LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS
- A new ABC News/Washington Post poll reveals that public belief that the National Security Agency (NSA) unnecessarily intrudes on privacy rights has grown, but so has the sense that Edward Snowden damaged U.S. security by disclosing the spy agency’s activities. Forty-eight percent in the poll think the NSA intrudes without justification on some Americans’ privacy rights and 42 percent think it intrudes unjustifiably on their own privacy, both up by 8 percentage points since July. Democrats, protective of the Obama administration, are less critical of the NSA; 37 percent say it “goes too far,” for example, vs. 47 percent of Republicans and 51 percent of independents. And Democrats are a broad 18 points less likely than Republicans and independents to think the NSA intrudes unjustifiably on some Americans’ privacy rights. See the whole poll here
- Last month, a 102-page report by Human Rights Watch concluded that US drone strikes against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Yemen’s branch of the global terror network, had a 70 percent civilian kill rate – or in other words, seven out of every 10 of their victims were civilians. Several days earlier, a UN investigator accused the US of drastically downplaying the number of civilians killed in anti-terrorist drone operations. On the same day the Human Rights Watch report was published, Amnesty International said US officials responsible for carrying out drone strikes may be responsible for war crimes.
- Rick Rozoff from the Chicago-based Stop NATO writes: After the [supposed] 2014 pullout from Afghanistan, NATO is set to stage huge European
war games involving 40,000 troops, about seven times the size of the recent
drills in the Baltic, with critics in the crisis-hit EU calling it a waste of
money. Karl Rehbaum, a former officer with the East German security services, says that “there isn’t any need to put these troops in Europe. I think they would’ve ramped up operations even if Afghanistan wasn’t coming to an end… Instead of a defensive army, they want to make an army of intervention, of aggression. NATO is responsible for three-quarters of global arms spending at a time when many of its members are flat broke.” In Berlin, for example, a group of demonstrators, known as “Mothers against War,” were downtown recently, holding banners that said “No to Intervention” – a call for Europe to stop throwing money at the military and take care of the pressing economic issues afflicting the continent on a massive scale. Rainer Rupp, a former German intelligence officer, believes that the current exercises should be examined against the background of the Afghan experience and that the upcoming games have little to do with European security or keeping everyone ready for whatever scenarios may come. There, he explains, NATO “could test its interoperability” just as well. However, now, “with NATO countries – especially the United States – leaving Afghanistan beaten like a dog with the tail between its legs, they need to project and show the world that they still have their claws sharpened.” Rupp sees the games as nothing more than “part of a continued effort of…intimidating nations that don’t follow voluntarily the US and European lead [like Russia, China, or Iran].”
- Syria's chemical weapons could be processed and destroyed out at sea. Four days after Albania rejected a U.S.
request that it host a weapons decommissioning plant, Western diplomats and an
official of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at The
Hague told Reuters the OPCW was studying whether it might carry out the work at
sea, on a ship or offshore rig. Much of Syria's stockpile is of bulk "precursor" materials that were stored in
order to manufacture weapons at a later stage. Burning these, or neutralising
them with other chemicals in a process known as hydrolysis, would produce large
amounts of toxic fluids and have obvious severe environmental consequences.
- Global Network board convener Dave Webb (Leeds, England) also serves as the web master for our web site. He just did some major updating of the home page and has posted his wonderful report on the recent Indore, India conference that he attended on behalf of the Global Network. The event was initiated and organized by another of our board members J. Narayana Rao (Nagpur). I heard the attendance was around 600 people so Dave and Rao made sure that the issues surrounding space weapons and disarmament in general were heavily covered. You can see Dave's report here.


GBRW Position – Discussion and Policy Recommendations
Nevada will have more precious metals pit lakes than any other state in the union, and will consume a considerable portion of Nevada’s scarce water. The policy in the state of Nevada should be to preserve and protect our water supplies, as well as protect the general public from risks associated with pit lakes. Nevada Administrative Code (NAC) 445A.429 only defines a standard for pit lakes in terms of a “potential” to degrade groundwater or adversely affect human, terrestrial or avian wildlife. The term “potential” is too vague in our view. In the development of a mine project an assessment is made regarding water quality of an anticipated pit lake, and often there is some probability of poor water quality, which could be in violation of NAC 445A.429. When is this probability so small that the potential to degrade groundwater or adversely affect human, terrestrial or avian wildlife does not exist? How is the state to enforce this regulation?
Also significant is the risk to the general public. As noted above, the amount of water in pit lakes will exceed the total amount of water in all of the man-made reservoirs in Nevada. While the water in pit lakes is generally going to be of degraded quality, compared to pre-mining groundwater conditions, many of the pit lakes will be able to support fish and probably water contact recreation. If they do support fish, it is likely that someone, over the years, will stock the pit lakes with fish able to survive. If that happens, fisherman will want to get down to the pit lakes, and fences, particularly in the rural areas, are not likely to be sufficient to prevent the general public from getting to the pit lakes for recreational fishing. These lakes will thus provide an “attractive nuisance” and unless the pit lake walls are stabilized and a safe access is provided, they will become a dangerous attraction. Reclamation regulations require that the pit lakes are not a hazard to the public, but do not specify a beneficial use. Since most of these pit lakes will exist for centuries and beyond, simple fences are not going to be much of a deterrent, and people will want access.
Many of these pit lakes can be turned into a recreational resource, but it will be expensive for resource agencies to make these lakes accessible and safe. A major policy decision for the state of Nevada is to determine how these pit lakes can be utilized in a productive manner, perhaps primarily for recreation, but at a minimum, for safe access. If nothing is done, the pit lakes will remain an attractive nuisance and become a liability for the mining company, but also for the land management agencies. Arguments can be made that the entities that created the pit lakes have a responsibility to provide a productive post-mining use that minimizes the risk to the general public.
It is worth noting that the Sparks Marina in Nevada, a very valuable recreational lake resource, is a pit lake, and developed following gravel removal for several decades. The major difference between this and precious metals pit lakes is that the Sparks Marina rock is filled with well-washed and non-reactive gravel, while pit lakes formed from gold and copper mines are generally much more reactive. However, the recreational potential of many of the gold mining pit lakes also exists.
The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) has developed an in-house contaminate concentration profile for pit lakes. We see this as a step in the right direction and may help to clarify the application of the regulations (NAC 445A.429). The mining companies will abide by the law as best satisfies their bottom line, and while NDEP does have the authority to designate beneficial use of pit lakes in reclamation the law does not require it. It may seem reasonable to handle pit lakes on a case by case basis; however, it appears as though without a requirement for beneficial use the lakes sit fallow, dangerous, and our precious water is wasted.
Ultimately, there should be a requirement for a post-mining beneficial use for the water in the pit lake. Such a determination will require new mine plans to include reclamation of the pit lake and thus change how mines are developed.


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A section of businesses within Homa Bay town have remained closed due to fear of demonstrations.
A number of both large and small-scale traders opted to stay away from business today fearing the Azimio coalition protests could turn chaotic.
However, some traders were operating, albeit cautiously.
By the time of filing this story there was calmness within the town.
By Brian Odhiambo and Sitna Omar

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August 4, 2000
OAS To Send Mission to Haiti
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) agreed today to send a mission to Haiti, at the invitation of the Haitian government, to explore ways to strengthen democracy in that country.
Under the terms of a resolution approved during a special session, the mission will be headed by OAS Secretary General César Gaviria and include representatives of the United Nations Secretary-Generals Group of Friends of Haiti.
The OAS mission will explore, with the Haitian government and other sectors of the political community and civil society, options and recommendations for further strengthening democracy and for resolving, as expeditiously as possible, issues that have arisen from different interpretations of the Electoral Law.
The resolución, approved by consensus, expresses the Permanent Councils concern that the interpretations applied to determine elected members of the Senate, as well as other deficiences identified by the OAS Electoral Observation Mission, could jeopardize the continuing implementation of the electoral process.
The resolution takes note of a a statement about the situation in Haiti, presented today by Jamaican Ambassador Richard Bernal on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). It also takes into account the conclusions of the OAS Electoral Observation Mission to Haiti, which were presented to the Permanent Council on July 13 by the head of that mission, Orlando Marville of Barbados, and remarks made at that same session by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Haiti, Fritz Longchamps.
The resolution reaffirms the commitment of the OAS to continue contributing to the strengthening of democracy in Haiti, including the resolution of problems identified by the OAS Electoral Observation Mission. It instructs the OAS Secretary General to keep informed the Permanent Council or the member states foreign ministers on the development and results of its efforts.
It also recognizes the interest of the international community, including the Group of Friends of the United Nations Secretary-General, in helping Haiti strengthen its democratic institutions.


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Mobile Advertising firm Airpush and Afilias announced today that DeviceAtlas is now powering device detection and targeting on its advertising network for Android and iOS apps. DeviceAtlas will be used to identify exactly which devices are requesting ads from the network for targeting and reporting purposes.
Dublin – August 10, 2016 – DeviceAtlas, a leading supplier of intelligence on mobile devices, today released its quarterly Mobile Web Intelligence Report for Q2 2016, which analyzes mobile device traffic to hundreds of thousands of websites around the world.
Q2 2016 wasn’t great for Apple in terms of web traffic share, according to the newly released DeviceAtlas Mobile Web Intelligence Report. Apple lost in 18 out of 20 countries we analysed, including the largest markets such as UK (-10%), Germany (-6%), and USA (-4%). Get the new report to learn about the latest statistics on phone makers, screen sizes, LTE, and more.
Using an accurate device detection solution is crucial for all businesses working in the online space. If done right, it allows you to accurately target advertising, optimize web content and analyse web traffic to maximize revenues from online sources. But to get device detection right you need a reliable, fast and accurate method which is hard to build on your own.
Non-human traffic is larger than most business owners are aware of. This is mainly due to the fact that Google Analytics doesn't report on bots and crawlers by default. Here's how device detection can help you identify bots to serve them different payloads or even block them from accessing the website.
We’ve got the latest statistics on the most popular smartphones in different countries based on the amount of web traffic these phones generated in 2016. Check them out to learn which devices are the most used in your region, and for which devices you should optimize your content.
Recently we looked into the popularity of mobile operating systems in Q1 2016. While iOS grew faster than Android in most countries over 2015, this trend reversed in Q1 2016 with Android gaining much more than iOS. Check out the latest statistics on the most popular mobile operating systems.
Dublin – May 12, 2016 – DeviceAtlas, a leading supplier of intelligence on mobile devices, today released its quarterly Mobile Web Intelligence Report for Q1 2016, which analyzes mobile device traffic to hundreds of thousands of websites around the world.
Did you know that up to a half of your web traffic may be generated by bots and crawlers? This is one of the findings you can learn in the latest edition of The Mobile Web Intelligence Report based on mobile web traffic in Q1 2016. Here’s what we reveal in the report.
To help you understand web crawlers, bots and spiders visiting your site, here's a list of the top 20 bots and their user agents.
Web performance has become a troubling aspect of the web especially given that today websites can be accessed on many device types on varying connectivity levels. To ensure that your sites loads quickly for all users you need to have a good understanding of user devices. Here’s the latest guide on how to use device detection to improve web performance.
While smartphones are now firmly established as an integral part of our lives, the mobile world continues to change rapidly as new types of device, services and technologies come and go. It is of utmost importance for businesses to stay on top of the ever-changing mobile world. Here is a curated list of 16 most recent statistics which will help you better understand the state of today's mobile industry.
Today there are no technical limitations in terms of making devices connected. Internet access can be applied anywhere, from cars, to fridges, to rice cookers, and it doesn’t cost a fortune to make it happen. Does that mean we have more connected devices than ever before?
Smartphones using Firefox OS, Sailfish OS, or Ubuntu OS are generally available but purchasing them may not be an easy task. Today the mobile world is entirely dominated by Android and iOS. Check out the latest statistics which focus on comparing iOS vs Android during the whole of 2015. The stats are based on website visits from mobile devices.
Every year on March 17, Ireland is in the spotlight in every corner of the planet. This year at DeviceAtlas we celebrate St. Paddy’s day by sharing some exciting statistics on the mobile market in Ireland based on website visits tracked by our device detection solution.
Sound understanding of user devices is critical in today’s online world where so many devices allow users to access websites. Using a device detection solution is the only way to acquire this knowledge in real time, and use it to drive business decisions. In this article we’ll explain what device detection really is. We’ll also explore some technical difficulties which make accurate detection so tricky.
Looking for the latest statistics on mobile device usage? We’ve just released a new edition of our quarterly Mobile Web Report based on web traffic during Q4 2015. The new issue reveals various trends on the most popular operating systems, device vendors, device models, and many more. The main focus is comparing Android and iOS web traffic throughout the whole of 2015.


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The City of Oakland is set to lift an 80-year-old ban on pinball machines when City Council's public safety committee meets this week to clarify prohibited gambling activities and delete outdated provisions related to the machines.
The ban was originally put in place when early flipperless machines were considered a form of gambling. According to SF Gate, the pinball prohibition has not been enforced in Oakland since the ‘40s. Head of the public safety committee, councilman Noel Gallo, told the publication that while decriminalizing pinball machines is a "great idea," it is secondary to a broader campaign to update gambling laws in the city.
As early pinball machines were seen as games of chance that required no skill from the player and offered cash payouts from the proprietor, they were banned for decades in many other U.S. cities, such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Courts agreed to lift bans in the ‘70s after demonstrations showed that pinball was a game of skill and not a form of mindless gambling.
Recently, in April, the residents of Marshfield, Massachusetts, voted to end 32-year-old prohibition on coin-operated video and arcade games. Marshfield residents twice previously voted against petitions to repeal the prohibition, once in 1994 and again in 2011.
A summer exhibit at The Strong's National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY, called The Boardwalk Arcade and Pinball Playfields will look at the connection of modern games and the amusement machines of the past. To learn more about the subject, be sure to read our report on how pinball and boardwalk amusements gave rise to video games.


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Psychopath and the Killer
A series of one-shots exploring the characters from Bori's long running series, Psychopath and the Killer.
Kairi and Sigurd are in an already established relationship and you can get a peek into their lovey-dovey relationship outside of the main story. These are mostly lighthearted extras.
UNCENSORED version available.
Pages: 18 (Includes 2 illustrations)
Kinks/Warnings: Facial scar, M-preg mentions, Recorded sex, Seduction under the influence of alcohol, Cohabitation.
Distribution: DIGITAL -> AND PRINT (exclusively in the October 2020)
Artist: Bori Hori

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Chris PotterUndergroundSunnyside Records
Consensus is always the sought-after ideal in criticism. When writers can line up behind an artist and declare his or her greatness, the health of an art form is reinforced. We need to ordain geniuses to be reassured that this love of ours is still valid, and that our scribblings, you know, mean
Jazz hasn't had a young mobilizing figure like this for quite some time, which motivates all the moaning about the death of the form. Many critics have placed moderate bets on saxophonist Chris Potter, whose solid new slab, Underground
, is drawing raves from all quarters. He won't outsell Monk and Coltrane's exhumed output, but he'll at least sell out his run at the Jazz Standard.
Having honed his chops the old fashioned way as a sideman with Red Rodney, Dave Douglas and Dave Holland, among others, Potter's new album is heavy on group interaction. It's not a Potter album, though, it's a Potter/Krantz/Taborn/Smith album. It's based on grooves that draw heavily from funk styles (Krantz's bright guitar work is more indebted to Eddie Hazel than Pat Martino). The verse-chorus-verse structure is replaced by riding the vamp throughout, building structures around ita jam band aesthetic really, but focused on fleshing out the tune instead of using it as a launching pad for mindless noodling.
This music, accessible and danceable, with a true respect for its P-Funk forebears, should sell out college auditoriums nationwide. The band should share a bill with The Roots, wean the kids off of bores like Soulive, and point them towards brighter jazz pastures. That's a hope anyway, and along with the minor crossover appeal of The Bad Plus, maybe some inroads are being made into the mainstream. Baby steps, but still steps.
The musicianship is unimpeachable, and many of the tunes, including the thunderous title track, are marvels of sustained and multi-faceted groove, but the overall impression is of Potter spinning his highly talented wheels. "Next Best Western (great title) boasts a serviceable vamp, an appropriately jagged guitar solo from Krantz, and fine soulful stuttering from Potterbut it never goes unhinged, making its attempt at a funk freak-out a bit staid. It's solid but doesn't linger in the ear long.
Morning Bell is an atmospheric cover of the all-atmosphere Radiohead tune, and Potter wails and mutters amid shimmering cymbal splashes from Smith and heart-beating Fender Rhodes from Taborn. It's all airy diffusion, aiming for a reflective grandeur that it never quite reaches, despite their best efforts. On the ravishing cover of Billy Strayhorn's "Lotus Blossom, though, they reach the sublime. Opening with a delicately ringing bell buffeted by gentle Rhodes flourishes, the palate is cleansed and Potter digs in with crystal clear lines, lucidly delineating the heartbreaking melody. Krantz and Taborn bubble up during the peaks with waves of chiming notes as Smith adds further lift with plashing rides. It's short, sweet and beautiful.
The Wheel kicks off with hesistant, fractured takes on the melody, the group mobilizing around it with a thick buzz, until they nail it down and establish the most memorable riff on the album. On the break, Rogers offers quick, reverberating chords that float over Taborn's burble, until Potter takes over with an extended circuitous solo that efficiently builds the anticipation for the return of the melody. It's a neat, effective piece, like the album as a wholea breezy ride that's short on innovation but filled with small pleasures.
Tracks: Next Best Western; Morning Bell; Nudnik; Lotus Blossom; Big Top; The Wheel; Celestial Nomad; Underground; Yesterday.
Personnel: Chris Potter: tenor saxophone; Wayne Krantz: electric guitar; Craig Taborn: Fender Rhodes; Nate Smith: drums; Adam Rogers: electric guitar (6,9).
Next Best Western; Morning Bell; Nudnik; Lotus Blossom; Big Top; The Wheel; Celestial
Nomad; Underground; Yesterday.
Chris Potter: tenor saxophone; Wayne Krantz: electric guitar; Craig Taborn: Fender Rhodes;
Nate Smith: drums; Adam Rogers: electric guitar (6,9).

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Members of Swans and Cop Shoot Cop team up to make a cauldron of white noise on their debut release.
Human Impact are the newly established supergroup featuring Chris Spencer (Unsane), Jim Coleman (Cop Shoot Cop), Chris Pravdica (Swans) and Phil Puleo (Cop Shoot Cop/Swans).
Signing to Ipecac Recordings late last year, they release their eponymous debut album.
On the eve of the release of Human Impact, much hype surrounded the four-piece with the New York Times claiming “This supergroup’s line-up represents the fulfilment of a noise rock fan’s most fervent wish…”
And they weren’t far wrong, for this is indeed the kick up the arse that noise-rock in 2020 needs.
Human Impact deals very well in the no-fucking-around department, opening up with the war-torn chaos that is November. The track leans on that Swans-inspired drone with a guitar swing reminiscent of Mike Patton‘s Tomahawk project.
E605, Protestor, Relax and Unstable are each a lethal concoction of hell-fire with echoes of Big Black and a backdrop drenched in futuristic Philip K. Dick-inspired tones and rib-tickling chords.
Portrait continues the barrage. The track a comet-exploding tribal-rock assault right out of the playbook of new-era Swans. Respirator follows the Gira homage with prickly undercurrents of sound that simmer then spit raw fury.
Although a contrast to its siblings, Cause feels like the centrepiece to the album. A morose proto-rock offering that drones and howls from the bellows of existence, while Consequences puts the nail well and truly in the coffin to a proposed Jesus Lizard reunion and new record. Yes, we don’t need either of them anymore.
The Dead Sea is a fitting finale, touching on the origins of hard-nosed noise-rock with bowel shuddering electronics and death-roll percussion. It’s a frenetic end to 41 minutes of a splintering interpretation of a musical community that found far too many imitators midway through last decade.
Human Impact revitalises things here, though, with intense, bona fide music that tiptoes on the razor wire.
It’s music rendered by a collective of seasoned campaigners who have participated in the school of hard knocks and you can feel the rawness with these songs. Somehow, each member has come together to form an organic bond and has presented 10 bludgeoning ear-splitters worthy of anyone’s time.
Noise rock fan’s most fervent wish? Indeed.
Human Impact is out now via Ipecac Recordings
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See Tim Ernst April 5 at Library Center; Turn Lunch Into a Learning Experience at Library Programs
Nationally known nature photographer Tim Ernst packs the house when he presents his annual slide shows at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center, so you’ll want to reserve a spot now to see his presentation, “Yellowstone in Winter,” at 7 p.m. April 5 in the Library Center auditorium.
The event is free but auditorium seating is limited. Register now by calling 882-0714.
Tim blends music with dozens of images of Yellowstone National Park taken during "the photographic trip of a lifetime." He will also sell and sign his books after the presentation.
Tim has written more than a dozen hiking trail guidebooks for the Buffalo National River and Ozark Highlands Trail; a daily blog, Cloudland Journal; 14 collections of wilderness photographs. His work has appeared in numerous national publications including National Geographic and Audubon.
His visit is part of April’s Big Read, the Library's one book, one community celebration of a selected title. This year's featured book is "The Call of the Wild." We encourage all ages to read the book, talk about it and attend some of the many outdoor-themed events and authors we have scheduled. Learn about all Big Read events at thelibrary.org/bigread, or get a copy of Bookends at any library branch or Mobile Library.
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Got baseball fever? If you follow the Cardinals, you may want to join the Brown Bag Travelogue for adults at noon on Wednesday, March 19, at the Brentwood Branch Library. Reference librarian Rebecca Clark has returned from Jupiter, Fla., to give her perspective on the St. Louis Cardinals’ annual spring training camp. Feel free to bring a sack lunch. For details call 883-1974.
If Civil War history is your favorite pastime, instead, plan to bring your lunch to the Midtown Carnegie Branch Library at noon on Wednesday. The library’s informal lecture series will feature “The Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi Theater” with Brian Grubbs, the library’s Local History and Genealogy Department manager.
That region refers to everything from the Mississippi River west to the Pacific Ocean, but most of the significant events occurred in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, the Indian Territory (modern Oklahoma), Louisiana and Texas, and included battles at Wilson’s Creek, Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, Westport, Cabin Creek, and many others.
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Aizawl, Feb 12 The Mizoram cabinet voiced strong opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill Tuesday, and said it would work to defeat the contentious legislation in the Rajya Sabha.
The cabinet meeting, chaired by chief minister Zoramthanga, said that the government and the people of Mizoram vehemently oppose the bill, said an official statement here.
Mizoram is ruled by Mizo National Front (MNF), a BJP ally in the North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA).
The state cabinet on December 18 last had expressed its objection to the bill which promises to provide Indian citizenship to religious minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan after six years of residence in India, instead of 12 years, which is the norm currently, even if they do not possess any document.
Meanwhile, members of civil organisations and student bodies staged protests in capital Aizawl and other towns across Mizoram amid information that the proposed bill has been listed for deliberations in the Upper House Tuesday.
NGO Coordination Committee, an umbrella organisation of civil societies and student bodies, had called for observing a 'Black Day' over the bill Tuesday and asked the people to organise protest rallies across the state.
The chief minister has met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and expressed in strong terms that Mizoram opposes the bill, the statement said.
Zoramthanga had also made the stance of Mizoram clear in the meeting of political parties of the north-east recently at Guwahati over the contentious issue.
The Mizoram cabinet vowed to continue its opposition to the bill and work for its defeat in the Parliament, the statement said.
At a protest rally in the capital, NGO Coordination Committee Chairman Vanlalruata said, "Government of India, please retrospect those days of your struggle for freedom. You didn't like oppression, suppression neither we. You fight till you are free, we will also do as you do, we only repeat what you did. Please remember we are Mizo by blood and Indian by laws."
President of Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP) or Mizo students federation L Ramdinliana Renthlei said if the Citizenship Bill is passed by the Parliament, "the Mizo youths would have no choice but to declare freedom".
The civil societies felt that the proposed bill would endanger the very existence of the Mizos, as the passage of the legislation would grant citizenship to around a lakh of the Buddhist Chakma populace who are mainly immigrants from Bangladesh (erstwhile East Pakistan). HCV SNS IND IND
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Goa Information Technology and Culture Minister Rohan Khaunte said on Wednesday that the state government will take against social media influencers who defame Goa. The minister’s statement came after an Instagram influencer apologised for posting a series of videos that allegedly mocked the coastal state.
Khaunte said the government understands if tourists have bad experiences in the state; however, social media users should use Goa for “their cheap tricks for monetary or other gains.” Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant ordered the cybercrime department to investigate social media accounts that allegedly deface the state, the minister said. Khaunte also stated that such incidents were “unacceptable” especially when Goa is projected as a preferred tourist destination.
"These days it has become easy to get mileage on social media. Goa has been an easy destination to get mileage," Khaunte said. "Action will be taken against the violators."
On Tuesday, Instagram influencer Monalisha Ghosh posted an apology video in Hindi for her “comedy” videos on Goa.
“I made a few comedy videos about Goan beaches and churches on my recent visit to Goa. I’ve realised that some of the statements made in those videos were wrong and I should have avoided them,” Ghosh said in the video. “I did not intend to hurt the Goan people and their sentiments. I also did not intend to defame Goa and disrespect Goan churches. I am really sorry.”
CM Sawant assures action will be taken
The police’s cybercrime department will initiate action against social media users who defame Goa, CM said in the Goa Legislative Assembly.
Vasco MLA Daji Salkar had earlier raised the issue in the Assembly during Zero Hour. He alleged of some social media users visit Goa and defame the state and “religious faith” through their content. Some of these social media users spread false information about the state, he claimed.
(With agency inputs)


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Blink cameras are a security marvel with their motion sensor detection and other extraordinary functions. Motion detection implies that while the cameras are on all the time, they are not constantly recording, which helps in saving energy.
Still, as soon as the sensors integrated into the camera detect some activity or movement, the camera gets triggered and starts recording.
Blink cameras offer a pretty impressive motion detection range and capture any motion up to around 25 feet away.
Since these Amazon cameras use Passive Infrared technology to detect motion, the camera’s ability to recognize motion in this range with precision can be impacted by several factors, including the positioning of the camera, the size of the object in focus, and the temperature of the moving object.
Blink cameras’ functional range can change depending on how they detect motion.
In this article, you will also learn about the variables affecting the motion detection range of the Blink cameras.
How Do Blink Cameras Detect Motion?
Blink camera motion sensors use a sophisticated mechanism to detect motion. Passive Infrared, also known as PIR, is the primary heat detection technology used by Blink cameras.
Simply put, a motion event gets triggered whenever a heat-signature item, such as a person or animal (any living organism), crosses the camera’s field of vision.
And when this happens, you get the motion detection notifications, and by clicking the pop-up you receive, you can access the camera’s live feed and be assured.
Now that we know this, we still have to know about a lot of other aspects, such as the motion detection range and field of view of the Blink camera. All this is vital to know if you will benefit the most from your Blink camera installation.
Range Of Motion Detection
Blink security cameras provide a maximum detection range of roughly 25 feet or 8 meters for all of their products.
This range of motion detection is not, however, absolute. It might vary for different causes. Several variables, including the camera position of the camera physically and the size and temperature of the objects in front of the lens, might impact the range of motion detection.
So, if you position your camera close to a window, it won’t be able to detect precisely the changes in heat signatures through the glass, as glass acts as a barrier for the sensors.
Further, the obstruction is not the only variable impacting the motion detection range. Even the amount of natural light affects that.
The detection range of your Blink camera gets reduced at the night-time. During the day, it might be the physical visibility, and at night it is the device’s infrared illuminators that use night vision.
However, there is a solution to compensate for the reduction; employing Blink cameras at their highest resolution during the day can enable users to detect motion happening to a distance of 25 feet.
Field of View
It is important to position your camera properly to make the most of its range of vision. Most versions of Blink cameras (especially Blink Outdoor and Blink Indoor camera) have a fixed diagonal vision of 110 degrees, and neither allows panning or tilting.
You can understand from the field of vision that it is the lateral length of the area which the camera can cover and record the activities.
It will recommend you set up Blink cameras at a location from where they can monitor busy areas or areas of high significance, such as doors or entrances.
Also, make an effort to ensure that when you install the camera, no trees or plants are swinging in the camera’s field of view.
How Can You Increase Motion Detection Sensitivity?
The optimal motion detection range can be increased if the Blink cameras are installed properly and at appropriate locations. Additionally, you can raise the Blink camera’s motion sensitivity if you’re using it outdoors for motion detection.
According to experts who are tracking the performance of the Blink cameras for various purposes, while using the right sensitivity settings, the Blink cameras can even detect motion up to 100 feet away.
The disadvantage of such a feature is that since practically any movement will cause the motion detector to activate, there will also be a significant increase in false alarms.
Nevertheless, the feature is indeed helpful and here are some basic steps to help you modify the motion-sensing sensitivity of your system:
- Launch the Blink SmartHome App.
- Click the settings icon located next to the camera you wish to change the sensitivity.
- Depending on the setup you want, locate the “Sensitivity” slider and drag it toward either the Low or High. Low will be indicated by the sign “L” and high by “H”.
- Check whether the sensitivity has been appropriately set by arming and testing your cameras.
Blink cameras are the devices you need to safeguard your loved ones. They offer dependability and protection for your property since they can reliably detect motion up to 25 feet away.
Know that the camera’s range may be impacted by several variables, including the positioning of the camera, the temperature of the object in focus, and the time of day, so it’s vital to pay attention towards how your device is set up and where it is installed.
Blink cameras include a motion sensitivity setting that allows you to customize how well blink camera detect motion for your system. You should accordingly set the sensitivity on the motion sensitivity slider.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I increase the range of my Blink camera?
Usually, the Blink cameras have a fixed motion detection range, however, you can increase it by increasing the sensitivity of the motion detection sensors.
Here are the steps to increase the motion detection sensitivity and hence the range of the Blink camera:
- Open the Blink app.
- Now, you can access the camera “Settings slider” from your home screen beside the camera that intends to adjust the sensitivity.
- Scroll towards the bottom to reach the Sensitivity option, find the sensitivity scale, and drag the slider slightly toward H, which stands for high.
- Now that you have increased the camera’s motion sensitivity, you will realize that the motion detection range of your Blink camera has been slightly improved.
Why are my Blink cameras not picking up motion?
When your camera is not picking up motion, you can receive error messages like “Camera Busy” or “Thumbnail Failed”. This happens when one of your Blink cameras isn’t working.
Moreover, if your Sync Module cannot interact with the particular Blink camera, these warnings may also appear.
If you face any such issue with your Blink camera, the use the below tips:
- Bring the camera up near the Sync Module. Ensure that “Camera to Wi-Fi” and “Camera to Sync Module” have three signal strength bands. This implies that your network strength is just fine and doesn’t have anything to do with the working of the motion sensors.
- But if the network strength is not adequate, you can power cycle both devices by disconnecting your modem and router for 30 seconds and then putting them back in. When Internet service has been restored after two minutes, test your camera once more.
- Then, Reset your camera’s power. You can do this by reinstalling the batteries. First, remove them for 10 seconds and then re-insert them in the battery compartment. After doing this, ensure your camera reacts to commands, and check by tweaking some settings on the Blink app.
- Try using a new power source if the previous methods don’t work to address the problem. The camera may be powered via a micro USB wire and a USB power adapter to connect to a direct power source.How far can Blink cameras see in the dark?
Blink cameras offer sufficient vision during the day to recognize a person at a distance of of 25 feet, depending on the precise lighting circumstances. During the night, when it is dark, they can also detect motion up to 25 feet away. (Source)


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Short-course therapy for adult meningococcal sepsis and/or meningitis: 23-year experience
Abstract number: P716
Cabellos C., Verdaguer R., Cisnal M., Pallares R., Ariza X., Gudiol F., Viladrich P.F.
Objective: Short course therapy for meningococcal disease have been previously shown as effective as longer therapies. In order to reinforce our results in adults we present our accumulated experience in 138 patients (pts) treated with a short course therapy for systemic meningococcal disease.
Patients and Methods: All pts admitted to our hospital with systemic meningococcal disease (positive blood or CSF culture or meningitis with petechial purpura) from January 1984 have been scheduled to a short 4 days antibiotic therapy and have been compared with the historical 7 days treated pts. Data were prospectively recorded in a 128 variables protocol.
Results: 138 adult pts (37 M/101 F) mean age 45.5±20 (1887) were evaluated. Mean duration of therapy was 4.9±2 days, median 4 days. 17 pts presented shock on admission, 38 pts were treated with penicillin, 90 with ceftriaxone, 5 with cefotaxime and 4 with other drugs. Mortality was 13/138 (9%) due to early sepsis in 5 pts, neurological complications in 1 and late causes in 7. Mild neurological sequelae were present in 15 pts (12%). No relapses were observed after one month follow-up. When compared with pts treated previously with a 7 days or longer therapy course, 129 pts, (36 M/93 F) mean age 43.8±19 (1880), mean duration of therapy 7.22 days, there were no differences in positive blood cultures, shock on admission (25 pts) mortality 12/129 (9%), due to early sepsis in 9 pts and neurological complications in 3, relapse (no cases) or sequelae 12 (10%) (NS). Antibiotic therapy in this long course therapy group consisted in penicilIin 119 pts, ampicillin 4 pts and chloramfenicol 6 pts.
Among short course therapy pts, in the subgroup of 16 pts presenting as sepsis without meningitis (1M/15 F) mean age 47.38±22 (1882) with shock on admission in 3 pts treated for 4.6±2 days there were a mortality of 1/16 (6%), no relapses and sequelae were present in 1 patient without differences with the previously long-therapy treated pts. In the subgroup of 10 pts presenting as severe sepsis (hypotension or shock + thrombopenia + coagulation disorder with or without meningitis) with mean age 49.6 (2173), shock in 7/10 and disseminated intravascular coagulation in 8/10 mortality was 3/10 (30%) all of them in the first day of therapy.
Conclusion: Short course (4 days) antibiotic therapy in adult meningococcal disease either meningitis or sepsis (including severe sepsis) is a safe therapy without relapses.
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Nothing sounds better to true-blue turkey takers than the boom of the 12-gauge, except perhaps the gobble of a big tom, and there's plenty of both to go around on the All-Stars of Spring XVII turkey hunting video. You'll learn turkey hunting tips and tactics while being wildly entertained by the hunting footage. Join the Realtree gang as they out-maneuver hard-hunted eastern gobblers, the best test for those who think they know what they're doing in the turkey woods. Frankly, even Texas was no gimme, so you'll see the hunters pull out a few hard-earned tactics to get the birds in the bag. The tough-old-bird theme followed the turkey team just about everywhere they traveled this past season, which makes for interesting hunts and great lessons learned. Sit back and enjoy. You'll come away a better turkey hunter and fired up for next season. Over 2 hour runtime.
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Carefree Vice Mayor and community leader John Crane has declared his candidacy for Carefree Mayor.
“As your Mayor, I will continue to dedicate myself to the community as I have as Vice Mayor, listening and working with our residents, local nonprofit organizations, businesses, and volunteers with respect and cooperation. We have been neighbors for 33 years. I firmly believe local government, as the level of government closest to the people, must be transparent and responsive. I will continue to be visible, accessible, and active in the community.
I will bring my Town Council experience, knowledge, and proven analytical judgement to my decision making and leadership for Council. I will complete the integration of all Carefree homes into the Carefree Water Company system and lead a public engagement, where questions will be answered and ideas and solutions heard, to arrive at a solution for a fire protection system that will ensure public safety and be financially sound.
– Practice conservative fiscal management of the Town’s finances.
– Protect Carefree’s unique residential character and diligently fight for responsible land use and economic development.
– Initiate better water management in the continuing drought by exploring ground water recharging and creating greater public water conservation awareness and behavior.
– Rein in short term rentals.”
As a dedicated resident of Carefree, John has served the community as Vice Mayor, Councilmember, Vice Chair of the Carefree Planning and Zoning Commission, HOA president and Board Member, Desert Foothills Land Trust Vice Chair, Maricopa County Association of Government Economic Development Committee Member and a Commissioner on the Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission.
John earned a BS degree in Mathematics from Villanova University in 1978 and a MS degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California in 1985. He served seven years as a US Navy nuclear submarine officer. For the past 28 years, as a business owner, he has been a sales representative in the semiconductor industry. In 2021 he was recognized by the Black Mountain Foothills Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) with their prestigious Medal of Honor, which recognizes John’s lifelong achievements serving his country and community.


RTC is dispensing with the practise of issuing tickets manually in city buses on an experimental basis
Conductors in some city buses do not feel burdened anymore. They don’t carry the tray with bundles of different ticket denominations and instead carry a Ticket Issuing Machine (TIM), which spews out ticket as soon as the destination is punched into it.
The decades-old cumbersome practice of issuing tickets manually is being dispensed with in the city buses on an experimental basis. The RTC has now begun using the TIMs in about 100 city buses in the State capital in different depots.
A massive fleet of 3,600 city buses criss-cross the capital in which nearly 30 lakh tickets are issued every day. The automation of ticket issuing is being welcomed by the conductors as it has obviated the need to carry the bulky tray on which bundles of tickets of different denominations are to be carried. In addition to this, the onerous duty of recording the sale of tickets for every stage in the Statistical ticket Accountable and Record (STAR) document is also dispensed with now.
The job of a conductor is not just collecting the fare and issuing the tickets. He has to report at least 30 minutes before his duty time to collect the tickets which are given in blocks of 100 tickets. Normally, a conductor carries 13 different ticket denominations. When the tray is accepted, he has to check the ticket numbers entered in the computer.
While on the move, the conductor has to enter details of tickets sold in the STAR document and on completing the trips, he has to submit it at the respective depot along with the charges collected. The verification of the unsold tickets and tallying the numbers would take much time.
However, with the TIMs being used now, a conductor is spared of all these burdensome duties. TIM facilitates issue of a single ticket for a group of six passengers and the ticket would have details of the stage where the passenger boarded and the destination too. The rigmarole of filling up of STAR is dispensed with and the TIM once connected to the computer would transfer all the data, says A. Koteswara Rao, ED of RTC greater Hyderabad zone.
The corporation would also be saving money as it has to spend Rs.15 to print 1,000 tickets. The biggest advantage, however, can be checking the malpractices if any. Sometimes, a few conductors collect the issued tickets and give them to other passengers again.
“This can be controlled totally as TIM issued tickets have date, time, stage, depot name and other details,” says Mr. Rao.
The stage-wise data can also help the corporation analyse the passenger flow and occupancy ratio, which could enable the RTC to rationalise the services and plan schedules.
“Earlier it used to be tough to issue tickets and update the ticket sales at every stage in STAR document. TIM make things very easy,” says A. Prasad, a conductor in Pushpak service.
Welcoming the move, RTC Employees Union general secretary, K. Padmakar suggested that the RTC ensure quality printing paper in TIMS and also for facilities to charge the TIMs in buses.


It’s almost the 2020-2021 School Year, and we’re gearing up to support BVSD students during what is sure to be the most challenging year any of us could imagine!
As you’ve likely heard, BVSD now plans to begin in Phase One with all students learning remotely from their homes. We are continuing our partnership with BVSD Food Services to distribute emergency food twice a week throughout the district to ensure students have the nourishment they’ll need to learn. And we provided nearly 6,000 backpacks filled with school supplies through our Crayons to Calculators program earlier this week. Each student received necessary school supplies for their grade level, and we added supplies this year to facilitate students learning during a pandemic, such as headphones with microphones, hand sanitizer and cloth masks.
On top of food and school supplies, Impact on Education plans to support student learning by providing every student in need with computers and home internet. We are also partnering with BVSD student advocates to encourage and motivate more student engagement and achievement at every grade level. Additionally, we are committed to supporting students when they have trouble. A robust plan for supplemental instruction is in the works that may include everything from online assessments, to virtual tutoring, to providing supplemental learning resources.
We couldn’t do this work without a supportive community that understands the needs our students face. Thank you to everyone who has supported our efforts. If you are in a position to give, please consider supporting our students this year.


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Venue: Seminar Room I, IDSA
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Welcome Remarks by Co-Chairs Shri Jayant Prasad, DG, IDSA, and Professor Subrata K. Mitra, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Release of the two books by the Guest of Honour, Shri A.N.D. Haksar
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About the book: Kautilya’s Arthashastra : An Intellectual Portrait - Classical Roots of Modern Politics in India
Professor Subrata K. Mitra, ISAS, Singapore
Dr Michael Liebig, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
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About the edited book: The Kautilya's Arthashastra: An Intellectual Portrait -Classical Roots of Modern Politics in India
Dr Michael Liebig, SAI
Dr Saurabh Mishra, IDSA
1520 - 1535 Address by Shri Shyam Saran
1535 - 1600 General Discussion
1600 - 1610 Closing remarks by Guest of Honour, Shri A.N.D. Haksar
1610 - 1615 Vote of thanks by Col. P.K.Gautam (Retd.)
1615 - 1645 Tea and Dispersal
Kautilya’s Arthashastra: an Intellectual portrait – Classical Roots of Modern Politics in India showcases the endogenous politico-strategic thought that underpins and drives India’s rise in the 21st century. The political institutions and processes in contemporary India have remained deeply grounded in its pre-modern political heritage, succinctly codified in Kautilya’s Arthashastra. These themes are explored through such bridge concepts as the ‘modernity of tradition’ and the ‘re-use of the past’ in tackling contemporary political problems. These concepts are key factors that explain the resilience and stability of India’s hybrid political institutions and democratic system as well as its foreign policy conduct. Even though Kautilya’s Arthashastra is a foundational text of Political Science and International Relations theory, it has, so far, been largely marginalized in Political Science. Mitra’s and Liebig’s book is meant to change that. As well, the book provides a major contribution to South Asian area studies, comparative politics and comparative political theory.
This book is the product of a collaborative effort by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi; South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University; and Institute of South Asian Studies, National University Singapore. The volume contains papers exploring Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra in a Transcultural Perspective, comparing it with the thoughts of Sun-Zi, Nizam al-Mulk, Barani and Machiavelli. It is agreed that the field of modern International Relations (IR) and Political Theory is predominantly Eurocentric, and based on European sources of philosophy and history. But, nowadays, scholars have been exploring the possibility of a world intellectual history, as ideas are dynamic throughout temporal and geographical spaces. They transform, hybridise and travel long distances over a period of time in such a manner that they appear belonging to the place where we find them at a particular point of time. It is also intriguing to observe that India, with a long civilisational and philosophical history, is credited with no contribution to the evolution of the modern IR and Political Theory. Therefore, this volume explores the philosophical systems, thought-figures and ancient cultural spaces, on the path from India to Europe, looking for any possibility of Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra, the most comprehensive and systematic text available on art of governance from ancient India, having interacted and influenced the evolution of IR and Political Theory that are considered as originally European intellectual contributions. We note that the chapters in this book give ample and convincing reasons for initially believing in the Arthaśāstra’s value for the evolution of IR and Political Theory and making further research on Indian contribution to the intellectual history of IR and Political Theory a desideratum.
The chapters with authors are: ‘Introduction’ by Michael Liebig and Saurabh Mishra, ‘Kautilya Redux? Re-use, Hybridity, Trans-cultural Flow and Resilience of the State in India’ by Subrata K. Mitra (ISAS), ‘Understanding Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra: Origination, Migration and Diffusion’ by Pradeep Kumar Gautam (IDSA),‘Kautilya and Machiavelli in a comparative perspective’ by Michael Liebig (SAI), ‘Arthaśāstra - Reflections on Thought and Theory’ by Medha Bisht’ (South Asian University),‘Rājadharma, legitimacy and sovereignty in the Arthaśāstra’ by Saurabh Mishra (IDSA),‘Kautilya and Sun-Zi on War and Strategy: Exploratory Comparative Analysis ’ by M.S. Prathibha (IDSA) , and ‘Fatāwā-ye jahāndāri: Hybrid Political Theory in the Delhi Sultanate (Perso-Islamic and Endogenous Traditions of Statecraft in India)’ by Seyed Hossein Zarhani (SAI).


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The Tire Retread Information Bureau (TRIB) will host a workshop on retreading at the National Assn. of Truck Stop Operators’ (NATSO) annual convention. The workshop is slated at NATSO Show 2005: Map New Paths to Profits, being held from February 9 to 11, 2005 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TN.
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The CIA was involved…and still are in the attacks against Trump, all of them.
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– “…The assassination of the top four leaders of the political left in the five year period – President John Kennedy in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968 – represented nothing less than a slow-motion coup on the political scene…The blood of these men cries out for the revelation of the truth that the United States national security state and its media accomplices have fought so mightily to keep hidden for so many years”
The CIA Takeover of America in the 1960s Is the Story of Our Times. The Killing of the Kennedys and Today’s New Cold War – By Edward Curtin
A Quasi-Review of A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by Lisa Pease
“‘We’re all puppets,’ the suspect [Sirhan Sirhan] replied, with more truth than he…
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Our first Kickstarter campaign is live now! We’re looking to get two graphic novels printed and we need your help. First up is the printed, collected edition ofTeenage Love Zombies. It collects the entire Teenage Love Zombies comic that original appeared weekly online from 2010 until this summer. It’s 200 pages of rock n’ roll horror goodness.
The second is our newest graphic novel Never Send a Monster. Never Send a Monster is an anthology of three connected stories having to do with obsession and thievery… and monsters! It clocks in at 120 pages.
Both are in full color, done and ready to go. We just need some cash to print these comics up. We’ve got some awesome rewards for backers of the campaign including original art, exclusive art prints and of course, both books. Please check out our campaign here and get some awesome new books and please, share it with everybody you know.
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Well, that about wraps it up for TLZ. This has been one heck of a journey. From TLZ’s humble beginnings in my final year of college in 2004 when it was originally planned to be an animated musical, to this last page of the comic it became. Ten years this story has been with me and though the path took some turns it’s finally reached the end of the road. I learned a lot while making this comic. It taught me dedication, scheduling, more about WordPress then I ever thought I’d know and what it takes to make a weekly webcomic. I never missed an update and it’s something I’m extremely proud of. This was my first long form comic, it was my first original story and it was my first foray into webcomics. It’s kind of weird to say goodbye to this story as it’s been such a huge part of my life for so long. I’ll surely miss it.
Though TLZ is over, I’m not done making comics. Creephouse Comics is in full swing and we have some exciting new stuff already out and some more awesome stuff coming. The first issue of my new comic The Haunter is out now. It’s a fun filled, ongoing, all ages horror, superhero romp. Please check out the site to order a copy or if digital is your thing, it’s up for sale on Comixology as well over here.
To keep up to date with all the Creephouse Comics news, please sign up for out news letter here. We will be giving out free digital comics only to newsletter subscribers and it’s the only way to get our other new comic Krush McNulty and the Siren Planet, our love letter to old pulp sci fi stories when it comes out on Sept 3rd. It’s written by the other half of Creephosue Comics William Tooker with art by myself.
Also, while TLZ may be over for now, we will be collecting the whole story in one volume for both print and digital release as well as releasing our other book Never Send a Monster sometime during October for Halloween.
I hope you come along with me and Creephouse Comics. I’m not nearly done.
I want to give a HUGE thank you to everybody who took the time to read TLZ. To everybody who stopped by my table at cons the past four years and bought a book or print or just said hello. To everybody who shared the comic. To all the people who wrote about it and all the podcasters and interviewers who had me on their show or posted an article about it. To all my friends who encouraged me, made sketches of TLZ or just helped spread the word. And to my amazing girlfriend Desirae, who was with me when I started putting these pages up four years ago and spent time with me almost every week as I sat and drew a new page. She is my inspiration in all things. Again, thank you to everybody, I couldn’t have done it without you.
They have their whole lives in front of them.
The Zombie Queen’s magic worked! Guy and Loraine are back to their old selves again!
The question remains, what will they do now?
Find out next week in the conclusion of Teenage Love Zombies!
What can’t voodoo do? Hoodoo? Anyways, what’s happening to Guy and Loraine? I hope the Zombie Queen hasn’t had a change of heart, pun intended.
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THE SUN HAS set, darkness has overcome the road.
Coming up Fairholm Hill from Lake Crescent, the rain gives itself up for actual snow.
Streetlights at the top of the hill mark the Sol Duc Hot Springs Road and the Olympic Discovery Trail crossing.
The banks of snow along the road reflect their weird orange-yellow glow.
Then there is darkness except where headlights illuminate the roadway.
Though the car is doing less than 60 miles per hour, residential lights slip by unnoticed.
Unnoticed until you pass the first bridge that straddles the Sol Duc River, then up on a small hill to the south is an outline of an orca in white Christmas lights.
There are some other strands of colored lights, but this is the first orca to celebrate the holidays on the West End.
Drivers don’t always notice the slow decline of U.S. Highway 101 as it moseys to Forks from Fairholm.
Winter brings evidence that can hardly be disputed.
Snow amounts noticeably decrease as one gets closer to Forks, so that by the time one reaches West Twin Road, the banks of snow along the road are mostly gone.
The darkness sticks around though.
This time of year, the nighttime darkness seems only barely broken through by murky daylight.
The precipitation has once again become the customary rain.
Up ahead, there is a glow bouncing off the low clouds. It seems bright enough to be a small city.
Rounding the bend by Hillstrom Road, you realize it’s the Hungry Bear Café’s holiday lights.
What a sight.
The brilliant colors dispel the black and light up the area like daylight. It’s hard to take it all in at once.
Inflatable figures of a Santa snow globe, Mickey Mouse, Snoopy, Minion and Santa bear stand at joyful attention.
Strands of lights line trees and windowsills. Two giant bells outlined in lights are hung on the gable of the restaurant.
Roofs of cabins adjacent to the restaurant are lined in strands of large lights.
Getting out of my car, I hear holiday tunes. They don’t seem to be coming from the inflatables, and they clearly aren’t coming from the building.
It’s difficult to admit and it sounds crazy, but I swear the music is coming from an ivy covered stump.
Stepping inside, I see Debbie Johnson sitting at the counter.
I can’t help but blurt out “Is the music really coming from that stump?”
She is the owner, she ought to know.
She smiles and says she thinks that’s where Woody put it.
Woody is her son, Gary is her husband and together they are the owning-operating core of the Hungry Bear Cafe, Motel and RV Park.
Today, I got a rare interview with this tight-lipped lady.
“Lights, lots of lights” she explains of their holiday decorating philosophy.
Johnson said that they like to do the elaborate decorating for the community.
“Everybody, they all thank us for decorating,” she said.
In her conversations with customers, she has come to the conclusion that folks who grew up in the generations that really liked to decorate for the holidays are getting older.
It’s difficult for older ones to get up on ladders to hang lights and hefting the boxes to and from the garage is no simple task when the cold aggravates old injuries and arthritis.
The Johnsons also notice the extra lights and decorating cause their power bill to increase by hundreds of dollars each holiday season.
Nevertheless, they try to add to their display every year.
Looking around the inside of the cozy restaurant, I come to the conclusion there are just as many lights inside as there are outside.
In a corner by the cash register is a large decorated tree. On every flat surface is some seasonal figurine.
Even the pillars are decorated with red and white tinsel to resemble candy canes.
The smells of stick-to-your-ribs food emanate across the pass shelf and the glass-faced cooler has pieces of homemade pumpkin pie that just need a dollop of whipped cream to be perfect.
It is hard to leave this oasis of warmth and light and return to the cold darkness of the road.
Zorina Barker lives in the Sol Duc Valley with her husband, a logger, and two children she home-schools.
Submit items and ideas for the column to her at zorina email@example.com, or phone her at 360-327-3702. West End Neighbor appears in the PDN every other Tuesday.
Her next column will be Dec. 27.


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OBJECTIVE: Understanding other material textures and applying tone.
TASK: Make a drawing of a knife, fork and spoon, using either charcoal or pencil.
You will find my earlier demonstrations of this task in our earlier blogs.
Here is the resource link: Cutlery
And also the demonstration: https://youtu.be/zug8Z879R84
But this time I will do a different variation to expand on the idea of observational drawing of shiny objects, like cutlery. To do this, I will demonstrate black paper and a method called highlight drawing.
For this, I will be using chalks, but coloured pencils and crayons could also be used. This will help you to see tone in the reverse and use your observation skills to pick out the main areas of tone.
Before I started on the drawing for this tutorial, the first thing I did was set up a composition just a few feet away: observing from real life is essential. If using a lamp for your lighting, I would turn off all the other lights in the room to increase contrast and clarify each shadow. It’s extremely important to make good lighting for yourself when you’re drawing indoors. If you don’t have that strong directional light, you won’t be able to see the shadows and highlights and your drawing will most likely turn out grey and visually flat.
Something you might like to try when observing the initial contours of your set- up is to squint with one eye when you draw! This helps because it eliminates depth perception and makes the subject you’re drawing appear flat. Be consistent in which eye you use, though; if you switch eyes you’ll see the objects move slightly, which can mess you up.
Spending too much time looking at your paper—instead of your subject—won’t work, and it’s easy to understand why. If your eyes are always on your paper, you won’t ever be seeing what you’re supposed to be drawing. So when you draw or paint, flick your eyes back and forth and never let them rest for too long in one place. With practice, your eyes will do this naturally, but it’s important if you’re just starting out to do it purposefully at first, to build up the habit.
Erase when you see something wrong! Don’t just leave your mistakes there—fix them! If you can see a problem early on, your finished drawing will have it too. By then you won’t want to go all the way back and change everything, so get it right before you’re too far in. What a lot of people don’t understand is that the most important part of any drawing is the initial line drawing. So always erase if you need to, because once you’ve got a good line drawing, you’re home free.
When the drawing is almost finished, I usually take a breather, walk around, and then come back to finish it. After being away for a while, you’ll be able see if there are mistakes or places that should be completed but somehow got overlooked. Fix those, and at the same time use your eraser to pick out the brightest highlights in your drawing.
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Trump won't back down on 'Central Park Jogger' case. Here's a look at his role
When asked Tuesday whether he would apologize to the men, Trump refused.
A new Netflix series has reignited the debate surrounding the Central Park Jogger case, with the outcry centering around key figures, including former prosecutor Linda Fairstein and President Donald Trump, who inserted himself into the case early on and when asked about it again on Tuesday, Trump maintained his position.
When asked by a reporter on Tuesday whether he would apologize to the men who were exonerated in the Central Park Jogger case, Trump refused.
"Why do you bring that question up now? It's an interesting time to bring it up. You have people on both sides of that," he said while speaking on the White House lawn. "They admitted their guilt. If you look at Linda Fairstein and you look at some of the prosecutors, they think that the city should never have settled that case, so we'll leave it at that."
Jonathan Moore, an attorney who has represented four of the five — Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana — since 2003 pushed back against Trump's comments in a phone interview with ABC News on Tuesday saying, "There are not two sides to what happened to the Central Park Five."
"(Trump's) rush to judgment contributed to the lynch mob mentality that resulted in these five young men being unlawfully incarcerated," and "if nothing else, he should apologize for that," he added.
"When They See Us," which is directed by Ava DuVernay, is a dramatized account based on a 1989 case of injustice and racial discrimination in New York City when five teenagers — four of them black and one Latino — were wrongfully convicted in the attack and rape of a white woman jogging in Central Park. According to the Los Angeles Times, DuVernay said of the president's response "it's expected."
"There's nothing he says or does in relation to this case or the lives of black people or people of color that has any weight to it. It's not our reality, there's no truth to it," she continued.
The series comes on the heels of the 20/20 special "One Night in Central Park" was the first time that the police, defendants and the victim all appeared in the same documentary to discuss the case.
In the case that then-real estate mogul Trump said warranted the death penalty, Salaam, McCray, Richardson and Santana and Korey Wise came to be known in the media as the "the Central Park Five" — a label they have fought to shake off.
The woman, Trisha Meili, was brutally raped, beaten and left in a ravine. Thirteen years after the Central Park attack, a convicted serial rapist by the name of Matias Reyes came forward to say that he was Meili's sole attacker, which led to the exoneration of all five men in 2002.
Here's a look at the latest controversy, Trump's ongoing interest in the case and how decades after they were exonerated in court, Trump has maintained that the men are guilty.
Series brings attention to key figures
Since its release, "When They See Us" has also renewed the outcry about the handling of the case, and Linda Fairstein, a prosecutor in the case, is facing a fresh round of backlash.
Fairstein is portrayed by Felicity Huffman, while actual footage of Trump from the 80s makes a cameo in the second episode.
In a scene where Salaam's mother is overcome with emotion and outrage when she is asked by a reporter about a newspaper ad taken out by Trump in the wake of the case, calling for the death penalty for violent crimes.
"They need to keep that bigot off TV is what they need to do," she tells a friend in the following scene while watching real footage of an interview with Trump saying he "would love to be a well-educated black" because they have an advantage.
"Don't worry about it. His fifteen minutes almost up," the friend responds.
When pressed about his involvement in the case during his 2016 campaign, the then-Republican candidate still maintained his belief that the men who were exonerated in the Central Park Jogger case are guilty. The White House did not respond to ABC News' request for comment about the case.
On Friday, nearly 20 years after they were exonerated, the five men were presented with a courage award on Friday by actor Michael B. Jordan at an American Civil Liberties Union event honoring the series. While accepting the award, an emotional Salaam broke down in tears as he recalled the ordeal and also reflected on Trump's ad.
"Korey [Wise] said it so well," Salaam said. "He said, when Donald Trump took out that full-page ad, and put them in all of New York City's newspapers, calling for our execution, he placed a bounty on our head."
Meanwhile, Fairstein strongly pushed back against her portrayal in the series, penning an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal published Monday night titled "Netflix's False Story of the Central Park Five," where she claims that the series ignored eight others who were attacked that night by a group of 30 rioters.
"Mr. Reyes's confession, DNA match and claim that he acted alone required that the rape charges against the five be vacated. I agreed with that decision and still do. But the other charges, for crimes against other victims, should not have been vacated," she wrote.
ABC News has reached out to DuVernay but a request for comment was not immediately returned. She appeared to brush off Fairstein's criticism, tweeting in response to the op-ed Monday night, "Expected and typical. Onward..."
Moore slammed Fairstein's op-ed in a phone interview with ABC News recently, saying "she can't handle the truth."
"The one central fact in this case that's demonstrated without any shadow of a doubt is that these five young men were coerced into making these statements. Matias Reyes did this crime and he acted alone. We know he did the crime because it's the only DNA found from the swab taken from Patricia Meili."
Trump involves himself in the case
When the case of "the Central Park jogger" broke, Trump was a high profile real estate mogul in New York City, already publicly toying with the idea of running for president.
Trump took out a full-page ad to air his grievances.
The letter, published in ads in four area papers — the New York Times, the Daily News, the New York Post and New York Newsday — was signed by Trump and ran as the teenagers awaited their trial. It called for the return of the death penalty for violent crimes — a move that attorneys for the boys said helped rally the public against them.
"BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!" the ad read in all-caps.
Moore told ABC News on Tuesday that Trump's ad "was designed to influence the population of NYC against these five young men" and fueled in "an overwhelming amount of animus" directed at them.
"Who has the money to buy a full-page ad in all the major newspapers and proclaim not only that these kids are guilty but that they should get the death penalty and that there should be a death penalty for juveniles," Moore said, adding, "It was not surprising that those juries convicted them because they were already convicted in the press well before the case went to trial."
The ad, which was written in the form of a letter and signed by Trump, laments "bands of wild criminals," and "crazed misfits," dismisses the notion of "police brutality" and ends with a call to action that is not unlike candidate Trump and President Trump's rhetoric on"law and order."
"I want to hate these murderers and I always will. I am not looking to psychoanalyze or understand them, I am looking to punish them … I no longer want to understand their anger. I want them to understand our anger. I want them to be afraid," he wrote in the ad.
Amid criticism that his ad was inciting violence, Trump took to the national airways to discuss the "Central Park Jogger" case and defended his ad in a 1989 interview with CNN's Larry King, saying he was asked about the boys by a reporter and responded, "of course I hate these people. Let's all hate these people because maybe hate is what we need if we're going to get something done."
As president, Trump seemed to encourage police to be more violent in handling potential offenders during a speech to law enforcement officers in July 2017.
"When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. I said, ‘Please don't be too nice,'" he said.
Four of the teenagers testified that they were coerced into confessing. Prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer was in the room with the teens during the infamous "confessions."
Salaam never confessed.
All were convicted in 1990 of various crimes, including rape.
McCray, Richardson, Santana and Salaam got five to 10 years in prison as juveniles. Wise was sentenced to five to 15 as an adult.
Trump won't back down
In 2002, when Reyes came forward to say that he was Meili's sole attacker, four of the five accused men were out of prison. Reyes, who was serving 33 years to life for a murder-rape conviction, reached out to police, who were able to match his DNA to the DNA at the Central Park crime scene.
District Attorney Robert Morgenthau withdrew all charges against the men, and their convictions were vacated. Wise, who was still in prison at the time, was released early. The police also commissioned a report from Michael Armstrong, who was hired in 2002 to look into how law enforcement had investigated the Central Park case.
The report determined the police hadn't engaged in misconduct in the case.
The police, prosecutors and Meili said that they did not believe that Reyes acted alone.
Nearly 20 years since the charges were vacated, Trump has repeatedly stated that he still thinks they're guilty and has continued to comment on the developments of this case.
He has also weighed in on the case several times over the past few years.
"The Central Park Five documentary was a one-sided piece of garbage that didn't explain the.horrific crimes of these young men while in park," Trump tweeted in April, 2013 about a documentary based on a book by Sarah Burns and directed by she and her father, Ken Burns, and David McMahon.
In crafting the documentary, Burns didn't interview the police because they were under a gag order.
And when the five men reached a $41 million settlement with the city of New York in 2014, Trump expressed his displeasure, tweeting, "I'd bet the lawyers for the Central Park 5 are laughing at the stupidity of N.Y.C. when there was such a strong case against their 'clients.' " The settlement included no admission of wrongdoing on the part of the city and instead made explicit that prosecutors and police detectives did nothing wrong.
Meili and authorities objected to the city's decision to settle.
He also wrote an op-ed in The New York Daily News — the same newspaper in which he took out the 1989 ad — calling the settlement a "disgrace."
Trump later claimed in a tweet that the newspaper "asked me to do an Editorial on the Central Park 5 ripoff & then they pretend it was my idea. Loser newspaper!"
During his 2016 campaign for president, Trump again repeated the claim that "the Central Park Five" are guilty, telling CNN at the time, "They admitted they were guilty. The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same."
In response to Trump's comments, Salaam penned a viral op-ed in The Washington Post with the title, "I'm one of the Central Park Five. Donald Trump won't leave me alone."
Reflecting on police brutality in the age of the Black Lives Matter movement in the piece, Salaam wrote that Trump's comments on the Central Park case is "further proof of Trump's bias, racism and inability to admit that he's wrong."
"During our trial, it seemed like every New Yorker had an opinion. But no one took it further than Trump," Salaam wrote. "He called for blood in the most public way possible … I don't know why the future Republican nominee bought those ads, but it seems part and parcel with his racist attitudes."
ABC News' Susan Welsh, Keren Schiffman and Enjoli Francis contributed to this report.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect President Donald Trump's June 18, 2019 comments about the case.

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