In the final instalment of their Baroque Festival Tour, English Touring Opera present the most famous of early English operas with a relatively obscure choral work by Giacomo Carissimi. Most of the cast of last week’s Orfeo return with the addition of a counter-tenor. Again, there is fine ensemble singing, as well as some impressive individual performances.
The old testament fable Jephte tells of the plight of the King of Israel who makes a pact with God that, in return for victory over his enemies, he will make a burnt offering of the first person to greet him on his return home. This happens to be his own daughter, making for an implicitly dramatic situation.
Last year, English National Opera gave Handel’s Jephta as another of their staged oratorios. Now the much smaller ETO present the same story in a version by the earlier composer Carissimi, who died in 1674, a decade or so before Handel’s birth. Just as the Italian’s oratorio is a diminutive version of Handel’s, both in length and quality, so ETO’s production is inevitably on a much more modest scale than the ENO’s. It’s none the worse for that.
The staging is very simple and effective, with taut direction by Bernadette Iglich. Rather than impose concepts on the work, she concentrates on the groupings of the performers and the pictures she paints expressively and powerfully convey the key elements of the non-narrative text.
Jane Harrington sings the daughter’s lament beautifully and the whole ensemble is very focused and committed, rendering this a delightful 25 minute curtain-raiser.
The same forces are not quite as effective in the more demanding material of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Directed this time by Helen Eastman, they don’t quite rise to the challenges of the strange mix of styles that make up what is supposedly the first English opera.
Dido’s court as a middle-class picnic is not quite dramatically satisfying, although admittedly Purcell’s version of Virgil’s classic is far more English than Italian. The witches are not as grotesque as the music suggests and the rollicking sailors’ shanty is a little too refined and characterless.
Eastman says in the programme notes that she’s aiming for a celebration of dance, theatre and music. Unfortunately, the dance element lets this intention down, with a lack of exuberance in the lacklustre dance sequences. For a true celebration, I’d like to have seen something in the spirit, if not the steps, of the dances that characterised the ending of plays at Shakespeare’s Globe during Mark Rylance’s reign.
The best is left until last, however, with the final chorus following Dido’s lament and death sensitively sung by the ensemble and ending the evening on a quite moving note.
Joana Thomé is Dido with David Stout as Dido/Jephte. The ensemble for both works is Susan Atherton, Sean Clayton, Laura Mitchell, Iestyn Morris, Patricia Orr and Martin Robson. Jane Harrington returns as Belinda in Dido.
Matthew Halls conducts a polished performance by the ETO Baroque Orchestra.
ETO’s Baroque Festival will now tour the UK through to December, playing venues as far afield as Exeter, Ulverston and Canterbury. The other operas in the season are Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Cavalli’s Erismena and Handel’s Tolemeo.


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Here's a cogent passage from that Gopnik article on Popper that Dratfink had posted.
But what really underlay the contradiction between what he thought and what he was, I now think, after a quarter-century's reflection, is a perversity of human nature so deep that it is almost a law-the Law of the Mental Mirror Image. We write what we are not. It is not merely that we fail to live up to our best ideas but that our best ideas, and the tone that goes with them, tend to be the opposite of our natural temperament. Rousseau wrote of the feelings of the heart and the beauties of nature while stewing and seething in a little room. Dr. Johnson pleaded for Christian stoicism in desperate fear of damnation. The masters of the wry middle style, Lionel Trilling and Randall Jarrell, were mired in sadness and confusion. The angry and competitive man (James Thurber) writes tender and rueful humor because his own condition is what he seeks to escape. The apostles of calm reason are hypersensitive and neurotic…I just want to say how true it is. And if any of you have been taken in by that namby-pamby, new age nonsense posted elsewhere, well, just let me assure you that it's strictly therapeutic. I require the bandwidth in order to dispense with these awful impulses of love and understanding that torment me. I am so thankful to have this means of eliminating my baggage, so that I can get back to my real business of being one nasty bastard!

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Since it was first announced in December 2019, Microsoft has been unveiling details about the Xbox Series X in bits. The Xbox Series X is considered the “fastest and most powerful console ever” and this is clearly obvious when you look at the specs on paper and compare it with its rival PS5. It somewhat outshines the PlayStation 5 in terms of its specs.
We’ve got information about the Xbox Series X price in Nigeria, full performance specs, details about backward compatibility, accessories, and upcoming games this holiday.
Xbox Series X price in Nigeria and availability
The Xbox Series X price in Nigeria is at N350,000. Meanwhile, the official price in the US is $499 which is equivalent to N190,000.
Xbox Series X features eight cores Custom “Zen 2” CPU at 3.8GHz. This helps to activate the ‘Fast Resume’ feature, enabling users to continue numerous games virtually immediately from a suspended state.
The GPU is customized and it is based on Radeon RDNA 2 architecture. It has a processing power of 12 teraflops. This makes it more than capable of gaming with native 4 K 60fps. It also enables the console to reach 8 K resolution and run games up to 120 fps. As seen on the high-end Nvidia graphics cards, this GPU also supports real-time ray-tracing.
At least on paper, the Xbox Series X specs have a bit of an advantage over the PS5. The Series X, for example, has a processing power of up to 12 teraflops, while the PS5 delivers 10.3 teraflops. The 1 TB SSD of the Series X also has a higher capacity than the 825 GB SSD found on PS5. Other hardware includes 16GB of GDDR6 RAM.
If 1 TB SSD of storage is not sufficient, there is an expandable storage slot in the back that will give you an additional 1 TB of storage. It also supports an external HDD via USB 3.1, which is good for those who want to further extend the storage.
The 1TB Expandable storage by Seagate
The Xbox Series X external Storage expansion card is designed to be plugged directly into the proprietary port on the back of the Xbox Series X. It seems like the proprietary port is used so that the Xbox Series X expansion card speeds fit the internal SSD speeds. This indicates that there would be no performance change while playing games from the expansion card.
Xbox series X design
The design of the Xbox Series X is totally different from its predecessors. It has a tower design similar to a gaming PC. However, Series X can rest vertically or horizontally.
The console is black in color with an indented cooling vent at the top surface when sitting vertically. The cooling vents have a green color light from inside. Looking at the top left corner of the console, there’s a tiny Xbox logo and a 4 K Ultra HD Blu-ray physical disc drive slot just below it.
The rear of the Xbox Series X features power ports, two USB 3.2 ports, Ethernet LAN, and one HDMI 2.1 output. A “storage extension” also exists for the optional proprietary SSD card. The console measures 15.1 cm x 15.1 cm x 30.1 cm and weighs 4.45kg.
Xbox Series X user experience
The Xbox Series X OS will come with the one that is now available on the Xbox One S and Xbox One X, but the Xbox Series X interface will come with some design refinements, new fluent concepts, new fonts, etc. which will also be available for the Xbox One S and Xbox One X.
Xbox Series X controller & accessories
A marginally improved version of the current-gen Xbox Wireless Controller will be available for the Xbox Series X. A dedicated Sharing button for screenshots and video recording has been added, and the D-pad is now enhanced. Textured dots have been added to the bumpers so as to help in a firmer grip. One good thing about this new controller is that it has a USB-C port to let you charge and play at the same time. The new controller will operate on Windows PCs as well as cell phones (Both Android and iOS). It is priced at N25,000 – N35,000 ~$59.99.
A $25 Rechargeable Battery + USB-C are the official Xbox Series X accessories that can be purchased from Xbox online retail stores.
Microsoft confirmed that all of your current Xbox One accessories will be compatible with the Xbox Series X.
What’s in the box when I purchase the next-gen console? You will get an Ultra High-Speed HDMI cable, Xbox controller, and of course, the console.
For all the three previous Xbox console generations, the Xbox Series X is backward compatible to all of the games, and the games can even play smoother, due to th upgraded performance of Xbox Series X. All you need to do is mount your Xbox One games on an external hard drive and play them instantly when plugged into the Xbox Series X.
As for the original Xbox and Xbox 360 games, Microsoft has not explained whether they are backward compatible but it is very possible that Xbox Series X will be able to play both original Xbox and Xbox 360 games that are already backwards compatible on Xbox One.
Xbox Series X Games
Several Xbox Series X have been announced and these include:
- Halo Infinite
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
- Control: Ultimate Edition
- Cyberpunk 2077
- STALKER 2
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
- Far Cry 6
- FIFA 21
- Hitman 3
- Psychonauts 2
- Gears Tactics
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
- Watch Dogs: Legion
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Forza Motorsport
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Xbox Series X Specs
GPU: 12 TFLOPS, 52 CUs @1.825 GHz Custom RDNA 2 GPU
CPU:. 8X Cores @ 3.8 GHz (3.66 GHz w/SMT) Custom Zen 2 CPU
Memory: 16GB GDDR6 w/320 bit-wide bus
Memory Bandwidth: 10GB @ 560 GB/s, 6GB @ 336 GB/s.
Internal Storage: 1TB Custom NVME SSD
Expandable Storage. Support for 1TB Seagate Expansion and USB 3.1 external HDD (All sold separately).
I/O Throughput. 2.4 GB/s (Raw), 4.8 GB/s (Compressed, with custom hardware decompression block)
Video & Audio Capabilities
Resolution: True 4K
High Dynamic Range: Up to 8K HDR
Performance Target: Up to 120 FPS
Optical Drive: 4K UHD Blu-Ray
HDMI Features: Auto Low Latency Mode. HDMI Variable Refresh Rate. AMD FreeSync.
Sound capabilities: Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1 , Dolby TrueHD with Atmos Up to 7.1 L-PCM
Ports & Connectivity
USB: 3x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports
HDMI: 1x HDMI 2.1 port
Ethernet: 802.3 10/100/1000
Wireless: 802.11ac dual band
Accessories radio: Dedicated dual band Xbox Wireless radio.
Specs sheet source: Xbox.com
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Looting NOLA Cops (video)
Matt Welch over at Hit & Run points to this CNN report (video LINK) that offers fairly damning evidence against members of the New Orleans police.
One of the key witnesses is the owner of a hotel, which housed 70 police officers during Katrina and its aftermath. He and other members of the staff claim that at least 8 cops went on a looting spree every day, coming back with car-loads of goodies, including Rolex watches, jewelry, and weapons. The most egregious instance being a generator they stole from a hospital to keep their beers cold.
Their testimony is confirmed by several residents who saw cops break into abandoned apartments and homes and come back out with stolen property, some of which was transported out of the city in a school bus that the cops "borrowed" from the Super Dome.
The police spokesman's response: eyewitnesses simply misunderstood routine actions taken by police officers in the course of "doing their job."

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WSIL filmed Christine Howe, our Citizenship Coordinator, while she conducted a citizenship information meeting in Carbondale last month. Read the article and view the video.
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Pablo Varela, a native of Mexico, became a U.S. citizen on November 1, 2013, and voted in his first election in March. When asked why he wanted to become a U.S. citizen, Mr. Varela responded, “I wanted to be able to vote. It’s important for me because I have lived here many many years with my wife, Virginia. I like the country. I go to Mexico to see my family but I just stay a couple weeks, because I want to be with my wife here.”

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text: A new report by cloud security solutions providerClearDATA shows that 85% of health care organizations are confident in their cloud security and compliance measures, according to MedCity News. The study shows thatC-suite executives appear to have a skewed view of their organizations cloud maturity level.Based on responses by over 200 IT, security and compliance leaders at health care organizations that earn at least $50 million per year, 64% of C-suite leaders say their cloud maturity level has reached an advanced level compared with 20% to 28% of vice presidents, directors and managers at these firms. Meanwhile, more than 70% of firms have raised their cybersecurity budgets in 2022 compared with 2021, and 35% of those increased by less than 10%, according to the survey. In 81% of these cases, the decision was a proactive move to defend against future attacks. However, few organizations said they practice vital risk reduction activities such as data backups, multi-factor authentication and secure password management. Even fewer respondents admitted to implementing more advanced measures, such as simplifying technology infrastructure or creating a hierarchical cybersecurity policy.


The brand has unveiled the new items for the AW17-18 season at the ORIGINAL BUFF® International Meeting
November 14, 2016.- Once again, Barcelona was the city chosen to hold the BUFF® International Meeting, which was held November 10 and 11, and where the main new items for the AW17-18 season were unveiled. For this occasion, the brand invited more than 120 distributors and representatives from all over the world, who came from 29 different countries.
A new season brimming with changes
The only constant in life is change. And this is what ORIGINAL BUFF® believes as it unveils a new winter season that features new products and materials, as well as new partners and, most importantly of all, a new corporate identity.
New partnership with Primaloft®
BUFF® presented its new partnership with Primaloft®, the leading American barad in innovation of comfort solutions, which has led to the creation of the Thermonet® fabric. This is an extremely fine, lightweight material that is up to four times warmer than microfiber, which keeps in body heat as it wicks away the body’s moisture. This new partnership with the American brand is also reflected in the Lifestyle collection, with the application of Primaloft® Polar Fleece in all the knitted products.
New products and diversification
Within the Professional category for AW1718, what stands out is the creation and development of a new product line called CUT, with the new CUTPROOF tubular which has been especially designed for security forces that need protection against attacks on the neck with objects that cut.
We have also developed new products in the FIRE and COLD lines. The new Firefighter Balaclava was designed in conjunction with the Firefighters’ Unit of Barcelona. And in the COLD line, the new Thermonet® tubular is the star product.
In terms of new products in Sport AW1718, the biggest news is the use of the new Thermonet® fabric in the tubulars, balaclavas and hats, as well as the new classification of merino wool products: Mid Merino Wool, which joins Light Merino Wool (125g/m²) and Heavy Merino Wool (600g/m²). And we have two new licenses for children’s products: Paw Patrol and Blaze and the Monsters Machine.
Two concepts define the BUFF® AW17-18 Lifestyle collection: innovation and exploration. Its accessories incorporate the latest high-tech fabrics, yielding greater comfort and protection than ever, plus they are lightweight and follow the latest trends. But most importantly, BUFF® is pleased to unveil a collection that captures the spirit of individuality.
One of the peak moments at the meeting was the catwalk presenting the Sport, Kids and Lifestyle products. BUFF® consolidated this dynamic, appealing set of products to present its collections through a choreographed catwalk featuring the performance of professional dancers.
Once the new collections were presented, BUFF® conveyed to the distributors the main strategic sales and marketing lines for the AW17-18 season, particularly Trade Marketing and Sports Sponsorship Marketing.


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Myntra wins rights to manage Mango in India
India’s leading fashion e-tailer Myntra said it has bagged a master distribution and management rights for Spanish fashion brand Mango in India. This is the first time that an e-commerce player will manage the omni-channel strategy for a global fashion brand.
Flipkart owned Myntra will curate and facilitate setting up 25 Mango stores and list the brand exclusively on Myntra and Jabong platforms over the next five years.
"We have seen 100 per cent growth in business on Myntra platform in the last 3 years and that has given us the confidence for this partnership," Mango Vice-Chairman and Member of the Board of Directors Daniel Lopez said in a statement.
He added that India does not feature among the company's top markets as of now but this partnership will help change that.
"We will be responsible for managing Mango's omni-channel presence including Mango.com, offline stores in the country (8 of them currently) as well as adding new stores through sub-franchising. We will take the number of stores to 25 and these will be across the top cities in the country," Myntra CEO Ananth Narayanan said.
He added that the company expects to help grow Mango's India business 3X over the next 5 years.
"Right now, Mango has about 20 per cent of its global product portfolio in India. This partnership will help Mango bring 100 per cent of its product lines -- including men's and kids wear to the Indian market," he said.
Mango has been working with Myntra since 2014, when the apparel brand listed on Myntra.
Mango has a network of 2,200 stores in 110 countries. The company, which owns the MANGO Woman, Man, Kids and Violeta (plus size) lines, closed 2015 with sales of 2.3 billion euros, up 15 per cent from the previous year.
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The end of Game of Thrones is almost here. I, for one, see it as a relief. The show is great (yes, even last season didn’t bug me), but after all these years, I am ready to be done with it. In a very positive way, I’m ready for my watch to end.
Which is to say, I’m counting the days for this massive final season of Game of Thrones to get here. Four episodes, each way longer than a normal episode. Each promising all kinds of crazy shit, the least of which is a battle the likes of which we’ve never seen. Bring it on.
Oh shit. We still have more than a month to wait. No worries! In the meantime, HBO has graced us with this great new trailer for the final season. If you can see it. The thing is super duper dark for some reason, as if you’re watching Game of Thrones at your local AMC theater or something. See for yourself:
What I could manage to make out still has me very excited for season eight to get here. Place your bets on who lives and who dies in the comments below. We have to pass the time somehow!

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Springfield, Ill – The Illinois Senate reconvened in Springfield this week, approving one proposal to block cost-of-living increases for state lawmakers and advancing another measure that would ensure many providers continue to receive the federal funding they rely on to keep services going while the state budget impasse continues.
Gov. Bruce Rauner also signed a number of bills into law, including legislation to protect babies and young children from life-threatening illnesses, give the terminally ill access to potentially life-saving treatments, protect Illinois students, and institute more frequent reviews of the state’s retirement systems.
Senate approves measure to appropriate federal funds
As the state budget gridlock continues into its second month, the Senate took action Aug. 4, authorizing the appropriation of nearly $5 billion in federal funds to programs that provide meals for senior citizens and supplemental nutrition programs for women and children, help crime victims, and provide community and rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities, among others.
The state is responsible for administering many programs mandated or funded by the federal government. Although funding for these programs has been approved at the federal level, the Comptroller is unable to cut checks to agencies for these programs without appropriations authority. As a result, lacking funding, many social service agencies have said they will be forced to cut services or eliminate programs.
Senate Bill 2042 would allow the Comptroller to spend those dollars and ensure the providers receive the federal funding they rely on. Having been approved by the Senate, the measure now advances to the House for consideration. If approved in the House, the legislation would move to the Governor’s desk; a spokesman for the Rauner administration recently said the Governor supports the measure.
Senate joins House in voting to block cost-of-living increases for state lawmakers
This week, the Senate joined the House in overwhelmingly rejecting a two percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for state lawmakers during the current fiscal year.
Due to the way state law is written, the General Assembly receives an automatic COLA each year, unless they vote to deny it. While these automatic pay bumps had been rejected over the last six years, this year the Democrat-controlled legislature allowed the automatic pay increase to take effect.
House Bill 576 eliminates all Fiscal Year 2016 pay raises for members of the General Assembly, state’s attorneys, elected constitutional officers, agency directors, and other state officials whose pay is set by the Compensation Review Board. The measure also freezes per diem and mileage reimbursements rates for lawmakers at their current level.
Legislative Republicans and the Governor had repeatedly called for the COLAs to be removed, citing the state’s serious fiscal woes—a problem exacerbated by the lack of a Fiscal Year 2016 budget plan.
Childcare vaccination protection measure signed by Governor
Small children will now be further protected from exposure to contagious diseases, such as the measles.
Gov. Rauner signed legislation requiring all daycare workers who care for children younger than age seven to present proof of measles, tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis vaccinations or immunity. The legislation was introduced in response to an outbreak of measles in Cook County this year, where a majority of cases were found to be linked to a childcare facility.
Ensuring childcare workers are vaccinated is particularly important when they are caring for children younger than age seven, because babies and young children have not received the full protection of many of the important immunizations that would protect them from potentially deadly illnesses.
New law seeks to help the terminally ill
Illinois’ new “Right to Try” law will give terminally-ill residents hope for the future by allowing citizens with HIV, ALS, cancer and many other serious health conditions to move forward more quickly with clinical-trial, experimental medicines and treatments.
The federal Food and Drug Administration has a roughly five-year trial period for testing medical and pharmaceutical products and procedures, an important process that nonetheless takes away precious time that many with life-threatening illness can’t afford to lose. House Bill 1335 establishes guidelines that will allow terminally-ill patients to more quickly access experimental medical treatments that aren’t yet approved for general use.
Closer scrutiny of pension funds under recently signed law
In effort to get a better grasp of the state’s pension indebtedness, a new law signed by the Governor Aug. 3, will require more frequent review of the five state-funded pension systems. House Bill 422 requires the state’s five pension systems to move to a three-year schedule for actuarial reviews, instead of the current five-year schedule. Undertaking more frequent analysis will help provide a greater sense of the state’s long-term pension liability, and ensure state officials are better prepared when making funding choices.
The State Universities Retirement System, State Employees’ Retirement System, Judges’ Retirement System, and the General Assembly Retirement System perform a statutorily-required review of their systems to examine the mortality, retirement, disability, separation, interest and salary rates. The Teachers’ Retirement System has already adopted the three-year schedule.
Increasing student safety through concussion awareness
Concussions are a dangerous reality for many students, prompting passage of a new law requiring schools to develop policies and procedures to help young athletes and non-athletes in Illinois’ elementary, middle and high schools safely return to the classroom after suffering a concussion.
Senate Bill 7 establishes that before a student who suffered from a concussion can return to the classroom, they must be cleared by a doctor. Additionally, the new law will require school districts, based on their resources, to create a concussion oversight team consisting of coaches, trainers, and medical professionals, and require schools to create an emergency action plan in the case of a serious injury.
The new law was pushed by lawmakers, many of whom had witnessed first-hand the impact head trauma can have on children. Students returning to school after suffering a head injury can have trouble focusing, memory problems and confusion, double vision and dizziness, headaches and nausea or vomiting, among other symptoms.
Protecting Illinois college students aim of new law
In response to the death of a central Illinois college student who took his own life, a new law (HB 3599) has been approved by the Governor to allow colleges to share mental health information with a designated individual.
As part of the enrollment process, Illinois’ colleges and universities will offer every new student the opportunity to sign a waiver authorizing the institution to disclose their private mental health information to a person of the student’s choosing. The university would only be allowed to disclose the information if they receive notice from a qualified medical examiner that the student poses a danger to himself, herself or others.
Job loss underscores need for reform
For months, House Speaker Michael Madigan has repeatedly claimed that the “number-one problem facing Illinois is the budget deficit.” But the rest of Illinois – outside of state government – is suffering as well after 12 years of Democrat control. New figures in the past month show an economy struggling to get back on its feet, even as Democrats in the Legislature fight tooth-and-nail against pro-jobs reforms.
According to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, Illinois has lost 7,300 manufacturing jobs so far this year, compared to gains in competing Midwestern states Indiana (+6,700 jobs) and Michigan (+12,800).
The most recent month also showed an overall jobs decline of 7,500 jobs statewide, according to the Illinois Department of Economic Security (IDES), with job growth “still slow downstate.” According to IDES Director Jeff Mays, “the need for a full statewide recovery remains.” Disturbingly, that statewide loss was the biggest month-to-month loss of any state in the country.
And according to the state’s economic experts, the nonpartisan Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability (COGFA), Illinois’ labor force, total exports, and new car/truck registrations are all down from a year ago.
According to State Senator Dave Syverson (R-Rockford), Illinois needs an honest focus on the people and the regions that are truly struggling, not just the budget’s bottom line.
Farmers and crops making progress
Another week of drier weather meant more time for farmers to finish up field work, and more sunshine for crops to make their own progress.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, last week the state averaged just .62 inches of rainfall, .13” below normal. This offered farmers an average of 6 days of days suitable for fieldwork. The second cutting of alfalfa is now beginning to wrap up, with 84% of acres harvested, and 23% of the third cutting is now finished up as well.
Both corn and soybeans are now just behind their 5 year averages for progress. 82% of soybean plants are now blooming, up ten points from last week, and 52% are setting pods, a major jump from just 31% a week earlier. 94% of corn acres have made it to the silking stage, and 46% have reached the dough stage, up 14% from the previous seven days. Crop quality is holding steady from the previous week with 56% of corn and 50% of soybeans rated as good to excellent.


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Book says oil change at 7000 miles, the app says it too. That's an EPA rule and too long IMHO.
I took it in at 4000 miles to change the mud. In the future I'll change it at 2 to 3000 miles.
Ya get a free tank of DEF, oil and filter and updates.
Also a pre-recall notice arrived.
Dealer disconnected the tail gate lowering control on the tailgate itself until the recall is figured out.
The FOB and app and dash tailgate lowering controls still works.
What would happen is ya put the truck in Park and the tailgate would drop.
This is a temporary preventive measure until the cure is figured out.
Having that happen when towing a trailer may lead to a mishap.
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The latest installment has them going to Papua New Guinea. I fell a bit like an expert about Papua New Guinea as I represented that country at a Model UN conference for a weekend in college, which was mostly an excuse to drink and go to NYC. Beyond that I know they have a lot of different languages, a fair bit of poverty and some fish.
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Consumer advocate Ralph Nader said today, “The Postmaster General’s Post Office Structure Plan (“POSt Plan”) is a bait and switch tactic, and it is not good news for rural Post Offices or their customers.”
The Postmaster General claims that his new strategy, released on Wednesday, is designed to benefit rural Americans and keep open the 3,652 postal facilities it was considering for closure. Though it is unclear how many of these offices are included in the “POSt Plan”, it seems that many of them have been incorporated in the new plan as well. The new direction that the Postmaster General proposed is to cut hours at nearly 13,000 Post Offices and offer early retirement incentives for more than 21,000 non-executive postmasters.
“As more details about the plan emerge, the picture grows increasingly dire for rural customers of the U.S. Postal Service,” Nader observed. “I expressed deep concern about the preliminary details of the Postmaster General’s on Wednesday. Unfortunately, those fears were confirmed as we have analyzed the details of the Postmaster General’s new strategy.”
After examining 260 pages of the U.S. Postal Service’s proposal for Post Office hour reductions nationwide, we found that the new strategy eliminates 42,699 hours per day from retail window hours of nearly 13,000 Post Offices.
“This proposal is calling for a gargantuan cut in retail window hours nationwide – 42,699 total hours each day. To put this in perspective, 42,699 hours equates to nearly 5 years,” Nader explained.
The current average retail window hours of the nearly 13,000 Post Offices proposed for reduced hours are 7.67 hours per day. “The enormous cut in hours that the U.S. Postal Service has proposed is the equivalent of closing 5,567 of these Post Offices. The Postmaster General started with a list of 3,652 offices being considered for closure. Now we see that by reducing window hours he has proposed the equivalent of closing 2,000 more offices than he started with,” Nader continued.
Nader concluded by saying, “This is, plain and simple, a bait and switch. As I said on Wednesday, by further restricting Post Office hours the Postmaster General makes the corporate “alternatives” to the U.S. Postal Service more likely and sets the stage for future Post Office closings when the revenues and workload of reduced-hours offices inevitably suffer. The Postmaster General has effectively taken a list of 3,652 offices that were on the chopping block and added nearly 10,000 more offices to that list.”

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Good quality (vegan) dark chocolate has a lot of magnesium, iron, and fiber in it, as well as antioxidants. Nuts are packed full of healthy fats and protein. And the added cinnamon is also a health promoting spice full of antioxidants and has anti-inflammatory properties, it’s also said to lower blood sugar levels.
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1 cup pecans
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- Chop the dark chocolate and place in a bowl. Allow to melt slowly over a pot of boiling water (or in the microwave).
- Once melted, pour the chocolate over the nuts and spices and mix until thoroughly coated.
- Drop little clusters on a truffle grid or sheet of parchment paper.
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First edition, a lecture read by Blok in April 1910 before the Society of Zealots of the Artistic Word, a discussion group formed by Gumilev, Blok and others in 1909.
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One of the first guys to leave Andrew Wilkinson’s victory party Saturday night was Wilkinson himself.
The bash was held at the C Prime Steakhouse at the Century Plaza Hotel and the place was jam-packed. I crashed it after the newspaper deadline and was talking to one of Wilkinson’s campaign staffers when I noticed Wilkinson shaking hands with people at the front door.
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“So, he’s arriving fashionably late?” I asked. “Arriving? He’s leaving,” the staffer replied.
Wilkinson confirmed Sunday that he didn’t exactly whoop it up after his dramatic come-from-behind, fifth-ballot win over Dianne Watts.
“Oh, no, no,” he told me. “I got there as early as I could to pay my respects to all the volunteers and supporters, and then it was off to bed, so I could get up early and get to work.”
That’s exactly what he did Sunday, doing a round of media interviews and then making phone calls to Liberal caucus members and key party officials around B.C.
Whatever your first impressions of Wilkinson may be, don’t go thinking he’s a slacker. The man is a classic, Type-A workaholic.
“I’m an early to bed, early to rise guy,” he said. “The early mornings are a very productive time when the phone is not ringing and you can get a lot of stuff done.”
He will need the work ethic, with a byelection already underway in Kelowna (the seat vacated by former Liberal leader Christy Clark) and a critical legislative session that starts Feb. 13. The Kelowna seat is a safe one for the Liberals and will put them one vote closer to an NDP minority government that holds just a slim lead in the legislature.
“If we are fortunate enough to win the byelection, we would have 42 seats, the most of any party in the House,” Wilkinson said. “That means it’s intrinsically unstable to have an NDP minority government, and we’ll see where that goes.”
Translation: He’s already thinking ahead to an election, and preparing for one that could happen sooner than anticipated if the 44-seat, NDP-Green governing alliance suddenly unravels. When that election arrives, will Wilkinson be an attractive option for voters? He admitted the party needs to expand its appeal.
“This party needs to have more engagement with our ethnically diverse society,” he said. “We need more engagement with women voters and young voters.”
All true, no doubt. But how does the party reach out to young, ethnically diverse voters — especially women — by making a 60-year-old white guy their leader? This will be Wilkinson’s biggest challenge: Overcoming an image as a pampered, downtown, rich lawyer/doctor/Rhodes Scholar while relating to working people struggling to make ends meet in the suburbs and beyond.
His opponents like to say that he lives in the posh Shaughnessy neighbourhood, for example, so I asked him if that’s accurate.
“I live in Vancouver near 37th and Granville,” he said.
Is that Shaughnessy?
“It depends how you define it,” he said. “That’s not what we call it. We call it Quilchena.”
OK, let’s just say he lives in an area of Vancouver with some of the most valuable homes and highest incomes in B.C., if not Canada.
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Ex-Liberal leader and premier Gordon Campbell had a similar image problem. Wilkinson was his right-hand man for years, as Liberal party president and then a deputy minister in Campbell’s office. I ask him about the comparison. Does he like being called Gordon Campbell 2.0?
“Gordon Campbell was a hard-working person who won three elections and brought British Columbia’s economy into the 21st century. I’m quite glad to hear that comparison,” he said.
He said he occasionally talks to Campbell, who has given him crucial advice.
“The long-standing advice from Gordon Campbell has been to focus on the values of the party and make sure you’re able to deliver things for real people,” he said. “That involves being fiscally responsible and making sure we support an enterprise-driven economy.”
Defending spending restraint and free-market economics will be like preaching to the choir in a B.C. business community that will love Wilkinson. The bigger challenge will be reaching beyond that base, especially for a guy who might seem just a little too smug, urbane and wealthy for some tastes.
“I’ve lived and worked all over British Columbia and have a very good feel for what it’s like in rural communities,” he said. “I’m confident we can move ahead and expand our base.”
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was never colonized but made many concessions.
In the mid-1800’s, Thailand, then the Kingdom of Siam, was surrounded on all sides by colonized nations and in turn was made to concede to the British 1855 Bowring Treaty. See how many of these “gunboat policy” imposed concessions sound like today’s “economic liberalization:”
1. Siam granted extraterritoriality to British subjects.
2. British could trade freely in all seaports and reside permanently in Bangkok.
3. British could buy and rent property in Bangkok.
4. British subjects could travel freely in the interior with passes provided by the consul.
5. Import and export duties were capped at 3%, except the duty-free opium and bullion.
6. British merchants were to be allowed to buy and sell directly with individual Siamese.
1. 100% ownership of Iraqi assets.
2. Full repatriation of profits.
3. Equal legal standing with local firms.
4. Foreign banks allowed to operate or buy into local banks.
5. Income and corporate taxes capped at 15%.
6. Universal tariffs slashed to 5%.

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Seeking a safer place: Officers at the Mount Agung evacuation post in Lembar Port, West Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, register Bali residents who arrived in the province on Nov.29. (JP/Panca Nugraha)
State-run Tourism Institute (STP) Nusa Dua Bali participates in helping with the mitigation of the Mount Agung eruption. The school sends 162 of its students and 33 lecturers to Media Center Bali Tourism Hospitality and assembly points.
Out of the 162 students, 150 of them are stationed in 15 assembly points, with each place has 10 students. The other 12 students are stationed at Media Center. Several assembly points are located at ITDC Indonesia Tourism Development Corporation Nusa Dua.
“We are assigning 10 students there for two shifts. The rest are ready to be sent to other locations,” said the head of STP Nusa Dua Bali Dewa Gede Ngurah Byomantara.
“There are 20 people at the airport, 10 are located in the international terminal and the other 10 are in the domestic terminal. They are divided into two shifts and they provide information about access at the airport,” Dewa added.
Meanwhile, the 12 students and 2 lecturers who are stationed in the Media Center are in charge of handling information requests.
Moreover, there are six students whose task is to help tourists who want to travel from Mengwi Bus Terminal.
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For individuals who love to travel, starting a travel company specializing in cruises might be very thrilling. A dependable self-service or full-service on-line travel agency gives comparability information that can assist you resolve. Journey agents work as employees or they’ll work independently. Tourism businesses have the knowledge relating to various locations and the accommodation they are going to present.
1. It supplies guidance and direction by means of out the trip and is able to assist folks save money. Vacation golf equipment buy holidays at closely discounted prices after which sell these to their members, usually with final minute deals the place the best reductions are found.
Since the journey agency business is basically a set value operation, the more quantity you may pump into an company persistently, the decrease the unit price per transaction or ticket, therefore, the bigger the agency, the upper revenue per ticket.
That is specifically true if you’ll be a primary time customer who plans to have a stress free trip to the island. The Tour Firm will make contracts with hotels and resorts, airways and ground transport companies like non-public cars, buses, vans, ferries and trains & etc.
These charges should not an enormous price to pay for what may be hours of the agents time (and bear in mind the agent only will get a small share of that charge – most goes to the agency), but if you’re paying any more than the usual charges, you are paying an excessive amount of.… Read More
The travel business is a now a $7 trillion international annual market, one of the largest and most necessary markets available. Additionally, and unfortunately so, occasions of grief or any urgent have to get your self on a flight are additionally seen by many agents as a time to money in on weak prospects. If we sum up, we have now a complete value for the company provide of 1695 Euros (2457 dollars).
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A Tour Operator is the organizer and provider of package holidays. One of many essential issues that appear to arise with online travel agencies is the trustworthiness and safety of paying such massive quantities of cash online. Journey agents often buy tickets in bulk.
Speaking to the guide before the journey on-line by way of video conferencing software program ensures that their time and money spent are worth to be with a knowledgable and enthusiastic one that can energize with their full of life angle.
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The agents have connections with airline firms, hotels as well as vacationer guides; they can get discounts which they’ll positively move on to you for decrease quotation. Simply go along with the travel agent that suit your traveling needs and budgets or the tour agent that you just trusted probably the most.… Read More

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A new creative space for professionals is opening in Greenpoint.
There are not many places where an architect, fashion designer, a startup company and a restaurant can occupy the same building, drawing inspiration from each other, except at A/D/O.
A/D/O has a public space where people can bring their laptop and simply enjoy the creative environment or eat at the restaurant. Designers can have access to tools, and a company called URBAN-X will assist startups. There will also be a design academy.
A/D/O will officially open early next year and will be open to the public seven days a week.


Kollmorgen to showcase new servo amplifier
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Kollmorgen will be revealing its new generation of AKD servo amplifiers at sps ipc drives in Nuremberg. At the show, which takes place from 22 – 24 November, the company will unveil the new second-generation AKD servo amplifier concept.
Kollmorgen is keen to emphasise the contribution of its servo drive technology to safety technology during the event, where the brand new AKD2G servo amplifier will make its trade fair debut. The new range is planned for launch in 2017. . It features new processors that increase the computational power available to support faster control performance. From a safety perspective, the AKD2G amplifier will offer important safety functions in the form of Safe Brake Control (SBC) and Safe Brake Test (SBT), which offers an efficient and cost-effective way of making vertical axes safe without the need for protective fences.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcement.com/product-news/16112016/kollmorgen-to-showcase-new-servo-amplifier/
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Regional police leaders gather to discuss how LGBTQs interact with law enforcement
Late last January, high ranking members of three local police departments gathered at the Gay Community center of Richmond to hear concerns and take questions from the local LGBTQ community.
Organized by Sage, Richmond’s group for aging LGBTQ populations, the event opened with an intro from GCCR President Bill Harrison.
“Sometimes its hard to imagine how far we’ve come, we always expect the worse of other people,” said Harrison as he described the nearly one and a half year-long process he and other local advocates went through before contacting Richmond Police.
As it happened, Harrison and other members of the community were invited to speak at a training event for RVA-area emergency responders at an event called “Everything you wanted to know about LGBTQ’s but were afraid to ask.”
Hairrson thought no one would show up, but sure enough the room was almost full when the lecture started. And the first person in the room was Richmond Police Chief Ray Tarasovic.
“It’s taken us months for us to try and reach out to you,” Harrison said to Tarasovic.
“Why didn’t you just pick up the phone and call me?” Tarasovic replied – Turns out he was excited to learn more and told Harrison he didn’t think his force was representing the LGBTQ community well.
Fast forward nearly two years later, and Richmond Police, as well as Henrico and Chesterfield, all have LGBTQ liaisons or point of contacts to act as go-to’s for local LGBTQ concerns. Training is now in place for all the departments, lead by folks at ROSMY and other groups, to help education police officers about the unique issues gay folks face.
“We know there are a number of people in our community who will probably not dial 911 when they need help,” said Harrison as to why police involvement in the community was so important from domestic violence complaints between same-sex couples to drag queen being accosted at night as they leave bars.
No matter the concern, the four police representatives were ready and willing to address the crowd of about 20 people’s concerns.
The officers in attendance for the Community Conversation were Major Kevin Smith (top right), the Department Uniform Ops Commander, and Corporal Elliot Anderson (top second from right) both from Chesterfield PD, Captain Linda Tony (top left), community services officer from Henrico, and Richmond PD’s LGBT Liaison Major Odetta Johnson (second from left).
Odetta, Anderson and Tony have all since attended Virginia Pride events with recruiting booths in the hopes of growing their LGBTQ workforce – a point all the speakers stressed was important.
“Reflecting the community in patrol is always an issue in police work…” said Major Smith. “To change a police department’s attitude… appearance, and how they reach out to the community, well we want to make people who are gay and lesbian feel free to be police officers, we need them, they have a perspective we need and talents we need.”
Smith, who has been working with Chesterfield police since he was a teenager, said he’s seen these kind of attitude changes in his over 30 years of service.
“I remember when I was a teenager, riding with police officers, there was only one black male in Chesterfield PD. And I remember when there were only 2 female police officers in the entire department,” he said. “I knew what the attitudes were.”
But Smith said, as the department became more diverse, he saw changes in attitudes as well.
“Certain things become unacceptable. People say “Hey, I know this person. How can i say that about his race?”” he said.
Captain Tony echoed the importance of having a diverse police force, saying the only way things get better is when “we have such a diverse group that represents the community that we live in.”
Corporal Anderson stressed the positive effect training has had on his police officers, specifically some of the work his department has done with ROSMY on LGBTQ teen suicide prevention.
“I think it’s been a great relationship so far,” he said.
He admitted when he took on the role as Chesterfield’s LGBT Point of Contact in Sept. 2013, he had a lot of questions, but he’s reached out to folks like Harrison and local trans-activist Kari Abrams for help.
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Despite Harrison’s fears early in the process of contacting Richmond Police, the meeting in late January showed a sea change for a man who remembers when being gay was enough to get arrested in the Commonwealth.
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