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PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): November 7, 2012 PINNACLE AIRLINES CORP. (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter) (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) (Commission File Number) (I. R. S. Employer Identification No.) Delaware 001-31898 03-0376558 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) 40 South Main Street, Memphis, TN 38103 Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (901)-348-4100 (Former name or former address, if changed since last report.) Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below): o Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) On November 7, 2012, Pinnacle Airlines Corp., debtor-in-possession (the “Company”) and Delta Air Lines, Inc. (“Delta”) entered into a Third Amendment to Senior Secured Super-Priority Debtor-in-Possession Credit Agreement pursuant to which the Credit Agreement was modified to extend the date by which the Company must file a Plan of Reorganization and disclosure statement that are reasonably acceptable to Delta from November 12, 2012 (225 days after the commencement of the Company’s bankruptcy proceeding) to a date which is no later than the earlier of (i) thirty (30) days after entry of a final order by the Bankruptcy Court granting the Company’s Section 1113 motions or (ii) December 30, 2012. SIGNATURE Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

Alt Truth: Naturopaths spread anti-vaxxer myths Timothy Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in health law and policy at the University of Alberta, a Trudeau Fellow and author of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture And Science Clash (Penguin, 2015). There is growing concern about vaccination rates in Canada. .…. In some parts of (Canada), the vaccination rates have fallen below the level needed to achieve herd immunity. The reasons for less-than-ideal vaccination rates are complex and multifactorial, but the continued spread of anti-vaccination myths and misinformation is clearly contributing to the dilemma. Indeed, some of the recent disease outbreaks – such as the recent spread of measles in Minnesota – can be traced to the push of misleading anti-vaccination rhetoric. Unfortunately, much of this science-free vaccination noise comes from health-care practitioners, especially those in the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) community. ….. This must stop. Working with my colleagues, Sandro Marcon and Blake Murdoch, we examined more than 300 websites for naturopaths and naturopathic clinics in Alberta and British Columbia. In this study, which was recently published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, we identified 53 websites that had vaccination-hesitant language and/or suggested a vaccination alternative. In other words, a significant number of naturopaths – that is, members of a provincially regulated health profession – are explicitly and publicly spreading nonsense about vaccination. And this ignoble list doesn’t include the clinics (and there are many) that make baseless claims about how to naturally “boost” your immune system. …………………. If naturopaths fail to regulate themselves – which seems the likely outcome – then provincial governments should revisit how these kinds of alternative practitioners are regulated, including considering increased regulatory restrictions and third-party oversight to ensure adherence to science-based standards of practice. Naturopaths are increasingly claiming that they are part of an evidence-informed profession. Prove it.

'To Kill a Mockingbird' novelist sues over trademark By Bill Mears, CNN Updated 0653 GMT (1453 HKT) October 19, 2013 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos:The legacy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' The book "To Kill a Mockingbird" was published July 11, 1960. In 2014, it became an e-book for the first time. The novel by Harper Lee was turned into a movie staring Gregory Peck, left, as Atticus Finch and Brock Peters as Tom Robinson. Hide Caption 1 of 10 Photos:The legacy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Atticus and Scout – Gregory Peck and Mary Badham as Atticus and his daughter, Scout. Hide Caption 2 of 10 Photos:The legacy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Jem, Dill, and Scout – Jem and Dill push Scout in the tire. Hide Caption 3 of 10 Photos:The legacy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Scout – Mary Badham as Scout Finch. Hide Caption 4 of 10 Photos:The legacy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Scout gives a lynch mob a crisis of conscience – The children, having followed Atticus to the jail, help turn away an angry crowd. Boo and Scout – Robert Duvall as Boo Radley on the porch swing with Scout. Hide Caption 10 of 10 Story highlights Harper Lee sues Monroe County Heritage Museum in her hometown "The museum seeks to profit from the unauthorized use of ... trademarks," the suit says It says the museum's "primary mission" is to "trade upon" the story she created The museum's attorney lambastes "Harper Lee's greedy handlers" Author Harper Lee has not published a novel in more than a half-century, but her words in federal court seek to protect the 87-year-old's best-known intellectual property, "To Kill a Mockingbird." The Alabama writer has sued her hometown Monroe County Heritage Museum for trademark infringement, saying it is illegally using her fame for its own gain. "The museum seeks to profit from the unauthorized use of the protected names and trademarks of 'Harper Lee' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' It is a substantial business that generated over $500,000 in revenue for 2011, the last year for which figures are available," said the lawsuit filed last week. "But its actual work does not touch upon history. Rather, its primary mission is to trade upon the fictional story, settings and characters that Harper Lee created." The reclusive author still lives in the county, about 105 miles from Montgomery in the southern part of the state. It was the inspiration for the fictional Maycomb County. Set in the segregated South, the 1960 novel -- the only one Lee wrote -- won a Pulitzer Prize and was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. It deals with a local attorney's relationship with his children and his community as he defends an African-American man accused of raping a white woman during the Jim Crow 1930s. Its themes of racial injustice and waning innocence, grounded in characters possessing courage and tolerance, have inspired millions of readers. The museum fully acknowledges its most famous resident. Its website is www.tokillamockingbird.com and says it "maintains and operates six historic sites in Monroe County, Ala., that collectively interpret the area's rich history," including "the literary legacy of (fellow author) Truman Capote and Harper Lee," who were childhood friends. A gift shop -- called the Bird's Nest -- sells memorabilia, T-shirts, even cookware about the book, and the museum stages a "To Kill a Mockingbird" play each spring. An attorney for the facility strongly denied Lee's allegations. "Every single statement in the lawsuit is either false, meritless, or both," said Matthew Goforth, a Birmingham-based attorney hired for the museum. "It is sad that Harper Lee's greedy handlers have seen fit to attack the non-profit museum in her hometown that has been honoring her legacy and the town's rich history associated with that legacy for over 20 years. Unfortunately for Harper Lee, those handlers are doing nothing but squandering her money with this lawsuit. The museum is squarely within its rights to carry out its mission as it always has." Lee in her lawsuit acknowledged the novel's impact in her community. "The town's desire to capitalize upon the fame of 'To Kill a Mockingbird ' is unmistakable: Monroeville's town logo features an image of a mockingbird and the cupola of the Old County Courthouse, which was the setting for the dramatic trial in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'" Her lawyers said they had earlier attempted to stop the museum from any unauthorized commercial use of the novel, and claimed it tried to block her federal registration of the "To Kill a Mockingbird" trademark. "Historical facts belong to the world, but fiction and trademarks are protected by law," the lawsuit says. Nelle Harper Lee -- her full name -- separately settled a lawsuit last month in which she claimed she was "duped" into signing over the copyright to her book six years ago. Her current lawsuit says the novel still sells about a million copies a year. The current case is Lee v. Monroe County Heritage Museum, Inc. (1:13-cv-490).

134 Jalcques Masson Cabin Made in Paris Takes Shape Nine Feet Deep in the Icecap When assembled, the shack contained dining room, kitchen, bunks, and laboratories. Insulated walls about two inches thick held heat like three feet of brick. Snow quickly buried the completed cabin (opposite). When we arrived, Ichac greeted me with, "Come in, Pev, the hot water is ready." That meant volumes-a good hot meal, rest, and blessed warmth. We had been on the trail for days and days, fleeing the thaw without an hour's rest. And now, at long last, we could rest awhile, we thought, the snow around us being hard as concrete, the weather fine, and the fore cast good. We slept. But someone woke me; I did not know whether it was 3 or 30 hours later. "Victor," he said, "come on out and see for yourself. The foehn has caught up with us." Then the whole thing started all over again, but, in a way, worse this time. The cater pillar treads began to break, and some of the sleds had to be left behind for the second group to pick up when they eventually came through. We established Camp V and finally Camp VI, at an altitude of about 5,200 feet, some 55 miles from Camp III at the edge of the icecap. Now at last we were safe from the thaw. From here on, toward the east, stretched a white flat desert of snow without the small est landmark, the slightest wrinkle, to give us even the faintest sign that we were still on earth. About 200 miles ahead, and some 4,600 feet higher, lay the site of our Central Icecap Station, as nearly as possible the same spot where three men of the Wegener expe dition-Dr. Johannes Georgi, Dr. Fritz Loewe, and Dr. Ernst Sorge-had spent six months in their snow hole in 1930-31. Trapped in a Glacial Lake But once again we had no time to lose. We knew that what we called "summer" on the icecap would be over around August 15 -a month and a half from now. Meanwhile, far behind us, the second group, under chief geodesist Jean Neviere, was bringing the rest of our equipment. A huge glacial lake formed around them and stopped them for a week, the water getting as high as the upper part of the tracks; they passed from one weasel to another on planks, like people in a flood. Bucking far worse conditions than we, they did not pass the marginal zone until

In this 2011 photo, Harborside Health Center employee Gerard Barber stands behind medical marijuana clone plants at Harborside Health Center in Oakland, Calif. Law and order may soon be coming to the Wild West of Weed. A California lawmaker has introduced legislation to regulate the state’s free-wheeling medical marijuana industry, the farmers that grow the drug, the hundreds of storefront shops that sell it and especially the doctors who write recommendations allowing people to use it. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) (Jeff Chiu/AP) The Maryland House of Delegates gathered hours earlier than normal Monday to continue working their way through a pile of legislation that was due to the Senate that evening. As the deadline loomed (and snow continued to fall and St. Patrick’s Day celebrations raged elsewhere), here are just a few of the things delegates approved: Expanding medical marijuana. Maryland has already legalized medical marijuana, but its distribution is limited to academic medical centers, which thus far have yet to get involved. Lawmakers voted 123 to 13 Monday afternoon to allow certified physicians to recommend the use of medical marijuana. Those patients or their caregivers could then obtain medical marijuana from a licensed grower. Del. Cheryl D. Glenn (D-Baltimore) said the legislation is “very, very tightly restricted” to prevent recreational use of the drug. Glenn said that the legislation could improve the lives of constituents. The bill will now head to the Senate. Slowly allowing more 4-year-olds into some pre-kindergarten classes. Maryland already offers free pre-kindergarten classes to economically disadvantaged or homeless 4-year-olds, but state leaders want to slowly expand those classes to all 4-year-olds. Their first step toward that goal is this bill, which would provide grants to local school systems and pre-kindergarten providers that want to accept children from families making slightly more money than currently allowed. This could help up to 1,600 children. The legislation was sponsored by the administration of Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) and has been championed by Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown (D). Delegates approved the legislation in a 102 to 34 vote. The Senate approved similar legislation last week in a 44 to zero vote. Leading up to the House vote, a few Republicans raised questions about the effectiveness of pre-kindergarten classes. Del. Anne R. Kaiser (D-Montgomery) said the “preeminent research” over the past few decades has shown a strong return-on-investment for educating children at an early age. “Really,” Kaiser said on the House floor, “the larger question is why we aren’t scaling up faster to universal pre-K.” Clarifying the state’s rules on the possession of dangerous or wild animals. Delegates voted 134 to zero to approve legislation that makes changes to a state law that largely forbids importing, selling, trading, bartering, possessing, breading or exchanging certain animals by most people. The bill is aimed at cracking down on some of the state’s roadside zoos that have had serious problems over the years. The list of animals included in the bill: fox, skunk, raccoon, bear, caiman, alligator, crocodile, cats or dogs that aren’t domestic, poisonous snakes and non-human primates like a lemur, monkey, chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, marmoset, loris or tamarin. The bill now moves to the Senate. Establishing a review work group to assess implementation of new education standards. Delegates voted 126 to 9 to establish the “Maryland College and Career – Ready Standards and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Implementation Review Workgroup.” This is one of three bills related to the controversial Common Core standards, which are quickly being implemented in Maryland schools. On Saturday, delegates voted 128 to zero to delay the use of new standardized test scores in teacher evaluations. The Senate approved similar legislation last week, and state education leaders have supported the concept. Also Saturday, delegates voted 129 to zero to approve legislation that creates an oversight process for applying for waivers from the U.S. Department of Education. The Senate has yet to act on similar legislation. Jenna Johnson is a political reporter who is covering the 2016 presidential campaign. Comments our editors find particularly useful or relevant are displayed in Top Comments, as are comments by users with these badges: . Replies to those posts appear here, as well as posts by staff writers. To pause and restart automatic updates, click "Live" or "Paused". If paused, you'll be notified of the number of additional comments that have come in. Comments our editors find particularly useful or relevant are displayed in Top Comments, as are comments by users with these badges: . Replies to those posts appear here, as well as posts by staff writers.

Slim chance for parole from a prison of the mind It was a federal program meant to get mentally ill young offenders into treatment and out of prisons and lives of crime. It could decide the future of Canada's youngest violent criminals, including an Alberta girl who murdered her parents and brother. But five years after its creation, the IRCS system is hamstrung by restrictive laws and scarce health-care resources, critics say CALGARY — Canadian courts are rarely using an innovative federal program designed to rehabilitate mentally ill teens responsible for horrendous crimes, raising concerns that Canada's most troubled youth are returning to the streets without treatment. When Ottawa introduced the Youth Criminal Justice Act in 2003, officials predicted 50 young offenders a year would qualify for the new intensive rehabilitative custody and supervision order - a regime based on the premise that because young minds are malleable, they are also treatable. But now, more than five years into the program, no more than two dozen teens overall have received the sentence. Experts say the legislation is too restrictive and that Canada lacks the mental-health resources to deal with adolescent criminals. Some complain this last-ditch resource is being bypassed for frivolous reasons, such as offenders being caught smoking or oversleeping. Ottawa says it has taken some steps to remedy the situation, but those who work in the system argue that more needs to be done. The most notorious offender to receive an IRCS order is an Alberta girl, identified only as J.R., who became Canada's youngest triple murderer after being convicted in the 2006 stabbing deaths of her mother, father and younger brother - crimes committed when she was just 12 years old. Jeremy Steinke, 25, is on trial in Calgary for first-degree murder in the deaths of his girlfriend’s parents and brother. The girlfriend, 12 years old at the time of the crimes, has been convicted and is serving her sentence in a psychiatric hospital. (Anne Petrie/The Canadian Press) J.R.'s parents had banned her from seeing her boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke, then 23, who is now on trial, charged with three counts of first-degree murder. At her own trial, J.R. was described as "seriously disturbed" and given the maximum 10-year sentence under the IRCS program, which she is serving at an Alberta hospital. J.R. is, in a sense, a test case. Canada has a disproportionately large number of mentally ill youngsters in the criminal justice system. Those who work with adolescent offenders are hopeful that a rigorous treatment regime with psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists will help rehabilitate even the most disturbed minds. "It's like the last possible chance these children have," said Ken McCaffrey, a veteran Crown prosecutor in Calgary. "It's not like I have a great faith, as much as you have to be willing to take a chance. Otherwise these kids' lives, their script has been written for them." FIRST STEPS B.J.A. was just 14 when he peered over his sleeping mother, who was curled up on the living room sofa in her Calgary home, and stabbed her 10 times in the neck and head, a court would later learn. He let her bleed to death, put the knife - its tip broken from striking bone - in the dishwasher, tossed a bloody shirt into the laundry and trotted off to bed. The teen's older brother discovered the gruesome scene on the morning of Oct. 11, 2001. B.J.A., who cannot be identified, was "unemotional" when interviewed by police and even "bragged" about the killing, the prosecutor told the court. The apparent motive: His 42-year-old mother had grounded him from seeing his girlfriend. The boy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and, after being examined by mental-health experts, was diagnosed as having schizoid personality traits. In 2004, he became the first person convicted of murder to be sentenced under the IRCS program and was handed the maximum penalty for second-degree murder under the legislation: seven years. With time already served, he was ordered to spend two years in Alberta Hospital, a forensic psychiatric facility in Edmonton, to be followed by three years supervision in the community. The federal legislation, after years of study and stacks of reports, was introduced on April 1, 2003. The Youth Criminal Justice Act replaced the much-maligned Young Offenders Act and acknowledged what researchers had been noting for years: Canada's incarceration rate of adolescents is one of the highest in the Western world. To qualify for specialized treatment, the young person must suffer from a "mental illness or disorder, a psychological disorder or an emotional disturbance" and have committed a serious offence. Crimes include first- or second-degree murder, attempted murder, manslaughter or aggravated sexual assault. But youths with a significant criminal record who are convicted for some other serious violent offence could also qualify. Under the maximum 10-year sentence, up to six years are spent in custody, in places such as psychiatric hospitals and youth correctional centres, before the teen is moved into group homes and finally into the community under supervision. Call to actionRead what we sent to Canadian legislators following the Breakdown series Speak your mind People with mental illnesses face a stigma that can prevent them from getting care. It also stops the public from seeing the problem. Has mental illness affected your life or that of a loved one? 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Tales Q&A with Natasha Farrant I am super excited to be a part of the YA Shot Blog Tour and thanks to the lovely author and YA Shot organiser Alexia Casale I have been paired up with the wonderful and super lovely Natasha Farrant! “YA Shot is a one-day Young Adult and Middle Grade ‘festival’ taking place in the centre of Uxbridge on Wednesday 28 October 2015 in partnership with Hillingdon Borough Libraries and Waterstone’s Uxbridge. 71 authors will be involved in a programme of workshop, panel and ‘in conversation’ events (plus book-signing sessions) in the Uxbridge Civic Centre, Waterstone’s Uxbridge and Uxbridge Library. There is also a programme of 6 fantastic blogging and vlogging workshops. YA Shot is part of the ‘Culture Shot’ (now called ‘Culture Bite’) programme of events that the Libraries are organising across the Borough in October 2015.” Hi Natasha! Welcome to Tale Of Yesterday! I am over the moon to have you here! I cannot wait to hear the answers to my questions! Let’s start with your YA historical novel. Can you tell me a bit about the inspiration for The Things We Did For Love? It’s based on a village near where my parents live in South West France, which was completely destroyed by the Nazis in 1944, ten days after D-Day. The village has been left exactly as it was when the Germans left, and it is so full of ghosts you could almost touch them. I first visited it with my children when they were very small. They had no understanding of why the houses were burned and roofless, or why there were rusting cars abandoned in fields. They just played, as children do, running in and out of ruins, and as I watched them I thought that once it was normal for children to play here, and the ghosts of the villagers seemed to agree. Inside the ruined church, I cried a little, as everybody does, and said a prayer. Then, being a writer, I thought “I want to write about this”. The Things We Did for Love is the result. I’ve made up characters, a love story, a relationship between a brother and sister, a soldier looking for redemption – but essentially it’s the story of how terrible things can happen even when people are good, and how good things can happen even when circumstances are terrible. I’ve recently started reading the Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby series – can you tell us a little more about the series? It’s a series about a big, chaotic, slightly mad family, told from the point of view Bluebell, the only “normal” sibling, as she records their lives in her diaries. The first book, After Iris, opens three years after the death of the Bluebell’s twin, when the family are falling apart but rescued by a male East European nanny with a tragic past of his own. In the second book, Flora in Love, all the children fall in love one way or another, and in the third book, All About Pumpkin, they come to the rescue of their ageing grandmother. The books are funny and sad and full of shouting and drama and love. They’re for younger readers than The Things We Did for Love, really for girls between 9 and 13, but teenagers seem to love them too! Someone recently described All About Pumpkin as “like Bake-Off in book form”, which is just perfect (though I hope it’s a tiny bit more thought-provoking). Can you tell us a little about the main character Bluebell? Blue was inspired by my daughter when she was about twelve. She was very ill, and having trouble at school, and the loneliness of growing up trying to deal with all that came together in my mind to form a character who was a little apart, very good at noticing the things that other people miss, desperate to get on with life but not sure how to do it. Blue is also learning to live without her twin, which I only realised after I had finished is a sort of metaphor for her childhood – the part she has to leave behind in order to move forward. It’s not a bad way of thinking of anorexia. How important are names to you? Did you pick any of the characters names in the Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby series for a reason? Names are crucial for characters to come to life. Imagine if Holly Golightly was called, I don’t know – Enid Smith. The Gadsby children all have flower names (or in the case of Pumpkin, a vegetable name…). It’s a way of signalling they are all part a clan, and belong together. What was your favourite scene to write? I have so many! They sound like a string of episodes from Friends – The One with the Remote-Controlled Rats; The One with the Car Chase; The One with the Kiss That Went Wrong. On a more serious note, in The Things We Did for Love, there is a very tender scene in which a character re-creates a pre-war tea-party. And a very dramatic, heart-breaking scene at the end which I would love to see on film. Do you see yourself in any of your characters or have you used any of your own experiences in the story? There’s a bit of me in all my characters and I believe that everything I write comes from something I have experienced, either in real life or through books or film or hearing other people’s stories. But these are all springboards for the imagination. What would you like your reader to take from the newest addition to the Bluebell series, All About Pumpkin? The same as in all the Bluebell books – that families come in all shapes and sizes, but there’s nothing more important than standing up for the people you love. What do you think makes a good story? Characters you fall in love with and a cracking plot. We would love to know a little bit more about you! Can you give us 5 random facts we don’t know about Natasha Farrant? I am at my absolute happiest walking on the shoreline of a beach. I HATE getting wet in the rain. I secretly wish I had been a showjumper. I can eat an entire packet of Jelly Babies in one go. When I was little, I used to tear the corners off book pages and eat them! *recoils in horror!* Which of your characters would you most like to spend the day with? Bluebell’s little sister, Jas. We’d tear about on horseback together for hours, and then read poetry to each other. Growing up who inspired you into writing? Are there any Authors or books that inspired you? Writers like Enid Blyton and CS Lewis. Don’t laugh. I know they’re not often mentioned in the same sentence, but they both created worlds in which I lost myself completely as a child. That is what I want to do for my readers when I tell a story. Are there any recent works or authors that you admire or books you wish you had written? I admire a lot of writers, but you can only write your own books, and it’s pointless wishing you were someone else. What are you currently reading? My other job is a literary scout, which means I work for overseas publishers who are looking for books to translate from English, so I am currently working my way through a pile of unpublished manuscripts. What is your favourite book of 2015 so far? Yikes! Honestly? This summer I read a biography of Marie-Antoinette, written in the 1930s by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, and I couldn’t put it down. When starting a new book or idea what does your writing process look like? Starting a new book is the best! Step 1 involves lots of drifting about, talking to myself and daydreaming. I write all my first drafts longhand, so Step 2 involves buying a notebook and some Pilot pens and stroking them for a while. Step 3, and I spend a long time thinking up a title, which I write down beautifully. Step 4 is when it all gets messy – when I actually start to write! Do you do many school events? What type of topics do you discuss with the children? I don’t do as many as I would like, because I just don’t have time. When I do, because of the nature of the books I write, my events tend to be very personal. We talk about family a lot, and share funny stories, but also sad ones. At one event I did, a lot of us were in tears… Luckily, we went straight into doing a writing workshop together afterwards, and those always tend to be quite raucous. Have libraries played any part in your life or your children’s lives? I fell in love with my husband in a library! We were at university together, and used to spend an awful lot of time pretending to work in our college library, secretly eyeing each other up… Seriously though – yes, my children have been really blessed in their contact with passionate and intelligent school librarians whom they will remember all their lives. Libraries are a vital part of any learning institution, and whenever I hear of another one closing, it makes me furious and sad. Are there any exciting plans for the rest of 2015 or 2016? I’m finishing edits on the fourth Bluebell Gadsby novel right now, and then I have to edit my next “historical” project, LYDIA – the story of the youngest and naughtiest sister from PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Those both come out in 2016, when I will also be working on my first stand-alone middle-grade novel. And finally…are you excited about the YA Shot? I get to talk about YA historical fiction for an hour with three amazing writers – of course I’m excited! It’s going to be great. Thank you so so much for answering so many questions Natasha! It’s be so great having you on Tales! Natasha Farrant has worked in children’s publishing for almost twenty years, running her own literary scouting agency for the past ten. She is the author of the Carnegie-longlisted and Branford Boase-shortlisted YA historical novel The Things We Did For Love, as well as two successful adult novels. Natasha was shortlisted for the Queen of Teen Award 2014, and the second Bluebell Gadbsy book, Flora in Love, is longlisted for the Guardian Children’s Prize. She lives in London with her husband and daughters. A huge thank you to Natasha for an absolutely a brilliant Q&A and to the lovely Alexia Casale for not only pairing me with Natasha, but for organising the brilliant YA Shot! *hugs to you both* Have you read any of Natasha’s books? What did you think? Do you have any fab library stories? Will you be attending YA Shot? Do let me know! Why not leave a comment using the reply button at the top of this post or tweet me on twitter using @chelleytoy ! I am often known to be a bit clumsy and a little loopy! Book loving (obsessed), theatre loving, slasher film loving csi geek! Winner of UKYABA Champion Newcomer 2015 and nominated for Champion of Social Media 2016 and Blogger Of The Year 2016!

I have previously expressed my disgust over trophy hunting game like lions and elephants — people who post accounts of the thrill of killing a giraffe or rhino with a high-powered rifle. I simply do not understand the joy or power felt in these thrill kills. Nothing however quite prepared most of us for Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Blake Fischer. Fischer shared photos of his hunting trip in Africa where he posed with a photo of a entire “family of baboons,” including a baby, that Fischer massacred with a recurve bow. He gleefully reported that, while you are charged for killing large animals, “Baboons are free.” Fischer and his wife shot at least 14 animals in Namibia, including giraffe, leopard, impala, sable antelope, waterbuck, kudu, warthog, gemsbok (oryx) and eland. However, Fischer recounted how he wanted his wife to see him hunt “So I shot a whole family of baboons. I think she got the idea quick.” Yup, so did the rest of us. The picture of wiping out a whole family of baboons to impress your wife (and then pose with the family) is horrifying to most of us. 46 thoughts on ““Baboons Are Free!”: Idaho Fish And Game Commissioner Causes Outrage After Posing With Dead Family Of Baboons” I would avidly watch an entire network devoted to videos of hunters being attacked and mauled by the animals they’re trying to slaughter for fun, entertainment, self-esteem and various forms of compensation.Glenn Greenwald added,” You have to wonder about people who wish harm on others. Especially journalists considering recent news out of Turkey. I also notice how most anti hunters when in discussions online eventually devolve to wishing death on those with whom they disagree. I have to wonder where that murderous rage is coming from, and why it seems so common in anti hunters. Baboons are a pest species and African wildlife managers encourage shooting them. We kill rats and mice and never worry about “babies” or “families”. Different place, different way of doing things. Trophy hunting saved most North American large species and it’s currently the only reason not to turn most of Africa into grazing and farmland. Come to think of it when given a choice most Africans would kill ever last large mammal so they’d never have to deal with things like baboons and elephants destroying crops again. I never cease to be amazed at how people can form such strong opinions regarding things they don’t understand that have no effect on them or their lives. Some rich guy wants to go to Africa and shoot things, so what. WTF, how dfid you turn this into an abortion argument. The ‘hunter’ in question is a pig. Giraffs are not in need of culling. Killing a whole family of baboons would be impossible unless they were contained in an area. Again. PIG. There you go AH’s, have a party….. “Since most virtue signaling “good whites” profess to be pro-choice, why can’t they do so with regards to sport hunting?” Er . . . because non-humans aren’t, well, human? We eat non-humans so is that immoral? We kill and leave the bodies of pests (ground squirrels, rats, prairie dogs, etc.) which means that more noble, totally virtuous species such as eagles, hawks, coyotes, badgers, raccoons, etc.) can get a free meal! Or are you an animal rights activist? You know, one who views humans and non-humans as of equal moral value? (I’d LOVE to have that debate with your!) Excellent posts Mespo! The virtue signaling here is pathetic. Where’s the outrage over French President Macron talking about African women having too many children because they lack education? That’s right, he essentially suggested at the Gates event that that African herd population would be better controlled simply by better education. No bows, no guns, just books. In the meantime, here in the land of empathy, we simply fund organizations to lure women in and cull their herd through abortion and then sell their parts. No formal education required. Virtuous, eh? Total fertility rates in Africa have declined by about 30% in the last 40 years. The upset of various parties consequence of such rates having declined faster elsewhere and the reasonable guess that it will take several generations for such rates in Africa to fall to replacement level. African countries have been much more successful in the realm of education and public health than they have in generating productive enterprise. Standards of living grow only slowly if at all, but African life expectancy at birth has now reached 60 years and about 60% of the population over 14 is now literate. Hunting and sex is in our DNA. Humans wouldn’t survive if they didn’t feed and procreate. Our society is a recent curtailing of these urges. Children at puberty are societally inhibited from having sex or following their natural urges. We don’t, as a rule, go out and kill something in the morning for dinner. This killer was contributing to the maintenance of the wildlife population in the area. The money he spent goes towards insuring the animal populations are kept in balance. A pound of Monkey meat brings far more than a pound of beef. In the North West sports fishers, identified often in photos holding huge Salmon, bring many, many times what commercial fishers to into the economy fish for fish. The licensing fees and taxes contribute to the maintaining of the Salmon species. The guy could be and probably is more instrumental in maintaining a viable presence of these and other animals on this earth than those that are offended by his mustachioed grin. There is a certain honesty in his perversion. We just don’t recognize it anymore. Some humans are born with empathy and some are born without it. Causing suffering to others is clear and persuasive evidence that a person lacks empathy. Rather than imprisoning such folks, they should first be given an opportunity to learn empathy. Some can learn and some cannot. Military training has proven that empathy can also be unlearned. I would like to see him and his wife dropped into the middle of the African jungle without any weapons. Let the cowards try to survive by their wit and instincts. The animals may decide that they need to “cull the herd” of humans due to overpopulation and damage to the environment. Hahaha. TIN: So for you, the penalty for lawful hunting is abandonment of hunter and spouse in a jungle environment where they are likely not to survive. You were saying the hunter was cruel and unreasonable, right? JT: “I have previously expressed my disgust over trophy hunting game like lions and elephants — people who post accounts of the thrill of killing a giraffe or rhino with a high-powered rifle. I simply do not understand the joy or power felt in these thrill kills.” *************** I don’t understand your obsession with the hopeless Bears of the NFL. I don’t get the thrill in rooting for them as they lose, lose, lose. Can’t figure out the joy of endless frustration and ineptness. Still I’d never criticize anyone for enjoying a lawful sport. These hunters are doing the same under the supervision of wildlife managers whose interest is presumably preserving the species by means of hunting fees. Shall we substitute our sentimental notions of propriety in place of their science? Deer kill about 200 Americans every year and do a billion dollars in property damage. We spend another three billion to prevent this. Hunting is a key way to save human lives and to keep the deer population in check so it doesn’t become extinct. A second or two of remorse over killing “Bambi” is a small price to pay to save motorists. Do you seriously think the “wildlife managers” in Africa are promoting “science?” It’s the most corrupt place on earth and they are taking money to allow rich American psychos to kill their national bounty to the point of extinction. Put my shotguns away after returning from Nam still in their case to this day. Don’t begrudge anyone who wishes to hunt but I just can’t do it anymore. There are enough predators for these creatures to deal with without me. I don’t have an issue with hunting trophy animals but this guy went too far. That said I sort of wonder if these hunts are so arranged that it is easy to shoot the big game and it is not like hunting elk here where it involves challenge, skill and luck but if a hunt such as what he participated in was more like shooting cattle in a corral it unworthy of the trophy and unfair to the game. Darren: From the article: “Carlson has researched the hunting of baboons in Namibia since Fischer’s email — it’s acceptable there — but he’s still bothered by the photo.” He’s doing what the local law allows and for reasons we don’t know. My guess Is that baboons are a problem animal. They are vicious and a pest to farmers trying to feed Africa’s growing population where hunger is ever present. He’s a quote from a baboon hunting site: “The Baboon is Omnivorous and under natural conditions they feed on wild fruits, seeds and insects. On occasion they will feed on the flesh of small mammals and birds. Because troops are inclined to raid commercial crops, baboons are not popular with maize and fruit farmers.Baboons are very fond of raiding crops, such as common sunflowers and alfalfa. They are therefore considered to be a pest by most farmers in Africa” As always, emotion by outsider is a poor substitute for facts known to the locals. I’m sure you are correct about the Baboons being a nuisance and I don’t doubt that local laws are obeyed, but there is nothing sportsmanlike in hunting an animal that doesn’t have a chance or is very young. I disagree. True Sportsmen hunt not ‘just’ for sport but with a humane and purposeful (ie:animal used for food…) mindset. Culling is done to preserve the health of a herd…anyone who lived in New England and watched thousands of deer starve and become victim to and propagate disease remember this well. And for those cromags tempted to pretend the same controls work on human beings? don’t even go there……. I read somewhere that Fischer said he didn’t do anything immoral. I disagree with that statement. One also must seriously contemplate the mindset of any person who takes pleasure in killing any living creature for sport. I’m no doctor, but I suspect it is pathologically insane.

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Jaswinder Kaur "Jassi" Sidhu (August 4, 1975 – June 8, 2000) was an Indo-Canadian beautician who was murdered in an alleged honour killing. She was kidnapped, tortured, and killed allegedly on the orders of her mother, Malkiat Kaur Sidhu, and her uncle, Surjit Singh Badesha, near the Kaonke Khosa area of Ludhiana, Punjab.[1] Contents On a visit to the city of Jagraon, Ludhiana in the Punjab state of India in December 1994,[1] Jassi met and fell in love with Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu (nicknamed Mithu). They kept in touch over the next four years. In 1999, Jassi made another trip to India with her family, the purpose of which was arranging a marriage for her. Instead, she and Sukhwinder met once again and married secretly on March 15, 1999. Her family strongly disapproved of this marriage and they attempted to persuade her to get a divorce, by first offering to buy her a car and material possessions, and then by beating her.[1] After those attempts were failed, her family pressured her into signing documentation, falsely telling her that it was legal paperwork which would help Sukhwinder come to Canada. Instead, the document contained criminal accusations against Sukhwinder. When Jassi discovered this, she contacted Indian officials, stating that the accusations were false and she was coerced into signing. After this, her family forcefully took her back to Canada, where she was held under confinement in the family home. Jassi escaped from family confinement with the help of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who escorted her from the residence. She obtained money from a friend to buy a plane ticket, and flew to India on May 12, 2000, to reunite with Sukhwinder. On June 8, Jassi and Sukhwinder were kidnapped by hitmen hired by her uncle. Sukhwinder was violently beaten and left to die, while Jassi was taken to an abandoned farmhouse, where she was subsequently murdered. On June 9, 2000, her body was found dumped in an irrigation canal 45 km from Kaonke Khosa, her throat had been slit.[2] An investigation by the Indian Police showed that the killers were in contact with her mother and uncle by phone, and it was determined that the order to kill Jassi was given by her mother.[1] Her mother and uncle were arrested on January 6, 2012. The local hitmen involved in the killing were arrested, tried and convicted, the result of an aggressive investigation by Inspector Swaran Singh. Attempts were made to extradite Malkit Kaur Sidhu and Surjit Singh Badesha from Canada to India to stand trial, but the process was stalled owing to British Columbian court proceedings and Canadian extradition laws.[3] When pressed for information at the time, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canadian Foreign Affairs and the Department of Justice stated that the file remained active and extradition was still being considered. Sukhwinder was accused of rape in August 2004 and incarcerated in the Ludhiana Central Jail for four years, until he was acquitted. The woman who made the false accusation was found to have connections to Jassi Sidhu's family. Harbinder Sewak, the publisher of The South Asian Post newspaper in Vancouver, BC, intervened on behalf of Sukhwinder, hiring a legal team for him. The newspaper was recognised for its crusading journalism through a Jack Webster Award for Best Community Reporting in 2008 for this action.[4] After his acquittal, Sukhwinder was elected panch of Kaunke Khosa. After a decade-long investigation, Jassi's mother and uncle were arrested by the RCMP on January 6, 2012 – eleven years after Jassi's murder.[5] On May 9, 2014, following court proceedings in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Justice Gregory Finch ordered Surjit Badesha and Malkit Sidhu to be turned over to Indian police to face trial. This motion effectively ended the debate regarding their extradition, which had been stalled by the pair arguing that enough evidence was not present to extradite. Finch justified his decision by showing evidence that India had presented against Badesha, including 266 telephone calls between Badesha and the four men convicted of killing Jassi. Justice Finch also reminded those present at the trial that "it is the Canadian court’s role to determine whether a jury could convict based on the evidence, not whether they should convict." [6] To date, Badesha and Sidhu effectively remain in custody until their surrender to Indian authorities.[6] The story of Jassi and Sukhwinder is the subject of Murder Unveiled, a made-for-TV movie. A petition website, 'Justice for Jassi,' archiving her story and dedicated to obtaining justice for her has been signed by thousands of people worldwide. A book by the same name, Justice for Jassi, written by Province, from Deputy Editor Fabian Dawson and South Asian Post publisher Harbinder Sewak, was released at the end of 2011, just before her mother and uncle were charged. This murder case was also featured in CBC Television's The Fifth Estate. Present at the final court proceedings of Badesha and Sidhu was Jim Longridge, the former principal of the high school Jassi Sidhu had attended in Maple Ridge. Remembering Sidhu as a quiet, friendly and studious girl, Longridge was horrified to learn of her murder and had been persistently writing to various Canadian politicians and police over the years, demanding action on her murder overseas. [6]

Summary Diabetic complications and vascular disease are closely intertwined. Diabetes mellitus is a well-established risk factor for both large and small vessel vascular changes, and conversely other vascular risk factors confer increased risk for diabetic complications such as peripheral neuropathy, nephropathy and retinopathy. Furthermore, axons and blood vessels share molecular signals for purposes of navigation, regeneration and terminal arborizations. We examined blood vessel, Schwann cell and axonal regeneration using validated axotomy models to study and compare patterns and the relationship of regeneration among these different structures. Ten subjects with diabetes mellitus complicated by neuropathy and 10 healthy controls underwent 3 mm distal thigh punch skin biopsies to create an intracutaneous excision axotomy followed by a concentric 4-mm overlapping biopsy at different time points. Serial sections were immunostained against a pan-axonal marker (PGP9.5), an axonal regenerative marker (GAP43), Schwann cells (p75) and blood vessels (CD31) to visualize regenerating structures in the dermis and epidermis. The regenerative and collateral axonal sprouting rates, blood vessel growth rate and Schwann cell density were quantified using established stereology techniques. Subjects also underwent a chemical ‘axotomy’ through the topical application of capsaicin, and regenerative sprouting was assessed by the return of intraepidermal nerve fibre density through regenerative regrowth. In the healed 3 mm biopsy sites, collateral and dermal regenerative axonal sprouts grew into the central denervated area in a stereotypic pattern with collateral sprouts growing along the dermal–epidermal junction while regenerative dermal axons, blood vessels and Schwann cells grew from their transected proximal stumps into the deep dermis. Vessel growth preceded axon and Schwann cell migration into the denervated region, perhaps acting as scaffolding for axon and Schwann cell growth. In control subjects, Schwann cell growth was more robust and extended into the superficial dermis, while among subjects with diabetes mellitus, Schwann tubes appeared atrophic and were limited to the mid-dermis. Rates of collateral (P = 0.0001), dermal axonal regenerative sprouting (P = 0.02), Schwann cell migration (P < 0.05) and blood vessel growth (P = 0.002) were slower among subjects with diabetes mellitus compared with control subjects. Regenerative deficits are a common theme in diabetes mellitus and may underlie the development of neuropathy. We observed that blood vessel growth recapitulated the pattern seen in ontogeny and preceded regenerating nerve fibres, suggesting that enhancement of blood vessel growth might facilitate axonal regeneration. These models are useful tools for the efficient investigation of neurotrophic and regenerative drugs, and also to explore factors that may differentially affect axonal regeneration.

The knowledge argument aims to refute physicalism, the doctrine that the world is entirely physical. Physicalism is widely accepted in contemporary philosophy. But some doubt that phenomenal consciousness.

Information concerning removal of port cases Documents Details FOI 3028 The department received a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) requesting the following:- Please provide details of the Home Secretary policy on the removal of port cases where the subject of removal would fall within DP 3/96 if it were in an in country cases. Please provide full details of the policy, including any relevant instructions to immigration officers who deal with such cases. Confirmation that the Home Secretary policy to treat unmarried partners and same sex couples in the same way as married couples are treated under DP3/96.

Board’s Failure to Follow its Own Precedent Results in Reversal The petitioner/plaintiff was granted a building permit to construct a six-story condominium building.Subsequent, a “10-day notice to revoke” was issued after the building department alleged that the work was not being done in accordance with the petitioner’s certified plans. Shortly thereafter, the site was rezoned, which administratively caused the permit to lapse. The day after the rezoning, the building department revoked the permit based on the petitioner’s failure to cure the Department’s objections. The petitioners then applied to the Board of Standards and Appeals to renew the permit, and prior to the hearing, the Department reinstated the permit, finding that the petitioner had cured the remaining objections.However, the Department then claimed it acted in error. Following a hearing on the renewal request, the Board denied the application, based on its determination that the petitioner had not cured the objections as of the effective date of the rezoning. On appeal, both the trial court and the appeals court concluded that theBoard of Standards and Appeals acted in an arbitrary and capricious fashion when they failed to follow their prior precedent and failed to indicate any reason for reaching a different result on essentially the same facts.Furthermore, the Court found that the petitioner established that it was entitled to an extension under the Zoning Resolution and that it had acquired vested rights.Therefore, the Court ordered the Board to issue the six month extension on the building permit. Disclaimer This blog is provided for general informational purposes only. It should not be construed as legal advice and is not intended to be a substitute for legal counsel. Persons requiring legal advice should retain a properly licensed lawyer. No attorney-client relationship will be formed based on use of this site and any comments or posts to this blog will not be privileged or confidential.

The Power of Place Framed by the liberal arts philosophy and approach to undergraduate education, Washington College’s Education Department enjoys a rich tradition of preparing students for teacher certification at the elementary and secondary levels. Graduates of the “Ed Block,” a rigorous immersion program of theoretical, philosophical, and methodological coursework, fieldwork, “Academy” teaching simulations with video analysis, and a 100-day internship teaching in a Maryland Professional Development School, go on to do meaningful, award-winning work as teaching faculty, administrative leaders, policy advocates, curriculum specialists, academic researchers, and museum educators. The following galleries highlight some of the unique opportunities recently realized by Secondary Education students engaged in the program. Related Galleries Framed by the liberal arts philosophy and approach to undergraduate education, Washington College’s Education Department enjoys a rich tradition of preparing students for teacher certification at the elementary and secondary levels. Graduates of the “Ed Block,” a... Framed by the liberal arts philosophy and approach to undergraduate education, Washington College’s Education Department enjoys a rich tradition of preparing students for teacher certification at the elementary and secondary levels. Graduates of the “Ed Block,”...

TGIF Local Lunch Post – Potatoes! The lovely, diverse tuber. If I think about the glory and endless recipes for the potato, I might launch into an operatic chorus of “Starch Gets in Your Eyes.” Now, that’s a stretch. We all know it goes to our hips. With apologies going to The Platters, check out the actual tune here. Today’s launch into the weekend is brought to you by potatoes! Diverse and delicious, the vegetable that links Ireland to Idaho can go from the ground to gourmet in no time at all. The potato is blank canvas for the best of sauces, butter, cheeses, herbs, vegetables and soups. Sometimes, all you need is a fork and a salt shaker. Most of us don’t stop there. Here are but a few suggestions for patronizing the potato in our many local, independent restaurants! Erin Go Braugh and pass the butter! A little Southern grace goes a long way at Miss C.’s Kitchen & Pantry with everything Charlotte and Chris make. The cool, creamy potato salad with a hint of dill is the perfect side for a meal on the verge of Spring. Go way down south for an exotic potato dish at the Mayan Cafe‘ – Empanadas with black beans and goat cheese/chorizo and potatoes with a roasted Poblano vinaigrette and mulatto chili sauce. Also fritters with butternut squash, goat cheese and chorizo. The Fish House can whip up a row of Potato Cakes with sour cream and apple sauce for either brunch or lunch. Shepherd’s Pie at Molly Malone’s gets all the food groups into one bowl for a traditional St. Paddy’s feast Irish Rover has plenty of Potato Leek soup simmering on the stove for anyone who desires to be both healthy and Irish. The whistle blows for lunch and hungry folks head to Baxter Station for authentic steam table mashed potatoes as well as potato puffs deep fried with green chiles and cheese for something a little fancier. Avalon’s wildly popular Crispy Potatoes are a mouth-watering garnish atop the Lobster Mac ‘n’ Cheese. You may need a nap after that one, see you in Paradise.

Forging Trust Since 1987 Regulatory Information You Need to Know Regulatory numbers for hazardous-waste removal We recognize that complying with local, state and federal regulations, as well as American Dental Association Best Management Practices, is critical for the business success of dental offices. Our hazardous-waste removal services are designed to responsibly and carefully remove amalgam waste, lead foil and film for recycling or disposal. We also legally dispose of spent fixer solution, fluorescent light bulbs, and electronic waste. Very Small Quantity Generator (VSQG): Transportation regulations A Very Small Quantity Generator (VSQG) generates 100/kg (220 lbs/month) or less of hazardous waste. VSQGs can transport spent dental waste, including amalgams, fixer solution, film and lead, without a MnDOT transporter license for disposal and recycling. Most dental practices qualify as VSQGs. Compliance Silver Check canisters Spent fixer contains small amounts of the heavy metal silver in the waste stream. The ion-exchange steel-wire compliance canister trailing the film processor removes silver particles to less than 5 ppm (parts per million) to meet EPA standards for hazardous materials. The USA PATRIOT Act On October 26, 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law, requiring “dealers” in precious metals, stones or jewels to implement a written AML (anti-money laundering) program by January 1, 2006. The act states: “Precious metals, precious stones, and jewels are easily transportable, highly concentrated forms of wealth. They serve as international mediums of exchange and can be converted into cash anywhere in the world. In addition, precious metals, especially gold, silver, and platinum, have a readily, actively traded market, and can be melted into various forms, thereby obliterating refinery marks and leaving them virtually untraceable. For these reasons, precious metals, precious stones, and jewels can be highly attractive to money launderers and other criminals, including those involved in the financing of terrorism.” (68 FR 8481). U.S. Department of the Treasury definitions Precious metals: gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium or osmium that have a purity level of 0.500 (50%) or more or an alloy containing .500 or greater, singly or in any combination. Covered goods: precious metals, stones or jewels and finished goods that derive 50% or more of their value from precious metal contained in or attached to such finished good. Suspicious activity: attempted transactions or a pattern of transactions that you know, suspect, or have reason to suspect involve criminal activity, are designed to evade BSA laws, appear to serve no business purpose, for which there is no reasonable explanation and may involve financial transactions to facilitate criminal activity. Willful blindness: occurs when a person is deemed to have knowledge that proceeds were derived from an illegal activity and purposefully ignored those facts.

Link love The story is even worse. One day before testing positive with the Coronavirus, Mike Pence’s press secretary Katie Miller was not social distancing nor wearing a mask WHILE VISITING A NURSING HOME. pic.twitter.com/hoNNJpxnzq Tweet, SU, Reddit, Digg, +1: Like this: Related 8 Responses to “Link love” OMG the thread about online ordering sizes is hilarious! It makes me feel better that I am not the only one who is horrible at weights and measures. To be fair, some of the descriptions are not clear (like am I ordering 1 banana or 1 bunch of bananas??) There’s no way he’s still shedding infective particles after 56 days. It’s gonna be viral genome particles, not enveloped virus. I bet he’s got a hefty IgG titre by now and probably neutralizing antibodies too. That’s a reflection of the technical limitations of testing and nothing else. I can’t believe this whole damn country closed for two months and we still have a dumpster fire for viral testing, antibody testing, and PPE. This is what happens when you decide to kick career government workers out of their jobs. Draining the swamp, indeed. More like taking out all the great parts of a swamp (as someone who did swamp ecology for awhile, I’m always baffled at why people hate on swamps — they do so many cool things and have great benefits). We have a toxic garbage dump now. I keep seeing the ‘pay attention to the size / quantity you order’ thing online and it’s pretty funny. I had a moment of being willing to risk getting 144 units of a thing on the off chance that their weird labeling really just meant 12 of them…. but I didn’t follow through. Call your Republican Representatives and Senators. Tell them you don’t support the blanket immunity for employers. That you want to go back to work but not without protection and that you want your employers to be liable if they abuse your safety. Deluge them with calls. https://t.co/HWKlAxCucx

Buy it from The project is thought to be one of the first major projects to come from the new BBC Worldwide Productions drama team in the US. There has been speculation for some time that a US version of Torchwood would materialise after both Julie Gardner – the former head of drama at BBC Wales for the show's first run – and the former head of BBC Fiction, Jane Tranter, moved to America.

Well, the stupid 0-60 mph wars that Tesla brought to the electric car world are heating up as a guy in a Tesla P100D on the new Ludicrous+ setting posted a 2.389 second 0-60 run, faster than the Faraday Future FF 91 that isn’t even out yet. Faraday Future debuted its 1,050 horsepower FF 91 at the Consumer Electronics Show at the start of the month, highly touting its 2.39 second 0-60 run, which it showed was just barely quicker than an existing Tesla Model S or X. The problem is that Faraday Future’s car won’t go on sale before 2018, owing to the fact that the company’s factory site in Nevada is a large flat piece of dirt at the moment. So while Faraday Future works to put its first car into production, its establishment rivals have plenty of time to get faster.

a working group dedicated to the display of art in the private interior, c. 1715-1914 The Art Dealer as Decorator Over the next few months, we will be exploring the interconnection of the art market and interior decoration in anticipation of the “Home Subjects” session at “Creating Markets, Collecting Art.” The blog will feature guest posts from the speakers on our session. This theme has a long history, and the practice of marketing art for the domestic interior still creates challenges for the decoration. Alexa Hampton, the designer and author of The Language of Interior Design once declared “art: beautiful to look at but tricky to hang,” especially in the home. Individuals, whether they consider themselves art collectors or not, have long worried about the best place to display a work of art in the domestic interior. And decorators have offered multiple solutions to the problem of where and how to hang art in the home. One question that emerges is whether the interior is planned around the art or the art selected to adorn the interior. In A Strange Business: A Revolution in Art, Culture, and Commerce in 19th Century London, James Hamilton quotes a letter from Sir George Colebrooke, Bart., to his agent, Caleb Whitefoord that addresses this concern: “it may happen that something will be presented that will tempt you for me, either a large upright picture, to hang on one side of the Door of Entrance of the Drawing Room . . . or a long oblong picture or pictures with a view of hanging smaller pictures underneath to fill up the vacancy. The space between Door & wall is eight feet five Inches . . . I am disposed to lay out a sum between one & two hundred, either for one picture or more. (Letter dated 10 February 1805). Colebrooke had a long-standing interest in interior decoration, having commissioned a lavish new interior in 1771 from Robert Adam for his townhouse on Arlington Street. These designs were never realized, however, as Colebrooke faced financial difficulties due to speculative investments and the financial collapse of the East India Company, of which he was a director. He writes to Whitefoord, then, about decorating a new property after he had paid off his creditors by 1789. The notion that a collector would look for a work of art based on how it will fit into his interior might seem anathema to us today. It seems odd to think of the “utility” of a work of art in this way, since the “usefulness” of an object would negate its status as art. Instead it becomes decoration. Public art museums, developed alongside Immanuel Kant’s theories of the disinterested work of art, promoted this idea by removing altarpieces, for example, from Christian churches and setting them apart for aesthetic contemplation rather than religious devotion. The “usefulness” of a painting, then, lies in its ability to address the needs of a specific consumer, in this case, one who needed a painting that would fit between a door and a wall. From the vantage point of the early twentieth century, it appeared to the art critic Frank Rutter than the art dealer was, first and foremost, a decorator. As he noted in his memoir Since I was Twenty-Five, “with men like Sir Joseph Duveen, Asher Wertheimer, Charles Davis, etc., pictures are not much more than a side-line; they purchase and sell important pictures from time to time, but they also trade in a large variety of other works of art, decorative furniture, tapestries, porcelain, and all sorts of objets d’art.” Dealers like Duveen would set up apartments or devise mock domestic situations in which to invite clients to view works, it was unusual for the dealer himself to live on those premises as his home. Duveen decorated and stage-managed the firm’s outposts, including the window displays in high traffic locations such as London’s Oxford Street and New York’s Fifth Avenue. He combined the sale of paintings with tapestry, furniture, ceramics, and enamels. Clark Mansion floor plan, 960 Fifth Avenue, New York. In one notable example, Joseph Duveen built a scale model of the new Fifth Avenue mansion of Senator William Clark of Montana, complete with a selection of art, carpets, tapestries, and furnishing that might look well in the new premises.

Introduction – Who am I and why listen to me? My story really started in 1993 as a 14 year old when I first developed psoriasis and has lead me to this point in my life where I am now the proud owner of SmartPsoriasisDiet.com website. My story is long but I’m sure it will resonate with many psoriasis sufferers out there. Initially it was one spot of guttate psoriasis that eventually went on to cover up to 80% of my body at different stages of my life. To say psoriasis had an impact on my life is a massive understatement. Not one part of my body was spared from psoriasis, from toes to my scalp. It had a huge effect on how I lived my life through the tough teenage years when every night I would think to myself “Why me?” and then the progression into a stressful working environment as I got older. Every year I got older it seemed to get worse, it seemed like the more stresses in my life as I got older manifested itself through the psoriasis on my skin. Below I will list all the medically prescribed treatments and also alternative therapies I have tried over the years to try and get my psoriasis under control. I fully understand there is no cure for psoriasis, but all psoriasis sufferers (and any other chronic skin condition sufferers) really want is a way to control it, whether that means, taking a tablet, injections, applying cream or ointments, lifestyle changes or UV treatments, it doesn’t matter, we just want to be able to have something on hand that we know will work when an outbreak occurs. A List of My Trials And Tribulations To Control My Psoriasis Coal Tar, Dovonex, Betnovate and Hydrocortisone Intermittently between the ages of 14-22 I used these four. Coal Tar all over my body at nighttime(I really hated this) and dovonex on my body twice daily and a light Hydrocortisone ointment on my face. Dovonex was rotated with Betnovate. Basically they didn’t work. What did work during those years was the sunshine during the summer where it would fully clear for 3 months and return in the Autumn Bio-energy therapy This was my first venture into alternative methods.I freely admit I tried this in desperation. I’m still not sure what went on but it consisted of 4 sessions in one week where a bio energy practitioner waved his hands over me replacing negative energy with positive energy. It was very relaxing but unfortunately did not work and to this day don’t know if I would have been better off burning money instead! Acupuncture and Herbs When I was 22 I had my worst outbreak so far in my psoriasis life where it was so bad I was in pain sleeping and having showers as my skin was so badly dry and cracked up. The steroid creams were having no positive effect what so ever and I had noticed the skin on my forehead was thinning badly from using the steroid creams. The waiting time to see a dermatologist was 6 weeks so while waiting I went to a local herbalist who also had just recruited a acupuncturist who dealt specifically in skin conditions. He told me that my psoriasis had a very bad infection and that explained the aggressiveness of the outbreak. I had 3 acupuncture sessions in 6 weeks and also used a herbal spray 4 times a day and also took a course of herbs during this time. By week 7 my psoriasis was fully cleared. Up until 4 years ago when I moved to Australia, I would continue to go to this acupuncturist who I am still good friends with today, whenever my psoriasis was very bad. However the whole process of applying a spray 3-4 times a day was very hard to keep up each time I had an outbreak and this resulted in never getting the same effect. I was kind of reaching a point that as long as it wasn’t on my hands or face I would tolerate it and to hell with the rest of my body. However it did spark my interest in using herbs either as a drink or topically as a way to successfully control psoriasis. UV treatment I never had the official UV treatment, but I did fully clear my psoriasis when I travelled around Asia for 5 months. I think this can be attributed to all the sunshine I was getting and the radically different eastern style diet. It was exhilarating wearing t-shirts and shorts for the first time since I was 14 and going swimming in the sea without any psoriasis lesions. Prescribed Oral Medication (Neotigason aka acitretin) I moved to Australia when I was 27 and after 6 months working in a stressful job, I suffered a very bad outbreak and a dermatologist prescribed Neotigason as he classed my case as severe. I was worried as it can have very harmful side effects like liver damage, hair loss and its so strong you are not allowed to donate blood until one year after you stop taking it. My psoriasis did improve but I think this more coincided with leaving the stressful job and not taking the medication so after 6 months I stopped taking the drug (and I was very happy to do so) after consultation with my GP. Dovobet Ointment After a very bad flu, I suffered another bad outbreak of psoriasis. I had moved back home from Australia at this time and my local doctor prescribed Dovobet ointment. I thought I had found the miracle cream. 4 or 5 days after using it, my psoriasis had cleared, but once I stopped it would come right back out again. After using it for probably too long (3 months) it stopped working and my psoriasis came back with vengeance. My psoriasis lesions had now turned into massive plaques on my torso and on my arms and it came out all over my body again. At this stage I had just completely given up on conventional medicine. This ointment which I initially thought was a miracle cream had turned into a nightmare experience. Luckily I was able to go back to my acupuncturist friend, who explained this time I now had a yeast infection in my psoriasis, probably from the overuse of such a strong steroid cream and through the 7 week intensive 4 times daily herbal spray and herbal drinks was again able to fully clear my psoriasis. Internet only Magicream I was introduced to this cream by my mother’s friend who said she knew someone that was selling a cream that cleared psoriasis and eczema lesions. I was going through a rough time with my psoriasis so I decided to try it. the cream was amazing and cleared up my psoriasis within 8 days. I continued to use this cream for months and I was able to live a normal life again, socializing, meeting girls, confident at work, etc. However I then started to notice that this cream was bleaching my skin. Also at the same time the supplier had informed me that he had gotten the cream un – officially tested and the results showed 0.5% levels of hydro-cortisone which is usually OK for application on your main bodily areas but not on your face like I had be using it. This cream had passed no FDA requirements and been touted as 100% natural herbal cream by the manufacturers (based in China). I noticed that I could now see evidence of extreme thinning of the skin on my forehead (veins now showing) from using such a strong cream, so at that point I decided to discontinue use of the cream. Once I stopped using it I had a severe reaction to the withdrawal of steroids especially on my torso as this was where I applied the cream the most. A Journey Of Discovery Begins It was at this point I decided I would no longer be a slave to artificial and synthetic creams and ointments and totally change the way I would live my life forever. The following eBook describes the changes I made to my lifestyle and the trial and error journey I experienced until I found the correct formula to control my psoriasis naturally. If you follow this psoriasis diet plan, I can’t guarantee that your psoriasis will clear completely but I can assure you that you will feel physically and mentally better which in turn will naturally improve your psoriasis. Please read on…? SmartPsoriasisDiet.com participate in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. *Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc., or its affiliates.

found: Phone call to the Assistant to the Associate Director for Communications, U.S. Census Bureau (301-763-8469), Sept. 25, 2003(in 1999, the United States Bureau of the Census officially changed its name to the U.S. Census Bureau; Bureau officials felt that the new form of the name would be more identifiable with the public and also give the Bureau a more "corporate" look) Editorial Notes [Census Office is a valid heading for U.S. censuses up to and including the twelfth (1900); the thirteenth census (1910) and those subsequent were conducted by the Bureau of the Census until the name change in 1999.]

Robbed nearly blind, Izumi is forced to move out of his apartment into more…”affordable” housing—which means shacking up in a run-down tenement complex with five quirky neighbors, including Haruto—the weirdest, most seemingly unsociable landlord he’s ever met. Izumi’s convinced all he has to do is buckle down at work and put up with this miserable situation for the time being until he saves up enough to move, but then they all kind of start to grow on him—especially (and perhaps most unexpectedly) Haruto. The series Heart no Kakurega has been licensed, it is not available in Manga Fox.

US Road Trip Travelog: 12th March 2005 Saturday morning and the thrill that is laundry time. I like using the Drury Hotels as they always have decent laundry facilities, but there's only one washer and one drier for the whole place so I set the alarm for an early start to make sure I get there first. The laundry room is next door to the gym area, and I think I may have found the answer to my question of where most Americans do their walking - on machines whilst watching TV. Not my thing, but it's better than doing nothing I guess. Everything is bigger in Texas, including the pickup trucks. When I checked-in yesterday I was told that I couldn't walk to downtown. Well, that sounds like a challenge so after 4 hours stuck in the laundry room I set off out. Part of the I-35 in Austin. What you can't see in this photo is that there's actually another road running underneath this lot as well. The Interstate that runs through Austin, the I-35, was obviously designed by someone who'd forgotten to take his medication that day. It was horrible to drive up yesterday, with the road splitting, running parallel, and rejoining all without any apparent rhyme or reason. Because it's so badly designed, there are cars accelerating hard to move over lanes then stamping on the brakes to make a sharp turn. The obvious result of this is a lot of accidents, which only makes the whole sorry mess even worse. My motel is on the wrong side of the Interstate for downtown, and there doesn't seem to be any way for a pedestrian to get from one side to the other. There is a sidewalk down the side of the slip roads but it's not a fun place to be, with the traffic hurtling past next to you and making sudden turns across at speed with little or no warning. Maybe the guy working in the lobby of the motel was right when he said it couldn't be walked. Eventually I find a road with a sidewalk to get me to the other side and, away from the Interstate, the whole walk suddenly changes. These are nice leafy suburbs a few miles from downtown and, on a beautiful sunny day, it's a real pleasure to be out. Then I start seeing something unprecedented. I'd noticed a few cyclists and joggers but am shocked to see other people out walking. I almost want to take a photo of them whenever I see some. Austin has a reputation for weirdness, and this just proves it. Downtown Austin isn't just skyscrapers. These lovely houses, though I think now they may be offices, are quite close to the centre. The other odd thing I've noticed about Austin is that there are a lot more older cars around. I've been surprised so far driving around the US how few 60's cars (and none from the 70's) that I've seen - only a handful in Florida come to mind. In Austin, however, there are plenty. Not all are immaculate and restored, either, though I do see a lovely 50's Cadillac convertible, a mean black 70's Boss Mustang and even a 70's Cadillac Eldorado convertible in use a taxi. Great weather, nice houses, a thriving music scene and a car culture - I can see why Austin is regarded as a desirable place to live. 6th Street in Austin. It was a long walk but a - mostly - enjoyable one. After a few beers downtown, and an interesting chat with a bar owner about why he decided to move to Austin (basically, because of its friendliness), I catch a cab back to my motel to rest my legs and get something to eat. Later that evening I get another cab downtown. Through my Riviera OA contact Jim I've been in contact with another Riviera owner, Geno, who's a musician and lives in Austin. Geno recommends the Continental Club for live music that night, a mile or so south of 6th Street on the other side of the river. Though we don't manage to meet up, he's absolutely right about it being a great venue. As I arrive, around 11 p.m., Patricia Vonne is getting towards the end of her set. Shame, because it sounds really good. Some of her band look like they should be enjoying their retirement, but they play up a storm. From her website I've seen that she tours Europe sometimes and I think I'll have to try and catch her again. Next band up are Barfield, who play their own style of music they call 'Texas funk'. Great sound, tight band (I especially like the the swirling 60's Farfisa-type organ) and they're very funny as well. Last on the bill is James McMurtry. He's obviously a local hero, judging by the reaction he gets and the fact that plenty of people seem to know the words to his songs. I have to admit that I'm not overly impressed. One of his songs sounds like a straight copy of Dylan's 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue', another steals Churchill's "But tomorrow I shall be sober" quotation for its lyrics and a few others are almost embarrassingly trite. He's also strangely unlikable, but that could just be me - I certainly seem to be in a minority of one in the audience anyway. Despite the above it's been a great night out, and as I leave in the early hours I think I'm fortunate to find a cab almost immediately. I'm not. Unlike other cabbies in Austin, who've been interesting to talk to and safe but fast, this guy is a incomprehensible lunatic. Not only is he swerving around all over the road at speed, whilst trying to eat a taco at the same time, but he can't read the roadsigns and I end up having to shout them at him from the back as we approach junctions. It's like being caught in some kind of surreal computer game. I'm relieved to get back to the motel without incident and, no, he doesn't get a tip.

Friday, 9 September 2016 Day 162 / 203 to go Today I continued with Smith´s book - one of the tasks was to evaluate the following position: Personally, I prefer Black. Smith at first, too, but he then considers the chances "fairly even"; Komodo prefers White (with about +0.3). What bothers me is the circumstance that I did forget about Day 154: opposite coloured bishops favour the more active side (although this probably would have resulted in an even worse evaluation of the position)... In Chapter 3 Smith provides me yet with another important advice (see my Training Achievements): Next to practicing my PAT not in order to apply it continuously during the game, but to apply it during training in order to strengthen my intuition, he also advices to use my PAT (and therefore the accompanying (auxiliary questions") only when intuition during a game fails or especially during the opponent´s time my PAT should be applied!

Taking the High Heels Road Do we really need feminism any more? I mean, women work outside the home when they choose to, are protected by laws against discrimination in the work place and other places, and can vote. Isn’t feminism more about choice now–for both men and women–and the freedom that comes with choosing each his or her own happiness? Just last week I brainstormed with my college student daughter for her speech class presentation over this very question. Together we offered instances beyond the blatant: sex trade and slavery, genital mutilation and pornography. Yes, we concluded, right here in the U.S., where genital mutilation and a thriving sex trade do not lurk in every corner of the country, feminism has work to do. Sure, equal pay for equal work slogans, body image and slut shaming come to mind as battlegrounds for feminism, but the more insidious poisons that preserve patriarchal prejudices work more subtly. Take language, for instance. Something as simple as “Hey, you guys!” may seem harmless as an expression. But most unconsciously respond to that call without thinking how the phrase beckons males and females alike while there is no feminine counterpart. “Hey, you gals!” would not turn a single male head. And then there are high heels. Given that most anyone can merely look at a pair of high heels and foresee the long-term damage of daily wear or even the short-term calamity that could befall a novice wearer, forcing women to wear them to suit the tastes of a few male gatekeepers smacks of sadism let alone sexism. That such footwear would be prerequisite to female attendees of such a prestigious event as the Cannes Film Festival, upon which some fates and finances depend, can be perceived no other way but sexist–wittingly or unwittingly. However, I cannot imagine the headline, “high-heels gate”, to a BBC news story about flat-wearing females turned away at Cannes a few days ago–even if one of the refused flat-wearers (though later admitted entry) had a partially amputated foot too unstable for heels. Ironically, one of the headliners of this year’s Cannes festival was ‘Carol’ the story of a 50-something lesbian. Although the festival director denied a “ban on flats,” apparently the festival has a history of ‘partiality.’ The festival opened with a female-directed film for the first time since 1987, and organisers have endorsed a series of “Women in Motion” talks by stars such as Isabella Rossellini and Salma Hayek. One former attendee noted the fashion bias existing for decades: Wendy Constance, a children’s author who attended Cannes in the 1970s, tweeted the festival had a less than stellar reputation when it came to women’s clothes. “Back in 1971, when I started work I asked for [the] rule about women not wearing trousers to be changed. It was. Forty-four years later.” “It’s ridiculous that women are still being expected to conform,” she added. Those subtler forms of sexism perniciously pervade, permeate a society and motivate conscious or unconscious acts of sexism that may seem small but, in their accumulation, grow large in the long-term consequences. Sexist attitudes have been known to influence the line of questioning by a male detective to a female rape victim or a male judge’s sentencing (two positions empowered with a great deal of discretion within a realm of rules), actions with far-reaching effects to that victim and women generally. So what if Cannes bans flats? Aren’t we being too sensitive? Nothing to get our undies in a bunch over, right? Wrong. Conduct of a nation, including its laws and commerce–daily practices–are predicated on the stuff fed to our brains sometimes in blasts of shocking information and trauma, sometimes in long steady courses of study and living, but mostly in imperceptible increments–like subtly sexist language, pictures, and gestures, such as silly dress codes at Cannes. Feminism means freedom; freedom means choice. We cannot choose if the knee-jerk reactions of our conduct are pre-programmed, unconscious and unchanging. We must question our behaviors, the reasons for rules we set and how they are enforced, not take accepted practices for granted. A simple start? Ban the arbitrary bans on women’s fashion choices.

After divorce, don't forget to change your will You and your spouse get married and you're wildly in love. You make a will, and your spouse is obviously the beneficiary, getting everything you'd leave behind. Five years go by. The marriage fizzles out and you get a divorce. In the chaos and all of the other paperwork, you forget about your will entirely. If this happens, your ex is now the beneficiary of your will. You may have had to hand over roughly half of your belongings in the divorce. Do you really want to give him or her the other half if you pass away first? A will may not be part of the divorce proceedings, but it's important to update it after the divorce. You may even want to do this while you're going through the divorce process. It can take some time, but you know the marriage is going to end. Who should you leave things to when you update the will? The options are extensive. If you get married again, you may just give everything to your new spouse. If you had children from the first marriage, you may use the will to make sure your estate goes to the kids. You may even be interested in creating a trust that distributes your assets to charities and non-profits that you support. The answer is different for everyone, but the key is to remember that your will is a legally binding document. Be sure you know what you need to do to legally change it and re-file it so that it really reflects your wishes and desires. The use of the Internet or this form for communication with the firm or any individual member of the firm does not establish an attorney-client relationship. Confidential or time-sensitive information should not be sent through this form.

“Cloud Atlas” may be artistically ambitious, but it’s also racially retrograde, according to a blistering new release from the Media Action Network for Asian Americans … … “Cloud Atlas” missed a great opportunity. The Korea story’s protagonist is an Asian man–an action hero who defies the odds and holds off armies of attackers,” Guy Aoki, MANAA’s founding president, said in a statement. “He’s the one who liberates [a clone played by actress] Doona Bae from her repressive life and encourages her to join the resistance against the government. It would have been a great, stereotype-busting role for an Asian American actor to play, as Asian American men aren’t allowed to be dynamic or heroic very often.” Instead, it is Jim Sturgess who plays that role, while Hugo Weaving and James D’Arcy are also cast as Asian actors. – The Hollywood Reporter Race, Culture, and Identity in a Colorstruck World About This Blog Racialicious is a blog about the intersection of race and pop culture. Check out our daily updates on the latest celebrity gaffes, our no-holds-barred critique of questionable media representations, and of course, the inevitable Keanu Reeves John Cho newsflashes. Latoya Peterson (DC) is the Owner and Editor (not the Founder!) of Racialicious, Arturo García (San Diego) is the Managing Editor, Andrea Plaid (NYC) is the Associate Editor. You can email us at [email protected].

2 killed, 54 hospitalised in cholera outbreak in Narok The county government of Narok has banned hawking of food stuffs, in a bid to prevent the spread of what is suspected to be a cholera outbreak, that has killed 2 people and seen 54 others admitted in the last 3 days. The announcement, through the ministry of health, indicated that the ban would remain in force, until the disease is contained. 21 people have so far been treated and discharged, but 33 others are still admitted at the Narok county Referral Hospital hospital. Latest News DCI on the hunt for duo filmed sharing a smoke with minor CS Tobiko reprimands NEMA, NAWASCO over illegal dumping Pan African forum on social and behaviour change to happen in Kenya First Mwalimu Nyerere annual debate to be held in Kenya Thirdway Alliance hits 1M signatures in an effort to have a referendum NASA leader, Raila Odinga says graft is a major obstacle to Kenya's development Tom Mboya University students demand answers over unapproved courses scandal

The 16th of December, 1971 is a red letter day in our national history. It was on this day we were to snatch our independences after a life and death liberation war for long nine months. This victory was a victory of right against wrong. It was a war of self-emancipation. Every year we observe this day in a colorful manner. This day reminds us of the supreme in a colorful manner. This day reminds us of the supreme sacrifice of our freedom fighters who will ever shine in our hearts like the luminous stars in the sky. But at the same time we must remember the sprit of the liberation war. We wanted a country where justice will prevail over injustice and wrong. Instead, we are now having a night-marish experience of lawlessness, violence and misrule. The lords of the mischief mongers are getting upper hand in the society, whereas the meek and mild become the worst sufferers. Disorder in everything has become the order of the day. Special Programme for the day : Every year the Government, different organization and institutions take elaborate programmes to celebrate the day on a befitting manner. The national flag is hosted in all important offices, buildings, institutions and shops. All important places are tastefully decorated. Meetings and seminars are held to explain the importance of the day. On this day we pay rich tributes to the memory of the day. On this day we pay rich tributes to the memory of the martyrs who laid down their lives for the sake of our independence. So let all of us remember the sprit of the victory and see to establish just laws in the country to build it as a country which rightly be called ‘Sonar Bangla'

what they said "My father was a working class man, who loved the opera, and if ever I sat down with him, he'd have one thing to say: "Just take off the fucking glasses, would you?"" -Bono, during the 2005-11-04 Las Vegas show. did you know Released in March of 1997, the album, Pop debuted at #1 in 28 countries, and earned U2 mainly positive reviews. Rolling Stone even went so far as claiming U2 had "defied the odds and made some of the greatest music of their lives."

Report: MLT Shortage Survey We had an amazing response to our survey about human resources shortages, gathering data from 33% of laboratories across the province. Yesterday our CEO Michelle Hoad met with two policy advisors from the Ministry of Health who report directly into Christine Elliott, informing them on several items specific to our impending shortage. She reported our current findings: that MLTs shortages for the laboratory community projected in 4-8 years is actually occurring now; that this is primarily being felt in rural and remote communities. Many of the positions you reported have been on the market for over a year, particularly MLT positions in rural and remote areas. Thank you to all laboratories that participated in this survey. The data was helpful in getting their attention! Next Steps: If you are a manager or lab leader in a rural and remote community and would like to get involved in this initiative, please send Michelle an email at [email protected]. We hope to schedule a meeting through video conferencing over the next few weeks to discuss the larger strategy. We are doing everything we can to address this issue, and we need your help and support to keep pushing this message.

Were You Involved In A Fender-Bender Fender Benders And Minor Auto Accidents – The Most Common Misconceptions This has happened to nearly all of us at one time or another. You’re at a stop light or in a parking lot and someone bumps your car. They were moving slowly, and there doesn’t appear to be any damage. So you mutually decide that no further action is required. However, just because you don’t see a problem doesn’t mean there isn’t one. Internal car damage or worse and unchecked bodily injury are some of the common and unfortunate effects of a minor auto accident. Did You Know… A clean bumper after an accident may not be a good indication of internal damage. Many people don’t exchange insurance information after a fender bender. Some spinal cord or nerve trauma may not produce aches and pains until weeks or even months afterward. Joint problems or disk problems may not show up for years after a collision. Statements you make after an accident can be used against you in court. What Should I Do? Always exchange insurance information and obtain a police report. Some companies and states require this, regardless of the accident’s scale. The person who hits you has your license plate number. If you agree to part ways amicably and you do not exchange full information, you may be charged with leaving the scene of an accident. Get checked by a doctor. Just because there are no broken bones or bleeding doesn’t mean bodily harm hasn’t occurred. Seeing a physician not only leaves a paper trail for a possible claim, but also ensures you have no other injuries such as whiplash, brain trauma, nerve damage or spinal cord alignment problems. Have your car checked. There may be unseen problems with your car, including trunk/hood/door malfunction, vehicle alignment, subframe damage, cracked radiator, core support harm or crumple zones damage. All of these can lead to hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of repairs. Talk to me — an experienced personal injury attorney at Frank P. Bianco, P.A. It’s not always about lawsuits — sometimes you merely need an adviser to ensure you’re handling an auto accident properly or not missing any important steps. That said, should litigation be required, I will work tirelessly on your behalf to see that you’re compensated for lost wages, medical costs, or pain and suffering. I have served the Pasco County area for over 20 years, and have earned the faith and trust of the community.

Use of multiple social media platforms linked to depression, anxiety Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Research on Media, Technology and Health (CRMTH) have found that excessive social media use often correlates with an increased risk of depression or anxiety. In a survey of nearly 1,800 adults between the ages of 19 and 32, researchers found that participants who used between seven and 11 social media platforms had substantially higher odds of having increased levels of both depression and anxiety symptoms compared to those that used anywhere from zero to two social media platforms. Such was the case even after adjusting for other factors that could contribute to depression or anxiety such as education, gender, household income, race, relationship status and total time spent on social media. Pinpointing a key association between social media and the illnesses, however, isn’t all that easy. Brian A. Primack, M.D., Ph.D., director of CRMTH and lead author on the paper, said it could be that people who suffer from symptoms of depression and / or anxiety and use a broad range of social media outlets may be searching out multiple avenues or a setting that feels comfortable and accepting. Then again, it could simply be that the amount of work required to maintain a presence on so many platforms is the culprit. The fact that an individual feels compelled to maintain upwards of a dozen non-work related social media accounts seems telling on its own but hey, what do I know? Ultimately, Primack said more research will be needed to obtain a better understanding of the matter.

The first person I interviewed for this next wave of interviews was security engineer Keirsten Brager. We had an excellent chat. Kim Crawley: What do you do in cybersecurity? Keirsten Brager: I appreciate you extending this opportunity. I am a security engineer at a major power utility company. As a member of the security technology team, my primary focuses are delivering technical solutions to reduce enterprise risk and outfitting the business with automated capabilities contained within their toolsets. My role is cross-functional and requires interaction with many levels in the company, so I am constantly looking for ways to provide value to business groups. Security continues to be a service that must be sold. That part of the job is much easier to do when you add value to business groups who then advocate for you. KC: Excellent! So, how did you get into the cybersecurity industry? KB: I did the work no one else would do. Technical people tend to like tools, but they do not always like creating/maintaining documentation, interacting with auditors, and working in cross-functional capacities that involve dealing with people of who are not technical and/or in unrelated business groups. I happen to be technical and a people person, so I took on projects that required both. During difficult audits, I also learned the importance of building trust and finding allies. When you do the difficult work that moves the company forward, people notice. Stepping out of my comfort zone and doing work that others avoided allowed me to create my own opportunities. I cried a lot while I was going through it, but I’m a better security professional because of all the stretch assignments I took on that ultimately led to the awesome team I’m on today. KC: Is maintaining documentation as tedious as everyone tells me it is? KB: It depends on the size of the company, security program maturity level and business drivers (SOX, PCI, NERC-CIP, etc). Those factors will determine the tools deployed, processes, frequency, and level of documentation required. The issue is also not always related to it being tedious. Rather, developing/maintaining documentation involves engaging different areas of the business to ensure it satisfies business requirements. Security professionals don’t just document how apps are developed, tools are deployed, or systems are protected and monitored. Documentation often has to be scoped to specific audit requirements and other stakeholders who may have different objectives – this is the people aspect of it that a lot of technical people struggle with. I wrote a Tripwire article about the importance of communication and how it can take careers further than tech skills alone. KC: What misconceptions do other cybersecurity professionals have about the security engineer role, especially as it pertains to large organizations? KB: Two misconceptions that I frequently see: engineers work alone and only computer science grads are suitable for these roles. Both couldn’t be further from the truth. Although pop culture makes it appear that security professionals work alone in dark rooms, that is not the reality for anyone that I know in the industry. Being a people person is an asset, not a liability. Regarding formal education, my Bachelor’s is in business management, and I just finished my Master’s in cybersecurity a few weeks ago. I want other women to know that lack of a Comp Sci degree did not prevent me from having a great career and that it does not have to stop them, either. Large orgs will hire you if you have the right skills (not to be confused with education), passion, and the ability to articulate how security enables the business to function. An often-overlooked path into large orgs is via security product companies such as Tripwire, Splunk, Cisco and others. Do not limit yourself to applying to just large orgs because they do hire from tech companies if the need exists. KB: Thank you! Yes, there are now undergraduate- and Master’s-level cybersecurity programs. Academia has been slow to catch up, but I’m starting to see more schools offering cyber degrees, even here in Houston. Some schools are even offering specialized tracks. For example, I just completed UMUC’s M.S. in Cybersecurity legacy program. The program changed last year, and they now offer Cybersecurity Technology, Management/Policy and Digital Forensics tracks. As you know, the discipline has many domains and subdomains. I expect to see more educational institutions offering specialized tracks as the industry matures and demands it. KC: Either in industry roles, in academia, or both, has being a female cybersecurity professional ever been a challenge? KB: It has been a challenge in both environments. The industry is male-dominated, so needless to say, the academic programs are male-dominated, as well. Often left out of the conversation is that the James Damores (Google Manifesto author) and Richard Spencers (Alt-right leader) of the world are in academia, on hiring panels, CFP committees, and everywhere in between. Those people have a bigger influence on the lack of diversity than this being merely a vague “pipeline issue” or “women just are not interested” in this type of work. In my graduate program, it did not matter that I already had three security certifications and was gainfully employed in the industry. People bring their biases everywhere they go, try to impose their inferiority complexes on you, and treat you like an “other” even if you have receipts showing you’re just as capable. Despite the challenges, I remained dedicated to the discipline and landed on a team that is both supportive and inclusive. That made it all worth it. “I want other women to know that yes, you will encounter people along your academic and professional journey who will make you want to quit. Those situations are temporary. Whatever you do, just keep going.” KC: So, what advice would you have for a young girl who’s fascinated by hackers and might be discouraged to pursue a cybersecurity career? KB: The first thing I’d tell her is that security is not all about hacking and that she should conduct research to learn about all the cybersecurity career options available to those willing to put in the work. I have the utmost respect for pen testers, but pop culture and even some people I admire tend to romanticize and glorify hackers. I believe this can lead some young people to believe that hacking is the entire discipline. It is not. There will always be a higher demand for people who defend organizations than those who hunt for/exploit vulnerabilities. If you look at all the mind maps and other visual representations of security programs, it is clear how many different career paths exist that are not related to hacking. I’m not trying to discourage anyone from pursuing a pen testing career path, but I think it’s important that we encourage young people to open their minds to the myriad of career possibilities that exist in cybersecurity. If they do that, then they’ll see women who look like them thriving as engineers, architects, specialists, analysts, administrators, consultants, and many other variations of these titles depending on the org. Some of these roles can also prepare you to be a better hacker if that is the end goal. Finally, do not be discouraged by the stereotypes because some of us are actively working to create new ones. KC: How do you think the cybersecurity field can encourage greater diversity? Not just with gender, but perhaps race and disability, as well? KB: The best way to encourage diversity is for people of various backgrounds to make themselves more visible in the places it matters most: schools and online. Young people consume the bulk of their images from the media and are encouraged or discouraged by what they see. Unfortunately, they continue to see the mostly stereotypical images of white men dominating movies, TV shows, photos, and talks from infosec conferences. Therefore, it is important for us to volunteer our time in schools and have publicly available content to refer them to, so they can see themselves through our stories. This is the best way to plant those “Hey, if she can do it, then I can do it, too” seeds. I also believe it is important for conferences to do a better job of ensuring that speaker lineups and panels reflect an inclusive culture. That part will be harder to change, though. KC: That’s good advice. Is there anything else you’d like to say before we go? KB: Yes, relationships are critical in this industry. Develop relationships in your LOCAL security community, including local chapters of OWASP, ISSA, (ISC)2, ISACA, etc. Many security product companies have user group meetups, as well. Give back as often as you can before you need a job. Stay humble. About the Author:Kim Crawley spent years working in general tier two consumer tech support, most of which as a representative of Windstream, a secondary American ISP. Malware-related tickets intrigued her, and her knowledge grew from fixing malware problems on thousands of client PCs. Her curiosity led her to research malware as a hobby, which grew into an interest in all things information security related. By 2011, she was already ghostwriting study material for the InfoSec Institute’s CISSP and CEH certification exam preparation programs. Ever since, she’s contributed articles on a variety of information security topics to CIO, CSO, Computerworld, SC Magazine, and 2600 Magazine.Her first solo developed PC game, Hackers Versus Banksters, had a successful Kickstarter and was featured at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival in May 2016. This October, she gave her first talk at an infosec convention, a penetration testing presentation at BSides Toronto. Editor’s Note:The opinions expressed in this guest author article are solely those of the contributor, and do not necessarily reflect those of Tripwire, Inc. Our website uses cookies. By continuing to browse the website you are agreeing to our use of cookies. For more information on how we use cookies and how you can disable them, please read our Privacy Policy.

Harper on SRC/CBC In a French language interview with Eric Duhaime and Nathalie Normandeau on FM93, Stephen Harper said that a majority of Quebecers embrace conservative values and that those same values are hated by many SRC/CBC employees.

Fans argue over Drake’s song “Wu-Tang Forever!” Legendary crew set to make remix version of song! Let’s be honest here, this isn’t the first time Drake has used the name of an artist for a song title, and the song have nothing to do with the artist it’s named after. So it came as no surprise when, even after listening to the first verse, I realized that Wu Tang Forever had nothing to do the with iconic New York rap crew. And like fucking clock work, all of Drake’s hard core (I mean pressed) fans came to the rapper’s defense when Hip Hop heads called foul on the use of Wu Tang’s name in the title of Drake’s track. Many fans argued that Drake was paying homage to the Clan by using the name of their second studio album, Wu Tang Forever, as the title of his single. Not to mention the sampled track, It’s Yourz, from the same album, is used on Drake’s song as the backing (complete with the repetitive chant “It’s Yourz” throughout). And since we’re already in the process of being honest in this post, let me be the first to say that Drake’s song is in no way homage to Wu Tang Clan… AT ALL. I doubt Drake even thought about the consequences of using Wu’s name in the title. Especially since the group has nothing to do with the lyrics or the content of the song (save for a quick mention in the first verse). The Canadian rapper probably thought it would be fly to use the name of the album as the title due to the fact that he was already using one of their songs as sample. Nothing more nothing less. Does it mean the song by itself sucks? To some yes. I didn’t find myself hating the song after the first listen, but I also didn’t fall in love with it either. What probably offended me more about the song was just it’s misleading title. Even a member of the Wu Tang was mislead by the title. When controversy first hit that Drake released a single called Wu tang Forever, members of the crew didn’t seem phased at all. Inspetah Deck thought Drake’s song was just showing respect to Deck’s crew by doing a song about the legendary Clan. GM fam! Woke up to a lot of @Drake disses… WTH? The homey did a song about us right? Is that not love/respect? Or did I miss sum'n? It’s not so much that Drake’s song is bad; depending on whether you’re a Drake fan, a dick rider, or an unbiased fan of Hip Hop music, your opinions on that matter will probably differ. However, was it misleading to use Wu’s name in a song having nothing to do with them, yes, because then it becomes clear that the song was not intended to be a tribute, just merely a song. That still doesn’t mean that the Young Money rapper is not a fan of Wu Tang Clan. I just think Drake is a bigger fan of Drake right now to even care. Meanwhile, behind the scenes of all this back and forth, there are rumors swirling that the Wu will be featured on a remix version of the song… so there you go. Both sides end up winning in the end anyway. Check out Drake’s Wu Tang Forever below if you haven;t heard it already!

Religions have been the most successful educational movements, he says Probably the most boring question you can ask about religion is whether or not the whole thing is "true." Unfortunately, recent public discussions on religion have focused obsessively on precisely this issue, with a hardcore group of fanatical believers pitting themselves against an equally small band of fanatical atheists. I prefer a different tack. To my mind, of course, no part of religion is true in the sense of being God-given. It seems clear that there is no holy ghost, spirit, geist or divine emanation. The real issue is not whether God exists or not, but where one takes the argument to if one concludes he doesn't. I believe it must be possible to remain a committed atheist and nevertheless to find religions sporadically useful, interesting and consoling -- and be curious as to the possibilities of importing certain of their ideas and practices into the secular realm. One can be left cold by the doctrines of the Christian Trinity and the Buddhist Fivefold Path and yet at the same time be interested in the ways in which religions deliver sermons, promote morality, engender a spirit of community, make use of art and architecture, inspire travels, train minds and encourage gratitude at the beauty of spring. In a world beset by fundamentalists of believing and secular varieties, it must be possible to balance a rejection of religious faith with a selective reverence for religious rituals and concepts. It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting. We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not been able to solve with any particular skill: firstly, the need to live together in communities in harmony, despite our deeply rooted selfish and violent impulses. And secondly, the need to cope with terrifying degrees of pain which arise from our vulnerability to professional failure, to troubled relationships, to the death of loved ones and to our decay and demise. God may be dead, but the urgent issues which impelled us to make him up still stir and demand resolutions which do not go away when we have been nudged to perceive some scientific inaccuracies in the tale of the seven loaves and fishes. The error of modern atheism has been to overlook how many sides of the faiths remain relevant even after their central tenets have been dismissed. Once we cease to feel that we must either prostrate ourselves before them or denigrate them, we are free to discover religions as a repository of occasionally ingenious concepts with which we can try to assuage a few of the most persistent and unattended ills of secular life. Secular society has been unfairly impoverished by the loss of an array of practices and themes which atheists typically find it impossible to live with. We have grown frightened of the word morality. We bridle at the thought of hearing a sermon. We flee from the idea that art should be uplifting or have an ethical mission. We don't go on pilgrimages. We can't build temples. We have no mechanisms for expressing gratitude. The notion of reading a self-help book has become absurd to the high-minded. We resist mental exercises. Strangers rarely sing together. We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society. Religions merit our attention for their sheer conceptual ambition; for changing the world in a way that few secular institutions ever have. They have managed to combine theories about ethics and metaphysics with practical involvement in education, fashion, politics, travel, hostelry, initiation ceremonies, publishing, art and architecture -- a range of interests which puts to shame the scope of the achievements of even the greatest and most influential secular movements and individuals in history. For those interested in the spread and impact of ideas, it is hard not to be mesmerized by examples of the most successful educational and intellectual movements the planet has ever witnessed. There are sides of religions that are timely and consoling even for skeptical contemporary minds. Atheists can learn to rescue some of what is beautiful, touching and wise from all that no longer seems true. The wisdom of the faiths belongs to all of mankind, even the most rational among us, and deserves to be selectively reabsorbed by the supernatural's greatest enemies. Religions are intermittently too useful, effective and intelligent to be abandoned to the religious alone.

Lawyers face off in court Steve Greenberg (center), attorney for convicted murderer Drew Peterson, leaves the Will County Courthouse for lunch Tuesday in Joliet, during a special hearing involving Peterson’s murder trial. By Associated Press MICHAEL TARM (AP) JOLIET (AP) – The attorney who led the defense team in Drew Peterson’s 2012 murder trial sat in the witness box Tuesday and faced questions from his former co-counsel – the latest turn in a long-running legal saga full of strange twists. The rarity of former legal colleagues facing off as adversaries came at a hearing to decide if Peterson, a former suburban Chicago police officer, should get a new trial in the slaying of his third wife. His current attorneys contend that former lead attorney Joel Brodsky botched Peterson’s trial, which ended in September with jurors convicting Peterson of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Witnesses during the daylong hearing Tuesday included Brodsky, a law professor who teaches ethics and even a spectator during last year’s trial. The hearing resumes Wednesday. Peterson, 59, faces a maximum 60-year prison term for killing Savio, who was found dead in her bathtub with a gash on her head. The former Bolingbrook police sergeant gained nationwide notoriety after his much younger fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, vanished in 2007. Her disappearance led authorities to exhume Savio’s body and change the cause of death from an accident to a homicide. The dispute between Peterson’s former lawyer and his current ones is in sharp contrast to the beginning of Peterson’s trial, when the limelight-seeking defense team faced the media together. Several times, they joked that Stacy Peterson – who authorities presume is dead but whose body was never found – could show up any day to take the stand. The most dramatic moment at Tuesday’s hearing came when current Peterson attorney Steve Greenberg – who has engaged in an open war of words with Brodsky in recent months – announced that Brodsky was his next witness. Brodsky at first did not appear, and eventually the judge ordered him to the witness stand. In public, Brodsky and Greenberg have denounced each other as liars, but the back and forth in court Tuesday was comparatively reserved and polite. Under questioning, Brodsky conceded Peterson received money for media appearances before Peterson was jailed in 2009. Greenberg has argued Brodsky was more concerned about drumming up publicity for his legal practice than defending Peterson. As the day’s proceeding’s ended, lead prosecutor James Glasgow was asked by reporters if he knew of other cases where one-time legal allies ended up facing each other in court. “In 30 years, I have never seen this before,” he said. As he left, Greenberg said he didn’t enjoy putting a fellow lawyer on the stand — but added he felt compelled on Peterson’s behalf. “It’s uncomfortable every time you have to throw stones at a lawyer,” Greenberg said. “I don’t like to do it. ... But this time, it has merit.” Brodsky told reporters he didn’t think questions about whether he or Peterson profited by the decision to go on a talk-show circuit proved he had badly represented Peterson. “(That’s) real, real weak,” he said about the defense contention. “What do they have (against me)? Nothing.” Earlier Tuesday, a professor at Chicago’s John Marshall Law School told the judge that Brodsky had violated ethical norms by allegedly agreeing to split future book and movie proceeds with Peterson years before the case even went to trial. “It seems that this is over the line,” Clifford Scott-Rudnick said. Cutting business deals with clients, he said, raises the danger that lawyers will act in their own business interest rather than in their client’s legal interest. In a phone interview later, Brodsky said he never sealed deals with Peterson regarding books or movies. “There was no such agreement anywhere about splitting future profits,” he said. Any payments Peterson received related to publicity, Brodsky added, were used to pay Peterson’s legal bills. The lawyerly feud escalated earlier this month when Brodsky filed a defamation lawsuit against Greenberg, which claims Greenberg became “irrationally fixated and obsessed with destroying Brodsky.” In an open letter to Brodsky in September, Greenberg accused him of “single-handedly” losing the trial, adding he “wafted the greatest case by ignorance, obduracy and ineptitude.” Another accusation by Peterson’s current attorneys is that it was Brodsky’s decision alone to call divorce lawyer Harry Smith as a witness — testimony that badly backfired on Peterson’s cause at trial. A spectator at the 2012 trial, Jennifer Spohn told the judge Tuesday that she overheard Greenberg and Brodsky talking in the hall outside court, Greenberg cursing and telling Brodsky he was upset Smith was taking the stand. Brodsky hoped Smith’s testimony that Stacy Peterson allegedly sought to extort her husband would dent the credibility of statements she made to others that Drew Peterson threatened to kill her. During his testimony, though, Smith repeatedly stressed how Stacy Peterson seemed to sincerely believe her husband had killed Savio. Some jurors later said that Smith’s testimony persuaded them to convict Drew Peterson. Most experts say Peterson’s chances of winning a retrial are slim. If Judge Edward Burmila rejects the motion for a retrial, he has said he would move on quickly to Peterson’s sentencing.

History Timely Publications Pulp-magazine publisher Martin Goodman founded the company later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939.[3][4] Goodman, who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging—and by then already highly popular—new medium of comic books. Launching his new line from his existing company's offices at 330 West 42nd Street, New York City, he officially held the titles of editor, managing editor, and business manager, with Abraham Goodman (Martin's brother)[5] officially listed as publisher.[4] Goodman hired his wife's cousin,[13] Stanley Lieber, as a general office assistant in 1939.[14] When editor Simon left the company in late 1941,[15] Goodman made Lieber—by then writing pseudonymously as " Stan Lee"—interim editor of the comics line, a position Lee kept for decades except for three years during his military service in World War II. Lee wrote extensively for Timely, contributing to a number of different titles. Goodman's business strategy involved having his various magazines and comic books published by a number of corporations all operating out of the same office and with the same staff.[10] One of these shell companies through which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least Marvel Mystery Comics #55 (May 1944). As well, some comics' covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12 (Winter 1946–47), were labeled "A Marvel Magazine" many years before Goodman would formally adopt the name in 1961.[16] Goodman began using the globe logo of the Atlas News Company, the newsstand-distribution company he owned,[18] on comics cover-dated November 1951 even though another company, Kable News, continued to distribute his comics through the August 1952 issues.[19] This globe branding united a line put out by the same publisher, staff and freelancers through 59 shell companies, from Animirth Comics to Zenith Publications.[20] In 1961, writer-editor Stan Lee revolutionized superhero comics by introducing superheroes designed to appeal to older readers than the predominantly child audiences of the medium. Modern Marvel's first superhero team, the titular stars of The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961),[24] broke convention with other comic book archetypes of the time by squabbling, holding grudges both deep and petty, and eschewing anonymity or secret identities in favor of celebrity status. Subsequently, Marvel comics developed a reputation for focusing on characterization and adult issues to a greater extent than most superhero comics before them, a quality which the new generation of older readers appreciated.[25] This applied to The Amazing Spider-Man title in particular, which turned out to be Marvel's most successful book. Its young hero suffered from self-doubt and mundane problems like any other teenager, something with which many readers could identify. Lee and freelance artist and eventual co-plotter Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four originated in a Cold War culture that led their creators to revise the superhero conventions of previous eras to better reflect the psychological spirit of their age.[26] Eschewing such comic-book tropes as secret identities and even costumes at first, having a monster as one of the heroes, and having its characters bicker and complain in what was later called a "superheroes in the real world" approach, the series represented a change that proved to be a great success.[27] Marvel often presented flawed superheroes, freaks, and misfits—unlike the perfect, handsome, athletic heroes found in previous traditional comic books. Some Marvel heroes looked like villains and monsters such as the Hulk and the Thing. This naturalistic approach even extended into topical politics. Comics historian Mike Benton also noted: In the world of [rival DC Comics'] Superman comic books, communism did not exist. Superman rarely crossed national borders or involved himself in political disputes.[28] From 1962 to 1965, there were more communists [in Marvel Comics] than on the subscription list of Pravda. Communist agents attack Ant-Man in his laboratory, red henchmen jump the Fantastic Four on the moon, and Viet Cong guerrillas take potshots at Iron Man.[29] All of these elements struck a chord with the older readers, such as college-aged adults. In 1965, Spider-Man and the Hulk were both featured in Esquire magazine's list of 28 college campus heroes, alongside John F. Kennedy and Bob Dylan.[30] In 2009, writer Geoff Boucher reflected that, "Superman and DC Comics instantly seemed like boring old Pat Boone; Marvel felt like The Beatles and the British Invasion. It was Kirby's artwork with its tension and psychedelia that made it perfect for the times—or was it Lee's bravado and melodrama, which was somehow insecure and brash at the same time?"[31] Cadence Industries ownership In 1968, while selling 50 million comic books a year, company founder Goodman revised the constraining distribution arrangement with Independent News he had reached under duress during the Atlas years, allowing him now to release as many titles as demand warranted.[18] Late that year, he sold Marvel Comics and its parent company, Magazine Management, to the Perfect Film and Chemical Corporation, with Goodman remaining as publisher.[33] In 1969, Goodman finally ended his distribution deal with Independent by signing with Curtis Circulation Company.[18] In 1971, the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare approached Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Stan Lee to do a comic book story about drug abuse. Lee agreed and wrote a three-part Spider-Man story portraying drug use as dangerous and unglamorous. However, the industry's self-censorship board, the Comics Code Authority, refused to approve the story because of the presence of narcotics, deeming the context of the story irrelevant. Lee, with Goodman's approval, published the story regardless in The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (May–July 1971), without the Comics Code seal. The market reacted well to the storyline, and the CCA subsequently revised the Code the same year.[34] Goodman retired as publisher in 1972 and installed his son, Chip, as publisher.[35] Shortly thereafter, Lee succeeded him as publisher and also became Marvel's president[35] for a brief time.[36] During his time as president, he appointed his associate editor, prolific writer Roy Thomas, as editor-in-chief. Thomas added "Stan Lee Presents" to the opening page of each comic book.[35] Marvel was able to capitalize on its successful superhero comics of the previous decade by acquiring a new newsstand distributor and greatly expanding its comics line. Marvel pulled ahead of rival DC Comics in 1972, during a time when the price and format of the standard newsstand comic were in flux.[38] Goodman increased the price and size of Marvel's November 1971 cover-dated comics from 15 cents for 36 pages total to 25 cents for 52 pages. DC followed suit, but Marvel the following month dropped its comics to 20 cents for 36 pages, offering a lower-priced product with a higher distributor discount.[39] In 1973, Perfect Film and Chemical renamed itself as Cadence Industries and renamed Magazine Management as Marvel Comics Group.[40] Goodman, now disconnected from Marvel, set up a new company called Seaboard Periodicals in 1974, reviving Marvel's old Atlas name for a new Atlas Comics line, but this lasted only a year and a half.[41] In the mid-1970s a decline of the newsstand distribution network affected Marvel. Cult hits such as Howard the Duck fell victim to the distribution problems, with some titles reporting low sales when in fact the first specialty comic book stores resold them at a later date.[citation needed] But by the end of the decade, Marvel's fortunes were reviving, thanks to the rise of direct market distribution—selling through those same comics-specialty stores instead of newsstands. Marvel ventured into audio in 1975 with a radio series and a record, both had Stan Lee as narrator. The radio series was Fantastic Four. The record was Spider-Man: Rock Reflections of a Superhero concept album for music fans.[42] In 1978, Jim Shooter became Marvel's editor-in-chief. Although a controversial personality, Shooter cured many of the procedural ills at Marvel, including repeatedly missed deadlines. During Shooter's nine-year tenure as editor-in-chief, Chris Claremont and John Byrne's run on the Uncanny X-Men and Frank Miller's run on Daredevil became critical and commercial successes.[46] Shooter brought Marvel into the rapidly evolving direct market,[47] institutionalized creator royalties, starting with the Epic Comics imprint for creator-owned material in 1982; introduced company-wide crossover story arcs with Contest of Champions and Secret Wars; and in 1986 launched the ultimately unsuccessful New Universe line to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Marvel Comics imprint. Star Comics, a children-oriented line differing from the regular Marvel titles, was briefly successful during this period. Marvel earned a great deal of money with their 1980s children's comics imprint Star Comics and they earned a great deal more money and worldwide success during the comic book boom of the early 1990s, launching the successful 2099 line of comics set in the future (Spider-Man 2099, etc.) and the creatively daring though commercially unsuccessful Razorline imprint of superhero comics created by novelist and filmmaker Clive Barker.[50][51] In 1990, Marvel began selling Marvel Universe Cards with trading card maker SkyBox International. These were collectible trading cards that featured the characters and events of the Marvel Universe. The 1990s saw the rise of variant covers, cover enhancements, swimsuit issues, and company-wide crossovers that affected the overall continuity of the Marvel Universe. In late 1994, Marvel acquired the comic book distributor Heroes World Distribution to use as its own exclusive distributor.[58] As the industry's other major publishers made exclusive distribution deals with other companies, the ripple effect resulted in the survival of only one other major distributor in North America, Diamond Comic Distributors Inc.[59][60] Then, by the middle of the decade, the industry had slumped, and in December 1996 MEG filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.[49] In early 1997, when Marvel's Heroes World endeavor failed, Diamond also forged an exclusive deal with Marvel[61]—giving the company its own section of its comics catalog Previews.[62] In 1996, Marvel had some of its titles participate in " Heroes Reborn", a crossover that allowed Marvel to relaunch some of its flagship characters such as the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, and outsource them to the studios of two of the former Marvel artists turned Image Comics founders, Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld. The relaunched titles, which saw the characters transported to a parallel universe with a history distinct from the mainstream Marvel Universe, were a solid success amidst a generally struggling industry,[63] but Marvel discontinued the experiment after a one-year run and returned the characters to the Marvel Universe proper. In 1998, the company launched the imprint Marvel Knights, taking place just outside Marvel continuity with better production qualtity. The imprint was helmed by soon-to-become editor-in-chief Joe Quesada; it featured tough, gritty stories showcasing such characters as the Daredevil,[65]Inhumans and Black Panther. With the new millennium, Marvel Comics emerged from bankruptcy and again began diversifying its offerings. In 2001, Marvel withdrew from the Comics Code Authority and established its own Marvel Rating System for comics. The first title from this era to not have the code was X-Force #119 (October 2001). Marvel also created new imprints, such as MAX (an explicit-content line) and Marvel Adventures (developed for child audiences). In addition, the company created an alternate universe imprint, Ultimate Marvel, that allowed the company to reboot its major titles by revising and updating its characters to introduce to a new generation. Some of its characters have been turned into successful film franchises, such as the Men in Black movie series, starting in 1997, Blade movie series, starting in 1998, X-Men movie series, starting in 2000, and the highest grossing series Spider-Man, beginning in 2002.[66] Marvel's Conan the Barbarian title stopped in 1993 after 275 issues. The Savage Sword of Conan magazine had 235 issues. Marvel published additional titles including miniseries until 2000 for a total of 650 issues. Conan was pick up by Dark Horse three years later.[37] In a cross-promotion, the November 1, 2006, episode of the CBS soap opera The Guiding Light, titled "She's a Marvel", featured the character Harley Davidson Cooper (played by Beth Ehlers) as a superheroine named the Guiding Light.[67] The character's story continued in an eight-page backup feature, "A New Light", that appeared in several Marvel titles published November 1 and 8.[68] Also that year, Marvel created a wiki on its Web site.[69] In late 2007 the company launched Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, a digital archive of over 2,500 back issues available for viewing, for a monthly or annual subscription fee.[70] In 2009 Marvel Comics closed its Open Submissions Policy, in which the company had accepted unsolicited samples from aspiring comic book artists, saying the time-consuming review process had produced no suitably professional work.[71] The same year, the company commemorated its 70th anniversary, dating to its inception as Timely Comics, by issuing the one-shot Marvel Mystery Comics 70th Anniversary Special #1 and a variety of other special issues.[72][73] In April 2013, Marvel and other Disney conglomerate components began announcing joint projects. With ABC, a Once Upon a Time graphic novel was announced for publication in September.[86] With Disney, Marvel announced in October 2013 that in January 2014 it would release its first title under their joint "Disney Kingdoms" imprint "Seekers of the Weird", a five-issue miniseries.[75] On January 3, 2014, fellow Disney subsidiary Lucasfilm announced that as of 2015, Star Wars comics would once again be published by Marvel.[87] Marvel Legacy was the company's Fall 2017 relaunch banner starting in September. The banner had comics with lenticular variant covers which required comic book stores to double their regular issue order to be able to order the variants. The owner of two Comix Experience stores complained about the set up of forcing retailers to be stuck with copies they cannot sell for the variant that they can sell. With other complaints too, Marvel did adjust down requirements for new titles no adjustment was made for any other. Thusforthly MyComicShop.com and at least 70 other comic book stores were boycotting these variant covers.[89] With a handful of Marvel movies, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Logan, Thor: Ragnarok and Spider-Man: Homecoming, in theaters, none of those characters' titles were in the top 10 and even the Guardians of the Galaxy comic book series was canceled. Thus films do not affect comic book sales.[90] Conan Properties International announced on January 12, 2018 that Conan would return to Marvel in early 2019.[37] On January 19, 2018, Joshua Yehl, editor of ign.com, speculated on potential changes if Disney's Proposed acquisition of 21st Century Fox goes through. He expects Fox franchises licensed out to other firms would be moved to Marvel and that Fox's Marvel film properties would be treated better by the publishing division.[91] However, Marvel had licensed Archie Comics to publish Marvel Digests collections for the newsstand market.[92] While Disney has licensed IDW Publishing to produce the classic, all-ages Disney comics since the Marvel purchase[93] and a Big Hero 6 comic book to go along with the TV series despite the fact that the Disney movie was based on a Marvel Comic book. Then on July 17, 2018, Marvel Entertainment announced the licensing of Marvel characters to IDW for a line of middle-grade reader market comic books to start publishing in November 2018.[92] Editors-in-chief Marvel's chief editor originally held the title of "editor". This head editor's title later became "editor-in-chief". Joe Simon was the company's first true chief-editor, with publisher Martin Goodman, who had served as titular editor only and outsourced editorial operations. In 1994 Marvel briefly abolished the position of editor-in-chief, replacing Tom DeFalco with five group editors-in-chief. As Carl Potts described the 1990s editorial arrangement: In the early '90s, Marvel had so many titles that there were three Executive Editors, each overseeing approximately 1/3 of the line. Bob Budiansky was the third Executive Editor [following the previously appointed Mark Gruenwald and Potts]. We all answered to Editor-in-Chief Tom DeFalco and Publisher Mike Hobson. All three Executive Editors decided not to add our names to the already crowded credits on the Marvel titles. Therefore it wasn't easy for readers to tell which titles were produced by which Executive Editor … In late '94, Marvel reorganized into a number of different publishing divisions, each with its own Editor-in-Chief.[98] Marvel reinstated the overall editor-in-chief position in 1995 with Bob Harras. Executive Editors Originally called associate editor when Marvel's chief editor just carried the title of editor, the title of the next highest editorial position became executive editor under the chief editor title of editor-in-chief. The title of associate editor later was revived under the editor-in-chief as an editorial position in charge of few titles under the direction of an editor and without an assistant editor. In 2017, Marvel held a 38.30% share of the comics market, compared to its competitor DC Comics' 33.93%.[106] By comparison, the companies respectively held 33.50% and 30.33% shares in 2013, and 40.81% and 29.94% shares in 2008.[107] Marvel characters in other media Marvel characters and stories have been adapted to many other media. Some of these adaptations were produced by Marvel Comics and its sister company, Marvel Studios, while others were produced by companies licensing Marvel material. Collectible card games The RPG industry brought the development of the collectible card game (CCG) in the early 1990s which there were soon Marvel characters were featured in CCG of their own starting in 1995 with Fleer's OverPower (1995–1999). Later collectible card game were: Video games Video games based on Marvel characters go back to 1984 and the Atari game, Spider-Man. Since then several dozen video games have been released and all have been produced by outside licensees. In 2014, Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes was released that brought Marvel characters to the existing Disney sandbox video game. Films As of the start of September 2015, films based on Marvel's properties represent the highest-grossing U.S. franchise, having grossed over $7.7 billion [112] as part of a worldwide gross of over $18 billion. Prose novels Marvel first licensed two prose novels to Bantam Books, who printed The Avengers Battle the Earth Wrecker by Otto Binder (1967) and Captain America: The Great Gold Steal by Ted White (1968). Various publishers took up the licenses from 1978 to 2002. Also, with the various licensed films being released beginning in 1997, various publishers put out movie novelizations.[113] In 2003, following publication of the prose young adult novelMary Jane, starring Mary Jane Watson from the Spider-Man mythos, Marvel announced the formation of the publishing imprintMarvel Press.[114] However, Marvel moved back to licensing with Pocket Books from 2005 to 2008.[113] With few books issued under the imprint, Marvel and Disney Books Group relaunched Marvel Press in 2011 with the Marvel Origin Storybooks line.[115] Television programs Many television series, both live-action and animated, have based their productions on Marvel Comics characters. These include series for popular characters such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk, the Avengers, the X-Men, Fantastic Four, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, the Punisher, the Defenders, S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Deadpool, Legion, and others. Additionally, a handful of television movies, usually also pilots, based on Marvel Comics characters have been made. Years after Disney purchased Marvel in late 2009, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts plans on creating original Marvel attractions at their theme parks,[118][119] with Hong Kong Disneyland becoming the first Disney theme park to feature a Marvel attraction.[120][121] Due to the licensing agreement with Universal Studios, signed prior to Disney's purchase of Marvel, Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disney are barred from having Marvel characters in their parks.[122] However, this only includes characters that Universal is currently using, other characters in their "families" (X-Men, Avengers, Fantastic Four, etc.), and the villains associated with said characters.[116] This clause has allowed Walt Disney World to have meet and greets, merchandise, attractions and more with other Marvel characters not associated with the characters at Islands of Adventures, such as Star-Lord and Gamora from Guardians of the Galaxy.[123][124] However, film producer and comics historian Michael Uslan partly debunked the story in a letter published in Alter Ego #43 (December 2004), pp. 43–44 Irwin said he never played golf with Goodman, so the story is untrue. I heard this story more than a couple of times while sitting in the lunchroom at DC's 909 Third Avenue and 75 Rockefeller Plaza office as Sol Harrison and [production chief] Jack Adler were schmoozing with some of us … who worked for DC during our college summers.... [T]he way I heard the story from Sol was that Goodman was playing with one of the heads of Independent News, not DC Comics (though DC owned Independent News). … As the distributor of DC Comics, this man certainly knew all the sales figures and was in the best position to tell this tidbit to Goodman. … Of course, Goodman would want to be playing golf with this fellow and be in his good graces. … Sol worked closely with Independent News' top management over the decades and would have gotten this story straight from the horse's mouth. Goodman, a publishing trend-follower aware of the JLA's strong sales, confirmably directed his comics editor, Stan Lee, to create a comic-book series about a team of superheroes. According to Lee in Origins of Marvel Comics ( Simon and Schuster/Fireside Books, 1974), p. 16: "Martin mentioned that he had noticed one of the titles published by National Comics seemed to be selling better than most. It was a book called The [sic] Justice League of America and it was composed of a team of superheroes. … ' If the Justice League is selling ', spoke he, 'why don't we put out a comic book that features a team of superheroes?'" ^Writer-artist Bill Everett's Sub-Mariner had actually been created for an undistributed movie-theater giveaway comic, Motion Picture Funnies Weekly earlier that year, with the previously unseen, eight-page original story expanded by four pages for Marvel Comics #1. ^ abPer researcher Keif Fromm, Alter Ego #49, p. 4 (caption), Marvel Comics #1, cover-dated October 1939, quickly sold out 80,000 copies, prompting Goodman to produce a second printing, cover-dated November 1939. The latter appears identical except for a black bar over the October date in the inside front-cover indicia, and the November date added at the end. That sold approximately 800,000 copies—a large figure in the market of that time. Also per Fromm, the first issue of Captain America Comics sold nearly one million copies. ^ abDaniels, Les (1991). Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics. New York City: Harry N. Abrams. pp. 27, 32–33. ISBN0-8109-3821-9. Timely Publications became the name under which Goodman first published a comic book line. He eventually created a number of companies to publish comics … but Timely was the name by which Goodman's Golden Age comics were known. . . . Marvel wasn't always Marvel; in the early 1940s the company was known as Timely Comics.... ^Per Les Daniels in Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics, pp. 67–68: "The success of EC had a definite influence on Marvel. As Stan Lee recalls, 'Martin Goodman would say, "Stan, let's do a different kind of book," and it was usually based on how the competition was doing. When we found that EC's horror books were doing well, for instance, we published a lot of horror books'". ^Roberts, Randy; Olson, James S. (1998). American Experiences: Readings in American History: Since 1865 (4 ed.). Addison–Wesley. p. 317. ISBN978-0-321-01031-5. Marvel Comics employed a realism in both characterization and setting in its superhero titles that was unequaled in the comic book industry. ^Comics historian Greg Theakston has suggested that the decision to include monsters and initially to distance the new breed of superheroes from costumes was a conscious one, and born of necessity. Since DC distributed Marvel's output at the time, Theakston theorizes that, "Goodman and Lee decided to keep their superhero line looking as much like their horror line as they possibly could," downplaying "the fact that [Marvel] was now creating heroes" with the effect that they ventured "into deeper waters, where DC had never considered going". See Ro, pp. 87–88 ^Levitz, Paul (2010). 75 Years of DC Comics The Art of Modern Mythmaking. Taschen America. p. 451. ISBN978-3-8365-1981-6. Marvel took advantage of this moment to surpass DC in title production for the first time since 1957, and in sales for the first time ever.

Bulgaria: Another Islamic Heroin & Jihad Republic? Bulgaria’s Government was accused of high-level involvement with organised crime gangs yesterday, in a hard-hitting report that highlighted the failure of the ruling coalition to stamp out corruption or convict anyone for 150 gangland killings. Government secrets were leaked to mafia figures involved in drug trafficking and a senior minister met alleged underworld bosses regularly, according to the investigation by MPs into corruption in the Interior Ministry. The profits of the drug trade were channelled to terrorist groups in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East. “We can make the conclusion that part of the money accumulated from drug trafficking is used to finance the work of terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Christian militias.” The report came after Georgi Stoev, who wrote about the Bulgarian mafia, and Borislav Georgiev, the chief of a nuclear energy company, were murdered this week. It also follows a call from the European Commission for urgent action against corruption and organised crime, with €6.85 billion (£5.5 billion) of EU aid hanging in the balance. EU officials are frustrated that the pressure they can put on Bulgaria to carry out reforms to its police and judiciary is limited now that it has been allowed into the 27-nation body. They are also worried that sanctions will lead to the collapse of the Government of Sergei Stanishev, the reformist Prime Minister. The MPs’ report spoke of “worrying practices in the functioning of the Interior Ministry that have led to a lower ability to uncover crime, due to the leaking of classified information to criminals under investigation”. The three-party coalition Government discussed the crisis yesterday and agreed to adopt reforms proposed by Rumen Petkov, the Interior Minister. But some analysts believe that the clean-up of the judicial and police system can only begin after the removal of Mr Petkov, a powerful figure in the Prime Minister’s own Socialist Party. As the coalition met, an important gangland trial was delayed again.

Jackson Lightheaded Heading Into Game Sunday Rams head coach Jim Haslett said on Sunday evening that he limited the playing time of running back Steven Jackson in the team’s Week 15 game due to Jackson being lightheaded. Haslett also said that team doctors told him that Jackson wasn’t cleared to play in the game. No additional information is currently available.

Game Crackdown 3's Agility Orbs Won't Play Hard To Get - Review Crackdown 3's Agility Orbs Won't Play Hard To Get Preview At Gamescom last week, I got to play with multiplayer Crackdown 3. The demo was designed to excellent destructible - this means things like enemies, and no character development. Later, I talked with the director of the game Dave Jones, to learn more about the game. During our conversation he told me that this game will appeal to players left disappointed after Crackdown 2. As you know, almost all the skills in the game characters are obtained due to the large number of murders, except for mobility - for its development is required to look around the city balls. Continue to put a spin on things, making them mobile; and the characters came balloons, they move from their location caviar and players must collect them before the parts disappeared. It was a cute idea, but in the end it was more annoying than entertaining. Jones seems to agree. "No, they are not going to return," he says. "I'm not going to do that. I was interested in trying, but for me, no, they are static." One of the more familiar elements will return, though: Michael D. McConnohie, the voice of the aforementioned director of the agency. "He likes to work on the franchise," says Microsoft, Peter Connolly. "We get it in the room, and he would do things like," Phil Spencer, a milestone for you, shut up and listen. " Apparently, being able to tell the head of the XBox, to close the trap is one of the advantages is the voice actor.

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Matthew Lutz-Kinoy: To Satisfy the Rose” is on view at Freedman Fitzpatrick in Los Angeles through Sunday, March 6. The solo exhibition presents a large-scale installation by the Los Angeles–based artist.

Can’t Get It Up: 10 Foods That Might Be Choking The Life Out Of Your…Libido Recently we stumbled across several stories about food that kills the fun the in bedroom. Though some of these claims sound like they could be fugazi, it never hurts to hear them out. Besides, some of them are just funny! Flip the page and take a look at the stuff you need to stay away from if you plan on getting some action after breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Image via MadamNoire Corn Flakes The maker of Corn Flakes, John Harvey Kellogg, thought that bland cereal without sugar would keep the sexual desires to a minimum, boy was he wrong. Gin and Tonic According to Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg this is EXACTLY what you need to get the party in your pants started. But upon further review, the quinine that is in tonic water is associated with lowering testosterone, and we all know what too much alcohol will do to a drunken man’s member… Soy Although there is no strong medical evidence that suggests that soy is an anti-aphrodisiac, monks have long-believed that it would decrease sexual desire. And if the conspiracy theory needs more gasoline on it’s unproven fire, Morningstar Farms is one of the biggest producers of soy products and it is owned by the aforementioned Kellogg Corporation. Mints Might be good for your breath in the PROCESS of trying to get some, but it definitely will leave you a lil short when it comes to CLOSING the deal. The menthol in the mints is said to reduce testosterone and “cool” off the body. Might wanna stick to the toothbrush if you plan on “swinging an episode” Cilantro Again, credit to this theory goes to monks that believed that this herb would curb the lust that burns inside of men from time to time (or all the time). Graham Crackers Rev. Sylvester Graham is credited with “inventing” this semi-sweet snack in the mid 1800’s because he believed that eating meats caused a ravenous appetite for other “flesh” and thus created a bland, flour-based food that would “cure” folks of their raging hormones. Continue Slideshow Licorice It is claimed that licorice can inhibit one’s freaky feelings, but a LOT of it would have to be eaten to notice in significant change. But this shouldn’t be a problem because most people hate licorice… Okra Okra tends to be a food that people have a love-hate relationship with. But we have found rumors and claims that this too will kill your chances of a “happy ending” to your date. Our advice, skip the soul food spot and take your lovely lady to a seafood place and fill her with oysters! Salpeter There is really no good reason to be ingesting saltpeter. For those that have never heard of such a substance, saltpeter is a powder that was formally mixed when “tonics” and other medicines were popular. It was said to work like a muscle relaxer. The Army was rumored to have slipped this into soldiers food to keep their mind off of boot-knockin’. Who knows, but it’s far from tasty so just stay away regardless. Granola Great for fiber, digestion, nutrients, but terrible for gettin BUSY! Here was a hilarious story behind this “chop”-blocker food: In 1863 (so about four decades after Graham), a guy named James Caleb Jackson made the first cold cereal in America. He called it granula — it was basically crushed graham crackers — and, he believed, its grain-based tastelessness would help make people less sexual. One of the people who liked Jackson’s ideas was Ellen White, the eventual founder of Seventh Day Adventism. She started the first sanitarium in Battle Creek — the one that Kellogg would ultimately run. And when he did start running the place, he liked the idea for granula so much that he stole it and started marketing it. Jackson sued him over the name, so Kellogg changed it to granola… did a better job of marketing it… and eventually became the go-to guy for granola.

Hello from Tenerife. Hello from Tenerife, Canary Islands, my name is Juan Manuel Vargas, i am 3d modeler, Currently working on a small video game company called medusa. In my shop you will find the characters in our games and more. I hope you enjoy it and thank you very much for your visit. Hi, I'm happy you like the models, we will gradually rise more. I just received the printed yak house, is fantastic, in a few days i upload the photos of the model. in terms of space invaders, yesterday I made a request for them to see if it works. I'll tell you. The problem is where the corners touch. Close enough to fuse, but such a small area that they'll break, so the manual inspection should result in failure. You'll either have to separate them or joint them stronger

Researchers aim to power smartphones through walking A new energy harvesting method developed by researchers Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison promises a practical way to power smartphones and other portable electronics simply by walking down the street. Though energy-harvesting technology isn’t new as the two engineering researchers point out in a recent Nature Communications article, their new energy-harvesting technology aims to provide for a market not being represented by current energy harvesting methods. “What has been lacking is a mechanical-to-electrical energy conversion technology that would work well for this type of application [mobile electronic devices],” said Krupenkin. The new method Krupenkin and Taylor have created is a process called reverse electrowetting which converts energy from moving liquid. Their device is made up of thousands of microscopic liquid droplets—they use a liquid metal alloy used in thermometers—which interacts with a nano structured substrate. The researchers say that humans produce a lot of energy; we can produce as much as a kilowatt of power by sprinting, and only a fraction of that energy is needed to power devices . There have have been previous attempts to harvest power from human locomotion like the 2008 knee brace but they were impractical. The Wisconsin-Madison Researchers believe that by inserting their device into a pair of shoes, a person could generate up to 20 watts of electrical energy. That energy could then be used to charge devices by plugging in to a small USB port into the shoes. Another method would be to create a tiny Wi-Fi hotspot in the shoe device which would take the load off a phone’s battery. Krupenkin says that this could extend battery life to a month rather than just a day or two. The device could be very practical in impoverished countries with poor access to electricity, or for military personnel. The product isn’t available yet, but the two are looking to commercialize through their Instep Nanopower company.

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The Wisdom of Solomon and Expanding the Pie I was thinking about the Biblical story about two women and their babies. In the night, one of the babies died. The mother of the deceased baby swapped her baby with the other woman’s living baby during the night and tried to claim the living baby as her own. The two women could not resolve their situation between themselves; so they went to King Solomon both claiming to be the mother of the living baby and asking the king to settle their case. King Solomon, not knowing which woman was telling the truth issued a verdict, declaring that the women cut the child in two and each would get half. The real mother quickly spoke up out of love of her baby, pleading that he not kill the child, but rather give the child to the other woman. Solomon then concluded that the woman that wanted to save the life of the baby was the real mother and awarded the child to her. What can be learned from this story regarding mediation? Mediation is a facilitated conversation leading toward a resolution that is determined by the parties. There is no judge. What if Solomon did not listen to the woman’s pleas to save the life of the child? What if a judge reaches a conclusion that one of the parties doesn’t like? When disputing parties take their case to court, to a judge, and put the decision in the judge’s hands, the decision might not be a satisfactory decision. Someone is likely to lose all. In this case, the real mother was about to lose her child forever. In mediation, the mediator does not make a decision at all. The mediator tries to help the parties see the situation in light of the facts of the case on both sides of the issue. The mediator helps the parties hear both sides of the story, and the mediator helps the parties identify multiple ways to resolve the issue. The parties can then agree to one of the ways or choose none of the solutions that were discussed. Let’s look at the two women. There was only one baby. What might a mediator do in this case? I, as a mediator, would have asked each woman to explain her side of the story, seeking to get to some sort of truth. In mediation, however, while truth might be exposed during such discussions, the mediator does not render a judgment as to the truth or truthfulness of the parties. The mediator might tell the parties whether their rendition of the facts is believable or not, thereby encouraging a settlement. Additionally, I’d likely have asked the women to suggest ideas on ways to resolve the issue. They would have likely said the only way to resolve it is to give the baby to the mother and each would claim to be the mother. That is when I as the mediator might open the door to the emotional heartbreak that one of the women must be feeling due to the loss of her child through death. Perhaps that might create a sense of sympathy in the heart of the mother of the living child. Maybe her heart would be softened to the point that she could empathize with the mother. Often a kind word between disputing parties can move mountains. At some point in mediation, ideas for resolution that are intended to expand the pie are either suggested by one of the parties or by the mediator. In the case of the two women and one living baby, maybe the real mother would be willing to let the other mother visit or help to care for the baby. Maybe a solution is to find separate living quarters, if in this case the women were wives of the same man and living in the same household. Sometimes separation is needed. I don’t know if either idea would be satisfactory to these women, but they serve as examples of how mediation might expand the pie. There is an old mediation story about two siblings arguing over a single lemon. There was only one lemon in the house and both siblings wanted the lemon. Once the discussion turned away from the lemon and focused on the reasons for wanting the lemon, it was discovered that one sibling wanted the lemon peel for lemon zest for baking. The other sibling wanted to make lemonade out of the juice. Both needs could be accommodated. That is how the pie is expanded. I, as the mediator, try to get the disputing parties to discuss the reasons why they need the solution they are hoping to get. By understanding the reasons why, we can often find a means to accommodate both parties, at least to some degree.

Enter your email below for 10% off your first order and to be signed up for the newsletter featuring product updates, giveaways, and more! Jul11 Beach Favorites for Mom-to-be Summer is here and there are plenty of beach days to take advantage of! Especially when you are pregnant, you sometimes need a little help getting your beach bag organized with all the necessities without forgetting anything (can you say pregnancy brain?)! Here is what we love for the beach for mama-to-be….. Expecting moms love these flip flops for the beach or pool, that proudly state their status of mom-to-be! They also come in pink or blue if you want to give away the gender and they are super comfy and cute. The beach is the perfect time to read magazines or books, chat with friends or family, nap, play games….and even write down lists, thoughts, appointments, along with tracking fitness/food info, which you can do in this journal. Now all you need is a good pair of sunglasses, a stylish maternity swimsuit, and a lots of sunscreen! Stay cool!

Monday, December 05, 2011 Concern Trolling - How To... (Apologies - with the exception of the first part, this is going to be a salad of hyperlinks. You don't have to read 'em all, but they're there if you want to know what evidence I'm using). The Times have been running long reports and opinion pieces on exploitation of teenage girls by gangs of Asian men for the last couple of weeks. The bare facts are horrifying - men of all ages scheming and plotting together to entice and abuse wee girls with the most cynical and nasty of manipulations and inducements. To prison with the lot of them, say I, and don't spare the public disgrace or the Draconian sentences. Another aspect of their coverage struck me as altogether weirder, though - an insistence on addressing the issue as specifically Asian/Muslim criminal behaviour. Well, it struck me as a bit odd. After all, sexual abuse and organised sexual abuse between co-conspirators is hardly restricted to Asian or Muslim men... But the figures do appear to back up the contention that this type of crime is committed by those overlapping ethnic/religious groups, disproportionately to their percentage of the populace. Well, okay I figure. The same goes for forced marriages, and we're fine with discussing that in ethnoreligious terms, so let's give it a go. And then I notice the single common factor to each piece (I'll paraphrase, since the Times is paywalled) in that almost every one - report, leader, opinion piece - starts with the premise that the topic is taboo; that discussing it in racial/religious terms opens the speaker up to malicious attacks from the Politically Correct mob; that, in short, the Times isn't allowed to discuss this stuff in these terms. Wait a minute, I think. You're the nation's paper of record, and you're telling your readership that you're not allowed to report on the things which you are in fact reporting on, in the specific terms in which you're reporting upon them? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I think to myself, they must be worried about a terrible overreaction from the PC Brigade, however they're defining that much-maligned group. So I go looking for these awful liberals who are out to destroy the country's most well-known broadsheet for its brave truth-telling, and... Well, no doubt there are plenty out there. I imagine that a Bob Lambert or a Mehdi Hassan would take issue, but I'm not finding lots of evidence. What I am finding is lots of articlesalongthese lines, in which the Minister for Children Tim Loughton places grooming of teenagers and kids in an explicitly ethnoreligious context. I find that back in July, the same minister has previously assailed Asian communities for ignoring such crimes or actively hampering inquiries. I find that the previous Home Secretary was criticised for generalising on the subject in the same terms, and extensive coverage of the police child protection agency laying that shit out in the starkest possible terms. This isn't only being reported in the Mail, either. It's all the major UK news agencies, including the Guardian and the BBC, reporting this issue in exactly the frame the Times are demanding. It's not taboo at all - it's everywhere. I also find many, many more articles like this than I care to link to, making the exact same argument- that the authors aren't allowed to say what they are in fact saying, in the terms in which they are explicitly saying them, from the pages of the nation's bestselling news publications. Naturally, I also find a bajillion race-war loonies promiscuously linking and commenting between them, each stridently convinced that they are not allowed to discuss it because of the tyrannical PC multicultural liberals, or whatever demons haunt their dreams. Then I think back to the original Times articles, which carried lengthy comments from government ministers, police, child protection agencies and so on. Despite enthusiastic endorsement by some of the most powerful political, civil and media figures in the country, most of the pieces loudly trumpeted their scarily taboo and unmentionable content. Almost all bewail the tyranny of Political Correctness Gone Mad. I broaden the parameters to similarly combustible topics - genital mutilation is treated identically, with howls of persecution and vicious assaults on western libruls and feminists for God knows what. Forced marriage is such an unmentionable issue that the Scottish Government have just handed the courts sweeping powers to tackle it, with a guns-blazing ministerial fanfare. Similar powers were put in place in England and Wales years ago. Honour killings are all over the papers, from the multicultural evangelists of the Guardian to the diddiest local paper. Hell, think of the coverage of the recent riots, in which a good number of fannies pinned the blame for white kids' violence on black people, with the same wailing terror of retribution. Did David Starkey or Toby Young miss a paycheque because of their dumbass comments? Did they Falkirk, my friend. In each case, you don't struggle to find great legions of table-thumping hacks loudly demanding to be allowed to speak about these issues without being crushed by the mighty machine of modern liberalism. They're all over the broadcast and print media, bleating about their fictional victimisation. Let's be blunt here. If the PC Brigade are strangling discussion of these controversial issues, they're not very good at it, are they? I mean, at present, they can't even get a light entertainer sacked for saying he wants to see innocent citizens shot dead in front of their families. A terrifying New-Age Gestapo, this is not. All of this prompts the question - if these issues are being publicly attacked by the British Government and are heavily covered in the press, why do so many hacks feel the need to invent these great phantom PC monsters, determined to destroy Our Precious Free Speech? A couple of thoughts spring to mind. Firstly, maybe British journalists are almost all utter cretins. It's a tempting possibility, but not a realistic one. Second, these hundreds of politicians, hacks and coppers actually do fear harmful attacks by the PC Brigade for truth-telling. I have no problem dismissing this out of hand. If I can find a bajillion articles disproving the supposed might of some speech-eating Liberal chimera, you'd better believe journalists will stumble across them in the course of their research. To my mind, this leaves option three - the whole thing, the entire "PC Leftisses will destroy us if we dare open our mouths" act, is a ludicrous pantomime. It's all a charade aimed at inculcating a sense of offended victimhood in the minds of everybody who objects to sexual abuse and domestic tyranny... Which just happens to be more or less the entire population of the United Kingdom. Surely it's obvious that anyone who tells you he or she isn't allowed to say the things they are saying, when they're saying them with total impunity and the full backing of the nation's political and media empires, is talking the worst, most offensive kind of bullshit? Is this in doubt? Performances this hysterical and overblown must be aimed at some logical goal. So, I ask myself, why bother with these great, idiotic displays of pre-emptive outrage? The answer to that, I think, lies in the recent government assault on disability benefit, amongst a raft of other regressive policies. Recall the great avalanche of ginned-up stories about moochers living large off the state that accompanied the government's vicious crackdown on disability benefit. A few papers did manage to squeeze in a few stories about people with horrific diseases being forced back into the workplace, but by and large it was open season on a class of people we were told it was okay to hate. And that's what this is - open season, not just on Asian sex offenders or genital mutilating men who murder their daughters over forced marriage, but merely one front in a general crackdown on everyone and everything despised by the political right. Rioters, feral youth, benefit fraudsters - everyone is getting it in the neck and if there are a few innocent casualties along the way, well, you can't make an omelette without openly lying to the populace, or something. If you object to that well, fuck you, Mr. Do-Gooder! They're as mad as Hell and they're not going to take it any more, even if they haven't been taking anything and there's nobody to give it to them! I can't be the only one who's found the tone of what I'll laughingly call our National Discourse increasingly nasty since the economic crisis and the Coalition Government's ascension. It's like all of the dark undercurrents of the last thirty years - the pandering to the electorate's most base prejudices, the scapegoating of the poorest and the rampant fearmongering on crime - have been thrust into the foreground. As a nation, we're going through one of the worst depressions of the modern era and our entertainments and news outlets are full of angry gypsies, predatory ethnics, violent urban vermin and grasping cripples. Well, fuck it. If this represents some kind of fight back against an all-conquering, tyrannical PC behemoth, as my wingnut readers will claim, you do have to ask how come it's proceeding virtually unopposed. You'd think that an unstoppable empire of wheelchair-bound Somalian lesbionics students would be able to muster at least a perfunctory pushback. Where is it? The logical answer, of course, is that the PC Brigade is a behemoth of bullshit, intended to smuggle all kinds of viciousness past the public undetected. The answer is that we're ruled and catered to by some very unpleasant people indeed, people who are just mad keen to keep us terrified of each other, for their own foul reasons. Hey, I can see why a lot of folk would prefer the former explanation. After all, it said so in the paper.

Current location in this text. Enter a Perseus citation to go to another section or work. Full search options are on the right side and top of the page. [p. 11] the future it should be left to the determination of the law. These towns based their hopes of avoiding in the future any expense on account of Mistick bridge upon the late law above referred to; how vain were their hopes will be hereinafter shown. In 1698 the town of Medford was again complained of for defects in the northerly half of Mistick bridge, and it voted ‘to empower a lawyer, referring to answer a presentment for defect in Mistick bridge.’ March 8, 1698. ‘Lieut. Peter Tufts, Stephen Francis, and Thomas Willis, Selectmen of Medford, appear in Court, to answer for defects in the north end of Mistick bridge, and inform the Court that their part of the bridge is in good repair, and that the defect is in the part appertaining to Reading, Woburn, and Malden, whereupon the Court order that those towns appear and show reason why they should not repair their part of said bridge according to former usage.’ The town of Medford, fearing that its interests might be imperilled at this time, voted, March 28, 1698, ‘to empower Mr. John Leverett for the further defending the town, referring to Mistick bridge, in case there be need.’ April 8, 1698. The County Court again say: ‘The northerly half of Medford, alias Mistick, bridge having been presented to the Court as defective and dangerous, and the respective towns of Woburn, Reading, and Maiden, that were formerly and from time to time wont to repair the same, having been summoned to appear in Court and show cause why said part of said bridge, should not be repaired by them according to former usage, and the said towns having been heard, the Court order that the said towns make speedy and sufficient repairs on said northerly half of said bridge, in proportion according to former usage, upon penalty of Five pounds fine, for each towns default, and that they make returns to this Court. Woburn, Malden, and Reading appeal.’ An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

Member Title Website URL Kingdom Hearts III is now out worldwide and the community aren't holding back with their excitement. The game is now trending on Twitter and Twitch! Earlier this morning, Kingdom Hearts III had the most viewers on Twitch even beating Fortnite! Since then, the game has dropped to number two, being beaten by League of Legends but this is still a big moment for the Kingdom Hearts franchise. We hope everyone is enjoying their first experience with the game. Head on over to our forums to discuss all things Kingdom Hearts III! Latest news: - Kingdom Hearts III releases worldwide along with Update 1.02; Launch Day! and Launch Commercial videos released - Kingdom Hearts Snapchat crown filter available for limited time - Kingdom Hearts III trophy list Kingdom Hearts III is now out worldwide and the community aren't holding back with their excitement. The game is now trending on Twitter and Twitch! Earlier this morning, Kingdom Hearts III had the most viewers on Twitch even beating Fortnite! Since then, the game has dropped to number two, being beaten by League of Legends but this is still a big moment for the Kingdom Hearts franchise. We hope everyone is enjoying their first experience with the game. Head on over to our forums to discuss all things Kingdom Hearts III! Latest news: - Kingdom Hearts III releases worldwide along with Update 1.02; Launch Day! and Launch Commercial videos released - Kingdom Hearts Snapchat crown filter available for limited time - Kingdom Hearts III trophy list View full article Hello Everyone, We need help on our Social Media team! If you want to be part of a great time with some really awesome fellow KH fans that can have fun engaging with your fellow KH fandom this is the place to be! For Social Media: What we're looking for: A big interest in the Kingdom Hearts series. Active enough to regularly post on the KH13 Community Twitter, KH13 Tumblr & KH13 Facebook pages. Creativity Reasonable writing skills. Typical tasks: Posting KH13 fan-content (art, videos, discussions, fictions) daily Helping to create the Poll of the Day each day. Scheduling monthly posts: Kingdom Hearts anniversaries, Disney film/SE game anniversaries, birthdays, music (fan-made and original) & holiday posts. Looking for ‘other news’ to retweet on the Twitter page (t-shirts designs, music album/manga/novel releases, podcasts, etc). Coming up with ideas for new features or expanding on current ones. If you are interested, don't be shy! Either post here or privately message me to apply. Let us know why you feel you would be a great asset to our staff. This is a volunteer job that we all enjoy and love! Good luck and will look forward to hearing from you! I was watching HFC's playthrrough of Birth By Sleep, and they had a link. I clicked on that link, and here is what I found. The Twitter as some profanity involved, so I put the links in a spoiler tag, if you want to go, just remember to take a keyblade with you! I can't even Yes, I understand that it's a *want*, not a need, but if anyone could help me out by following me at @thekingdompanel I'll have no problem returning the favour :)I want to interact with more people and stuff, and I find that difficult when no one follows me back! :pHere's a link if you find that easier: https://twitter.com/TheKingdomPanel Infamous troll and secret Rosalina fanboy Mariotehplumber decided to bother Chirstopher Sabat, known voice actor at FUNimation known for his roles in DragonBall Z, Yu Yu Hakusho, One Piece, etc. after he was just trying to talk with Charles Martinet, aka the voice of Mario. Naturally, Christopher Sabat, along with the help of his fans, handled the situation with the best way possible... by tearing him a new asscrack. And these are just some of the highlights of the ordeal. You can go to his twitter page for the whole scoop: @Chris24_Sabat Honestly, I don't know where tehplumber gets the nerve to mock Sabat in public out of nowhere. The kid must have been off his meds. And yes, I know I'm sounding a but harsh, but to be frank, I've seen enough of this guy's antics to lose all possible sympathy for whatever he says or does. Plus, the fact that he thinks Stephanie Nadolny was a better Gohan just makes me love Coleen Clinkenbeard even more.

Because of the strong Typhoon Vongfong? Toei Animation's highly-anticipated film HappinessCharge PreCure! Ningyou no Kuni no Ballerina (The ballerina in the doll kingdom), the feature film version of the on-going TV anime HappinessCharge PreCure! and the 17th feature film in the PreCure franchise, was finally released on 210 screens across Japan last weekend. Though it had 11 more screens, it bombed at the box office earning less than half of last year's Dokidoki! PreCure film, which opened on October 26, 2013, with 199 screens. The HappinessCharge film took fifth place at the weekend box office with 100,389,600 yen (about US$936,000) on 85,396 ticket sales. They were catastrophic 53% and 56% drops from those of the Dokidoki film, which opened at second place with 21,3410,200 yen on 191,918 tickets in its first weekend. The total gross of the Dokidoki! film was about 950 million yen. The biggest reason of its disappointing result was no doubt Typhoon Vongfong, this year's strongest storm hit Japan, equivalent to a category 5 hurricane. It churned through Japan last weekend, leaving two men killed, another remains missing, and at least 96 people were injured in 23 prefectures. Even in my prefecture Kochi, all of the public transportation stopped on Sunday due to strong wind and rain. Unfortunately for the HappinessCharge film, not so many parents wanted to take their children to movie theaters in the awfully bad weather condition. As I wrote, the film itself was really good, probably one of the best non-All Stars films. Let's see how it can do in the second week in much better weather.

Pages Friday, January 8, 2016 5 Awesome Luxury Resorts To Stay In Coorg Orange County Vivanta by Taj Nature has bestowed immense beauty to the Kodagu district of Karnataka, more commonly known as Coorg. Fondly known as the “The coffee cup of India,” Coorg is home to a quarter of the overall bird population of the Indian sub-continent, and is one of the 34 biodiversity hotspots of the world. Here are some of the best places to stay in while you explore the undulated greens of the birthplace of the mighty river Kaveri. This lush 300-acre plantation paradise comes across as one of the best Coorg resorts. With excellent dining destinations, an esoteric Ayurvedic Spa, a romantic coffee lounge, a large communal pool, an exclusive infinity pool, and luxurious Villas inspired by ethnic Kodava Architecture, Orange County offers the ultimate level of relaxation and luxury for you to enjoy your vacation. The Tamara Coorg Luxury Nature Retreat has been listed in Conde Nast Traveler's “Top 20 Honeymoon destinations in India” and has been awarded the tag of being the most romantic resort in India by CNBC Awaaz in 2013. The retreat has 44 luxury cottages and 8 suite cottages, and offers splendid spa therapies and culinary experiences for a perfect romantic escape. Nestled in the scenic Madikeri hills, Vivanta by Taj offers the most spectacular view of the beauty that is Coorg. The resort provides activities such as bird watching, pottery, and slush sports and gives you a chance to be one with nature with its strawberry farm, Buddha garden and natural spring. Ambatty Greens Resort provide 24 spacious and aesthetically designed rooms with a balcony that overlooks the golf course and the hills on the far side. You can get to know Coorg better with the many local experiences provided by the resort, such as the Elephant training camp, the elephant interaction programmes, fishing, and white water rafting. Spread over 25 acres of a lush coffee estate, the beautiful Windflower resort is an enthralling destination in itself. With its 44 spacious rooms, and an award winning spa which brings together Ayurvedic, Balinese and European schools of therapeutic healing and massage, the Windflower gives you the best of nature and luxury.

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Jerry Lard, who was a passenger in the back seat of the stopped car, was convicted last month of capital murder for killing Schmidt. He has been sentenced to death. Scroll down for edited version of video Routine check: Officer Jonathan Schmidt can be seen questioning a suspect during a simple insurance check in April last year Attention to detail: Schmidt continues his stop-and-search duty. The officer's killer, Jerry Lard, sits in the back seat of the vehicle in the background Trumann Police Chief Chad Henson said he wanted his officers to learn from the incident and he planned to increase training for night traffic stops. Chief Henson said: "[Schmidt] will be our greatest teacher and our trainer. He's pushing us forward, so with that we'll be better for it.' The video shows Schmidt carrying out a routine check on a vehicle he suspected was uninsured. After handcuffing and questioning the driver for an unrelated warrant, Schmidt asks Lard for his name and date of birth. A little over a minute later, as Schmidt opens the back passenger door, a hand can be seen reaching out and firing at the officer's face. Muzzle flash: Sparks from Lard's handgun can be seen in this shot as he springs from the car and opens fire on the officers. Schmidt was hit in the chin, neck and wrist Taunting his victims: After the initial shooting, Lard can be seen strutting around the crime scene, yelling 'What you got, b****' to the stricken officer Death sentence: The terrifying expression on Lard's face as he confronts the wounded Schmidt was caught on police dash-cam Lard runs from the car and continues firing at Schmidt and officer Corey Overstreet, who was also at the scene. The video also shows Schmidt helping Overstreet to his feet as Lard fires at the two of them. As Lard fires at the officers, he can be heard yelling: 'What you got, b****?' Later, Overstreet can be heard talking to Schmidt as they wait for ambulances to arrive. 'We've got help coming, buddy,' Overstreet can be heard saying. Lard was also wounded in the shootout and was arrested at the scene. A medical examiner told jurors Schmidt was shot four times - in the chin, neck, right wrist and chest, though a protective vest blocked the chest shot. Prosecutor Scott Ellington praised Schmidt as a hero and said he was grateful to the jury for convicting Lard. Donald Schmidt, Jonathan's father, told reporters that he hoped officers learned from the shooting, but he didn't want to have to watch the video again because he was constantly reminded of the shooting even without the images. He said: 'If you would like to lie down every night when you go to bed and see someone murdering your son, and then wake up every morning and see someone murdering your son, you can imagine what our life is like.' Sentence: Jerry Lard, left, will receive the death penalty for the killing of police officer Jonathan Schmidt, right In court: Lard, centre, attending a hearing in Jonesboro, Arkansas in April this year

Anything For A New TV: The Worst Of Black Friday Shopping Mayhem The shopping tradition extravaganza that is Black Friday never goes off without a hitch. And this year was no exception. As shoppers braved long lines and jostled in big crowds late Thursday and into Friday, tensions ran high and a few situations got out of hand. From gun-wielding in Texas to an abandoned child in Massachusetts, shoppers eager for a good deal let their best judgments slip away. Others just got caught in out-of-control crowds.The Gun-Wielder Late Thursday night, a dispute over line-cutting led one man to pull out a handgun in a Sears store in San Antonio, Texas, sending a panicked crowd looking for shelter, the San Antonio Express-News reports. The dispute allegedly began when one man began cutting in line and ultimately punched another man. The man he punched allegedly pulled a gun on him — though reports vary on whether he pointed the gun at his assailant or at the ground. A witness said the assailant hid behind a refrigerator before fleeing the store. The man was not arrested because he had a concealed handgun license. The Abandoned Child A Massachusetts man allegedly left his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son in the car while he shopped at a Kmart in Springfield, Mass., and then went home with a new 51-inch television — but no child, 22 News WWLP reports. Police found the child sleeping in the car in the Kmart parking lot around 1:30 a.m. Friday. The man, Anthony Perry of Springfield, denied leaving the child in the car, saying he lost track of the boy in the store. It’s unclear how Perry got from the Kmart to his house without the car he drove there in. Perry will be charged with reckless endangerment of a child, police say. A Line-Cutter Gets Arrested A 28-year-old woman allegedly tried to finagle her way to the front of the checkout line at a Walmart in Altamonte Springs, Fla., ultimately leading to an unsettling scene on Thanksgiving night. Police said they warned Samantha Chavez several times to wait her turn. When officers attempted to usher her out of the store, WKMG Local 6 reports that Chavez began screaming and throwing merchandise that she had originally intended to purchase. Chavez was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. She was released from Seminole County jail after posting a $550 bond. Below is a video of her arrest. Walmart Crowd Goes Crazy For Cell Phones Walmart officials are breathing a sigh of relief after there were no reported injuries at a south Georgia store where bedlam broke out on Friday. In what may be construed as a slight understatement, a spokesman for the company said a cell phone deal that included a prepaid, unlimited usage plan “led to excitement among our customers” at the Moultrie, Ga., location, according to the Associated Press. Video footage of the “excitement” shows a congested and chaotic scene, with dozens of customers trying desperately to get their hands on various products. When tensions rose in a crowd outside a Sacramento Kmart on Friday, one man allegedly responded with the threat of violence. After store workers began distributing vouchers to the hundreds of people in line — many of whom had been gathered outside the store since 2 a.m. — some in the crowd grew unruly and began shouting obscenities, prompting a man in the crowd to threaten to stab others, the Los Angeles Times reports. Police said that customers eventually filed into the store safely. The Shattered Glass Door An excited crowd of shoppers broke a glass door at an Urban Outfitters in Santa Monica, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reports. When the doors were unlocked at midnight, the eager shoppers surged into the store, breaking the 12-foot tall door and injuring at least five people. The store — which the Times points out “ironically” features broken glass motifs as part of its decor — closed briefly to clear away broken glass and treat injuries.

Unlike last week when everything was all fresh and new with very little expectation, this week is possibly the most crucial episode in its history. And not necessarily because of anything they have done, but what others have done since AEW made an impact on TNT. Capitalizing On The Moment October 2nd provided us a glimpse of what to expect from the ‘marathon’ that will be NXT vs. AEW. And for this brand new company to outdo NXT in the ratings on its first night is pretty impressive; but we’re not patting ’em on the backs just yet. What will be interesting to know is whether AEW Dynamite will gain/lose viewers, and if NXT can close the gap in the ratings. The general consensus was that NXT provided the better wrestling, while AEW Dynamite felt like a bigger show with more memorable moments. Will AEW want to show they can deliver the goods in terms of wrestling quality this week? Or will NXT decide to scale back a little, in favour of something which will elicit more talking points? This is what makes the 2nd week intriguing, because both brands will react to other and try to work out any weaknesses. The cool thing is that AEW hasn’t used half its roster yet, and has a story in Chris Jericho vs. Cody already lined up. NXT gave us some shocking returns, but we don’t know what to expect as nothing has been set in stone. AEW on the other hand, has already announced its promising card for tonight’s event. Not gonna spoil it for those who don’t want to know, but if you do? You can find it here: AEW Dynamite Updated Card The biggest question of all surrounds WWE’s questionable booking of their Hell in a Cell main event. Will the incident encourage some fans to give AEW a chance? Or is WWE so ingrained in people’s minds they’ll simply forgive and forget? I’m sure many are waiting to see the rating; as a severe increase will be attested to WWE shooting itself in the foot. Yet To Debut Last week I provided a “Do’s & Don’ts” section, but it feels kinda pointless this time. Instead, let’s have a gander at some of the best talents who have yet to debut in any form on AEW Dynamite (not including dark matches). Tag Teams – We’re in the middle of a tag team tournament, so we will see all the teams eventually. But out of those waiting for their turn, I think Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus) will be the most entertaining to first-timers. Best Friends (Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta) are another good team, although I’m not expecting ’em to reach the top anytime soon. Personally, I’m a believer of The Dark Order (Evil Uno & Stu Grayson) becoming one of the best heel teams in the division. The tag team scene is very competitive, and it’s refreshing to see a company focusing so highly on it. Orange Cassidy – The guy is controversial because he’s entertaining in a manner which rubs some the wrong way. So incredibly laid back, he attacks his opponents with the laziest punches and kicks you will ever see. And to many it’s entertaining, while others tut in disapproval. He’s like Marmite, you’ll either love it or hate it; but he can wrestle when needed. Orange Cassidy isn’t all gimmick, but the main question is how thick will he lay it on when he is booked? CIMA – The 41-year-old owner of Chinese promotion Oriental Wrestling Entertainment is as athletic as wrestlers half his age. Training a new breed of Chinese talents, he is a leader and a steady hand. While his win-loss record leaves much to be desired, he has the ability to make anyone look good. Always the consummate professional, he will provide AEW an avenue for talent other promotions will never consider. Joey Janela – From what I’ve seen of Joey, I’m still looking for what makes him special. His strength is hardcore wrestling, and I guess he can talk as well? But I’m not sure what AEW will do with him, and I believe he needs more appeal if he wants to be taken seriously. Awesome Kong, Leva Bates, Hikaru Shida and Sadie Gibbs – Another cool thing about AEW Dynamite is we’ve yet to see most of its women’s division. Leva Bates is deep in to “The Librarian” gimmick, while Awesome Kong is working an office job; but it won’t stop her appearing every so often. I already covered Hikaru Shida in one of my latest pieces (#2), so you can check that out if she peaks your interest. However, Sadie Gibbs is still very much an unknown. AEW made a big deal out of her signing, but she’s only worked one match so far (a battle royal). During that, Sadie & Bea Priestley worked stiff against each other, as there’s likely some real-life heat between them. We don’t know why, but AEW needs to sort ’em out if they ever want to book them with or against each other. There’s a few more exceptions, but I’ll add those next week if they are still sitting on the sidelines. Conclusion The most important thing for AEW Dynamite is it doesn’t see a considerable drop in ratings. I reckon they will be happy with 1.2 million+, but if it starts dropping towards the 1m mark? Then we’ll know many of those who tuned in, only did so because it’s new. Did AEW make enough of an impression to keep them? And will WWE’s recent Hell in a Cell debacle play a factor in bringing new viewers? It’s an exciting time to be a wrestling fan, as for the first time in years we can say that ratings matter somewhat. I remember the talk about ratings back in the Attitude Era and how crucial it was for the WWF and WCW in their rivalry. It’s nowhere near as important as it was back then, but at least it gives us an indication on how well they are doing. Sometimes it’s a matter of the network limiting the potential; much like how SmackDown gained 1.8m viewers just by moving from USA to FOX. Whatever happens, the world knows AEW is here, and the second episode is possibly the most important in its history. Either they continue trending upwards, or they will start a fall which may never see them get back to their impressive 1.4m rating. Do you have any predictions? Will AEW Dynamite win this week and do just as well in the ratings? Or do you think they will fall a little, while NXT will see an increase? Please let us know what you think, and thank you for reading. If you would like to learn about some AEW wrestlers you may not know? Please check out these lists: Profiling AEW Wrestlers You Might Not Know #1 & #2 eWrestlingNews was founded in 1999 and has been covering wrestling news 24/7 ever since. With a strong team of writers, editorialists, and social managers, we strive to provide to you the most up-to-date wrestling news and information around the web.

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[ EDITORIAL ] Rocket Privatization: SpaceX Proves Space Split's Value Published: Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 3:17 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 3:17 a.m. Excerpted from an editorial by The Orlando Sentinel. Amid a news cycle dominated by the presidential campaign, the recent successful end to the first official private cargo mission to the International Space Station went largely unheralded. And that's not such a bad sign. SpaceX, the California-based rocket builder, launched a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral on Oct. 7 carrying more than 800 pounds of supplies for the space station. The capsule safely splashed down in the Pacific three weeks later, packed with almost twice as much Earth-bound stuff from the station. Though the mission wasn't perfect, it went well enough that NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk were crowing afterward. FOCUS The positive results backed up the Obama administration's smart decision to privatize the job of carrying cargo — and in a few more years, astronauts — to low-Earth orbit so that NASA can focus its limited resources on deep-space exploration. SpaceX plans 11 more cargo missions to the station under a $1.6 billion contract with NASA. ... Continued success could pave the way for more Florida missions from SpaceX and other private rocketeers. Critics called privatization in space too risky. Now it's heading toward routine. That's good for the space program, for Florida and for the nation. <p><i>Excerpted from an editorial by The Orlando Sentinel.</i></p><p>Amid a news cycle dominated by the presidential campaign, the recent successful end to the first official private cargo mission to the International Space Station went largely unheralded. And that's not such a bad sign.</p><p>SpaceX, the California-based rocket builder, launched a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral on Oct. 7 carrying more than 800 pounds of supplies for the space station. The capsule safely splashed down in the Pacific three weeks later, packed with almost twice as much Earth-bound stuff from the station. Though the mission wasn't perfect, it went well enough that NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk were crowing afterward.</p><h3>FOCUS</h3> <p>The positive results backed up the Obama administration's smart decision to privatize the job of carrying cargo — and in a few more years, astronauts — to low-Earth orbit so that NASA can focus its limited resources on deep-space exploration.</p><p>SpaceX plans 11 more cargo missions to the station under a $1.6 billion contract with NASA. ... Continued success could pave the way for more Florida missions from SpaceX and other private rocketeers.</p><p>Critics called privatization in space too risky. Now it's heading toward routine. That's good for the space program, for Florida and for the nation.</p>

Tuesday, November 26, 2013 Beautiful addiction Hello my Lovelies! In my last post, I told you that I have been working on a styling project and here's a little more about that. A new band called Lines&Colours are promoting their single ''Beautiful addiction'' and I was working on their styling with an amazing Croatian designer, Boris Banović. In the link below, I'm posting their song, and I'm very curious what you guys think?

Saturday, April 25, 2009 Suns slide in to start series with Bis____s The Jacksonville Suns are here for the first time this season to start a five-game series. It's Jeremy Hellickson for the Biscuits and right-hander Jarrett Santos for the Suns, which is a change from what was previously scheduled.

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What was the original Coke formula? According to the Wikipedia it was: Published accounts say it contains (or once contained) sugar crystals, caramel, caffeine, phosphoric acid, coca leaf and kola nut extract, lime extract, flavoring mixture, vanilla and glycerin. Merchandise 7X (lemon, orange, lime, cassia (a type of cinnamon), nutmeg oils) is the "secret ingredient" in Coca-Cola. Alleged syrup recipes vary greatly, and Coca-Cola reluctantly admits the formula has changed over the decades. For example, the formula was changed in 1935 with the help of Rabbi Tobias Geffen of Atlanta to allow it to be certified kosher. The basic “cola” taste from Coca-Cola and competing cola drinks comes mainly from vanilla and cinnamon; distinctive tastes among various brands are the result of trace flavorings such as orange, lime and lemon and spices such as nutmeg. Amateur sleuths have tried to reverse-engineer the production process and ingredients. The secret formula is the subject of books, speculation and marketing lore. Aided by modern analytical methods, food scientists can easily identify the composition of food products, including Coca-Cola.[1] The company consistently claims that all published recipes are incorrect. The employees who know the full recipe must fly on separate planes when traveling, and cannot be left alone with strangers while they are together. To this day, Coca-Cola uses as an ingredient from coca leaf extract prepared by a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey, using a process monitored by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Because cocaine is naturally present in coca leaves, today's Coca-Cola uses "spent", or treated, coca leaves, those that have been through a cocaine extraction process, to flavor the beverage. Some contend that this process cannot extract all of the cocaine alkaloids at a molecular level, and so the drink still contains trace amounts of the stimulant.[4][5] The Coca-Cola Company currently refuses to comment on the continued presence of coca leaf in Coca-Cola. In an infamous corporate disaster, Coca-Cola introduced New Coke in 1985. After public outcry, the recipe was restored to the original "classic" formula, the only change being Coca-Cola bottlers in the United States replacing the traditional sucrose with cheaper corn syrup; Coca-Cola is still sweetened with cane sugar in most of the world. But now we would like to drink BioCoke or OrganiCoke! A drink without phoshoric acid, aromas, colouring, etc. We only want to drink pure organic beverages in the future. Furthermore, we want our children to drink organic soft drinks. Give us the chance!!! Warning! Biocoke does not exist yet (but you can find some Bio Cola in the shops). At the moment, it is only an imaginary drink but we would like to make it a reality. Please cast your vote so that we could do something about it! We know it might be more expensive than regular Coke but it is worth it. Our health is worth the money!

Life is an absolute joy! It includes times of happiness, sadness, trials that always lead to victory, peace and sheer enjoyment. For me, it's a set up - one strain of victories that lead to the ultimate victory! Life is good - definately good. Life is also bringing new life into the world. Watching their first steps. Hearing Daadaa for the first time. Teaching them how to skate, ride a bike. Laughing with them - I remember skipping school with my son when he was 13. He didn't know it, but I cleared his schedule at school and picked him up as he was walking to school. I can still see his face when I told him he was skipping school and I was skipping work and we were going on a road trip for the day. Watching their first steps. Hearing Daadaa for the first time. Teaching them how to skate, ride a bike. Laughing with them - I remember skipping school with my son when he was 13. He didn't know it, but I cleared his schedule at school and picked him up as he was walking to school. I can still see his face when I told him he was skipping school and I was skipping work and we were going on a road trip for the day. Yeah, life is good, definately good! So have you started plumping him up yet, or have you already eaten him?

Brand Partnerships Intern Brand Partnerships New York, NY, United States Part time intern Tasting Table, the award-winning food lifestyle brand, is looking for a savvy and ambitious Brand Partnerships intern to work out of our New York City headquarters. This paid role will support the business development efforts of our sales team. Potential interns should be obsessively attentive to detail, keenly adept at internet research, willing to commit to 20-30 hours per week and have a positive, go-getter attitude. Responsibilities: Updating our brand partnerships contacts database Conducting prospecting research Qualifications: STRONG attention to detail Keen interest in sales, advertising and/or marketing Excellent email communication skills A self-starter mentality with a solid sense of judgement To apply, please follow this link, and follow the instructions to complete both the application questionnaire and submit your resume. If we feel that you may be a fit, we will contact you for an interview. Please, no recruiters.

Michael Beach to Play The Third Villain in Jason Momoa's 'Aquaman' Michael Beach has joined the cast of James Wan‘s Aquaman as a high-seas hijacker named Jesse Kane. Aquaman is already a few weeks into filming down in Australia, and its set is about to get a bit more crowded. A new report has just confirmed the DC Film has officially brought Michael Beach on as a cast member. Warner Bros says Beach will play Jesse Kane, part of a group of high-seas hijackers who has a fateful interaction with Aquaman. But fans have been speculating that Beach is taking on the role of father to Abdul-Mateen II’s Black Manta, after Abdul-Mateen II himself posted a photo with Beach last month on his Twitter from Australia, where Aquaman was in production. “Aquaman” is based on the DC Comics character who’s king of Atlantis, born half-human as Arthur Curry and half-Atlantean. He was first introduced in the early 1940s. Momoa made his debut as Aquaman last year in a cameo in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and will reprise that role later this year in “Justice League.” Directed by James Wan from a script by Will Beall, Geoff Johns and Wan, the film is being produced by Peter Safran, with Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Rob Cowan, Jon Berg and Geoff Johns serving as executive producers. Aquaman will hit theaters December 21, 2018.

Southern Pines Home Search Southern Pines Real Estate is available for every demographic category, ranging from upscale family sized homes located in a quiet neighborhood and gracious neighborhoods lining the fairways of the numerous golf courses in the area. On the outskirts of Southern Pines you will find beautiful horse farms in one of the major horse centers in the eastern United States. For those who are looking for casual living in a golf community, horse country, or retirement venue, Southern Pines is a "must see" in North Carolina.

Want to jointly certify your property with WDFW, National Wildlife Federation, and the NW Zoo and Aquarium Alliance? This will register you not only with the WDFW Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary but also nationally via NWF’s Certified Wildlife Habitat Program. Become part of the effort to provide wildlife habitat both locally and nationally! Use the below link to obtain our joint certification program application. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife looks forward to acknowledging your efforts to provide habitat for wildlife where you live or work. Fill out this application and send it in along with your $5 payment. We’ll send you a personalized certificate suitable for framing, a yard sign to educate others about your habitat project, and a subscription to our “Crossing Paths” newsletter. Please allow 8-10 business weeks for processing. Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary:A program to help you manage wildlife around your home and property Good environmental stewardship begins in our own backyards A bald eagle soars over a high bluff surveying the waters below. A red-tailed hawk with outstretched wings drifts effortlessly over a forest and open field. Hummingbirds zip by your window on their way to the flower garden. The morning dew highlights fragile spider webs at the forest edge. This is Washington State -- a great place to live. A land we all love, yet one we may be smothering with our numbers. Over 35,000 acres of wildlife habitat is converted to housing and other development each year here in Washington. If we continue at this rate, many of our native wildlife species will have few places to live and visit. So the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife instituted the Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary Program to help offset some of this habitat loss. While many of us may not realize it, a property owner is also a habitat manager. The things we do, or do not do, in the vicinity of our home have an effect on the quality of habitat for dozens of wildlife species. The Department of Fish and Wildlife wants to help you understand and appreciate the wildlife around your home. You can make your property a better place for songbirds and other wildlife species that have lived in your area long before people began to settle. Want to make your property better for wildlife? Consider these suggestions: Plant more trees and shrubs. Remember, vegetation is the key to attracting a variety of wildlife. Dead trees (snags) are especially valuable to wildlife; try to keep them on your property if they pose no safety hazard. Add a birdbath, garden pond, or other source of water. A safe place to bathe and drink will act as a magnet to many animals. Add bird houses, or better yet, try to leave snags on your property. Cavity-nesting birds have been especially impacted by urban development. A bird house of the proper dimensions can substitute for snags where these birds used to nest. Cover any openings under the eaves or other places around your house where house sparrows and starlings may nest. These non-native birds are undesirable competitors for food and nesting cavities and many native birds have suffered because of their presence. Bird houses and feeders should be designed and managed to reduce use by sparrows and starlings. Control cats that may be prowling around your sanctuary; they can be especially harmful to birds that feed or nest on the ground. Visit the American Bird Conservancy Website for information on their "Cats Indoors!" program for ideas on how to keep your cats indoors. Get your neighbors interested in backyard wildlife. Several adjacent yards with good wildlife resources are even more effective. Most wildlife species need areas larger than a single lot can provide. Remember, every homeowner is a habitat manager, and the collective actions of conscientious homeowners will benefit the wildlife that shares your living space. Keep bird feeders clean and safe, if you choose to feed for your own viewing pleasure.

Main menu Mission And Vision Mission A place for develop the thinking of proactive future leaders and provide the science-based solutions through innovative and effective education, research and extension program in dairy sector of Bangladesh. Vision Our Vision is Building the Future of Dairying in Bangladesh. Welcome The Department of Dairy Science is established in 2011 with a view to build the future leaders in dairy sector; a popular, significant, and ever-growing component of livestock & food industry in Bangladesh. The curricula of the department is designed for the students with the objectives to gather knowledge relates with the dairy animal, dairy farm management, processing, marketing of milk & milk products and other associated industry.A dairy farm is attached to this department as a field laboratory for the undergraduate students and provides the avenues for research of post graduate students and teaching staffs. The post graduates will be qualified to meet the demands of the dairy industry of Bangladesh and also be able to continue their education in any agricultural graduate schools, colleges of veterinary medicine of the world.

1934 - Paul Nash - Margaret and the DonkeyAn officially appointed a war artist during the First World War, Paul Nash is mostly known for his memorable surrealist pictures. He also seems to have dabbled in writing and in photography and is acknowledged as having played a key role in modern 20th century English art. The Menin Road In 1933 he left London with his wife Margaret Odeh for an extended trip to France, Spain and North Africa during which he visited Gibraltar and took the photographs shown below. All were taken in 1934 and - in my opinion - are only notable because they were taken by him. Margaret on a Donkey and Trap The 'donkey' is a horse and the 'trap' is a typical Gibraltar gharry. The photograph was taken along the road that ran parallel to Eastern Beach. Margaret is Nash's wife Margaret Odeh. The man is Paul Nash himself - I think. The Rock Both are views of the North Face of the Rock as seen from the Neutral Ground near the Spanish border. Lake and Huts The 'lake' was the inundation - known locally as 'La Laguna'. The huts were part of isolation units created in the aftermath of the 19th century yellow fever epidemics. (See LINK) View of Gibraltar from a boat The boat was the Margarita II - one of the ferry boats connecting Gibraltar to Algeciras just across the bay (See LINK)

As Asiana Airlines Flight 214 flew into San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, the Boeing 777's 291 passengers didn't know that the man at the controls had never landed this kind of plane at this airport before. Could that have contributed to the crash, which resulted in the deaths of two teenage passengers? No one knows for sure, including federal investigators who haven't ruled out pilot error in their investigation. The plane crashed while trying to land on a runway that starts at the edge of San Francisco Bay. It lumbered in too low and too slow, investigators say, and then tried to increase speed to go around for another landing. Instead, the plane hit the runway, cracked in two, spun out of control and caught fire. Does it matter that the pilot at the time -- aviation veteran Lee Kang-kuk -- has only 43 hours of flying time in the 777? South Korea's Asiana Airlines says Lee has flown the model nine times. It's "highly significant," former Department of Transportation Inspector General Mary Schiavo said Monday, particularly how he came across the water and over the seawall, she said. If the pilot was going to avert danger, Schiavo said, he needed to take action well before the plane reached that seawall. Lee knew how to fly. An experienced pilot for Asiana, Lee had more than 10,000 hours in other kinds of aircraft, the airline says, although it's still unknown which types. JUST WATCHED Crash victims were bound for church camp MUST WATCH JUST WATCHED Flight 214's communications revealed MUST WATCH Flight 214's communications revealed01:43 Lee was legally qualified to fly the plane, Schiavo said. But he was also flying during a period when he was trying to build up additional hours of 777 cockpit time to "gain comfort at the controls and experience flying the plane under certain conditions." This new wrinkle in the mystery surrounding the crash raises questions about how pilots are trained to fly new aircraft. Training varies from country to country. In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration requires even the most experienced pilots to undergo rigorous training to learn how to fly different types of planes. The new development calls into question the protocol of the cockpit and whether the flight crew is encouraged to question a pilot's decisions. Pilots will tell you that 43 hours of real-world experience flying a new type of aircraft is not a lot. Someone with that amount of time is still "new to the airplane," said Mark Weiss, an aviation consultant and 20-year airline pilot. The widely accepted threshold for an experienced pilot in any aircraft is generally about 100 hours. Pilots generally learn how to fly new aircraft by undergoing many weeks of training at ground school classes and on plane simulators and, finally, by being shadowed by a "check airman." The check airman determines whether the trainee passes or will go back for more training.Among the four pilots aboard Flight 214 was a "check pilot," U.S. investigators said, who was monitoring Lee. Weiss flew 777s hundreds of times. Before that, he captained 727s, 737s and DC-10s. He knows what it's like to be a veteran pilot who is learning how to fly a new kind of airliner. "Typically in your career, you're going to be changing airplanes all the time," he said. "This is a typical and normal transition." The 777 is a pilot's aircraft, Weiss said. It's relatively easy to fly, especially if you're experienced with other airliners. Does Boeing experience matter when it comes to flying a different model? It doesn't make it easier or harder, according to Weiss, but prior routines may influence piloting decisions. JUST WATCHED Social media in aftermath of plane crash MUST WATCH JUST WATCHED What went wrong in plane crash? MUST WATCH What went wrong in plane crash? 02:52 The Asiana pilot "may have been thinking, 'the last airplane I flew, I know I could get it down from here.' " Perhaps the 777 "had characteristics different from the plane he flew before," Weiss said. "Those are things the (National Transportation Safety Board) will look at." In addition to the 777, Weiss knows San Francisco's airport, having landed at the crash site -- Runway 28 Left -- hundreds of times during his long airline career. For Weiss and other pilots familiar with that runway, the bottom line is: There's nothing problematic about it. "Sometimes, the wind might be a little tricky," Weiss said, but that's about it. It's routine for pilots with fewer than 100 hours of flight time on an aircraft to land at Runway 28 Left, Weiss said. A pilot's general target zone is within the first third of the runway. Lee had flown into the airport before, according to Asiana, but this was his first time landing a 777 at SFO. Airline pilots who've been following the story also want to know what happened in the cockpit. Did anyone other than the pilot notice that the plane was coming in too low and slow? Did they alert the pilot that he needed to take action? If not, why? This is all about the culture of the cockpit, pilots say. Airlines the U.S. and around the world have embraced the idea that officers should feel free to challenge authority if they have concerns. Decades ago, the captain's word was unquestionable, making the commander essentially God of the Cockpit. How much -- if any -- of that culture existed in the cockpit of Flight 214? NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman said it's important for the two pilots in charge of an aircraft during the "very risky" landing phase to work closely together. Investigators have no evidence of cockpit communications problems, she said, but it's something they will be looking at. Hersman also downplayed the significance of the pilot's experience, saying it's typical for pilots to change aircraft types. More answers may come from crew accounts. Hersman indicated Monday that her team had not completed interviews with the flight's pilots and were waiting for South Korean investigators and interpreters. Those pilot interviews will probably form a large part of the evidence investigators use to determine what really happened in those crucial seconds before the tragic crash landing of Flight 214.

Internet Safety The Internet has many opportunities for our children to learn in creative ways, unfortunately, there are risks they can face while online. Please explore the websites to help keep our Essex County Public School children safe What is YAPPY? Y - your full name (first name and last name)A - your home address, your school, or a place you are going toP - your phone number or cell phone numberP - your passwordY - your plans, where you are going, who you are going to be with, etc. Stay safe on the Internet! Take this quiz to see if you know how to be a safe surfer on the Internet - SafeKids Quiz DON’T SHARE YOUR YAPPY ON THE INTERNET! Internet Safety Websites Childnet is a website that will teach you about the potential dangers while chatting, using online games, e-mail, IM, and on your mobile devices. NetSmartz for Kids is an interactive, educational program that provides age-appropriate (ages 5-17) resources to help teach children how to be safer online and offline. Privacy Playground teaches students how to spot online marketing strategies and protect their personal information. The CyberPigs wull encounter ploys, spam, and have a close encounter with a wolf during this lesson. Appropriate for grades 3-5. GetNetWise gives you resources to make informed decisions about using the Internet. You're only "one click away". NSTeens is a website that provides resources to empower tweens (children ages 8-12) to make safer online choices. There are animated videos which highlight Internet-related adventures. NetSmartz for Teens has resources that can help teens navigate the Internet and guard their reputation. This website includes videos of actual teens that have been victimized online. What is Cyberbullying? Who's targeted? Who CyberBullies? What to do about Cyberbullying and how to talk to your parents. beSeen is a FREE app by Web Wise Kids, Inc. that you can download. It teaches kids safe habits on social networks. OnGuard Online is a website you should visit to learn about Cyberbullying. It's bullying or harassment that happens online. It can happen in an e-mail, a text message, a game, or on a social networking website. Help prevent it by visiting this website.

Showing Your Cards Fans of the Bible and of the Byrds will recognize that there is a time for everything - a time to laugh, a time to cry, a time to keep quiet, a time to speak, and so on. Accordingly, there are times when it pays to hold things close to the vest. For one, supervillains should refrain from pontificating about their master plans for world domination. And should you find yourself sitting at the final table in a million-dollar Texas Hold 'Em tournament opposite "Jesus" Ferguson or Chris Moneymaker, it's probably best to say as little as possible. More and more, people shopping for A/V gear play it coy. Maybe it's the economy. With banks failing left and right and the stock market taking gut-wrenching plunges, it's understandable that you might not want to barge into a store waving your credit card proclaiming, "I've got money to spend! What've you got?" And I certainly understand the "I'm just looking, leave me alone" mentality. But shopping for an A/V system is not the time to be tight-lipped. In fact, opening up to a designer will greatly increase your chances of getting the best system for your budget. Buying a TV, a surround receiver, or a speaker system isn't like it used to be. There's an overwhelming number of options available, and wading through all of the techno-babble can be mind-numbing. So when you're really ready to make a buying decision, why not do everything you can to help a professional help you? Budget is usually the deciding factor in making a purchase. But a lot of customers react to the question, "What were you planning to spend?" like they just got a letter from the IRS. Instead of feeling like you're being sized up, think of it as the designer gathering more information. In the same way that he'll want to know things like how big your room is and what your listening habits are, he'll want to factor your budget into the design equation. All too often, customers respond by saying, "I don't know how much I want to spend" or "I haven't really set a budget." Not only is that frustrating, but we both know it's not true. In my 10 years as a designer, everyone I've worked with has had a budget. And whether it's $3,000, $30,000, or $300,000, clients always have a number they don't want to exceed. (I understand that there are "money is no object" folks out there, but like the Yeti and Nessie, I've yet to run across one. I think my fellow columnist Theo K. gets 'em all!) So, since you didn't fly into town in a private Gulfstream or roll up in a Bugatti Veyron, I'm guessing that you do have a budget and that you know exactly how much you'd like to spend. And, yes, if you tell me that you want to spend around $20,000, my proposal is going to come in at around $20,000. And if you tell me $30,000, I'm going to adjust the system's features and performance to bring them up to that budget. A good system designer is going to select the best components to fit within your parameters and arrive at your number. Even more frustrating are clients who toss out comments like, "Let's just see what you come up with." I have a really good imagination, and I can come up with some pretty awesome things. But that doesn't mean they'll be right for you. And rather than have your system designer spend hours drafting proposals that aren't even near the mark, tell him where the bull's-eye is so he can try to hit it. Even then, there will likely be some fine-tuning, but it's easier to tweak than to continually go back to the drawing board. Sharing your budget is also important because A/V gear is available across a vast range of prices, and most people aren't very familiar with those prices. Before my daughter was born, I knew we needed a new car. I don't know much about cars, but I did know what I wanted to spend. With no other information, I was able to narrow down my search before I even stepped through the dealer's door. This is also why you should avoid saying things like "I want the best" or "Give me the top of the line." Sticking with the car analogy, you probably wouldn't just stroll into a Mercedes dealership and announce, "I want the best!" Even if you were foolish enough to do it, you'd likely have a fair idea of what that would run you. But in the world of high-end A/V, "top of the line" can run in the millions. It would be far better to say something like, "I want a new home theater system. I've put aside X number of dollars for the components and installation, and I'd like to get the best system I can for my money." If you work with a good system designer, chances are you'll come to see him as your partner since he'll do everything he can to work with you, not against you. And by sharing your budget early on, you might end up with an A/V system that outperforms a pair of pocket aces.

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This is an archive of updates made to mikeystmnt.com from 2002-2008. Updates from 2008-2012 are archived separately along with the full website, and are not available on the blogger platform. Maybe one day I'll be able to bring the website back to life, but for now, you can use this archive to take a trip down memory lane. Keep it green! -Mikey Thursday, October 10, 2002 tOkKa..ebay tokker:-->> ..a cool person went on to the NTML today with a cool auction offer.. Bob Burdon ('Flaming Carrot' ,'Mystery Men') inks.. Kevin Eastman pencils.. ..here is the link to a peice i'd never seen before..(well maybe..sez it was a pin-up..but so c00l).. rare TMNT original artwork by Kevin Eastman!!..if i could get it i would..w0w.. The seller looks very legit..& this is a real nice piece.. happy bidding..n' t0kkee Poking.. >v<

Revealing the spiritual world and setting the captives free… Main menu Tag Archives: sexual perversion Post navigation In our family’s experience, where ever blood is spilled from the body, there are demons. The more blood, the more openings, the more demons. Any form of blood-letting will do. Tattooing causes about 3,000 piercings of the skin per minute, which is a lot of openings for demons to enter in. “Blood-letting has both occult and demonic origins as it is considered a power source that is supernaturally unleashed.” (http://www.raptureready.com/featured/schaefer/tattoo.html) My kids can spot a tattoo parlor from over a mile away, just from all the demons hanging around it. These demons are attached to the parlor, almost like balloons on strings, and they reach out and hover over the city, while they try to entice people to enter in. The demons are covered with tattoos, and they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. We have not found a tattoo parlor yet without demons attached to it. Tattoo artists are filled with demons. (Yes, even ‘Christian’ tattoo artists.) Those demons can easily transfer to you when you get a tattoo from them. Once in, the demon has the right to ask other demons to come and live within you as well. (Matthew 12:43-45) My kids and I have seen and spoken to many people with tattoos. They have ALWAYS had demons coming out from their tattoos. And yes, this is the same even for ‘Christian’ tattoos. For this reason, we tend not to get together in person on a regular basis with those that flaunt their tattoos, for we have yet to meet one that was free of those demons. (And we do not like to spend our time with demons.) If the person covers them up with their clothing, we don’t get hit as much from the demons. It’s like they are held back somehow, and can not reach us. One of my kids was friends with a missionary. This man had no tattoos. Then he went to a foreign land to minister unto the people, and when he returned, he had ‘Christian’ tattoos on his hands. He also had demons on him, that were not there before. My kid could see that these demons were attached to his new tattoos. Yes, his CHRISTIAN tattoos! His friend does not believe that his ‘Christian’ tattoos could have opened him up to demons. So the demons in him happily remain. My husband wanted to show me a wedding photo of one of his friends. When I went to look at the computer screen, I gasped and stumbled back from the onslaught of demons that were reaching out towards me from the computer screen. I then braced myself and carefully looked closer at the photo, to try and discern from where the attack was coming from. I followed the strings of the demons to their end, and found that one of the people in the wedding photo, had tattoos covering both of her arms. (The rest of her was covered, and she had no tattoos on her face.) There wasn’t a place left on her arms that was not covered in ink. I was very glad then, that we had not gone to this wedding. I also felt bad for the bride, who will always have her wedding photo marred with those demons. Our family knows that God is not fond of tattoo’s, for in Leviticus 19:28 (KJV) He says: “Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.” He did not want His children to be mistaken for those who follow pagan gods. Pagans and even Satanists still use tattoos today to mark themselves as being apart from others. Satanists are known to get tattoos as a way of purposely acquiring specific demons. Some carnal Christians try to explain that piece of scripture away, stating that in Lev 19:27, (right before 19:28,) it forbids one to get a hair cut. But “what Leviticus 19.27 is talking about is ‘rounding the corners of your head’ and ‘marring the corners of your beard’. These were heathen practices. One such practice was to cut the hair so that the head resembled a celestial globe. It is called a ‘tonsure’, a practice of heathens to honor their gods.” (http://pratonix.hubpages.com/hub/The-Tragic-Truth-about-Tattoos) Did you know that cutting your body is a sign of demonic influence? (Mark 5:1-9) When you get a tattoo, you cut your body. Just thinking about getting a tattoo, shows that a demon is right there trying to entice you into getting one. Cast out that demon in the name of Jesus, before it causes you to mutilate the temple of the living God! http://www.biblebelievers.com/watkins_tattoos/bible.html states: “…In 1 Corinthians 3, the Lord clearly and sternly warns against defiling your body – the temple of God. …”Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” (1 Corinthians 3:16-17)” The health risks of getting a tattoo is alarming. Again, sickness comes from demons, and not from God. (John 10:10) Particular demons can cause specific sicknesses. “A tattooing machine can puncture the skin 3,000 times a minute. And every one of those thousands of punctures creates a hole 1/64 to 1/16th of an inch into the dermis that literally invites infection and disease. Every single puncture of the tattoo needle opens up the real possibility of AIDS, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, tetanus, tuberculosis and about any other blood-borne disease. With the average tattoo taking about 60 minutes that equals 180,000 tiny “Russian Roulette” puncture wounds providing a potential path to a very deadly infectious disease. Psalm 38:5-8 almost sounds like it was written just for such an infection… “My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.” (http://www.biblebelievers.com/watkins_tattoos/health.html) “Jameison-Faussett-Brown Commentary and Explanatory on the Whole Bible writes under Leviticus 19:28: “…they were wisely forbidden, for they were signs of apostasy; and, when once made, they were insuperable obstacles to a return.”” (http://www.biblebelievers.com/watkins_tattoos/bible.html) Humans learned the art of tattooing, (among other decorating arts of the body,) from the fallen angels that mated with human women before the flood of Noah. (http://www.eaec.org/bibleanswers/Noah.htm) Indeed, an increase in tattooing is a sign of the end times, because so many were doing it in the pre-flood days of Noah. It would not surprise me if the mark of the beast might one day be noted with a tattoo. “Former Satanists have stated that one of the major societal signs of a society slipping into Satanism is a surge in the number of body piercings and tattoos. God forbade tattooing of the body in Deu 14:1 and Lev 19:28 because it went hand in hand with the Satan worship among the foreign populations of the people living in Israel at the time. God forbade body piercing in Leviticus 21:5, also because it was part of the satanic practice of that time, and God wanted Israel to have nothing to do with either the practice or the outward physical manifestations of it. Many of the people who pierce the body are practicing Satanists, and will take a month’s supply of body piercing jewelry to their monthly coven meeting to be cursed. Specific curses will be placed upon each piece of body piercing jewelry so that a person having their body pierced will automatically invite demons into their body. Many of the people performing tattoos will likewise have their work cursed.” (http://forthewordoftruth.weebly.com/demonic-influences.html) “…we are to live life as a new creature that is set apart as different from the world in lifestyle, faith and practice. We are to walk circumspectly and modestly, humbling ourselves–rather than look to ostentatious display wherein we look for ways to be adulated as the world does… Tattooing and body piercing (in the most basic, honest, definition) is the vain marking, cutting or self-mutilation of the human body for the express purpose of pretentious display, adulation or admiration. Basically, you want others to see this portrait that you’ve had placed upon yourself, that you may in some way glory in it. Is that a harsh evaluation? Of course, because the truth is a harsh and often bitter pill. Nevertheless, what other reason is there for these actions except to stand out, for adulation, for rebellion or for the lust of the eyes? Along with idolatry, these are the same reasons that the world had for doing these things to the body. Are we to honestly claim that we have different reasons? As is illustrated in 1st John 2:15-16, this is the way of the world, not of those who are supposed to be “set apart” or sanctified from the world for the service of God. We don’t need tattoos and body piercings to glory in, to attract converts, attention, to be prideful of, or to feel good about ourselves. We have the faith of Christ within us, the genesis of humility and selfless service.” http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/faq/should_christians_get_tattoos.shtml We should honestly ask ourselves, “is tattooing ourselves and placing body piercings all over our body, glorifying to God?” If not, then why are we doing it? We are not our own and so we simply do not have the right to do anything we want with our life, our spirit or our body. It all belongs to God who purchased it. That is what many professing Christians (consciously and unconsciously) neglect. Again, would we paint graffiti on someone else’s building? It is interesting that in man’s justification of this behavior (his weakness) many professing Christians say that they should have the free will or catch all, “Christian liberty,” to do whatever they chose with their own body. Indeed this sounds perilously close to the justifications of those who support the so-called “right to choose” in the abortion rights issue. I’m not saying that people who want tattoos and body piercings are akin to abortionists, but I am saying that the carnal self-serving mindset is the same. It is one of narcissism where they desire what is their will, rather than have the love of God to desire what He wills for us. It is truly a lack of surrendering ourselves and our will fully to the will of God. We are living in the “Me Generation” where there is a marked and growing disdain for Godly selflessness, sacrifice and denial. As long as they can do whatever they want, they will joy in being Christ-like. However, if there are any restrictions, then they want no part of that kind of Christianity. This is so because all law is by nature judgmental, and that’s considered a violation of so-called Christian liberty. Yet there truly is no such Christian liberty that excuses Christians to do such things. It is a Christian myth that has been perpetrated upon the church for years.”http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/faq/should_christians_get_tattoos.shtml What happens if another new baby Christian sees another Christian with a tattoo, and then thinks he can do it too? That Christian would be partially responsible for this new baby believer getting more demons into their life! We need to be salt and light to others, as we draw them towards Christ. We are supposed to be known by our fruit. A tattoo upon our body is a form of fruit. And it is not from God, but from the evil one. Scripture tells us in Romans 14:21, (KJV): “It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.” If someone sees the tattoos and asks you about them, tell them that they are as sin to you, and not something for them to emulate. Tattoos are a sign of being in the world and of the world. God has not said in His word that we are to do such a thing. Instead, it states that we are not to do it, because it is pagan. Those who are proud of their ‘Christian’ tattoos remind me of those who proudly celebrate Christmas and Easter. They claim they do so (and think it right in their own mind,) because whatever they do, they do in the name of Jesus. (They like to quote Colossians 2:16 in their defense, but God never called pagan practices ‘holy’, so this piece of scripture doesn’t fit.) Jesus never said that it was acceptable to worship Him like the pagans worship their gods. Some people in the Old Testament got into trouble because they tried to do that. Christian tattoos are no different. Jesus never said that we could go against Old Testament scripture and get a tattoo like the pagans do, as long as we do it in His name and for His glory! It is heart-wrenching to run into someone who has tattoos but now wishes to undo them. http://www.biblebelievers.com/watkins_tattoos/regret.html states that “As many as 80 percent of people with tattoos regret their tattoo.” And it is very expensive to remove it! To remove a twenty five dollar tattoo can cost thousands of dollars. And no, insurance does not cover the procedure. I do find it interesting, that a laser light is what’s needed to remove one. Repeated shining of a very bright light onto that darkness is what it takes to erase them. For those reading this post who have already gotten that tattoo, ask the Lord what He wants you to do about it. If He wants you to have it removed, then He will help you find the way and the money to have it done. If the tattoos are able to be covered with clothing, then cover them. Our family has noticed that the demons are way less able to affect others when they are covered and unseen. I would try applying blessed olive oil to the tattoos, and blessing them in the name of Jesus, until they can be removed. Plead the blood of Jesus over them and over you as well. Demons HATE blessed olive oil, as it represents the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. (And we have seen and heard demons scream in pain when the Blood of Jesus hits them!) When casting out the tattoo demons, I would cast out all demons that come to mind. If there is the slightest thought that it could have transferred to you, then cast it out in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. You might want to look at the place and the person who gave you the tattoo for clues. Look at the problems that your tattoo artist had. For example, did he or she like to get drunk? Were they into pornography? Divorced? Whatever symbols that they worked with, would need to be cast out also, just in case they may have transferred themselves to you. Keep in mind, that the demons often lay dormant for years, before coming out to harass you. They can also use you as a conduit in order to transfer themselves to someone else. (For example, you may never know you had the demon of pornography in you, but suddenly your friend gets hit with those desires. The demon could have transferred itself from you to your friend.) There are some ministries out there, that are willing to help you remove the tattoo for free or at low cost. You might try doing a search on line to see if there are any in your area. I had hoped to delay the posting of this topic, until we had met someone with tattoos that wanted to get rid of them. But sadly, as of this date, no one we know personally who has tattoos, believes that they could have any tattoo demons. They refuse to have them cast out in Jesus name. And they do not want to get rid of their tattoos. So, we are uncertain if the demons can be removed, with the tattoo still remaining. My guess is that they could at least be bound up in the name of Jesus, so they could not cause anyone any problems. I suspect that those tattoos of satanic origin (skulls, pentagrams, snakes, demons, etc.,) would act like a doorway for the demons to enter back in, simply because of their picturesque symbolism. Demons are attracted to those kinds of symbols. It is like a welcome mat to them. The Lord is pressing me to share our family’s testimony concerning tattoos now, and to not wait any longer, for He has told me that the practice is increasing among His people, and that this is not His Will for His beloved children. The other night, I had a horrible dream. I dreamed that I was trying to help out another believer, but she suddenly showed up with some kind of orange and white Indian tattoo over her body, and I found that I could no longer reach her. Whenever I got too close, the demons that were now in her through the tattoos, would come forth and physically shove me back. Meanwhile those demons took great satisfaction in torturing her. There was a sharp sense of horror and unreality, the kind that one goes through after a bad accident, when the mind screams ‘this is not happening to me!’ With tears streaming down both of our faces, the other believer and I kept wishing that we could turn back the hands of time, and stop her from getting the tattoo. I awoke from the dream with sorrow sitting upon my heart. I hesitated at first, to share this dream with you, for I was uncertain from whom the dream came from. But now I am sensing that I am to share it, for even if it was sent from the evil one in an effort to try and scare me and make me feel hopeless, (it didn’t work, for God’s Word is more powerful than any demon,) God proposes to use it for His glory, His kingdom, and His people. “Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.” (Matthew 12:43-45) “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil.” (1st Thessalonians 5:21-22) “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” (James 4:4) “Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.” (1 Corinthians 10:21) “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.” (2 Corinthians 2:11) “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.” (2 Corinthians 6:14-17) “Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.” (Deuteronomy 14:1) “And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. (Mark 5:1-9) (See also Luke 8:26-28) “Ye that love the LORD, hate evil…” -Psalm 97:10 “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” 1st John 2:16 “Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” Titus 2:12-14 “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the Scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” James 4:3-6 “That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” Romans 8:4-7 “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1st Corinthians 6:19-20 “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20 “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.” 2nd Timothy 2:19-20 “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” 1st John 2:15 “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil.” 1st Thessalonians 5:21-22 “Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.” “Selah” But you are a shield around me, O LORD; you bestow glory on me and lift up my head. To the LORD I cry aloud, and he answers me from his holy hill. “Selah” I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me. I will not fear the tens of thousands drawn up against me on every side.” Psalm 3:2-6

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CellFind to appeal suspension ruling The industry umbrella body has fined CellFind R20 000 and warned the provider could be suspended. CellFind has again been found guilty of breaching the Wireless Application Service Provider Association's (Waspa's) code of conduct for sending spam, and has been threatened with suspension. In a recent ruling, dealing with a spam complaint, the adjudicator found CellFind had breached Waspa's code. The adjudicator imposed a R20 000 fine and said CellFind must be suspended for three months, if it is found guilty of the same transgression by 21 February. Wireless application service providers such as CellFind must be Waspa members before mobile networks will let them use their services to send text messages. The ruling arose after a consumer complained to Waspa, towards the end of last year, that their addition to a mailing list was not requested, and led to unsolicited messages. The complainant also wanted to know where CellFind had sourced their number. Waspa's latest sanction mirrors an earlier one in which CellFind was also found to be a serial spammer and was threatened with suspension. CellFind MD Jacques Swanepoel explains the Wasp will appeal both decisions, and hopes to have a face-to-face meeting with Waspa in the next three to four weeks. Swanepoel says the judgment does not make sense. Although Cellfind has since been found guilty of sending spam - in another complaint - the suspension sanction will not kick in yet, as the latest offence took place before the ruling threatening suspension was handed down.

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The Adelaide Fringe Festival has come around once more and this time, with a new venue – The Depot. Situated at the old bus station on Franklin Street in Adelaide CBD, this place is a food haven. An initiative of Splash Adelaide to create a vibrant city, promote street food, food trucks and dining in

‘Tell Buhari Nigerians Are Hungry’, Gani Adams to Femi Adesina The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Chief Gani Adams, on Thursday took on the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, on the claim that life had improved under Buhari’s watch. This was as Prof Akin Onigbinde described the statistics on Buhari’s achievements as “the reality that we cannot see.” The three men were among speakers at the 2nd annual lecture of Freedom Online, which held in Ikeja, Lagos on Thursday. At the event, which had the Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, as guest speaker, both Adesina and Adams were guests of honour while Onigbinde was the keynote speaker. Among other dignitaries on the occasion were former governors of Ogun and Abia states, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, respectively. Adesina had reeled out statistics on the achievements of the Buhari’s administration since 2015, saying only those who chose to be wilfully blind would not acknowledge government’s achievements. Adesina said under Buhari’s watch in 2017, Nigeria’s agricultural export grew by 180.7 per cent; while raw materials export in the same year rose by 150.2 per cent. “Before we export, it means that, to a large extent, we have satisfied domestic demand,” he said. He added that rice importation had reduced by 90 per cent, saving the country billions of dollars on a daily basis. “How about the stock market in 2017? The Nigerian stock market ended as one of the best performing in the world. “Five million new taxpayers were added since 2016,” Adesina said, adding that between 2016 and 2017 government spent N2.7tn on infrastructure, “unprecedented in Nigeria’s history.” Adesina said it was only those playing politics that would claim not to have seen or felt the impact of government’s achievements. “If you choose to be wilfully blind, even if they put something in your face you won’t be able to see it,” the presidential spokesman said. But in his remarks, Adams said though Adesina’s analysis was beautiful, it meant little to the man on the street. He said, “You made a very good analysis, but by the time we check it, I know you are a very honest person and you are telling us the truth, but with this analysis, I think the grass-roots people should feel the government; they should feel the impact of government by all means. “I am a regular traveller; I’ve travelled to about 46 countries and I know what is happening in the developed world and when you see most of their economic analysts, they won’t tell you what they are doing theoretically but you will see what is happening.” He, therefore, called on Adesina to go back to Abuja and tell the President that the people were hungry. He said, “When my brother, Mr Femi Adesina was making the analysis, it got to a point, I was so shocked because I know the background of my brother, Femi Adesina, as a brilliant journalist. When he was at The Sun Newspaper, you’d love to read his articles and for trying to package their government, I was not surprised.” Turning to Adesina, the Aare Ona Kakanfo said, “But I want you to pass this message to the President because I remember when President Goodluck Jonathan was in power, he said when they are in that Villa, it’s just like being in a prison or a cage; they don’t know what is happening at the grass roots. But coming to this event, we need to pass this information that you can tell Mr President that Nigerians are suffering. Ebi n pa awon ara ilu (the people are hungry).” Earlier, Onigbinde had described Adesina’s analysis as “the reality that we cannot see.” Onigbinde said, “I welcome my friend, Adesina, telling us the reality we cannot see; we are not wearing glasses, these are things I encounter on a daily basis. I have heard about the Metro Rice in Ogun State, I saw it only on television; it is not in Daleko Market and the rice is also not in Kuto. “I live in Bodija, I can’t see this rice. But Femi is my brother, he has a duty to direct our gaze to what we cannot see and we begin to see things in our imagination.” In his lecture, Fayemi, who was represented by his Special Adviser on Investment and Trade, Mr Akin Oyebode, said Nigeria must commit huge investment to health care and education. He said, “No economy can develop without a healthy and competent workforce. Therefore, education and health care are critical social investments required to develop our nation. This is why we must continue to expand the health insurance and ensure that the poorest people get coverage.”

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Has anyone had the trigger reset job done on their sigs from Sig's custom shop? I have a 239 that I'm thinking of doing that on. Out of all the guns I own it has the worse trigger I've ever felt. The length of the trigger reset it nuts. They claim it reduces the trigger reset length of travel by 60%. Before I waste $100 I would prefer to hear from people that have had it done. pgg00 07-26-2010, 23:12 No one? :faint: Cobra64 07-28-2010, 00:45 No one? :faint: Essentially, you have three choices: Buy the parts and do it yourself. Send the gun to Exeter and have them do it. Send the gun to a Sig pistolsmith and have him do it. Keep in mind that the SRT trigger has a tendency to induce trigger creep. That's why about a year ago I had proprietary custom SRT competition trigger work done on my Sig P226ST that brings the reset to 1911 levels with no creep. ottomatic 08-13-2010, 14:20 Essentially, you have three choices: Buy the parts and do it yourself. Send the gun to Exeter and have them do it. Send the gun to a Sig pistolsmith and have him do it. Keep in mind that the SRT trigger has a tendency to induce trigger creep. That's why about a year ago I had proprietary custom SRT competition trigger work done on my Sig P226ST that brings the reset to 1911 levels with no creep. I have a 226 Elite which is supposed to have the SRT. Whom did you use to improve it? How much improvement was there? How much $? Cobra64 08-13-2010, 19:27 I have a 226 Elite which is supposed to have the SRT. Whom did you use to improve it? How much improvement was there? How much $? These guys. (http://grayguns.com/gunsmith-services/sig-sauer-p-series/) 1006 08-16-2010, 12:17 I had the sig dealer put an SRT in my 226SCT . I like it quite a bit better than the origional. Sig ought to build them all with the SRT in my opinion. Mike 257 09-07-2010, 19:52 I have 2 Sig 239's on Layaway right now and am thinking about the SRT trigger work, Has anyone had the $385 job done from Grayguns ? Cobra64 09-07-2010, 23:17 I have 2 Sig 239's on Layaway right now and am thinking about the SRT trigger work, Has anyone had the $385 job done from Grayguns ? See post #5. They did some tuning and cosmetic work on my old 226ST, including their proprietary competition SRT.

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Hello! My name is John P. Mills and I am a Lecturer in Sport Psychology and Coaching at the University of Essex in the UK. I achieved a PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2015 and a degree in Psychology and Childhood Studies from the University of Suffolk in 2011. I am a British Psychological Society Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) and member of the Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology. I am also an avid campaigner for changes in the academic publishing industry and in 2017, I founded SportRχiv: the World’s first open access subject repository for Sport, Exercise, Performance, and Health Research. My research specialisms are leadership ethics and moral development, while my primary methodological expertise lies in the indirect assessment of bias (i.e., Implicit Social Cognition). My research currently focuses on how to best support coaches and sports organisations to develop their players both as athletes and people. However, I also conduct research that examines attitudes towards prohibited forms of performance enhancement, how biases affect the selection and recruitment of both athletes and coaches, and how identity influences behaviour. The manuscripts generated through this support and my publications more broadly can be found here and a full list of my publications can be found at the bottom of this page. Some of the work I am proudest of can be found here (Development and initial validation of an indirect measure of transformational leadership integrity) and here (Advancing leadership in sport: Time to ‘actually’ take the blinkers off?). My work has also been featured by a range of media outlets including The Times, iNews, BBC News, BBC World Service, and ITV News. You can access my University of Essex profile here, which has access to more of my publications, teaching experience, and public engagement work. Potential collaborators and PhD candidates looking to join either the research group I lead (i.e., Youth Development Through Sport at the University of Essex) or the Lab I Co-Founded with Dr Ian Boardley at the University of Birmingham (i.e., the Performance Enhancement Lab) can contact me here or on Twitter (@jpmillsphd). I am also happy to put potential PhD candidates in contact with my current/former postgraduate students so you can get an idea of how I work. Outside of academia, I have worked for a range of Premier League and professional football clubs, sports organisations, charities, schools and colleges. During my ten plus years of working as an academy, community, and schools football coach, player development officer, multi-sports coach, and teaching assistant I have always followed the basic mantra that our role as coaches is to maximise the potential of our athletes in terms of their development both inside and outside of sport. I currently work with the players and coaching staff at three English Football League academies and one charity examining everything from talent identification, leadership in sport and coaching efficacy, through to character and life skill development. However, I would like to do more. I am passionate about improving the lives and opportunities of children, adolescents and young people, so if you work for an organisation that shares my mission — be it in sport or elsewhere — please get in touch. I often have resources available (e.g., access to money, students, or both) and if I believe I can support your organisation or project, I will do my utmost to find a way to make time to help. @article{mills2018not, title = {It is not Black and White: A comparison of skin tone by playing position in the Premier League and English football}, author = {John P Mills and Charles Ing and Tom Markham and Fergus Guppy}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1747954117749747 http://repository.essex.ac.uk/20756/10/Examining%20the%20influence%20of%20skin%20tone%20on%20playing%20position%20in%20the%20Premier%20and%20English%20Football%20Leagues%20Final.pdf}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-01-01}, journal = {International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching}, volume = {13}, number = {3}, pages = {398-404}, publisher = {SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England}, abstract = {Within the present manuscript we explore the role of skin tone on playing position within English football’s top four professional leagues. Player data (n = 4515) was collected across five seasons (2010–2015). Unlike previous research, results indicate a statistically significant, but arguable minor difference between the skin tones of those who play in central as opposed to wide positions. However, a one-way ANOVA highlights significant differences between skin tone and individual playing positions. Between league differences were, however, non-significant. Although mean skin tone is still darker for peripheral (i.e., wide) positions, the situation is more nuanced than first thought. Instead of segregating players by central versus peripheral roles, it appears that players of a darker skin tone occupy positions associated with athleticism and strength. In contrast, players of a lighter skin tone appear to fulfil positions requiring organizational skills and creativity.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Within the present manuscript we explore the role of skin tone on playing position within English football’s top four professional leagues. Player data (n = 4515) was collected across five seasons (2010–2015). Unlike previous research, results indicate a statistically significant, but arguable minor difference between the skin tones of those who play in central as opposed to wide positions. However, a one-way ANOVA highlights significant differences between skin tone and individual playing positions. Between league differences were, however, non-significant. Although mean skin tone is still darker for peripheral (i.e., wide) positions, the situation is more nuanced than first thought. Instead of segregating players by central versus peripheral roles, it appears that players of a darker skin tone occupy positions associated with athleticism and strength. In contrast, players of a lighter skin tone appear to fulfil positions requiring organizational skills and creativity. Methods Data were collected from male and female team- and individual-sport athletes and corporate- and bodybuilding-gym exercisers. Two samples (nsample 1 = 318; nsample 2 = 300) were utilized in instrument development and score validation and another (nsample 3 = 101) in examining test-retest reliability and stability of scores. Samples 1 and 2 responded to the newly developed items alongside others assessing theoretically-related variables, whereas Sample 3 completed the new instruments on two separate occasions. Results Factor analyses identified the final items and dimensional structures for the Doping Moral Disengagement Scale (DMDS), Doping Moral Disengagement Scale–Short (DMDS–S) and Doping Self-Regulatory Efficacy Scale (DSRES). The DMDS has six lower- and one higher-order factor, whereas the DMDS-S and DSRES are unidimensional. These structures were invariant by sex and sport/exercise context. Evidence supporting external validity, test-retest reliability, and stability of scores was also provided. Conclusion This research developed and provided evidence of score validity and internal consistency for three instruments relevant to doping in sport and exercise.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Objectives To develop Moral Disengagement (MD) and Self-Regulatory Efficacy (SRE) instruments relevant to doping in sport and exercise and provide evidence for the validity and reliability of instrument scores. Design Cross-sectional, correlational. Methods Data were collected from male and female team- and individual-sport athletes and corporate- and bodybuilding-gym exercisers. Two samples (nsample 1 = 318; nsample 2 = 300) were utilized in instrument development and score validation and another (nsample 3 = 101) in examining test-retest reliability and stability of scores. Samples 1 and 2 responded to the newly developed items alongside others assessing theoretically-related variables, whereas Sample 3 completed the new instruments on two separate occasions. Results Factor analyses identified the final items and dimensional structures for the Doping Moral Disengagement Scale (DMDS), Doping Moral Disengagement Scale–Short (DMDS–S) and Doping Self-Regulatory Efficacy Scale (DSRES). The DMDS has six lower- and one higher-order factor, whereas the DMDS-S and DSRES are unidimensional. These structures were invariant by sex and sport/exercise context. Evidence supporting external validity, test-retest reliability, and stability of scores was also provided. Conclusion This research developed and provided evidence of score validity and internal consistency for three instruments relevant to doping in sport and exercise. @unpublished{ing2018, title = {‘Why would you referee?’: An auto ethnographic account of a football official}, author = {Charles Ing and John P Mills}, url = {https://osf.io/preprints/sportrxiv/n2ym7/}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-01-01}, journal = {SportRχiv}, publisher = {SportRxiv}, abstract = {Adopting a creative yet novel autoethnographic approach, this study explores the experiences of the first author, a newly qualified footballing official. In doing so, the study provides a first person account to showcase the realities of refereeing whereby adding to a small pool of refereeing literature in the process. In providing an evocative account with a theoretical analysis, the research aims to both showcase and explain the demands associated with the position. Therefore, by constructing the said narratives in an easy to understand manner, the study looks to showcases the challenges associated with officiating to a broad audience. Whilst, the study gives a viable explanation to why many newly qualified referees drop out from the role, the study hopes to inform and subsequently aid aspiring officials in their ongoing development.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {unpublished} } Adopting a creative yet novel autoethnographic approach, this study explores the experiences of the first author, a newly qualified footballing official. In doing so, the study provides a first person account to showcase the realities of refereeing whereby adding to a small pool of refereeing literature in the process. In providing an evocative account with a theoretical analysis, the research aims to both showcase and explain the demands associated with the position. Therefore, by constructing the said narratives in an easy to understand manner, the study looks to showcases the challenges associated with officiating to a broad audience. Whilst, the study gives a viable explanation to why many newly qualified referees drop out from the role, the study hopes to inform and subsequently aid aspiring officials in their ongoing development. 2017 @article{mills2017advancing, title = {Advancing leadership in sport: Time to 'actually' take the blinkers off?}, author = {John P Mills and Ian D Boardley}, url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40279-016-0661-3 http://eprints.chi.ac.uk/2008/3/Advancing_leadership_in_sport__Time_to__actually__take_the_blinkers_off__Finalv2_clean.pdf }, year = {2017}, date = {2017-01-01}, journal = {Sports Medicine}, volume = {47}, number = {3}, pages = {565--570}, publisher = {SpringerNature}, abstract = {In a recent article entitled Advancing Leadership in Sport: Time to Take off the Blinkers?’ published in Sports Medicine, Cruickshank and Collins presented what they deemed to be a critical analysis of extant leadership research in sport, attempting to establish a rationale for a greater emphasis on both the cognitive and ‘darker’ (i.e., socially undesirable) sides of leadership. The purpose of the present article is to challenge and clarify a number of misrepresentations in the arguments made in the foundation article, and to question some of the resultant recommendations made. Specifically, the present response will focus on Cruickshank and Collins’ (a) lack of specificity regarding the actual ‘dark’ traits they are apparently purporting to be effective leadership traits, (b) the dearth of theoretical and empirical support for their claims relating to the benefits of ‘dark’ leadership (c) misrepresentation of transformational leadership theory, (d) decision to ignore other relevant theoretical frameworks when presenting their arguments, and (e) apparent confirmation bias in the selective use of literature to support their arguments. Leadership research in sport may well benefit from new directions and methodological advancements and on this level we concur with the aims of Cruickshank and Collins’ article. However, we believe their misrepresentations and inappropriate recommendations do little to advance this area of research, and potentially serve to take it backwards not forwards.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } In a recent article entitled Advancing Leadership in Sport: Time to Take off the Blinkers?’ published in Sports Medicine, Cruickshank and Collins presented what they deemed to be a critical analysis of extant leadership research in sport, attempting to establish a rationale for a greater emphasis on both the cognitive and ‘darker’ (i.e., socially undesirable) sides of leadership. The purpose of the present article is to challenge and clarify a number of misrepresentations in the arguments made in the foundation article, and to question some of the resultant recommendations made. Specifically, the present response will focus on Cruickshank and Collins’ (a) lack of specificity regarding the actual ‘dark’ traits they are apparently purporting to be effective leadership traits, (b) the dearth of theoretical and empirical support for their claims relating to the benefits of ‘dark’ leadership (c) misrepresentation of transformational leadership theory, (d) decision to ignore other relevant theoretical frameworks when presenting their arguments, and (e) apparent confirmation bias in the selective use of literature to support their arguments. Leadership research in sport may well benefit from new directions and methodological advancements and on this level we concur with the aims of Cruickshank and Collins’ article. However, we believe their misrepresentations and inappropriate recommendations do little to advance this area of research, and potentially serve to take it backwards not forwards. An indirect measure of transformational leadership integrity was developed across three studies. In Study 1, the transformational leadership integrity implicit association test (TLI-IAT) was developed and tested with 65 leaders across heterogeneous organizational contexts. Study 2 involved 51 coaches from 18 sports. Results from Studies 1 and 2 supported the construct validity of the instrument, providing evidence of the instrument's convergent and discriminant validity. Study 3 involved 32 coaches and 133 players from six sports. Findings supported the criterion validity of the measure, providing evidence for the instrument's predictive validity. In sum, evidence is presented that supports the TLI-IATs construct and criterion validity. As such, the present research has made significant advancements to the transformational leadership integrity literature and provides researchers with an indirect measure of automatic transformational leadership integrity self-attitudes. @unpublished{mills2017managerial, title = {When the Managerial Merry-go-round Stops: A Case Study of how Disconfirming Experiences Affect the Identities of Expert Football Managers}, author = {John P Mills}, url = {https://psyarxiv.com/hz4zb/download?format=pdf}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-01-01}, journal = {PsyArXiv}, publisher = {PsyArXiv}, abstract = {Due to the highly competitive nature of top-level football (ie, top domestic league or international standard) expert football managers often undergo several disconfirming experiences throughout their careers (eg, job loss, public criticism, unsuccessful interviews or career moves). However, little is known about how such experiences impact identity. Therefore, the following case study aims explore the affect, if any, disconfirming experiences had on the identities and self-concept of three former top-level football managers. Narrative constructs reveal that during disconfirming episodes’ managers experience feelings of anger, a loss of self-respect, disappointment, and sadness. Further, they also report how confusion regarding their future career prospects leaves them in a state of identity limbo (ie, identity interference), whereby they were unsure as to how, when or if they should cease their commitment to a valued identity.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {unpublished} } Due to the highly competitive nature of top-level football (ie, top domestic league or international standard) expert football managers often undergo several disconfirming experiences throughout their careers (eg, job loss, public criticism, unsuccessful interviews or career moves). However, little is known about how such experiences impact identity. Therefore, the following case study aims explore the affect, if any, disconfirming experiences had on the identities and self-concept of three former top-level football managers. Narrative constructs reveal that during disconfirming episodes’ managers experience feelings of anger, a loss of self-respect, disappointment, and sadness. Further, they also report how confusion regarding their future career prospects leaves them in a state of identity limbo (ie, identity interference), whereby they were unsure as to how, when or if they should cease their commitment to a valued identity. Evidence associating doping behavior with moral disengagement (MD) has accumulated over recent years. However, to date, research examining links between MD and doping has not considered key theoretically grounded influences and outcomes of MD. As such, there is a need for quantitative research in relevant populations that purposefully examines the explanatory pathways through which MD is thought to operate. Toward this end, the current study examined a conceptually grounded model of doping behavior that incorporated empathy, doping self-regulatory efficacy (SRE), doping MD, anticipated guilt and self-reported doping/doping susceptibility. Participants were specifically recruited to represent four key physical-activity contexts and consisted of team- (n = 195) and individual- (n = 169) sport athletes and hardcore- (n = 125) and corporate- (n = 121) gym exercisers representing both genders (nmale = 371; nfemale = 239); self-reported lifetime prevalence of doping across the sample was 13.6%. Each participant completed questionnaires assessing the aforementioned variables. Structural equation modeling indicated strong support for all study hypotheses. Specifically, we established: (a) empathy and doping SRE negatively predicted reported doping; (b) the predictive effects of empathy and doping SRE on reported doping were mediated by doping MD and anticipated guilt; (c) doping MD positively predicted reported doping; (d) the predictive effects of doping MD on reported doping were partially mediated by anticipated guilt. Substituting self-reported doping for doping susceptibility, multisample analyses then demonstrated these predictive effects were largely invariant between males and females and across the four physical-activity contexts represented. These findings extend current knowledge on a number of levels, and in doing so aid our understanding of key psychosocial processes that may govern doping behavior across key physical-activity contexts. The present study is the first to examine transformational leadership behaviours and integrity attitudes of expert, Premier League and International level football managers. To provide a rich, detailed exploration of the expert managers’ experiences, a qualitative approach was adopted utilising holistic content analysis. Constructed narratives revealed that the key behaviours demonstrated were inspirational messages or team talks (i.e. inspirational motivation), empathy (i.e. individualised consideration), introducing new training methods (i.e. intellectual stimulation), using exemplar players (i.e. appropriate role modelling), and goal setting (i.e. high performance expectations). However, the use and effect of such behaviours varied greatly between managers. Each of the managers also claimed to have been willing to “bend the rules” as a player and frequently used euphemistic labels to describe such behaviour. However, upon entering management, all three managers claimed to have adjusted such attitudes without providing an explanation for this. @article{mills2015auto, title = {An [AUTO] ethnographic account of constructing, deconstructing, and partially reconstructing a coaching identity}, author = {John P Mills}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2159676X.2015.1008804 }, year = {2015}, date = {2015-01-01}, journal = {Qualitative research in sport, exercise and health}, volume = {7}, number = {5}, pages = {606--619}, publisher = {Routledge}, abstract = {This reflective autoethnography illuminates the intricate mechanisms that impact identity construction and deconstruction. Set within the context of football coaching, the author draws upon lived experiences to show his struggle to establish and maintain an identity. By taking the unusual step of exposing his self-doubts and fears, it is the author’s hope that the article will offer comfort to other coaches (and young people in general) experiencing similar difficulties. Signposts are also offered, which direct the reader to the relevant identity literature. Finally, the narrative is evaluated and the benefits to the coaching and psychology communities are discussed.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } This reflective autoethnography illuminates the intricate mechanisms that impact identity construction and deconstruction. Set within the context of football coaching, the author draws upon lived experiences to show his struggle to establish and maintain an identity. By taking the unusual step of exposing his self-doubts and fears, it is the author’s hope that the article will offer comfort to other coaches (and young people in general) experiencing similar difficulties. Signposts are also offered, which direct the reader to the relevant identity literature. Finally, the narrative is evaluated and the benefits to the coaching and psychology communities are discussed. @phdthesis{mills2015transformational, title = {Transformational leader integrity: an investigation of coach social cognition}, author = {J P Mills}, url = {http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/6310/1/Mills15PhD_Redacted.pdf}, year = {2015}, date = {2015-01-01}, school = {University of Birmingham}, abstract = {The majority of psychological research investigating leader integrity has relied on self or other report methods as the primary means of data collection. While such an approach has advanced the literature, due to the theorised deceptive and manipulative nature of leaders lacking in integrity, prominent theorists (Barling, Christie and Turner, 2008) have called for alternative measures that are less prone to socially desirable responding. As no prior research had examined the integrity of sporting leaders, the present thesis began by examining the antecedent cognitive processes of expert football managers. Building upon this exploration, an implicit association test was developed within studies two and three. Results suggest that the instrument is capable of assessing automatic attitudes towards leader integrity, is more sensitive than existing measures, offers support for concurrent and convergent validity, demonstrates good test-retest reliability, good internal consistency, and is a predictor of player reported commitment. In sum, the present research has sought to understand the phenomena of leader integrity from the perspective of social cognition. The result of these investigations is a robust, sensitive, and complimentary measure of leader integrity, which will assist researchers to better understand the processes that underpin leader integrity.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {phdthesis} } The majority of psychological research investigating leader integrity has relied on self or other report methods as the primary means of data collection. While such an approach has advanced the literature, due to the theorised deceptive and manipulative nature of leaders lacking in integrity, prominent theorists (Barling, Christie and Turner, 2008) have called for alternative measures that are less prone to socially desirable responding. As no prior research had examined the integrity of sporting leaders, the present thesis began by examining the antecedent cognitive processes of expert football managers. Building upon this exploration, an implicit association test was developed within studies two and three. Results suggest that the instrument is capable of assessing automatic attitudes towards leader integrity, is more sensitive than existing measures, offers support for concurrent and convergent validity, demonstrates good test-retest reliability, good internal consistency, and is a predictor of player reported commitment. In sum, the present research has sought to understand the phenomena of leader integrity from the perspective of social cognition. The result of these investigations is a robust, sensitive, and complimentary measure of leader integrity, which will assist researchers to better understand the processes that underpin leader integrity. SportRχiv Journal Club The new semester is upon us already and although I had hoped to post this sooner, I’m behind schedule. Apologies — but you know how it is! Anyway, this year I will be starting a monthly SportRχiv Journal Club (or #SportRxivJC if you’re twitter savvy) with my Level 5 and Masters students. The aim of the Journal Club is to engage with and critically evaluate research. Nothing new there. However, what is new is that the Journal Club will be based solely on preprints. Furthermore, the feedback generated will be posted here and the authors sent a link to the comments. Although the idea of a Journal Club is as old as the academe itself, the idea of students — potentially from across the globe — reviewing pre-peer reviewed work (or preprints) is not. Although Journal Clubs have fallen a bit out of favour within most of the institutions I have worked at recent years, I am hopeful that this new format will be more engaging for the following reasons: By reviewing pre-published work the students will have the ability actually influence and (hopefully) improve the standard of research in our field. From prior discussions, this is one of the main reasons for disengagement in traditional Journal Clubs. Students feel like their comments are pointless as the horse has already bolted from the metaphorical stable. 2. It encourages a deeper level of engagement with research methods, which in many institutions, is sadly lacking. 3. Everyone can access preprints from home. It may be a minor point, but obstacles are obstacles. If you want students to engage in a task, reduce the hoops people have to jump through. Further, by basing the club on this format, we allow students from around the world to get involved and not just those privileged with wide reaching institutional journal subscriptions. 4. As the feedback has a more concrete value, I am hopeful that authors may take the time to video call into sessions to discuss the feedback generated too. We live in a largely connected world and through the power of the internet can connect interested students and academics to have in-depth debates over a piece of work. 5. It’s pretty cool to be part of an emerging movement. Students have always led the way in taking action where they see injustice and may see their respective Journal Club as more than just examining a research, they may feel connected to their peers and inspired to knockdown the paywalls that slow down the advancement of science. Okay, most won’t care, but a couple will and who knows what they may go on to achieve. If you would like to get involved, all you need to do is drop me an email ([email protected]) to gain access to this page, organise a time to run your club (if you’re like me, this will most likely be alongside or as part of your second year research methods module), nominate a student to organise which preprints the group/class will review and collate the comments (you can use the shared project’s public OSF wiki section or if that seems too technical, any form of cloud based doc would work), and post them here. By working together, I am hoping to make it easier for authors to reach the maximum number of students in the least amount of time and to create a central resource for comments that is community led.

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Easements for Endangered Species The management of the lesser prairie chicken is a controversial topic with widespread implications for land use and energy development across several western states. The bird’s population declined in the mid-20th century as native landscapes in the southern Great Plains were converted to agriculture. Populations of lesser prairie chickens have shown modest increases in recent years, but resource development and habitat degradation continue to threaten the species’ habitat. In 2014, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) listed the bird as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, but the listing was voided a year later when a federal court in Texas ruled that the agency failed to properly take into consideration state and private conservation efforts. Today, the lesser prairie chicken is once again “under review” to be re-listed. A unique alliance of wildlife agencies, conservation organizations, private landowners, and industry partners have collaborated to help recover the lesser prairie chicken while preserving traditional land uses. In Kansas, the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA), Pheasants Forever, and ranch manager Tom Hammond joined together to create an innovative approach to achieve this goal. The first of its kind, the arrangement ensures Hammond’s ranch is managed to provide lesser prairie chicken habitat into perpetuity while allowing continued historical uses of the land, such as cattle grazing. This voluntary, proactive approach to species conservation is now being replicated throughout the lesser prairie chicken’s existing range and could also be adopted for other species in need of recovery. The Endangered Species Act The Endangered Species Act of 1973 was designed to protect imperiled species from extinction. Under the act, species can be listed as endangered or threatened, depending on whether they are in danger of extinction or are likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future. The USFWS is responsible for administering the protection of listed terrestrial species, while the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is responsible for marine species. There are no specific numerical, percentage, or scientific standards, however, for listing or delisting a species. There are currently more than 2,000 species protected under the Endangered Species Act, yet in more than 40 years of protections, fewer than 1.5 percent of endangered species have been recovered and delisted. These poor results come with a lofty price tag—in 2014 the federal government spent nearly $1.5 billion to protect listed species. Not only does the Endangered Species Act lead to large public expenditures that recover very few species, but it can also cost private landowners the use of their land. Section 9 of the act includes a clause that prohibits the “taking” of an endangered or threatened species. In this context, “take” has been defined as “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct.” This definition was later expanded so that habitat degradation is also considered a taking; therefore, if a landowner’s property is designated critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act, the owner could face restrictions on land uses that could theoretically degrade the habitat, even if no endangered species has taken up residence on the land. As a result, traditional land uses such as grazing livestock, cutting trees, using water sources, or building structures can be restricted. In 2014, when the lesser prairie chicken was under consideration for an endangered-species listing, WAFWA officials in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas jointly developed a range-wide conservation plan, approved by the federal government, to protect the species through voluntary conservation efforts. Their aim was to prevent the listing of the species and the harm to landowners, ranchers, and energy developers that would follow. Enrollees in the range-wide plan, largely oil and gas developers, committed to minimize disturbances to the bird and provide funding for private conservation efforts. In return, they were provided certain protections against punishment for lesser prairie chicken takings. Nevertheless, in April 2014, the lesser prairie chicken was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The Permian Basin Petroleum Association and several New Mexico counties filed a lawsuit challenging the listing. In September 2015, a federal court in Texas ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, vacating the final listing rule. The judge vacated the ruling on the procedural grounds that the USFWS did not adequately consider the future benefits of WAFWA’s conservation plan. In July 2016, the USFWS fulfilled the court ruling and removed the lesser prairie chicken from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. Less than six months later, however, there were already petitions under review to re-list the bird, which is currently considered a candidate species for listing. The Lesser Prairie Chicken The lesser prairie chicken is a medium-sized grouse found in the southern Great Plains, including Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. The bird is found in native and restored grasslands that are scattered with shrubs. The lesser prairie chicken needs three categories of habitat in close proximity to maintain sustainable populations. Nesting habitat requires native vegetation about a foot tall. Sand sagebrush and shinnery oak provide important structure for nesting habitat in some areas of the animal’s range. Brood habitat consists of native forbs and bare ground that make it easy for chicks to find insects and other food. Lekking habitat, where the birds display their elaborate courtship rituals, are usually located on hilltops or slight rises with thin vegetation and good visibility so that females can see males’ best efforts at attracting a mate. During the spring mating season, females lay between eight and 13 eggs per clutch. Typically, about 30 percent of clutches produce at least one chick, with the average size of the brood being about five chicks. The likelihood of chicks making it to adulthood largely depends on the quality of habitat available to them as well as weather conditions. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that the lesser prairie chicken has lost 84 percent of its habitat across its historical range. This is significant because the bird serves as a key indicator species of the health of native grasslands that support local communities and wildlife. Currently, the highest densities of lesser prairie chickens are in northwestern Kansas. These populations are supported primarily by grasslands that were restored through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program. The birds were originally thought to have been extirpated from areas north of the Arkansas River, including this section of Kansas, in the 1960s. But the birds reappeared in those areas in the early 1990s, shortly after the initial Conservation Reserve Program plantings became established. The region has since grown to become the stronghold for the species it is today. WAFWA and the Range-Wide Plan The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Associations is composed of representatives from 19 state fish and wildlife management agencies and represents nearly 3.7 million square miles of North America. The association supports resource management and partnerships to conserve native wildlife. It also developed and administers the conservation plan for the lesser prairie chicken across the southern Great Plains. The agencies observed the decline of the bird and its habitat and were aware of how an endangered or threatened listing of the lesser prairie chicken could impose land-use restrictions on property owners. With ties to states and local communities, WAFWA wanted to develop a conservation plan for the lesser prairie chicken that would find ways to protect the species in some areas while also allowing landowners to continue farming, ranching, and developing resources on their land without the risk of being charged with an incidental taking of the bird. To do so, WAFWA developed the Lesser Prairie Chicken Range-Wide Plan in 2013, prior to the bird’s listing as a threatened species. The goal of the plan was to coordinate with parties involved in the bird’s survival to conserve habitat and reboot lesser prairie chicken populations to a point where the bird would be plentiful enough to avoid endangered-species protection. An interstate WAFWA working group, composed of wildlife officials from the five states where the bird is found, wrote the Range-Wide Plan. The plan establishes population and habitat goals for all agencies and organizations working with the species, and it provides a mechanism for industry and agriculture to continue operating. The plan brings together different voluntary conservation programs in a common approach to provide for conservation of lesser prairie chicken habitat and minimization and mitigation of impacts to ranch and oil and gas operations. Specifically, it outlines a partnership between the five range states, industry partners (including oil, gas, wind, electricity, and telecommunications companies), and private landowners (mainly farmers and ranchers). Under Rule 4(d) of the Endangered Species Act, the USFWS has the discretion to exempt some actions from the act’s take prohibition. The Range-Wide Plan was established in accordance with Rule 4(d) to develop a conservation strategy for the lesser prairie chicken that identifies, coordinates, and commits to the restoration of habitat for the species throughout its current or extended range. The plan was endorsed by the USFWS in September of 2013 and was codified when the rule was finalized in 2014, protecting groups that enrolled in the plan and engaged in efforts to preserve the lesser prairie chicken from facing punishment for incidental takings of the species. The Range-Wide Plan was created prior to the listing in an effort to help grow the bird’s populations to a point where it did not warrant listing and so that, in the event of a listing, landowners would have some protection against the take prohibition. Oil and Gas Industry The oil and gas industry is a major player in the Great Plains. Energy developers knew that the listing of the lesser prairie chicken concerned local farming and ranching communities, and they thought WAFWA’s record of using state expertise and an innovative approach to protecting the bird’s populations merited their support. They also had a direct incentive to enroll in the Range-Wide Plan because it includes a Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances for oil and gas enrollees. The agreement ensures that if an enrolled company enacts specified procedures to limit the harm their operations cause the lesser prairie chicken, then they are protected from being charged if they harm one of the birds or its habitat. Given that energy development plays a large economic role in the same area that the lesser prairie chicken calls home, the plan meant that energy developers had a way to continue their work even if it threatened the species’ habitat. If the lesser prairie chicken was listed and they were not enrolled, their operations would be limited to areas not considered to be habitat for the bird. In effect, if the bird were listed, it would have become exceptionally difficult for oil and gas companies to operate in the southern Great Plains. Under the Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances component of the Range-Wide Plan, oil and gas industry partners agree to voluntarily commit to operating in ways that remove or reduce threats to the lesser prairie chicken so that re-listing will not be necessary. These include avoiding non-emergency operations during early mornings of the breeding season, avoiding off-road travel in potential nesting habitat during the breeding season, installing escape ramps in open water tanks, marking fences to prevent lesser prairie chickens from flying into them, and burying electric lines in key breeding areas. Companies are required under the Range-Wide Plan to pay impact fees before they harm habitat, and WAFWA must commit those funds to conservation efforts by farmers and ranchers before construction begins. For example, a 5-acre pad may require a fee for up to 31 acres depending on how much of that area has been previously impacted by development. The fees are established based on the actual cost of restoring and maintaining twice as much habitat as impacted by the development at an equal or better habitat quality. Enrollment fees may be used by the companies as prepaid impact fees until they are exhausted. Afterward companies must pay more impact fees as needed. All impact fees are placed in the same conservation trust as enrollment fees. The interest from that trust pays farmers and ranchers to restore and manage lesser prairie chicken habitat in perpetuity. Enrolling industry lands in the conservation agreement costs only $6.75 per acre for oil and gas or wind projects. Other types of developers are charged a flat fee ranging from $5,000 per year for electric distribution to $20,000 for transmission. These enrollment fees are used to generate conservation credits before the companies begin development, and 87.5 percent of enrollment-fee revenues are placed in a trust to fund conservation offsets for private landowners. Since WAFWA began the Range-Wide Plan four years ago, it has authorized more than 1,000 industry projects, with mitigation fees paid for nearly 750 of those projects. The companies that developed the remaining projects avoided and minimized enough impacts to preclude the need for mitigation. The oil and gas companies that enroll in the Range-Wide Plan receive a 30-year permit from the USFWS that allows them to continue their work while being protected from incidental takings. If development lasts longer, the company must work with WAFWA to receive an extension. This approach to involving resource-development companies in the conservation of the lesser prairie chicken has been welcomed by the companies. More than 170 industry partners have enrolled, and WAFWA has collected more than $63 million in enrollment and mitigation fees that support conservation activities for the bird. WAFWA’s plan has allowed for economic development by providing a mechanism for groups to voluntarily conserve lesser prairie chicken habitat in compliance with the Endangered Species Act while still using the land for development. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are groups of sportsmen and conservationists dedicated to the preservation of pheasants, quail, and other wildlife through habitat improvements, public awareness, education, and land management policies and programs. Both organizations have reputations for working with landowners and other organizations on projects that conserve wildlife habitat. Because valuable habitat is often found on private working lands, these groups partner with landowners to enhance, restore, and protect the habitat on these lands in harmony with traditional uses. Managing the lesser prairie chicken’s habitat requires a landscape-level approach focused on large native grasslands, which overlaps with the habitat requirements for pheasants and quail. This made it a natural fit for Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever to take up lesser prairie chicken habitat conservation because the efforts would also benefit their species of interest. With the money available from industry partners’ enrollment, WAFWA partnered with Pheasants Forever to purchase and hold easements. The partnership was effective because WAFWA had the funds needed to purchase easements, and Pheasants Forever had the experience holding and overseeing easements designed to protect wildlife. The Ranch WAFWA has committed to generating 25 percent of their mitigation efforts through permanent conservation agreements. Though WAFWA had some experience with short-term management agreements with ranchers, they had never entered into a permanent conservation easement. Some ranchers are reluctant to agree to permanent conservation agreements because they want greater flexibility down the road in managing their ranches to respond to changing uses of the land. Yet WAFWA was determined that permanent conservation was vital to the survival of the lesser prairie chicken and searched for a rancher with a dedication to wildlife conservation and a willingness to do so into perpetuity. Tom Hammond co-owns and manages a ranch in southern Kansas that fit the bill. He runs between 100 to 150 head of cattle on the ranch and expressed an interest in conserving wildlife habitat as well. Hammond and his ranch co-owners were interested in conserving endangered species while respecting the historic use of the land. They expressed interest in the WAFWA conservation easement program for the lesser prairie chicken, putting an innovative approach to endangered-species protection in motion. Hammond Ranch – Photo courtesy of WAFWA. Part 1: Kicking Things Off With money and a goal established by the Range-Wide Plan, WAFWA was looking for landowners to engage in permanent conservation easements for lesser prairie chicken habitat. WAFWA and Pheasants Forever were familiar with the ranch Hammond managed and knew his track record for conservation, so when he and the other ranch owners expressed interest in negotiating a conservation easement on the property, all parties were optimistic. In the Range-Wide Plan, WAFWA had created a ranking system to assess the value of potential permanent conservation sites for lesser prairie chicken restoration, and Hammond’s ranch scored top marks. The ranch lies within one of the highest-priority areas for lesser prairie chicken conservation, home to all three types of the bird’s habitat. To make matters even better, the property and the surrounding area included a few lek locations where lesser prairie chickens were known to breed. WAFWA knew the property was managed with a strict stewardship ethic, and they hoped to put a permanent conservation easement on the property to ensure that management approach continued into perpetuity. With Pheasants Forever onboard to hold the easement, it and WAFWA began to negotiate an arrangement with Hammond in 2015. In addition to the easement, the parties also had to agree on a dynamic-management plan that outlined how to comply with the easement, which would also be implemented in perpetuity. Establishing a permanent conservation easement on a property and requiring specific management approaches through the accompanying management agreement comes at a cost to the landowner. It was estimated that enacting the easement would decrease the market value of Hammond’s ranch by 25 percent. To compensate for this loss, WAFWA used the funding available from Range-Wide Plan enrollments to make a one-time payment to the landowners equal to the amount of the appraised value lost. It also set up an endowment to fund the perpetual management agreement. By grazing fewer cattle and engaging in conservation habits outlined in the agreement, Hammond forgoes some potential profit every year. The endowment provides him with an annual payment to make up this difference as long as he abides by the management agreement. It took over a year and a half to hammer out the details of the easement and management agreement, but in December 2016, WAFWA, Pheasants Forever, and the landowners reached an agreement. Part II: The Details of the Arrangement A permanent easement to conserve nearly 2,000 acres of high-quality lesser prairie chicken habitat on a ranch in south-central Kansas represented a major victory. While WAFWA pays for the easement and management plan, Pheasants Forever holds and monitors the easement. The arrangement is the first permanent conservation easement with a private landowner secured as a part of the Range-Wide Plan. The conserved land is all native rangeland historically managed for livestock production. While the easement legally restricts future developments and activities that would be detrimental to lesser prairie chicken habitat, all other property rights associated with the historical use of the land are retained by Hammond. The property remains a working ranch, Hammond just has to manage it within the plan established with the easement. Under the management plan, Hammond has a target total utilization rate of 33 percent for livestock grazing. He has historically run cattle at a grazing rate close to this goal because he wanted to preserve the rangeland, but many other area ranchers run at about a 50-percent total-utilization rate. The management plan also set a goal of maintaining a healthy, native rangeland providing foliar cover of more than 45 percent with no trees. Part III: Goals The goal of the easement is to conserve and grow key habitat for the lesser prairie chicken. WAFWA does not set population goals for specific properties because it is impossible to tie population responses to an individual property. However, it does prescribe specific management practices that aim to create ideal lesser prairie chicken habitat. Those practices include the 33-percent grazing rate and periodic prescribed fire. The strategy is that by creating better habitat for the lesser prairie chicken, which is incredibly difficult to survey, the bird population will also increase. WAFWA plans to continue using this same innovative approach to permanently conserve additional properties for the benefit of lesser prairie chickens. The lessons learned in creating this first easement will be applied to new properties to help streamline the process. However, landowners will still have the freedom and flexibility to tailor agreements to meet their specific needs. Ultimately, time will tell as to the success of the Range-Wide Plan and conservation easements in protecting the lesser prairie chicken. There are many changing variables that can threaten their success regardless of the successful implementation of conservation practices—primarily weather. The expansion of the program is crucial to a shot at success, but all parties involved are hopeful that birds will be free to grow their populations as habitat is conserved. An Innovative Approach A conservation easement funded by private-industry dollars and managed into perpetuity for the benefit of the lesser prairie chicken is an innovative approach. This project is a four-way collaboration between a wide range of partners who are not normally grouped together. Energy developers, conservation groups, state agencies, and the owners of working lands are all coming together to try to enhance lesser prairie chicken habitat. Though their motives may vary, they are able to come together around a common goal. Unlike some traditional approaches that impose limitations on land use in the name of species conservation without compensation, this approach respects the historic use of the land while rewarding the landowner for looking out for the lesser prairie chicken. It helps ensure conservation actions are implemented long into the future because endowed funds are released annually based on the current condition of the property. The Range-Wide Plan and easement approach also emphasize working with landowners and ranching communities—the people who interact with the species on the ground every day. The landowner has the opportunity to tailor an arrangement to his specific property, while financial compensation makes it worthwhile for landowners to adopt conservation techniques even if they result in lower profits from ranching. In addition, the landowner maintains authority over the land, making him more prone to work with conservation agencies and groups. The involvement of state wildlife agencies provides expertise from those that are most familiar with the species and their habitat. State wildlife agencies also have established trust with local communities, making landowners more likely to work with a state agency than a distant federal agency. As we continue to face challenges in protecting at-risk wildlife, it is important to consider innovative approaches that reward conservation efforts. The arrangement between Tom Hammond, WAFWA, Pheasants Forever, and the oil and gas industry is a powerful example of how a wide variety of groups can come together with a shared goal of protecting an at-risk species.