Kurukshetra, July 6
Residents of Madanpur village and Tilak Colony in Pehowa are overjoyed that a girl from the neighbourhood is set to become the wife of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
The news came as a surprise for friends of Dr Gurpreet Kaur. They recalled their association with the family. While the family is at its Mohali residence, the house in Pehowa wore a deserted look. Dr Gurpreet’s father Inderjeet Singh in an agriculturist and has around 50-acre land in Madanpur in Pehowa. He has also been the village sarpanch.
Dr Gurpreet’s paternal uncle Gurinder Singh, who also lives in Pehowa, said, “I got a call from my younger brother and he informed me that Dr Gurpreet is getting married. We are happy and are getting congratulatory messages. I will meet them and give my blessings.”
“Dr Gurpreet has two elder sisters, who are married and settled abroad. Dr Gurpreet was an intelligent and obedient girl. All three daughters are doing good. On Dr Gurpreet’s insistence, around a year ago, they bought a house in Phase VII, Mohali. Inderjeet keeps coming here. He is a religious person and has been the sarpanch of Madanpur,” he added.
Gurinder, who is also an Aam Aadmi Party leader, had been a Zila Parishad member. He had contested the Assembly elections as an Independent candidate from Pehowa.
Meanwhile, Dr Gurpreet’s neighbours at Tilak Colony said they were happy that she was getting married to the Punjab Chief Minister. “We have seen her since her childhood; she is a bubbly girl. It is a matter of happiness for Pehowa that the Punjab CM will be the son-in-law of Pehowa,” they said.
Gaganjot Sandhu, INLD leader and son of former Haryana Agriculture Minister Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, said, “I have seen this family closely. They came to Pehowa around 1947 from Ludhiana. Dr Gurpreet’s father Inderjeet Singh is a nice person. He and my father were schoolmates. The family enjoys a good reputation here. As the news broke, the marriage became the talk of the village. It is a matter of pride for us.”
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We have seen her since childhood; she is a bubbly girl. It is a matter of happiness for us that the Punjab Chief Minister will be the son-in-law of Pehowa. — Neighbours
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Packaging converter Prolamina Corp. will acquire some assets and a book of business from Packaging Dynamics Corp. of Kaukauna, Wis.
Terms were undisclosed. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter, according to an Aug. 2 news release from Lake Forest, Ill.-based Prolamina.
The purchase includes Packaging Dynamics' extrusion laminating, 10-color printing and converting business in Kaukauna. Equipment will be moved to Prolamina's new, 250,000-square-foot packaging plant in Neenah, Wis.
“We are a specialist at this type of manufacturing and we will become even better,” Harold Bevis, Prolamina's chairman and CEO, said in the release. “As a result of these changes, we will now have a great footprint in the Midwest for high-end flexible packaging production.”
In addition to the new equipment, Prolamina has ordered a wide-format, solvent-based press from F&K with GPS electronics for quick changeovers for the Neenah plant. It is expected to be delivered in January. According to the release, the company has completed installation of its Black Clawson extrusion laminator at the site.
The Neenah facility is to begin production Aug. 18. The release said some members of Packaging Dynamics' management team will join Prolamina, but it did not provide specifics.
Company officials have said the facility will back up Prolamina plants in Westfield, Mass., and greater Montreal, manufacturing packaging for tobacco products, cheese, produce, snack foods, non-fluid-contact medical products, pet food and pouches.
Prolamina recently modified equipment at the former Jen-Coat plant in Westfield to make tobacco packaging. Prolamina's plant in Terrebonne, Quebec — formerly Excel Pac — recently received a superior rating from food-safety inspection and audit group AIB International, the release said.
Prolamina's manufacturing footprint includes three plants, 12 laminators, 13 printing presses, two graphic-design centers, in-house metalization, and converting equipment including laser scoring and perforating, and pre-formed pouch making, said Chief Operating Officer Tim French.
The firm recently received several awards from the Toronto-based Packaging Association of Canada, including a best-in-show for a spouted stand-up pouch for Yoplait yogurt.
Bevis formed Prolamina, originally called Packaging Solutions Holdings Inc., in his Illinois home a week after Berry Plastics Corp. of Evansville, Ind., bought Pliant out of bankruptcy in late 2009.
The company partnered last summer with private equity firm Wellspring Capital Management LLC of New York, acquiring extrusion laminator and printer Jen-Coat of Westfield in August 2010 and Montreal-based adhesive laminator, pouch maker and printer Excel Pac in March 2011.
Prolamina will source paper for its Neenah laminating operations from Packaging Dynamics' Thilmany Papers business, Bevis said in the release.

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Lovely to see my 2nd rescued female Pipistrelle bat fly high and free tonight. 🦇
Just over a week ago she was cat attacked, but thankfully didn’t receive any serious injuries and has progressed well. I returned her to the area in which she was found; she knew exactly where she was and she was off!
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Fetal Bovine Serum Market to Expand at a CAGR of 6.4% From 2021 to 2031, Increasing Application in Cell Culture, Drug Discovery and Vitro Fertilization to Drive the Market
Albany NY, United States: According to the report, the global fetal bovine serum market was valued at US$ 842.73 Mn in 2020 and is projected to expand at a CAGR of 6.4% from 2021 to 2031. Fetal bovine serum (FBS) is a supplement for cell culture media that provides an undefined mixture of macromolecules, including transport proteins, hormones, lipids, growth factors, elements, minerals, and detoxifying factors that function to maintain cell viability and facilitate cell metabolism, proliferation, growth, and spreading in culture.
Applications of fetal bovine serum are drug discovery, cell media culture, in vitro fertilization, human & animal vaccine production, diagnostics, and others. The global fetal bovine serum market is driven by rise in demand for fetal bovine as a raw material by number of pharmaceutical & biotech companies for vaccines for human and animals.
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The healthcare facilities segment held the second largest share of the global market in 2020. Increase in the number of healthcare facilities in developed countries is likely to augment the segment during the forecast period. Awareness about health & wellness is increasing.
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"This is the story of Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari came home from college to find the streams dry, the people malnourished, and the trees gone. How could she alone bring back the trees and restore the gardens and the people?"--Jacket
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I don't want to push the people who already in the closet deeper in the closet. That's not my intention, in fact this blog is to bring awareness to those who's been kicked out and disowned and ways to overcome a bad coming out. I just want to tell them that the lgbt community cares for them and is willing to help. I for one is still in the closet but that's only because I'm surrounded by not so accepting people, I myself is wanting to come out but afraid to trip. I always admire the people that came out, to me they're my heros- their so brave and recovering after being rejected I love them for that.
Here's a little video of coming out videos from beautiful people of the LGBT:
There's no telling how people would react when coming out and some of us fear for the worst.
Coming out is not all rainbows and unicorns, even though some people had good and heart melting coming out stories, some of them never mention the aftermath and that's okay if they don't want to. After coming out, they don't mention the fact that you have to come out again or again, not being able to hold your partner hand or kiss your partner in public. If public affection is not your thing then you have no problem. Then the stares and discrimination you have to deal with. What's scary is - I read on social media that these straight friends were talking and walking beside each other and got beat up because the person thought they were a gay couple. It's sickening and gross but I was happy the straight peers give him a good whooping. It's really sad that they're people like that, like worry about your own life.
♡I know for a fact that these are some reason why people are in the closet, but please DON'T change yourself to make others happy, coming out is finally being yourself and having a ton of weight being lift from your chest. Thats how I would feel when holding a huge secret like this.
Horrible Coming Out Stories
I was watching coming out stories with good reaction on the tube because it makes me happy. Then I came across this video of a little boy that breaks my heart and before I talk about it. I would like to share ten horrible coming out stories from ten anonymous people that I found online after doing research. I felt like their stories needed more attention and shouldn't go on heard. By the way, I didn't make any changes to what the people wrote, these are their stories and feelings, I don't care about their grammar because we're not all perfect. ♡
1. The first person I told said, "Eww! We've been hanging out all this time though?!" She then proceeded to ask this guy to go out with me. Incredibly embarrassing, I know it's not as bad as it could have been but it was still awful."
2. "When I came out my parents made me go talk to their church bishop. I was told I'm broken, that they were taking me to counseling to help fix me, and that if things got worse they would have to take more drastic actions. They told me it's just a phase and that I could be "fixed." They also forbid me from telling anyone. To this day they cannot accept that I'm gay. When I told my friends, everything seemed fine and dandy at first, then I found out a bunch of them were talking about me behind my back and they asked me to keep my sexuality to myself because it would be easier for them. It was horrible."
3."I told my mom I was lesbian. First she pretended it was a stage. Then she pretended I never came out. Then she then told me I can't come out to the rest of the family and I should quickly try to fix my problem."
4."Came out to my parents and was disowned for about a year. It tore the family apart and my parents almost got a divorce because of the fallout. That was 7 years ago. Things have gotten better, we're cordial now but they still ask me if I've found a girlfriend every time I go home. I maintain a de facto Don't Ask Don't Tell situation with them about my personal life."
5. "When I came out as gay, I expected the whole world to hate me. But the most hate I've ever felt was from my own community."
6. "They say the truth will sit you free. Well when I told my family I was gay, I would up in the hospital."
7. "When I came out to my mom, the first thing she asked me was whether or not I have aids."
8. "My mom called me an abomination and stupid when I told her I was bisexual. I haven't even told her I'm transgender yet."
9. "I came out to my parents know I'm living in my friend basement."
10. "I came out to my dad, he says I'm not his son. His loss."
How to Overcome a bad coming out? By Liveabout (a friendly lgbt site) and some of my inputs.
I know the pain of being rejected by someone you love that's why the suicidal rates are so high, it's 30 percent of all teen suicides. Please get help, if there's a lgbt center visit one. Do not become a statistic. Trust me someone's willing to help you. If you have a bad coming out experience, it is important to know that you aren't alone. Others have been there and survived. And even if your family and friends react horribly, please know in many cases, they will come around.
If you have a rainbow alliance at your school sign up for one. People reject others based on their own fear or comfort level. Those are their feelings not yours.
Being Kicked Out
There is a healthy and fulfilling future waiting for you. Once you find a safe environment and positive support system, start to develop your new life goals. You have a choice in what kind of person you want to be and who you want to become. Your sexual and emotional feelings are normal and you are not alone. Now create a new life, defined by you.
There are thousands of gay teens living on the streets. Some ran away and others were forced to leave. If you find yourself homeless with nowhere to go, seek help immediately. Keep a gay community center helpline number with you at all times. Explain your situation and wait for a referral. Not all places have resources for gay homeless youth, but there are organizations like the Ruth Ellis Center that can help. Choose an option that is safer than the streets. This takes time and a lot of forgiveness of yourself and others, but the liberation is well worth it. Find a support network and someone who can help you through this tough period of your life. Ultimately, only time and some work will heal your wounds. Let the pain out so you can move on.
A Sad Story
A 9 year old boy from Colorado took his on life after an anti-gay bullying. For more of the story. Here's the link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.advocate.com/youth/2018/8/27/after-coming-out-and-being-bullied-9-year-old-dies-suicide%3Famp&ved=2ahUKEwjU1cLQ29HdAhWHVt8KHfmVAcUQFjAIegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw2TQrxCvZioeUSVJRbAeKvn&ampcf=1

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Trump’s cabinet is a minefield of potential conflicts of interest. Thankfully, we have the Office of Government Ethics, the government watchdog tasked with vetting cabinet picks. The problem is that Trump’s nominees and transition team have blown this office off in hopes that they will blow through the hearings next week. These emails reveal that the OGE has been given the run-around by the Trump Transition Team since November.
This is not normal. As Walter M. Shaub Jr., the OGE Ethics Director, wrote in a letter to Democratic senators on Saturday, January 7th, “I am not aware of any occasion in the four decades since OGE was established when the Senate held a confirmation hearing before the nominee had completed the ethics review process.” Shaub continued to express his “great concern” that several of Trump’s nominees have not completed an ethics review before their hearings.
The letter was sent to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who said in a statement on Saturday that the letter "makes it crystal clear that the transition team's collusion with Senate Republicans to jam through these cabinet nominees before they've been thoroughly vetted is unprecedented."
All-of-us must fight this swampy move.
1. Swamp your senators with calls. Those of you in CA, FL, MD, MO, OH, OR, VA, WA are in a special position, because you have a Democratic Senator who is the Ranking Member on one of the Committees with hearings this week. Reference this super informative list created by Together We Will that maps the committee membership, the ranking members, and the numbers to call.
2. Use this script, which addresses requests to: 1) Require all of Trump’s cabinet picks to be vetted by the Office of Government Ethics; and 2) Oppose Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.
3. Expose Trump’s tactics by asking your local news outlets to cover this story. You can use this resource or this one. Or you can use the tool from Ultraviolet.
Say something along these lines -- “Cabinet nominations have always been vetted by the Office of Government Ethics before their confirmation hearings. The Office of Government Ethics stated in a letter on January 7th that the Trump transition team has not given them the opportunity to vet many of the cabinet picks. We expect our local media to cover this important story and we hope that you will be doing so.”

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The new Tunze Turbelle Stream 6255 wide flow pushes out wide flow from a DC powered, low-voltage motor prop pump. Running at 12V with the ability push out 1,300 to 4,800 GPH (5,000 to 18,000 l/hr) the new Tunze Turbelle can be attached to a controller to simulate waves, a stronger tidal flow or other ocean environments.
The Stream 6255 pump also features some intelligent programming allowing it to automatically adjust to conditions to run efficiently. The motor of the Stream 6255 automatically adjusts the speed to the load on the pump trying to hit the highest operating efficiency and the lowest possible power consumption. Tunze notes the pump can perform at 50% lower energy consumption than conventional pump motors. The Stream 6255 pump is rated at a maximum of 58W of power consumption and is fed by a AC transformer to step down to the operating voltage of 12 VDC.
In the case of a blockage, the pumps will automatically stop preventing the motors from burning up. Once the blockage is removed, the pumps will automatically restart after a 20 second delay. To ensure your fish will not make themselves too comfy in the props when in feeding or maintenance mode, the pump also has a fish care function where it makes one slow revolution every 20 seconds.
Measuring is at around 3.5 in. with a 3 in. outlet, the new Tunze Stream 6255 can be controlled by the Multicontroller 7095, 7096 as well as Wavecontroller 7092. The new Tunze Stream 6255 will set you back around $670 USD (€480.67).


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This week I finally could take some time to sew me a new bra shirt for myself to wear. That always seems to be a designers faith, creating gorgeous stuff for others while ending up with testing ‘just not right’ items yourself … This time I wanted to test a decorative scalloped edge along the underwire seam. I’ve done this before and consider to use it in the next new DIY bra pattern. So this test was to see how easy or difficult it would be to explane the process to a beginner lingerie sewer. And I thought it would be nice to share it here with you as well since such a new bra pattern is not in my planning yet.
This idea will blend the underwire seam a bit instead of having a hard rounding. Depending on the choice of scalloped lace it can look kind of modest or very contrasting. Here I’ve used it with all lace cups but it can be very nice too when just using a narrow edge of scalloped lace in upper cups instead of the whole cup. A good way to make the most of remnant parts or narrow scalloped laces.
For myself I never wear just a bra but always a bra shirt which will cover my tummy, somehow this part is always a bit wind sensitive. Must be the aging of years … My black one was worn out and needed to be replaced. I’ve used my favourite MIX4 pattern for the bodice combined with the cups of MIX25 for a change. First I sew the bodice to the point where the cups would go in.
On the left you will see the scalloped edge already in place around the underwire seam, on the right the ‘blank’ underwire seam. As you might notice it is only a narrow edge around the seam, a wider edge would give a problem to make the rounding smoothly. This will also depend on the cup size, the smaller the cup the sharper the curve will be. And a sharp curve can only handle a narrow edge around it. So the larger the cup the wider this scalloped edge can be.
Here you will see in detail how the scalloped edge was pinned in the photo on the left. Midfront I had already added a piece of scalloped lace which was continuing a bit under the cup. Just because that was the length of the remnant I used. There is an overlap under the cup where I started with a new piece but here the lace is at its narrowst and with black on black this will hardly be noticed. When using more contrasting lace this might be point of consideration though. The lace midfront will make it easier to pin the scallops, pinning them only around the underwire seam will be much more difficult. It will not even look that great at the midfront top I think but that’s a matter of taste.
As you can see the scallops are not curving at the side of the cups as well. The lace is going more straight to the side seam of the bodice and up to the top edge. It is possible though to just follow the curve of the rounding instead, specially with larger sizes where the curve is not so sharp. Once pinned in place the scallops can be stitched on the right side of the fabric with a stitching zigzag. Make sure the last left stitch of each zigzag will overlap the scallops, that way there will be no chance the lace will roll at the edges.
Before cutting te fabric I’ve stitched the lace along the curve with a regular zigzag at the wrong side of the fabric. This will avoid the lace to move when pinning the cups in. You see how on the photo at the right. When the lace edge is quite wide it might pleat too much to handle, you can precut a bit. Wait with precise cutting untill the lace is stitched at the curve, it might be difficult to stitch once the lace has been cut before. And really, that’s all there is to it.
It was a bit difficult to take a clear photo because it’s all in black but I hope you can still get the idea!
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Walter Camp : Football and the Modern Man
By: Des Jardins, Julie.Material type: TextSeries: eBooks on Demand.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (417 p.).ISBN: 9780199925636.Subject(s): Camp, Walter, 1859-1925 | Football players--United States | Football players--United States--Biography | Football--United States--History | HISTORY / United States / 20th Century | HISTORY / United States / General | SPORTS & RECREATION / HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Walter Camp : Football and the Modern ManDDC classification: 796.332092 Online resources: Click here to view this ebook.
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Cover; Walter Camp; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Pregame Commentary; Introduction: The Forgotten "Father of Football"; first quarter: adolescence; 1. Survival of the Fittest in New Haven, 1860s-1880; 2. The Disillusionment of Afterlife, 1881-1887; second quarter: manhood epitomized; 3. Alice and All-American-ness, 1888-1891; 4. Manifest Destiny, 1892-1893; 5. Necessary Roughness? 1894; 6. Martial, Marketable, and Masculine, 1895-1899; Halftime: The Yale Man at the Turn of the Century; third quarter: manhood tested; 7. Camp's Boyology: The Making of Eligible Men
8. Make Men, but Do Not Break Them, 1903-19069. Rewriting the Gridiron Narrative, 1906-1912; fourth quarter: manhood reconsidered; 10. Realizing Real All-Americans in the 1910s; 11. Changing of the Guard, 1910-1916; 12. Preparing Men for Real Battle, 1917-1918; 13. Death and Democratization, 1919-1925; Postgame Analysis; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Americans are obsessed with football, yet they know little about the man who shaped the game to make it uniquely technical, physical, and 'man-making' at once. Walter Camp, the ""Father of American Football,"" was the foremost authority on American athletics and arguably the greatest amateur American athlete of his time. In Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man, Julie Des Jardins chronicles the life of the clock company executive and self-made athlete who remade football and redefined the ideal man. As a student at Yale University, Camp was a varsity letterman who led the earliest efforts t
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Absolutely gleaming after a multi-million dollar refit in 2018, CYNTHIA is fully equipped, primed and upgraded to deliver the complete charter experience.
Part of this transformative refit was an award winning redesign of her deck spaces and interiors by the star of interior design, Claudette Bonville. Her brief was to create an ambiance that encouraged her guests to relax and unwind and celebrated what it is to be at sea with such a special yacht and crew.
To exceed her brief, Bonville has used a cream palette lifted by bold reds, maritime blues, rich woods, patterned carpets and rugs and some outstanding artworks, all illuminated by abundant natural light through huge picture windows. As guests enjoy a movie on the 60in TV in the sky lounge they can gaze up at a large detailed reproduction of a chart showing the sandbanks, shoals and safe water of the legendary Nantucket Sound.
Throughout the yacht there is a selection of works by Eric Holch, a celebrated artist from that same island, a compass rose inlaid into the floor of the guest lobby, a mural of fish in mother of pearl, abalone and silver swimming up her stairwell and a deep blue glass dining table that shimmers like a calm sea. The result is impressive: lighthearted and contemporary, restful and soothing and a salute to sailing the seas.
Guests love to be outside and CYNTHIA excels in this respect. After working out in the fully equipped open air gym, take a dip in the jacuzzi before soaking up the sun on loungers aft or admiring the views from the raised sunpads forward. A lounge area in between is perfect for drinks and nibbles, either in the sun or shaded by removable awnings.
Bask in sun or shade on the main deck aft as you watch family and friends powering or paddling about on a wide range of watertoys. In the evening guests can walk from the sky lounge out onto the upper deck aft, pick up a drink from the bar and enjoy your aperitif in the lounge aft before dining al fresco at a table that comfortably welcomes 10 guests.
At the end of another day making lifelong memories, guests will retire to five spacious and beautifully appointed suites.


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This weekend the amazing Cirque Du Soleil and it’s famous Grand Chapiteau (big top) returned to the D.M.V. area for its 35th production “Kurios – Cabinet of Curiosities”. With the new MGM Casino taking over much of the National Harbor real estate, Cirque has found a new home for it’s bright blue and yellow big top located just next to Tyson’s Galleria and walking distance from the new Silver line Metro station.
All images ©Kevin Carroll | a digital cure photography for Eye On Annapolis
Kurios is the 6th Cirque Du Soleil show I’ve had the pleasure of attending and has quickly become my new favorite. Kurios will not disappoint the faithful Cirque fans and is a perfect introductory show for new attendees. The steam-punk themed costumes and set design are some of the most detailed and elaborate I’ve seen from a touring production. The music and vocals, which are performed live every show were a perfect fit and, of course, the talent that brings all 13 acts together is nothing short of amazing.
The 2 hours 10min( 25-minute intermission) show ranges from aerial acrobatics, contortionists, acro-net and of course it wouldn’t be complete without the oddities of an invisible circus. Cirque has Performing Artists from close to 50 different Countries but I was surprised to learn Ryan Shinji Murray, who is an AcroNet performer and makes a number of appearances during the show, is a Maryland native from the Montgomery County area.
The show is a perfect date night or family friendly retreat from this heat as the 2,600 big top is fully air conditioned.“Kurios – Cabinet of Curiosities” plays through September 18, 2016 under the Big Top at Tysons II, 8025 Galleria Dr., Washington, Virginia 22102.
Tickets are available online. For booking assistance call (877) 924-7783.
KURIOS – Cabinet of curiosities is a tale in which time comes to a complete stop, transporting the audience inside a fantasy world where everything is possible. In this realm set in the latter half of the nineteenth century, reality is quite relative indeed as our perception of it is utterly transformed. The name of the show refers to the humble and strange characters that inhabit the Seeker’s Cabinet of Curiosities.

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No Green Party Candidate Yet as the Party Organizes in New Federal Electoral Boundaries
The local chapter of the federal Green Party re-organizing in the new riding of South Okanagan West Kootenay (SOWK), is holding its AGM in Penticton on Saturday Nov 22.
“While there have been some individuals expressing interest in running on behalf of the GPC, no decision has been made about a candidate at this time. That process of selection will be put in motion at the AGM.” says EDA board member Celeste Kitchen.
When the writ drops in 2015, new federal election boundaries come into place that will combine the geographically and socially diverse populations of Penticton, Naramata, Kaleden, Okanagan Falls, Oliver, Osoyoos, Rock Creek, Midway, Greenwood, Christina Lake, Castlegar, Trail, Rossland, Winlaw, Slocan, Nakusp, New Denver, and all points in between.
The Green Party has doubled its representation of MPs in the House of Commons since the last election and elected Green MLAs in BC and New Brunswick. Elizabeth May is widely seen as one of the most effective members in parliament.
Celeste is hopeful for the next election: “A recent Nanos poll suggest that 31% of Canadians are considering voting green,” she said. “If either the Conservatives or Liberals win a minority mandate, Greens could hold the balance of power.”
The Green Party ‘s AGM in the new riding of SOWK is taking place on Saturday November 22nd at the Shatford Centre in Penticton between 1:30 and 4:30pm. There will be a potluck after the meeting.
Please visit www.sowk.ca for more information.
The GPC encourages all politically interested citizens to get involved in the democratic process.


CONYERS - Rockdale County Public Schools' new Open Campus reported high success numbers during its first quarter.
The 151 high school students who attended nontraditional school attempted 351 classes at an 85 percent pass rate during the first minimester, or quarter, which was the first nine weeks of the school year. Of the students who passed their courses, 56 percent made A's and B's.
School principal Michael Mauriello said school administrators didn't expect such a high achievement during the first quarter the school was open, even though they saw great potential in the students.
"We're excited," he said. "We still have a long way to go - our goal is for all students to be successful."
The Open Campus is for students who need an alternative to a traditional high school. According to the Rockdale County schools' Web site, www.rockdale.k12.ga.us, a typical student at Open Campus would be one who needs to make up a course in order to graduate, a student at risk for dropping out of school, students who have dropped out of school and are working, or students with "social, emotional, environmental and/or self-imposed issues."
Mauriello said students who don't pass the classes have options to take the class again or choose other alternatives.
In addition to the high pass rate, 80 students recovered 116 credits with the computer-based credit recovery aspect of the school during the first quarter, according to a report to the Rockdale County Board of Education by Craig Dowling, assistant superintendent of support services at RCPS.
"That's a lot of credits, a lot more than students have earned in the past," Mauriello said. "We're proud of the initial results."
He said the school will deal with progress day by day, but so far students seem to enjoy longer class times and the more independent, adult atmosphere at the school.
Students attend two one-hour, 20-minute classes between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and part of the day Friday for tutoring. They come in and out of the school as needed and have individual mailboxes. The school also only allows students five absences, which Mauriello said most students followed even though it seems strict.
Eighty-nine percent of students completed the first minimester. Dowling said those who didn't complete their program either withdrew or didn't follow the attendance policy.
During the first quarter, the school also saw its first graduate, Ashton Andrews, who plans to attend Georgia Perimeter College in January. Another student graduated this quarter after completing a credit recovery class.
Mauriello said the students who graduate have the option to walk with their class in May, but once they obtain all of the required credits, they are officially considered a graduate from the RCPS.
Whether the students attend their official graduation ceremony in May, they participate in a celebration at Open Campus, which includes the Walk of Fame, during which students and staff line the hallways and the graduate runs down the hall in his or her graduation attire.
"It was very emotional for (Andrews) and for me, as well as a lot of teachers and students," Mauriello said.
Michelle Floyd can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
SideBar: Open Campus students bused to Rockdale Career Academy for lunch
CONYERS - Open Campus students weren't the only ones in Rockdale County adjusting to the nontraditional school this semester - officials at Rockdale County Public Schools also learned a little something with the opening of the new school.
With more than 150 students attending the Open Campus this quarter, lunch time became a little crowded in the West Avenue building that once housed Georgia Perimeter College and later the Alpha Academy alternative school.
The school has a break and snack area, and students are allowed to leave the campus when they aren't attending a class. However, those options haven't help ease the number of students in the building during lunch.
In response to the lunchtime crowd, school system officials arranged a bus to shuttle between 30 and 40 students to the Rockdale Career Academy, which is located off Parker Road, every day for lunch.
"This helps them out financially, and it helps (the school) out with crowd control," Craig Dowling, assistant superintendent of support services at RCPS, told the Rockdale County Board of Education during October's work session. "It also supports the RCA lunch program."
School board member Jean Yontz said she has been at RCA several times when the Open Campus students arrived for lunch.
"(The Open Campus students) are very polite and very well organized," she said. "They come in lined up, eat and go out."
Dowling said Wednesday that this plan will continue the rest of this semester, but it could change in the future.
"The Leadership Team at Open Campus is developing scheduling options that may begin next semester," he said.


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Next week, the fourth book in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six volume series My Struggle will be published in English translation. Titled Dancing in the Dark, it focuses on Knausgaard’s teenage years. For those (like me) who have been following the autobiographical series with interest, the new book is another substantial piece of the vast, contradictory, intriguing, solipsistic puzzle that is My Struggle, a work that has received far more attention for its transparent basis in autobiography and its patience-testing depictions of mundane domesticity than it has for the aspect that, in my view, makes it genuinely compelling – that is, its ambitious attempt to establish a connection between Knausgaard’s commonplace experiences and the grand philosophical and ideological currents of modernity, and in doing so to arrive at some kind of intimate understanding of the violent history that has been generated by those ideas.
For chronically impatient Knausgaardians, the New York Times Magazine has just published a long Knausgaard essay titled ‘My Saga’ , in which he describes his travels through America. The latest issue of the Paris Review has also marked the English-language publication of Dancing in the Dark with a special feature, which includes an extract from the book and an interview with Knausgaard by the New Yorker’s literary critic James Wood (both behind the paywall, alas). The interview has its moments, not least Knausgaard’s remark that the only section of My Struggle’s 3600-odd pages he considers well-written is the first five pages of volume one. (There are those who would agree, but while there is certainly some loose writing in My Struggle, I think he is perhaps being a little hard on himself there.)
The more significant inclusion in the Paris Review, however, is the short essay tucked away at the back titled ‘Letter from Österlen’. It would be a stretch to say that this elegant fragment, which has been translated by Seán Kinsella rather than My Struggle’s translator Don Bartlett, might serve as an adequate substitute for readers who are perhaps interested in Knausgaard, but baulk at the thought of six hefty volumes. Yet the essay does give an excellent sense of the tenor and reach of his thinking. Presented in diary form as a series of personal reflections, it moves from a meditation on a passage in Dante’s Divine Comedy to consider the notion of individuality and the existential loneliness that is its inevitable corollary.
Knausgaard stated in an earlier Paris Review interview that the My Struggle series culminates in a long essay that discusses, among other subjects, Adolf Hitler and Paul Celan, and which is framed by the massacre committed by Anders Breivik, which took place on 22 July 2011 while Knausgaard was writing the final volume. So it is timely that the publication of Dancing in the Dark should coincide with the release of an extensively researched and utterly riveting account of Breivik’s crime. Åsne Seierstad’s One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway, which will be published in Australia in March by Virago Press, is a detailed retelling of Breivik’s life from his childhood though to his trial and conviction, interspersed with accounts of the lives of several of his victims. The centrepiece of the book is Seierstad’s meticulous reconstruction of the horrifying events of 22 July 2011, moment by moment.
Near the end of One of Us, Seierstad notes that not only did Breivik’s crime turn everyone in Norway into amateur psychologists, the interpretations of his mental state tended to divide neatly along ideological lines:
People on the left were overrepresented among those who saw him as a right-wing extremist terrorist. He had tapped into contemporary trends, and these ideologies and ideologues had to be crushed by debate. In other words, he was of sound mind. The further to the right you looked, the more likely you were to find people who thought him insane. That he could not be taken seriously and was an irrelevance.
It is one of the virtues of Seierstad’s book that it makes no overt attempt to push either thesis, but simply leads us through the known facts of Breivik’s social and intellectual development, setting out, as far as possible, what he thought and where his ideas came from, while deferring to the (often conflicting) opinions of professional counsellors and psychologists when it comes to the delicate question of his mental condition. As a result, it becomes clear that Breivik was clearly not insane or disturbed in the common meanings of those terms, but that he was, at the same time, not a well-adjusted person. From a very young age, he was a psychologically puzzling case: an insular, socially detached boy prone to inappropriate and alienating fits of aggrandising behaviour. And yet his motivation was no less clearly ideological. His laboriously planned massacre was conceived not only after he had spent five years holed-up in his mother’s flat playing online war games, but after he had disappeared down an internet rabbit-hole of far-right lunacy, absorbing its romanticised militarism, its anti-Islamic paranoia, its crackpot historical theories, its violently intemperate rhetoric about ‘cultural Marxists’, feminists, and other left-wing villains who are supposedly to blame for a declining (always declining) Western Civilisation. One of Us is thus a sober but quite remarkable account of a susceptible psyche, isolated from everyday society, gradually detaching itself from reality, mistaking a jumble of nasty prejudices, resentments and frankly tendentious nonsense for a rational world-view, until the ideology and the isolation combine to displace any sense of humanity.
In his ‘Letter from Österlen’, Knausgaard observes:
Dante wrote that the individual variations in human reason are so great that each person appears almost to constitute a species for himself. He wrote that nobody could understand another human by reference to his own actions or emotions, the way animals can. God, therefore, endowed mankind with language, because we were the only creatures who needed it.
There are few events that would seem to demonstrate this point as effectively as an atrocity such as Breivik’s, which, by virtue of its extremity, seems to resist explanation, to retain an inscrutable core, at the same time as it urgently demands a comprehensive explanation, demands a language that might make such an explanation possible. Even if that explanation must ultimately prove elusive, we can be grateful to both Knausgaard and Seierstad for their efforts in edging us that little bit closer to something like comprehension.
Sydney Review of Books this week features an essay from one of our regular contributors, Martin Edmond, and another from a first-timer, Mieke Chew. In ‘Neo-frivolous’ , Chew looks at Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb, the most celebrated novel by one of the greatest Hungarian writers of the twentieth century, which was recently reissued as part of the New York Review of Books’ classics series. Szerb was an ironist who wrote books in many genres, but in Journey by Moonlight he crafted a novel with its own unique atmosphere and sense of narrative playfulness. It is also a work, argues Chew, with a powerful undercurrent of psycho-sexual intrigue – one that might be seen to demonstrate Georges Bataille’s thesis that there is something nostalgic about eroticism.
Martin Edmond’s ‘Ghosts of me’ is a review of A Bone of Fact, a memoir written by the irrepressible David Walsh, professional gambler and founder of Hobart’s Museum of Old and Modern Art (MOMA). Walsh is an unconventional character, to say the least, and his memoir – written, he claims, in the style of Kurt Vonnegut – reflects his peculiarity. A Bone of Fact, observes Edmond,
is really memoir as a form of self-portraiture and, David Walsh being who he is, not much is held back. He is garrulous, sardonic, impudent, without shame and without inhibitions; but he also has a vein of kindness to his person that makes the encounter with him ultimately worthwhile.
From the Archives this week examines two of the last century’s great Australian writers. In her essay ‘For Love and Hunger’, Fiona Wright delves into Christina Stead’s For Love Alone and develops a powerful personalised reading of the novel based around its recurring motifs of eating and hunger. Our second selection is ‘No success like failure’ , Peter Pierce’s look back at an underrated classic of Australian literature, Kenneth MacKenzie’s The Young Desire It.


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Volvo Irish Sailing Pathway Youth National Championships 2018
April 5, 2018 - April 8, 2018
Irish Sailing announced on Friday 12th January that the Irish Sailing Youth Pathway Championships 2018 will be held in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin from 5th through 8th April. The event will be jointly hosted by the Royal St George Yacht Club and the National Yacht Club. Dun Laoghaire has not hosted the Championships since 2012 and as in previous years the Optimist Irish Trials will be incorporated as part of the event. The pathway classes competing at the event will include Laser Radial, Laser 4.7, 420’s, Topper and Optimists.
See who is entered here.
Accommodation options here. (copied from the Laser Master Worlds website)


Bengal govt allows opening of hotels, bars as per normal operational hours
Kolkata: The Bengal government on Saturday asked people to avoid crowded places stating that the Covid pandemic is not over yet, as Durga Puja pandals witnessed massive footfall on Chaturthi, even before the actual festival commenced, raising concern about the spread of the virus.
The state Health department urged people to take precautionary measures against the contagion and celebrate the festival from home.
With the night restrictions to remain suspended for the next 10 days from Sunday, the Bengal government also allowed shops, restaurants and bars to remain open as per normal operational hours, also permitting late closing of bars. This comes as a major step to boost the economy during the festive season.
As per the set norms, bars can remain open till midnight while there is no restriction of time for the operation of restaurants and eateries.
With a special license, a bar or restro-bar can serve liquor till 2 am. With the state government giving additional relaxations maintaining "late closing of bars may be allowed as per the extant rules", now, the bars and restro-bars can opt for the special license.
Night-long pandal-hopping is almost a ritual during Durga Puja and people prefer to dine out at their favourite restaurants or restro-bars with their near and dear ones. It results in good business as well for the hospitality sector, facilitating a huge turnover during Durga Puja.
The industry, however, witnessed setbacks due to the Covid pandemic as restaurants had to be shut for a major period of the last two years. The move of the state government is going to give a much-needed boost to the people involved in the sector. There are around 40,000 restaurants and 4,000 bars in the state.
It includes 10,000 restaurants and around 1,300 bars in Kolkata.
Besides extending the Covid restrictions till October 30, the Bengal government also allowed the movement of people and vehicles between 11 pm and 5 am for 10 days from Durga Puja to Lakshmi Puja (October 10 to 20).
Maha Saptami of Durga Puja is on October 12. The relaxation on night restrictions will allow people to visit pandals following the Covid guidelines even after 11 pm from the day of Chaturthi.
However, wearing of masks, maintenance of physical distancing and health and hygiene protocol has to be followed properly or else strict action would be taken as per the provisions of the Disaster Management Act 2005 and Indian Penal Code.
The Covid-19 pandemic is very much active and we must not forget about the precautions we have been taking to combat it all these months. During this Durga Puja festival, we must avoid crowded places. It will be wise to stay indoors and celebrate the festival virtually, the department said in an advisory.
"The celebration of Puja this year should be restricted within the family. Any type of social gatherings and processions must be avoided. The volunteers must keep strict surveillance in and around Puja pandals so that Covid protocols are followed and the entry of the visitors is restricted. There must be enough basins for washing hands and sanitisation arrangements in various locations and also in and around Puja pandals," it said.
It also suggested that the Puja organisers will also have to ensure that people do not loiter inside the pandals for long. There must be enough space inside the mandaps so that air can freely pass. Physical distancing must be maintained while offering 'anjali' to the goddess. There must be a mark of demarcation for each visitor inside the Puja pandals while offering 'anjali'.


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Karrabing! Low Tide Turning
Karrabing! Low Tide Turning
Written and Performed by the Karrabing Indigenous Corporation Liza Johnson and Elizabeth A. Povinelli, 2012
See another innovative short from Liza Johnson (In the Air, South of Ten), whose debut feature, Return, screened here in March as part of this year’s Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change.
Codirected with anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Karrabing! Low Tide Turning is set in the Northern Territory of Australia and features a nonprofessional cast of Indigenous Australians. The film tells the story of an extended family who go in search of a missing relative in order to avoid eviction from their government-subsidized home. As they journey from a suburban ghetto to a remote landscape, the family faces challenges from the everyday obstacles of racism and poverty. Karrabing! Low Tide Turning was produced in conjunction with the Karrabing Indigenous Corporation and premiered in February at the Berlin International Film Festival. (14 mins., video)
Artist and filmmaker Liza Johnson has received support from the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio Program for Karrabing, Low Tide Turning and for an earlier short, In the Air, about the impact of a circus school on the youth of Johnson’s hometown, Portsmouth, Ohio, which screened in the Box in November 2009. Return, which stars Linda Cardellini (Freaks and Geeks, ER, Brokeback Mountain) as a veteran returning from military service to a small town in Ohio, was the only American film selected for the 2011 edition of the prestigious Director's Fortnight series, held in conjunction with the Cannes Film Festival. The film has earned enthusiastic reviews as one of the strongest independent films and most unusual female character studies in recent memory.
A professor of art and chair of the American Studies Program at Williams College in Massachusetts, Johnson attended Williams as an undergraduate and received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Her short films and installations have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Arts Center, and the Centre Pompidou, as well as major film festivals in Cannes, Berlin, New York, and Rotterdam. Return. She has been a fellow of the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm and the Sundance Institute and has published a number of articles and interviews about art and film. For her next film, Johnson will direct Mark Jude Poirier’s adaptation of Alice Munro’s 2001 short story “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.”
Elizabeth A. Povinelli is an academic and cultural critic. She received a BA in philosophy and mathematics at St Johns College, Santa Fe, in 1984 and a PhD in Anthropology at Yale University in 1991. She is the author of four books, most recently, The Empire of Love and The Economies of Abandonment, and has been an invited visitor at Cambridge University, the American Academy in Berlin, and The Franklin Humanities Center at Duke University. She was editor of Public Culture from 2000 to 2004 and is a founding member of Karrabing Indigenous Corporation. She is currently Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University.
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We report below the only coverage that you can, unfortunately, find of the important meeting of the G77 China that just concluded in Havana.
Sept. 16, 2023 (EIRNS)—Li Xi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC), attended the Sept. 15-16 summit of the G77 + China, held in Havana, Cuba. Speaking also as a special envoy of President Xi Jinping, he emphasized in his remarks yesterday that the world “is undergoing changes on a scale unseen in a century. Developing countries are becoming stronger. A significant shift is taking place in the international balance of power.”
“Emerging markets and developing countries have contributed as much as 80 percent of the world’s economic growth in the past 20 years, and now account for more than 40 percent of global GDP, up from 24 percent 40 years ago. South-South cooperation is playing an increasingly important role in driving the momentum of collective rise of developing countries and in sustaining the continued global economic growth.
“At the same time, however, unilateralism and hegemonism are becoming rampant. Some countries are resorting to such practices as unilateral sanctions, erection of”fences and barriers," decoupling, and disruption of industrial and supply chains, seriously undermining the legitimate development rights and interests of developing countries and our space for development.
“During the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, last month, more than 60 developing countries sent a loud and clear message of solidarity and cooperation to the world, calling for reform of global governance to make it more just and equitable. Given such background, the Havana Summit cannot be more timely.
“China is the world’s largest developing nation and a natural member of the Global South. We are ready to work with Cuba and other G77 members to open a new chapter in South-South cooperation in quest for greater development through stronger solidarity, build a Global South community with a shared future, and usher in a new era of common development.
“On behalf of China, I wish to propose the following in respect of cooperation between the G77 and China:
“First, staying true to the original aspiration of the G77 for independence and greater collective strength through unity.
“The G77 was born nearly 60 years ago in the struggles of its members for national independence and against exploitation and oppression. Developing countries have since advocated the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and the Bandung Spirit, won national independence, and endeavored to safeguard world peace and promote global development.
“Now, more than ever, we need to stay true to the G77 founding mission. We must uphold the common values of humanity…. We must seek to resolve differences and disputes between countries by peaceful means. And we must join hands to maintain world peace and tranquility and foster an international environment favorable to development.
“Second, advocating equity, justice, and inclusiveness.
Over the past 60 years since its launch, the G77 has worked tirelessly to eliminate inequity and injustice….
“…We must call on the entire international community to place development front and center on the international agenda. And we must urge developed countries to deliver on their development assistance commitments.
“We must strengthen the voice and representation of developing countries in global governance based on the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits.
“Third, pursuing development, revitalization, and win-win cooperation.
“As a new revolution of science, technology, and industry is well underway, it is important that the G77 and China, as the mainstay of South-South cooperation, work in synergy to revitalize the global development partnership and strengthen coordination on macro policies. …
“…In mid-October, China will host the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing. We look forward to welcoming you at the Forum and to your perspective on future BRI cooperation and the way forward for greater development.”

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More Glampsites to be added soon!
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We are so excited to open our BRAND NEW Glampsite for reservations! This is a 16' diameter bell tent that will feature a full bed, basic cookware, and a private fire ring. It's the PERFECT couple getaway!
A spacious 14' x 16' canvas tent that features a 8' covered front porch. Inside, you'll find a bed, small table with chairs, cabinet for cooking, potable water, and a couple games. The porch features 2 oversize zero-gravity chairs along with a camp cook stove. The (heated) outdoor shower is just 20' away!
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Matthew R. Walter is a licensed Illinois attorney since 2007. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Indiana University and his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University Chicago. While in law school, he was a judicial extern for the Hon. Wayne Andersen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
He worked for over 8 years as an immigration officer for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services where he developed expertise in asylum, refugee, and family-based immigration.
He has traveled extensively throughout Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to interview refugees, and he served as an Overseas Adjudications Officer in Bangkok, Thailand.
He was also selected to be a legal intern for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Western Law Division in Los Angeles where he drafted briefs to the Board of Immigration Appeals. Matthew brings an insider’s perspective of USCIS that is an asset for his clients.
Matthew is admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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In an effort to flatten the curve of pandemic-related litigation, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed a proclamation on May 8, significantly limiting the liability of employers for COVID-19-related claims. Using powers granted by the Alabama Emergency Management Act, Gov. Ivey put all but the most egregious claims in quarantine by granting near immunity against negligence claims and isolating defendants from many claims for non-economic damages.
The order raises the burden of proof for plaintiffs. In civil cases, a plaintiff usually has to establish claims by a “preponderance of the evidence,” meaning that the plaintiff has to show that the defendant “more likely than not” caused the harm to the plaintiff. However, Gov. Ivey’s order provides that plaintiffs trying to show that a business caused a coronavirus infection must establish that by “clear and convincing” evidence, which is a more demanding standard. Establishing those claims is likely to be a daunting task with the pandemic being so prevalent in society. The order also eliminates simple negligence claims by requiring any claim to be based on “wanton, reckless, willful, or intentional misconduct.”
And even if a plaintiff passes those significant hurdles, the damages available for such claims are limited. If the claim does not involve “serious physical injury,” then damages are limited to actual economic compensatory damages. “Serious physical injury” is defined as death, hospitalization of at least 48 hours, or permanent impairment. Thus, even if the plaintiff without a serious physical injury meets the high standard of proof required to establish fault, the recovery could be minimal. Non-economic damages -- such as mental anguish and emotional distress -- are not available, and punitive damages are available only in wrongful death cases, which is consistent with existing state law.
Even negligence and premises liability claims that predate the order require the plaintiff to show, by clear and convincing evidence, that the defendant did not “reasonably attempt” to comply with then-applicable public health guidance. Businesses that made a good faith effort to follow health guidelines in the state’s earlier orders and from Alabama’s Public Health Officer will have a strong defense to any coronavirus-related claims. These prior orders have ranged from closing certain types of businesses to requiring or encouraging social distancing inside businesses and limiting gatherings to fewer than 10 persons. If a claim predates the order and does not involve serious physical injury, the plaintiff is limited to economic, compensatory damages, just as with claims that arise after the order. There is no recovery for mental anguish or emotional distress, or other non-economic damages, unless the plaintiff was hospitalized for at least two days or suffered a permanent impairment. As with claims asserted after the order, punitive damages are not recoverable except in cases of wrongful death.
The order states that it does not affect workers’ compensation benefit claims. The existing preponderance of evidence standard and statutory remedies are available to employees claiming they were infected by coronavirus through occupational exposure. The order also preserves the significant defenses and limitations contained in the Alabama Medical Malpractice Act.
The order is retroactive to March 13, the date that the public health emergency was declared, and will be in effect until that declaration is terminated.
Although Gov. Ivey stopped short of issuing a vaccine to employers against all COVID-19-related claims, Alabama businesses (and their insurers) can rest a little easier knowing that they are much less likely to be held liable if a customer or employee claims they contracted COVID from the business.
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Reasons for Exemption
1. The project is consistent with the applicable General Plan designation and all applicable General Plan policies, as well as with applicable zoning designation and regulations. As outlined in this Agenda Report, the Project is consistent with all applicable policies of the General Plan, Carlsberg Specific Plan (CSP), and zoning and subdivision codes. Deviations from certain development standards have been found consistent with nearby uses, as allowed by MMC 17.44.040.C. 2. The proposed development occurs within city limits on a Project Site of no more than five acres substantially surrounded by urban uses. The 2.59-acre Project Site is located within city limits and surrounded by developed uses. 3. The Project Site has no value as habitat for endangered, rare, or threatened species. The Project Site has been vacant and pre-graded. No habitat or native vegetation were observed on the property and the site is not located within any identified habitat area where biological resources may exist, nor does the site have any onsite water sources. The Project Site is relatively free of vegetation; therefore the Site has no habitat for endangered, rare, or threatened species.


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The Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating a homicide with the victim being identified as Tim Breaux, 40 years of age.
Breaux’s vehicle was located Friday evening abandoned in the West Crowley Cemetery. Crowley Police began to investigate this matter listing Breaux as missing. There was evidence within the vehicle which led Crowley Police to believe that foul play possibly had occurred.
Saturday afternoon at approximately 3:30 pm, deputies responded to Wilder Road just south of Crowley, regarding a male being found in a ditch and believed to be unresponsive. Deputies were able to confirm that this was in fact Tim Breaux. Breaux was pronounced dead on the scene and died from a gunshot wound to the head.
This investigation his being handled by the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office as we continue to work with Crowley Police to investigate this case.
Anyone with information is urged to call APSO detective at 788-8720 or Crime Stoppers of Acadia Parish at 789-TIPS.


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Join Writers Block Bookstore and Chabad of Greater Orlando for a fun Virtual Story Hour for kids of all ages as we learn all about the holiday of Rosh Hashana through books and song!
Esther Hoffer is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Rosh Hashana Story Hour
Time: Sep 6, 2020 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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