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The Anniversary of the George Zimmerman Trial
This coming Tuesday will be a year since several hundred potential jurors appeared for jury selection for the 2nd degree murder trial of George Zimmerman. The process continued to actual selection and trial. On July 13, 2013, 6 women acquitted Zimmerman for killing unarmed 17-year old Trayvon Martin.
Because Trayvon Martin lives in the hearts of many, we cannot forget discovery, pre-trial procedures, jury selection and the trial itself. An important issue for the trial was who was screaming for help, the screams being captured in the background of a 911 call. All experts concluded that the voice was NOT that of George Zimmerman, but the Honorable Judge Nelson who presided over the case, would not allow those experts to testify. Read the rest of this entry
Confirmed – George Zimmerman Owes $2.5 Million to Lawyers
Why would Mark O'Mara expect for George Zimmerman to pay him now?
On November 18, 2013, George Zimmerman was arrested on charges of felony aggravated assault, battery and criminal mischief. He filed an affidavit that he is indigent, alleging that he is unemployed, has $144 in cash, and is in debt for $2.5 million. In that case, Zimmerman's bail was set at $9,000. Frank Taaffe told Nancy Grace that he posted the $900 bond.
In other words, Zimmerman's legal defense fund does not have $900 to post the bond on his behalf.
Orlando Sentinel reports some things that bring clarity to George Zimmerman's financial affidavit that he filed with the court. Read the rest of this entry
George Zimmerman Trial – Day 13
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Jury Instructions and Closing Arguments are scheduled for today.
Don West argues that the State pulled "a trick"
The first video is partial and doesn't start from the actual beginning.
Audio cuts in and out because of the live streaming.
George Zimmerman Trial – Day 12
This morning, the Honorable Judge Debra Nelson granted the State's Motions to prevent the entry of Trayvon Martin's text phone messages. The defense may use the animation during closing argument, but it will not be entered into evidence for the jury.
It is anticipated that closing arguments will begin tomorrow after one rebuttal witness for the State.
George Zimmerman Trial – Day 11
George Zimmerman Trial – Day 9
July 5, 2013
"There are two people involved here. One of them is dead and one of them is a liar." Assistant State's Attorney Mantei.
George Zimmerman Trial – Day 8
Wednesday – Day 8 of Trial
(Tons of thanks to croakerqueen123 for recording.)
Don West and His Lack of Knowledge of Other Ethnic Groups
What Don West fails to realize is the history of Black America. Chronologically;
In the 1600's slaves were being shipped.
1787 The writers of the United States Constitution decide that slaves will count as three fifths of a person.
1863 Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation didn't actually free any slaves because it related only to areas under the control of the Confederacy.
1954 In the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS, the Supreme Court rules that separate schools for black and white students is unconstitutional.
1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat in the front of a bus, helping begin the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
1964 Civil Rights Act guarantees that all people will have equal access to hotels, restaurants, and other public places.
1968 Martin L. King is assassinated.
2003 In Grutter v. Bollinger, the most important affirmative action decision since the 1978 Bakke case, the Supreme Court (5–4) upholds the University of Michigan Law School's policy, ruling that race can be one of many factors considered by colleges when selecting their students because it furthers "a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body." (June 23)
2008 Barack Obama, Democrat from Chicago, becomes the first African American to be nominated as a major party nominee for president. On November 4, Barack Obama, becomes the first African American to be elected president of the United States, defeating Republican candidate, Sen. John McCain.
While this history is not included in everyday schooling in America, it is not forgotten by those who have endured Jim Crow and who lived in the time of Martin Luther King and other civil right leaders.
By looking at the timeline, Blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, and Native Americans have not been afforded the same rights as Whites. They were born with those rights no matter what. We had to fight for those rights.
Don West, his daughters and people on the internet who have tried to diminish Rachael Jeantel's education, looks, and use demeaning comments that are cruel, choose to ignore this history.
We are not that far removed in time of the 60's. While certain laws may have been passed to level the playing field, that doesn't mean it is done and enforced. Most of America went kicking and screaming thru the Civil Rights era —- and still are.
While education was taken as a right to whites, it was a privilege for minorities. While voting was a God Given right to our counter parts, it was a fight to get the same privilege.
We have been playing catch up to more then 230 years of adversity in a relative short time span of 53 years. (1960's to the current year of 2013)
While we may have a bi-racial President, it does not change racism. Bigoted racists only see the color of his skin. It does not change how people feel about minorities.
The case of Florida vs. Zimmerman proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that people still feel hatred. Still spew hateful language. Even still, think a black young teenager had no right to walk in the dark at 7pm in the rain, in a hoodie, along, carrying some snacks and a drink.
This case highlights all that is wrong with the system, laws, attitudes, and the so called rights of gun owners versus human rights and civil rights.
While Mr. West may have tried to make Rachel Jeantel look inferior, he only made himself look like a fool. He is the person with no class.
Frank Taaffe and The Butterfly Effect of Precious
On the HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell's program, Frank Taaffe inferred that witness Rachel Jeantel, was "precious." Rachel Jeantel is the daughter of Haitian and Dominican Republic parents. Born in Miami, Florida, she first met Trayvon Martin when she was in kindergarten. On her birthday of February 1, 2012, she and Trayvon renewed their friendship. Jeantel was on the phone with Trayvon on the evening of February 26, 2012, when he told her he was being watched, and then followed, by "a creepy ass cracker." Jeantel testified in court that the phrase; "creepy ass cracker" means "pervert." Logically, a man watching a teen from his truck, then following in his truck, appears to be a pervert.
Based on Jeantel's and Trayvon Martin's phone records, they were indeed talking during the time that George Zimmerman was on the phone with police dispatch, and also when Trayvon and George Zimmerman came into physical contact. That in fact, Jeantel's phone call with Trayvon disconnected just seconds before witness, Jeanne Lauer, called 911 to report hearing screams.
Precious is a movie, released in 2009, about a New York City overweight, sexually and physically abused, illiterate teen, who enrolls in an alternative school in hope of taking her life in a new direction. Based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire, the movie is the celebration of life against the odds.
The movie won the AFI Award for movie of the year. It also won the Academy Awards' Oscar for Best Performance by an actress in a supporting role (Mo'Nique) and Best Adapted Screenplay, (Geoffrey Fletcher).
The movie was nominated for Best Achievement in Directing, Best Achievement in Film Editing, and Best Motion Picture of the Year. Overall, the movie won 79 awards worldwide, and 49 nominations.
Gabourey Sidibe, who played the movie's leading character, "Precious," was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. Claireece "Precious" Jones, a taciturn, pregnant sixteen year-old, was Gabourey Sidibe's first acting role on-screen.
For these accomplishments, Frank Taaffe, supporter of admitted killer and accused murderer George Zimmerman, apparently believes that Precious is a person who is supposed to be ashamed and denigrated. Frank Taaffe, in addition to other George Zimmerman supporters who have compared Jeantel to Precious, do not see that the movie's main character represents metamorphosis through struggle – transformation within — from caterpillar to butterfly.
As a caterpillar, the verbal and physical abuse, and mocking lowered Precious' self-esteem. She day dreamed of being loved and admired. Through the struggle, Precious raised her self-esteem, and acquired courage, hope, and determination. She also learned not to argue with ignorant people. She was no longer afraid to be herself or ashamed that she did not match the stereotype of what others believe is smart and beautiful. Effectively, in their comparison of Jeantel to Precious, Taaffe and other Zimmerman supporters call good, evil.
The movie's Precious had much more to live for than just herself – two children, one which is a special needs child. In like manner, when Jeantel took the witness stand, she didn't think of herself. Throughout this ordeal, she made it plain that she was concerned for Sybrina Fulton's pain. On the witness stand, Jeantel wasn't interested in competing to win a public speaking contest. She took the stand to testify of her last conversation with Trayvon. She laid the pain of her loss aside. Through cross-examination by defense attorney Don West, Jeantel flew above his condescending inferences, his interrogation as though he was a detective trying to get her to confess to committing a crime, and his hours of repeating the same questions.
Jeantel's answers revealed just how far Don West is from reality. For instance, he drilled her on why she did not call the police. Jeantel's answer was consistent; i.e., she did not know that the man who killed her friend had not been arrested. Logically, admitted killers are arrested.
Don West also demonstrated his ignorance of jurisdictions. How was Jeantel suppose to call 911 in Sanford, Florida, when she resides in Miami?
Frank Taaffe's taking of good and using it for evil is — well — evil in itself. He fails to recognize that the movie character Precious does not represent shame. Rather, Precious is a character who in spite of not meeting Taaffe's standards, overcomes against the odds.
Rachel Jeantel is hereby awarded the butterfly award.
The Prejudice of Don West
Don West, a lawyer on accused murderer and admitted killer George Zimmerman's legal team, took a photograph of himself with his daughters. Nothing unusual about that. However, the caption that his daughter put to it when uploading the photo to Instagram, speaks volumes.
"We beat stupidity …"
First, it tells us that Don West discusses the case with his daughters, and not just the case, but his personal opinion of witnesses. In this situation, the celebration photo came just after Don West kept witness, Rachel Jeantel, on the witness stand for hours. Jeantel is the young woman who was on the telephone with Trayvon Martin seconds before George Zimmerman killed him.
The "We" indicates that Don West's daughters involved themselves, and give themselves credit, for helping their dad humiliate, denigrate, condescend, and badger 19-year-old Rachel Jeantel. It causes me to wonder if they bully people in their personal lives in the same manner that they coached their dad.
The most important indication in the "We beat stupidity …" caption, is that it demonstrates Don West's personal prejudice against Rachel Jeantel. He wants to recall her to the witness stand after demonstrating his personal opinion of her as written by his daughter, which is that he thinks she is stupid.
Don West deposed Jeantel, and kept her on the witness stand for hours. Her memory of her last conversation with Trayvon Martin was consistent. Yet, Don West wants to lay a guilt trip on Jeantel for not calling the police. What police? She doesn't reside in Sanford, FL. Was she suppose to call the Miami police department and ask that they relay a message to the Sanford Police Dept.
Jeantel said several times that she didn't call the police because she thought Zimmerman had been arrested. Don West misses the sense and logic in that. In general, when a person admits to killing another, they are arrested. George Zimmerman admitted killing Trayvon Martin. Don West assumes that a then 18-year-old high school sophomore was supposed to know, and understand, Florida's Stand Your Ground law which Zimmerman claimed to avoid arrest.
Rachel Jeantel is far from being stupid. It's Don West's assumptions that cause him to appear removed from reality; his knock-knock joke being one example of that, and now his "We beat stupidity …" celebration photo with his daughters.
Shame on Don West, and shame on Molly West.
With Don West's insulting and prejudicial opinion of Jeantel, the State should bring it to the court's attention so that Jeantel is not further abused and publicly denigrated by Zimmerman's attorneys.
George Zimmerman Trial – Day 5
This page will be updated throughout the day with videos of today's trial proceeding.
George Zimmerman Trial – Day 4
The defense is not making a good impression to the jury. Don West badgers witnesses and it is clearly seen that he mixes testimony and interjects his own descriptive words in attempt to paint State witnesses in a bad light.
In addition to this, Don West and Mark O'Mara are not defending George Zimmerman but rather, following a White Supremacist agenda to make this case solely a matter of race. The Honorable Judge Nelson ordered that the State can use the word "profile" or "profiling" but not "racial profiling." Don West clearly used "racial profiling" when cross-examining DeeDee.
Let's be clear — George Zimmerman was arrested because investigators found evidence to support a charge of 2nd degree murder.
Below are the videos from today's proceeding provided by croakerqueen123. A word to the White Supremacists and bigoted racists; please be respectful of croakerqueen123's video pages. If you (meaning, White Supremacists and bigoted racists) don't like that she takes time to record live stream and make them available on her Youtube channel, then get your own software, learn how to use it, and open your own Youtube channel.
Regarding part 4, croakerqueen123 wrote;
Some got cut out. They looked at the witness' twitter account, and BLDR had some issues with twitter, and it turned out she was not following Robert Zimmerman (but there is spec BLDR was logged in his account still, and it was saying HE wasn't following) I will try to find that part, and post it as soon as I can.
(Administrator's note. Croakerqueen123 now has the video where the witness' Twitter account is discussed. It is below part 4.)
Thank you, croakerqueen123. Your work and time is greatly appreciated.
Deflection and Misdirection – the Strategy of the Defense Team
The latest hearing in the State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman was quite the circus to say the least. In my opinion the hearing was not just for O'Mara's ludicrous sanction motion against the state for getting rip to shreds in Bernie de la Rionda's response, but to put on a show for the dwindling support group for the Zimmermans.
I say Zimmermans to include the family as well. Their actions speak for themselves.
The hearing was yet another attempt to get at Mr. Crump, Ms. Sabrina Fulton and Witness 8, aka Deedee. This is the misdirection.
Misdirection is a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its attention from another.
Counsel for the defendant keeps failing to realize this is a murder trial with witnesses, forensic evidence, the defendant's multiple statements, the defendant's Hannity interview, bullet casing location, GPS data, phone records, text messages and DNA evidence.
Mr. Crump has done everything he can and will do legally in helping his clients Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, for the senseless shooting death of their son Trayvon Martin. Anything garnered by Mr. Crump's efforts are protected by work product/attorney privilege.
What part of that statement/ruling made by the judge in the black robe do they not understand?
Don West starts off with his ongoing complaint of attorney Crump's interview of Deedee. If the Sanford Police Department would have done their due diligence in finding her, they could have questioned her themselves. Law enforcement commonly obtains permission from the parents and or through a warrant to access data on phones. This case has been fouled from the very beginning. Many things were done wrongly and some rightly. More often than not the Sanford Police Department is responsible for a lot of the wrongs.
West continues to go on and on about the non-hospital visit of Deedee. It is a non-issue. Big deal! So what! What does that have to do with a man with a record of domestic violence, and anger issues, menacing Trayvon first by car, then on foot, chasing him in the dark, and ultimately killing him with a gun that is registered to his wife, Shellie.
What does Deedee making an excuse, (not a lie of not attending the funeral of a person she was in love with), have to do with the murder case filed by the State of Florida? Most human beings do not like facing the death of a loved one, let alone one that was murdered.
The other thing I noticed from the hearing was both attorneys, Mr. Mark O'Mara and Mr. Don West, used the hearing, not only to attack the State for their hurt feelings from the response by Mr. Bernie de la Rionda, but to also discuss, at length, depositions taken of Ms. Sybrina Fulton and Deedee.
Depositions are never a part of the case record. Not being a part of the case record means there is no requirement to seal or unseal. The court never sees depositions. Depositions are solely for discovery and not intended to address the facts of a case neither legal conclusions. They are maintained by the attorneys. Some depositions are never reduced to transcripts – that is, written out, because attorneys do not find any information in them that has merit in the case. When that happens, if opposing counsel wants a transcript of the deposition, they have to pay for them to be transcribed.
In essence, we the public, do not get to see transcripts of depositions because they are not a part of the case record.
The attorneys for the defendant found a way to talk about the depositions without getting in trouble with the court. For example, would we have known that the letter that was presented from Deedee to Ms. Fulton was not written in her own hand but was dictated by her and written by a friend named Francine? It doesn't make the letter any less authentic because she did not pen it herself; they were her thoughts written by her friend. She signed the letter. By signing the letter she made it hers. The content of the letter could have not come from her friend, because she was not on the phone with Trayvon. Deedee herself was describing as best she could for Ms. Sybrina Fulton what happened that night. The audacity of the defendant's attorneys to actually make this woman take a personal letter out of her Bible to prove she had the original goes beyond the limit of human decency.
It goes to show us the only strategy O'Mara and West are using is to keep attacking witness 8, aka Deedee, and Ms. Sybrina Fulton. This will not work. We have viewed the available evidence and data to date and all of it points to the absolute guilt of George Zimmerman.
Quite a few bloggers have painstakingly taken apart evidence, timelines, DNA data, police timelines, videos etc. that can put any experts that O'Mara employs to shame.
By the way we never have known the friend's name if it weren't for Mr. West's big mouth either. This is why the identity of witness 8 is taken with the utmost care by the State. The lengths that some blogs (they know who they are) and the attorneys themselves have gone through to get information about her are enough to scare any person.
Bernie de la Rionda cross-examination of West was outstanding! He got Mr. West to answer when the existence of the letter to Ms. Fulton was discovered. There was no withholding of discovery. Bernie de la Rionda also revealed how long the defense team deposed Ms. Fulton – 7 hours; really, they actually asked her about her employment, and how much money she made in previous years. How relevant is this? The amount of time spent on witness eight and Ms. Fulton borders on witness intimidation.
I also noticed that Bernie didn't fall for their crap either; he didn't do a tic for tat by revealing any of the juicy details from his interviews.
The lawyers for the defense were trying, very badly I might add, to deflect from the real issue of the immunity hearing. O'Mara wanted nothing more than to crawl back under the rock he slithered from, than to have that taken right off the table. He had to eat those words previously said at interviews and in court that his client welcomes an immunity hearing. O'Mara said "His client wants to take the stand and plead his case". When did Mark O'Mara know that he would not proceed with a pre-trial immunity hearing? Please see the video below.
Weren't those the days, Counselor? (LOL)
As previously stated by Judge Lester, the case against George Zimmerman is strong.
There aren't many days left till June 10th. We are already in the first week of May. As my good friend Lonnie says, Tick, Tock George, Tick Tock.
10-26-2012 Court Hearing – Open Discussion.
On Oct. 26, 2012, the State v. George Zimmerman was heard in court on two motions. In layman's terms, Zimmerman wanted State witnesses not to talk to State Attorneys before O'Mara, his attorney, deposes them. Presiding Judge Nelson said "no' denying Zimmerman's motion.
The other motion was filed by the State for a gag order against all attorneys and their staff using the media to promote their positions. Judge Nelson is to rule on that on Monday.
Attorney West for Zimmerman, approached the podium in effort to regurgitate the statement of Witness 8, who is commonly known as "DeeDee" or Trayvon Martin's girlfriend. Judge West refused to hear the matter re-argued as she entered order regarding the recorded statement last week.
Judge Nelson also set a Case Management calendar.
Originally, we presented videos of the hearing that were recorded by Trent Sawyer, (stateoftheinternet), and posted to his YouTube channel. Since the verdict, Trent has made the videos private and they are no longer available.


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Merton's Road Safety team are providing workshops and presentations in the borough's schools to reinforce safe crossing messages with all age groups.
Merton's cabinet member for Children services, Councillor Maxi Martin said: 'We want to encourage children to walk to school as it's a great way to keep active and healthy but we also need to do all we can to keep people aware on the roads. Visiting our schools is a good way to reinforce our message to children of taking care when crossing roads.'
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Ben Meyers' rating: 3.7|5.0 Starsììì
does not have a lot to give for a 90-minute investment of time. It performs as a slow documentary about Who's Who in Hollywood who has Canadian roots and ties. The movie plays down being Canadian to the level of being Canadian means: one is involved either in the movie or music industry. It seems to have been produced as a low-key roast of Canadian entertainment personas.
Film Poster Courtesy of Google Images
Robert Cohen defines Canadian via Who's Who in the entertainment industry.
Additional Thanks
Thank you to Director Robert Cohen for directing effort. Thank you to Executive Producers Teza Lawrence, Michael Souther, and David Warren for making the film possible. Additional characters/cast include: Herself (Cobie Smulders), Himself (Nathan Fillion) Himself (Mike Myers), Himself (Ben Stiller) Himself (Seth Rogen), Himself (Michael J. Fox), Himself (Dan Aykroyd), Herself (Kim Cattrall), Himself (Will Arnett), and Herself (Catherine O'Hara).
Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe?
Maybe. It does not rate as good entertainment and has that same constipated feeling of 'this is going nowhere' that Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's series, The Trip, displays.
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Sometimes desperate times call for drastic measures.
And sometimes a scarecrow just won't do.
In March 1949, farmers and sportsmen were fed up with the thousands of crows that roosted nightly in a 1,000-acre section of muckland near Montezuma. Newspapers estimated as many as 400,000 crows inhabited the area.
Some called the infestation "the black menace," and residents intended to do something about it. Something that involved dynamite.
Crows have always been an issue in Cayuga County.
Auburn city officials have wrestled with the crow population for more than 100 years. In the 1920s, city workers brought Roman candles for children to fire off to scare the birds away. In the 2000s the city staged crow hunts and ignited controversy.
"Barely a mind is laid to rest that has not since childhood days accumulated a memory of experiences with crows. They have accompanied us through life as a friend who has a way at times of becoming a nuisance," columnist Walter Foulke, of the Auburn Citizen-Advertiser, wrote in 1974.
Crows are known for their intelligence, but for a lot of folks the high-pitched caws and messy droppings are a nuisance. But in 1949 the farmers and sportsmen in the Montezuma area believed that crows threatened their way of life.
"Farmers throughout the area grew tired of having their crops destroyed," the Cato Citizen reported. "They grew tired of these black vulture-like birds that wing their way home to roost each night on their lands."
Sportsmen worried about the effect crows had on local game, especially waterfowl, whose eggs crows enjoyed feasting on.
Before another harvest could be ruined by the crows, farmers and sportsmen formed an alliance and declared war.
They reached out to the state Conservation Department and came up with a plan.
Sportsmen, under the supervision of the state police and the Conversation Department, would literally blow up 1,000 acres of Montezuma muckland, using 500 shrapnel bombs. Each bomb would contain a half stick of dynamite surrounded by shards of shrapnel. In total the plan called for four cases of dynamite, a half-ton of shrapnel and 3,000 feet of primer.
The "bomb" would be detonated on the evening of Saturday, March 26, 1949, after the crows had settled in for the night, their heads tucked into their wings, unaware of their pending doom.
It was expected that the blast would kill at least 2,000 crows. Any injured birds would be taken care of the next morning by roving bands of riflemen, who would "humanely" put the birds out of their misery.
To get approval for the plan, Cornell University would receive 300 crow carcasses for their research.
The sportsmen gave their plan an official-sounding military name, Operation Crow Extermination.
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Hundreds of sportsmen were stunned that afternoon, when the crows started roosting in a different spot, just far away enough to be out of the killing zone.
Members of the Montezuma Rod and Gun Club opened fire with their shotguns at the birds, attempting to "shoo" them into the mined field.
"But the wary crows only hopped from one tree to another and even this last-ditch effort was abortive," the Southern Cayuga Tribune wrote.
As evening turned to night, the decision was made to proceed with the explosion.
The blast was "terrific" and rattled windows and dishes all over the countryside.
But not a single crow was killed, they had all roosted in another plot, about a mile away from the dynamite site.
"Operation Crow Extermination" was described as a "dismal failure."
"Needless to say, there were many red faces yesterday, when not a single dead bird was found," the Citizen-Advertiser wrote.
"The birds hoodwinked us and there is no disputing the fact," J. Edward McGuire, president of the Falcon Sportsmen's Club, admitted the next day.
Some of the sportsmen put out a theory that the crows may have had a "sensitivity" to the nitroglycerine in the dynamite, which caused them to roost somewhere else that night.
Newspapers had a field day.
"The crows were noisy today but had no formal comment," the Utica Observer-Dispatch said.
"The cry of "Caw, Caw, Caw" changed to "Haw, Haw, Haw," the Cato Citizen joked.
One editorial writer went so far as use the story to describe President Harry Truman's Cold War strategy.
The crows represented the Soviet Union, bringing their unwanted way of life to Eastern Europe, or the farmer's fields. The United States was represented by the sportsmen, who threaten to destroy the Soviet Union, the crows, "if she does not cease her depredations upon others' rights."
Besides their embarrassment, the operation cost the sportsmen about $150 in supplies and they had to apologize to Cornell for not delivering the promised dead crows.
The struggle between man and crow would continue.
The story of the sportsmen's defeat to the wily crows of Montezuma was impossible for Upstate New York newspapers to ignore, and most ran a story about it.
Almost all of them included a crow-related pun headline.
Here are some of the best:
"Caw, Caw, Caw" changed to Haw, Haw, Haw"
"Crows Give Sportsmen the Bird as Dynamite Booby-Trap Flops"
"Haw, Haw," Cry 400,000 Foxy Crows Eluding Trap
"Crows Have Caws to Celebrate; Dynamite Failed to Get 'Em"
"Field Blasted to Kill Crows That Aren't There"
"Wanted: Those Old-Fashioned Scarecrows"
"Sportsmen Got Bird, Not the Birds"


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Earlier on Friday President Donald Trump left Washington to fly to Florida:
President Trump heads to Marine One with his grandchildren Arabella & Joseph, followed by Ivanka and Jared Kushner. They're off to Florida pic.twitter.com/xYTxCJQVTQ
— Karen Travers (@karentravers) March 3, 2017
Doug Mills of the NY times took this photo as they were leaving:
Joseph Kushner, grandson of President Trump, shows off his Marine One toy as he walks with @realDonaldTrump @POTUS as they board Marine One. pic.twitter.com/gJWcFy2ONu
— Doug Mills (@dougmillsnyt) March 3, 2017
And the replies soon became very political:
@dougmillsnyt @nytimesphoto @realDonaldTrump @POTUS Short fingers, both!
— David Miklethun (@davidmiklethun) March 3, 2017
@dougmillsnyt @nytimesphoto @realDonaldTrump @POTUS Looks like they have him wearing a Prince Albert coat. Not appropriate for a USA kid!
— Norma Landa Flores (@NormaLandaFlore) March 3, 2017
@dougmillsnyt @hblodget is it true that he's off to meet the Russian Ambassador as well?
— BAR (@TweetsfromBAR) March 3, 2017
@dougmillsnyt @Hadas_Gold @POTUS Cute kid. Sorry about the lineage. That coat though… pretentious.
— ((IleneToTheWrite)) (@IleneToTheWrite) March 3, 2017
@dougmillsnyt @Hadas_Gold @realDonaldTrump @POTUS If Ivanka is going to deploy her tots as a PR ploy, then they are no longer off limits.
— Arabella Trefoil (@ArabellaTrefoil) March 3, 2017
Later on, it seems Twitter missed this photo:
Joseph Frederick Kushner hops into the president's limo with @IvankaTrump and @realDonaldTrump in West Palm Beach, FL Photo by @michaelares1 pic.twitter.com/4jSmOE2bEv
— Michael Ares (@michaelares1) March 3, 2017
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Brenda Battel Tribune, Staff Writer | Huron Daily Tribune | Friday, April 13, 2018 | www.michigansthumb.com
OLIVER TOWNSHIP – Residents of Oliver Township will have a say May 8 about whether changes to the township zoning ordinance passed last year will go into effect.
Residents who oppose the revisions say the changes address some aspects of wind development insufficiently, and fail to address others.
"They didn't change (regulations) enough to really help the people who live here," said township resident Richard Krohn, who sought signatures to get the measure on the ballot. "Because there's nothing really stopping (developers) to come back and stick turbines in between the ones we've already got."
There were 75 residents who signed the petition calling for the ballot language, which states: "Shall the amendments to the Oliver Township Zoning Ordinance adopted by the Township Board on June 6, 2017, be approved?"
Krohn said those who vote "no" would be supporting the notion that the township needs to revisit its ordinance. A "yes" vote would put the changes into effect.
"They've got to make changes in the ordinance to make it safer for the people. That's the nuts and bolts of it," he said.
In the 2017 ordinance, wind turbine tower-to-home setbacks were increased from 1,320 feet to 1,500 feet. But that's not enough, according to Krohn.
He noted that the World Health Organization and American Health Organization recommend a 2,500-foot setback.
"The county even went to 1,640," he said, referring to changes Huron County made in 2015.
Those against the township's ordinance changes also say sound limits should be decreased.
The township board did not change the ordinance's noise limits, which remain 55 db(A).
"It's way too high," Krohn said, adding the American and world health organizations recommend 35 db (A).
Another problem Krohn has with the ordinance is that there is no size limit for turbines.
He also objects to ordinance changes removing the "good neighbor rule."
That required a lease-holding landowner to notify another lease-holding landowner to if, for example, the landowner wants to place a turbine on a neighbor's fencerow.
Lawrence C. Krohn is the township supervisor, and a distant cousin of Richard Krohn.
Lawrence C. Krohn said several residents who are now against removal of the good neighbor rule had problems with it before it was removed.
If both property owners have wind contracts, he said, there is no need to notify each other that they are placing turbines near fencerows or property lines.
Lawrence C. Krohn said he would approve revisiting the ordinance changes "if there's an overwhelming vote" against them.
But he added he could not speak for the members of the Oliver Township Planning Commission or the remaining members of the Oliver Township Board of Trustees.
He noted that if the changes are rejected at the polls, the setback for wind turbines would remain at 1,320 feet. The 2009 ordinance, which call for the 1,320 setback, remains in effect until the vote is decided.
Lawrence C. Krohn said the township does not want to open itself up to lawsuits by commercial wind developers by allowing exclusionary zoning.
"Nobody wants to be sued," he said.
Other changes in the 2009 ordinance included allowing solar energy systems, and updates to the Generally Accepted Agricultural and Management Practices (GAAMPS).
Both the 2009 and 2017 ordinances can be found online at www.olivertwp.net/zoning.
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LONDON (MarketWatch) — After high-profile pledges to shake up the world monetary system and address the roots of the financial crisis, France has set seemingly modest goals for the two-day meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers that begins Friday, economists said.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who is hosting the Paris meeting, said Thursday that an agreement on what measures to use to gauge mismatches between export oriented, creditor nations and consumption focused, debtor economies would be a "big step," Reuters reported.
The technical focus of the meeting, the first since France last month took over the year-long rotating presidencies of both the Group of Eight industrialized nations and the G20 in January, belies rising tensions over the issue of global imbalances and currency issues, economists said.
Global imbalances were seen as a major factor in the financial crisis. They are characterized by large current account deficits in consumption-focused countries such as the United States, and massive surpluses in export oriented, creditor countries such as China and Germany.
A senior German official earlier this week said the meeting was likely to reach agreement on specific indicators, but was unlikely to set targets for individual countries, the Financial Times reported. Potential indicators include current-account measures, real exchange rates, public-sector debt and deficit figures, currency reserves, and private-sector savings rates.
"All they are really saying is here are key indicators of imbalances. Well, I think we already knew what they were all this time didn't we?" said Simon Derrick, chief market strategist at Bank of New York Mellon. "We could have jotted them down on the back of an envelope."
China has reportedly resisted calls to include measures such as real effective exchange rates in the mix.
Lagarde emphasized that there is heavy debate over the issue. And a senior U.S. Treasury official this week said that the G20 remains on a timetable established in a Seoul meeting last year to come up with plans to correct imbalances with input from the International Monetary Fund, but emphasized that there was no expectations to reach an agreement on indicators early in the year.
Iain Begg, a professor at the London School of Economics, said the debate may sound esoteric but is crucial to addressing the problem.
"I think Lagarde is probably right that there is a need to clarify what indicators are symptoms of imbalance and which indicators are symptoms of a lack of adjustment, particularly by deficit countries that are in trouble," he said.
"It may sound banal and almost like turning it over to the bean counters ... but it is actually an important economic and policy judgment," Begg said.
The debate over imbalances, meanwhile, is likely to be complicated by the fact it appears imbalances are likely to once again grow more stark with half the world "booming furiously" and the other half still mired in sluggish growth, he said.
Meanwhile, solutions to the imbalances are a difficult sell politically in deficit and surplus nations alike, said Simon Smith, chief economist at FxPro.
"If the U.S. economy is to achieve a reduction in consumption as a proportion of GDP, then policies need to be shifted away from supporting consumers," he said. "This is difficult to do at a time when unemployment is at 9%."
In Germany, meanwhile, the fact that the nation's current-account surplus is second only to China's isn't viewed as Germany's problem "in any way," he noted.
Meanwhile, a range of renewed tensions between developed nations and their developing counterparts are likely to cause complications in other areas.
Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega earlier this week said Brazil had no plans to join the United States in jointly pressing China to allow its currency to rise further. The remarks came after Brazilian officials, after a visit by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner earlier this month, said they would aid Washington in its call for a stronger yuan.
Mantega told reporters there was no "common initiative" and that he was just as worried about a weak dollar versus the Brazlian real as he was about the value of the yuan, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The senior U.S. Treasury official who spoke to reporters earlier this week said China's currency, while moving in the right direction, remains undervalued and that the United States would continue to work on the issue.
The official rejected accusations that mounting food prices and other inflationary pressures in emerging economies are the result of the U.S. Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program, saying that a clear set of supply and demand factors instead seem to be driving the increase.
Begg said inflation pressures are likely to be a hot topic in closed-door discussions in Paris.
France has called for a revamp of the international financial system that would reduce the role of the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for including the Chinese yuan in the basket of currencies that make up the International Monetary Fund's special drawing rights.
A Canadian finance official on Wednesday said the G20 would decide in Paris whether to pursue talks about special drawing rights, Dow Jones Newswires reported.


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(Kent Harrington, a former senior CIA analyst, served as National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, Chief of Station in Asia and the CIA's Director of Public Affairs.). President Trump didn't bother to talk to Vladimir Putin about Russia's preparations to interfere in the 2020 presidential election two weeks ago when he telephoned the Kremlin. Instead, Trump said, the two had a good laugh over the hoax that Putin did anything even remotely offensive in 2016. As for the intelligence community's warning that Moscow is gearing up its attack on the 2020 campaign, Trump was categorical. "We didn't discuss that."
It's easy to be critical. After all, who can argue with Trump's statement that good relations with Russia would make the world a better place? Maybe his approach could have worked for his predecessors. Take Franklin Roosevelt; he sent a letter to Japan's emperor, Hirohito, on December 6, 1941, avowing that the two countries shouldn't threaten each other as they tried to negotiate peace in the Pacific. FDR could have followed up with a telegram on December 7, telling Hirohito he was ignoring "that Pearl Harbor thing" and still wanted to talk.
In the moral, ethical and political sinkhole that has swallowed the Oval Office, the ludicrousness of Trump joking with Putin about the Russian attack on American democracy is only surpassed by his irresponsibility as commander-in-chief. To be sure, with investigations into his finances, obstruction of justice, constitutional conflicts of interest and Russia far from over, Trump's priority is clear: Self-preservation supersedes all duties, such as protecting the nation's security, that come with the president's job.
But whatever its success in frustrating his inquisitors, the l'état c'est moi presidency has a fatal flaw: It can't control the fallout from events abroad where Russian political warfare is targeting other democracies. For Americans, understanding the threat is vitally important. From Britain to the Baltic states, leaders are speaking out about Putin's attack on European democracy. They recognize the danger. It's news there. The question is, will it be here?
When it comes to broadcast and cable television, the leading news sources for most Americans, the answer is, "who knows?" Russia's political warfare in Europe -- from subverting Britain's Brexit vote to attacking the European Union's parliamentary elections -- is the run-up to its offensive in 2020. Sadly, Americans are learning little from broadcast and cable news where producers roll more video of kitties coaxed from culverts than Putin's covert political campaign.
For media executives who presumably still recognize their outlets are licensed to serve the public interest, coverage should be a top priority. The reason is obvious to anyone who thinks about journalism's crucial role. Broadcast and cable news didn't face the criticism heaped on social media for its negligence in enabling Moscow's subversion of the last election. Their performance may not have won any prizes, but to their credit, journalists did their post-mortems on 2016, including mea culpas for underweighting attention to Russia's role.
Which makes the fact that the country's most watched news media are ignoring European events more than strange. For one thing, there's no lack of alarms. Russia spends $1.2 billion a year on pro-Kremlin media to interfere in elections, the EU's Vice President for the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip, said last December, and the EU's latest official view doesn't mince words. "Russia's hybrid war…gained notoriety as a global challenge during the [Brexit] referendum [and] the United States presidential election. The EU…[is] stepping up efforts to tackle online disinformation ahead of the May European elections."
A recent study by SafeGuard Cyber, an American cybersecurity firm, looked at Russia's European attacks this month to define the scope of the threat. Drawing on Moscow's cyber-MO and the company's 500,000-strong database of Russian social media accounts, the study identified 6,700 Russian-related trolls and bots at work across the continent. The researchers concluded that 240 million people -- half of all Europeans -- are likely to see some form of Russian-promoted disinformation before the EU parliamentary elections next week.
They discovered something else. Unlike the American election in 2016 when Moscow seeded social media with Russian-authored political disinformation, in Europe today, Putin's cyber operatives instead are replaying local extremist and divisive views. The change obviously makes detecting Russian fingerprints harder. But Moscow's exploitation of homegrown content isn't just a challenge for cybersecurity specialists. It's a major problem for the news.
For professional journalists, the questions for 2020 are obvious. How do you sort through the effects of Russia's cyber echo chamber? What are the real issues and divisions in the country versus the picture Moscow is trying to create? Like their cooperation with Europe's political fringes, are Russian cyber operatives working with extremist American groups? How do you cover stories from the far right and left that may well be nothing more than Russian clickbait?
While leading newspapers -- the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Financial Times, for example -- have reported well on Russia's political attacks in Europe, broadcast and cable outlets have not. Fortunately, the networks can still correct course. A different editorial decision, obviously, is the first step. A dedicated investment that produces daily features, including analysis of the Russian effort can provide what viewers need to know to assess stories they will see and read as Moscow executes its 2020 plans.
But the broadcast and cable networks need to do more than report on Putin's political attack. If Moscow's offensive unfolds as expected, broadcast and cable will be in its bullseye. Their role in carrying bogus stories in 2020 won't be easy to overlook. The growing damage to Facebook, Twitter, Google and other social media brands because of their self-serving half-measures after 2016 should be a lesson: ignoring their vulnerability or boosting lobbying budgets to soothe Washington after the dust settles won't do the trick.
The good news is, from broadcast standards-setting to pooled reporting, the news business knows how to work together when the public interest demands. An industry-wide partnership that includes a fusion center to vet suspicious stories, identify their sources and share the information among the news networks to help neutralize Russia's cyber tactics represents that kind of effort. Europe's thinking provides a head start; the idea there -- a pan-European rapid alert system to spot and shut down disinformation -- is worth a close look.
Moscow is preparing to attack American democracy once again. The fact the U.S. government is lagging badly in its response isn't an excuse to keep the news business from informing its audience, as well as protecting itself. At a minimum, American voters need to know what Putin has in store. It's every bit as important as Trump's latest mindless tweet, endless opinionating about his mendacity or the scuffles among the two-dozen Democrats who want his job.
Will broadcast and cable deliver the news? It's the least they can do.
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A Portlaoise woman has directed a new fashion series for RTÉ Player – with one of the episodes being filmed in her home county.
Aisling Calt directed 'Capsule' by Areaman Productions and filmed an episode of the series in The Store Yard, Kea-Lew Business & Retail Park in Portlaoise.
'Capsule' aims to help women who say they've nothing to wear – despite having a wardrobe full of clothes.
Some of Ireland's top fashion models and influencers – Louise Cooney, Joanna Cooper, Tara Stewart, Tara O'Farrell, Niamh O'Sullivan and Tara Muzaki – are giving their tips and tricks to effortless style and essential fashion items, their 'Capsule' wardrobe.
Aisling said that they wanted to create a show that included a wide range of diversity with women of different ethnic backgrounds and dress sizes.
"It was made especially for the new RTÉ Player and we wanted to create something that suited each individual's looks and personality," said Calt.
Aisling studied Film and Television and received a BA in English, Media and Cultural Studies in Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology.
She has been a producer in Areaman Productions for over three years.
Aisling was full of praise for both the staff and location of the Store Yard.
"I thought other local people might like to see how fab the location looks in the show!
"The team at the Store Yard were so accommodating and enthusiastic, it was a pleasure to shoot there, and clearly perfect for what we needed."
'Capsule' can be found on RTÉ player here.
You can watch the official trailer for the show below.
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Pope Laicizes Former Putnam Parish Priest
By Kathleen A. Shaw email@example.com
Worcester Telegram & Gazette [Connecticut]
March 7, 2006
Gene Michael Deary could not be happier these days after learning the priest who allegedly sexually abused his brother, since deceased, in the 1960s finally has been defrocked.
Bishop Michael R. Cote of the Norwich diocese confirmed yesterday Pope Benedict XVI has laicized Bernard W. Bissonette, who is no longer a priest.
Bishop Cote recently notified Mr. Deary the Vatican had officially laicized — essentially defrocked — the former priest. This means the diocese will no longer support him and he can no longer call himself a priest.
The alleged abuse of Thomas Deary happened when Rev. Bissonette was assigned to St. Mary's parish in Putnam, Conn., in the early 1960s.
Mr. Deary was surprised to learn Bishop Cote personally made the presentation to the Vatican on why Rev. Bissonette should be defrocked.
Mr. Deary, who lives in Brooklyn and has business offices in Vernon and in Northboro, Mass., said Bishop Cote followed through on what he said he would do. This has brought some closure to the Deary family, he said. Thomas Deary suffered a tortured life and committed suicide in 1991 at age 44.
Mr. Deary in April 2002 called for the resignation of Bishop Daniel P. Reilly, then bishop in Worcester and former bishop in Norwich, and Bishop Daniel Hart, then Norwich bishop, for failing to seek laicization of Rev. Bissonette. Mr. Deary discovered after his brother's death that Rev. Bissonette allegedly abused a number of children when he was assigned to parishes in the Putnam area and he had been transferred 17 times.
He said he was informed by Bishop Reilly, who had not been bishop in Norwich when the alleged abuses occurred, that Rev. Bissonette was no longer a priest.
Mr. Deary said he later discovered Rev. Bissonette had not been laicized, which would officially remove him from the clerical state. Rev. Bissonette was last known to be living in New Mexico.
"The decision to try and 'do something' about Bissonette was not easy and could have met with a great deal of resistance, but it did not and it was the collective strength of us all that allowed for some finality in whatever form that is for each of us," Mr. Deary said.
Mr. Deary and his brother, John, met personally recently with Bishop Cote and Mr. Deary received a letter from Bishop Cote Jan. 30 saying Rev. Bissonette was laicized May 20 by Pope Benedict XVI. "While it may seem small in retrospect, I hope that this action by the Holy See will help bring some small measure of peace both to you and to your family," Bishop Cote said in the letter to Mr. Deary.
He said the bishop and the canon lawyers assigned to put together the presentation from the files they had "did a fantastic job." The bishop, although he initially had not intended to go to Rome, personally presented the case to the Vatican, he said.
"There were two obstacles to overcome at this point," Mr. Deary said. The bishop told him the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People adopted by the American bishops in Dallas in 2002 "clearly protected elderly priests and prevented them from being laicized." The second problem was "if this case rose to the level of requesting an exception to that charter then the Pope had to agree."
The Vatican congregation responsible for reviewing the situation was convinced Rev. Bissonette should be defrocked and the pope agreed to it, he said.
Mr. Deary said he was told the former priest was notified of his laicization by certified mail. He said Bishop Cote has also notified all parishes where the former priest served.
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A packed meeting room inside the J.V. Fletcher Library brought Selectmen, the Finance Committee and the School Committee together on Jan. 24 to review a School Department budget that may require as much as $1.247 million in cuts for fiscal 2020, beginning July 1.
Each fiscal year, the town's nine schools eat up about half of the total municipal budget, leaving other town departments such as police and fire with unfulfilled requests. This was driven home at the Jan. 24 joint meeting when Police Chief Tom McEnaney and Fire Chief Joe Targ spoke of level funded budgets despite a growing town population with more than 700 residential units under construction.
"We're doing the best we can with what we've got," said McEnaney, who requested a 6.8 percent budgetary increase for fiscal 2020 and got a 3.3 percent increase.
[Watch the joint meeting video here.]
Budget Figures
Town Manager Jodi Ross initially recommended a fiscal 2020 school budget of $59,447,329, representing a 2.5 percent increase over fiscal 2019. However, .09 percent of that amount would include one-third of $1.6 million set aside to boost teachers salaries by 6 percent over the next three years. The tax hike over the limitations of proposition 2 1/2 was approved by voters in May 2017. Proposition 2 1/2 is a state law that limits property tax increases to 2.5 percent, plus new growth. [Continue below].
A Work in Progress
The town manager's recommendation is not set in stone, said Ross's finance director, Dan O'Donnell.
"We haven't finalized the figure yet," he stated.
Superintendent Everett V. Olsen originally sought $60,694,417 for a 4.65 percent increase over fiscal 2019.
"I presented a budget to the Westford School Committee that was 4.65 percent. About $1.25 million more than was available to us," Olsen said.
But the budget remains fluid, according to School Finance Director Kathy Auth who noted that the School Committee, the Board of Selectmen, the Finance Committee and Ross are still in discussions.
In fact, after Olsen presented his proposed budget reductions to the School Committee on Jan. 28, members took no vote, signaling negotiations will continue.
[Watch the Jan. 28 School Committee meeting here.
Proposed School Budget Cuts
Olsen's proposed cuts include two full-time middle school teachers; six full-time general education teaching assistants for grades 1 and 2; and two full-time pre-first teachers.
A full-time digital learning specialist would be replaced with a full-time curriculum coordinator and a full-time technician; and a full-time high school teacher would be let go.
Three full-time general education teachers and a full-time special education teacher would not be hired under Olsen's planned cuts.
Also slashed would be the purchase of special education transportation vehicles for $148k. A $10K entrepreneur partnership with Babson College would get axed. Substitute teacher coverage would be reduced in place of using Google Classroom and sending students to study on their own in the library, for a savings of $15K. Two full-time pre-first teachers would be let go, saving the department $108K. The Living Lab would be eliminated, to save $22K.
A student activity fee at Westford Academy would jump from $60 to $100. (See the complete list of recommended budgetary cuts in the accompanying sidebar).
Parents Speak Out
Parents are pressuring officials to fund the schools above all else.
"It seems like the only department that's getting a reduction in force is the schools," said one unidentified male resident at the Jan. 24 meeting. However, Ross noted she slashed more than $700,000 from budget requests by municipal department heads.
"As a resident I'm here because of the school system," said another male resident, adding that with the proposed school budget cuts, he would "think twice" about moving to the town.
Selectman Chairman Mark Kost spelled out the options.
"At the end of the day, it's about choices," he said. "So the choices are — based on what's left available in revenue — …we don't fund the incremental public safety staffing, we don't give raises to any of the unions that are up, and the third is you either raise fees, like pay-as-you-throw, or you cut services."
Olsen's Challenges
Weighing on Olsen are a string of needs and expectations. Westford schools consistently rank among the highest in the state in assessment tests, and parents expect those results to remain the same regardless of cuts. Residential buildings of more than 700 units, now under construction, will likely increase the student population, necessitating more buses to transport students and more educators to teach them. Improving school safety and meeting special education requirements are also budget challenges.
"We've created a school system that I think we can be very proud of," Olsen said. "I want to do everything possible to make sure we keep the school system high quality."
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MRAM takes another step closer to the real world
The next generation of MRAM storage is here, and its backers hope that it will displace DRAM in servers and maybe even flash memory in storage arrays in high performance storage arrays. Everspin says it is sampling a new type of magnetic random access memory that will scale up to gigabit densities and perform rapid reads and writes.
If you're a tech company trying to speed up applications and provider faster access to more memory in your servers, the technology could be your holy grail. Everspin, the Chandler, Ariz,-based startup pioneering MRAM, said today that its spin-torque MRAM that it hopes to use to replace DRAM, is sampling and would be available for use in products by 2013. MRAM is one of several new evolutions in memory technology designed to make applications perform faster by removing bottlenecks in getting the data from storage to the processor. Today, even flash-based systems can still cause a delay in application performance.
Steffen Hellmold, VP of marketing of Everspin, says that MRAM in its current version is about 100 times faster than flash, with the caveat being that he's comparing MRAM to basic flash, while most companies tweak their flash arrays to make them faster and more reliable. Another caveat is that MRAM costs about 10 times more than flash-based solutions, although for certain applications trading 100 times the performance at 10 times the price is an easy call to make. The final caveat is that the current samples are for 64 Mb memory sizes which is less memory than your home PC had in the mid 90s. Other types of memory in this emerging niche include phase-change memory and memristors, which are pretty far away from commercialization.
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Reflecting on the years of my youth, gives me a crystal-clear idea of why Netanyahu is— and will continue to be— so popular among Israelis.
I was 17 years old, studying in Yeshiva in Jerusalem. It was a Saturday night, December 1st, 2001. After Shabbat, a friend and I decided we would go to the Western Wall to pray. After our visit to the Western Wall, we figured that instead of taking two long bus rides to our Yeshiva, we would walk to downtown Jerusalem, grab something to eat, and take the bus that would take us directly to where we lived.
Exiting the Old City, as we passed nearby Paratroopers' Square, an Arab teen approached us aggressively and attempted to start a fight with us, but we rushed passed him and walked on our way. Passing through downtown we could hear the cheerful sounds of young teens socializing with a joie de vivre. Innocence and happiness were in the air.
Once we got to the middle of Jaffa Street we heard a very loud and heavy thud. We tried to think it was just a construction related sound. Seconds later the ambulance sirens shattered any kind of illusion we had. It was a suicide bomber. Having lived in Jerusalem for the ten years prior to this, there was no need to explain. We all knew it was a suicide bomber.
We started walking with no specific destination in mind. People in the street were walking, sobbing, and echoes of trauma were tangible. Chaos reigned high. Suddenly, from another direction, a second loud bomb went off. It was a multipronged attack. My friend and I began running fast. Once horror was in place there was no time for trauma,. The goal was to get away from the center of town— as fast as possible.
While this was the closest I came to the horror of a suicide bombing, and it was close, a suicide bomber was not the only terror I was exposed to growing up in Jerusalem in the 1990s and early 2000s. There was walking right outside the Old City of Jerusalem in the 6th grade and being beaten by Arab teenagers, going on a school trip in high school and heavy stones landing on the roof of our bus, walking on a Friday seeing people running from the direction of the Mahaneh Yehudah market after a suicide bomber killed six,
I remember taking the first number 2 bus to the Western Wall, 24 hours after 23 people— many of whom were women and children— were blown up on their way to prayers, and so much more. Terror was just part of life.
Can I say that I had it the worst? No. There were far far far worse situations in those years. I think of my beloved Shvuel Schijveschuurder who had to see his own parents and siblings blown up in front of his eyes in the Sbarro bombing just to see the terrorists who committed that worst of crimes released later in the Gilad Shalit deal. I think of four generations of one family killed while eating their Passover meal in the Park Hotel in Netanya.
Living in Jerusalem in those years was not too different than living in Sarajevo or Baghdad. Sure, if you stayed home or in your neighborhood life can be pretty safe. Taking a bus or going to the center of town? That was playing Russian roulette.
Now, living in New York, I still go back to visit Jerusalem. My eyes fill up with tears seeing children playing safely on the streets. My heart is warmed seeing the myriad of visitors from around the world enjoying the unparalleled exotic beauty of Jerusalem. I am happy for them, and wish it could have always been this way, but it wasn't. Yes, there is still terror, children must be given careful instructions, but the streets are safe.
In Israel, when people vote, the years of war and terror leave their mark. Proud of Netanyahu or not, he lived up to the primary duty of a leader—he kept his people safe. Despite allegations of possible bribes—taking cigars and champagne when he should not have— he was voted in in the past, and will likely be voted in again in the future.
Israel is a country of law and will decide on the legal aspects of the allegations. However, as Netanyahu is deemed responsible for the happy childhood of all those children in Israel today—a childhood I did not have— it is easy to understand why he is supported by so many of my peers and friends. Those who grew up knowing terror see Netanyahu as savior, and perhaps rightfully so.


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Thanks so much for posting, ill check it out. Last year I got 14 funkins for $4 each from Home Depot
I know! I've had that happen to me on orders from other companies...Lillian Vernon as I recall was one and it was the last time I bought from them since they accepted the order in that quantity (believe item was 3 cemetery arches so not like I order 25 or something excessive).thanks for the heads up. My area is picked clean of the inflatables though, I really had my eye on the witch kicking legs in couldron, head turning spider and fire n ice pumpkin guy, all gone locally and in next county as well.
Since one of my 2 blood drip lights died within the first day this year, (they were new from last year) I ordered 9 sets. Hopefully I can do the whole house next time and none die on me. That is, if HD doesnt cancel the order because they only have 8 left of the 9 needed. /eyeroll. Hate when stores do that, at least send me the 8 jeez.
How well do they light up? is it true Blacklight? or just purpleI wanted to thank wristslitter for the heads up on HD's clearance sale. I saw my local store listed it had one (1) of the Gemmy LED spots in Black light on clearance and in stock for $3.74.
I bought some of those online when someone posted they were on sale in September. They are pretty much just a purple light; they don't really cause anything to fluoresce. But I got them for 27 cents each with tax and shipping included, so I didn't complain.How well do they light up? is it true Blacklight? or just purple
Thanks for the heads-up. Naturally, I literally just bought a set of those blood-dripping lights for 50% off. Grabbed 2 more anyway, I'll just return the other set.
I really wanted to get the inflatable fire and ice pumpkin reaper, which seems like a steal at $17.50 but he's out of stock online
Edit: just called 4 different Home Depots, and they told me both that the reaper is only sold online and no store within a 60 mile radius has any in stock.
Thanks for checking. Yeah, I checked online and although some stores in my area said they had the reaper available, it wouldn't let me proceed with checkout, saying "item no longer available online", no matter which store I picked. So, I called 4 different stores...two of them told me it was only available online. I replied that I tried ordering online, and the website says it's no longer available online, to which they replied "we don't have any in stock". I was also told when calling another store that these were out of stock all the way as far as Austin (I'm in San Antonio).I saw the 8.9 foot Fire and Ice Pumpkin Reaper guy when I went to my store this morning to get the black spot lights. Took notice of him but didn't have enough cash on me then. Thought about it over lunch and decided he would have been nice to have had this past halloween when it was raining, so headed back over there. Thankfully he was still there, only one and they had the box and stakes and instructions still. 17.50. This is my third inflatable (I'm laughing as I said I doubted I would ever own any and over the years added a spider and a giant cat that opens it's mouth. Never say never I guess LOL).
So Forheset, since Kittyvibe and I both picked up one today, they clearly could be found still in some stores this morning so he wasn't just sold online. Did you personally check their website for any left in stores or did they tell you that too? With my local store selected as My Store it says "Visit or Call Your Local Home Depot store to confirm availability. Item must be purchased in store." I don't know what part of Texas you live in but the Dallas Store on Lemmon Ave #589 has this same message posted, same for the N Arlington #554 store and several others I tried in Texas. Would be nice if they showed the closest store it was still listed in their system.


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Taryn Brumfitt wants to help everyone love and embrace their body. Too many people (especially women) feel shame, loathing, and other painful feelings about their bodies. Taryn has taken an amazing journey to get to the place of loving her body and wanting to help others embrace their body. After going from overweight to super fit with competitions, and back to ordinary, she finally found peace in herself. Taryn started the body image movement and created a film called Embrace to inspire others to love themselves and remember that your body is simply a vehicle to pursue your dreams.
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The Gift of Worship
I first heard about Renovate last year. My friends were part of the leadership team and asked if I could come and take some photos for them. Renovate happens every other month, and their goal is to "help equip youth and young adults to live a righteous lifestyle that's full of boldness, yielded to the Holy Spirit & fully consecrated to His direction."
I look forward to Renovate because I love the worship. The worship team may not have the greatest musicians but they are Spirit led! I will take that over slick over-produced worship sets any day!
I didn't take a lot of photos, I felt compelled to just sit and worship. I have said often that as followers of Christ, seeking to use the gift of photography to help glorify Him, there comes a time when we have to put the camera down and just be in His presence. So that's what I did.
It was fun watching God work in her heart as she was worshiping.
I believe we all have gifts that we can use to worship God with. Some with their gift of music and a beautiful voice, others with their hands, and still others with their mind. If God has blessed you with skills, like taking great photographs, use them for His Glory!
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A limited number of fans will be allowed at the games for March Madness. But one of college basketball's most devout and divine fans doesn't plan on missing her team in action.
Sister Jean will be there when the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers take the court on Friday. She became quite a celebrity in 2018 during the school's Final Four run. She says she lobbied the school to allow her to go this year. She had plenty of offers from people willing to help.
"One alum wrote and told me that her husband was willing to drive me town," Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt said. "Somebody else told me she was going to sneak me on to the university. And another couple said that they thought they would like to kidnap me and Loyola would have to search for me."
She is 101 years old and she has served as the team's chaplain since 1994. She said she's going to follow all the guidelines and would not interact with the team. She also promised she would not go on to the court.
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EUR/USD: Showing its strength, and may surge to new highs in response to US GDP
A double-digit contraction in the largest economy? Not a problem for – which is showing its strength after Germany reported a fall of 10.1% quarterly in the second quarter, and -11.7% annually, both below expectations.
Perhaps the common currency is benefiting from upbeat employment figures in Germany – the number of unemployed dropped by 18,000 compared with an expected increase.
More importantly, markets could be seeing through data related to the worst days of coronavirus and are encouraged by Europe's emergence from the pandemic. While some countries – including Germany – are experiencing flareups, the situation is under control.
That contrasts with the , where the daily death toll continues rising, hitting a high of over 1,400. The caseload has stabilized, yet at an elevated rate of around 70,000.
Investors have gotten used to reading depressing COVID-19 developments in America, but the acknowledgment of the worsening situation from the central bank still weighed on sentiment. The Federal Reserve left its policy unchanged but expressed concerns about the impact of the virus.
Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, said that high-frequency data is showing economic softening since the coronavirus cases began rising in mid-June. While he committed to using all available tools, he was short on detail and left that to after the Fed completes a review process.
The dollar initially dropped, sending EUR/USD to a peak of 1.1806, but the move proved short-lived. It seems that Powell is pressing politicians to act first – federal unemployment benefits expire on Friday. Millions of jobless Americans are set to lose their $600/week top-up and consumption may drop – further hurting the economy.
Weekly jobless claims are set to show an ongoing worrying situation in America's labor market, but these figures will likely compete with the first read of GDP for the second quarter. Economists foresee a crash of 34.1% annualized – the worst on record. It is essential to note that estimates are within a broad range and high is likely.
Markets may shrug off an upbeat data – seeing the data as stale – or react negatively to adverse figures, assuming the weak second quarter is preceding an even worse third quarter.
All in all, it may be a lose-lose situation for the dollar, allowing EUR/USD to rise.
EUR/USD Technical Analysis
Momentum on the four-hour chart remains positive despite some softening, and the Relative Strength Index is below 70 – outside overbought conditions. Euro/dollar continues trading above the 50, 100, and 200 Simple Moving Averages, and it continues setting higher highs and higher lows – all bullish signs.
Initial resistance awaits at 1.1780, a high point early in the week. It is followed by the new 22-month high of 1.1806. The next lines to watch are 1.1820 and 1.1850.
Support is at 1.17, that cushioned EUR/USD this week, followed by 1.1625, which capped it last week. Further down, 1.1540 and 1.1505 are eyed.


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Engineered especially for guitar, Renaissance Axx is the ideal compressor for musicians and engineers who need to dial in dynamic levels quickly. With its three efficient controls, Renaissance Axx features a fixed ratio curve, automatic release value, and an output limiter to prevent clipping.
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An Underrated Gem
RenAxx fooled many people when it suddenly appeared in the early 00's: it looks simply like a hastily-reskinned RenVox, with the exact same controls. I ignored it for a long time, but I have rediscovered it since then, finding it quite useful for drums, of all things.
The GUI couldn't be simpler; if you can get past the retina-blazing "Tolex" background, it's just a simple threshold/makeup compressor with automatic release control, and a limiter at the output to prevent clipping (just like Renaissance Vox!). The key to the Renaissance compressors' success, I think, is the automatic release parameters, or whatever is going on behind the scenes.
Compression is smooth and transparent, and you can see why this is marketed towards beginners-and-up. There seems to be something about the compression that "fattens" the sound a bit—somewhat reminiscent of Vintage Warmer's release character—that of course works well for guitars, but I have found to be really effective on drums (individual and full busses), and it can make a snare sound fuller, even at higher levels. You can push this thing quite heavily and still retain a good attack characteristics. It's very useful for slapping quickly on an acoustic guitar bus too, say, to gel them together and tame unruly plosives.
All in all, I'd say this is a delightful tool, and when one surveys the plug-in horizon, there are few compressors marketed specifically for guitars, so I think it's a great effect to have at hand when you need it—especially if you're more of a songwriter than an engineer. And if you're put off by its simplicity, just remember: some of the world's most coveted compressors are fixed-ratio/auto-release compressors with simple controls (UREI 1176, anyone? LA2A?), and I think this is a plug-in classic that deserves reappraisal and a higher place in peoples' plugin roster—especially if you got it during a Waves sale, or free with your Waves bundle.Read Review
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