The Peppermill Hotel and Casino's Tuscany Ballroom on Friday was transformed from its quaint Italian elegance to a modern disco dance party that kept, at the very least, heads bobbing and toes tapping nearly the entire two hours with some audience members taking advantage of two dance floors set up on either side of the stage.
Summer showed she still reigns with a rich voice in a line-up of new hits from her comeback album, "Crayons," to some of her most beloved classics including "MacArthur Park" and "I Feel Love."
Her opening song from Crayons, "The Queen is Back," grabs attention right away with a large purple visual of a crown and Summer herself, appearing in a purple sequin dress calling out among a catchy beat.
Her musical selections from the latest album included "Stamp Your Feet," "I'm a Fire" and "Mr. Music." Summer's new "Sand on My Feet" was a soft segue from the energetic R & B and disco into a tropical pop melody she wrote based on a beautiful sunset view from her Florida cottage.
"It reminds me of why I work," she said with a laugh.
Summer spoke briefly in between songs, calling the writing of the "Crayons" album a "long, arduous process and often very painful."
"It's like when you get your first box of crayons: You get a piece of paper and you color a section. Then you discover the wall," she said, evoking laughter. "You become the incarnate of Rembrandt. This album is very important to me because I, the diva, was shaken up and fell out of this box of crayons."
As Summer performed the album's title song, which touches on all the "colors" of human emotion, her talented keyboardist belted out a solo, and then whipped out a saxophone later in the evening, a nice touch among mostly female singers, if only for a short while.
The concert that is as visually colorful as the name of her new album keeps the eyes glued to backdrops with various digital images, a dance team of three young men who move and play as marching band members and football players and Summer's stylish costume changes. The simple displays, ranging from iPods -- or rather, "iDons" to Crayola boxes that read "The 24 colors of Summer," added a creative niche to the theme of human significance and resilience, much like "Bring Down the Reign."
No song falls flat on the ears with a well-coordinated blend of her new material with the classic disco dance hits that everyone, young and old, could mouth along, wiggle to, and more often than not, inspire them to strut their stuff in and off their seats.
Toward the end, the dance areas on either side of the stage nearly ran out of room for the musically attuned, especially with the hard-hitting set of "Hard for the Money," "Bad Girls" and "Hot Stuff," the three pieces that drove nearly everyone to their feet. It was a true testament to Summer's legacy as a woman speaking out on the prominent feminist movement of the 1970s and 80s, especially with men and women alike rocking along with her.
As Summer prepared for one of her last costume changes, a surprising treat was a solo from one of her back-up singers, her own sister. Mary Gaines and Summer sang their famous duet "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" and later, Gaines was featured in a solo, "Selah" from her first album "You Made It."
Clearly, Summer hasn't lost momentum even after 17 years of a break from songwriting and even dares to raise the bar for herself by reconnecting with old fans while stealing the hearts of younger ones. And although she urged the audience, "Don't make this diva scream -- she's but a delicate flower," she proves herself ever capable of running an entertaining show with an inspiring love of music.


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What causes warts? Warts are caused the certain strands of the Human Papilloma Virus. There are over 100 different types of human papillomavirus.
Types of Warts?
Genital Warts – Genital warts are an infection of the genital and anal area’s skin, including the vulva, vagina, cervix, rectum, anus, penis, or scrotum. Genital Warts appear as small flesh-colored bumps. These bumps can appear alone or in large clusters. Genital warts are caused by certain types of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and are spread by skin-to-skin contact during oral, genital, or anal sex with an infected partner.
Common Warts – Common warts are flesh-colored. They may appear as small raised spots on the skin with a rough surface. The wart’s size varies and may appear anywhere on the body, especially the fingers, hands, palms, elbows, knees, legs, and face. They may be called “seed” warts because blood vessels in the wart look like black dots or “seeds.”
Plantar Warts – Plantar warts develop exclusively on the sole. They can be painful and cause difficulty in walking. They may occur in a pattern, grouped closely together.
Flat Warts – Flat warts are most common among teenagers and children. They are often small, with a pinhead size, and 100 flat warts can cluster up together. They usually appear on the face but can also appear on arms, knees, or hands.
Periungual Warts – Periungual warts appear under or near toenails and fingernails. They start small, about the size of a pinhead but can grow larger and affect nail growth.
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Question: Cant Sleep possible Anxiety?
|BellaGrave - Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:42 am||
Hi, I have been Sleeping Maybe 3 hours a night im 20 years old..About a month ago I Stopped taking my EFFEXOR XR. Due to no one in my area on my insurence Plan. I have been So Scared to Sleep...Im afraid to do cardio I don't want to have a heart attack..Im Afraid to sleep in fear of not waking up this is all so unrashonal but its like when I lay down and say fall asleep your fine this fear comes over me that i wont wake up and I watch t.v to about 9am till I pass out..I cant listen to my heart beat or anyone one eles or I get a choking feeling in my throat and get all dizzy....I don't know what to do this lack of sleep has made me sick..Could this Fear Be due to Anxiety...I used to have Anxiety And depression Is this at all linked or have I lost it?
|angel2close - Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:32 am||
If I understand your question correctly, you are wanting to know if your lack of sleep, fear of sleep, fear of not waking up etc. is related to your no longer taking a medication given to you by your past doctor. Are you aware what the medication Effexor XR does and what it is for? The drug is commonly used to help to alleviate clinical depression and anxiety. You may think that you used to have anxiety and depression, and that you feel that you are now 'over it', when indeed it was simply the drug doing what it was supposed to do for you until you stopped taking it. Could all of this be linked together? Could your fears be linked to your past diagnosis of anxiety? The answer to both of these questions is yes. If you are unable to see your original doctor , call him/her and get a referral to another in the area where you now live. You need to see a physician even if that means a trip to the Emergency Room. Perhaps you will find a doctor who will accept your insurance that way. I do not advocate using the ER as a doctor's office, but a psychiatric emergency can be just as urgent as a physical one. When a person experiences clinical depression and anxiety, medication prescribed for them is an important part of their therapy. Being depressed and anxious is scary and you need someone to help guide you through this part of your life. Please see someone ASAP. Take care.
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Come Home Already! By Jory John. Illustrated by Benji Davies. Harper. $17.99.
Ducks Away! By Mem Fox. Illustrations by Judy Horacek. Scholastic. $16.99.
You’re My Little Chickadee. By Sandra Magsamen. Cartwheel Books/Scholastic. $7.99.
The third one-sided-friendship book by Jory John and Benji Davies reintroduces well-meaning but over-enthusiastic Duck and slightly grumpy but basically good-hearted Bear in a tale that fits well with the previous Goodnight Already! and I Love You Already! The underlying plot is the same as before: Duck just does not know when enough is enough, and insists on pushing his friendship on Bear even when Bear wants a little time alone. For his part, Bear does not want to be crabby, not really, but he just wants Duck to give him a little space, something that Duck does not understand. So Bear goes to find his own space in Come Home Already! He heads off on a week-long fishing trip, a fact that Duck discovers when he comes to Bear’s house and sees the note on Bear’s front door. This is a big problem for Duck, who is a full-scale extrovert and does not like being by himself at all, ever. Duck comes up with all sorts of things he can do solo – read, cook, write a letter, play drums, watch a movie – but quickly decides that he “doesn’t feel like doing any of those things. …I’m just so bored.” For his part, Bear at first is happy being “alone with my thoughts,” with “no pesky neighbors knocking on my door at all hours.” But this turns out not to be exactly what Bear wants. He finds he has no skill at setting up his tent, and then it starts to rain, and he forgot to bring snacks, and cannot catch any fish, and does not know how to start a campfire – Bear, it turns out, is not much of a woodsman. A diagonally split page showing the two characters, each unhappy in a different way, each saying the word “sigh,” is the turning point here. Duck decides to go after Bear, who by this time is finding the woods “scary at night.” When Duck unexpectedly shows up, Bear is genuinely overjoyed to see him, all the more so when it turns out that Duck is “good at building tents and making fires.” And besides, Duck has brought snacks (marshmallows). So the two friends are genuinely happy with each other’s company – until the middle of the night, when Duck wants to make conversation and Bear just wants to sleep. Soon Duck and Bear are back to being something closer to “frenemies” than bosom pals, with Duck resuming his over-intrusive ways and Bear dreading the idea that Duck will keep his promise to “always be by your side.” So nothing is permanently solved in Come Home Already! But the story does develop the characters’ personalities nicely and set up further introvert/extrovert tales in the future.
There are even more ducks in Mem Fox’s Ducks Away! In fact, there are six – a mother duck and five ducklings. The story here is a variation on the old one about a mother duck going “over the hills and far away” as her babies disappear one by one, until at the end they all come back and everyone is together again. But the setting here is different: the tale takes place on a bridge, across which the duck family is waddling, when suddenly a gust of wind blows one of the little ducks off the bridge and into the water below. The book quickly becomes a counting-down story, as Mother Duck asks, “Where should I go, with four on the bridge and one below?” Soon enough, one of the ducks still on the bridge looks down into the river, loses his balance, and falls into the water – and now Mother Duck has to figure out what to do about “three on the bridge and two below.” Judy Horacek’s very simple illustrations, against a plain white background, highlight the action nicely and will make the book appealing to early readers and pre-readers. Nothing really happens in the story except that the ducklings end up, one at a time, in the river, and eventually Mother Duck flies down there herself after one duckling tells her to “go with the flow.” And at the end, the six-duck family is reunited, now in the water, and that is that – a simple, mildly amusing story with pleasant cartoon illustrations that is an easy way to help young children understand the basics of subtraction.
The bird in Sandra Magsamen’s latest adorable board book is a chick rather than a duck, or rather a “chickadee,” as the book’s title makes clear. This book is for even younger children than Ducks Away! It is simply a celebration of cuteness, with the little yellow chick having an orange comb that projects above all the pages and becomes part of each page’s illustration. The fun here comes from seeing the little chickadee in different poses, all of which are topped by the soft plush of the comb atop the book. The chick’s eyes are always closed, apparently in pleasure or with laughter, and its little body is made largely from “love hearts”: the legs are stick figures, but the wings are heart-shaped, and so are the background flowers and even the wings of a smiling bee that appears on one page. “You’re my little chickadee. You mean everything in the world to me,” Magsamen writes, and that is the entire point of the book – to affirm and reaffirm love and do so with a soft-looking (and, in the case of the comb, soft-feeling) little chick as the focus. This is a board book for the youngest children, perhaps up to age two or three, who will enjoy seeing the smiling little chick, hearing the pleasant rhymes of the text, and feeling the comb, which is tightly bound into a double-thick back cover so even eager little hands cannot inadvertently (or deliberately!) get it out. Parents and other adults looking for a sweet and simple way to express love to very young children will find plenty of help, and plenty of fun, in You’re My Little Chickadee!

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Think of Tyne and Wear (or Tyneside) and most people think of Newcastle upon Tyne. But there is much more to this county than just the vibrant university city of Newcastle; this is Bede Country. Bede, or the Venerable Bede as he is also known, was a monk at St Peter’s monastery at Monkwearmouth and St Pauls at Jarrow. Most famous for his work, ‘The Ecclesiastical History of the English People’, he is often referred to as the ‘Father of English History’. Bede’s World at Jarrow is a popular tourist attraction and introduces visitors to ecclesiastical life in the 7th and 8th century.
You can also visit Tynemouth Castle and Priory. The priory was built in 1090 by Benedictine monks on the site of an Anglo-Saxon monastery where the early kings of Northumbria were buried. This is a really interesting site, with the moated towers, gatehouse and keep of the castle set alongside the ruins of the priory.
Hadrian's Wall terminates in Tyne and Wear. Running across northern England, from Ravenglass on the Cumbrian coast to the aptly named Wallsend and South Shields, this is one of the most famous landmarks in Britain. Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum at Wallsend is a great place for a family visit with its interactive museum and full-scale reconstructions of a bath house and section of the Wall.
There are American connections to this part of the world: Washington Old Hall near Washington is the ancestral home of the family of George Washington, first President of the USA. The hall is now in the care of the National Trust.
Stottie cakes are popular in this area of North East England; in Geordie (the local dialect) to 'stott' means 'to bounce', as in theory these cakes would bounce if dropped! A stottie is a flat, round loaf of bread which is often split and filled with ham, bacon, or sausage to make a sandwich.

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Improved therapeutics and health care delivery have brought remarkable declines in the incidence of … complications, with a 50% reduction in amputations from their peak in 1997 and ∼35% reduction in the incidence of end-stage renal disease. Similarly, 10-year coronary heart disease risk dropped from 21% in 2000 to 16% in 2008.
Nevertheless, diabetes remains the leading cause of blindness, renal failure, non-traumatic lower-limb amputation, in adults 18 to 65 years of age.
Diabetes is expensive, too. We spent $174 billion (USD) on diabetes in 2007 in the U.S.
The companion essay by Dr. Robert Ratner also notes 79 million Americans with prediabetes.
In addition to lower rates of major diabetes complications, we now have 11 classes of drugs for treating diabetes, compared with just three or four a generation ago.
I’m hopeful that future research will point to dietary changes that can help control or prevent diabetes on a wide scale. The paleo diet and low-carb eating are two possible avenues.

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Subject Access Requests, the new weapon.
Following on from our previous article “using Subject Access Requests as a weapon”, we will now look further into the systems to
implemented in tracking and responding to these requests. Although asking companies for information that they may have on an individual has always been available under the old DPA (Data protection Act1998), with advent of GDPR and strengthening of a persons rights, this may now be used with greater frequency to drown organisations in even greater admin.
What is the process for Subject Access Requests?
Subject access request can be made in writing or verbally. It is considered good practice to provide a template, you can not force a data subject to use it. Either way you need to capture the receipt of the correspondence so that a time stamp is generated and the clock starts. You have to respond unless you indicate the request has a degree of complication and requires more time. You can then insist on a form of identification prior to release the information. Already you can see a time sensitive audit trail being generated. If you don’t have a system to handle this workflow, mistakes will happen, either from not responding in time, or missing out information, then you will have to start processing penalty claims as well. See the ICO guidelines for a full list.
Systems for tracking Subject Access requests for GDPR.
With the system we recommend traceability of documents combines with contact management for ease of a communication trail. If you set up a standard email (I.e. subject access@) then the system will sync that outlook inbox with the contact card with the attachment as a live document. The creation of the document can produce a future dated activity to remind staff to respond in time or set future reminders if more information is required. As discussed previously, the same contact management system could generate the report to satisfy the enquiry, document the proof of ID (to make sure the correct information to the right individual, yes that would be data breach if you didn’t check), then email an encrypted email could trace the response done within the timeline. Job done and proof of compliance at the same time.
For snail mail it would be the same process except that you scan the letter into the system and handle the query in the same manner. You could recommend they use a pre defined web portal which would generate it’s own enquiry and follow up activity in the contact card and semi automate the prices from there.
For business wishing to get on top of their process please contact us directly on the email above or for more information see our “Services” page.
Next in the series “GDPR compliant software”.

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It’s a few weeks since I last shared my Zoe box with you, it’s a stitch-a-long by Faby Reilly and I got a little bit behind, so it was one of the projects I took on holiday with me when I went on the Cleveland Way. The patterns are released every two weeks, at the moment we are working on the side of the box.
This time I’ve been working on the ‘summer’ side. Whilst I was away I managed to more or less complete the cross-stitch part, I say more or less as I forgot one of the floss colours! Anyway, shortly after my return it looked like this…
I must admit at this point I thought it was another bird in the top corner, however last Monday the next pattern was released with all the top-stitching and extra stitches and decorative embellishments.
It’s a butterfly!
I love all the extra stitches that Faby uses in her designs, here I’ve stitched french knots, spiders web stitch, rice stitch and Algerian eyelet stitch, embellished with sequins and beads.
We’ve completed three sides so far, so the project so far looks like this…
One more week until the next pattern release!

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Gov. Matt Bevin has directed that flags at all state office buildings be lowered to half-staff Monday, Dec. 5, in honor of Staff Sgt. Kevin J. McEnroe and Staff Sgt. James F. Moriarty, Fort Campbell soldiers who died while supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.
42-year-old Michael Howard, convicted of supplying a mixture of fentanyl and morphine to 44-year-old Kimberly Mullins that led to the overdose of Mullins' daughter, was sentenced to 26 years in federal prison on Thursday.


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Amlan Borgohain sets national mark, Sable cracks 5000m meet record on debut | More sports News – Times of India
Avinash Sable, known for excelling in the steeplechase, rewrote the men’s 5000m meet record with a fine effort over 13:39.43 that raised expectation that he could soon be claiming the national record standing in the name of Bahadur Prasad since 1992.
🚨 Record Alert: Avinash Sable who already secured his berth for World Championships in 3000m SC competed in 5000m i… https://t.co/CxukQA8FnH
— Athletics Federation of India (@afiindia) 1649251434000
Kartik Kumar’s bid for the distance double came unstuck in the face of Sable’s run.
The 23-year-old Borgohain sank Muhammed Anas Yahiya’s existing mark of 20.63 seconds in a race that saw the top three finish inside 21 seconds.
However, it was only Borgohain who matched the Asian Games qualifying standard set by the Athletics Federation of India. Having run successive sub-21-second races in September and March, he gave proof of his progress.
#NationalRecord Alert 🚨Amlan Borgohain clocked 20.52s in 200m Men Finals at the Federation Cup 2022 to set the Ne… https://t.co/TQFX5MTllh
— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) 1649249875000
Running his maiden competitive race over the distance at the national level, Sable became the fourth fastest Indian in the 12-1/2-lap race. In fact, it was the fastest 5000m by an Indian on home soil.
The top three finishers, including Uttar Pradesh’s Abhishek Pal, met the Asian Games qualification criteria set by AFI.
The triple jump saw a pulsating contest with Eldhose Paul of Kerala breaking a 10-year-old meet mark when he leapt 16.99m to claim gold. On a day when Praveen Chithravel (Tamil Nadu) and Karthik Unnikrishnan (Kerala) also secured qualification marks for the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games, Eldhose Paul won by a comfortable margin.
🚨 Record Alert: Eldhose Paul set the new meet record in Triple Jump Men. He broke the ‘meet record’ of Renjith Mahe… https://t.co/bmMOqlLbwk
— Athletics Federation of India (@afiindia) 1649255535000
Two 31-year-old hammer throwers, Sarita Romit Singh (Uttar Pradesh) and Manju Bala Singh (Rajasthan), produced a riveting contest. Having traded the national record over the last so many years, they fought tooth and nail on Wednesday.
Manju Bala Singh led with 63.12m on her third try but Sarita Romit Singh won gold with 64.16m on her fifth attempt.
Manju Bala Singh also came up with a 64m throw on her last try but had to settle for silver. They pushed one another so competitively that it was the first time that both breached the 64m in the same competition. They also earned qualification marks for the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games.
In the thrilling women’s 200m final, Hima Das (Assam) held back a challenge from Aishwarya Kailash Mishra (Maharashtra) and Priya H Mohan (Karnataka). Hima Das stopped the clock in 23.63 seconds to win by one-hundredth of a second from 400m champion Aishwarya.
Hima Das won 200m Gold in a tough fight with Aishwarya Kaila Mishra. Hima clocked 23.63s while Aishwarya clocked 23… https://t.co/culhH6Hjum
— Athletics Federation of India (@afiindia) 1649253469000
Priya H Mohan, who did not compete in the 400m, settled for third place in a personal best time.
There was a similar contest in the men’s 400m hurdles final, MP Jabir (Kerala) and T Santhosh Kumar (Tamil Nadu) coming home inside 51 seconds while Dhaval Mahesh Utekar (Gujarat) beat the fancied Ayyasamy Dharun (Tamil Nadu) to the bronze medal.
The seasoned Anu Raghavan beat her younger Kerala team-mate R Arathi to the women’s 400m hurdles gold.

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Grammar Girl's 101 Words Every High School Graduate Needs to Know
Quick & Dirty Tips
This book can be downloaded and read in Apple Books on your Mac or iOS device.
Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 30 million times. Now she's turning her attention to improving our vocabulary—one word at a time—with Grammar Girl's 101 Words Every High School Graduate Needs to Know.
Not sure whether your post-high school vocabulary is up to snuff? This handy reference guide is a great starting point for ensuring you know the words that will help you impress your college professors, hold your own among your peers, write killer papers, and simply sound articulate—a skill that will benefit you for years to come.
Full of clear, straightforward definitions and fun quotations from luminaries such as J.D. Salinger and Susan B. Anthony, to characters such as Marge and Homer Simpson, this highly-useable guidebook gives you the confidence to succeed and sets you up for a lifetime of success.
Other Books in This Series
- Smart Talk
- Category: Words & Language
- Published: Jul 05, 2011
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Seller: Macmillan
- Print Length: 128 Pages
- Language: English
- Series: Quick & Dirty Tips

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Worley: Farming is 'ground zero for somebody who cares about Iowa and its future."
If the group Sally Worley leads were political, it would be tantamount to unifying the supporters of Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
OK, maybe no one could do that.
But Practical Farmers of Iowa manages to bring together a diverse group of farmers, ranging from conventional corn and soybean growers, farming 3,000 acres, to vegetable growers, working three acres.
Worley, PFI's new executive director, says the group works because the farmers all share common ground: They're all interested in improving their operations.
Worley named new Practical Farmers director
And they have similar goals: A desire to be profitable, to be good stewards of their land and to improve their communities, said Worley.
Practical Farmers gives farmers a place to exchange ideas, she said."It's easy to demonize one way of farming vs. another," said Worley, who has worked at the Ames-based group for nearly nine years, working her way to the top position in January.
"A lot of those preconceived notions they may have had often go away," said Worley, who has a horticulture degree from Iowa State University.
Tim Landgraf, a Kanawah vegetable grower, said Practical Farmers fosters a "culture of respect for different kinds of farmers — an understanding that there are different ways to do agriculture."
Worley, he said, contributes to that. "You can tell that she really loves her work."
A lot of Practical Farmers' focus is about learning, Worley said: From dozens of research projects each year to hosting field days across the state, annual conferences and retreats, and online "farminars."
Many of the group's priorities align with state and national concerns.
For example, Practical Farmers is working with cereal-maker General Mills and other companies to test growing food-grade oats. They're looking at what varieties work best as well as studying the infrastructure needed to support expanding the crop, which could add some much-needed diversity to Iowa's mostly corn and soybean rotation.
And Practical Farmers' "Don't Farm Naked" initiative encourages farmers to use cover crops to help reduce soil, phosphorus and nitrogen losses.
$5.7 million invested in water-quality projects
Both practices can reduce farming's effect on water quality. It's become a hotly debated issue after Des Moines Water Works sued three north Iowa counties a year ago, claiming underground drainage tiles act as conduits that funnel water with high nitrate levels into the Raccoon River, a source of drinking water for 500,000 metro area residents.
Experts say cover crops can help prevent nutrient and soil losses, especially in the spring, when the ground is bare before crops begin growing.
"We're doing a lot of work with farmers … encouraging people to keep their ground covered with living roots as close to 365 days a year as possible," Worley said.
Farming faces many serious issues, she said. "There's a lot of work that needs to be done." Agriculture "is ground zero for somebody who cares about Iowa and its future."
The group's research gives farmers real answers, she said. "We're providing those answers with on-farm research that's being replicated across the state," Worley said, "as well as a lot of farmer-to-farmer" exchange of information.
Farmers want to know not only why they should use cover crops but how best to incorporate them: How can cover crops be added economically? What's the best approach for seeding them in the fall? What happens if there's no rain to help cover crops germinate? How do should farmers kill cover crops in the spring before planting?
Another big initiative for Practical Farmers is helping beginning farmers, with efforts to pair them with experienced growers and provide a savings match of up to $2,400 to help with costs, including equipment.
The group has an online site that matches farmers looking for land with landowners looking for tenants. And Teresa Opheim, Practical Farmers' former director who moved to Minneapolis, remains with the group, focused on helping farmers transfer their operations to the next generation.
Worley said the work can help rural Iowa communities facing declining populations. The average age of Iowa farmers 57 years old.
Mark Peterson, Practical Farmers' board president, said finding a new generation of farmers could be the next crisis Iowa faces. The south Iowa corn and soybean farmer hopes his operation is run by a family, and not swallowed up by a big corporation.
Peterson thinks Practical Farmers is attracting young farmers — and Worley helps reflect those new ideas.
"Sally is a very open person who is willing to listen to any and all opinions," he said.
Personal: Raised in Independence, the 37-year-old is married to Chris Worley, a trim carpenter. The couple have three children: Maya, 11; Mesa, 9; and Wyatt, 6. The family lives in Grimes.
Education: Graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in horticulture.
Professional: Before becoming the executive director, Worley had several positions at Practical Farmers, beginning as the group's communications director, the next generation and horticulture director, deputy director and operations director. Before working at Practical Farmers of Iowa, Worley directed the agriculture-based vocational program for people with autism at The Homestead, near Pleasant Hill, among other positions.

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The prospect of owning a home has always factored into the timing of multifamily residents departing their communities. But in the past few years, there has been a steady decline in the percentage of residents likely to vacate who say that home purchase is a determining factor. As seen in the chart below, almost 1 in 5 vacating residents (those saying they are unlikely to renew) cited “home purchase” as a factor in 2007. In both 2010 and 2011, however, that ratio fell to less than 1 in 8.
Of note is that the trend did stabilize in 2011. Will more residents be willing and able to jump (back?) into the ownership market in 2012 and beyond? Historically low interest rates and continued attractive pricing might suggest so. Or will tighter requirements for down payments and continued employment and economic uncertainty continue to encourage renting by choice?

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GA - Quintaveous Wright, 14 mos, found dead, Atlanta, 28 April 2008
ATLANTA -- Two sisters have been charged with killing one of their babies. Fourteen-month-old Quintaveous Wright died after he was found not breathing. Atlanta police believe his 16-year-old mother and his aunt, Tameka Hardeman, are responsible.
Police have not yet released why the two women were charged or how the baby died. But Channel 2 obtained a copy of the police report and it revealed the baby had a wound on his leg and that investigators believe foul play was involved.
A relative of the family is sticking up for the baby’s mom and aunt. “They’re good parents. They’re really good parents,” said the relative who did not want to be identified. "I really don't think they should be charged with murder because I don't think they would harm the kids. I've never seen them hit them, do no harm to them, in no type of form or fashion."
Wright was found not breathing at his northwest Atlanta home Monday morning and was rushed to Hughes-Spalding Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Since then, Atlanta police have charged his 16-year-old mother and 30-year-old aunt, Hardeman, with his death.
"When I got ready to get my kids ready, he was up that morning. He was happy and jolly. And all of the sudden, I was getting ready to come outside, she came outside screaming and hollering saying, ‘They killed my baby,’" the relative told Channel 2’s Rachel Kim.
The relative said the baby’s paternal grandmother had him the night before and has been wanting custody because she believes his mother is too young. Authorities have not yet released any details as to why the mother and her sister were charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct.
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Since then, Atlanta police have charged his 16-year-old mother and 30-year-old aunt, Hardeman, with his death.
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- A 16-year-old girl and her 30-year-old sister were charged with voluntary manslaughter and reckless conduct in the death of the teen's 14-month-old baby boy, Atlanta police said....
According to a police report, Hardeman said the boy had a wound on his leg, so his mother used two patches of a drug called Fentanyl to hold a piece of gauze in place. Fentanyl is a powerful pain killer, even more powerful than morphine...
"[Charges] very well could be upgraded, depending on how the investigation goes from here, and that is obviously pending the autopsy report," said Atlanta Police Officer Eric Schwartz.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner's office wants to know how much Fentanyl was in the boy's system, since the drug is not typically given to children.
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One of St. Paul's most popular works, Ephesians, is filled with wise advice on how to be a disciple of Christ in a secular world. The Ephesians: Discover Your Inheritance study examines several much-discussed themes in today’s Christian culture and society–the nature of marriage, the purpose and role of the Church, the preeminence of grace in God’s plan, and the reality of spiritual warfare.
In this 8-session program, presenter Jeff Cavins explores what Paul’s letter to the Ephesians tells us about the nature of the Church–as a body, as a household, as a mystery, as a communion, as a bride, and as an army. Ephesians: Discover Your Inheritance shows the treasures that await us as adopted sons and daughters in the family of God.
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Extra-terrestrial heroes in a half shell?
Michael Bay spoke about Platinum Dunes’ plans for the new “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie a few days ago at the 2012 Nickelodeon Upfront at the Lincoln Center in New York.
“When you see this movie, kids are going to believe that one day these turtles actually do exist… when we are done with this movie. These turtles are from an alien race, and they’re going to be tough, edgy, funny, and completely lovable” Bay told the crowd (via io9.
The key word there that has everyone scratching their heads is ‘alien’ – the turtles are mutant turtles, not aliens. The comment has already lead to a wildfire of editorials and counter opinions, not to mention intense social media debate.
Could Bay have misspoken? Quite possible, but we don’t know for sure yet.


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There are military parades — and then there's Mecca's mega military parade ?
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‘If Facebook were around in the 1930s, it would have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads’ — Listen to 'Borat' star Sacha Baron Cohen slam the social media industry for facilitating the spread of hate, lies, and conspiracies
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows reported spending almost $75,000 through his campaign and leadership PAC this year after announcing he would not run for re-election last December, with many expenses appearing to be for personal use
The CDC's new definition of close contact with someone with Covid-19 includes multiple, brief exposures adding up to a total of 15 minutes spent six feet or closer to an infected person
Obama goes off on Republicans and the ACA: ’Where is this great plan to replace Obamacare? They’ve had 10 years to do it. There is no plan! They’ve never had one’
Nigerians have been demonstrating for weeks against a notoriously brutal and corrupt police agency, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. Here’s what’s behind the protests and what they could mean for Africa’s most populous country:


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Toward a Psychology of Resistance
Jeanette A Lawrence, Agnes E Dodds
INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE | SPRINGER | Published : 2018
Resistance is all around us in contemporary life. It is an everyday phenomenon of personal and cultural life, as the Chaudhary et al. (2017) volume establishes with theoretical analyses and empirical examples from diverse cultural contexts. Resistance functions in the dynamics of person-by-culture encounters when one party takes an opposing position. With the purpose of working towards a unified approach to resistance, the authors in this volume lay down the foundations for a psychology of resistance as an everyday phenomenon. As a basis for analyzing the role of resistance in the dialectical processes of change, the volume presents resistance as: personal and social, oppositional, intention..View full abstract
Preparation of this paper was supported by the University of Melbourne Schools of Psychology and Medicine.

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Storytelling has been a popular form of communication since the dawn of man. Storytelling is the backbone of culture, history and entertainment. And what better way to tell your story than with a good outline?
Great stories are all around us. From the fantasy of Star Wars to the adventures of Harry Potter, the outline is one of the most important parts of any great story. But writing an outline can be difficult and time-consuming, right? Wrong! We have a solution for you!
What is an Outline?
An outline tool online, writers use to help organize and structure their ideas. It can be as simple as a list of points you want to make or a detailed plan with specific scenes and characters.
Most importantly, an outline can help you see the big picture of your story and figure out what is missing or where it needs more development.
Try creating an outline if you’re having trouble getting started on your story or feeling stuck. It is the boost you need to get your creative juices flowing!
The Golden Rule of Story Outlines
The Golden Rule of Story Outlines is simple: your story must be interesting. If it isn’t, no amount of great writing or amazing characters will save it.
To make sure your story is interesting, ask yourself these questions:
-Does my story have a unique plot?
-Do my characters have clear motivations?
-Is the conflict in my story compelling?
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You’re on the right track if you can answer “yes” to all of these questions. If not, keep working on your outline until you can say “yes” to them.
The Five-Step Outline Process
The Five-Step Outline Process is a simple yet effective way to create an outline for your story.
By following these five steps, you can develop a clear and concise outline that will help you tell your story in the best way possible.
1. You will need to identify the main characters in your story. who are they? What motivates them?
2. You will need to establish the conflict in your story. What is at stake for your characters? What are they fighting for?
3. Once you have established the conflict, you will need to develop the plot of your story. How will the conflict be resolved? What obstacles will your characters face along the way?
4. After developing the plot, you will need to determine the ending of your story. How will the conflict be resolved? What lessons will your characters learn?
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A story outline is a tool used by authors to plan out the events of a story. This can be done by listing the events in chronological order or using a more complicated system, such as the Hero’s Journey.
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— One way to write a story outline is to list out all of the scenes in the order they will happen. This can be helpful if you have a clear idea of what happens in each scene and in what order they should happen.
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There’s no one right way to create an outline, but an online tool like the Outline Creator can help you organize your thoughts and get started on your story.
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Last week the Prince’s Government, represented by the Department of International Cooperation’s Morocco Coordinator, attended the first day of classes for the first students enrolled in the Occupational Therapy programme offered by the Instituts Supérieurs des Professions Infirmières et Techniques de Santé (ISPIST, Higher Institutes for Nursing and Health Careers) in Rabat. Representatives from Morocco’s Ministry of Health were also in attendance. The project was initiated by the Monaco Government.
In 2009, a study carried out by Handicap International showed that occupational therapy was completely non-existent in Morocco. Yet this profession, which complements the other health-related roles that do exist in Morocco, is critical in helping people with disabilities to achieve independence and social integration in their daily lives.
Concerned by this situation, the Prince’s Government, as part of its international development aid policy pursued through the Department of International Cooperation, sent an international volunteer – an occupational therapist by profession – to the country in 2013. Following this evaluation mission, it was deemed necessary to establish an occupational therapy training programme in the country. Having also been alerted by the public authorities and civil society, in 2016 the Moroccan Ministry of Health decided to establish a national action plan, Santé-Handicap 2015–2021 (Health-Disability 2015–2021). Creating the occupational therapy programme was one of the priorities of this plan.
A multidisciplinary team bringing together officials from the Moroccan Ministry of Health, the ISPIST, and several other international institutions was created and worked to achieve the launch of this new training programme starting in autumn 2017.
The first class of students, who have decided to devote themselves professionally to protecting the rights of people with disabilities and promoting their integration into society, represents a step forward for the Prince’s Government, which has always paid particular attention to people with disabilities.


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Our radical past
Islington has a strong connection to the fight for women’s right to vote. One of the earliest advocates of women’s rights was Newington Green resident, Mary Wollstonecraft, who established a school for girls in 1784. She became known across Europe for her radical views on gender equality after publishing ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’ in 1792.
By the 1900s, the Suffragette campaign became increasingly militant. Many of these women were jailed in Holloway Prison and the prison became the scene of the first Suffragette hunger strikes. Islington Museum has a number of artefacts from this time, including a brooch designed by Sylvia Pankhurst.
Today’s young women
Young women in Islington are still inspired by the movement. Honey Baker, 15, an Islington Youth Councillor, says: “The Suffragettes inspire me as they stood up for what they believed was right, with the right attitude.
“A woman today who really inspires me is Malala. She stood up for women’s right to education. She knew it was dangerous, but knew she had to speak her mind.”
There are loads of events happening in Islington over the next 12 months to mark the centenary.
Next month, all libraries will be celebrating International women’s day with a month long promotion of 365 books by women authors. Find out more.
A youth programme focussed on suffragettes is planned, including two story-telling events, artist-led days and a two-day visual arts project.
Plus there will be walks, led by Clerkenwell and Islington Guides (CIGA), following the story of women’s rights in Islington, and much more.
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4/13/10 – Gaming Media group's The Poker Channel, has announced that it is to launch Poker Channel France, the first dedicated poker channel for French viewers, on 8th June.
The new service will offer exclusive French-language poker entertainment to over 4 million television subscribers in France, with satellite TV expansion to another 5 million French subscribers by September 2010.
Poker Channel France will be available at launch to subscribers of Numericable, Freebox (the TV service from Iliad Group), Neufbox (SFR) and Bbox (Bouygues Telecom), and will offer French-language coverage of all major events including the WSOP, EPT and WPT; tutorial shows, daily news updates and exclusive tournaments such as the European Cash Game, to be filmed later this year in Paris.
The launch of the dedicated French-language channel coincides with the expected implementation of gambling liberalisation laws in France this summer , and The Poker Channel is reportedly in discussions with several major online gambling operators about long-term exclusive marketing partnerships.
The Channel has also revealed that it is adding a further 3 territories to its pan-European feed, including Latvia (w.e.f. 13 April), Austria (5 May), and Monaco (8 June), taking it to a total of 28 countries and over 22 million TV homes.
Chris White, md of The Poker Channel said, “We’re delighted to be launching a channel that is 100 percent French, and to finally give both advertisers and viewers what they’ve been demanding for so long. This is a fantastic opportunity to promote the game to an even larger audience, from beginners to pros.”
The Poker Heaven and Poker Channel interests of Gaming Media Group could be up for sale, following news that Management has hired Cavendish Corporate Finance to advise on options for the future. The move to explore a sale came after the company received several unsolicited approaches from trade buyers, according to UK media reports last week


Professor Hussain Ibrahim, the Director General of the Raw Materials Research and Development Council, sent scores of lawmakers present at the Senate on Monday into fits of laughter, when he said the development of Kilishi technology was its major breakthrough since the agency’s creation 33 years ago.
The DG of RMRDC caused the mild stir when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Science and Technology.
He stated that the Kilishi technology was the only major breakthrough it had successfully developed for commercial use.
Early during the Senate sitting, Senator Uche Ekwunife, Chairman of the Senate panel, had asked the DG to tell Nigerians what specific raw material the agency had successfully produced in the country.
“Just give us the synopsis of what you have developed or generated for local industries. Tell us your breakthrough,” Ekwunife asked the RMRDC DG.
In his reply, Ibrahim told the panel that despite its lack of laboratory, the 33 year-old agency had succeeded in producing the local meat delicacy for commercial production.
He said, “We have developed two varieties of Sorghum. We collaborated with agricultural research institutes, pharmaceutical industries, because we produce ethanol from it and that is the basic raw material for the production of sanitizers.
“In our 30 years of research activities, we are still the largest research institute. But to be candid with you, we are making progress.
“For now, we have developed a technology to optimise Kilishi production. Research activities take time,” he added.
The DGs submission led to a prolonged laughter from the audience but drew the anger of the lawmakers.
A member of the panel, Senator Clifford Ordia said, “Is this the success story that you are going to tell us after 33 years?
“You have not been able to have your own raw materials done. This agency is just wasting our money.”
In his defence, the DG said, “We don’t have a laboratory. We use laboratories existing in Nigeria.”
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UK University Opens Carbon Footprint Research Centre Today
A research centre dedicated to reducing the planet’s carbon footprint opens today at The University of Nottingham. The center aims to have a global impact, its originators say.
The centre has been funded to the tune of £1.1m and is named the Centre for Innovation in Carbon Capture and Storage(CICCS).
The researchers’ output is set to steer important governmental decisions. In light of the various alarming reports that the planet’s no-going-back tipping point will be reached on many counts this century, this is welcome news. Researchers will also work with environmental pressure groups, oil producers and energy-intensive industry.
The scientists will explore technology that ‘captures’ polluting carbon dioxide and ways to store it permanently. Focal points will be CO2 and other greenhouse gases as well as conversion of CO2 into materials and fuels.
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First, Banks makes some good systems, but an ordinary tuner will easily add 200hp and 350lb ft of torque. First, you have to look at what you have to work with. As you said,you'll have to strengthen up the entire Ranger platform. The PS 6.0L might not fit between the wheel wells without some modifications to the chassis. The rear axle will have to be upgraded to handle the torque as well. I imagine you'd have to push out the rad a bit, and upgrade that so as to properly cool the engine. You might get away with mounting aux rads sideways should that be necessary depending on the level of tune you want to set the engine at. Putting a full size powertrain into a compact package is of course, all custom work and it's costly, which is why you won't find much info on the subject. Still, if you have the time, cash and patience, I suggest on going with it because we all know it can be done.
On a side note, I know you won't want to hear this, but the Cummins I6 would be a much better fit in the narrow engine bay. It would allow better cooling, and as you'd have to remount the rad (possibly increase the front end length even with the PS engine), it makes the most logical sense and even mid mileage engines can be had for low cost, and parts are a plenty.
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Ed.note: This article was based on a longer paper which can be found here.
If the rich nations in the world keep growing their economies by 2% each year and by 2050 the poorest nations catch up, the global economy of more than 9 billion people will be around 15 times larger than it is now, in terms of gross domestic product (GDP). If the global economy then grows by 3% to the end of the century, it will be 60 times larger than now.
The existing economy is already environmentally unsustainable. It is utterly implausible to think we can “decouple” economic growth from environmental impact so significantly, especially since recent decades of extraordinary technological advancement have only increased our impacts on the planet, not reduced them.
Moreover, if you asked politicians whether they’d rather have 4% growth than 3%, they’d all say yes. This makes the growth trajectory outlined above all the more absurd.
Others have shown why limitless growth is a recipe for disaster. I’ve argued that living in a degrowth economy would actually increase well-being, both socially and environmentally. But what would it take to get there?
In a new paper published by the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, I look at government policies that could facilitate a planned transition beyond growth – and I reflect on the huge obstacles lying in the way.
First, we need to know what we’re aiming for.
It is now widely recognised that GDP – the monetary value of all goods and services produced in an economy – is a deeply flawed measure of progress.
GDP can be growing while our environment is being degraded, inequality is worsening, and social well-being is stagnant or falling. Better indicators of progress include the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), which accounts for a wide range of social, economic and environmental factors.
Cap resources and energy
Environmental impact is driven by demand for resources and energy. It is now clear that the planet cannot possibly support current or bigger populations if developing nations used the same amount of resources and energy as developed nations.
Demand can be reduced through efficiency gains (doing more with less), but these gains tend to be reinvested in more growth and consumption, rather than reducing impacts.
A post-growth economy would therefore need diminishing “resource caps” to achieve sustainability. These would aim to limit a nation’s consumption to a “fair share” of available resources. This in turn would stimulate efficiency, technological innovation and recycling, thereby minimising waste.
This means that a post-growth economy will need to produce and consume in far less resource-intensive ways, which will almost certainly mean reduced GDP. There will of course be scope to progress in other ways, such as increased leisure time and community engagement.
Work less, live more
Growth in GDP is often defended on the grounds that it is required to keep unemployment at manageable levels. So jobs will have to maintained in other ways.
By reducing the average working week to 28 hours, a post-growth economy would share the available work among the working population. This would minimise or eliminate unemployment even in a non-growing or contracting economy.
Lower income would mean we would have less stuff, reducing environmental impact, but we would receive more freedom in exchange. Planned degrowth is therefore very different to unplanned recession.
Redirect public spending
Governments are the most significant player in any economy and have the most spending power. Taking limits to growth seriously will require a fundamental rethink of how public funds are invested and spent.
Among other things, this would include a swift divestment from the fossil fuel economy and reinvestment in renewable energy systems. But just as important is investing in efficiency and reducing energy demand through behaviour change. Obviously, it will be much easier to transition to 100% renewable energy if energy demand is a fraction of what it is today.
Reform banking and finance
Banking and finance systems essentially have a “growth imperative” built into their structures. Money is loaned into existence by private banks as interest-bearing debt. Paying back the debt plus the interest requires an expansion of the monetary supply.
So we need deep reform of banking and finance systems. We’d also need to cancel debt in some circumstances, especially in developing nations that are being suffocated by interest payments to rich world lenders.
The population question
Then there’s population. Many people assume that population growth will slow when the developing world gets rich, but to globalise affluence would be environmentally catastrophic. It is absolutely imperative therefore that nations around the world unite to confront the population challenge directly.
Population policies will inevitably be controversial but the world needs bold and equitable leadership on this issue, because current trends suggest we are heading for 11 billion by the end of this century.
Anyone who casually dismisses the idea that there is a limit to how many people Earth can support should be given a Petri dish with a swab of bacteria. Watch as the colony grows until it consumes all of the available nutrients or is poisoned by its own waste.
The first thing needed is a global fund that focuses on providing the education, empowerment and contraception required to minimise the estimated 87 million unintended pregnancies worldwide every year.
The conventional path to poverty alleviation is the strategy of GDP growth, on the assumption that “a rising tide will lift all boats”. But, as I’ve argued, a rising tide will sink all boats.
Poverty alleviation must be achieved more directly, via redistribution of wealth and power, both nationally and internationally. In other words (and to change the metaphor), a post-growth economy would eliminate poverty not by baking an ever-larger pie (which isn’t working) but by sharing it differently.
The richest 62 people on the planet own more than the poorest half of humanity. Dwell on that for a moment, and then dare to tell me that redistribution is not an imperative of justice.
So what’s stopping us?
Despite these post-growth policy proposals seeming coherent, they face at least four huge obstacles – which may be insurmountable.
First, the paradigm of growth is deeply embedded in national governments, especially in the developed world. At the cultural level, the expectation of ever-increasing affluence is as strong as ever. I am not so deluded as to think otherwise.
Second, these policies would directly undermine the economic interests of the most powerful corporations and institutions in society, so fierce resistance should be expected.
Third, and perhaps most challenging, is that in a globalised world these policies would likely trigger either capital flight or economic collapse, or both. For example, how would the stock markets react to this policy agenda?
Finally, there is also a geopolitical risk in being first to adopt these policies. Reduced military spending, for instance, would reduce a nation’s relative power.
So if these “top-down” policies are unlikely to work, it would seem to follow that if a post-growth economy is to emerge, it may have to be driven into existence from below, with communities coming together to build the new economy at the grassroots level.
And if we face a future where the growth economy grows itself to death, which seems to be the most likely scenario, then building up local resilience and self-sufficiency now will prove to be time and energy well spent.
In the end, it is likely that only when a deep crisis arrives will an ethics of sufficiency come to inform our economic thinking and practice more broadly.

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