment. Keith also estimates the cost of bad or ineffective meetings Keith is between $70 billion and $283bn, and not the often quoted figure of $37bn. Whatever the amount, it still adds up to a huge number. Of course, many meetings are productive, but take a look at some of the sobering statistics from a survey by Salary.com: 37% of employee time is spent in meetings 47% say too many meetings are a waste of time 39% of participants said they dozed off during a meeting There are many reasons why we hold meetings, from planning to reviewing, to providing feedback, etc. So, how do you make them productive rather than tedious, time-consuming, costly (participants are costing their employers money and time to be there) and frustrating? Here are some suggestions: 1. Do you really need a meeting? Yes, you really need to ask this question. Could the issue be resolved without the need to drag people to a meeting? Sometimes when you ask yourself if there is really a need, you might find you can achieve the objective without a meeting. 2. Have a standup meeting Instead of everyone sitting down, why not make it a standup. That's sure to keep everyone focused and signals that this is not meant to be a long rambling affair. 3. Let's go for a walk Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey of Twitter both favor walking meetings. Check out just about any episode of The West Wing TV series and you'll find White House staff engaged in quick meetings as they walk. 4. Set the agenda Simple, yet so effective. Let all participants know in advance what the agenda will be, and the fewer points the better. Email/text everyone in advance. Send an email/text reminder beforehand, and if weighty matters are up for consideration ask people to be prepared. 5. Start on time If the meeting is set for 9am then it should start then – no exceptions. Don't delay for stragglers, so everyone gets the message there's an agenda to get through and a finite time in which to do it. Everyone's time is precious, not just yours. 6. Lock the door Latecomers can distract when they arrive, and take a little time to catch up, so prevent all that by closing the the door and not admitting anyone after the starting time. Let's face it, the offender will never repeat the error, and word will get around that when a meeting is called you mean business. 7. Schedule it for the morning The best time to schedule a meeting is the morning, not the afternoon. Post-lunch some people tend to be less productive, whereas in the morning their energy and concentration levels are higher. 8. Limit speaking time Sometimes discussions can drag on and threaten to derail the meeting. If you want to get through the agenda then you need to limit the discussion, come to a decision and move on. No, ifs, buts or maybes. 9. Don't allow one speaker to dominate Ah yes, we all know one or two of these characters who love sharing their opinions – and objections – at meetings. They end up dominatingand alienating others who might want to speak but can't get a word in. This is where you can intervene and ask others for their opinion. 10. Avoid distractions Pick the right venue: Make sure your choice of venue is comfortable and the right size. Sticking everyone in a small room with poor air conditioning/heating, for example, will make people uncomfortable and less focused. Switch off smartphones: Make it a rule that phones are switched off. People constantly checking up on emails or notifications is a big issue, so tell everyone to turn them off before the meeting begins. Cut the chat: Chatter between participants while someone else is speaking on an agenda topic is very distracting, so make it clear it won't be tolerated. 11. Finish On Time If you say the meeting will last only 15 minutes long, then make sure it ends on time. If you've overrun the time people will lose interest. They may have other tasks to work on and you're delaying them. The longer the meeting lasts the more risk of people losing focus. 12. Let's take a break Long meetings are unavoidable occasionally. Sometimes they can take up a whole morning, or even a day, so breaking the meeting down into scheduled breaks for tea/coffee or lunch is essential to fuel up energy levels and maintain interest in what's important – the agenda. 13. No props please Some people love PowerPoint presentations at meetings, but others find them distracting and repetitive. As Richard Branson says, "If anybody ever puts the words they're about to tell me up onto a screen, I'm tempted to walk out." Takeaway If you set out the parameters for each meeting clearly, starting with a proper agenda and a determination to stick to it, keep the schedule on track and watch the time, then you're well on the way to having a productive meeting. Good luck! Do you have other suggestions to make meetings more productive? 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Police: Stolen Anne Arundel County school bus found
Bus No. 874 taken in Crownsville overnight, found Tuesday morning
Anne Arundel County police said they found a school bus that had been stolen overnight, and they have charged two people in the investigation.
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Police said the bus, which belongs to Anne Arundel County Public Schools, was taken from a satellite lot off Generals Highway in Crownsville early Tuesday morning. Police said the suspects also vandalized other buses in the lot.
No children were on the bus or nearby at the time.
"Our primary concern as soon as we got this call was the safety of our kids getting up and on their way to school," Anne Arundel County police Lt. T.J. Smith said.
Police said it was around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday when a man and woman broke into the satellite bus yard and stole bus No. 874, smashing it through a gate.
By 5:30 a.m. workers arriving at the yard noticed the bus missing and called police, who then called the parents of the kids who were supposed to be picked up by the bus.
"It was an absolute concern for all of us that this bus would try and pick up a child. Fortunately, that did not happen. We got no reports of that. That's the silver lining in this whole story," Smith said.
About four hours later a police aviation unit spotted the bus off a BGE access road near Governors Bridge Road and Strawberry Run in Davidsonville.
Police said the suspects were captured on video surveillance from the bus and that witness information helped lead to their arrests.
The suspects were identified as Travis Edward Champagne, 24, of Crownsville, and Nicole Jo-Ann Adams, 24, of Davidsonville. Police charged them with first-degree burglary, theft over $100,000, destruction of property over $100,000 and attempted arson.
Police said the bus was damaged extensively and windows were broken out. Police said the bus also struck a BGE tower and that the suspects tried to set the bus on fire after the crash.
Police said it appears Adams and Champagne were under the influence of alcohol and were looking for change to buy cigarettes. They have no known affiliation with the school district.
Anyone with more information about the case should call Anne Arundel County police immediately.
Stay with WBALTV.com and 11 News for more details as they become available.
WBALTV.com editor Katie Lange contributed to this report


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Part of our mission to help people quit smoking means making a presence at community health fairs, all over the United States. Sometimes we just provide samples, and other times we donated boxes to be raffled off. We also work with corporate wellness programs, that help hundreds of employees get healthy.
LOS ANGELES, CA., September 10, 2012 – Since the beginning, the mission of Quit Tea LLC has been to help as many people quit smoking as possible. We fulfill part of that mission by donating 10% of our profits every year to smoking cessation and cancer research related non-profit organizations. And another part is fulfilled by sponsoring community health events all across the United States.
Our first health fair was in October, 2010, in Bar Harbor, Maine. We handed out 20 boxes of Quit Tea an poured many more cups. We helped people, built brand awareness, and the best part was personal interaction. One woman who had already used Quit Tea, stopped by the table to thank us. She was finally smoke free, thanks to Quit Tea, and told us that "Quit Tea does everything it claims to do."
Since then we have sent and sold boxes of Quit Tea to health events all over the country. There are have been events to help out a charity, such as when we donated a case to be raffled off in July 2012, for the Walk Now for Autism, in Michigan. We have also sponsored an event and provided boxes of Quit Tea to be handed out to interested participants, such as the Boston Harvest 5k Fun Run in Pennsylvania, that will be held later in September 2012.
The largest event that Quit Tea has been a part of was health fair for the employees and community of Aqua America, and company based in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Aqua America has twice purchased Quit Tea for health fairs as part of their corporate wellness programs. Corporate wellness programs can have a major impact on the productivity and bottom line of companies. Some major companies will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year just to help their employees to get healthy.
It has been and always will be part of our mission to donate to any worthy cause. If you are organizing an event and would like us to donate a case of Quit Tea to be auctioned or raffled off, please feel free to contact us. We just partnered up with an organization that assists people putting health fairs together, HealthFairsDirect.com, to start being more proactive in providing samples of Quit Tea. Also, we will work with HR departments to provide bulk discounts on Quit Tea for corporate wellness programs.
About Quit Tea LLC
Quit Tea is a natural stop smoking aid that helps to relieve nicotine withdrawal symptoms, suppress appetite, improve lung function, detox the body, and more. Quit Tea is a product of Quit Tea LLC and has been on the market since May 2010. It is distributed and sold internationally online, and in health food stores and pharmacies across the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Quit Tea LLC is a privately owned company based in Los Angeles, California.
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Running with a paw-pose: Cat charity volunteer sets sights on new hub by taking on 10km run
PUBLISHED: 16:02 28 May 2019 | UPDATED: 09:22 31 May 2019
A man in his sixties will test his endurance when he runs a 10km road race to raise money for the Honiton branch of Cat's Protection.
Bob Carter, who is taking part in the Martock 10km race on Sunday, June 16, wants to raise the money to help the branch open a new 'hub' which will replace the charity's shop and office, which closed earlier this year.
Mr Carter said: "I wanted to get a bit fitter and my fitness trainer, Amanda Gowler from Leisure East Devon, suggested I might like to give running a go. In September I ran Seaton Parkrun for the first time - this was my first 5km run. I quite enjoyed it and have done a few of these now - and also volunteered at these events as a marshal. The idea then came to me that I could do a sponsored run for Cats Protection's Honiton Branch as we desperately need to raise more funds.
"Five kilometres didn't seem enough of a challenge, so I decided to try a 10km race - which will be the first time I've run this distance in my life!"
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Allocating Multiple IP Addresses to Network Card
I tend to use static IP addresses in the office, as well as at home. So on my laptop, I wanted to set it up so that both IP's were ready to use, instead of manually resetting when I was at home. I didn't want to use DHCP at either location because of the way I use my machine - it needs to have a static IP address.
It simply requires editing /etc/conf.d/net and having a config like this:
"default gw 192.168.1.1"
"default gw 10.1.1.1"
make sure that /etc/resolv.conf has nameserver entries for both your office and at home. Now, you're machine no longer needs to have it's IP address reset each time you're in the office or at home.


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2nd July: Meeting with delegation of Committee Chairmen from Sri Lanka
In my role as a member of the Environmental Audit Committee, I joined a working lunch with a delegation of Committee Chairmen from Sri Lanka where we discussed how parliamentary committees hold government to account.
3rd July: Opening of West Hendon temple
I visited the Sri Jeya Veera Hanuman Temple as it moved to a new address in West Hendon Broadway. The temple is symbolic of the rebirth of West Hendon estate, where the original temple was located.
Youth Zone drop-in in Parliament
In the afternoon I was delighted to drop in to see On Side to hear more about their youth zone projects across London, after visiting our newly opened site in Hendon last month.
4th July: Speaking to Mill Hill County High students in Parliament
I regularly speak to pupils from schools across the constituency on their visits to Parliament. It was a pleasure to take questions from Politics A-Level students from Mill Hill County High.
8th July: House of Commons - I asked the Home Secretary, what estimate he has made of the number of work days lost by police officers from sick leave as a result of an assault while on duty.
9th July: Off-Payroll Tax lobby of constituents
I met a lobby of Hendon constituents in Parliament who expressed their concerns about the introduction of Off-Payroll tax reforms.
House of Commons – I asked the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of emissions at train stations.
11th July: House of Commons - Debate on Leasehold reform
During a debate on Leasehold Reform in the House of Commons, I took the opportunity to raise the concerns of many constituents regarding leaseholds, freeholds, escalating ground rents and service charges. I drew attention to developments in the constituency such Edgware Green in Edgware, the Pulse development and Beaufort Park in Colindale, Kennyland Court and Brinsdale Court in Hendon.
16th July: Led a delegation to the Free Iran rally in Albania
I led a delegation of British politicians and lawyers to the Free Iran rally at the resistance's base in Tirana, Albania. The rally was attended by delegates from countries across the world and the British delegation confirmed our support for the cause of human rights, freedom and democracy in Iran.
18th July: House of Commons – I asked the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to allocate additional funding to the NHS in increase spending on infrastructure and public health
23rd July: Supporting Colindale residents in their opposition to 21-storey tower at Beaufort Park
I am supporting Colindale residents in their opposition to a 21-storey tower block at Beaufort Park. This is part of a planning application for a building of part 8, part 9, part 13 and part 21 storeys to comprise 413 residential homes and 578.5 sqm GIA of commercial floorspace. I have written to Barnet Council in their capacity as the planning authority with my objections.
Interview on i24 Israeli News
I was interviewed on i24 International where I discussed the tensions in the Strait of Hormuz with Iran.
24th July: Welcoming the new Prime Minister
I welcomed Boris Johnson as the new leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Boris is a well-known and popular figure in the Hendon constituency where, as Mayor of London, he visited Edgware, Burnt Oak and Mill Hill as well as Hendon.
28th July: Speaking out against Mayor of London's approval for Pentavia development
I spoke out against the decision by the Mayor of London to allow the construction of 844 homes on the former Pentavia Retail Park site. It is my view that the proposals for this location do not constitute a sustainable, high quality-of-life form of development and hundreds of local residents have said they agree. I wrote to the Mayor expressing these views.
During the month: Attending Middlesex University Graduation ceremonies
I was honoured to attend Middlesex University's 2019 graduation ceremonies. A special award of an honorary doctorate was made to Maggie Appleton MBE who has been Chief Executive of the RAF Museum in Colindale since 2014.


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Gorgeous graphics like cut-paper art that blur the line between realism and surrealism.
Experience a trip into a mysterious world that's not quite two or three dimensional.
Animated by the two-person team at CAVYHOUSE and voiced by a team of professional Japanese actors, Midnight Sanctuary comes to life in ways you'll never expect.
* Voice audio is in Japanese.
Hamomoru Tachibana has been invited to catalogue the traditions of Daiusu Village, long isolated from the rest of Japan. But once she arrives, a being the villagers identify as the Saints also appears. What could it mean?...
An occult horror visual novel wrought by mystical visuals & talented voice artists.


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Homes like this are a rare find in the quiet surroundings of Salish Park.The original owner has kept this absolutely stunning home in pristine condition and is waiting for its next proud owner. The layout flows beautifully throughout with large living room, formal size dining room and open kitchen area that overlooks a family room and stunning private rock garden and fenced yard. There are 4 bedrooms up plus a large study on the main that could also be used as a bedroom. The basement has a large recreation room, bedroom and a huge storage room. This home is close to UBC, walking trails, schools and many other amenities. Prepaid Lease until 2073.
Check out all of the details of this House for sale, 4115 Yuculta Cr. Vancouver BC, Vancouver, BC


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In the 2011 Census Tick "No Religion"
"I put 'Jedi' in the last census. But I'll tick 'No religion this time.
I'm not religious and I don't want Bishops and the government saying this is a religious country.
That's just an excuse to keep religion in politics."
If you're not religious for God's sake say so.cencus-campaign.org.uk
The intention was to buy advertising space at railway stations to display the posters
CBS Outdoor, the advertisers that own the space, had other ideas.
Two reasons were given by owners of the space: they were concerned that the use of the phrase 'for God's sake' would cause widespread and serious offence and they also did not wish to take adverts relating to religion.
As the BHA allude to, only the professionally offended could take "widespread and serious offence,"
But what the BHA didn't point out (at least in their PR) is that the second reason is also spurious. Lots of religious groups are quite capable, and able, to advertise on the self-same spots. Those listed (though probably not exhaustive) include the Alpha course, the Christian Party[1] and the Trinitarian Bible Society.
It's not as if there isn't a history of religious advertising on public transport.
Vaguely related, I was somewhat amused by His Grace's "Mind your own *%$#@!! business" campaign but I think I'll be ticking the No Religion box.
[1] The BHA were responsible for the "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life" bus adverts that generated ASA complaints. In reply the Christian Party came up with "There definitely is a God. So join the Christian Party and enjoy your life" which became the most complained-about non-broadcast ad ever.


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Dee Bell
Concord Jazz & Laser recording and performing vocalist with two recordings that hit the top twenty in USA jazz charts.
About Me
Recordings and performances
Her debut album, Let There Be Love, with Stan Getz on saxophone and Eddie Duran (a Benny Goodman Band graduate) on guitar, was released on the Concord Jazz label (CJ-206) as an LP for Valentine's Day 1983. The record also featured prominent Bay Area musicians Al Plank, Vince Lateano, and Dean Reilly. This album was posted in the top ten in Radio and Records jazz airplay charts in the spring of 1983. Her follow-up recording in 1985 of One by One (CJ-271), also on the Concord Jazz label, reached number 13 on the Radio and Records jazz airplay charts in early summer 1985. This album featured trumpeter Tom Harrell along with Duran and Plank, and other Bay Area jazz musicians. Let There Be Love was chosen as a BillBoard Magazine Recommended LP Jazz Pick in their March 26, 1983 issue. Bell was also nominated by Down beat magazine in their Jazz Critic's Poll of 1984 and 1985 as Talent Deserving Wider Recognition. BAM Magazine nominated Let There Be Love as the Best Debut Album in their 1983 Awards. In 2010, the historic release of Sagacious Grace with Houston Person came out on the Laser label 20 years after it was recorded. Followed in 2014 by Silva.Bell.Elation with collaborator Marcos Silva. And in August 2018, Lins, Lennox, & Life, also on the Laser label is just now catching up to radio markets worldwide.
Bell has performed around the US and internationally, appearing at the Golden Globe Awards, the Russian River Jazz Festival, the Jazz in the City Festival, the first and only Mill Valley Jazz Festival, the Napa Valley Mustard Festival and the Cotati Jazz Festival, as well as television and hotel performances.
Critical reception
Leonard Feather of the Los Angeles Times wrote in a 1985 article that Bell has a haunting, jazz-infected sound, her diction and phrasing flawless. Jay Roebuck at the Orange County Register chose One by One as the third best album of 1985, stating that Dee Bell sings with a beautiful, clear voice that brings to mind Jackie Cain with just a touch of Chris Connor here and there. It's a pleasant combination, and she definitely has style of her own. In the British Jazz Journal, Derrick- Stewart Baxter also wrote in 1985 that Dee Bell is more than just a good professional. She knows just how to bring the best out in a song. She does her own thing, lazy, hazy smoky singing.
http://blogcritics.org/music-review-dee-bell-and-marcos-silva-silva-bell-elation/ Music Review: Dee Bell and Marcos Silva – 'Silva – Bell – Elation' By Jack Goodstein | Friday, January 24, 2014 - Although jazz singer Dee Bell made her first critically applauded albums back in the '80s with the likes of Stan Getz and Eddie Duran, her name is unlikely to be familiar to many jazz fans. As James Gavin's liner notes to her new album with pianist Marcos Silva, Silva – Bell – Elation, tells it, the Indiana-born Bell came to Northern California to pursue a singing career in 1978. She was working as a waitress in a Sausalito music club when she got up to sing "Happy Birthday" to a friend. Guitarist Eddie Duran caught her song and soon she was sitting in with his trio. Stan Getz heard her sing and was willing to listen to a demo tape. He liked what he heard, and she got a gig with Concord Jazz resulting in two albums. While her recordings got a lot of attention and she continued to work around the San Francisco area, she was not exactly making a fortune. She had to take a full time job. In 1990, she self-produced a third album,Sagacious Grace, but the master was defective as the result of a poorly placed mike and the album couldn't be released. Disappointed by the expensive failure, she devoted herself to marriage, family and a job as a music teacher. Twenty odd years later, with a bit of digital know-how, the technical problems were corrected. In 2011, the album was released.
Now she has teamed up with Brazilian-born Marcos Silva for an album that she calls, at least in part, "a laid back white jazz singer floating over his Brazilian rhythms." And it works, she handles Brazilian songs like Toninho Horta's "Beijo Partido/Broken Kiss," Marcos Valle's "The Face I Love," and especially Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Dreamer" with the finesse of a native. They've even arranged the Gershwins' "S'Wonderful" as a samba.
The set opens with a cover of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" featuring 17-year-old Chris Sullivan playing four different sax parts. There is also a little Lennon/McCartney with a sweet version of "I Will" and Joni Mitchell's "Night in the City." They infuse "I've Got the World on a String" and "Nature Boy" with the flavor of the Caribbean, aided by steel drummer Andy Narell. Her version of Abbey Lincoln's "The World is Falling Down" gives the tune a new life. The set ends with a wordless meditative dialogue with Silva on piano.
Silva – Bell – Elation is a tantalizing album that will leave the listener mourning for the 20 years of great music missed out on while Dee Bell was recovering from the Sagacious Grace fiasco.
Lins, Lennox, & Life, released 6th August 2018 has jazz journalist and historian, Scott Yanow commenting in the liner notes - It ...serves as a perfect introduction to the musical magic of Ivan Lins and the beautiful singing of Dee Bell.
Personal life
Bell began playing music at home, where she grew up in a musical family. She was first chair clarinet in the Plainfield High School band and performed in an a cappella trio from age ten through to her senior year. Bell graduated from Indiana University in December 1972 with a BS in Art Education, lived on the edge of the Hoosier National Forest in a 2- room cabin with a woodstove for heat, and was co-founder and head chef of the Earth Kitchen vegetarian restaurant in Bloomington, Indiana (the restaurant fostered the food cooperative and grocery store Bloomingfoods).
Bell resides as of May 2014 in Dillon Beach, California with her son and husband. She continues to perform and write lyrics and music.
My Jazz Story
I love jazz because of the depth of connection expressed by jazz vocalists. I was first exposed to jazz when I heard Benny Goodman and used to play my clarinet along with his records at the age of 10. I met Eddie Jefferson who told me I had a great sound, Stan Getz who offered to play on my first recording, Dick Conte the great jazz radio announcer, Jaco Pastorius who sat in on a gig, Bobby McFerrin when we sang together, Carmen McRae and I won't tell that story, Helen Humes when she sang at the Bach Dynamite and Dancing Society...there are many more stories... The best show I ever attended was Antonio Carlos Jobim and family at the Paul Masson Vineyards. It was like participating in a beautiful dream. The first jazz record I bought was Billie Holiday. My advice to new listeners: Jazz is an acquired taste and is quite stimulating to the senses once you take the time to understand the creativity within the improvisation.
My House Concert Story
I attended a Madaline Eastman concert at Ernie Shelton's. Wonderfully intimate setting and a great concert.


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OCD Action National Conference - this Saturday 11th May!
9 May 2019 - 12:54
The OCD Action National Conference will take place this Saturday 11th May in London!
Conference is a fantastic opportunity to hear from leading OCD experts, inspirational speakers and to meet other people affected by OCD.
Tickets for the Conference are still available to buy, and if you can't attend in person, then live-stream tickets are available to purchase too! Find out more here> www.ocdaction.org.uk/national-conference
We hope to see many of you there!


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So I made a selection of grid tiles and then went right clicked the feature in Contents > Data > Export Feature, but when I open the new feature class all the grids are on top of each other in the spot of the very first grid tile selected (lowest OID).
I performed this on 4 grids and half the time it would export correctly and other times they would all be moved to the first OID's original location.
Is there something I'm doing wrong, there are no options anywhere in the copy tool for me to change so not really sure how I could mess this up.
This is in ArcGIS Pro 2.1.1


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As of 2018, Millennials made up 66 percent of the market for first-time homebuyers, and 99 percent of those looking for homes use the internet to research properties. And we aren't just talking googling — 86 percent of home shoppers say they would use video to learn more about a specific community they are considering. Over the last decade, the internet and social media has impacted the way people find and buy homes. Below, we breakdown how social media has impacted the way we do Real Estate.
Finding an agent
Before social media, if you were looking for a local agent you'd probably ask neighbors or utilize the real estate section of the local paper. Today, fewer people receive the local paper, therefore, agents are spending less money advertising in print, and instead spend the ad money on facebook and instagram campaigns. Additionally, old fashioned word of mouth is no longer as simple as asking your neighbors and colleagues. Instead, a simple social media post out to your entire network inquiring about the best local agents can lead to a number of suggestions.
Searching Inventory
One of social media's largest impacts on Real Estate is the ability to give video tours, post countless photos, and promote inventory in a cost effective way. Prior to social media, the only way to show off inventory was to pay for ad space in the local paper or real estate catalogue. Now, agents can post inventory in real time, and update when the home has been put under agreement so that potential clients are aware the house is off the market.
Promoting Open Houses
Gone are the days of hanging open house signs and promoting in the local paper in hopes someone may come to the open house. Now, simply post on social media a few photos of the home with your open house date, pay a few dollars to boost the post, and everyone within a 10-mile radius of the open house will know it's going on.
What are the negatives?
Though social media has been a largely successful addition to the real estate business, there are still some fallbacks. For example, local, old-school brokerages that don't have a full grasp on social media can take major hits by not keeping up with the Jones's. These agencies may need to hire young talent to come in and revamp their social pages in order to keep up, which isn't always cost-effective. For those who understand social media, it is an affordable way to keep in front of potential clients, but for those who don't it can be costly to keep up.


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Shaving is generally a daily must-do for the men in our lives, and yet it's all to often undertaken in a haphazard manner – resulting in maladies including ingrown hairs, redness, and irritation. In honor of Father's Day this Sunday, we're providing some reading material to help dads (and other VIPs in your life) up their game when it comes to the art of shaving:
Think warm. A barber softens up your beard with hot towels. An easy way to get this effect at home is to take a steamy shower right before shaving.
Wash your face – but don't use just any soap. Use a gentle facial cleanser like Actifirm Antioxidant Cleanser. A facial cleanser can help soften the protein in hair, while a harsher soap can wash away stubble-softening oils.
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Use this application form to register on the course and send it to Ingjerd Gauslaa Nilsen at BFE Faculty, University of Tromsø:
Two important challenges in environmental sciences are to assess how human drivers impact on environmental systems and the effectiveness of management policies to adapt or mitigate these impacts. Answering these challenges implies we need to set up multidisciplinary monitoring systems that can efficiently measure changes and identify causes of changes for entities that, more often than not, are monitored on incongruent scales. The course therefore aims at integrating monitoring, research and management around three themes:
For climate systems, the course will, with an emphasis on the Arctic region, utilize local, regional and global examples of utilizing data and models in combination to assess monitoring systems ability to detect and attribute climate change. The examples will be utilized for conceptual discussions of strategies for designing climate monitoring systems on a cascade of scales.
For ecological systems, the course will illustrate the basic concepts of ecosystem functioning and management, and how climate interacts with other drivers to affect ecosystem dynamics, with the use of case studies from terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems.
For the relationships between society, climate and ecological systems, the course will in particular focus on how society involvements can be made operational within adaptive monitoring/management framework.
For each theme, the course will rely on concrete case studies from northern regions, as well as presentations of general principles, such as adaptive management and monitoring.
After the course the students should have knowledge about:
-principles of adaptive management
-principles of adaptive monitoring
-examples of monitoring systems of northern climate systems
-examples of monitoring systems of northern marine environments
-examples of monitoring systems of northern freshwater environments
-examples of monitoring systems of northern terrestrial environments
-Identification of relevant scales and design of climate monitoring systems
-Identification of relevant scales and design of ecosystem monitoring program
-Multidisciplinary dialogue between climate, ecosystem and social sciences
General competence:
-Be able to critically assess monitoring programs
-Evaluate the integration of monitoring objectives and design
-Assess societal involvement in monitoring programs
-Knowledge of northern social-ecological systems
The curriculum will consist of scientific papers presenting the scientific principles of adaptive management and monitoring as well as concrete examples of monitoring systems of northern systems.
Some papers are listed below:
Lindenmayer DB, Likens GE (2009) Adaptive monitoring: a new paradigm for long-term research and monitoring. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24, 482-486.
McGuire, A. D., L. G. Anderson, T. R. Christensen, S. Dallimore, L. D. Guo, D. J. Hayes, M. Heimann, T. D. Lorenson, R. W. Macdonald, and N. Roulet. 2009. Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change. Ecological Monographs 79:523-555.
Meltofte H, Christensen TR, Elberling B, Forchhammer MC, Rasch M (2008) High-arctic ecosystem dynamics in a changing climate - Ten years of monitoring and research at Zackenberg Research Station, Northeast Greenland - Introduction. In: Advances in Ecological Research, Vol 40, pp. 1-12. Elsevier Academic Press Inc, San Diego.
Nichols JD, Williams BK (2006) Monitoring for conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 21, 668-673.
Walters CJ (2007) Is adaptive management helping to solve fisheries problems? Ambio 36, 304-307.
Yoccoz NG, Nichols JD, Boulinier T (2001) Monitoring of biological diversity in space and time. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16, 446-453.


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On the 50th anniversary of Orwell's essay, Politics and the English Language, Andrew Marr finds political English in good health—thanks, in part, to Orwell's warnings. Power and brutality still hide behind evasive language, but are now more likely to do so in corporate cultureby Andrew Marr / April 20, 1996 / Leave a comment
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way…" That was how George Orwell began "Politics and the English Language," published 50 years ago this April. It was one of his most subtly influential essays, an almost holy text for many thousands of journalists and other writers throughout the English speaking world. In it Orwell made a thrilling call to arms, shouting out for clear, clean English. In the essay, and through the example of his own vigorous prose, he demonstrated that the state of the language was a political question. Lizard-eyed power hides behind pretentious sentences. Thought corrupts language and language corrupts thought; and to reform the language is to reform politics too. Half a century later, this remains a simple but radical test of our political culture. How do we shape up? Is the language still in a bad way?
Before addressing this directly, it is worthwhile rehearsing the strength of the original essay. It was a curious but gripping mixture of practical criticism of bad prose, plus rules too strict for most writers to adhere to ("Never use a long word where a short one will do… If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out…"), plus angry polemic. The rules have had the biggest impact. Printed first in Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine, the essay was circulated almost immediately by David Astor to Observer journalists. After that it influenced many newspaper style guides, from Keith Waterhouse's Daily Mirror Style to the in-house Economist rulebook.
Conservative admirers of Orwell tend to regard him as a defender of stability and orthodoxy in English, a wiry embodiment of Fowler's King's English whose views on split infinitives were as firm as his views on Soviet Russia. It is not true. In his essay, Orwell declared that correct grammar and syntax "are of no importance so long as one makes one's meaning clear" and he was similarly relaxed about the arrival of Americanisms. He was hunting different game from the trustees of "Heritage English." His target was not linguistic change or lack of orthodoxy, but sloppy, pretentious and overly abstract thinking, composed of ready-made phrases "tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen house." These, he notes, are often built up of pretentious latinate words ("render inoperative," "ameliorate") or dead metaphors ("take up the cudgels," "Achilles'…


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Intermediate egret
20/11/05 Intermediate egret, Ardea intermedia, at Muddy Creek/Ngaruroro River Estuary area, Hawkes Bay
Following the pelagic we organised for 19 November 2005 out of Napier, a group of five birders – Tim Barnard, Colin Miskelly, Steve Wood, Roger McNeill, and Frank Antram – managed to find an Intermediate egret in a small swale beside the road between the Ngaruroro and Tutaekuri River Bridges. The bird was seen well with lots of photos taken (see below for one taken by Tim Barnard), and was quite approachable.
This followed on from the sighting of a 'white' egret several weeks earlier by Brent, at Muddy Creek. The bird was seen at a distance, and just didn't seem right for a great egret, and definitely not the little egret that is still resident in the area. This was almost certainly the intermediate egret, and luckily Brent had mentioned this to Roger, who remembered this as soon as the bird was seen beside the road….
Several thorough searches for the bird during late December failed to find either the intermediate or little egrets, but another search in early January found the little egret in the vicinity.
The above photograph is copyrighted by Tim Barnard. If you would like to use it, then please contact me first.


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The City of Mandurah's mosquito management team, in conjunction with the Peel Mosquito Management Group (PMMG), presented the 2016/17 annual report at this week's full Council Meeting.
The presentation provided an overview of the PMMG activities with a specific focus on the City of Mandurah during the season.
The report stated that mosquito management activities undertaken increased significantly when compared to 2015/16, resulting in a twofold increase in the number of aerial treatments required throughout the region. The 2016/17 season proved challenging with 2507 hectares having been treated since July.
The increase in activity reflected predictions for the season made at the end of the 2015/16.
The Council meeting also heard that the PMMG continued to implement a number of improvements to helicopter application processes and equipment that helped the efficiency, accuracy, and quality control of aerial treatment operations over recent seasons.
Other 2016/17 highlights included:
- 21 aerial larviciding treatments were undertaken, covering a total of 2627 hectares. This is a 263 percent increase on season 2015/16 and was on par with seasons 2013 to 2015.
- The average size of the aerial treatments increased to 125 hectares, compared to 80 hectares in 2015/16.
- October (267 hectares) and March (255.2 hectares) were the largest individual treatments completed.
- Monitoring included 24 adult mosquito trapping rounds throughout the season.
- Community education through email updates, social media posts and information sessions.
- Industry information-sharing presentations and opportunities included the Mosquito Control Association of Australia Conference, Environmental Health Australia State Conference, and the visiting Malaysian Institute of Environmental Health delegation.
Chief Executive Officer Mark Newman praised the coordinated and collaborative efforts of all involved in the region's mosquito management during 2016/17.
"The mosquito management program is absolutely vital so we can continue to enjoy Mandurah's lifestyle and minimise disease," he said.
"We knew it was going to be a challenging season and took steps to reduce the impact on our community.
"Many residents will be familiar with the personal protective measures recommended to fight the bite, and it is important that we protect ourselves and our families and not to rely on mosquito reduction efforts alone."
For more information on the City of Mandurah's mosquito management program go to www.mandurah.wa.gov.au.


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Welcome to the Civil Engineering Contracting And Plant Hire site
O Neill Construction is family run construction business operating in the south-east of Ireland. Established in 1982 and successfully completing a variety of both small and large construction projects for both public and private clients ever since. We offer a range of services from one off site developments, private farm land development and remedial works to larger projects including road construction, water projects and commerical development works. With over 30 years experience in the industry, we offer professional, reliable services with quality and client satisfaction guaranteed.


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Multiple positions
Full time
The research assistant will participate in the development and execution of new bioprocesses, tests and methods for the production of stem cells and cell therapies for projects managed by the Centre for Commercialization of Cancer Immunotherapy (C3i). The research assistant will be working at the Centre of Excellence in Cellular Therapy, a state-of-the-art cGMP facility, and will have the following responsibilities.
- Perform the technical tasks of a research project, namely:
- Cell culture (stem cells, immune cells);
- Use and maintenance of the equipment and materials of the cGMP Manufacturing Unit used for the projects the RA will be in charge of;
- Assist the project manager in other research activities, namely:
- Assist in the evaluation and development of new technologies for the production of cell therapies.
- Assist in the planning and execution of experimental programs.
- Assist with the identification and resolution of any problem that may affect the efficient operation and quality standards of assigned projects.
- Work under minimal supervision and be responsible for the quality and relevance of the results submitted.
- Plan the implementation and administration of data collection tools or systems. Expected to improve or adapt already existing methods.
- Be responsible for the collection and analysis of results, the development and maintenance of certain equipment, schedule planning, tariffs, etc.
- Perform various administrative tasks related to the research project, namely:
- Acquisition of material and equipment
- Assistance in writing and reviewing technical documents, including laboratory SOPs, test protocols and reports
- Analyze and interpret the research results according to planned or customary methods and disseminate the results. May be asked to write reports, summary documents or to participate in writing scientific articles and disseminating results.
- Develop and improve the skills and knowledge needed to successfully support assigned projects.
Training and experience
- MSc or BSc with 2+ years of experience in industry (NO PhD please)
- Previous experience in cell culture (stem cells, immune cells).
- Experience in method development, optimisation and validation, preferably for clinical end-use.
- Knowledge of the GMP work environment and of standard operating procedures (SOP) is an asset.
- Knowledge of principles underlying personalized therapies for cancer treatments.
- Expertise in immunology and especially in T cell biology is an asset.
Key skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with French/English bilingualism.
- Knack for teamwork and moving projects forward in an environment based on exchange and collaborative work between various stakeholders.
- Attention to details, great organisational planning capabilities, ability to manage multiple activities simultaneously, effectiveness in time management, precision and reliability in record-keeping and filing are essential.
- Demonstrated excellence and productivity in research.
- Autonomy and problem-solving capabilities.
- Effectiveness in time management.
- Diplomacy, dynamism, flexibility, efficiency, commitment and professionalism.
To be filled as soon as possible. Salary will be fixed according to qualifications.
Candidates interested must send their curriculum vitae as well as a letter of intent to email@example.com with the subject line [Research Assistant – Cell Therapy].
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316 Stainless Steel polished, high resistance to the corrosion. The item "5/32 Cable Railing 316 Stainless Steel Kit. Eye Terminal With Thread And Washer" is in sale since Tuesday, August 22, 2017. This item is in the category "Business & Industrial\Material Handling\Hoists, Winches & Rigging\Lifting Machine Parts, Rigging\Other Lifting Parts & Rigging". The seller is "aresscorparesscorp" and is located in Orlando, Florida.
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By Ethan Wilkemeyer
This article describes the millennial population and why you as a retailer need to pay attention to this group of adults. They are born between 1981 and 2000 and take up a fourth of the U.S. population. They have $200 billion annual spending power and they aren't just trend setters they have influence over the older generations. Let's keep that in mind.The millennials believe in trust, authenticity and interaction within the company. Now why is this a big deal? Well, as an owner I would be jumping off of my seat thinking of all the possible ways my company could provide better service to this generation!Here are four ways you should interact with the millennial generation:
- Create trust through being authentic to who you say you are. This is very important in creating loyalcustomers
- Get them involved in creating a better product for the future. This will also create trust for this generation and develop a bond making purchasing easier for them in the future.
- Get acquainted with social media platforms and answer their questions. Be active with them, because it creates reassurance that you're real and ready to help. 87% of the millennial generation uses 2-3 tech devices. I'll let you ponder on that statistic.
- Give back to your community. 75% said it is either fairly or very important that a company gives back and millennials will support that you give back and love you as a part of the community.
So what did you learn? I hope that building trust is the most important thing you can do as a business plain and simple. Be authentic and real and in doing so, you'll transform from a good business to a great business.
Schawbel, Dan. "10 New Findings About The Millennial Consumer." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 20Jan. 2015. Web. 24 Jan. 2016.


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Samsung said on Tuesday that it aims to launch a foldable smartphone under the Galaxy Note brand, next year.
Koh Dong-jin, president of mobile business at Samsung said there are several challenges to overcome although the consumer electronics giant has its eyes on 2018. The bendable device was previously dubbed "Galaxy X."
Remember Samsung's intriguing bendable AMOLED display concept in 2012? Youm, as it was called is a foldable phone that bends like a flip phone.
Of course, Samsung isn't the only one exploring curved and pliable displays. LG and Lenovo have shown off prototypes recently. LG has patents for a foldable tablet-a smartphone-shaped device that can unfold into a larger tablet.
Lenovo also has a 5.5-inch tablet dubbed the Folio that converts into a 7.8-inch bigger tablet.
While we wait for the foldable display to be perfected and commercialised, we've to settle for edge-to-edge displays that curve at the edges, as seen on the Galaxy S8, S8+ and Note8 devices.
At a press briefing with South Korean media, the mobile president said that the Note8 beat expectations, despite it being more expensive than its past devices. The flagship phablet has received more than 650,000 units of pre-orders in South Korea before its Friday launch.


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Another week, another email from our U.S. representative, Steve Cohen.
He doesn't feel that the South is mature enough to be freed from the unfair, unequal provisions of the Voting Rights Act:
Tuesday was, unfortunately, a bad day for America. The Supreme Court, in a narrow 5-4 decision, struck down a critical section of the landmark Voting Rights Act that protects the rights of all Americans to participate in the democratic process by voting. Until the ruling, state and local governments in areas with histories of racial discrimination were required to "preclear" changes in the voting laws with an independent authority. While the Court did not rule that protecting against minority voter suppression in this way was unconstitutional, they did eviscerate the government's ability to effectively prevent it. Watch my remarks from Tuesday's press conference on the Supreme Court's ruling here (http://bit.ly/18eFZM3). Already, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is considering a new Voting Rights Act that would ensure access to the ballot box. Although the Republican majority has been reluctant to preserve voting rights, I will work with Leader Pelosi, Congressman John Lewis, Congressman John Conyers and other colleagues on the Judiciary Committee to protect your right to vote. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a scathing dissent from the Supreme Court decision.
But then again, the Supreme Court ruled properly, in his eyes, on the DOMA case:
I'm proud that I never voted for repressive laws like DOMA that take away rights from Americans.
With the court's ruling, the federal government can no longer deny legally married same-sex couples the federal protections and responsibilities triggered by marriage including Social Security Survivor benefits, family and medical leave, benefits for service members' spouses, and immigration rights.
Cohen was busy voting against our having much energy in the future:
This week, I voted against two bills on the House floor which would increase off-shore oil drilling along our nation's coastline. In the same week that President Obama laid out a comprehensive plan to reduce carbon pollution, Republicans passed two bills that will increase the number of off-shore oil wells while doing nothing to prevent another BP oil spill or to reduce our reliance on oil.
Then he turned his attention to the energy in our cars:
On Tuesday, I hosted a demonstration on Capitol Hill of Griffin Incorporated's Idle Reduction Technology. Griffin's technology combines fuel usage reduction, environmental improvement, and reduced operations and maintenance costs. Griffin uses a hybrid-like system to run all necessary vehicle operations when parked. This means that a parked truck is fully operational but it does not generate environmentally detrimental emissions, productivity and safety are not affected, and costly wear and tear on the engine is significantly reduced. The addition of idle reduction technology via an inexpensive after-market installation could save millions of dollars for state and local emergency, police, and fire departments, all while improving safety and efficiency. I appreciate Dick Sweebe, a local partner of Griffin, for introducing me to this technology at a demonstration in Memphis.
Why do I think this smells of the unwanted Volt and other car technology or Solyndra or the other red herrings the Obama administration likes to promote? Who gets what from whom is a question reporters have forgotten to ask.


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MELBOURNE: A 24-year-old Indian-origin woman was today found killed with injuries on her body at her house in New Zealand's Auckland city, media reports said.
Arishma Archana Singh, who lived with her three-year-old daughter and parents at the Maich road house, was found lying "in a pool of blood" on the floor of her bedroom in the early hours, NZ Herald reported.
The woman, who worked as a child educator and had studied at the University of the South Pacific, may have been killed after disturbing an intruder or burglar, police said after launching a homicide investigation into the incident.
She was out to a friend's birthday party and it appears she was killed soon after she arrived home, the report said, adding that her parents Rakesh and Aradhana Singh were also out visiting relatives and found her body when they returned.
"When they (Archana's parents) went in her room, they found her on the floor in a pool of blood. She had injuries to her face and body," the report quoted a source as saying.
Born in Nasinu in Fiji, Archana was separated from her husband three years ago and shared the custody of her daughter with her husband who had picked the girl yesterday.
Police are in the process of interviewing Archana's family, the report said.
No arrests have been made and it is not clear exactly how she died, it said.
"It is still unclear what has gone on inside the house. It's early days but hopefully, our scene examination and post mortem will reveal more," said Detective Inspector Gary Lendrum.
A neighbour said that they were "friendly and very nice people".


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