Oso isn’t a bear like the Spanish word implies, or a secret agent like the children’s cartoon, “Special Agent Oso,” but the newest dog to the Larimer County Sheriff’s Department K-9 unit is in training and will work to fight crime — as soon as he learns how.
The Larimer County K-9 unit has three dogs now and is working back up to four. The unit consists of four agitators, three handlers, two Belgian malinois dogs (Grendel and Arco) and one German shepherd (Oso).
The animals come from Holland. The business of raising police dogs is held to a high standard in Europe, said Deputy Jaclyn Knudsen, a police dog handler. “It’s more of a traditional heritage thing there.” “Bloodlines can be traced back to the 1400s,”
Deputy Aaron Hulme added (agitator). The unit looks for kennels here in the United States that buy from Holland. Oso met his new handler, Deputy Kevin Kingston, at a kennel in Pennsylvania.
Kingston and senior handlers Knudsen and Dave Feyen traveled to Pennsylvania to find a good match for Kingston. They tested seven dogs.
“We look for the hunt drive, the prey drive, that they will go until they can’t anymore. We want a dog that won’t give up,” Knudsen said. “A police dog should have the characteristics of a police officer.” They also check to see that the dog isn’t afraid of dark places or corners, has a strong scent ability and is comfortable with his handler.
The two senior handlers both observed that Kingston worked best with Oso, who was called Ronnie before he joined the team. “Can you imagine a police dog named Ronnie?” Kingston said.
Kingston was an agitator for nine years before he applied to be a handler.
These special animals are trained to find the bad guys. Kingston and 19-month old Oso recently headed to Pennsylvania for a four-week training school. Both animal and human will become narcotics and patrol-certified.
When they’re finished, Oso will know how to track and apprehend suspects, as well as scent out drugs.
The handlers consider their dogs to be their partners. “They go home with us at night. We work with them every night. We see more of them than our families,” Knudsen said.
Twice a month, the team meets at an outside location to practice various scenarios with the dogs. They go to Boyd Lake, the mountains, the plains, farms, schools, cars, industrial areas and playgrounds. The police dogs are even taught to find narcotics in manure.
An agitator, acting as the bad guy, dons a padded suit and stands some distance away. The handler shouts at the agitator to surrender and, when the agitator continues to act belligerent and erratic, the handler orders a dog, such as Arco, to attack.
Arco, who very much enjoys this game, launches himself at the agitator and bites down hard on whatever part of the body presents the most appealing and obvious target.
The agitator has a lot to observe as Arco comes at him because he can see the dog’s face. “We look to see if the dog is doing the bite right,” Hulme said. “The goal is one solid bite with a lot of pressure.”
They don’t want to see the dog biting and releasing, because the purpose is to apprehend the suspect. They also want to be sure the dog obeys commands and doesn’t hesitate when attacking. “The bite will puncture the skin (on the actual victim),” Kingston said.
He said that the agitators feel the pressure, too, and come away with bruises more often than not. There is a technique to bracing themselves as the dog comes at them, presenting the part of body they want to get bitten, and not going rigid as the animal bites down.
“It’s a lot of fun!” Kingston said. “We’re just big tennis balls.”
After practice, Arco returns to the team for pats and gentler play.
The police dogs are also trained to defend their handlers. Police dogs typically work for eight or nine years, and then retire when their bodies can’t keep up with their drive.
The handler has the option to take the animal home as a permanent companion. After so long together, it’s rare that a handler doesn’t choose to keep the dog.
Jessica Benes can be reached at 669-5050, ext. 530, or email@example.com.


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(by Jennifer Haberkorn, Politico.com) – President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Tom Price, a leading GOP voice against Obamacare, to run the Department of Health and Human Services, a job that will put him in charge of dismantling the [controversial] law, according to several Republican sources.
Price, 62, an orthopedic surgeon, [was named by Trump] on Tuesday. The selection of the six-term Georgia representative is viewed as a strong embrace of the House’s effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Price, who [is the Chairman of] the House Budget Committee, was one of the first Republicans to introduce an alternative to Obamacare when Democrats were debating health care reform in 2009 and 2010. [His proposed legislation, named the Empowering Patients First Act, was introduced in 2009].
That plan has similarities to both the “Better Way” plan put forward this year by House Speaker Paul Ryan and the plan Trump outlined during his campaign. But Price’s bill, which also includes traditional GOP ideas such as health savings accounts, high-risk insurance pools, and allowing interstate insurance sales, is the most detailed and the only one that has been put into legislative language.
Given Price’s connections to the House and his friendship with Ryan, he could be a key player in helping the House pass an Obamacare replacement plan. He is also close with Vice President-elect Mike Pence; both are former chairs of the conservative House Republican Study Committee.
An early Trump supporter, Price endorsed the president-elect in May. Price also campaigned with Trump at an Obamacare repeal rally a week before the election.
“The things that we all believe about health care — we want a system that is affordable for everybody, that is accessible for everybody, that is of the highest quality and provides choices for patients — all of those things have been destroyed by Obamacare,” Price said at the rally. That is “why we need Donald Trump and Mike Pence to work with us and make sure we put in place a real health solution.”
Several House Republicans were eager to see a colleague elevated to the president’s Cabinet. House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, said Price would be a “great choice” for HHS secretary.
“He knows the programs in and out,” Upton said. “He has wonderful respect here and that’s what you need. Particularly for someone who’s going to be president who has never been a legislator.”
Conservative health care experts also said Price’s experiences as a physician and a lawmaker prepare him for the job.
“Not only is he a physician … he has a lot of experience in how to get legislation accomplished,” said Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, which strongly opposes Obamacare. “But he’s also incredibly articulate and passionate about patient-centered health reform from his own personal experience.”
As HHS secretary, Price would have opportunities to [change] Obamacare through the regulatory process, such as loosening restrictions for the states on Medicaid or not enforcing the individual mandate. Price and his team would have to decide how aggressively to peel back the health law through the regulatory process while Congress works on repeal legislation.
Price has been a leading voice on health IT issues in Congress, fighting for a more doctor-friendly version of the law that regulates use of electronic health records. Last year, he helped collect 116 House signatures supporting a slowdown in the process.[In a statement made today, President-elect Trump said Price “has earned a reputation for being a tireless problem solver and the go-to expert on healthcare policy, making him the ideal choice to serve in this capacity. He is exceptionally qualified to shepherd our commitment to repeal and replace Obamacare and bring affordable and accessible healthcare to every American.”
“There is much work to be done to ensure we have a healthcare system that works for patients, families, and doctors; that leads the world in the cure and prevention of illness; and that is based on sensible rules to protect the well-being of the country while embracing its innovative spirit,” Price said in a statement announcing his selection for the Cabinet post.
Price has served six terms in the House of Representatives and formerly was a member of the Georgia state Senate. He was opposed to the Affordable Care Act even before it became law.
“Premiums have gone up, not down,” said Price in a statement last month. “Many Americans lost the health coverage they were told time and time again by the president that they could keep. Choices are fewer.”
If he is confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Price’s duties will include overseeing a 78,000-employee department whose responsibilities go far beyond the Affordable Care Act. They include running the Medicare insurance program for the elderly, overseeing the Medicaid insurance program for low-income Americans, funding medical research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), operating the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and advocating for public health with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).]
Reprinted here for educational purposes only. May not be reproduced on other websites without permission from Politico. For the original article, visit Politico .com. (The last five bracketed paragraphs are from the Boston Globe and WSJ.)
1. List at least 5 facts you learn from this article about Tom Price, Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
2. What was Rep. Price the first to do when Obamacare was being debated before becoming law?
3. What provisions are included in Rep. Price’s proposed Empowering Patients First Act?
4. a) What type of health insurance system does Price say everyone wants and Obamacare has destroyed? (List 4 factors)
b) Ask a parent: do you agree with Rep. Price’s assertion about Obamacare? Please explain your answer.
5. What experience does Tom Price have that has prepared him for the job of HHS Secretary, according to supporters?
6. Tom Price Wants a ‘patient-centered’ health-insurance system. Read the info on the HHS under “Background” and watch the video under “Resources.” Do you think Rep. Price is a good choice for HHS Secretary? (Do you think the Secretary of HHS should be a doctor? Explain your answers.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS):
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.
- Its motto is “Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America”.
- HHS is administered by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.
- The United States Public Health Service (PHS) is the main division of the HHS and is led by the Assistant Secretary for Health.
- Divisions of HHS include, among others: Medicare and Medicaid, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
From the WSJ:
Mr. Price spent a 20-year medical career in Atlanta, where he also undertook his residency. He went into state politics when Republicans were still a minority in Georgia. After they took control, he became the first Republican Senate Majority Leader in the history of the state, he says in his official biography.
In the U.S. House, where he has served since 2005, Mr. Price has voted consistently against federal funding of abortion, and in opposition to federal requirements that insurance plans cover contraception without out-of-pocket costs as part of the Affordable Care Act.
As a Georgia state senator, Mr. Price had voted for a state requirement that insurance companies cover contraception in their prescription-drug plans. The difference, he said when asked about it in 2012, was Washington. “The issue here…is whether or not the federal government ought to be deciding what health coverage is,” Mr. Price said.
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"I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel."
Happy birthday Irving Penn!
Irving Penn (June 16, 1917-October 7, 2009) was an American Modernist photographer. His work was published in Vogue magazine. He is best remembered for his fashion photography, but he also photographed food, scenery, and many important figures from the 20th century art world.
Happy birthday Harriet Beecher Stowe!
Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811–July 1, 1896) was an American author and activist. She is most remembered for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin, the abolitionist novel published through National Era. She was also one of the earliest women's rights activists. She wrote more than 20 books in addition to other articles and letters.
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
(Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)
The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899
W.B. Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet and playwright. His is widely considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Some of his most notable works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), as well as the plays The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) and Deirdre (1907). He was a founder of the Irish National Theatre Society and the Abbey Theatre. He served two terms in the Irish Senate later in his life.
Happy birthday Risë Stevens!
Risë Stevens (June 11, 1913-March 20, 2013) was an American opera singer. She was the leading mezzo-soprano at the Metropolitan opera for over two decades throughout the 1940s and 1950s. She was particularly known for her interpretation of the title role in Carmen.
Happy birthday Maurice Sendak!
Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928-May 8, 2012) was an American children's book author and illustrator. He is perhaps best known for his book, Where the Wild Things Are (1963). His work was marked by fantastic narratives about realistic characters.
Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875–August 12, 1955) was a German author and activist. He wrote novels, novellas, and essays. He was particularly outspoken against Germany's Nazi regime, so he spent much of the latter half of his life in Switzerland and the United States in exile. His work was largely influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Arthur Schopenhauer. Some of his most notable works include The Magic Mountain (1924) and the four part epic Joseph and his Brothers (written between 1926 and 1943).

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According to the Delaware County Intermediate Unit, the following districts have opted to cancel classes early Tuesday:
Chester Upland, Chichester, Garnet Valley, Marple Newtown, Penn-Delco, Radnor and Wallingford-Swarthmore. Most have cancelled after school activities as well. Check with your school district for details as districts are closing their schools at different times.
A National Weather Service winter service advisory remains in effect until 9 p.m. in Delaware County, with steady snow expected to change to freezing rain and then rain in the evening hours.
Temperatures are expected to rise in the overnight hours and top out in mid-forties Wednesday, with rain washing away any snow or ice.


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Rather than post a comment in a welcome wagon diary to introduce myself, I figured a better way would be to start on a diary series about issues important to me. Specifically, the “Free Culture” movement – what it is, how it came to be, what it’s doing, and why it’s important.
The Free Culture movement is a rebellion of sorts against copyright. It does not necessarily seek to destroy copyright but, rather, to subvert it and use it to encourage sharing rather than discouraging it. This is, of course, an oversimplification, but should be sufficient for the purposes of this diary, which examines the background of the movement – why it exists and why it’s important for progressives, for those tuning in late.
This diary series is going to make a lot of reference to the works and philosophies of Richard Stallman and Lawrence Lessig.
If you haven’t noticed that copyright’s been becoming more restrictive lately, you’ve either not been involved much in content production/distribution/purchasing and technology issues, or you’ve been, like most people, unaware that there were such issues. This diary’s an attempt to get you up to speed before we jump into bigger movements. I’m going to focus on copyright in the United States here – expanding the discussion even as far as Canada makes things far too complicated.
The first thing that will be of interest to you is ARL’s excellent copyright timeline. It covers all the big milestones in the development of modern copyright law. In the early years, copyright was seen as a utilitiarian thing – an incentive for authors to release their works to the public, to enrich the public life with their content in exchange for a limited-time monopoly on reproduction. Any sort of “natural right” of authors to control their works was explicitly denied, both by the law and the courts. Likewise, the notion that copyrights were somehow property was rejected. Fair use doctrine was also established in this period, and began accumulating a set of circumstances under which it was considered acceptable to violate copyright law. Even then, the seeds of the modern content companies could be seen in the “gentlemanly” price-fixing engaged in by large publishers. America’s copyright law lead to a flood of cheap, high-quality books, seriously damaging the business of these “gentlemen”.
Where things really started going bad was 1976, when the default copyright term was retroactively changed to the life of the author plus 50 years. Not only did the length of copyright terms start leaping upwards, but other things were changed as well. Suddenly, copyright was automatically applied to a work upon its creation, not just upon publication – something that has become a serious problem, and has lead to some speculation among legal minds that it may not be possible for authors to waive the rights granted to them by copyright.
Since then, the rate of increase in scope of copyright laws has been growing. In the 1990s, we saw the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act, which extended copyright to the life of the author plus 75 years. In the late 90s, the DMCA and the UCITA were introduced. The DMCA, among many other things, prohibits circumventing “copyright protection technologies”, and makes any device that can be used to circumvent such technologies illegal. The UCITA, a state-level law written by large software companies, was even worse, but many states have since rejected it or passed anti-UCITA measures. Last I checked, only a handful of states, including Virginia and Maryland, have passed the UCITA. The UCITA makes End-User License Agreements legally binding, and effectively outlaws Free Software – but more on that next time!
During this period, we also saw a crackdown on file-sharing services like Napster. Judges ruled – repeatedly – that technologies that allowed for or “supported” copyright violation were illegal, and creators of those technologies could be held liable for violations committed using their technology. This doctrine was even extended to linking to sites that might illegally distribute copyrighted material.
These days, you’re better of running over someone with your car or shoplifting a few hundred dollars of merchandise than committing copyright infringement – fines for a handful of violations can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In recent years, there has been a trend towards more and more comprehensive and draconian “copyright protection” technologies, the so-called “digital rights management” (DRM) schemes. These technologies not only attempt to prevent illegal reproduction, but also legal “fair use” reproduction. The first few, such as Macrovision, DVD region coding and encryption, and far too many CD-based measures to list here, were broken easily. More recent developments are more daunting. These include “secure data paths” from a computer’s hard disk to its speakers and monitor, to prevent someone from “eavesdropping” on the signal at any point and recording audio or video (or textual!) data that way, and a wide variety of DRM schemes built into Intel’s latest line of processors. Through these measures, publishers have finally found a way to achieve a goal they’ve been seeking for two centuries – elimination of fair use rights.
(As an aside, this inclusion of DRM is, sadly, probably one of the biggest factors behind Apple’s switch to Intel hardware. As you will see next time, once again, Richard M. Stallman Was Right – RMSWR)
These DRM schemes will require increasingly draconian legislation. As any security expert will tell you, hardware in the hands of “the enemy” is impossible to secure. So while this hardware may not be able to prevent copying, it will prevent most forms of casual copying, and allow for content companies to push for laws to punish those who attempt to exercise their fair use rights.
And now we need to take a few more steps back, and examine why these content companies might want to do this. After all, as anyone with even a cursory background in the economics of copying will tell you, fair use copying produces a next to negligible effect on their profits, especially when compared to mass commercial piracy.
The answer is both simple and surprising: it’s all about control of culture. Without control of culture, publishing content is a risky business – its success depends both on the quality of the content (and good quality content is expensive to produce! – copy editing alone has incredible costs) and the acceptability of that content to the culture you’re selling it in. Culture has, historically, tended to be unpredictable – a mutable, organic thing that changes based on the whims of thousands or millions of people. Unknown authors and artists whose work “speaks to people” can become smash hits overnight, and even the biggest superstar can be forgotten instead of becoming a “classic”. And while it was once really expensive to reproduce a work, technology was making it easier and easier to reproduce and distribute works (or parts thereof) every day, which made it easier for these smash hits to come from outside “normal” distribution channels.
In fact, the entire purpose of a digital computer is to copy information trivially – computers are, by their very nature, copyright circumvention devices! Thus, proper enforcement of copyright would require returning to the bargain of the founding fathers – limited, reasonable copyright laws that people want to follow.
Predictably, this gave the people whose job it was to try and predict markets fits.
So instead of trying to produce content that would sell to the market, the content companies came up with an ingenious solution. Mold the culture to fit your product. Control the creation, distribution, and consumption of content, to carefully regulate and guide the development of culture. The earliest examples of this are the manufactured pop sensations that first started appearing in the ’70s. (To my knowledge, they could have been as early as the ’60s) Recently, this has become more and more pronounced – telling people what’s popular is big business!
Of course, the upshot of this is that all copying has to be controlled by the content companies. If I can loan – or, even worse, give! – you a copy of some small work I’ve stumbled across, that throws their entire painstakingly crafted model off. Without that, I’m restricted to just telling you about it, which means you have to do work to find and purchase a copy – which slows or eliminates the propagation of undesirable content. Likewise, the production of technology, and the tools that can be used to produce and distribute it – namely, computers – need to be very tightly controlled.
The extension of copyright terms also helps by decreasing or eliminating the rate at which works move from copyright into the public domain. Historically, the public domain has been a great source of inspiration for authors and artists, as it is a pool of material they are free to learn from and “riff” on. Many of Disney’s most profitable movies, for example, have drawn from it. This is damaging to the culture control business on many levels: it encourages the unauthorized development of new works, allows people to employ the products of a company without paying, creates a pool of cheaply-redistributable works, and so on…
Why this culture control business is bad for progressives should be immediately obvious. These content companies are often owned and operated by the right wing, and have a vested interest in moving culture away from progressive ideas. Many of them also own the same news sources we love to hate, and use them as one more tool in their campaign to reshape culture.
Now we understand the source of the increasingly draconian copyright laws and technology regulation – control of culture. Next time (tomorrow or Friday), we’ll look at the roots (in my opinion) of the Free Culture movement: GNU and the Free Software Foundation.
Today’s Related Reading:
The Right to Read, by Richard Stallman.
Can you Trust your Computer? by Richard Stallman
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(Speaking of that, Boo, do you think you could tweak the allowed HTML so people can paste Creative Commons license blocks straight into their diaries? I think you should just need to allow HTML comments and the rel attribute in a tags.)

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BERLIN, October 9. /TASS/. The shooter who opened fire at a synagogue and a Turkish kebab restaurant in German Halle on Wednesday was live streaming his attack on the Internet. The Focus Online portal reported that the video lasted 35 minutes.
The investigation launched into the attack suggests that the shooter is a 27-year-old German citizen who resided in Saxony-Anhalt. His account on streaming services has already been blocked, the police has access to the video recording.
Earlier on Wednesday, the attacker opened fire outside a synagogue in Halle, killing at least two people and injuring two more, who were rushed to hospital. The shooter then escaped the site in a car and attacked a Turkish fast food outlet, but was later arrested. The Halle authorities have already decreased the level of emergency.


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Chapter 8: Mud and Tentacles
Winding passages of mud.
Filth and confusion.<
~ Miyara Miwa
I looked down the dark hole, seeing only Res Li in a small pool of light from his lantern about 40 feet down. I could see nothing else. After a short while, he called up to us haul him back up, and we did so.
While he was down the hole, he had used that odd ability of his to see past walls.
He saw a partly finished room, cut out of the rock but not well-finished in the faerie style. The floor was covered with about 2 feet of wet mud and was a very dark brown. He saw an exit to one side. The only contents were the decaying bodies of two ogres, which no doubt accounted at least partially for the miasma of scent that rolled up the hole to where we stood. It must have been a very tight fit for them to get here through that hole. The room was about 12 feet high, and the exit passage about 10. He said the passage turned after about 20 feet and was still covered in mud as far as he could see.
We decided to anchor the rope up here and climb down. As long as someone else did not come along behind us and detach it, we could climb back up. Mongo pointed out that even if someone did detach the rope, he could probably toss Res Li up to this room, and he could then re-attach the rope for us.
Kyosuke wondered if Res Li could see a way to drain the mud on the floor beneath it. I asked if he could, but he said no, there was nothing under the mud. Just a solid floor. Which also meant that this strange vertical hole ended or began right there. Something shot up through it, perhaps?
Kyosuke was also concerned over my self and possessions and thought we should take a raft so I would not have to slog through the mud. A kind thought, but I did not bother to translate it. I could not fight effectively from a small and unsteady platform. Why would these barbarians agree to pull me along on a raft? I am a warrior, after all, not a fine lady. They naturally seem to look upon me as a leader, and a leader does not ask of her people that which she is not willing to do herself.
Jeisan started lowering people down the hole. The White Faerie left some of his heavier belongings up here, along with the chest. Res Li set a trap on it and we concealed it as best we could with the detritus here. I had little left, and I carried it all with me.
Mongo went first, with a lantern. We sent a board down next so he could set his the lantern on it and free his hands to aid the rest of us.
Kyosuke followed, then I was lowered down. Everyone else followed, then Jeisan tied off the rope up there and climbed down himself. The mud really was about 2 feet deep, which was chest-high on Res Li, so Mongo carried him on his shoulders.
Nothing being in this room, we started towards the exit, the thick mud pulling at our legs with every step. It was up over my knees, and we all slogged through it slowly. My boots could probably be cleaned once we return to the surface, but the clothes I was wearing would likely be past recovery. At least I was dressed like a barbarian peasant at the time. The few good clothes I had left were carefully stowed away in my pack, which I carried above the mud.
Kyosuke and I led, then Mongo with Res Li, who carried a lantern, Jeisan, Sutoiko, Ravena (with a lantern), Caramela, Sun (with a lantern), Shan, Ash, and finally the White Faerie.
At the bend in the tunnel, we could either continue or turn. There was only mud in both directions. We continued with the bend, and came to another unfinished room. There was another exit from that room, but nothing else. Res Li took a glance under the mud and saw nothing but the floor. As we walked through the room, Res Li shouted out, "mudskippers!" I told Kyosuke what he had said, but none of us could actually see whatever it was he warned us against. Res Li said they were everywhere, some of them clinging to us like leeches. I wondered if salt would take care of them, but it did not really matter, since I had none anyway.
I asked Res Li if I had any of them on me, and he said two were on my boots. I saw nothing but strings of mud. One string was on the inside of my ankle, and I tried to squish it between both ankles, but it did not really squish. Then I grabbed an arrow and poked at one. That worked: the arrow pierced it and it turned to mud in reality. I poked the other one, and the others followed suit.
As Kyosuke entered the exit tunnel, Res Li shouted something, just as a sideways portcullis slammed into Kyosuke. Kyosuke, warned by the shout even though he could not understand it, twisted away, but was badly chewed up. Thankfully he was not trapped completely by it. He also managed to twist back into the room, so he was not trapped on the other side from us.
Ravena immediately stepped up to help Kyosuke, who passed out just as quickly. Jeisan held him up out of the mud so Ravena could care for him.
We posted some guards, and Ash started to whack through the portcullis with an axe. I stood near Kyosuke, watching Ravena.
I heard Caramela say, "That does not look right," and the mud started to boil up and a tentacle reached out and grabbed her.
Ravena left my cousin and turned towards Caramela, and Jeisan shouted for someone to take Kyosuke so he could fight. Other tentacles came up out of the mud and attacked us.
I attacked one that was near Kyosuke, and the others fought as well. Ravena turned back to Kyosuke and took him from Jeisan, so he could join the battle. A quick glance told me that Mongo had beaten away the tentacle around Caramela, then I returned to my fight, Kyosuke also taken care of.
We fought them to a draw: as one fled our blades, another would take its place. Sheer attrition could have given the tentacles our lives, but instead of pressing on, they all suddenly withdrew.
Res Li looked beneath the mud and the floor and saw the origin of the tentacles. He pointed out the body to us. He said it was an octupus-looking thing that seemed to swim somehow in the very earth. So perhaps, even though it seemed to continually put out more tentacles, there was only so much damage it could take at once. I could hope.
Ash went back to hacking through the portcullis, and the White Faerie tried to drive Mongo's extra short sword through the floor into the creature's body with his maul. It was a worthy effort, but only the tip reached through. Res Li said the creature moved towards the exit, and four tentacles came back up and attacked Ash.
They pulled him under, and Jason, Mongo, and the White Faerie were just barely able to defeat the tentacles and pull him back up again before he drowned. I stood nearby, ready but useless, as I could not get in close enough to attack tentacles without harming Ash beneath the mud.
Ravena started healing those of us who were injured, and Jeisan started hacking through the portcullis. Res Li watched carefully, but the creature disappeared down the passage ahead of us. I was certain we would meet it again.
Jeisan finished his task long before Ravena, but we stayed long enough so we were healthy enough to meet the octopus again, or any other creatures down here. It was worth the extra time.
Before continuing down the cleared tunnel, we re-arranged ourselves. Jeisan carried Res Li in the front, so he could take careful looks at (and beneath) everything before we got there. Kyosuke followed, then me, Sutoiko, Ravena, Caramela, Ash, Sun, Shan, the White Faerie, and finally Mongo.
We walked down the passageway safely, if muddily, and came to another room, this one finished. It was very large and tall, and had a stage, whose floor was well above the mud, and several other exits. With a place to get out of the mud for a while and clean ourselves off, we climbed up gratefully. The mud there smelled as bad as anywhere, despite the tall ceiling, and was very sticky. Res Li tried to guide us around some benches hidden under the mud, but we bumped into some anyway.
We scraped as much mud off ourselves as we could, and searched and destroyed the mud-worms. The White Faerie was quite upset, as his boot nails had been eaten away, and in fact anything metal that had been under the mud unprotected was damaged or gone. I was wearing very little metal, and I inspected my two swords minutely. Their wooden scabbards, vastly superior to the flimsy leather things they use here in the west, had protected them quite well. Still, afterwards I carried them as far away from the mud as I could, and carefully wiped them and the scabbards clean at every opportunity.
Feeling much better after removing pounds of mud, we turned our attention to the stage we were on. The walls around the stage were covered with rotting, deep blue cloth. Jeisan reached for a piece to wipe off his boots, but it crumbled into dust at his touch. There was nothing but a wall behind it.
The opening from the stage was out of the mud, which was a relief, but the other doors were not. Res Li looked through the door on the stage, but the corridor on the other side sloped down and back into the mud anyway.
Res Li looked through the other doors, on Mongo's shoulders. One had a finished passage as far as he could see, with another door from it about 10 feet in. The other one curved past his sight.
He described it carefully to Ravena, who appeared to have a good head for maps. She said she had a fairly clear idea how it all fit together.


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Here’s hoping you haven’t gotten completely burned out on countdowns yet. 2009 was hardly a favorite musical year for many of us, but amid each year’s glut of throwaway items, there’s always a good’un or two (or forty). The following is the first installment of our Best Singles of 2009 list, which will conclude tomorrow morning. Best Albums will follow next week.
As with the Singles of the Decade feature, this countdown has been compiled through combination of four equally weighed Top 20 lists by Kevin, Leeann, Tara and myself. An inverted point system was applied to the individual rankings (#1 on a list meant 20 points, while #20 on the list meant 1 point). The songs were then ranked together by number of total points, greatest to least. The final result is another rather stylistically diverse set.
As always, we hope you enjoy the countdown, and welcome all the feedback you can muster. Happy New Year!
Lady Antebellum, “Need You Now”
The trio puts a country spin on an old school pop sound, but without forsaking raw emotion. The highlight of the song is Hillary Scott’s smoky performance, which draws out all the anguish and regret you’d expect from a desperate, 1 AM lover’s call. – Tara Seetharam
It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these, distracted as we’ve been by decade-end madness, but now seems like an appropriate day to jump back in, with a diverse bevy of MP3 albums being offered at Amazon for 5 bucks or better. As always, click on the box to listen to clips or to reach the album’s download page.
First up is the Daily Deal, the Avett Brothers’ excellent 2007 set Emotionalism, going today for $1.99. This group kind of defies genre classification, but they have enough of an earthy quality to their music to appeal to the Americana set. They’re building quite a following, too.
The 201 Greatest Singles of the Decade, Part 6: #100-81
Alison Krauss & Union Station
A shimmering moment of infatuation. Krauss is entangled in thoughts of her beloved, torn between the exhilaration of liking someone so intensely and the ache of not actually having the person. – Dan Milliken
#99 I’m Holdin’ On to Love (To Save My Life)
A terribly catchy slice of country-pop that, true to Twain, doesn’t sacrifice authenticity for appeal – Twain simply embodies the snappy energy that pulses through the song. – Tara Seetharam
The 201 Greatest Singles of the Decade, Part 3: #160-#141
#160 “Last Call”
Lee Ann Womack
Womack’s second-best Aughts song about late-night temptations is still better than a lot of people’s first-best songs about anything. Even in avoiding her drunken ex’s advances, she sounds positively heartbroken, suggesting she’d gladly make the other decision if she didn’t know better. – Dan Milliken
#159 “She’s Not Just a Pretty Face”
Her motivation for her music has always been escapism, but I love the personal touch she slips into this one. Her late mother is the one who she’s referring to when she sings “at night, she pumps gasoline.” – Kevin Coyne
Evidently, country artists in Nashville are damn proud to be from the country – so proud that they each feel the need to record a song proclaiming just this and, no less, release it to country radio. I’ve lost track of the number of these singles put out in the past year, a handful of which I’ve found to be borderline offensive. As a city girl with a heck of a lot of love for the spirit of country music, I’d rather not be made to feel like I’m being excluded from a members-only club.
Anthony Smith is likely better known as a songwriter than a recording artist. As a well established songwriter, he’s written songs for Trace Adkins”I’m Tryin’”, “Chrome”), George Strait (“Run”), Tim McGraw (“Kristofferson”), Montgomery Gentry (“What Do You Think About That”), Trisha Yearwood (“Who Reinvented the Wheel”), and countless other big name stars. As a recording artist he has struggled, releasing his 2002 If That Ain’t Country to some positive critical reception, but ultimately met with limited commercial success. In an attempt to revive the singing part of his career, Smith has recently signed with Stroudavarious Records, which has released the offbeat rocker, “Bringing Back the Sunshine”, as the upcoming album’s lead single.
As I work my way through these categories, it’s becoming apparent to me that this was a very weak year for country music. I’m struggling to come up with a list of five women who actually made a musical impact over the twelve months that make up the eligibility period.
Only two women have made any serious commercial impact this year, so I’m filling up the category with the women who put out solid music that also did reasonably well:
If the Grammys can acknowledge her, I don’t see why the CMA should overlook her. She made an excellent covers album that has sold as well as several major label efforts. She was a surprise nominee in 2003 on the strength of Mountain Soul, and it would be nice to see the CMA show such good judgment again.
I was wary about reviewing this after hearing the gist, as I’ve become pretty sick of songs that remark on how awesome and fulfilling everyday life is. It’s not the theme itself that bothers me; it’s that most songs just gush about it, as though they have to really hype up the idea for you to buy in. It usually ends up sounding more defensive than celebratory, like an insecure person trying to brag – “What? All my friends just got raises? Well, I’ve got all I need, and it’s alright by me! I’m living in paradise! Yeah! So screw you guys!”
Not the case with “All I Ask For Anymore.” There is an understated, unassuming quality to this lyric that just makes it sound real, even as the verses cover a lot of well-trod ground. I suppose the key difference lies in the approach – he’s not straining to prove how great life with his wife and kids is; he’s just reflecting on how it’s changed him and leaving us to make our own judgments. Music for adults – nice.
It’s time for an album sales update, our first since May 23. Brad Paisley is off to a strong start with American Saturday Night, selling 130k in its first week. That’s about 70k less than his previous two studio albums – Time Well Wasted and 5th Gear – opened with, but not a terrible drop-off, considering the state of the music market.
Meanwhile, the new studio albums by Rascal Flatts and Keith Urban are slowing down considerably, now being outpaced on a weekly basis by 2008 releases by Taylor Swift, Zac Brown Band, Darius Rucker and Lady Antebellum.
Among younger acts with a new album in 2009, the most impressive sales are coming from Jason Aldean, while 2008 releases from Kellie Pickler, Billy Currington, and Randy Houser are showing new signs of life.
Biggest disappointments? It’s hard not to look in the direction of Martina McBride, who has barely cleared the 100k mark on her new studio set. Lee Ann Womack’s 2008 set just made it over that mark, too. Then again, one only needs to have sold 455 copies to make the chart this week, with the anchor position going to Wynonna with that total. Her covers album Sing – Chapter 1 has sold 41k to date.
Here are the latest totals for albums released over the past three years that are still charting:

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This workshop walks you through the complex network of policy issues, which gives the impression at once of Asia as a divided region and of Asia as a uniquely harmonious region. To capture Asia as such, the workshop also offers an idea of how to go about examining it.
The workshop connects Keio University and Kyoto University through a distant conferencing system. By connecting the two campuses, the workshop enriches the human resources to be exploited for offering more diverse lectures on various issues in Asia. This year, the responsibility for selecting the topics and lectures goes to Kyoto University. This is also a "workshop," meaning that the lectures are meant to stimulate your interests in Asia and to give a broader perspective for your interests.
This year, the course consists of three major parts: one, the ways (some of which are unusual) by which to capture “Asia,”; two, the examination of the Asian theater where "democratization" is going through its new phase; and three, the observation of Asian "life" under the pressures of global warming and other fundamental changes in its environment.
Given the nature of the topics, we invite not only academics as speakers but also the practitioners of many stripes. (Having practitioners as guest speakers makes the scheduling a somewhat haphazard chore, and therefore we also would like to ask your tolerance to possible last-minute changes in the invited speakers (and topics).
We will provide online the basic readings, to be announced later. We do encourage the students to familialize themselves with the use of JSTOR (a massive online library of journal essays from more than 500 English academic journals over the past 70 years.)
Unlike a regular lecture course, the workshop demands the students to be actively involved in all phases of its progress. Here as an introduction to Asian studies, we offer ways by which to capture the issues in Asian theater.
(This is offered only to Keio students as Kyoto University's first week won't start till the following week.)
第2回 Orientation: Mechanism of how the
We'll outline how the twin-campus workshop works.
第3回 Orientation: the fundamentals of Research
Reach in Practice and the necessary skills and "thinking"
第4回 On globalization and regional economy 1: specifics TBA
第5回 On globalization and regional economy 2: specifics TBA
Free Trade Regime
第6回 On globalization and regional economy 3: specifics TBA
第7回 Asian Theatre in Cross-Border Problems 1: specifics TBA
Health issues for non-medical people
第8回 Interim Discussion: Give us ideas as to where your thinking is
We'll introduce some of the ideas of the students who have wet their appetite for more after a half of the semester. We ask 2 to 3 students from each of Keio and Kyoto to tell us what they plan to submit as the final product (assignment) for the workshop.
第9回 Asian Theatre in Cross-Border Problems 2: specifics TBA
Part of Global warming problems, we call attention to the worsening problem of de-forestation
第10回 Asian Theatre in Cross-Border Problems 3: specifics TBA
We have macro-level problems that we can capture at a macro-level observation
第11回 Asian Theatre in Cross-Border Problems 4: specifics TBA
Is Islamic economy peripheral to or an integral part of Asia?
第12回 Cases 1: specifics TBA
As Asian economy has been undergoing radial and fundamental changes, the necessity has become even more acute to capture how these changes have effects on the fundamental units of life: family and gender relationship.
第13回 Cases 3: specifics TBA
Pandemics are both medical and epidemic (reads -- human relationship) issues. Asia has been known both to host some of serious pandemics and to contain and solve them.
第14回 A wrap-up session
We will ask a few of the students to exhibit their final products (the products ready for the final finishing touch.)
Students will have a choice from below to pursue the final requirement:
1.A short essay (more than 5 but less than 8-page essay + relevant bibliography
2.A Collage of still-photos + a more than 2 but less than 4-page annotation of the collage
3.A 5-minutes video + a more than 2 but less than 4-page annotation of the video
Also, some of the students will be asked to offer a brief presentation of final product
Though conducted in English, the instructors of the workshop are willing to assist the students who may have the language difficulties keeping up with the workshop.

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TS LAWCET 2016, TS PGLCET 2016 Notifications, Online Applications
—- by Mythri Krishna
Hyderabad, 2 March, 2016: Telangana State Law Common Entrance Test 2016 and Post Graduate Law Common Entrance Test 2016 Notifications have been released. Telangana State Council of Higher Education today released both notifications.
TSLAWCET-2015 and TSPGLCET- 2015 are entrance tests for admission into LL.B 3/5 Year Law Courses and LL.M. Courses in the Universities in Telangana State and their affiliated colleges. These tests are being conducted by Kakatiya University, Warangal on behalf of Telangana State Council of Higher Education, Hyderabad.
TS LAWCET 2016, TS PGLCET 2016 Important Dates:
Notification releases on: 5th March 2016
Online Application procedure begins from: 8th March 2016
Last Date to apply: 10th April 2016
Date of the examination: 24th April 2016
For more details see here: http://tslawcet.org/


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My favorite albums of the first half of 2021.
SCO returns with solid album of warm melodies.
The Vicious Head Society returns with a sprawling, masterful sophomore effort.
Lord Helmet returns with a quirky, spacious album that bests their debut.
Rose Riebl debuts with a pensive, eloquent album of expression and quiet power.
My thoughts on three recent metal EPs.
JSC releases a well-written, passionate album.
ISON returns with a stunning and emotional new record.
Giant Sky debuts with an otherworldly, cosmic experience.
Aythis offers up a dreamy, hazy experience.

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Minimising damage to forage through the movement of bales looks to be significantly improved by the development of Alo’s new bale handler, Flexibal®.
“We’ve always known that the movement of wrapped bales is a tricky task, with many producers incurring wastage due to rips and tearing,” says Graham Gould, Alo technical support specialist.
He says it was the prevention of these losses that inspired the production of Flexibal®. “We responded to customer demand by creating a bale handler with smaller rollers to allow easier access to bales, when moving, stacking or feeding conserved forage. It’s particularly of use for bales that have become squashed in storage, and are difficult to access.
“The new Flexibal® will soon be available with smaller rollers. The new smaller roller is 89mm diameter, compared to the current roller which is 129mm. “The new roller design allows for easier access for bales that have settled over the winter,” Says Graham.
“The generous length and diameter of the rotating steel tubes mounted on two powerful stone fork tines means that bales are handled with precision,” says Graham, who adds that it applies an even pressure under the bale that provides even more accuracy.
“Furthermore when the rotating steel tubes are removed, the fork tines can be used for pallet handling (max. 1000kgs) and a spike,” he adds.
The prices for the new Flexibal® with small rollers start from £1025 retail. The new bale handler will be on display at this year Royal Highland Show on 23-26 June and at The Royal Welsh Show on 18-21 July.


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Particular scrutiny has been raised over the safe practices of international women in rural Cina, especially in terms of love-making assault, local violence and perhaps child marital relationship. While it is true that these challenges do exist, they are a % of instances. Some overseas brides have also said having into having sexual associations with several men, having into making love with multiple partners at once or staying subjected to afeitado has occurred in their foreign relationships.
It is therefore very important intended for both countries to understand the down sides facing women in China and tiawan. Many international brides from around the world have said that they can were taken advantage of, specifically by the star of the wedding brokers. Many have also talked about that the brokerages had the ability to manipulate all of them into needing to give up the consent prior to the wedding ceremony. This practice was reportedly common in some on the countries with higher degrees of crime and violence against women.
There is also the concern of whether or perhaps not the federal government of China is doing enough to protect the women. While more foreign girls arrive to Cina and want to revisit home, they are looking for the very best opportunities to experience their families. In the event that China will not improve the legal rights of women in the areas where these brides come in, then there is a definite risk that many of these brides may well migrate in another country and marry with people who all are not their particular age.
This could happen in China and tiawan because of the elevating number of relationships among Chinese men and overseas women. The federal government should check into all of the concerns related to this problem. They also have to investigate the practices of brokers and make sure that this does not go on to occur.
A lack of education in the area of marital relationship and connections could be one of the factors behind the situation of many foreign women in China engaged and getting married to Oriental men. The culture in this country is very classic and possesses little dignity for women. Seeing that more teen women try to make it big in the Chinese world of business, they become frustrated when points don’t job out in marriage.
In the case of overseas women marrying local males, the new bride may feel that she is shedding her social status in the event she could not marry a local man. In fact , many Chinese women of all ages have said that they feel by doing this because the parents told them that they can should only marry Far east men. or perhaps that the person will only get married to local young ladies.
Naturally , there are also a few instances through which these two nationalities seem to supplement each other appropriately. Many international women are able to get through their initial cultural boundaries and marry to community men. Sad to say, for a group of women who also are unable to do so, wedding ends up resulting in broken minds.
For you if you in China and tiawan, the he said choice of getting married to a foreigner can sometimes be difficult, nevertheless they should not lose hope. Foreign ladies can also do their portion by taking care of their own communities and working for equality in the community. Many people need to live in a society where there is no elegance and yet it seems that this is not the case.
For some women, their own traditions or perhaps cultural variances mean that they will feel that they can not live and marry an area man. In many ways, this can lead to isolation and remote location, especially in the present day’s highly competitive community.
Some women in european countries can easily still live happily with their partners and kids. If the China wedding brides in China and tiawan feel that they can not do this, it would be wise to help them to look for an individual in a western region who is even more open minded.
However , in most of these ladies in Cina, the best option could be to stay and work in the state. This would provide them with the opportunity to live and work alongside the local world. At least they would have a chance of doing hence without the fear of being stuck in the same routine mainly because everyone else.

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Lefever Grades 1892
The following are scans from the original Lefever catalogs describing the Grades of the guns. However, Lefever Guns varied considerably from the grade description and through a Special Order process you could get an almost infinite set of variations depending on what you wanted. Take the catalog descriptions as a basis to start, but nothing was "written in stone" concerning the Grade assigned and what the buyer ordered.
1892 Catalog Lefever Arms Co.


"It's with great pleasure we can now announce the next two bands for PROGPOWER SCANDINAVIA 2009:
Headliner for the first night of our main-event will be Swedish doom metal kings Candlemass (www.candlemass.se). 10 full length albums, a live album, a couple of live DVDs and a bunch of EPs, into their career and they are sounding better than ever, a statement to which the new album "Death Magic Doom" (their second with American vocalist Robert Lowe) serves as bullet-proof evidence. Although Candlemass isn't exactly power or progressive metal, we feel that their heavy-as-hell blend of classic metal infused riffs and doom-stomping beats makes them the prime example of how genre-descriptions doesn't really matter - it's all about the quality! We're sure that any open minded music fan will be able to embrace this fantastic band and enjoy witnessing them headline the first night of PP Scan 2009.
German metallers Deadlock posted the following statement on their myspace page:
"We're not happy to announce, that we parted ways with Tom after more than 7 common years. Due to some musical and personal differences we agreed with him that it's better to make a cut.
There's no shittalking whatsoever, no bad mood or angry feelings. We just decided that Deadlock should go on with a new bass player.
We thank Tom for all the amazing years, the great time, his friendship and all our happy experiences together!
All future shows will be played with session musicians until we find a new member for that part. More news on our search for the new DEADLOCK family member will be posted soon!"
"Donnie Hamzik, the original drummer for Manowar, will be on tour with the band in 2009! Manowar and special guests HolyHell will be headlining some of Europe's major metal festivals, including their very own Magic Circle Festival III at the Loreley on the Rhine River in Germany on Saturday, July 18, 2009."
Look for official news and tour dates as they develop on Manowar appearances and events via http://www.manowar.com/tour.html.
As reported by Liverpool Echo, Liverpool-based Anathema who were about to play to more than 1,000 fans in Tunisia had the plug pulled on their concert when authorities believed rumours they were Satanists.
Anfield group Anathema were ready to perform a sold out gig in the capital Tunis when they were told they could not go ahead. They hoped to reschedule for a couple of nights later but the gig was cancelled a second time.
Guitar technician Darryl Anthony wrote in his blog: "Our promoter told us that somebody has informed the Tunisian interior ministry that Anathema are Satan worshippers who eat black cats and drink their blood. The ministry have requested song lyrics to peruse over the weekend in order to put their minds at rest."
Royal Hunt are entering the very final stages of preproduction for their new - tenth since their debut in 1991 - studio album (the actual recordings will start by the end of this month). This time the band decided to revisit their roots and incorporate some of the musical values of the 70´s into their songwriting as well as - in order to reinforce that particular atmosphere - employing mostly "retro" means of production (recording in analogue format exclusively being one of them). Music has been described as "an interesting mix of what's been tagged as Classic Rock nowadays (established by Kansas, Genesis, ELP´s earlier works and Deep Purple, Uriah Heep´s classics from the same era) and Royal Hunt´s trademark composition/delivery".
The following update was issued on Century Media's website:
"Norwegian melodic black metal masters Old Man's Child, led by guitarist/vocalist Galder (Dimmu Borgir), are about to return to the spotlight with the release of their new album "Slaves Of The World".
The album was recorded at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden with acclaimed producer Fredrik Nordström (Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy, In Flames, etc.), who had previously worked successfully with the band on their "In Defiance Of Existence" (2003) and "Vermin" (2005) albums. For drum duties and sticking to the tradition of bringing in a new exceptional player for each new album, Old Man's Child mastermind Galder decided to enlist Peter Wildoer (Darkane, ex-Arch Enemy, Pestilence, etc.) this time around, guaranteeing a mercilessly blasting, yet technically high skilled musical punch from start to finish! This extreme, yet bombastically melodic Black Metal masterpiece is rounded off by devilish artwork by Gustavo Sazes (Firewind, God Forbid, Krisiun, etc.)."
The Ocean guitarist Robin Staps has issued the following statement regarding the departure of vocalist Mike Pilat:
"Being in a band is the constant struggle to reach the one, the final, the ultimate line-up. The right people, the right musicians. The line-up that clicks, where the music that is created on stage is somehow greater than the sum of each individual's output. Once a band has reached that line-up, it is flirting with divinity, it has the chance to be larger than life, to touch majesty.
Any lineup is usually a very fragile constellation, and essentially a ticking time-bomb. 5 passionate people's egos, their respective ideas, preferences, defects, habits, characters, the insecurities of their lives, all these are dangerous threats to the existence and future of a band. Struggle is an integral part of any band's existence. As my friend Mitch pointed out recently, Van Halen were only a decent band with David Lee Roth in the band, but everybody hated him. There are countless examples.
Swedish Death Metal monsters Vomitory have posted the first new song of their upcoming album "Carnage Euphoria", to be released on 8 May via Metal Blade Records. Click here to download (mp3) or here to stream "Serpents".
The first single from the forthcoming album "Skyforger" will be titled "Silver Bride" and is set for release on April 22 (Finland only). As announced earlier, the street date for the new Amorphis album is May 27 in Finland and May 29 in the remaining European countries. In addition to the basic version, "Skyforger" will be available as a special digipak edition featuring the bonus track "Godlike Machine".
UPDATE (thanks to 13767)
Amorphis have made "Silver Bride" available for streaming online at this location.
German extreme metal outfit Neaera have posted the first new song off their upcoming album "Omnicide - Creation Unleashed". Click here for the mp3 download or visit this link to check out the album opener "I Loathe".
"Omnicide - Creation Unleashed" will be released on May 22 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy and on 25 May in the rest of Europe via Metal Blade Records.
"We would like to proudly announce that Polish death metallers Vader have inked a deal with German giant- Nuclear Blast Records! We are very glad that after so many years Vader finally joined one of the biggest metal labels in the world. We really believe in their potential, experience and famous German reliability. We are pretty confident that the cooperation will be successful both for the band and the record label. Now Vader is ready to explode! We have been waiting for such a solid record deal for sooo long so it's safe to say that the new era in Vader's career has just begun!". The upcoming album "Necropolis", currently being recorded and produced at Hertz and Antfarm Studios, will be released by Nuclear Blast at the end of August. Vader will start to promote the album a bit earlier, appearing on a pre-summer tour and some summer festivals, such as Hellfest, With Full Force, Summer Breeze, Metalcamp and others. Regular Polish and European tours are planned for autumn. Furthermore Vader is going to appear on extensive tours in the US, Canada, South America, Japan and Asia, Australia and Russia. More info concerning band's future plans will follow soon. The last but not least, we would like to thank Regain Records for all these years of our cooperation- all the best to you!"
US Death/Doom metal outfit Fall Of Empyrean have announced they have signed with Germany's Grau Records, home of Longing For Dawn, Mourning Beloveth, Mael Mórdha, and others. Their first album for Grau will be their oft-delayed third full-length, "A Life Spent Dying." There is no official release date yet, but they hope to announce that in the near future.
In honor of As I Lay Dying's upcoming triple DVD release "This Is Who We Are", Metal Blade has created a handful of exclusive clips and given them to different sites to offer fans a sneak peak of the upcoming DVD. Check out the latest clip viewable exclusively at HMMagazine.com.
Other preview clips are available here and here.
"This Is Who We Are" will be released April, 9th / 14th in Europe!


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An age-old body massage scraping tool is a traditional Chinese physical therapy for expelling toxin and preventing diseases. A simple scraping plate coupled
with oil,coconut oil ,a lotion skin cream or other medium when applied to the body repeatedly, Take a moment to release tension, refresh your mind and relax your body.
can reach the effect of smoothing and blood flow, stimulating main and collateral channels, expelling toxins and alleviating pain.
Wadrac Body Restorer Applications
✔Scar Tissue Massage Tool
✔Relieves Plantar Fasciitis
✔Promotes better sleep
✔Relieves muscular pain & headaches

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The 126-year-old international symbol of Paris will remain lit up in the colours of the French flag for three nights.
Rachel Wells, Robyn Grace Remarkable stories of survival are emerging three days after the Paris attacks which have left 129 people dead and at least 350 injured.
Nick Miller In a historic address at the palace of Versailles, French president Francois Hollande has proposed to rewrite some of his country's basic laws to give him greater powers to wage war on terror.
Peter Hannam 100 quadrillion kilojoules of heat in the central Pacific is helping to drive record world temperatures.
Lindsay Murdoch Opposition leader says he will return 'in the next few days' after being advised not to arrive late at night.
Mark Kenny The French President proposes sweeping changes to citizenship laws that may exceed controversial similar powers legislated in Australia.
Tom Allard Is Islamic State trying to lure the West into a full-scale invasion and fulfil a prophecy of an end-of-days battle with the crusaders?
Megan Levy These are the faces of the Paris tragedy.
France's government declared a nationwide state of emergency after Friday's terror attacks. What powers does this give to the French state?
Nick O'Malley "We don't add religious tests to our compassion," President says.

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Doggies slider photo puzzle for Android
Doggies slider photo puzzle game for android description: Doggies slider photo puzzle is a fun 3 in 1 sliding puzzle game with a cute doggy theme.
Each of the 25 photo puzzles can be played in 3 difficulty levels easy (3x3 8 puzzle) medium (4x4 15 puzzle) and hard (5x5 24 puzzle).
You first choose the doggie photo and difficulty level from the menu.
The object of the puzzle is to place the scrambled photo tiles back in order by making sliding moves that use the empty space.
If you love doggies you will enjoy playing this addictive slider photo puzzle.
8 puzzle (3x3 grid) 15 puzzle (4x4 grid) and 24 puzzle (5x5 grid) are the 3 most popular classic sliding number puzzles and you can pick your levels to play all three games here.
Doggies slider photo puzzle is a free android game designed for your smart phones and tablets.
Therere lots of adorable doggy pictures for you to view and play.
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The conversion comes from Germany’s Bavarian Econs and, unusually, uses a 400V system that allows rapid charging and delivers a significant performance boost. In the entry-level 2002te there’s a 33kWh battery powering a 178bhp electric motor for a considerable increase in performance over the original two-litre motor. Even in fuel-injected tii form the 2002 could only muster 126bhp from dino juice. Bavarian Econs has managed to minimise any weight increase with the electric powertrain, and the car comes in at 1,100kg – just a little more than factory-spec. Pegging a 0-62mph run in 6.2 seconds, it’s significantly swifter than the original car.
Of course Bavarian Econs also has its own take on the Munich Legend 2002 Turbo. Its Turboe gets a bigger 45KWh battery pack and a 247bhp motor which cuts that 0-62mph sprint down to 4.5 seconds. It gets 80kW charging, compared to the te’s 50kW rating as well. Both cars’ range is tipped at 120 miles and top speed is capped at 105 mph.
Bavarian Econs strengthens the bodyshell, adds KW Classic V3 sport suspension and the conversion also delivers a 50/50 weight distribution. “With the new weight distribution, the car has more traction,” says founder Edgar Navarro Soto. “The biggest difference is on curvy roads or in wet conditions. The ICE 2002 loses traction in the rear axle much sooner while the Econ can stay on track while turning.” The company says it has put the car to the test on Germany’s unlimited autobahns and on twisty alpine roads.
From the outside the te looks pretty standard, while the Turboe is more flamboyant, featuring wider arches, BBS alloys and a tasty front air dam. Aside from vintage-style sports seats and a Momo Prototipo wheel the interior has kept its original look, although the gauges are repurposed to show battery information instead of fuel level and engine temperature. Electric air conditioning and a sports mode are controlled by standard-issue switches.
Should you want a Bavarian Econ for yourself you’ll need to provide a donor car, then find over £120,000 for a 2002te or almost double that for a Turboe. You’ll need to be patient, too, with the waiting list currently up to 16 months.


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(Neb.)-I-80 And Portions of I-90 Now Open
The Following highways are NOW OPEN:
ALL of I-80 in Nebraska is NOW OPEN.
All of Hwy. 30 in Nebraska is NOW OPEN. The roadway is still very slick and traffic MUST reduce speeds.
Hwy 71 is expected to open later this afternoon; we will keep you updated.
The following highways are still closed:
Hwy 71 from the Colorado State Line to LawnChurch (26 miles south of Crawford)
Hwy 88 from Bridgeport to the Wyoming Line
L7E from Hemingford to Hwy 87 (16 mile corner)
Travel is not allowed on any of the closed segments. It is expected that most of the closed segments to be opening throughout the day. Please drive slowly and allow extra time for your trip. The roads are very slick, and visibility can still be a problem in localized areas.
--Nebraska Department of Roads
South Dakota Department of Transportation officials have announced that Interstate 90 between Rapid City and Wall has reopened.
Interstate 90 between Wall and Mitchell remains closed. There is no estimated time for it to be reopened. Crews are working to clear a number of stuck vehicles east of Wall. Officials closed Interstate 90 from Rapid City to Sioux Falls Tuesday night due to snow and ice.
Officials say it is unknown when additional interstate openings will occur.
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MANILA, Philippines – Alfonso Cuaron took home the Oscar for Best Director during the 2019 Academy Awards at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater on Sunday, February 24 (Monday, February 25, Philippine time)
This year’s win is for the movie Roma.
Roma, which Cuaron also wrote, is a semi-autobiographical account of his years growing up in the Colonia Roma neighborhood of Mexico City. It stars newcomer Yalitza Aparicio as Cleo, a domestic worker.
“I want to thank the Academy for recognizing a film centered around an indigenous woman, one of the 70 million domestic workers in the world without work rights… As artists, our job is to look where others don’t. This responsibility becomes much more important in times when we are being encouraged to look away,” said Cuaron in his speech.
He bested other nominees in the category including Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman), Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War), Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite), and Adam McKay (Vice). – Rappler.com


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Aggravated Battery Arrest At Quincy Junior High School
(QUINCY) — A 13-year-old juvenile faces aggravated battery charges following an incident at 7:42 Thursday morning at Quincy Junior High.
Quincy Police say a fight in retaliation for an incident outside of school resulted in a 13-year-old juvenile striking another student in the head with a combination lock. The victim was taken to Blessing Hospital for treatment. The 13-year-old juvenile was released to his parent.


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Captain McVay was quickly court-martialed for having failed to follow evasive maneuvers, "the first captain in the history of the U.S. Navy," Doug Stanton observes, "to be court-martialed subsequent to losing his ship in an act of war." Although the sailors under his command would insist that McVay had been scapegoated, and although I-58's commander testified before the court that "he would have sunk the Indianapolis no matter what course she was on," McVay was never able to clear his name. He committed suicide in 1968.
Stanton captures the drama of these events in his vigorous narrative, which augments and updates Richard Newcomb's Abandon Ship!. Stanton observes that although McVay was exonerated by an act of Congress in 2000, the conviction still stands in Navy records. Stanton's book makes a powerful case for why that conviction should be overturned, and why the captain and crew of the Indianapolis deserve honor. --Gregory McNamee --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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PIKEVILLE – Walter E. May has been named this year’s John A. Strosnider, D.O., Memorial Lecturer.
May is the president and CEO of Pikeville Medical Center and was instrumental in the early development of the medical school.
The award acknowledges May’s service to the Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine (KYCOM) and the osteopathic profession. Presented annually, the award was established in honor of Strosnider, the medical school’s founding dean. Previous recipients include G. Chad Perry III, Burlin Coleman, Bennie Ray Bailey, Paul E. Patton, William H. Owens, Terry Dotson and Hal Smith.

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THE CASTLE OF FRATTA, second only to Alessandro Manzoni’s THE BETROTHED among Italian novels of the nineteenth century, is the English title of LE CONFESSIONI DI UN OTTUAGENARIO, written between December, 1857, and August, 1858, by Ippolito Nievo, one of Garibaldi’s historic “Thousand.” Nievo never lived to revise his work, to which he originally gave the patriotic title, “Le confessioni di un Italiano”; the later change of name was made by his publisher, who thought Nievo’s title too forthright for those unsettled times.
THE CASTLE OF FRATTA is a particularly striking example of those few masterpieces of fiction which encroach upon history, impress upon it their unity and values, and in so doing create what becomes the conventional image of an era. The work is as much an epitaph as a confessional novel, for it became the means to the creation of the myth of Ippolito Nievo, a myth of patriotic selflessness which would ultimately propagate the highest ideals of the Italian Risorgimento. Indeed, fictive and real authors seem almost to converge, when Carlo Altoviti, patriot and witness to his times, concludes his narrative in 1858, three years before the patriotic death of Ippolito Nievo at sea as he attempted to rejoin Garibaldi’s “Thousand.” Unfortunately, the posthumous success of THE CASTLE OF FRATTA cast a retrospective pall over his two earlier novels ANGELO DI BONTA (1856) and IL CONTE PECORAIO (1857). His VERSI (1854), his numerous satires, short stories, and even his two tragedies SPARTACO (1919) and I CAPUANI (1914) fell prey to literary historians oblivious to their intrinsic literary merit but intent on ransacking them for some anticipation of the later masterpiece. Nevertheless, few would deny the influence of Giuseppe Giusti and Giuseppe Parini on the early chapters of THE CASTLE OF FRATTA or that of Heinrich Heine (whom Nievo translated) on his satires. Above all, they revealed the influence of Tommaseo’s emphasis on the importance of a strong, stable family to a resurgent nation. More important than the simple identification of precursors or influences, however, is the understanding of the new meaning they take on in the body of the work itself.
Although scholars such as Bozzetti, Mirmina, and others have devoted studies to Nievo’s social thought, it is important to bear in mind that these studies are often derived from his fictional works and often retain their fictional qualities. One element that nevertheless remains constant to Nievo’s social thought, whatever its origin, is his reluctance to divorce it from his understanding of the importance of his poetic vocation. The moral and national restoration he envisioned in his early VERSES and his letters to Mathilde Ferrari could only be impeded by those eunuchoid poets who continued to rehearse their formulaic anguish in an ornate, archaic style incomprehensible to the peasants, the artisans, and the poor. Literary tradition and its misuse were simply another form of oppression aimed at excluding the experience of the poor from...
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Bush Pilot Jobs
If you love living on the edge, a job as a bush pilot might be the one for you. Imagine flying rich people to private islands in the Caribbean, dropping off backcountry skiers on remote glaciers and mountains in Alaska, bringing a load of food to backpackers in Australia, taking hunters to an isolated hunting lodge in the African Bush, or picking up fisherman from an inaccessible fishing spot in Patagonia. It’s all in a days work as a bush pilot.
Bush pilots are always pushing the limits. They are flying into remote airstrips in literally the middle of nowhere. It’s got to be quite a rush when you land in some far-flung backcountry setting in places like Africa, Alaska, Canada, Australia, or Siberia where you’ll be landing and taking off on variable, natural runways – think lakes, glaciers, gravel beds, and dirt strips. Bush flying is the real deal. Check out Alaska Guide Services for a list of prospective employers – hunting and fishing outfitters by region.
Bush pilots have to be in tune with their planes, environment, and objective.
They fly small to medium propeller powered planes with large tundra tires, skis, or floats. There are never lights on the runways and usually nothing around to even set the vast wilderness to scale. To be a bush pilot, you need a commercial pilot license – roughly a $10,000 investment. Next you can take a bush pilot course, but it is unnecessary. Nothing will make up for hours logged and flight experience. Many pilots use bush flying as a way to log hours so that they can make it to a higher paying commercial pilot job. Others get hooked on the pure adrenaline and adventure of flying.
In order to have a long successful life as a bush pilot, you have to keep your skills sharp. As in any backcountry setting you must have basic survival skills. You also need to be able to repair your airplane. It’s a big machine and all sorts of things could go potentially wrong – things that a roll of duct tape and crossed fingers won’t fix. Most importantly you need to know how your airplane will perform. Flying in remote locations often means quickly changing conditions, and mountain weather. You’ll need to know about navigation, cockpit instruments, FAA rules, and much more.
The bush is wild. Be sure to buckle your seat belts because bush pilots have reported some crazy things from the far-off regions of the world – lions eating their plane tires or birds crashing into windows are just a start. They call it the wild for a reason.
Being a bush pilot takes a certain breed of person.
Bush pilots can find work at hunting lodges, fishing lodges, sightseeing flights, or as an air taxi operator. Usually you need to own your own plane. Not many people are going to let you land their plane on a gravel bed next to a river. For putting your life at risk, you won’t make a ton of money. In fact wages for bush pilots vary greatly. The best pay is in Alaska, where an experienced pilot can make $350 a day or $6,000 a month. Other less experienced pilots may only pull in around $20,000 a year.
If you’re serious about spending your career in the air, seriously consider a job as a bush pilot. You’ll truly live on the edge of your seat when you fly in unpredictable conditions and land in spots that other pilots consider dangerous.
It’s a crazy job where accidents are frequent, but there’s nothing in life quite like a bird’s eye view of the Earth.
Quick Facts About Being a Bush Pilot
Job Title: Bush Pilot
Office: An Airplane
Description: Flies into remote, inhospitable regions of the world where there is no other access
Certifications/Education: Commercial Pilots License
Necessary Skills: Aircraft Operations and Repair, Survival skills, Flight Skills
Potential Employers: Self employed, Alaska Registered Guide, Hunting or Fishing Lodge, Air Taxi Operator
Pay: Varies depending on hours logged, plane flown, and location – $19,000 to $70,000 per year, $350 per day, $6,000 per month

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Charge your phone on the go
Design studio PENSA has sketched solar powered mobile device chargers that can be attached to any street post. Everyone thought of it but the simplicity of this design and the use of solar power to make it cost-free (apart from maintenance) might make it a viable product. It comes with a tray for resting your handset or your cup of coffee while you check your e-mail.
Why it matters
If energy providers see this as an opportunity to engage positively with users in cities, they might consider other areas where they could provide a plug-in source such as gardens, boulevards, open-air malls or museums. But how can excessive freeloaders be deterred from abusing the system?
If you think you’re the trendiest and mot fashionable of the new coolest neighborhood of Madrid you just have to go to the Telefonica shop and prove it before the cameras. The Telefonica Flagship Store in cooperation with Triball (an association of more than 110 different shops of a Madrid neighborhood) and Le Cool, has organised “The Fashion Coolhunter”. Several photographers will be “hunting” the trendiest styling of Madrid. The prize: 300€ to spend in the Triball shops.
V-Gate have unveiled Metaport, a new 3D mobile gaming solution that makes the bandwidth problems that until now, have prevented online mobile gaming becoming a reality.

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October 2, 2018
On the drive to Capitol Reef we took the Scenic Byway 12, which is 122 mile route between Capitol Reef and Bryce Canyon National Parks. It holds the distinction of the All American Road.
Here is the recap video of our trip to Capitol Reef National Park .
We arrived around lunch time and it was raining so we ate in the car before heading into the visitors center to explore. The girls worked on the Junior Ranger books in the prairie dog home exhibit and would pop up and scare people… it was hilarious. These books took them a solid hour in the center and then another hour in the car as we were driving around. Some Junior Ranger booklets can take around 5 hours so we were happy to be able to finish it before we drove out of the park. On the days we can’t finish before we leave the park, we mail it in and they mail the badges to us.
Located in south-central Utah, in the heart of red rock country, Capitol Reef National Park is a hidden treasure filled with cliffs, canyons, domes and bridges. It is in the Waterpocket Fold, a geologic monocline (a wrinkle on the earth) extending almost 100 miles. This park is like The Grand Canyon and Zion with it’s cliffs, canyons, domes and arches but without the crowds. However, it has a very unique feature- orchards! It’s the only national park in the country to have a orchards. They have apple, peach, cherry, pear and apricot orchards. We were lucky enough to be here during the harvest of the apples. We were able to pick and eat as many apples as we wanted for free while in the park. If you want to take any with you, it’s only $1 per pound, cash on the honor system. We picked 2 pounds to bring home.
Early pioneers planted the orchards as a cash crop and for subsistence when they settled here in 1880. No more than 10 families lived here at one time and the last family left in 1969 when the National Park Service took over managing the 3,100 trees in the orchards, with historic cultural irrigation practices, pruning, mowing, pest management, planting, mapping, and grafting.
It was built in 1896 to teach the children of the 8 families that lived in Fruita. The families were large though so with 8 families, there were 22 students for the first class held in the building. The first teacher was 18 years old but had been teaching for 6 years in her home until the building was built. It maintained a school until 1941. It had also been used as a church and town hall meeting location.
At 3:00pm we attended a ranger led program about the petroglyphs. Fremont and ancestral Puebloan people left petroglyphs throughout the park depicting their stories from the 300-1300 era.
Hiking Hickman Bridge
One of the better known sites of Capitol Reef, this natural bridge sits over 300 feet above the Fremont River. The hike is 2 miles long. It is a must do if visiting the park.
This was a fun surprise on the hike.. it’s called Miniature bridge.
We loved all the climbing opportunities.
This is the snake Mackenzie wants to bring home- seriously we react the same about snakes as we do puppies.
After our hike, we rewarded ourselves with fresh baked pies. If you visit this park, this is a must stop! They use the fruit harvested here to bake these pies.


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The name of the baker has faded too much to be able to identify it and a quick search online did not provide any satisfying result. Once I have more time I may go and have a look at the local library.
The presence of the tilde on the 'O' of Hovis indicates this sign was certainly painted between the 1920s and 1950s. Such a spelling appears on several Hovis ghost signs found in Tonbridge, Tooting (in the original version of the sign), Islington, Guildford, Clapham, and Battersea, published earlier on this blog.
Location: Dulwich Village / Pictures taken in March 2013

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