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Photo: Murder suspect Zachary Bunney mugshot via Washington County, OR Sheriff
January 28, 2019 (La Mesa) – La Mesa Police announce that they have solved a grisly murder case from 12 years ago using DNA testing.
In June 2006, 47-year-old Scott Martinez ((photo, right, from Crimestoppers) was murdered with a sword in his La Mesa apartment. Martinez was the father of two daughters, one just a toddler at the time of the brutal killing.
La Mesa Police, the San Diego Sheriff’s Crime Lab and the District Attorney’s Office submitted DNA of the suspected killer from the crime scene to ParabonNanoLabs for genealogy testing.
Parabon uses the public database GEDmatch, where users such as people searching for long-lost relativesconsent to allow law enforcement access to their DNA records, CBS Channel 8 News reports. A match can lead officers to relatives in a suspect’s family tree.
The result led to the arrest of Zachary Bunney, a 39-year-old Oregon resident. He has been extradited to San Diego County and charged with murder.
The same technique recently led to the arrest of the suspected Golden State Killer, who is believed responsible for 13 murders and over 50 rapes across Calfornia.


By Hardik Shah for Unite.AI
We live in an exciting time, especially in innovation, progress, technology, and commerce. Some of the latest tech inventions, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, are making a tremendous impact on every industry.
Voice assistants powered by AI have already transformed the eCommerce trend. The eCommerce giants such as Amazon continue to fuel this trend as they compete for the market share. Voice interfacing is advancing at an exceptional rate in healthcare and banking industries to keep pace with consumers’ demands.
Reason to shift towards voice assistants and AI
The crux of the shift towards voice user interfaces is to change the users’ demands. Increased awareness and a higher level of comfort are explained specifically by millennial consumers. In this ever-changing digital world where speed, convenience, and efficiency are continually being optimized.
The adoption of AI in users’ lives is fueling the shift towards voice applications. Various IoT devices such as smart appliances, thermostats, and speakers give voice assistants more utility in a connected user’s life. You can see the usage of voice assistants in smart speakers; however, it only starts there.
According to the report, the voice recognition tech market reached close to 11 billion U.S. dollars in the year 2019 and is expected to increase by approximately 17% by 2025.
Voice apps in this technology are seen everywhere.
Here are 7 Key Predictions of Voice Assistants and AI
1. Streamlined Conversations
Both technology giants, Amazon and Google, announced that their assistants would no longer require the use of repeated “wake” words. Earlier, both assistants were dependent on a wake word such as Ok, Google, or Alexa to initiate a conversation line. For instance, one has to ask, “Alexa! What’s the current weather?” Then, for the next command, “Alexa” again before requesting that the voice assistant set the hallway thermostat to 25 degrees.”
With this new facility, it’s more convenient and natural for users. Simply put, you need to say “current weather condition” without requiring the wake word again.
Now users use voice assistants in particular locations, while multitasking and it can either be alone or amongst a group of people. Having devices that can use these contextual factors make a conversation more convenient and efficient. Still, it also shows that developers behind the technology are aiming to provide a more user-centric experience.
2. Voice Push Notifications
Push notifications are about sending a reminder when the due date is near for a task. It is a useful tool to engage users within the application. Since the onset of voice technology, this feature has got a unique touch. Voice push notifications are an effective way of increasing user engagement and retention and reminding users of the app and displaying relevant messages.
Both Google and Alexa allow users to get notifications compatible with third-party apps. Such notifications are related to calendar appointments from the main features.
3. Search Behaviors will change
Voice search or voice-enabled search allows users to use a voice command to search the intent, website, or an app.
- Voice-based shopping is expected to rise to $40 billion in 2022.
- The market share means that consumers’ spending via voice assistants is expected to reach 18% by 2022.
- According to Juniper Research, voice-based ad revenues will reach $19 billion by 2022.
After going through all these statistics, it’s clear that there’s an unprecedented rise in mobile devices’ voice searches. Brands have transformed from touchpoints into listening points. Organic searches are the primary way for brands to gain visibility.
Therefore, by seeing the popularity and adaptability of voice search, marketers and advertising agencies are expecting more from voice goliaths like Amazon and Google, to update their platforms for paid messaging.
4. Personalized Experiences
The voice-enabled devices and digital assistants such as Google Home and Amazon’s Alexa enable customers to engage through the most natural communication form. The data shows that the online sales of voice-enabled devices grew 39% year-over-year.
Voice assistants provide more personalized experiences while improving the difference between voices. Google Home supports six user accounts and quickly identifies unique voices.
Customers may put queries like “What restaurant has the best lunch in LA?” or “What restaurants are open for lunch now?” The voice assistants are smart enough to specify every detail, like schedule appointments for any individual users. Assistants are enough to memorize even the nicknames, locations, payment information, and other information.
5. Security will be a focus.
According to the report, about 41% of voice devices users are concerned about trust and confidentiality. All you need to make it more secure and convenient for customers to make purchases, Amazon and Google have introduced some security measures such as speaker verification and ID to use voice assistant experience.
Furthermore, if a user books an appointment, reserves a restaurant, finds local cinema time, schedules an Uber, payment concerns, sensitive information, it has become more critical to make it more secure and convenient for customers to make purchases. Speaker verification and ID both are paramount as part of the voice assistant experience.
6. Touch Interaction
A new feature that has been launched by Google in CES2019, which is all about integrating the finest voice and visual display into a seamless experience. It has been illustrated as a link screen. The display can show details like local traffic information or events and weather information. This functionality adds visual and voice capabilities together, which allows users to communicate more with the helper.
7. Compatibility & Integration
Amazon is at the forefront when it’s about integrating voice technology with other products. People who know Alexa must be familiar with the fact that the voice assistants are already integrated into a vast array of products such as Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerator. Google also has announced its product named Google Assistant Connect. The underlying idea behind this is for manufacturers to create custom devices that serve specific functions and are integrated with the Assistant.
Speaking about the advancement of voice app development, the global voice eCommerce industry is expected to be worth $40 billion by 2020, according to the report. Not only this, in 2020, it’s expected to see a greater interest in the development of voice-enabled devices. It increases in mid-level devices that have some assistant functionality but are not full-blown smart speakers.
You have gone through a few key predictions of the future of voice assistants and AI. However, several barriers that need to be overcome before voice-enabled devices see mass adoption. The advancement in technology paves the future for voice app development, specifically in AI, NLP (Natural Language Processing), and machine learning.
The AI behind it has to handle better challenges like background noise and accents to build a robust speech recognition experience. Undeniably, consumers have become increasingly comfortable and reliant upon using voice to talk to their phones, smart home devices, vehicles, etc. Voice technology has become a key interface to the digital world, and voice interface design and voice app development will be more significant in demand.
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Canon EOS 70D Review - The Canon EOS 70D is the most eagerly awaited DSLR of the year so far. Find out how good it is in the What Digital Camera Canon EOS 70D review...
Since the 6.3MP EOS 10D back in 2003, Canon’s double-digit EOS DSLRs have been a firm favourite amongst enthusiast photographers. The EOS 60D currently bridges the gap between the EOS 700D and 7D in the Canon line-up and offers plenty of features that provides photographers with a natural upgrade option from their entry-level triple-digit EOS camera.
The arrival of the EOS 70D shakes things up a little, offering a specification that in many ways puts its highly regarded but ageing sibling the 7D in the shade, but at a more attractive price point. Is this the perfect DSLR for photographers looking to expand their hobby even further?
Canon EOS 70D Review – Features
Since the arrival of the EOS 7D back in late 2009, every Canon DSLR with an APS-C sensor has used an iteration of that 18MP sensor and it’s been a very solid performer.
It’s all change for the EOS 70D though, with a completely new 20.2MP Dual Pixel CMOS AF sensor at the heart of the camera and the headline feature of the 70D. As the name suggests, this is more than a simple bump up in resolution to compete with ever higher-resolving rivals, with Canon’s engineers developing some very clever technology that promises to deliver a vastly improved AF performance in both live view and movie recording.
This is an area where traditional DSLRs have struggled to perform, with focus speeds often quite slow and hesitant when acquiring focus. This is due to a DSLR’s inherent design characteristics that sees a slower contrast-detect method of AF acquirement used during live view and video capture, as opposed to the snappier phase-detect AF system used when the camera’s raised to the eye and the mirror is lowered.
This contrasts sharply with most system cameras that that have a noticeable edge over their DSLR counterparts during live view focusing because despite relying solely on contrast-detect AF acquisition (with the odd exception), system cameras benefit from being designed specifically to use the sensor to provide AF information. Paired with lenses that have been optimized for this method of focusing, this is why system cameras in general focus a lot faster during live view shooting than a DSLR does.
On-chip Phase Detection
To overcome this issue the Canon EOS 70D’s new 20.2MP sensor accommodates on-chip phase-detection AF. Nothing new there perhaps, with this technology first being used on Fujifilm’s FinePix F300 compact back in 2010 and adopted by other manufacturers since then to improve the performance of systems during live view.
The big difference though is that the 70D’s sensor uses two photodiodes for each pixel, rather than pairs of pixels that are masked to get a rough approximation before contrast detect AF takes over to fine-tune focus. This results in the 70D’s phase-detect system being accurate enough to do away with the need for contrast-detect AF during live view, while it should work at apertures as low as f/11 and in lighting conditions as low as 0 EV.
Not only that, but the saturation of the 70D’s phase-detect photodiodes on the sensor is much better. In the past on-sensor phase-detect coverage has been quite sparse and offering very minimal coverage across the sensor. The 70D’s 20.2MP Dual Pixel CMOS AF sensor on the other hand is active across 80% of the frame by width and height. Incidentally, every pixel features dual photodiodes but the coverage has been restricted to 80% to ensure greater accuracy.
But the 70D is not just intended to be used in live view mode or as a movie camera, and for possibly the majority of the time when the camera’s raised to your eye, photographers will have the added benefit of an advanced 19-point all cross-type AF system that’s been transferred across from the 7D and a big jump over the 60D’s relatively moderate 9-point all cross-type arrangement.
The Canon 70D’s image processing engine is the same DIGIC 5+ processor as we’ve seen in the EOS 5D MkIII, which helps to deliver a burst shooting speed of 7fps and an ISO range of 100-12,800, which can be expanded to an ISO equivalent of 25,600 is required.
The 70D’s optical viewfinder offers a coverage of 98% and a magnification of 0.95x, as well as offering an electronic level display and gridlines. The rear screen is borrowed from the 700D, with the 3in, 1040k-dot resolution touch-sensitive display hinged at the side, allows it to be pulled out, tilted and swiveled that’ll suit a broad range of shooting angles.
The built-in flash on the 70D offers a guide number of 12, while it also doubles as an Integrated Wireless Transmitter, offering off-camera flash control for compatible Canon-fit flashguns if desired. The 70D also offers a decent flash sync speed of 1/250sec and for general shooting, can shoot at shutter speeds up to 1/8000sec.
With the growing trend for Wi-fi connectivity in cameras, its no surprise then to see that the Canon 70D offers built-in functionality, offering photographers the freedom to control the camera remotely from a smart phone or tablet that’s running Canon’s EOS remote app, while images can be transferred and shared easily.
As you’d expect for a camera that’s had a lot attention applied to the AF performance during live view and movie recording, the video specs shouldn’t disappoint. Full HD video can be captured at 30, 25 and 24p as well as 60 and 50p at HD. The 70D provides full control over shutter speed, aperture and ISO, while there’s also connectivity for an external microphone.


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Do you suffer from a phobia?
Do you suffer from a phobia? :
A phobia is essentially a human being's irrational fear of something. It could be an object, an animal, a situation or an environment. Such fears are persistent, intense, excessive and unrealistic, which is primarily why phobias are deemed irrational. A clinically phobic person's reactions to what scares him/ her may seem extreme and the fright may not appear to be justified.
Types of phobias
Phobias can be broadly classified into three groups depending upon the situation that brings on fear:
~ Social phobias:
Acute fears involving a host of social situations are collectively classified as social phobias. These fears are often mistaken for just shyness, but in fact involve a constant terror of public humiliation, self-consciousness and of being in the limelight. Someone suffering from a social phobia may either have social anxiety disorder or then react to a particular social trigger.
Such people often avoid social situations and become particularly uneasy when in the company of unknown people. Fear of public scrutiny may cause the person to avoid people to the extent of not eating in restaurants or using public restrooms. Social phobias seem to run in families. People who have been shy or solitary as children or who have a history of unhappy or negative social experiences in childhood, seem more likely to develop this disorder.
~ Specific phobias:
These are related to a specific object, animal or insect, people, environment or situation.
Presented here are a few common specific phobias:
Cynophobia: Fear of dogs or rabies
Ophidiophobia: Fear of snakes
Batophobia: Fear of height
Tachophobia: Fear of speed
Claustrophobia: Fear of closed spaces
Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns
Latrophobia: Fear of doctors or of visiting the doctor
~ Agoraphobia: This is a generalised phobia individuals tend to have, of leaving home or a small, familiar comfort zone and of panic that might be brought on by making such a move. This is the only phobia that is treated as a medical condition.
Causes of phobias
Although the definite cause of phobias remains a mystery, these conditions are believed to be at least partly inherited and seem to run in the family. Specific phobias may develop from past experiences, especially in childhood. A bad experience with an object or situation is recorded in the brain by a substance called amygdale. The past encounter invokes fear in a person when faced with a similar situation in the future. Amygdale keeps track of memory and emotions and signals that something is dangerous.
Social phobias also seem to run in families. People who have been shy or solitary as children, or who have a history of unhappy or negative social experiences in childhood, seem more likely to develop this disorder.
Agoraphobia is brought about by similar causes. A person is likely to become phobic if he/ she has grown up seeing a parent or family member suffering from a phobia. Also, when parents are overcautious and exaggerate danger, children tend to become phobic. Phobias are a little more prevalent in women and very subjective. While some people have a natural tendency to be more cautious, others are bold and uninhibited. When cautiousness rises to the point of sheer panic, there is need for professional help.
Symptoms of phobias
The symptoms of a phobia can be severe and often cause an individual to be caught up in an embarrassing situation. A few of them are outlined here:
~ An individual suffering from a phobia experiences an unexplained, irrational fear of a specific element in his or her surroundings.
~ When the individual in question is suddenly faced with the trigger, he or she will immediately plunge into a state of panic. Severe anxiety may cause the person to escape such a situation at the first opportunity.
~ The individual knows that the fear is irrational, but is unable to control it. If he/ she is unable to run away from what is feared, he/ she undergoes great distress and trauma.
~ The individual's extreme behavior interferes with his/ her ability to function normally in any situation. In extreme cases, he/ she is unable to lead a normal life.
~ When the panic attack occurs, the individual is unable to control the fear. There is profuse sweating, palpitation, avoidance behavior, difficulty breathing, intense anxiety, trembling and hot flushes.
~ Besides irrational fear, the other symptoms of phobic neurosis are physical reactions like headaches, tension, back pain, dizziness and stomach upsets.
Diagnosis of phobias
If you feel that your anxiety is bordering on a phobia, seek professional help at the earliest. When fear begins to interfere with your work and daily routine and relationships, going to a psychiatrist is the only solution. In very few cases, the phobia goes away on its own without professional help. When you go to a psychiatrist, both a physical and psychological evaluation will be conducted. The physical exam can help rule out any physical causes of your anxiety. The psychological exam will tell about your family's history and whether other family members have had phobias. It will also tell the doctor about any experience or trauma that may have triggered the phobia. Then the mental health professional will ask you to explain your symptoms and when and how they occur.
One of the biggest problems with diagnosing a phobia is to distinguish it from other psychological disorders like schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder and paranoia. As there are no laboratory tests for phobias, it makes them very difficult to diagnose.
Most people are able to overcome their phobias at some point or the other. The most common form of treatment is behavioral therapy.
The therapist gradually makes the patient face the object of fear. This is done slowly and tactfully. At the same time, the patient is made to relax. Relaxation techniques include relaxed breathing, muscle relaxation training, self-talk or soothing guided mental imagery. The two elements of fear and relaxation help the brain neutralize the fear and treat the phobic stimulus as any other object which doesn't induce fright. Sometimes, hypnosis is also used. For temporary relief, the doctor may prescribe anti-anxiety pills or anti-depressants too.
Prevention of phobias
There are no preventive measures one can take when it comes to phobias. However, it is advisable to reduce anxiety levels if you are naturally inclined to be nervous. To do this, avoid substances that make you high-strung -- these include tea (tannin), coffee and cola drinks (caffeine), cigarettes and other tobacco products (nicotine). To avoid children from becoming prone to phobias, never overemphasize danger. Keep the legendary boogeyman away. Scaring a child can have adverse effects on his/ her psyche.
Treatment of phobias is crucial. If left untreated, they can lead to other illnesses like other anxiety disorders, depression and substance abuse. It is better to seek help when the problem is small. After all, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Borussia Dortmund midfielder Marco Reus has been ruled out for at least four weeks after he picked up an ankle injury in Germany's 2-1 win over Scotland on Sunday in a Euro 2016 qualifier, his club said on Monday.
Borussia Dortmund playmaker Nuri Sahin will be out for an estimated two months after undergoing knee surgery on Wednesday, the Bundesliga club said.
World Cup-winning goalkeeper Manuel Neuer has been named Germany's footballer of the year in an annual poll of sports journalists.
The Munjal-family run two-wheeler company Hero MotoCorp has appointed a top automobile designer from Germany’s BMW as the head of its R&D division.
When competition between teams becomes cutthroat, women contribute less and less to the team's creative output, suggests a study.
More than 700 people fleeing Africa and the Middle East may have drowned in shipwrecks in the Mediterranean over the last week, bringing the death toll this year to almost 3,000, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Monday.
The state government is coming up with two new pumping storage power projects in Purulia.
Researchers identified a way to enhance regrowth of human corneal tissue to restore vision, using a molecule known as ABCB5 that acts as a marker for hard-to-find limbal stem cells.


Lone Pine Fire Safety Council
The Lone Pine Fire Safe Council was established in 2001 with the mission of protecting the residents of Lone Pine by providing an increased awareness and education in fire safe practices and to reduce the threat of wildfires to the community and surrounding areas.
In April of 2009, the LPRSC applied for a grant from the U.S. Forest Service to reduce the threat from wildland fires and provide education and outreach for the town of Lone Pine. Our grant request was successful and we have now completed the environmental requirements to implement the project.
Our goal is to use our funding to create a break in the continuity of the fuels in and around Lone Pine. This will not only slow a wildfire as it approaches the community, it will also give fire fighters a safe area to operate for structure protection. As the Oak Fire approached Independence a few years ago, dozers were used to try to accomplish this same mission. In emergency situations like that one, wildlife habitat and cultural resources become victims as well. But, with planning and fuels reduction efforts, damage to structures, people and natural resources can be minimized.
With the preliminary studies completed, actual fuel reduction will begin in February 2011. All phases are on LADWP owned land. Some sites will use heavy equipment to break down (masticate) large fuel. Some of these areas will also have prescribed burns associated with the clearing. Smoke will be visible at times. CAL FIRE will perform the burning with experienced crews and safe fire breaks to ensure containment. Three areas: 2 north of Narrow Gauge Rd., and one north of the airport and south-east of the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation. Five additional, smaller sites are closer to town structures. These will be treated by hand clearing and chipping. Noise will be limited to weekdays and end by 5pm each day.
Following these projects, LPFSC hopes to receive funding for other needed fuel reduction in and around our town.
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Lone Pine Fire Safety Council
In 2009, the Lone Pine Fire Safe Council (LPFSC) received a grant from the U.S. Forest Service to reduce the threat from wildland fires to the town of Lone Pine. The build up of heavy fuel loading on these lands poses the greatest risk to Lone Pine from wildfire.
Our goal is to use our funding to create a break in the continuity of the fuels that will not only slow a wildfire as it approaches the community, but also gives fire fighters a safe area to operate for structure protection. As the Oak Fire approached Independence in 2007, dozers were used to accomplish this same mission.
With the combined effort of this council, LADWP, CAL FIRE, LPPSR, and the Anchor Ranch we have completed the environmental planning and are beginning the implementation of fuel reduction in several locations around Lone Pine.
Private contractors and CAL FIRE crews will start work in February, and may continue off and on for most of this year. Treatments include mowing (mastication), prescribed burns, fence line clearing, thinning and clearing of dead and live vegetation,and chipping.
Smoke will be visible and may impact our area from the locations north of Narrow Gauge Rd. and north of the airport during the burns scheduled for the first phase.
Chair, Lone Pine Fire Safe Council


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Bouquet of 5 paper flowers with chocolates - White-Bouquets
Handmade flowers made of paper with chocolates and artificial snow. They are decorated with artificial flowers, colored paper and coconut fibers. The boxes are cardboard with decorative elements, ribbons and a greeting card.
An original gift for any occasion.

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Though this was intended as an entry for an envelope art contest on James Gurney's blog, it gave me an excuse to draw something I've wanted to for a while: my speculative perception of sexual dimorphism in the troodontid Anchiornis.
Anchiornis is the first non-avian dinosaur for which true colors have been determined from the fossil, and as such we now know that it looks strikingly similar, coloration-wise, to a modern woodpecker. Most woodpeckers (with some notable exceptions, like the pileated woodpecker) are sexually dimorphic, in that the male typically possess bright red coloration on its head, while the female lacks most or all of the red. Here, I've drawn the male closer to the viewer, with his characteristic red crest and facial markings. The female, behind him, lacks the red facial markings and her crest is a duller greyish-brown.

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Dr. Rimmi Singla has experience carrying out PGS, technique that detect genetic ailments and chromosomal abnormalities in embryos before they’re moved into the uterus. PGS technique is used to know whether the cells in an embryo comprise the normal number of chromosomes, which is 46. Subsequently an embryo raises in the lab, it is usually biopsied on day 5 (blastocyst stage). Some embryo cells are then sent to an exterior lab which uses technology to amount the number of chromosomes within each cell. Embryos with a standard amount of chromosomes are “euploid” and those with an abnormal number are “aneuploid.” The purpose of PGS is to avoid transferring an abnormal embryo into the uterus.
She also has experience performing NIPS (Non-invasive prenatal screening) are commonly performed tests for screening for Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome), Trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome), Trisomy 13 & Monosomy X (Turner syndrome). These examinations are offered to expecting women who want to find out if they may be at increased risk of having a baby with any of the above syndromes.
Who benefits maximum from PGS?
All couples are at risk for consuming abnormal embryos. This issue increases significantly as a woman gets older. An abnormal embryo almost always fails to implant, or if it does, ends in a biochemical pregnancy (only hormone evidence of pregnancy), miscarriage, fetal death later in pregnancy, stillbirth or a baby with abnormalities.
Couples experiencing IVF may select PGS because they have male factor infertility, recurrent IVF failures, older age or a very large number of embryos. PGS can be used by those experiencing multiple miscarriages who may have diverse types of translocations where a piece of one chromosome breaks off and attaches to another chromosome resulting in a gain or loss of a cell’s genetic material. Use of PGS has grown rapidly because of support by many infertility specialist and patients who want to transfer a normal embryo.
For IVF recommend implanting more than one unscreened embryo. While this rises the success rate of IVF, it also raises your risk of carrying multiples. Your chance of actual IVF is the same when PGS screening identify one healthy embryo.
Talk to your fertility specialist about PGS & NIPS
The risk of having a baby with a chromosomal imbalance increases with the mother’s age, so Dr. Rimmi Singla may recommend PGS for older women. If you have recurrent miscarriages, you may also benefit from PGS. About half of all miscarriages are caused by chromosomal abnormalities, which can be identified with PGS.
When you’ve tried unsuccessfully to get pregnant and decide to undergo infertility treatment, there are many factors to consider. The same is true for pre-implantation genetic testing – it’s complicated. In this instance, your fertility specialist can help you discuss your options. Once your baby becomes a teenager, it’s also complicated – but then, you’ll be on your own!

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Udinese vs Torino by Rahul
Torino have been one of the most entertaining teams to watch this season, as they have been goals galore in their games so far. 33 goals have been scored in the 9 games so far; with the Turin outfit hitting 20 goals; which is the fourth highest in the Italian top flight this campaign. The likes of Belotti, Falque and Baselli have been contributing the goals; and despite them losing to Inter by a score of 2-1; they showed a lot of fight till the end. Each of their last 5 games has seen a minimum of 3 goals flow as they have been conceding; and one can expect that to continue despite the signing of Joe Hart in goal.
With the goal scoring form of both sides; its hard not to back over 2.5 goals in this encounter.
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Situated near the airport, in the city center, this eco-friendly hotel is in the same area as Venetian Gardens. Regional attractions also include Lake Griffin State Park and Lake Dora.
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Pressure is quite rightly mounting on the Arts Council to be more open and announce the strategy behind the cull of almost 200 companies and arts organisations. In order to do this, it would have to come clean about where the cuts are being made and why, and conversely who might eventually benefit and for what reasons. The Theatrical Management Association has added its voice to the call for a coherent national strategy and gone so far as to question the Arts Council's competence.
The Arts Council seems to have scored an own goal in its failure to communicate both its decisions and the criteria by which they have been arrived. Indeed, if you look at the Arts Council's website, which outlines the process for disinvestment, it appears to have completely ignored its own guidelines in many cases. Some organisations have been aware of Arts Council concerns, but for many others, news of reduced funding or a complete cut has come entirely out of the blue.
Add to this the fact that Arts Council priorities for funding seem to be different in various regions and are also being applied differently, and it is not surprising that many doubt that a genuine national strategy is being implemented. The Arts Council should immediately take steps to reassure us and prove that it really has been doing some joined-up thinking and not just been wielding the knife where it fancies. Particularly as the RSC and National and larger regional reps seem to be sitting pretty and the main burden of the cuts appears to have fallen on smaller organisations and the independent sector.
Some regional cuts would suggest that decisions have been made by regional arts boards on the basis of an organisation's regional importance rather than its national significance and role in a broader theatre ecology. The lack of an overall picture also means that it is impossible to discern whether the implications and knock-on effect of some of the decisions have been fully thought through and understood by the Arts Council. I've been contacted by several artists who have commissions to produce work for organisations and festivals that are now threatened with extinction, proving that the cutting of money to individual organisations has far wider implications and a trickle-down effect. And what about companies such as The People Show and Stationhouse Opera, who are both in line to lose their funding completely? The former is working on a site-specific project for Liverpool's year as capital of culture; the latter has a commission with the Roundhouse. Will these projects go ahead or simply have to be abandoned? What will be put in their place?
A major shake-up in the funding system has been overdue, but such a radical overhaul had to be executed with rigorous thinking and planning. Those affected have to be given an opportunity to make their cases and be treated with respect. That has not happened, and the timing of the announcement just before Christmas - which makes it so difficult to mount an effective appeal - only rubs salt in the wound. I've been told that one company applying for further details under the freedom of information act has been told that the requested information can't be made available by the Arts Council in time for its appeal.
The only way out of this mess, and for the Arts Council to salvage some credibility, would be for it to publish its full intentions so we know where the disinvestment is falling, which existing clients are being offered extra investment and which new companies and organisations are going to be taken on. The published list should not be taken as a blueprint - as any decisions must be subject to appeal - but merely as a statement of intent. The Arts Council is currently hiding behind client confidentiality, but to me it seems likely that the majority of those affected would be happy to be named, and believe that knowing the full picture would hold the Arts Council's decision-making up to proper scrutiny, and might aid their appeals and ensure that the whole process is more transparent.

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I thought I couldn't get any more irritated at the Salem City Council and City officials, and I was plenty mad before, but now I'm way more pissed off.
I just learned that those officials have signed a contract with the Salem Alliance Church to lease a building owned by the church for a temporary public library, even though City Council rules allow for reconsideration of any council decision at the next meeting, which is August 12.
The City Council voted to approve the lease on a 6-1 vote at the July 22 council meeting. But this was a hugely controversial issue. And two councilors were absent, Tom Andersen and Sally Cook. Jackie Leung was the sole sane vote in opposition to this crazy idea.
A headline in a Willamette Week story about this issue that came out a few days ago sums up the situation nicely.
The Salem Human Rights Commission unanimously said that another location for a temporary library should be chosen even if it cost more and was less efficient operationally, because the Salem Alliance Church rejects LGBTQ rights and their Broadway Coffee House has been the subject of a boycott due to the church's discriminatory practices.
There are alternative locations to house a temporary library, such as Liberty Plaza, which was one of the top three choices of the Library Renovation Subcommittee. Virtually everybody who submitted written or verbal testimony to the City Council was against using the church-owned Capital Press building.
And people have been contacting the Mayor and city councilors urging that the City Council reconsider approval of the Salem Alliance Church lease agreement at the council's next meeting on August 12. Reconsideration is allowed by a City Council rule.
Yet a little while ago I learned that City staff went ahead and signed the Salem Alliance Church contract, thereby taking away the ability for this issue to be reconsidered by the City Council -- essentially screaming a loud Screw you! at supporters of LGBTQ rights in Salem.
Margaret Stephens conveyed the contract-signing news via a comment on the Save Our Books at Salem Public Library Facebook page. Here's what Stephens wrote. I've boldfaced a portion that deserves emphasis.
Jackie Leung, the sole no vote on the use of Salem Alliance Church property for the temporary Library, kindly responded to my questions about whether anything could be done at this point. She said:
"Because I voted no, I am not able to ask for a reconsideration. One of the councilors, such as Councilor Kaser, who voted yes, will need to call it up. I can issue a plea at the council meeting for reconsideration, though no one may do so.
It also depends on if city council already signed a lease with SAC. If it has already been signed, I am afraid that there is no way to stop it from moving forward. As a frequent library user, it also concerns me about the use of the Capitol Press and what it means to our community.
Thank you for your email. Please continue reaching out to Councilor Kaser. Perhaps she will be willing to request a reconsideration if it is not too late."
Then I found out that the lease has been already signed. But before that, I contacted Councilor Cara Kaser (Ward 1, in which I live). Here is what she wrote:
"I hope you either watched live or the recording of City Council meeting when this issue was discussed. Councilor Chris Hoy summed up my position on this issue exactly. If you didn’t get a chance to watch Councilor Hoy’s remarks, I hope that you will.
The Library sub-committee charged with finding a temporary build to house the library collection recommended this location after going through several other properties. For one reason and another, the former Capital Press building was the only feasible site to relocate the library and met the sub-committee’s criteria for relocation.
The building is owned by a religious organization but the building itself is not a religious building (i.e. it’s not a church, sanctuary, chapel, etc.). Also, the building will be under lease and operated by the City, and not by a religious organization.
The City will follow it’s own ordinances and codes of conduct while the library is at this temporary location, just as it follows rules now at the permanent library site. Because of this, I believe that the temporary location for the library will be a welcoming and accepting place for all members of our community, just like our permanent library location is now."
Since I already knew that the property was owned by SAC and not a "religious" building, the only thing to take away from Councilor Kaser's comment is that her position was the same as Hoy's.
And Hoy's pertinent comment was that basically "if we (the City) scrutinizes all entities that the City does business with, it is a slippery slope"
...And my comment regarding that is that if the City does NOT look at the policies of entities, then THAT is the real slippery slope.
Would the City do business with an entity with an avowed white nationalist agenda? Would the City do business with an entity that was against marriage between different races? I think not.
So why are LGBTQIA people, their friends, allies, and loved ones being thrown under the bus? Answer that please, "progressive" council members.
Councilors Hoy, Kaser, and Ausec, each of whom claims to be progressive, along with Mayor Bennett and councilors Lewis and Nanke, all knew full well that the Human Rights Commission and LGBTQ community in Salem understood that the temporary library was going to be operated by City staff, not by the church.
That was irrelevant to supporters of LGBTQ rights. Which makes what Councilor Kaser said above, and what Councilor Hoy said at the July 22 council meeting, also irrelevant.
What mattered is what Stephens said: the Salem Alliance Church opposes LGBTQ rights.
The church rejects same-sex marriage and views same-sex sex as a sin. The church refuses to say whether it abides by anti-discrimination laws in its Broadway Coffee House hiring practices.
Yet not only does the City of Salem see no problem with paying almost $500,000 to the Salem Alliance Church to house a temporary library that won't be used by members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters, it rushed ahead with signing the lease contract in order to prevent public opinion from forcing a reconsideration vote at the August 12 council meeting.
UPDATE: I just realized that there's a decent chance one or more of the six members of the City Council who voted to go ahead with leasing the church owned library for a temporary library pressed City staff to sign the Salem Alliance Church lease before the next council meeting to avoid the spectacle of a reconsideration request being discussed at the meeting.
Also, here's a cogent comment from ardent library supporter Jim Scheppke that he left on a Facebook page where I shared this blog post:
"I agree with Brian that the City staff should have waited until after the August 12th meeting to sign the lease to allow Councilors Cook and Andersen to weigh in on this issue on behalf of their constituents. We heard at the last meeting from substitute Councilor Evan White that Councilor Cook was opposed to leasing the church property. I would not be surprised to learn that Councilor Andersen is also opposed.
There was very little discussion of the issue at the last meeting because it came at the end of a long meeting and the Councilors were clearly rushing through the end of the agenda as they often do. A decision that affects a large portion of the community (LGBTQ citizens and their friends, family and supporters and others who care deeply about human rights) should not be railroaded. I also disagree that the church building was the only viable choice. I think that's false. It was the cheapest choice."
Disgusting. Outrageous. Shameful. And those are the least profane words that spring to mind.
Yesterday I paid $476.80 to the City of Salem for the required fee to get public records related to the selection of the church-owned Capital Press building for a temporary library.
I submitted the public records request because I figured there was a good chance I'd get the documents prior to the August 12 City Council meeting where a reconsideration might have been discussed.
I figured wrong, failing to anticipate that City officials would forestall reconsideration by rushing ahead with signing the contract, even though the library won't start moving into a temporary location until December.
However, I'm still glad that I'm getting the documents and emails, because I believe the public needs to understand as clearly as possible how this horrible choice of the Capital Press building happened.

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AUSTIN — Only hours ago, Texas Monthly announced that the Senate Education Committee is essentially pulling a fast one on Texas students and families with the STAAR test.
This is a cause for immediate concern for all Texans, as the vote on school finance is scheduled for Monday, May 6, 2019, according to the magazine.
Seeing as this issue was only recently brought to light as the sun starts to set on this biennial legislative session, the Texans Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessment released a statement Friday:
“(Texans Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessment) appreciates the hard work and dedication the legislature has put into education this session. But we were dismayed to see the Senate Education Committee substitute of the School Finance Bill (HB 3) include a late but significant expansion of high-stakes testing,” the TAMSA group stated in a press release. “The current version of HB 3 requires funding to be tied to 3rd grade test scores, increases the number of STAAR tests with the addition of 4 new writing tests in grades 3-8, adds a new assessment in kindergarten, and increases the passing threshold for STAAR tests.
This overreach comes when public confidence in STAAR reliability is at it’s lowest due to recent revelations about misaligned STAAR reading passages. A poll conducted by TAMSA in January showed 98% of more than 2400 respondents opposed tying funding to testing.
Readability studies show that STAAR passages are written 1-3 grade levels above the grade
level being tested. Additionally, despite the assurance that STAAR passages are thoroughly
vetted, the 2019 5th grade STAAR test included at least two profane words. HB 3 also
includes an additional $100 million more taxpayer dollars to implement these new STAAR
provisions when there has been little political will to adequately fund Texas public schools.
This is the time to push pause on STAAR, not double-down on a misguided and ill-conceived testing system. We urge the Senate to block these testing provisions, remove them from HB 3, pass the version passed by the House and move school funding forward.”
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January 8, 2000
Justice officials dig for DOE truth
By Bill Bartleman
U.S. Department of Justice officials hope to decide by May if they will join in a federal lawsuit alleging fraud by past operators of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
Steve Reed, U.S. attorney for Kentucky's Western District, visited the plant Friday to watch as employees of Bechtel Jacobs Co. began digging a trench just a few yards from a landfill that was leaking "black ooze" last summer.
Reed said five trenches will be dug around the perimeter so soil samples can be taken and tested for the presence of radioactive and chemical contamination.
Reed said he wants to determine if any previously unreported waste and contamination was placed in the U.S. Department of Energy landfill that closed five years ago.
A whistle-blower's lawsuit filed by current and former employees alleges that contaminated material was illegally placed in the landfill by former operators, and the operators lied about contamination to earn performance bonuses worth millions of dollars.
The suit claims the contamination has caused illnesses for workers and nearby residents, and that the contamination is spreading from the plant in groundwater, air and the soil.
If the Justice Department determines from the tests that the suit has merit, it would become a plaintiff and seek millions of dollars in refunds from former operators, including Lockheed Martin Corp. The current and former employees who filed the original action would receive up to 30 percent of the amount awarded in the suit.
"What you see here is digging for the truth," Reed said just moments after the digging began at 2:31 p.m. "We will take the truth ... and evidence and go wherever it requires us to go."
He promised a thorough investigation. U.S. District Judge Thomas Russell has given the Department of Justice until May to determine if it will get involved. Reed said he hopes that testing and other aspects of the investigation are completed by then. If not, he said, they'll ask Russell for more time.
Digging the five trenches is a slow process that will take at least three weeks. Workers will test each bucket of dirt removed from the trench.
After digging down 10 to 15 feet, they will take soil samples that Department of Justice officials will share with DOE, the state Natural Resources Cabinet and Lockheed Martin. The samples will then be tested at different labs and compared. Reed said he didn't know how long it would take to get the test results.
The cost of the dig and testing is estimated at $1 million and is being paid by the U.S. Department of Energy from a special fund. DOE officials said it was not being diverted from cleanup funds allocated for the Paducah plant.
DOE officials last summer investigated the source of the leaking black
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The Night I lost everything
For those who take the time to read this, I thank you. This is my tale to tell and I hope it does not frighten you. You see, not too long ago, I was just like you. I had a job, a family, wonderful friends who were always there for me. Then one day, something happened to change all of that. From things being so good, they managed to plunge to the deepest parts of despair. Everything I held dear to me, everything I took for granted in my life was taken away from me.
My family and I were holding a grand party to celebrate the years we spent together. Yes, I mean our anniversary. We were together for over 19 years. So happy and close - knit, we wanted to share it with our dear friends. We spent two whole days decorating, cleaning, and cooking all the dishes we thought our friends would like to have. Once everyone arrived at our home, things went into full swing. The children danced and laughed, the grownups stood around and got caught up on their usual days. Things were completely perfect until we heard the knock on the door.
I walked over to it and opened it wide, but surprisingly, there was no one standing on the porch. I looked around but saw nothing there. When I went to close the door, I saw that there was a note taped to the door knocker. Taking it off, I stepped into my house and sat down on a chair as my husband chatted with his business partners.
I carefully opened the envelope and took the note out. It said,"A friendly warning to you, my friend. On this night, all you hold dear in your life will perish and you shall be left alone to deal with the pain and sorrow which will haunt you the rest of your days. Sincerely yours, a friend." I shook my head and tore it up. Thinking it was just a joke, I walked around and mingled with my friends. My husband glanced my way and I saw the questions in his eyes. Smiling, I shook my head at him. He nodded as he caught my meaning. Now was not the time to talk about what was bothering me.
As it neared midnight, the children grew weary and were sent to bed after saying goodnight to all of us. My husband and I joined our friends in the sitting room where we had candles lit on every table. It was a ritual with us to meet in this room, for it was the place where we could converse without interruption. We met every week to talk and discuss certain matters. This night, I brought up the letter that I had received and tore up. Everyone shook their heads as I told them what the mysterious person had written.
Thinking the way I did, we thought it was merely a prank. As we gathered together to chant a summoning spell, the clock started to chime. It chimed 12 times to let us know it was precisely midnight. (Yes, we were a coven of witches, but unlike others we did not do black magick.) The candle flames started to sway as we chanted, letting us know there was a spirit close by. Holding hands and forming a circle, we all stared at the center as a mist started to form. The spell worked and it brought a spirit to us.
"Thank you for taking the time to come and converse with us," my husband said quietly. All of us repeated this sentence one by one and bowed or curtsied to show our respect. The spirit was a young woman wearing a dress from the early seventeenth century. Her hair was done up in a neat bun and her eyes shined bright. You could see through her and yet at the same time, she seemed solid somehow. "You are most welcome. I have come to give you a warning. Tonight you all will suffer a terrible fate and only one will survive it. The one who left you the note will do this quite soon. I am sorry to bring you this news, but I am not like other spirits. I merely come to help people, not harm them," she said in a hollow yet melodious voice.
We all stared at each other, then turned toward the young woman. The mere expression on her face told us she wasn't lying. She really had come to us to tell us the warning. She only wanted to help us. She slowly dissipated into nothing before our eyes and we broke the circle. "What do you think will happen?" my husband asked as he took my hands in his. Staring into his eyes, I replied,"I don't know, honey. What should we do now?"
"We'll ignore it for now," he said firmly. "Maybe nothing will happen." We all agreed and sat down together. As we chatted about the evening, I felt a shiver run through me. Standing up, my husband looked at me. "I felt it too," he said. Out of nowhere, I smelled smoke and ran out of the room. The living room, dining room, kitchen and entryway were all on fire. The flames licked the doors and windows, blocking all the ways of escaping. Everyone started to panic as my husband and I dashed up the stairs to get the children. Kicking open their doors, we found them laying in bed as the flames danced across their clothes. Grabbing blankets, we batted at the flames and found we were too late. The children were already gone. Their flesh had been burned from their bones while they slept in a deep sleep.
I screamed as loud as my throat would allow while my husband held me in his arms. Together, we stumbled out of the room coughing. Everyone looked up at us as we ran down the stairs. "We have to get out of here!" my husband yelled as flames started to travel up his pant leg. He reached down and put it out as everyone started to break the windows to escape the burning house. I stood there numbly, rocking back and forth on my heels. Looking around, I realized we should have taken the warning more seriously. Those who managed to break the glass were scrambling to get outside. Right before they could make it out, the flames reached our propane tank at the back of the house and exploded. Fire and smoke erupted like a volcano, engulfing everything in sight. I screamed as the flames traveled all over me and watched in horror as everyone fell to the ground. They either screamed or fell dead instantly. I dove out the window and rolled on the ground, trying my best to put the flames out. Succeeding, I laid there as my house fell to the ground. All of my friends, my children, my husband, everything was gone. The smoke filled the sky as I heard distant sirens.
When the paramedics arrived, they looked around and cried at the sight of all the burned bodies. The firefighters put the fire out in due time and I was rushed to the hospital. All of my hair and about 70% of my body had been burned. I laid in the burn unit for almost 6 months before being transferred to a psychiatric institution. There I remain now, sitting in my chair and remembering all that had happened. Oh you have no idea how many times I wished I could go back to that time and make things right. Maybe if we had taken the warning more seriously, we would still be together.
My doctor told me it would be good for me to get it all out on paper. This way, I wouldn't feel so guilty about what had happened that night. So here I am, sitting in my chair by my table and writing this tale of sorrow. You see, this is what had happened to me and I hope and pray it happens to no one else. When you receive a warning from a mysterious source, don't think it's a joke unless you make damn sure it is one. If you think it's real, then take it seriously. You don't want to end up like me, people. I am stuck here in this institution with no one to talk to and taking medicine every day to keep me docile and easy to manage. Like I said in the beginning, I thank you for taking the time to read this. My doctor was right, I do feel less guilty about what happened. And yet, it doesn't really change a thing. I lost my life and my world when the fire claimed the lives of those I loved. Don't take your life for granted, please. Hold it close and love it for as long as you possibly can.
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Big B shares comic scene from ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’
Mumbai, May 3 (IANS) As the untimely demises of actors Rishi Kapoor and Irrfan Khan left everyone shattered, megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Sunday tried to put a smile on people’s faces by sharing a video of a comic scene from his 1977 blockbuster movie, “Amar Akbar Anthony”.
“‘Van Gogh’s final words were: this sadness will last forever. la tristesse durera toujours ..’ mailed to me by dear friend Siddharth across the street… grief will never leave us, but time to be positive… time to bring the smile back… time for the adage the show must go on’,” he wrote.
Big B added: “Scene shot for ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ at RK Studios floor 3, Man Mohan Desai director… we were shooting two films simultaneously, PARVARISH and AAA, both in RK Studios… first on floor 1, a climax action with Vinod, Amjad and me, and this scene with me on floor 3… Man ji said to me, you rehearse this mirror scene ‘main zara us floor pe shot lekar aata hoon’ .. but when he came back I had already done the scene and shot it with the ASST. A basic idea given by Kader Bhai .. rest is all impromptu, ad lib, one take.”
In the scene, Amitabh is seen talking to mirror after drinking too much alcohol.
“When Man ji came back to this set he was surprised that his asst., Anil Nagrath and I had done it .. he commented a aye, barabar kiya hai na scene .. thok to nahi diya .. !! Man ji finally saw the scene a month later – it used to take time to process develop the print in those times .. he saw it at the mini trial theatre at Ranjit Studios, where were shooting the climax of AAA .. after seeing it we sat on the steps of the Office in the Studio and he said to me .. ‘Lalla ! you are going to work in every film of mine that I make, until you say NO’ !!! Those were the days,” he shared.
Released in 1977, “Amar Akbar Anthony” also starred Kapoor and the late Vinod Khanna in the lead roles.


This year marks Intel’s 50th anniversary, and in celebration, the company showed up to Computex 2018 with a lot of announcements to make. While these announcements encompass a lot of different technologies, they all revolve one product that’s been core to Intel’s business for many decades: the PC. Specifically, Intel is looking to improve the PC as the platform that people turn to when they need to roll up their sleeves and get some work done.
The first area Intel is focusing on is, of course, performance. We would naturally expect Intel to announce new processors at a gathering like Computex, and that’s exactly what it did. Intel’s Gregory Bryant announced that Whiskey Lake U-series and Amber Lake Y-series processors will begin to make their way to “more than 140 new laptops and 2 in 1s” from its OEM partners this fall, and we’ll see new desktop releases in the X-series and Core S-series by the end of the year.
Bryant also announced a special CPU that’s being released to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the company’s x86 architecture. The Core i7-8086K will be the first Intel-crafted CPU supporting 5GHz turbo frequency. Those who were around to see Intel launch its x86 microprocessor business will know that this new CPU’s name is a call out to the original Intel 8086. Sales for this limited edition CPU will open up on June 8, but you can also enter to win one in a sweepstakes that Intel is hosting.
Battery life will also be a big focus for Intel moving forward, and in its quest to achieve all-day battery, it’s rolling out new low power display technology. This tech will feature in one watt panels developed by Sharp and Innolux, with Intel saying it has the potential to “cut LCD power consumption by half.” The end result of these efforts are devices that can potentially last as long as 28 hours on a single charge, but there’s no word on when we might see this tech debut in consumer products.
Bryant also briefly touched on Intel’s plans for 5G, noting that it has partnered with Sprint to sell 5G-connected PCs in-store. The company also plans to bring artificial intelligence to PCs in a big way through its AI on PC Developer Program. In all, it sounds like PC will be a major focus for Intel as we move through the rest of 2018 and into 2019, and that’s definitely exciting to see.


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Central WA Catholic churches collecting money to fight same-sex marriagePosted: Updated:
YAKIMA, Wash.-- Same sex marriage is a hot button issue that has a lot of people on both sides. And come November, voters will decide if they want it here in Washington.
But the Bishop of Yakima's Catholic Diocese says the move would separate marriage and procreation, something the church is against.
"That is really how we are best served as a society, when we uplift and encourage men and women to share the gift of life in raising their children," said Bishop Joseph Tyson.
Bishop Tyson says he's allowed Preserve Marriage Washington to collect money from parishioners to fight same sex marriage. But that has other Catholic organizations concerned the bishop is sending the wrong message.
"There's nothing that says that the Catholic church has to change their position on marriage. This says that the state has a right and a responsibility to respect all citizens of the state," said Barbara Guzzo with Catholics for Marriage Equality Washington State.
Collecting money for Preserve Marriage Washington has also raised some red flags from the Public Disclosure Commission.
They say organizations, like churches, cannot collect funding, rather individuals, not asked by church, but by Preserve Marriage Washington have to do the work.
"The campaign is saying that the church can appoint somebody to collect contributions and then turn them over to the campaign. But that's actually not the case," said Lori Anderson with the Public Disclosure Commission.
Preserve Marriage Washington says it's their understanding that they are in compliance with state law, but the PDC says they're still working with them to make sure everything is done right.
"We're not aware that anybody has actually carried out the instructions and done any illegal campaign activities," said Anderson.
Bishop Tyson says regardless of the instructions Preserve Marriage Washington gives, he says his churches have all been instructed how to provide donation envelopes without breaking state law.


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‘What is Happening to Our Homes?’ is a Sabbath sermon that describes the family crisis many children are in. When you see photos and videos of the riots in the streets of America, too many young people are participating in these activities. Where are the parents in those situations? Where are the fathers? What are young people being educated with and what are their guiding principles?
“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.” Dueteronomy 6:6, 7.


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Monday, October 24, 2016
Assistant Youth Services Librarian
Durham Public Library. The Durham Public Library seeks an innovative and flexible Assistant Youth Services Librarian to assist with all aspects of a busy department serving children and teens from birth to grade 12. Under the direction of and in collaboration with the Head of Youth Services, responsibilities will include: Planning and conducting innovative programs for children and teens. Assisting with maintaining the children’s and teen’s print and media collections. Providing excellent customer service, including readers’ advisory and computer assistance, to children, teens, and parents. Engaging in outreach to schools, daycares, and other community organizations. Promoting children’s and teen services and materials, creating promotional materials and displays, and updating social media and online content. Qualifications desired include: Bachelor’s degree required; MLS preferred. Previous experience working with children and teens. Knowledge and appreciation of literature for children and young adults. STEM programming experience desired. Strong organizational and communications skills. Ability to work independently, manage multiple projects, and ensure that tasks are completed accurately and on time. Strong computer and technology skills. Experience with Sierra ILS a plus. Strong commitment to warm and welcoming public service required. This is a full-time position (35 hours per week) with full benefits. Salary range $38,000-$41,000, depending on qualifications. Schedule includes two evenings per week, and every other Saturday. Those interested in applying may send a cover letter, resume and three references to Cyndi Shirshac, Library Director, at firstname.lastname@example.org. Deadline for submission is 4 pm on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

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Keynote of the Conference by Isabell Lorey: Starting From Care Changes Everything
The following text was the keynote for the opening conference CINEMA OF CARE – WHO LOOKS AFTER FILM CULTURE? of Berlin Critics’ Week – on the 15th of February 2023. It was followed by a case study talk with Elke Marhöfer and Julia Bee and a panel talk with Claire Denis, Marek Hovorka and Abby Sun, hosted by Devika Girish.
The Collective Artistic Direction thanks Isabell Lorey for being able to publish it in the 2023 edition of the Magazine.
Starting from care changes everything
During the pandemic, it became clear to a broad public – not least in Europe – that the jobs relevant to the “system” are to a large extent care and nursing activities. This became particularly obvious because we are dealing with extremely economized health care systems. They are so trimmed for profit that they are always close to collapse in the wake of a prolonged health emergency. The care crisis that has existed for several decades was once again evident. And it also became evident that care workers were exposed to the greatest contagion and stress.
This concerns especially the households: through home office and enormously increased reproductive work; most care work was the responsibility of feminized individuals and women. However, stress and strain arose not only from caring for many people in the household, but also from isolation, from the interruption of queer care relationships, from the pathologization of contacts beyond traditional families and kinships.1
From a feminist perspective, the existential importance of care activities and relationships has by no means only become “visible” with the pandemic. Care is not simply “relevant to the system”, it is systematically devalued and feminized precisely in this capitalist, patriarchal “system”. To focus on care therefore means to start from its existential importance without devaluing care activities and making them primarily the responsibility of women. Care must be radically moved out of patriarchal and capitalist logics. In queer-feminist contexts, the relevance of care has been inseparable from a radical critique of patriarchal relations of power and exploitation for many decades.
Care work has historically been enclosed in the private household of the patriarchal family, feminized; as “women’s work” it is considered unproductive. It is supposed to be private, apolitical, a natural female capacity. In middle class households, care work is often left to racialized migrant illegalized women, in whose own household care gaps are created: so-called international care-chains.
Marta Malo and others have drawn our attention to the fact that we live in social conditions in which care is permeated by various forms of violence: economic violence, in the sense of exploitation and poor pay; direct violence, mislabeled as “domestic violence”; machist violence in the streets and squares, in the light and in the dark, as violence against rebellious women who do not comply and care in this way, against queer and trans* people. Finally, the social organization of care is riddled with legal violence: such as the ban on abortion, as well as making it difficult, pathologizing and punishing lifestyles that are non-binary and non-heterosexual.2
By far, not everyone receives the same care. Care is unequally distributed. Those who do not belong to the norm, who are not considered normal, who are marked as strange, different and crazy, are denied the support and protection of the heterosexual white abled majority society, again and again also for racist, sexist, trans* and queer-phobic reasons. We tend to live in careless societies where care and support are hierarchized by gender, sexuality, class, “race,” abledness, age, and citizenship.
It is not only the pandemic that has made it clear that no one can live autonomously and freely without others.3 We depend on each other for support and care. No one can survive without mutual relatedness. We are vulnerable, interdependent beings. Care relationships are fundamental and primary. To exploit and abuse them is to violently interrupt the primary ties.4 Violence breaks with care. Care relations and dependencies are also interrupted, prevented and denied when people assert their individualistic freedom and autonomy, they only mind their own advantages and interests and refuse any solidarity. This ignorance of the concerns of others forms alliances with authoritarian developments and a growing right-wing populism.
However, another much older figure denies the fundamental interconnectedness and interdependence of care relations: the figures of the lone fighter, the lone performer, the solitary artist. They are thoroughly masculinist, white and colonialist figures who believe they can fight, create and win on their own strength and brilliance. The solitary fighter, performer, artist, “plants himself in life (…) by his own strength, without anyone holding, weighing, or feeding him, [he is] forever healthy and clean,” he plunders, conquers, and destroys “all others by his own strength (…) to found the world on this devastation.” This figure of the hero, however, loses all power, it “crumbles into ruins when we look at what surrounds us through the eyes of those who care for us – starting from the intertwined bonds of interdependence on which we rely.”5
To see from care, from existential relations of care, to put care at the center, means to politicize it; it means to question the ways in which it is socially and institutionally organized. Putting care at the center means a far-reaching critique of existing social, economic, ecological, and legal conditions.
Seen in this light, care means more than being there for someone else. It is more than a relationship between human individuals. Care relationships go beyond the bonds of individuals, they even go beyond human relationships. They include relationships with all living beings and environments. Care is ecological.6 To put care at the center is to understand our multiple dependencies on ecologies and to urgently address climate change; it is to invent new worlds grounded in every way in mutual relatedness, interdependence, and respect.
Relationships of care are transversal, boundless, encompassing, manifold. To assume that we all are interdependent is precisely not to assume that everyone is the same. A focus on care cares for multiple desires, allows for heterogeneity and multiplicity without categorizing and hierarchizing into identities. In Democracy in the Political Present, I proposed a queer feminist perspective on democracy that takes as its point of departure both mutual connectedness and care, and the struggles against neoliberal individualization, against patriarchal violence against women, queers, and trans people.7 It is about a transnational democracy, not based on the one people, the one nation, and it is directed against right wing and authoritarian populism.8 It is a form of democracy in the present that values multiplicity, not homogeneity. Such a transnational democracy needs a new understanding of citizenship: a care-citizenship.
About 20 years ago, the queer feminist collective Precarias a la deriva brought to the discussion the proposal of a society based on care: a cuidadanía.9 Cuidadanía is a Spanish neologism meaning care citizenship. Cuidadanía stands for a new form of living together, in which connectedness with others is not devalued or shifted into the private sphere. In the midst of the neoliberal “crisis of care” and the “precarization of existence” that cannot be separated from it, there is not simply a call for more security. The obvious problem with the call for more security is that very quickly the authoritarians and reactionaries are called on the scene: those who “create order,” criminalize migration, and promote gender inequalities. Cuidadanía interrupts these orders of security and their logics of exclusion and defamation, and with them the fear of insecurity and vulnerability. In this way, a space is created in which – beyond neoliberal logics – one can think anew about safeguarding.
The cuidadanía is based on rights of care, such as a general “right to care and to be cared for,” which at the same time implies not being obligated to care work qua social positioning. The cuidadanía is based on this right, in which individuals are not understood as separated from each other, but as manifold interrelated singularities. It is a right that recognizes the precariousness shared with others.10
The cuidadania emerges, for example, in and through the queer-feminist care strike movements that have been taking place for several years, especially in Latin America, but also in many places in Europe, taking to the streets with large demonstrations not only on March 8. They are not suspending care, but striking against the ignorance of care.11 It takes many struggles to put care at the center and act from it.
Twenty years ago, when the Precarias a la deriva began to speak of the cuidadanía, they were acting in the midst of the transnational movement of the precarious: the EuroMayDay movement. It was a movement that was active throughout the 2000s in many different cities and countries, very much influenced by queer feminist activism, but also from the alter-globalization movements, that is, movements that were very critical of identity and representation. And very important: the EuroMayDay movement was very broadly anchored in the local and transnational very heterogeneous cultural field.
At that time, I myself was part of the feminist group kpD (kleines postfordistisches Drama / small post-fordist drama). We did a kind of artistic research, better: a militant research on the precarization of cultural producers, on their/our fantasies of freedom and independence.12 kpD was a group of four friends here in Berlin: next to me Katja Reichard from the bookshop pro-qm; Marion von Osten, whom we have been missing so much for more than two years and whose 60th birthday we celebrated a few days ago in her memory at the Volksbühne; and Brigitta Kuster who has invented “Cinema of Care” as a strong concept and elaborated it over the years.13
As kpD, we conducted long interviews with cultural producers and used them to make a film with drama students in a casting show setting. The film is called “Kamera läuft!”.14 But because we didn’t get an answer to the question about the organization of the precarious in the interviews, we took the film and showed it in many places in the context of the movement of the precarious, in order to initiate a common exchange about precarious working and living conditions, to show people that it is not a matter of individual precarization, and to show and expand commonalities and resistances. In the first years we refused to show the film in the art field and other contexts without having discussions.
Not by chance, I am mentioning kpD at the end of my short speech: I am trying to give a short answer to the question that Elena and Dennis asked me a few weeks ago, namely what role art plays in my reflections.
Artistic practices such as kpD’s film and the way we have worked together in mutual care have shown that critical analysis and thus understanding of the very social conditions in which we work artistically cannot be separated – neither from science and theory nor from activism.
1 See also Verónica Gago, Luci Cavallero, Der Haushalt als Versuchslabor. Feministische Kämpfe um Mieten, Haus- und Heimarbeit, Wien u.a.: transversal texts 2023 (https://transversal.at/books/der-haushalt-als-versuchslabor).
2 See Marta Malo, “¡Estamos para nosotras! Sieben Thesen zu einer radikalen Sorgepraxis“, transversal. blog, January 2021, https://transversal.at/blog/estamos-para-nosotras-sieben-thesen
3 See Isabell Lorey, “Corona Effects”, transversal. multilingual webjournal: “Around the Crown”, April 2020, https://transversal.at/transversal/0420
4 See Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence. An Ethico-Political Bind, London: Verso 2021.
5 Malo, “¡Estamos para nosotras!”.
6 See Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Durham: Duke UP 2016.
7 See Isabell Lorey, Democracy in the Political Present. A Queer-Feminist Theory, London: Verso 2022.
8 On “authoritarian populism” see also Stuart Hall, “Popular-Democratic vs Authoritarian Populism”, in Marxism and Democracy, ed by Alan Hunt, London: Lawrence &Wishart 1980.
9 See Precarias a la deriva, Was ist dein Streik? – Militante Streifzüge durch die Kreisläufe der Prekarität, Wien u.a.: transversal texts 2014.
10 See Isabell Lorey, State of Insecurity. Government of the Precarious, London: Verso 2015.
11 See Verónica Gago, Feminist International. How to Change Everything, London: Verso 2020.
12 kpD, “The Precarization of Cultural Producers and the Missing ‘Good Life’”, transversal. multilingual webjournal: “militant research”, June 2005, https://transversal.at/transversal/0406/kpd/en; Isabell Lorey, “Governmentality and Self-Precarization. On the normalization of cultural producers”, transversal. multilingual webjournal: “machines and subjectivation”, January 2006, https://transversal.at/transversal/1106/lorey/en
13 http://pro-qm.de; Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice), Utrecht: BAK 2017, https://www.bakonline.org/basics/marion-von-osten-once-we-were-artists-a-bak-critical-reader-in-artists-practice/; Brigitta Kuster, “… I Care Because You Do. Towards a cinema of care | Für ein sorgetragendes Kino”, Open Gender Journal, 6, 2022, 6. https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2022.158; Brigitta Kuster, “We Fight Because We Care. Toward Doing Cinema of Care”, transversal. blog, Oct. 2022, https://transversal.at/blog/toward-doing-cinema-of-care
1214 „Kamera läuft!“ kleines postfordistisches Drama, Berlin/Zürich 2004, 32:31, https://vimeo.com/363605836


|Written by Chris Perver |
|Monday, 04 December 2006 17:00|
|Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani confirmed today that Iran will have completed its nuclear research and development by March 2007. There had been reports earlier in the year that Israeli intelligence had evidence that Iran was only a few months away from perfecting its nuclear knowledge, and in the Israelis minds, knowledge of how to build a nuclear bomb is much more dangerous than possessing one. Israeli politicians have stated that under no circumstances will Iran be permitted to develop a nuclear weapon. |
Quote: ""All parts of our research and development program will be achieved by the end of this Iranian year (March 2007),” Ali Larijani told Iran’s official IRNA news agency, without elaborating. Tehran says it will expand its atomic work by installing 3,000 centrifuges, devices used to enrich uranium either to make fuel for power stations or material warheads. Tehran insists its plans are peaceful but the West fears it has military goals. Iran now operates two chains of 164 centrifuges and has only enriched tiny quantities of uranium to levels used in power stations. Experts say with 3,000 centrifuges in place, Tehran could make enough material for at least one warhead in a year.
Some interesting facts about March 2007. It's the month in which a total lunar eclipse will be visible from the whole Middle East (the 3rd of March). The lunar eclipse also falls on the days of Purim - when the Jews celebrate deliverance from their Persian enemies and wicked Haman. It's the month in which the Israeli elections fall. It's the month in which Iran hopes to complete it's Bushehr nuclear facility. And according to a top Russian politician, it's the month in which Israel has decided to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. So all does not look well for March, if the negotiations Javier Solana is proposing continue to stall.
Source YNet News, Reuters


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Finally, I have been meaning to do these forever :o I didn't really know what or how I was going to play it out. I am pleased I done it the way I have :D
They are truly magical & beautiful, I really wanted to reflect that on my nails. I hope I have.
Again I tried 'real life' .. As much as I love them, my horse mani tramples these lol. Still I adore this mani & am very sad they are gone :(. Now I know why pictures are the best memories lol.
I had to use SpaRitual It's Raining Men already!! I am in love ;) - I topped one coat over Sally Hansen Lavender Cloud. Look at the beauty! I really am pleased with how well it pulls off that 'magical' feel.
Please excuse the pics, this mani was impossible to photo -.-
What do you think? Are you a unicorn lover?


text: I LOVE working with this family!! I met them almost a year ago for their little one’s newborn pictures. It is crazy how big she has gotten since what seems like yesterday. Working with this family is always such a treat. Mom and dad are always so laid back and fun to be around. They create gorgeous images as a family by just being themselves! Their daughter is such a cutie, and those blue eyes!!! Her eyes seem to pop in every picture. I can’t say enough about how sweet and fun this family is to work with and be around. Here is just a sneak peek into our session last week. I look forward to sharing more with mom and dad soon.