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Snoop Dogg appeared on a recent episode of Drink Champs where he discussed a myriad of topics with co-hosts DJ EFN and N.O.R.E. Among them, the new owner of the Death Row Records brand explained why he decided to remove several Death Row releases from digital streaming platforms, a move that upset fans of the iconic West Coast rap label.
“First thing I did was snatch all the music off those platforms traditionally known to people, because those platforms don’t pay,” he said around the 1:51:00 mark. “And those platforms get millions of millions of streams, and nobody gets paid other than the record labels. So what I wanted to do is snatch my music off, create a platform similar to Amazon, Netflix, Hulu. It’ll be a Death Row app, and the music, in the meantime, will live in the metaverse.”
Snoop Dogg also touched on the death of his mother Beverly Tate, who passed away in October 2021. Just hours after Snoop revealed the life-altering news, he was on stage at Big Night Live in Boston where he’d already been scheduled to perform.
Rather than cancel the show, he told the audience, “I wasn’t even gonna come out here and perform tonight ’cause my mother passed away earlier tonight, but in the spirit of the people of Boston, I wanted to come out here and represent for y’all because this is what my mama would have wanted me to do.”
He echoed those sentiments in the Drink Champs interview, saying, “That’s what mama wanted me to do. To me, her transition made me better. Because now she’s up top watching over me, it’s no accident I wanted all these things that are happening right now because she’s pulling strings for me.”
Listen to the full episode above and watch it below.

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pissed off feminist fights back: but why girls?
There are few shows that generate as much online content and controversy as Lena Dunham’s Girls. Every week there is a new piece breaking down the last episode and either celebrating or criticising its creator. But because we’re more than halfway through Season 2, it seems about time we got back to discussing what’s at the core of this show, and to acknowledge its flaws without demeaning Dunham’s achievements.
Because Dunham has achieved something. A 20-something with their own show is kind of a big deal. A woman with her own show is kind of a big deal. And although she benefited from her parents’ relative success, she should be applauded for having created, starred in, directed and written a show that speaks to women across the Western world.
I think what’s important is what Dunham represents. She’s a young successful woman, and is thus a role model. The fact of the matter is that now that Dunham has succeeded, she is paving the way for future young female Golden Globe winners; for people to realise that they are capable of doing the things she does. People do internalise media messages; not only are sex-positive portrayals of women as flawed three-dimensional people important, but seeing a woman as a creator of media is important.
The exciting thing about Girls is that it’s a show written by and for women. It’s not created with an innate sense of the male gaze and it deliberately subverts certain television conventions. It’s uncommon to see a woman who is not conventionally attractive in a starring role, especially not a woman who freely expresses herself and has at one point had a sexual relationship with a handsome older man. It’s a rare occurrence, unlike the inverse where a conventionally attractive woman is paired with an often overweight, unattractive male (see King of Queens, According to Jim, Everybody Loves Raymond, Grounded for Life, even The Simpsons). This is exciting for many reasons, one being that this is a talented woman being judged for just that, her talent, and not her ability to give a dude a boner.
But Girls has been the object of media scrutiny and rightly so. When a show purports to be the voice of a generation, of young women living in New York City, it needs to be in some small way representative of those people. And it’s hard to be that when your show only accounts for the experiences of middle class 20-something white women, when more than ¼ of the population of New York City is African American.
However, it’s impossible to make a show that does everything for everyone. The category of women in their mid-20s is indistinct at best, and it’s just not possible to share the stories of people from all different class backgrounds, racial backgrounds, and sexualities in the course of a 30 minute program. Not if you’re abiding by some sitcom conventions. It’s possible for an experimental drama perhaps, but not for something that’s concentrating on the life of one Hannah Horvath.
So even if Dunham does want to represent greater ethnic diversity in Girls, if that doesn’t fit with Horvath’s character for whatever reason, it’d be jarring to force her to explore those narratives. It would be better to fully flesh out those stories on a separate stage. Adding a woman of colour all of sudden lends itself to accusations of tokenism, and there’s got to be the question of the capacity of a writer to do so outside of their experience.
If you’ve never been a woman of colour, how capable are you of encompassing their experiences in a nuanced way? That’s not to say that it’s impossible to write outside your experience, but that it’s difficult, requiring a certain level of research and introspection. The writer always has to be wary of offending, of being blasé, and there is always the risk that the piece will lack authenticity.
What is possible for Girls, and shows like it, to do is to open dialogue. It is possible for it to create a precedent where the stories of young women are considered valid and worthy of sharing; where people offer up challenging counter-narratives that force responders to reevaluate their own place in the world and possibly even renegotiate their identities. Girls has the potential to do more than reflect the identity of its creator and some of its fans. It can provide hope and motivation to young people.
What do you think about Lena Dunham and Girls?


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Grief is painful and exhausting during normal times. And now, with the social distancing restrictions of the pandemic, mourners might feel as if they’re walking a tightrope without a safety net. In an effort to stem the spread of the virus, family members are being prevented from sitting at the [...]
I wrote this in-depth article after speaking with a recent liver recipient. He expressed his profound appreciation as well as his guilt surrounding his life-saving transplant. My purpose in sharing our story is to convey my family's healing experience in the years following the donation of my daughter Laura's liver. [...]
During my 30-minute interview with Jon Caldara of the Independence Institute, we talked about suddenly losing our children to aggressive childhood cancers. I was reminded that each person processes grief differently and yet common threads exist within each story.

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text: Google's got a big new project and it's you. Well, not just you, but a genetic and molecular study of humanity that aims to grasp at what a healthy human should be. It's in its early days, collecting anonymous data from 175 people, but it plans to expand to thousands later. The project is headed up by molecular biologist Andrew Conrad, who pioneered cheap HIV tests for blood-plasma donations. According to the WSJ, the team at Google X current numbers between 70 and 100, encompassing experts in physiology, biochemistry, optics, imaging and molecular biology.The Baseline project will apparently take in hundreds of different samples, with Google using its information processing talents to expose biomarkers and other patterns - the optimistic result hopefully being faster ways of diagnosing diseases. Biomarkers has typically been used with late-stage diseases, as these studies have typically used already-sick patients. "He gets that this is not a software project that will be done in one or two years," said Dr. Sam Gambhir, who is working with Dr. Conrad on the project. "We used to talk about curing cancer and doing this in a few years. We've learned to not say those things anymore."

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text: For a brother and sister, throwing the ball in the backyard or shooting hoops in the driveway is a common scene. Leaping triple and long jumps together is a different story.But Rick and Michelle Bellford are not the average siblings. The West Allis, Wis., natives have been reunited on the UW track and field team this season with Michelle transferring to UW from Loyola, and her brother Rick couldn’t be happier to welcome her back to Wisconsin.“Oh, it’s awesome,” Rick said of having his sister on the track team. “She should’ve come here in the first place. I was trying to get her to come, but I think she just wanted to get away from home. But she came back eventually and I’m glad she did.”Michelle’s freshman campaign at Loyola was a successful one, in which she won the triple jump at the Horizon League indoor championships and was named the conference’s newcomer of the year in the field events.Nevertheless, Wisconsin’s track and field team offered the sophomore a more exciting opportunity in almost all aspects in the end.“I think (my experience at Loyola) was pretty good for a freshman season,” Michelle said. “The program and facilities weren’t that great, but I think that I definitely have more of an opportunity to reach my potential here. Just the level of competition here is a lot higher and it’s good to get that experience for the bigger meets.”Her brother Rick also had a bit of an influence on her decision to transfer, as Michelle saw how successful he was at UW.“Yeah, definitely,” Michelle said of her brother’s influence. “Just watching him excel over his career and he was pretty supportive, as well as my whole family.”Rick Bellford was simply trying to assist his sister in her decision, as he has always been at her side with the close relationship that the two share.“Yeah, I’d say we get along real good,” Rick said. “My older brother, too — he just graduated last year, we’re all pretty close and we’re only an hour away from home.”The two, who both compete in the triple- and long-jump events, have trained together since their days at Hale High School in West Allis.“We’ve always done the same events,” Rick said. “We worked out together in the same summer club probably starting my sophomore year of high school, so we trained all through summer together then, too.”Though the two may not always get the chance to compete or practice together with the separation of the men’s and women’s programs at Wisconsin, Rick has always been there to give Michelle a few pointers during meets.“Yeah, he does (help me in the jumping events),” Michelle said. “He has really good technique and he’s always pretty helpful with that for jumping.”Even with their tight-knit relationship, the two are extremely focused on achieving their personal goals for the remainder of the outdoor track and field season.Rick is aiming to recover from his hamstring injury and top his performance at indoor nationals in the outdoor season. The junior believes a strong individual performance could have propelled his team higher up the leaderboard.“I wanted to get All-American indoor and I just got it,” Rick said. “Outdoor, I definitely want to be top five at nationals; definitely the goal is to score some points because if I would have been seventh indoor, we would’ve got second, and I was ninth and we just missed scoring by one point so I think if I can bump up to fifth, we’ll have a good chance at taking second as a team.”Meanwhile, Michelle hopes to top her personal bests in both the triple jump (39-7 3/4) and long jump (18-3 3/4) and make it to NCAA regionals.“I definitely would like try to jump around the 42- and 20-foot range,” Michelle said. “Obviously, I would like to go to regionals. I already got triple jump, but I’d like to go in long jump and just be as competitive as I can at Big Tens.”As the two set out to accomplish their personal goals in the outdoor season, there is no doubt that the brother-sister combo will enjoy each other’s company and support on the track and that this close relationship will make each of them strive to be better.

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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Enron's creditors and federal law enforcers appear headed for a battle over the $12 million in ill-gotten gains that former executive Michael Kopper agreed to turn over to the government as part of his criminal plea agreement.
In papers filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, lawyers for Enron's ENRNQ creditors argued that they should be allowed to bring claims against Kopper and the funds. The creditors contend that Kopper and his co-conspirators stole the illicit profits from Enron and that those funds therefore remain Enron's property "since an owner retains title to stolen property under Texas state law."
The papers were filed after Judge Arthur Gonzalez issued an order earlier Monday that cleared the way for creditors to bring the complaint against Kopper. The judge's order also instituted a temporary injunction on the funds. A hearing is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
Kopper, who worked closely with former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow, pleaded guilty in a Houston federal court last week to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. At the same time he settled civil fraud charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Kopper, who is cooperating with authorities in their ongoing probe of the energy giant's collapse, agreed to forfeit $4 million held in a brokerage account in the name of LJM Capital Management and to pay $8 million to the SEC. Prosecutors said the funds would be distributed to shareholders, but offered no details.
Prosecutors allege LJM Capital was one of several controversial partnerships used by Enron to hide debts while also enriching company executives, their friends and families at the expense of the company. See latest coverage.

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India affirms Saudi Arabia FM taking part in the G2 meeting is one of the most important summits of the year. Those attending last Friday focused on current global trends which top diplomats from the richest member countries.
India Hosts G20 Meetings
India, the presidency of the Group of 20 hosted this year with the US, KSA, Japan, Russia, China, and EU as major participants, reported Arab News.
New Delhi wants to find common ground, but the US and its allies need to make it easier to reach a joint statement, one of the stumbling blocks that has cast dissension caused by the Ukraine conflict.
An important meeting regarding global events with Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan is one of the highlights. But others members had a one-on-one with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar as part of the proceeding.
On Twitter, Jaishankar posted that he and FM Faisal bin Farhanof the KSA is satisfied. KSA’s support will be one of …


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This Little Golden Book features an original story about springtime starring Olaf, Anna, Elsa, and Kristoff from Disney's Frozen!
Olaf already knows he loves summer, but what about spring? Anna, Elsa, and Kristoff get the snowman excited with tales of blooming flowers, sailing trips, and baby animals. Children ages 2 to 5 will love this Little Golden Book, which features the beloved characters from Disney Frozen. It's perfect for Easter time, springtime, or anytime!
Disney Frozen is the #1 animated film of all time, featuring a powerful story, strong ensemble cast, a pair of relatable sisters, magical environments, and unforgettable music.
About the Author
Victoria Saxon has written hundreds of children's books, as well as animated TV shows. She has a degree in comparative literature and a Ph.D. in educational psychology, with a focus on child development.

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BANGKOK — Authorities in military-run Myanmar have arrested 12 people accused of illegally transporting members of the Muslim Rohingya minority across the country for travel to Malaysia, including 13 who apparently died from suffocation while being hidden in a fuel tanker truck.
The state-run Mirror Daily newspaper reported Wednesday that the alleged members of a human trafficking gang were accused of arranging to smuggle 255 Rohingya from refugee camps in southeast Bangladesh to Malaysia, more than 3,000 kilometers (1,800 miles) away by road.
It said security forces arrested the accused traffickers on Dec. 9 and 16 and seized six vehicles, including a fuel tanker used in the trafficking operation. Thirty-one Rohingya waiting to continue on their way to Malaysia were also arrested in the past two weeks, the report said.
More than 700,000 Rohingya, concentrated in the western state of Rakhine, fled to refugee camps in Bangladesh after a brutal 2017 counterinsurgency campaign conducted by the government in response to attacks by a Rohingya insurgent group. They fled to escape security forces in Myanmar who were accused of mass rapes, killings and the burning of thousands of homes.
Difficult conditions in the Bangladesh refugee camps have driven groups of Rohingya to try to escape to Malaysia and Indonesia, more prosperous Southeast Asian nations with Muslim majorities.
Many attempt to make the perilous voyage by sea on small boats, but others go overland, traveling by road on a route that takes them first to Myanmar’s biggest city of Yangon, and then onward to Thailand and finally Malaysia, even though they may be detained there.
They are also threatened with arrest on the Myanmar leg of such journeys because there are travel restrictions on Rohingya, and many get caught. The Rohingya have long faced legal and social discrimination and persecution in Buddhist-dominated Myanmar.
According to the newspaper report, the trafficking suspects had conducted five operations to take a total of 255 Rohingya from Rakhine state to Yangon. The newspaper identified the Rohingya as “Bengali,” a term used to suggest they are illegal immigrants, even though the families of many have lived in Myanmar for generations.
It said the Rohingya were charged 700,000 kyat ($332) each for the trip from Sittwe, a city in western Myanmar, to Yangon, where a new set of brokers was to arrange the next leg of their journey, to the border with Thailand.
On Dec. 5, local media reported that 13 corpses believed to be Rohingya were found dumped near a trash pile on the side of a road in a village about 24 kilometers (15 miles) north of Yangon.
Wednesday’s report in the Mirror Daily said the 13 were among the last 33 of the 225 Rohingya being sent by the traffickers to Malaysia.
It said the 33 Rohingya were loaded into different compartments of a fuel tanker truck from Sittwe that arrived at Ngape township in the central Magway region on Dec. 4.
The ventilation cover of the fuel tanker was opened for air along the road except when passing through security checkpoints, but 13 Rohingya who were in the rear compartment of the tanker were found dead when it arrived in Yangon, and their bodies were dumped by the human traffickers, the report said. » …


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- Graphic Design
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Indesign
Graphic Design Products Developed For F.lli Marullo
In 2014/15 as Visual Communication Specialist on behalf F.lli Marullo Spa, I’ve been responsible for: Design and development of projects for print and web (banners, logos, posters, brochure, packaging, labels, and so on) using software like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator; Adobe InDesign.
For a specific product line I’ve designed a line of labels, each one with a different color tied at a type of pistachio’s product.
“In Dulcis” Packaging
Graphic design of bag and box tied to line of product “In Dulcis”. The project has based on simple elements like white background and just a line green. The naming instead is thought in order to hightlight the brand using hot silver stamping.
Advertising Page and Poster
Design of different advertising page published inside of magazines, made in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Pagination made in Adobe Indesign.
Poster designed in Adobe Illustrator

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John Dikeman - Soprano, Tenor & Baritone Saxophones
Jasper Stadhouders - Guitar & Bass
Onno Govaert - Drums
All music by John Dikeman, Jasper Stadhouders and Onno Govaert (BUMA/STEMRA) 2012.
Recorded at Jottem! muziekstudio, Wormerveer, Netherlands by Maarten Tap on December 8, 2011.
Mixed and Mastered by Colin McLean
Cover art reproduces a detail of Legacy (c) by Phil Wood.
Band photo by Markt Rietveld www.markrietveld.be
Design by Bryan Day.
Label design by Wietske van der Ploeg.
“It’s easy to see why The Ex’s Terrie Hessels described Cactus Truck as the discovery of the year in The Wire’s 2011 Rewind a few months back. His idea of a friendly greeting is a hard punch to the solar plexus, and that’s what Amsterdam based American saxophonist John Dikeman and Dutch sparring partners guitarist/bassist Jasper Stadhouders and drummer Onno Govaert deliver on Brand New For China!, three of whose seven excitingly raw tracks clock in at just 20 seconds, for anyone nostalgic for grindcore. But there’s a lingering aftertaste of vintage free jazz in Dikeman’s rough, rubbery saxophone playing and Stadhouders’s wild, wiry guitar.”
Dan Warburton, The Wire
“Cactus Truck has grown into being one of the most thrilling and exciting live bands of these regions. In any genre whatsoever.”
“It’s been proven that Cactus Truck has long surpassed the stage of a beginning noise band. Here was a band of three concert junkies who are extraordinarily virtuoso and well connected to one another, who’ve explored the boundaries of their abilities for so long, that they know perfectly how far (and how long) they can ride the wave. During the two longs sets, you were treated to many moments which made your mouth fall open. Sparkling, explosive, almost unbearably intense.”
“Cactus Truck and their guests played an impressive concert and offered pretty much everything that one could expect: dare, openness, trust and pure, uncontrollable lust. Cactus Truck; that’s vitalism and primal force, it sways and rattles. It exceeds limits and is alive. The necessary kick in the ass that every jazz fan (whether rusty or not) can use every now and again. What a band.”
“Cactus Truck opts for the monumental approach, the Grand Gesture, the Fucking Statement. Nietzsche would have found all this excessive courage great. … A welcome kick in the jazz balls.”
“Cactus Truck … in all likelihood the most exciting thing that overcame the Dutch improv scene in the last couple of years.”
Guy Peters, Goddeau/Enola


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UEFA weighs changes to Champions League seeding
by GRAHAM DUNBAR, Associated Press - 4 September 2014 09:11-04:00
NYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA is looking to change how Champions League clubs are seeded, though coaching adviser Alex Ferguson thinks that's not important.
Ferguson, a two-time Champions League winner with Manchester United, says "I don't necessarily think the seeding plays a great part" in group draws.
He chaired a two-day UEFA meeting ...
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On the banks of the Hunter River, Muswellbrook is at the bustling end of the Upper Hunter Valley region. Its major industries are coal, power and energy, and agriculture.
The success of these industries has built a thriving retail sector and with a population of approximately 12000 people the community offers a range of facilities. Muswellbrook boasts three shopping centres; four primary child care facilities and over 40 colonial architectural and historical points of interest. Surrounded by vineyards, olive groves and champion horse studs with national parks within easy reach the town provides many opportunities for investment and continuous growth.
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A new report from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) reveals the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on architecture firms in the U.S.
A recent AIA survey found that 50% of architecture firms reported fewer new design projects for March - as of the 23rd March survey date - as compared to their expectations entering the month.
In terms of work on active projects, 83% of architecture firms are anticipating a decline in revenue for March relative to their expectations heading into the month, with over a third of firms estimating that their revenue will be at least 10% below expectations. This situation is anticipated to worsen in April, with 94% of firms expecting revenue declines, and over half of firms (57%) anticipating that the revenue falloff will exceed 10%.
“Like most other businesses, U.S. architecture firms are heading into uncharted waters regarding what the economy holds in store for them as the COVID-19 pandemic plays out globally.” said AIA Chief Economist, Kermit Baker, Hon. AIA, PhD. “Different businesses are feeling the impact of the slowdown differently.”
Beyond billing activity, just under half of firms (48%) indicated that all, or almost all, of their staff are now working remotely, while 31% reported that some of their staff are working remotely. Few firms reported a major impact to their staff due to family/personal reasons, but 15% of firms said that at least some of their staff are currently unable to work at all.
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This is a wonderful pair of antique dollhouse chairs, made of wood, with silk upholstery and silk trim. The chairs were glued, and the back of one chair is loose. I will leave it to the buyer to re-glue (or not). The silk fabric is a lovely mauve color, and the silk fringe trim has faded to a light beige color. Some of the fringe has melted, and the back of one chair has a minor melted area. There is an indentation on the back corner of one seat cushion. I received this pair as a gift, and was told they date from the turn of the century (19th into 20th). The chairs are in remarkable condition for the age, but they were un-played with, and carefully packed away for over 50 years. The chairs measure 3-3/4" high, the seat is 2-1/8" wide at the front and 1-5/8" wide in back, and the seat is 1-1/2" deep.
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Published in Australian Fintech on 4 November 2021
Marketech Online Trading today took its next step towards creating a subscription-based direct share trading and advisory model for Australian stock market investors, that fills the growing advice gap facing investors, unveiling a partnership with highly regarded stock market newsletter Marcus Today.
The partnership furthers Marketech’s goal to combine technology, data and insights in an affordable full-service platform that bridges the gap between professional products and those currently offered to most investors.
Marketech CEO Travis Clark said the partnership will see Marketech provide its clients extended access to the independent market research and insights from the Marcus Today newsletter whilst at the same time offering Marcus Today members extended access to a trading platform with integrity and functionality.
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A former UK church official has pleaded guilty to stealing £5.2m from charity, using the money to fund his addiction to gambling and travel. [Image: Shutterstock.com]
Prison time looms
A former UK church official has pleaded guilty to stealing around 5.2 million pounds ($5.8 million) from a charity and using the money to fund his travel and gambling. Martin Sargent worked as Operations Manager for the Diocese of the Church of England in London between 2008 and August 2019.
During that time, he flew on more than 180 flights on British Airways. On Friday, he specifically pleaded guilty in Southwark Crown Court to fraud by abuse of office. He did not plead guilty to the money laundering charge.
He is currently living in a gambling addiction treatment center
The verdict in the case will be pronounced on November 21; The judge released the censor on conditional bail. The defendant is currently living in a gambling addiction treatment center. Judge Adam Hiddleston told the defendant to be prepared for a sentence that would result in some time in prison. The charges in the case were so serious that they had to go to Crown Court instead of Magistrates Court.
Take advantage of alms and churches
The 52-year-old sergeant was the city church grant committee clerk. The Grants Commission was originally started in 1891 as a way to help fund the restoration of churches in the area.
You will submit fraudulent grant applications to churches
To steal money, the censor will submit fraudulent grant applications to churches. He controlled a number of church bank accounts and was able to transfer money through them to his own accounts or through cash withdrawals.
The specified period fraud From January 2009 to December 2019. And only last year, suspicions of Sargent’s guilt surfaced after a parishioner expressed concerns that she had not received certain funds.
Fights gambling addiction
Sargent’s attorney, Mark Rovel, explained during the case that his client had a long-standing addiction to gambling. Having received treatment for these difficulties since then, Rovel said his client has undergone a transformation and understands the damage he has caused. Sargeant owns several properties in Scotland and has plans to sell them, as well as write letters of apology to certain people.
Attorney General Malaki Pakenham previously spoke of how Sargent managed to get away with being deceived for so long, saying, “The simplicity and level of trust placed in the defendant means he can continue to do so over ten years, which is very unusual.”
Buckenham also noted the reputational damage to the charity.


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Integrating sources into writings.
Integrating sources into writings: Most writings, especially academic writings obtain their content from other books or writings published by other authors. It is for this reason that important techniques in writing should be adopted including the use of quotations, summaries and paraphrasing to integrate sources into writings.
Most writings obtain their content from copyrighted information or books published by others. Some information from other authors can also be used to enrich the writing where in some cases it is a necessity for them to be included.
In order to make the writings original, all the borrowed information should be acknowledged by the writer as borrowed knowledge and credits to the original author should be clearly indicated.
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aspects of the writing should be completely different from the source, including the choice of words and styles used in writing. A clear vision of the source should be developed by going through the passage at least twice. (VanderMey, 2012). Lastly we focus on summaries. Summarizing is the act of compressing the ideas put across in the source and writing them in the writer’s own words.
It also does not use quotation marks and is significantly shorter than the original passage. Summaries are used when readers need to know very specific information.
Only the essential points are brought out in summaries. This is mainly brought out at the end of the writings. To enable the reader understand the source better or just get an idea of the argument in the source. (VanderMey, 2012)
Rosenwasser, D. (2012 ). Writing analytically . Boston : Cengage.
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The Boost header files are installed in /usr/include/boost and the libraries in /usr/lib.
To compile and link with Boost, add the Boost libraries you are using to the command as follows:
g++ pgm.cpp -lboost_whatever -o pgm
- Replace pgm.cpp with the name of the file containing your source code.
- Replace boost_whatever with the name of a Boost library you are using.
- Replace pgm with the name of the executable to be created.
For example, to use boost_filesystem library code:


Physics Research Conference
Thursday, January 26, 2012
4:00pm to 5:00pmAdd to Cal
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Cosmic rays, climate and the CERN CLOUD experiment
Jasper Kirkby, CERN,
For more than two centuries, scientists have been puzzled by observations of solar-climate variability yet the lack of any established physical mechanism. Some recent observations, although disputed, suggest that clouds may be influenced by cosmic rays, which are modulated by the solar wind. The CLOUD experiment aims to settle the question of whether or not cosmic rays have a climatically- significant effect on clouds by carrying out a series of carefully- controlled measurements in a large cloud chamber exposed to an ionising particle beam from the CERN Proton Synchrotron. By current estimates, about half of all cloud droplets are formed on aerosol particles that were "nucleated" from the clustering of trace atmospheric vapours. This talk will present the scientific motivation for CLOUD and the first results on the influence of cosmic ray ionisation on the nucleation and growth of atmospheric aerosol particles.
For more information, please contact Sheri Stoll by phone at 395-6608 or by email at [email protected] or visit http://www.pma.caltech.edu/~physcoll/PhysColl.html.


A 17-year-old Arab youth from east Jerusalem was arrested on Sunday on suspicion he attacked Jewish teens in the city's Har Homa neighborhood. The teens filed a police complaint and claimed that the suspect had torched a "camp" they had set up near a playground.
- Jerusalem: 2 vehicles torched in Sheikh Jarrah
- 'Price tag' in Jerusalem's Dormition Abbey
- Arab taxi driver attacked by Jewish teens
"The Arab youth came from an adjacent village to the kids' playground, hit them for no reason and threw rocks at them," a resident said. "The little kids ran away and two 14-year-olds stayed and confronted him. He hit them to the point they were bleeding. Other Arab youths then joined him and threw rocks at the Jews."
One of the victims
The resident said that the teens eventually ran home. "The whole situation was very freighting. They were getting beaten while stones were being thrown at them. The assailant was bigger than them."
Books, tefilin burned
Another resident said that the suspect had used a gas grill to set a fire at the scene which burned books, prayer shawls, tefilin, and a bicycle that were in the area. "This is not the first time that Arabs start provocations in the area," he added. "They go to the playground and scare the kids."
Jerusalem Police said they are investigating the complaint.
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Smoking will be banned on bar and restaurant patios starting January 1 as part of changes announced Friday to the Smoke-Free Ontario Act.
The ban will extend to children’s playgrounds and public sports fields and ice rinks as well, along with an additional prohibition on smoking within 20 metres of them, said Associate Health Minister Dipika Damerla.
She also served notice that tobacco sales will be banned on college and university campuses as part of a ramped-up effort to curb smoking among impressionable young adults.
The moves will end a “patchwork” of municipal bans across the province when it comes to patios and parks, Damerla told reporters at a downtown child care centre.
“It makes sense to do it now.”
The moves were applauded by antismoking advocates including Michael Perley of the Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco, who said it was “very important to finish the job” of banning smoking on patios to reduce exposure to second-hand smoke.
Smoking has been prohibited under covered patios but has been allowed on ones open to the air.
“When young people see people smoking on a patio . . . that sends a message that smoking is not all that bad,” Perley said.
However, he said the government still needs to ban smoking outside entrances to office and apartment buildings, for example, and improve smoking cessation programs so that smokers who fail nicotine replacement therapy don’t fall through the cracks.
Rowena Pinto of the Canadian Cancer Society noted that lung cancer deaths outnumber those from several other forms of cancer, including breast and colon.
The ban on campus sales “sends a message to the tobacco industry,” she added.


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Prominent Tennessee lawyers get malpractice suit from former client over Gatlinburg fire claims
The remains of a home smolder in the wake of a wildfire November 30, 2016 in Gatlinburg, Tenn. More than 100 houses and businesses were damaged or destroyed. Drought conditions and high winds helped the fire spread through the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. (Photo by Brian Blanco/Getty Images)
A man whose wife and children died in the 2016 deadly wildfires in Gatlinburg is suing the lawyers he says cost him and more than 500 other victims a chance at restitution from the federal government.
Michael Reed, whose wife and two children burned to death after being trapped by a wall of fire in the blaze, has filed a legal malpractice lawsuit in Davidson County Circuit Court against two of Tennessee’s top tort attorneys — Sid Gilreath and Gordon Ball — and renowned Florida tort law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll.
The lawsuit accuses the lawyers of bungling litigation they filed on behalf of Reed and 524 other wildfire victims against the U.S. Department of Interior and the National Park Service.
U.S. District Judge Ronnie Greer earlier this year tossed out that litigation on a legal technicality. Greer ruled that although the victims had presented ample evidence the Park Service failed to warn Gatlinburg residents, emergency personnel and city leaders of the deadly fire’s approach, their attorneys failed in preliminary administrative claim forms to notify the government agency of the failure-to-warn claim.
“The (administrative forms) contain no information about a failure to warn or facts related to a failure-to-warn claim,” Greer wrote in the ruling.
Greer said in his ruling that anyone who seeks to hold a government agency responsible for damages must first file an administrative claim with the government and give the agency a chance to respond. It is only after a government agency denies a claim that a citizen can sue.
Although Reed’s attorneys filed an administrative claim on behalf of the Gatlinburg wildfire victims, they did not include the failure-to-warn allegation — which turned out to be the linchpin of their lawsuit.
After Greer issued his ruling, Ball accused the government attorneys of sandbagging him into believing their initial claim forms were just fine — until the deadline to revise the forms ran out. Greer, though, refused to reconsider his ruling, which is now being appealed to the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
‘This was legal malpractice’
In all, 14 people died and more than 2,000 homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed when a wildfire that began in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park spread to Gatlinburg and surrounding neighborhoods in Sevier County in November 2016.
The fire started on the remote Chimney Tops peaks inside the Smokies on Nov. 23, 2016, during a record-setting drought. Greg Salansky, the park’s fire management officer, decided to try to contain the fire rather than attack it directly, despite forecasts of high winds and “critically dry” conditions.
Local officials only learned about the fire on the morning of Nov. 28, 2016, when a Gatlinburg fire captain called Salansky about the clouds of smoke hanging over town — and didn’t learn until 12:30 p.m. that day that the fire was headed their way.
When winds topped 60 mph around 6 p.m., the fire wrapped around the city on both sides. Most of the fire’s victims, including Reed’s wife and daughters, died on the western side of town, where police and firefighters delivering evacuation notices failed to reach everyone in time.
Greer sided with the wildfire victims in their claim the Park Service failed in its mandatory duty to warn Gatlinburg leaders and citizens the fire was spreading fast and headed for residential neighborhoods surrounding the Smokies.
But government attorneys fired back with a motion to dismiss the litigation, citing the absence of the failure-to-warn claim in the victims’ initial administrative claim forms.
Reed’s new attorney, David Randolph Smith, argues in the legal malpractice lawsuit that Ball, Gilreath and the Florida law firm dropped the ball in their handling of the claim forms and responding to the government’s motion to dismiss.
“The standard of care required Gilreath and Ball to be familiar with and research the requirements for bringing a lawsuit,” Smith wrote. “Gilreath and Ball deviated from the standard of care by filing suit in May 2018 without first having submitted a claim asserting a tort for failure to warn (and) failing to evacuate. This was legal malpractice.
“Even after suit had been filed, there was still time for Gilreath and Ball to file a new (administrative claim) and initiate a new lawsuit for failure to warn,” Smith continued.
As proof the attorneys knew they had fouled up the case, the legal malpractice lawsuit includes a text message to Reed from Lance Baker, a lawyer working under Gilreath and Ball in the wildfire litigation, after Greer’s ruling.
“I’ll be honest with you, man,” the text reads. “They should’ve made this argument a long time ago. Gordon (expletive) up big time and it’s cost everyone. I told them about the government not agreeing to challenge the (claim forms) two years ago. They didn’t care and didn’t think it was an issue. Turns out that’s exactly what the federal court based their decision on in dismissing the case.”
The legal malpractice lawsuit notes that attorneys who filed a similar lawsuit against the government on behalf of private insurance companies that paid wildfire claims did include the failure-to-warn allegation in their administrative claim forms. That lawsuit remains pending as a result.
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University of Michigan graduate workers picket on North Quad, April 18, 2023 | Laina G. Stebbins
Following weekend commencement ceremonies during which striking University of Michigan graduate student workers continued to protest, contract talks, with the assistance of a state mediator, are scheduled to resume this week.
The strike by the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) AFT Local 3550 began March 29, with economic issues the main point of contention.
The union, which is an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), represents approximately 2,300 Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) and Graduate Student Staff Assistants (GSSAs) at U of M.
While previous reports indicated the contract expired on Monday, an update provided by the university last week indicates that it officially expires on Wednesday.
Regardless, protests continued Monday with a May Day rally led by GEO President Jared Eno.
“[University] President Santa Ono could change all of this today if he just wanted to,” said Eno. “The university, as I said, has over $17 billion [its endowment], a giant mountain of cash sitting on campus that’s growing every year.”
GEO has been seeking a 60% wage increase in the first year of a new contract, with additional increases tied to inflation in the second and third years. University officials say they have put forward multiple counter-offers, including an 11.5% pay increase over the next three years, but all have been rejected by the GEO.
“The university’s position on the GEO negotiations is one of encouraging GEO to actually bargain over compensation and other matters,” U of M spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald told the Michigan Advance. “GEO’s proposal of a 60% pay increase — in year one of a new three-year contract — has not changed since the opening of contract talks last November. The university has twice improved its compensation proposal.”
Fitzgerald said it was also worth noting that the employees represented by the union work part-time for the university during eight months of the year.
“On an hourly basis, they currently make $35 an hour, nearly double the living wage hourly rate for the Ann Arbor area,” he said. “They also get a tuition waiver and health care coverage at no cost.”
The union, however, maintains that the gap between the cost of living and their member’s salaries have nearly tripled over the past three years, to almost $14,500 in 2022.
“With 80% of graduate workers rent-burdened, consuming as much as 30% of their salary, graduate workers are struggling to meet their needs on the current stipend,” states their website. “Without a living wage, as well as additional support for the extra costs parents, international workers, and disabled workers bear, graduate school at U-M is inaccessible to anyone who isn’t independently wealthy.”
For Eno, it goes even further, with a university administration he says positions itself as being progressive, yet acts in ways he believes are inherently anti-labor.
“So many other presidents and CEOs talk a good game about caring about people, about caring about students and workers,” he said at Monday’s rally. “But when workers stand up for themselves and what they deserve, these presidents and these CEOs suddenly change their tune or they hide and call in the cops as President Ono did on grad workers a few weeks ago. That’s right, these workers were just trying to talk to the president about how he had withheld pay for them for being on strike, and he called the cops on them, and two grad workers were detained. These bosses; they hide, they lie, they intimidate and retaliate because they are afraid and they should be.”
However, Fitzgerald points to an action by the Board of Regents in 2020 to approve the “card check” approach to union recognition, forgoing the need for a state-supervised election.
“Many would characterize that as making it easier for university employees to organize for collective bargaining,” he said.
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A POPULAR animal sanctuary is facing a difficult future unless it sees an increase in donations of food and money.
Kays Hill Animal Sanctuary, near West Auckland, has been inundated with unwanted pets in recent months due to the toughening economic climate.
In addition, the owners of the sanctuary have noticed a drop in the number of much-valued donations.
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Owner Kevin Plummer said they are currently caring for about 250 animals and he believes the situation will only get worse.
“We spend about £2,000 a month,” he said. “Vets bills are tough and often high because we are dealing with a lot of sick and old animals.
“We need to rehome some of them. When we used to reach capacity we used to ring round the centres to ask for help but we’re all in the same situation now.
“We suspended rehoming for a few weeks before Christmas but the interest has never really picked up since the start of January.
“We tell people we are full but we still find pets abandoned at the gates. What are we supposed to do, we can’t just leave them there.”
The animal sanctuary has planning permission to build a new cattery on the site but work has been delayed due to lack of money available to spend on the project.
Mr Plummer said: “We have got the heating system in half of it but I need more money for the rest. The donations we have got coming in at the moment have to go on vets bills and food.
“I think people also forget we have all the general bills to pay as well as the rest. When the recession hit, we had to use our savings.
“Times are tough but we can’t cut off from the job. We are there as a safety net for these animals.”
He added: “If people are able to help we ask them to ring first so we know they are coming.”
Anyone able to rehome an animal or wishing to make a donation can call 01388-834996.
Alternatively people can leave donations at Sainsbury's, in St Helen Auckland, until Saturday, January 26.


Project title: The impact of organic matter on heavy metal bioavailability in urban soils: experimental and field-based approaches
Researcher: Hannah Binner
Heavy metal (HM) contamination in urban soils is a major global geohazard, but data on this issue in Ireland is lacking, particularly the extent to which the amount and type of soil organic matter affects the bioavailability and chemical state of HM. Thisresearch will resolve these issues using a powerful dual approach combining the first systematic survey of urban soils in southern Ireland, focussing on soils in recreational areas, and innovative laboratory experiments exploring the impact of different sources of organic matter on heavy metal solubility, oxidation state and local chemical environment. The study will provide baseline data on the extent and toxicity of HM contamination in Irish urban recreational soils, guiding planning and bioremediation, and will serve as a platform for developing research capacity on the fate of HM in the geosphere. Diverse dissemination activities will ensure visibility of the research amongst academics, policymakers and the public.


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Ottis Toole dead cannibal serial killer. Believed to have murdered Adam Walsh who disappeared from a Hollywood shopping center in 1981.
8 1/2" x 11" drawing of a woman, possibly a victim of his and serial killing sidekick, Henry Lee Lucas. Hand signed, Ottis Toole.
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Patricia Lovett MBE, calligrapher and illuminator and a world-renowned authority on the practical aspects of how manuscripts were made will give a presentation on her new book The Art and History of Calligraphy.Click here for more info
CSV will be doing calligraphy demo throughout the day, Cyrus Pang and his shop ‘Not Just A Card’ will have a stall selling calligraphy materials,
Peter Lucas will be selling his handmade pens. Check out the Gallery to see some of the art from the Kalligraphia exhibiton!
The next CSV meeting will be held on:
Monday 20th November, 2017 7:00pm for a 7:30pm Meeting start. This will be the annual general meeting, we encourage all members to attend!
West Hawthorn Uniting Church Hall 10 Power Street, Hawthorn, VIC 3122
The Calligraphy Society of Victoria is a non-profit group of calligraphers, lettering artists and people who share a love of lettering.
The society meets monthly at a central location in Melbourne, conducts regular workshops in calligraphy and complementary arts, organises exhibitions, and generally supports and promotes calligraphy and excellence in lettering.


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Online casino is a form of gambling that allows players to place wagers on various games without having to travel to a bricks and mortar establishment. This type of gambling can be done on computers, laptops and mobile devices. Almost all casino games that can be played in a physical setting are also available at an online casino, including popular table games such as blackjack and roulette. In addition, players can place bets in a variety of currencies.
When choosing an online casino, players should look for one that offers the games they are interested in playing. They should also make sure that the casino works on their mobile device. The best casinos will offer web-based and download apps for iOS and Android devices. They should also ensure that the casino has a high security level.
Moreover, the best casino online will offer games in the currency of their choice. This will allow players to gamble in their own country’s currency rather than having to use a foreign exchange rate. This way, players will be able to track their losses and winnings more easily.
Another important aspect of an online casino is that it should have a wide selection of games. Some of these sites offer more than a hundred different games. These games include classic casino games such as roulette, blackjack and video poker, as well as popular online slots. Some of these websites also have a live dealer section, which gives players the opportunity to interact with real dealers and get a more authentic experience.
While there are many pros to playing at a casino online, there is still nothing that can match the experience of visiting a real-world casino. There is something about the lights, crowds and buzz that can’t be replicated. Plus, real-world casinos are often part of larger venues that can feature nightclubs, restaurants and bars, making them a fun and immersive experience.
Before deciding to sign up for an online casino, it is wise to read reviews of the site and see what kind of reputation it has. It’s also important to check out the licensing and ownership details, software and game portfolio of the casino. Additionally, it’s a good idea to contact customer support and test the speed of response before registering with any website.
It is important to know that casino online sites have no control over the outcome of a particular game. While this does not mean that they are fraudulent, it does highlight the fact that players should always play responsibly and within their means. For this reason, it is a good idea to set limits before starting playing. Some online casinos even have time-out periods, which can be used to prevent players from losing too much in a short period of time. This can be particularly useful for those who are new to gambling and are still learning the ropes. Additionally, some online casinos offer loss-limits, which help players limit their losses by preventing them from betting more than they can afford to lose.


Editor’s Note: This article was prepared by La Verne Olsen for the Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation a great example of how you can keep your mind active and sharp by doing something you enjoy. La Verne was available to discuss her passion and shared tips with everyone who attended the Tucson Memory Screening Day on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.
I didn’t intend to be a writer. In fact, I never wrote a thing after high school except letters to friends and, of course, the infamous Christmas Newsletter about all the goody things the family accomplished during the year. I loved getting those newsletters.
But then, at the age of 73, after a lifetime of raising kids and now grandkids, I enjoyed a day at the zoo with six year old and four year old grandchildren. A peacock followed us all over the zoo for most of the day. We made the mistake of throwing him popcorn so we literally couldn’t get rid of him.
When we got home, Matthew, the six year old, was telling his mother about the peacock when he suddenly looked up at me and asked, “Grandma, what would happen if the peacock followed us home?” He then told me how that could happen. That the peacock could sit on top of the car, and we wouldn’t know that he was there. And then what would we do with him when we got home?
My daughter, Matthew’s mother, insisted that would make a good story. So, Matthew and I went to the computer, and I wrote down everything that he said. I then wrote several more stories, and out of the mouths of babes the book was born.
In 2007, I self published IF A PEACOCK FOLLOWS YOU HOME…Children’s Stories by Grandma (available at Amazon.com).
As the kids got older, they still inspired me with their questions, like “How did you and Grandpa meet?” When they told me that their mother didn’t even know, I thought it was time to write down some history. Then they would know from where and when their family came.
I belonged to a writing group and started reading some of my stories to them each week. The response from them encouraged me so much that I couldn’t stop writing. So much so, that when I was out with the grandchildren and we saw something a little unusual, they would say, “Grandma, you should write a story about that”.
The thing about writing memoirs is that every day you see or hear something that sparks a memory. My trip to the zoo made me think about the trip to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, on my 7th birthday, which was also Father’s Day that year.
That memory made me think about all the birthdays I had experienced with my Dad on Father’s Day. He always made that day special, so I wrote about that. That sparked more memories about my Dad, like the accident that he had in Montana, where he was homesteading, and how it changed his life because he lost his arm. And how he overcame that disability even when there wasn’t the medical technology that there is today.
I put together a book for my kids and special friends for Christmas this year. There are 42 of those stories accompanied by pictures that coincide with the story. It took me longer to find the pictures than it did to write the stories. This last May, my grandson, Garrett, who is now 12, asked me something about the family and I started to tell him and then said the story was in the book I made for them. Before I left, he had read all the stories and had more questions.
Sometimes he asks, “Did that really happen?” Well, of course it did. A memoir is the way the writer remembers it. If it is embellished a little, that is normal. Just like telling a friend a story. It doesn’t always come out the same way.
I have now embarked on a new project. My sister has Alzheimer’s and lives in an Assisted Living Home in Henderson, Nevada. I don’t see her as often as I would like but I do call her. She always knows it is me. When I mention that I have written another story, she wants me to send it to her. I have sent her almost every story I have written, and an autographed copy of the book and she doesn’t remember any of them. I am concerned about that but I know that her daughter-in-law reads them to her and she does enjoy them at that time, so for that I am thankful.
My new project, at the suggestion of Valerie of the Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation, is to read these stories to her and record them on tape. This way she will hear my voice reading the stories, since many are about her and our childhood together. More often than not she will say, “Oh that didn’t happen.” But I usually convince her that it did.
Memoir writing varies with the individual writer. You don’t have to start with your grandfather’s birth or birthplace and go from there until you get to your life. I don’t do it chronologically. I just write down stories as I remember them. One could be something that happened when I was four years old – when I got my first pair of glasses – or something that happened yesterday. Every story is a memoir in itself.
So, I am encouraging everyone to WRITE IT DOWN when you remember something in the past. Or record it, if possible, or tell it to someone else, and let them write it down for you. It will be something your family will cherish and it will be your legacy.


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NHS Halloween food drive a huge success in Hastings
The National Honor Society Halloween food drive is an event that’s been going on for years. Hastings residents along the traditional routes are accustomed to having students ask for food donations. But this year, a few changes to the process resulted in a major increase in donations.
This year’s collection event brought in 3,066 pounds of food and $111 in cash, all of which was donated to Hastings Family Service. In 2012, the NHS students collected 342 pounds, and 2011’s event ended with 850 pounds.
There are 40 students in the National Honor Society at Hastings this year. The students hold a few community and fundraiser events throughout the year. The fall bake sale, held during teacher conferences, kicked the year off to a good start, raising about $600 in one day.
Each event is headed by one of the NHS officers. This year’s officers are seniors Amanda Pass (president), Courtney Ommen, Steven Roach and Abbey Gullicks. The Halloween food drive was Roach’s chance to lead his fellow students, and he initiated a few changes this year.
“We re-did the routes,” he said, and used a new system to notify residents that students would be coming by for food donations.
The old routes were outdated, Roach said, and it was time for a new system, so he mapped out 11 new routes and decided the students would drop of donation bags and a slip at the homes prior to the drive so residents got a heads-up. They got grocery bags donated by Cub Foods and Coborn’s.
With the new system in place, students found that people were more willing to help; several left the filled donation bags out the night of the drive so the students just had to pick it up.
Another thing that might have helped was the costumes. NHS students were out collecting food when many kids in Hastings were trick-or-treating, and all the students were required to wear a costume. Not only did it get the students to have a little more fun, it spread the fun out to those who encountered them.
All in all, the event filled two SUVs, a truck and a PT Cruiser full of food. Unloading it all at Hastings Family Service was a bit of a shock to HFS staff, said Abbey Gullicks, who led the drop-off work.
“They were so excited, especially with Thanksgiving (coming up),” she said.
The National Honor Society is built on the ideals of character, leadership, scholarship and service. To help them develop in all those areas, Hastings NHS students hold a handful of community events.
The bake sale this year is being run by Ommen. A fall sale has already taken place and raised about $600. A second sale will occur in the spring.
Pass is in charge of the blood drive, which will be held in January. All students and teachers will be invited to donate blood to the American Red Cross.
Gullicks’ project is the walk-a-thon. Each NHS student is required to raise at least $100; the students regularly top $10,000 total. That money is donated to Gillette Children’s Hospital in St. Paul.
Students must maintain at least a 3.0 grade-point average and must apply for membership before they join the NHS. That means the students in NHS are already driven to help out.
“Everyone chose to be here,” Ommen said.
Another requirement is that NHS members complete at least 60 hours of volunteer work each year. The group’s advisors this year are Laura Zabel and Cindy Oppold.


Publication of National Dataset List kicks off Defra’s programme for the government’s largest data giveaway
The Environment Agency has published a list of the data it holds as a first step in the programme of its parent ministry – the Department for Envirnoment, Food and Rural Affairs (Deffra) – to release at least 8,000 datasets over the next year.
The National Dataset List was made available last week to show some of the some of what might be released as open data.
A Defra blogpost says the list is still “a work in progress” and that some may not be released for legal or national security reasons, and is likely to be updated monthly.
It has also produced a guidance document with further information on issues such as possible repetition, incorrect data names and third party data not being on the list.
The department warns that some of the data will not be 100% accurate, but says it believes the benefits of making it available will outweigh the risks.
When originally announcing the programme in June, Environment secretary Elizabeth Truss (pictured) highlighted the potential to support the food and farming industry by giving farmers and the food and environment industries access to the data and through the development of relevant data services.
She said it would support the productivity of farming and the food industry, and support the leisure industry through relevant environmental information.
The move is part of the government's wider open agenda in government, which aims to make data available for others to re-use in research or developing new services.
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Was Stinger Really Stung?
Is anybody buying this?
I mean, I don't have reason to doubt former Detroit Fox affiliate anchorwoman Fanchon Stinger when she says she was used and abused by her ex-boyfriend, and if she was, I'm glad she's out from under that mess. I also don't doubt her claim that her ex, the now-convicted Rayford Jackson, was as toxic as Synagro sludge.
But her interview with my man M.L. Elrick still left me rather puzzled.
For starters, there was this...
Speaking of Jackson, who was sentenced last month to 5 years in prison for bribery, Stinger said: "He portrayed himself as a moral, upstanding person who had a high level of values. ... All of that, in hindsight, was a carefully crafted lie."
Ya don't say. And Stinger, once one of the highest-profile TV journalists in this city, actually bought this lie? She thought Jackson was a "moral, upstanding person" despite the fact that he had a wife and four kids while they were dating? Despite the fact that, even before news of the scandal hit airwaves, there were still countless number of people in the city who knew good and well that Jackson was knee-deep in corruption? She didn't bother to check sources on this one?
Stinger said he often portrayed himself as someone trying to improve Detroit, despite opposition from his enemies.
Yeah, your man is a developer and a consultant for a sludge-hauling company whose deal calls for building another filthy incinerator in the city and you think of him as someone who wants to "improve" our town? And worse, according to Synagro anyway, you use your eponymous media consultancy to help lobby in favor of the dirty sludge-hauling deal?
OK, then, well what about when your own people started warning you about the dude, as her former Fox 2 colleague Scott Lewis said co-workers were doing well before she got fired?
Stinger declined to discuss that Tuesday.
Elsewhere in the piece, she says she started dating Jackson in 2005 and, by 2006, was loaning the dude $60,000 to "pay an investor." And then she says she bought him a Rolls-Royce and a Ferrari after he claimed a tax lawyer was working out "problems that complicated his finances." Guess the Chevy dealership was closed. Cool. But then why not just let him drive one of your own cars?
And it's not enough that she paid for high-end whips for the man. She also acted as Jackson's chauffeur...
One reason they were often seen together, Stinger said, is "he did not have a car to drive. So why was I with him? I was there to drive him around."
So the Rolls couldn't get him to the meetings with Monica Conyers on his own?
Of course, the kicker for me was when Stinger claimed, "I would never have imagined that someone would take money and never intend to pay it back." But, as Elrick points out at the end of that very same line, the woman spent years working as an investigative reporter at Fox 2.
Isn't that remark then akin to a veteran homicide cop with years on the job professing utter shock at the idea that someone might actually shoot another person?
Look, I get that Stinger wants to rehabilitate her image, which took a severe beating during the scandal. (Let me also add that I'm not totally convinced that she should've been fired to begin with, given that she was never investigated or charged and that Fox seems to have no qualms about employing other dubious characters.) I also respect that Stinger says she wants to crusade against domestic violence and get back to TV, where she once earned as much as $320,000 as, in my opinion, a pretty solid on-air personality. And since I have a tendency to root for homegrown journalism talent, I'd like to see her land somewhere.
Throughout the 90-minute interview, Stinger repeatedly placed the blame for her summer 2008 firing from Fox 2 on Jackson, and deflected any personal responsibility for a liaison that raised sharp questions about her ethical responsibilities as a broadcast journalist.
I'd have to imagine that any prospective audiences and/or employers might still harbor those sharp questions about Fanchon Stinger's credibility. And if you ask me, her interview with the Freep didn't do much to dispel them.


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2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)
Safety assurance of intended functionality through rigorous testing is a key to large-scale homologation and deployment of automated driving. It is therefore imperative to transfer real world tests into efficient and quantifiable virtual testing procedures and environments without compromising reliability. In earlier work, we presented a fully operational over-the-air vehicle-in-the-loop test system for automotive millimeter-wave radar, where we generated a virtual electromagnetic environment with physically realistic radar target echoes. We evaluated the performance of the implemented test system with an exemplary scenario parameterised with analytically pre-defined vehicle manoeuvres. In this work, we significantly proceed with the performance evaluation through re-simulation of scenarios based on real driving data and traffic manoeuvres. We have measured a standard Euro-NCAP scenario, namely, the Car-to-Pedestrian Longitudinal Adult on a proving ground and re-simulated the ground truth parameters in the test bed. We compare the consistency of the test results at several data abstraction levels using parameter trajectories. Additionally, we introduce and evaluate quality metrics such as difference and root mean square error. For a driving scenario approximately 20 seconds long, we achieved promisingly low root mean square errors in range, azimuth and RCS of 0.3 m, 0.5° and 2 dB, respectively.

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Fill the back of borders with tall perennials
Statuesque, sturdy perennials are the perfect candidates to plug any gaps behind smaller plants, says Stephen Anderton
Borders take care of themselves in spring with plenty of plants at ground level: hellebores, primulas, Brunnera, small bulbs. Then, as the season warms up, the mainstream leafy perennials get under way, with peonies, sedums, phlox, day lilies, Solomon’s seal. And it’s then that any gaps show up, looking all the more like holes if they are at the back of a border.
But space at the back is an opportunity to grow something statuesque that will relish the situation. There are dozens of plants, shrubs and perennials longing to show their heads above a ground row of smaller plants. Often the base of tall perennials is looking a little shabby by the time their flowering starts and so, far from being shaded out


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Preston's bid to stop the National Football Museum from moving to Manchester has received support from an unlikely ally - Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton.
The Lancashire Evening Post revealed on Tuesday that the museum was set to move from its home on Sir Tom Finney Way in Deepdale to Urbis in Manchester due to a lack of funding.
However, 71-year-old Sir Bobby, who is president of the museum, is happy with it present location.
"I thought Preston was a good place. It's near the motorway and quite easy to get to," he said.
"It was a bit more independent than most. I know it's away from the main population centres of London, Manchester and Birmingham, but it's a marvellous museum.
"I go there sometimes and stay for hours."
Sir Bobby, who played for and managed Preston North End in the 1970s, added: "If it's moving there must be a good reason."
Preston-born Mike Summerbee, whose clubs as a player included Manchester City, said: "It's a fantastic museum and it's great that it's coming to Manchester - but you have to feel sorry for Preston.
"They did a fantastic job setting it up and this will be a really big loss to the place.
"However, Manchester benefits because it is in a more central position. It has better motorways and an airport."
The museum opened in 2001 and is home to the world's greatest football collections, including the FIFA Collection.
In December 2008, there was a furious backlash in Preston after Football League chairman Lord Brian Mawhinney suggested the museum should move to London.
The free attraction needs just under 1m every year to cover costs and the Football Stadium Improvement Fund (FSIF) stopped its annual contribution of 308,000 in March to direct its cash into grassroots sport.
The museum gets 100,000 visitors a year - but Manchester bosses hope to pull in 400,000 a year.
For more reaction about the National Football Museum story, see Wednesday's Lancashire Evening Post.
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Saints defeat Georgetown Prep to complete impressive run
With no MIAA basketball championships in the abbreviated 2021 season, this year’s St. Mary’s boys basketball team may not receive the credit it ultimately deserves, but the Saints put on quite a show this winter, ending their season on Monday with a 66-63 overtime win over Montgomery County’s Georgetown Prep, and a 13-game winning streak.
After opening the season with a four-point loss to Gerstell Academy of the A Conference, the Saints rolled through their MIAA B Conference rivals. That was followed with consecutive wins over Gilman Schol and St. Vincent Pallotti of the A Conference and Monday’s win over the Hoyas, for a 13-1 record.
The Saints led throughout much of regulation, but were outscored in the fourth quarter 21-13 as the Hoyas forced overtime, before St. Mary’s prevailed in the extra session.
Aidan Harris led the Saints in the finale, scoring 24 points and grabbing nine rebounds. Connor Harris added 15 points and seven rebounds, while Peyton Mason scored 11 points to go with two rebounds and five assists. Also of note was a nine- point, eight rebound effort by Jack Bousum.


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Health care workers' union 1199 SEIU is lobbying to have the state Legislature undo a rollback in the state's tax on nursing home revenues. Late last week, the Legislature voted to reduce the assessment on Medicaid and private revenues to nursing homes to 5% from 6%, for a $65 million tax reduction, and to eventually eliminate it.
The union argues that nursing homes are reimbursed the cost of the state tax on Medicaid revenues by the federal government, so the reduction does the homes little good. The union says that the money should be used to boost Medicaid reimbursements to nursing homes upstate and to help financially distressed homes.
While industry groups say that they would like to see such changes, they are not willing to have the assessment fully reinstated to pay for them. Nursing home operators contend that the assessment is a financial burden to homes that have a large number of privately insured or private-pay patients, and that it has led to higher rates.

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Understanding young adult populations in regional areas – Bathurst
As well as being famous for the 1000 motor race, Bathurst also has a large Campus of Charles Sturt University, so it is something of a student town, with a relatively large young adult population.
The Bathurst Regional Council recently engaged with .id to understand the characteristics of the young adults living in their area, and how their living circumstances compare to the total population as well as to young adults elsewhere in Australia.
In 2011, there were 4,486 people aged 18-24 in Bathurst, or 11.6% of the population, far in excess of the 8.1% recorded across Regional NSW. About one third (33.7%) were attending university (and another 9.2% attending TAFE), which is 5% higher than the state average and almost double the regional NSW average. However university attendance declined slightly between 2006 and 2011, both in absolute numbers (68 less people) and in percentage terms, as the population grew.
The local university is not a major centre for overseas students, and only 4.4% of 18-24 year olds were born outside Australia. Most of the migration of 18-24 year olds is from more remote areas of western NSW. Bathurst is a central point where regional students go to university, so the main contributors to the population growth of this group are places like Lithgow, Orange, Blue Mountains, Parkes and Dubbo. On the other hand there is a net movement out of 18-24 year olds to larger centres like Canberra, Sydney and Newcastle.
18-24 year olds in Bathurst had an unemployment rate of 11.6% in 2011. While this is marginally below the state average and declined since 2006, it still represents over 350 people in this age range looking for work. About half were looking for part-time work, probably to supplement their time at university.
Household incomes for 18-24 year olds are quite low in Bathurst, but this is because there are fewer young adults still living with Mum & Dad. With much higher proportions living in group households (almost 20%) and lone person households (7%) than the state average, only 37% of 18-24 year olds were living in families with children (most likely with their parents, but possibly with their own children), compared to 49% statewide.
Similarly, most 18-24s are renting, while nearly 80% are living in separate houses, and the remainder in medium density housing.
If you are interested in understanding each age group in your area, and also other groups like people born overseas, low income households and people with a disability, you may like to learn more about our Communities of Interest online resources. You may also like to see our video about how you can use Communities of Interest for your area.


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Growing up, I spent a lot of time on the North Shore. My aunt and uncle lived in Topsfield and our good family friends lived in Gloucester. We spent many a weekend exploring the cute shops, local restaurants and of course, the beach.
One of our favorite places for family dinner was always Michael's Harborside in Newburyport.
As its name would suggest, the restaurant sits right on the harbor. While it does have a two level indoor dining room, the place to be is the roof deck.
Here is the million dollar view from the roof:
This past weekend I was in Rye, NH at the beach with two friends and we decided to have dinner at Michael's on the way back home to Boston. The hostess told us it would be a 90 minute wait to sit on the deck off the dining room, but we were welcome to try for a table on the roof. Those tables are first come, first serve.
We walked up the stairs to the roof deck and surveyed the situation. Then, like vultures, we circled for a table. I saw a couple paying their bill and like lightning, swooped in to ask if they were leaving.
Bingo! A table in under 10 minutes.
With drinks in hand (Twisted Tea for me, white sangria for them), we took a seat at a high top table. We were pretty hungry so decided to share an appetizer. We agreed on the fried pickles.
The pickles were deliciously battered and fried and served with a zesty mayo. Though we each commented how we prefer pickle spears for this kind of dish, this rendition was still quite tasty.
For our entree round, one friend ordered the ahi tuna burger. Look at that piece of tuna!
After a few bites I asked how she was enjoying the tuna and she said, "The tuna is seared perfectly and it's totally rare on the inside. The burger is on an English muffin that must have gone on the grill. I love the wasabi mayo, which gives it a nice balance of sweet and spicy. This is definitely a generous portion. I only wish I had asked for chips instead of sweet potato fries!"
Next to her, a friend was enjoying the aforementioned chips alongside her crab cake sandwich, which was also served on an English muffin.
When asked about the crab cake she replied, "I don't often eat crab cakes, but this is so good. There is a ton of crab meat and the cake is moist. There is definitely a lot of butter on this English muffin. The best part is the chips on the side, which are sprinkled with black pepper."
Now, I knew when we decided to come to Michael's that I wouldn't wind up with a great meal. It's a seafood place and their veggie options have never been outstanding. I chose to have the veggie burger because I knew it was a safe bet and likely a store bought patty.
The burger was lackluster (as expected), as were the onion rings on the side. They were too heavily battered. I still think Wahlburgers in Hingham has the best onion rings.
The real reason to go to Michael's is for the spectacular view. Whether you stay for food or just have a few drinks, it's total heaven. On the first nice weekend of the summer there was absolutely no place I'd rather be.
Have you been to Michael's Harborside? What other spots do you love on the North Shore?

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Nagaland reports 60 new Covid-19 cases, no fresh fatalities
Dimapur, Aug. 26 (EMN): Nagaland’s Covid-19 tally has increased to 29,778 with 60 more Covid-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours.
The Health and Family Welfare Department updated that out of the 60 new cases detected on Thursday, 17 were in Zunheboto, 12 in Dimapur, 10 each in Kohima and Mokokchung, four in Mon, three each in Longleng and Phek, and one in Kiphire.
The state’s death toll remained the same at 598 with no fatalities reported in the last 24 hours while the state’s recoveries rose to 27,457 with 84 patients having recovered.
On Thursday, 35 patients recovered from Kohima, 24 in Dimapur, 20 in Mokokchung, four in Zunheboto, and one in Peren.
Nagaland currently has 845 active Covid-19 cases, out of which 669 are asymptomatic, 138 mild, 14 moderate on oxygen, nine severe on oxygen, five in ICU without ventilator, and 10 in ICU on ventilator.
In regard to district-wise distribution of Covid-19 cases, Dimapur leads with 302 cases, followed by Mokokchung with 210, 204 in Kohima, 28 in Zunheboto, 24 in Wokha, 21 in Mon, 18 in Phek, 11 in Longleng, 10 in Kiphire, nine in Tuensang, and eight in Peren.


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New Years always offers a good chance to look at things and reevaluated, so I’ve been trying to figure how to do things better (and more often) in the coming year.
I used to blog a lot, when I was the “blog mistress” for RainTown Press, but when I stopped working for RainTown I never quite succeeded in transferring that blogging energy back here. Maybe I was burnt out. Maybe the forces that made me take a break from RainTown also made it hard to prioritize blogging. Or maybe I just got lazy.
Whatever the reason, I want to get back into the blogging swing.
With that in mind, my main goal this year is to blog more about the things I care about. I like doing reviews, but I don’t want that to be the main focus of this blog. This year I’m going to experiment with different topics, and see what comes out working best.
One thing I know is, I want to go beyond just talking about books. Now don’t get me wrong, I love books, but I love stories in general, even when they come in not-book forms. I’ve done occasionally movie reviews in the past, and I’d like to do more, and explore other mediums like comics, video games, or podcasts. Each medium offers a unique way of a telling a story, and that’s what really fascinates me. Basically, I like popular culture, and I’d like to dabble in that discussion more.
But don’t worry. I’m still going to talk about writing, and review my favorite books, I’ll just hopefully be bringing more things into the mix.
2014, here we come!


Rick Nash did not have an easy time with the puck on Monday night. He had three official shots on goal, but he also had numerous breakaway chances that he fired well wide of the net. A frustrating night for the star New York winger.
So he took out that frustration during the shootout. Nash scored one of the nastier shootout goals of the season, deking left before stopping on a dime and pulling the puck all the way to the right before slipping it just past Dan Ellis' left pad. It was a sick, vintage Rick Nash goal that set up J.T. Miller's game-winner two rounds later in the shootout. It wasn't easy, but the Rangers pulled off a gritty win.


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The American Lung Association in California applauds the Fontana City Council for voting in favor of public health and unanimously passing a smoke-free parks policy at its meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 14.
“We greatly appreciate the work of the Fontana City Council to adopt a smoke-free parks policy that will protect community members, especially children, from the dangers of secondhand smoke exposure while they’re enjoying the city’s parks and outdoor spaces,” said Corie Goldman, Advocacy Director for the American Lung Association in California.
Fontana’s new smoke-free policy will ban smoking, including the use of e-cigarettes, in all city-owned parks and facilities.
The new ordinance is the result of years of hard work by community members and teen groups who joined with the Lung Association to educate local officials on the health benefits of making city parks and facilities smoke-free.
“Being a part of Smokebusters for the past two years has only strengthened my passion for making change in my community. There’s no better feeling than being a part of an amazing group that focuses on paving a healthier community for the future of Fontana,” said Angie Bonilla, a member of Smokebusters, a group of teens dedicated to bringing smoke-free policies to their communities.
The new ordinance is expected to take effect by the end of October, following a second reading by the City Council later this month.
There are more than 300 cities and counties throughout California who have adopted similar ordinances to protect their communities from secondhand smoke exposure. For more information about strong local tobacco ordinances in California, visit www.center4tobaccopolicy.org.


text: Sea Water means the desire to preserve the authentic RIB that once was. Without superstructures, appendages or other useless and unattractive frills. The tube, a slender and clear-cut silhouette from stern to bow, like a vital organ with which the boat feels the environment around it and which protects it. The deck, spacious and tidy, to live and to love, like one’s own home. An uncomplicated outline, with only the essential, where everything is in the right place and nothing exceeds and nothing lacks. Love for tradition, but with a glance forward, looking into innovation and design to see what can be dared, without abandoning what is truly necessary and authentic. All this is Sea Water: a different way of living the sea.

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Roland Burris will be taking over for President-elect Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate.
Senate Democrats accepted Roland as Barack’s successor on Monday, and they told the Associated Press that they expect to get the new Illinois senator sworn in sometime this week.
Roland said in a televised interview that he didn’t doubt he would be seated, according to Livesteez.com. "It was just a matter of going through the process and making sure that the Senate rules were abided by," he said, according to The Huffington Post.
This decision is a complete turnaround from last week, when Senate Dems rejected Roland’s appointment to the seat.
They said Roland wouldn’t get it because he was picked by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who has since been arrested on charges that he actually tried to sell the seat to the highest bidder.
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White had to certify Roland’s appointment after a court ruled that his appointment letter was legally filed with the state, Reuters.com reports.
"He is now the senator-designate from Illinois and, as such, will be accorded all the rights and privileges of a senator-elect," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois said in a joint statement.
At a press conference in Chicago, Roland said he was honored and humbled to be the next junior senator. "I am thankful for the opportunity to serve," he said, according to the AP.
– Sonya Eskridge
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Dr. Azhari Yahya, S.H., MCL., M.A.
Dr. Azhari Yahya, S.H., MCL, MA was born in Peudada (North Aceh District) on 24th August 1964. He has been tenured as a full-time lecturer at Faculty of Law, Syiah Kuala University since March 1989. He completed his Bachelor's Degree of Laws (S.H.) from Syiah Kuala University in 1988. His Master's Degree in Comparative Laws (MCL) was obtained from International Islamic University Malaysia in 1995. After completing first Master's Degree in Malaysia, he pursued again his second Master's Degree at Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway from 2000 until 2002 under sponsorship of Norwegian Government. His PhD was done at Monash University Melbourne Australia under Dikti's scholarship of the Republic of Indonesia. After completing his PhD in 2015 then he returned home to the Faculty of Law, Syiah Kuala University to perform his academic duties. In terms of position, in 2015 he holded a position as a Chairman of Academic Quality Assurance at Faculty of Law, Syiah Kuala University. Then, in 2016 he was appointed as a Head of Postgrduate Studies at Faculty of Law, Syiah Kuala University. Currently, from 2017 up to present he holds a position as a Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Law, Syiah Kuala University.

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