1996 Toyota Starlet Glanza V 1.3 Turbo Sky Blue
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Starlet Glanza V 1.3 Turbo
Performance equipment includes: HKS Super Powerflow (SPF) Induction kit, A Full Stainless Steel Exhaust System (Standard Catalyst is retained in the Turbo Elbow for Ease of MOT). The engine has much improved response and performance with the improved breathing generated by the removal of the standard, restrictive parts. Engine sound is also much improved with the 1.3 16V Twin Cam Turbo sounding powerful even at idle. In standard form the 4E-FTE Engine develops 133BHP at 6400rpm, using only 0.65 Bar boost. This example is developing in the region of 140BHP with improved breathing. With the addition of a boost controller or adjustable turbo actuator, 160BHP is easily and safely achievable. These parts are readily available from our sister company www.neweraparts.com. A Blitz boost gauge is already fitted to allow close monitoring of the boost level. In addition a Blitz radiator cap has been fitted to incease cooling system pressure to a higher 1.3Bar, before release, minimising the change of pressure loss and overheating. Also installed is a HKS Turbo Timer, this allows the turbo to cool properly before switching off the engine, thus cutting oil supply, prolonging turbocharger life.
This car is suprisingly fast, and will undoubtabley shock many hot hatch drivers once rolling on UK tarmac!
To make use of the increased driveability the suspension has been uprated with TEIN HR coilover suspension. This suspension set up also allows full ride height adjustment (With the use of C Spanners) and damping control from the strut top (using allen adjustment). A front strut brace is fitted as standard, providing improved cornering rigidity. This Glanza is currently riding around 40mm lower than standard, giving both improved looks and far superior handling over the standard suspension set up, with little to no body roll when cornering hard! The handling really is superb.
The factory wheels have been replaced with lightweight, forged, Zeit SS Bronze 15" alloy wheels, with 4 nearly new Firestone Firehawk 195/50 R15 82V sports tyres. When combined with the reduced ride height and increased rim size, the Glanza looks truly menacing.
Standard equipment includes: 5 speed manual transmission, Power Steering, Electic Windows with auto up/down on drivers window, Air Conditioning, Rear Wiper, Fitted mats, Remote Controlled Door Mirrors with retract mode, Central cup holders, Driver's SRS airbag, Front Driving Lamps, Rear Spoiler and window wind deflectors. Note that a JVC MD/Radio is also fitted and included free of charge.
The auction grade is 4 (Auction Sheet is available). This confirms the outstanding condition of this 1996 model. This Glanza is the nicest we've found through regular searching in Japan's best auctions - which is of course why we bought this example for stock. We have never stocked a Glanza before, although not through l;ack of trying. They are usually simply too tatty for our high standards. When we saw this example, we just had to have it! Having covered only 64,703 Miles from New, having the cambelt replaced ahead of schedule at 50,383 Miles is again proof of the care this car has undergone throughout its life.
Condition is outstanding. There are two very small pin dents to each side, each so small they are almost invisible. These are too small to warrant repair, although are mentioned for the purpose of a complete and accurate description.
With no significant wear to seats, switches, mats, etc. and low wear to discs, it is evident this car's been stunningly well looked after.
Over £3,000 (equivalent) has been spent in Japan by the last keeper in improving this Starlet Glanza V to the specification detailed above!
Clearly a cherished example all it's life, paintwork is both immaculate and very smooth-clearly having been polished regularly. If you can trust Newera's reputation, you'll know this is the best you'll come across.
With the E-SVA regulations now in full swing, this is the newest Glanza currently available for import to the UK, with no model report currently available, or likely to be produced, for E-SVA test purposes.
Includes all costs such as SVA test, full UK conversions, 1 year's comprehensive Motorcare warranty, valeting, cost of road tax and new MOT.
Please Contact Us to discuss reserving this Toyota Starlet Glanza V for yourself.
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Mary A. Koncel: Three Prose Poems
Sideswiping the Pig | Black Flies | Something Like the Earth
Sideswiping the Pig
It's always the pig. Not the goat, the black-bellied heifer with her wobbly calf, or the chickens with frost bitten toes. No, it's the pig running down the middle of the road, squealing those high-pitched obscenities, dust rising off its cloven hooves, and close behind, the farmer yelling back, I'll kill you, you son of a bitch. Of course, you stop. Imagine, though, if you didn't. Imagine that you swerved, fishtailing across the road, two wheels in the gully then out and still you kept on driving. Imagine you had a daughter, Bridget or Athena, and she's covering her big bright eyes with her hands, jamming her feet into the floor, and screaming that she wished you weren't her mother because you wear ugly brown shoes, because you always drive too fast and now you've hit that pig, that poor, poor pig. A few hours ago, you were napping, sunlight cresting over your body, and now you're trying to convince her, your Bridget or Athena, the pig is safe, you only grazed it, a little bump on the shoulder, that's all.
Morning and already a flutter of Why's. Why onion bagels? Why a loose right turn onto Route 66 and black flies thumping my windshield? And why is a man dressed like a chicken standing in the Big E parking lot, holding a sign that says Why?
Traffic is thick. It's April. Time to change the subject. So I nurse my clutch and think about the runaway hot dog cart in New York City that hit a flagpole and snapped it in two.
But here they come again. Small, unfettered like those black flies. Why a hot dog cart and no one in the parting crowd yelling, Save yourself, Save yourself? Why poor Mrs. Denkoff? Why her moment of calm before her empty T-strap pumps and final awe?
A school bus stutters through the intersection. The man dressed like a chicken flaps a crooked wing, waves the sign above his head. A red rubber head, bright yellow feathers, and sleepy, long-mouthed children craning outside their windows.
I blow my horn. Not for Mrs. Denkoff or hot dog carts in New York City. Not for a look, an approving gesture from the man with chicken feet and morning stubble. In this minute, there's a black fly, maybe two, buzzing my rearview mirror, and I won't ask why. Call it salvation. Call it my moment of calm.
Something Like the Earth
In corn country, we watch the corn grow. A simple task, and tomorrow will be no different. Sitting, we reshuffle our ankles, nod toward the field, each row delicately parted.
We know how to live, what to expect from a bare summer breeze, when to relish that sullen growth. Once, in the back-forty, lured from a Flat Bed Chevy, a boy and girl tangled, rubbed themselves in root and broken stalk. He turned whispering. She tugged loose her braid. And then the muffled rapture.
It always comes back to corn.
We've learned our lessons well. Respect the dirt, the sun and rain. Respect the seed and the farmer rising from morning sheets, arms stretched, broad chest already heaving with the promise of sweat and sudden ache.
Outside, on a crook of oak limbs, crows perch, heads turned in their well-fastened hoods. Sometimes they rustle, wings burning under a dazed sun, before the farmer empties his cup and laces each boot.
Mary A. Koncel is a long-time devotee of the prose poem. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Denver Quarterly, The Journal, Sycamore Review, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry, and The Best of the Prose Poem: An International Journal. She was a recipient of a fellowship in poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 1999, Quale Press published her chapbook, Closer to Day. Her full-length collection of prose poems, You Can Tell the Horse Anything, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. She lives in Worthington, MA, with her husband and many animals, small and large. In addition to writing prose poems and essays, she is an avid dressage rider.

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An Army at Dawnby Rick Atkinson
2003 Pulitzer Prize for History
An Army at Dawn is a superbly written book on the Northern African campaign of World War II. This is a wonderful history of some of the first campaigns of the war; Atkinson maintains a balanced focus on everyone involved, from the generals down to the privates. With great insight, he details the difficulties of entering a war with an inexperienced army and the necessary components of survival and success.
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In the first volume of him monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in the Second World War, Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Atkinson tells the story of the war in North Africa.
Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the British and American armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Alferia, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually turns into a superb fighting force. Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery and Rommel.
"[I]ntellectually convincing and emotionally compelling." Publishers Weekly
"An exemplary work that feeds anticipation of the succeeding volumes." Booklist
"Using battlefield reports and archival material, Atkinson tells a fascinating story of the North African campaign that is hard to stop reading, even though one knows the outcome." Library Journal
This is the first volume of Rick Atkinson's trilogy about the Liberation of Europe in the World War II, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, 2003.
In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great power.
Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the American and British armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algeria, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, and Rommel.
Brilliantly researched, rich with new material and vivid insights, Atkinson's narrative provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa.
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Company bars ‘Vindicat jackasses’
Wallinga is ‘deeply ashamed’ of the way the ‘boys and girls’ of Vindicat ‘treat new members without respect’, he writes in a blog post on LinkedIn. ‘It creates an image of spoiled children who think they are above the common people’, writes the marketing agency’s co-owner.
According to Wallinga, his agency is looking for ‘real talent’. ‘That means people who are looking to grow, not just personally but also professionally. You can’t hide a lack of talent behind an association membership or finishing a study. That means that Vindicat members are not welcome at Sellian, because we don’t want any jackasses in our club who then bring in other jackasses.’
In a short interview with RTV Noord, Vindicat rector Stijn Derksen says that the post is ‘annoying’. He says he is disappointed that the entire group is treated unfairly on the basis of a few incidents, rather than just the people directly involved.
Wallinga says that other companies agree with him. According to the Chamber of Commerce, however, they have had no reports of companies barring Vindicat members.
Last week, student association Vindicat was in the news several times because of incidents at the fraternity. In August, an aspiring member was struck so hard by senior members during a hazing ritual that he had to be hospitalised. It also came out that male members had written the ‘True Almanac’, a ‘bang list’ in which the members encouraged each other to get 22 ‘horny bitches’ into bed.

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Stinky Stern Forever
Pa Lia has never liked Stinky Stern, the enemy of the second grade. He makes fun of other kids, he says mean things, and he's always causing trouble. But when Stinky is suddenly hit by a car and killed, Pa Lia and the rest of the students in Mrs. Fennessey's class face a difficult challenge: How do you deal with the death of someone nobody really liked?
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- 01 Oct 2007
- Cengage Learning, Inc
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- Orlando, United States
- Illustrations, black and white
[set star] "This is a thoughtful book, a useful book, and a very well-handled depiction of death for young people."--The Bulletin (starred)
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MICHELLE EDWARDS has written and illustrated many books for young readers, including Chicken Man, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.


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One of China’s largest and most indebted real estate companies, Evergrande Group, is headed by the controversial Hui Ka Yan and is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. We will know about Hui Ka Yan Net Worth later in this post. Hui brought Evergrande public in 2009; the company has over 800 projects spread across over 280 cities but is struggling to pay back $300 billion in obligations. After completing his undergraduate education in 1982, Hui worked ten years as a steel mill technician. In 1996, Hui founded Evergrande in Guangzhou and started purchasing inexpensive houses in local marketplaces. He has won “Top 100 Private Entrepreneurs in the 40th Anniversary of China’s Reform and Opening-up”, “China National Award for Fighting against Poverty”, “China National Model Worker”, and “Excellent Builder for the Socialist Cause with Chinese Characteristics”, and many other national honours.
Hui Ka Yan Bio/Wiki
|Hui Ka Yan
|65 years (as of 2023)
|Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign
|Taikang County, Zhoukou, China
|Date of Birth
|October 9, 1958
|Soccer and Volleyball Teams, bottled water, online entertainment, banking and insurance
Marital Status, Wife and Children
|Ding Yumei (m. 1983)
|Taikang County No. 1 High School
|Wuhan University of Science and Technology
Height, Weight, and Figure Measurements
|5 feet 4 inches
Extra Ordinary Features
|Race / Ethnicity
|Soccer and volleyball
|Debts of over $300 Billion
On October 9, 1958, in Jutaigang Village, Gaoxian Township, Taikang County, Henan, Hui Ka Yan was born into a rural family. His father served in the Second Sino-Japanese War between 1930 and 1940 and is now retired from the military. He started working as a warehouseman in his hometown after the communist state was established. At the age of eight months, Xu’s mother passed away from sepsis. His grandma from his father’s side reared him. He worked for two years at home after finishing high school, first spending a few days in cement product manufacturing. He was in charge of the production crew.
He married his girlfriend whom he met at Wuhan University of Science and Technology. The couple is blessed with 2 beautiful children and resides in Guangzhou, China.
Hui, in 2021, resigned from his position as chairman of Hengda Real Estate, a business that manages property development in mainland China and was responsible for generating 88 per cent of Evergrande’s income in 2017. Zhao Changlong, a seasoned lieutenant who also serves as the onshore unit’s general manager, will take over for him. Hui continues to serve as chairman of Evergrande, which is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He has a 76.7 per cent share there and is worth $14.6 billion. Recently in 2022, China Evergrande Group has been served with what is believed to be the first winding-up case. Despite being heavily indebted, the business still intends to provide a plan by the end of July to restructure its more than $300 billion in total liabilities. The Samoan-incorporated Top Shine Global Limited has petitioned the High Court of Hong Kong to dissolve the business, according to a stock exchange filing from the Hong Kong-listed property developer on Monday. Evergrande did not provide further details on the $110 million financial obligations that are the subject of the case.
Hui Ka Yan Education
He received an honorary doctorate in business from the University of West Alabama in 2008 after graduating from Wuhan University of Science and Technology in 1982. Since 2003, Professor Hui has taught management at Wuhan University of Science and Technology. In 2010, he was assigned to that institution’s position of doctorate tutor.
After graduating from college in 1982, Xu was hired by Wuyang Iron and Steel Company’s heat-treatment shop, where he later attained the positions of associate director in 1983 and director in 1985. There, Xu was the director for seven years. He relocated to Shenzhen, a newly established special economic zone in southeast China’s Guangdong province, upon his resignation in 1992. A trading business called “Zhongda” welcomed him. One year later, he was chosen president of its “Quanda” branch office. To start the Guangzhou Pengda Industrial Co., Ltd., Xu relocated to Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong, on October 1st, 1994. After failing to reach an agreement with the head of this society, Hui Ka Yan quit Zhongda Group in May 1996 with a salary of 2,000 yuan per month. He established the Evergrande Group in March 1997 and served as its chairman of the board. As of 2016, Guangzhou Evergrande football club, one of China’s most prosperous teams, is owned by Xu. Xu announced a three-year, $6.4 billion investment in electric vehicles in 2019. He has over 37 years of expertise in business management, real estate development, and investing. Professor Hui holds positions as vice-chairman of the B20 China Business Council, vice president of the APEC China Business Council, and vice-chairman of the China Enterprise Confederation, China Enterprise Directors Association, and China Real Estate Association, in addition to memberships on the 12th and 13th National Committees of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the standing committees of these committees.
Hui Ka Yan Net Worth
His wealth was estimated to have peaked in 2017 at $45.3 billion, and in 2020 Forbes ranked Xu third among the wealthiest Chinese billionaires. His fortune, however, was predicted to have decreased from 2017 to 2020 by more than $20 billion to $21.8 billion as a result of growing debts, which were made worse by the coronavirus outbreak. His personal wealth was still pegged at $11.3 billion on the Hurun China Rich List of October 2021. His net worth has decreased to $6.2 billion, or a loss of $17.2 billion, by December 13, 2021, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, in part because of the selling of personal assets during the Evergrande liquidity crisis.
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Hui Ka Yan Wife
Hui ka Yan’s wife, Ms Ding Yamei, is also referred to as Mrs Hui. She doesn’t have a lot of information available. Hui ka Yan occasionally compliments his wife. He claims that he wouldn’t have been able to accomplish what he has achieved without his wife’s patience and understanding.
Hui Ka Yan Height, Weight & Age
Hui Ka Yan, as of 2023, is 65 years old. He is 5 feet and 4 inches in height and is a straight, Chinese man with black hair and black eyes.
Some Facts About Hui Ka Yan
- Does Hui Ka Yan smoke? Yes
- Does Hui Ka Yan consume alcohol? Yes.
- Hui Ka Yan also pays very close attention to his health. He eats before nine o’clock at night.
- Tennis and volleyball are two of Hui Ka Yan’s favourite sports to play.
- Hui Ka Yan enjoys watching movies and television.
How much is the net worth of Hui Ka Yan? $18 billion Who is Hui Ka Yan wife? Ding Yumei What is Hui Ka Yan age? 65 years What is the name of the Hui Ka Yan firm? Evergrande

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Physical Details: Clipping : 1 item ; 16 x 5 cm.
Forms part of: Ben Shahn papers, 1879-1990, bulk 1933-1970
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Citation: Newspaper clipping featuring a man performing a handstand, between ca. 1930- ca. 1940. Ben Shahn papers, 1879-1990, bulk 1933-1970. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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G.O.P. Plan Would Restrict Rise in Tuition
By KAREN W. ARENSON
The New York Times
September 5, 2003
Two House Republican leaders sharply attacked American colleges and universities in a report yesterday, saying their costs were out of control.
The Republicans are proposing a bill that would penalize colleges, public and private, that raised tuition significantly faster than the increase in the Consumer Price Index over several years.
Under a draft proposal, sanctions could include the loss of some federal student aid programs. But the sanctions would not be imposed until a college had an opportunity to formulate a corrective plan and two to three years to put it into use.
An aide to Representative Howard P. McKeon, a California Republican who has said he would soon introduce such legislation, said Mr. McKeon was not available for comment yesterday afternoon.
"Decades of uncontrolled cost increases are pushing the dream of a college degree further out of reach for needy students," said the report, which was written by Representative John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio, who is chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Mr. McKeon, who is chairman of the subcommittee on 21st century competitiveness.
They called the pending reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which covers a variety of matters involving colleges and universities, "the most pressing item on the Congressional agenda for education" because rising tuition hurts colleges at a time when attending college has become increasingly important.
The bill summary said a tuition increase would be deemed troublesome if tuition over three years grew at more than twice the rate of increase in the price index.
If that happened, the education secretary would ask a college for an explanation and a specific plan to limit future tuition increases. If the college did not comply with its plan within two academic years, it would be placed on "cost affordability alert" status and have to submit additional information about its spending that would be made public.

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Class II rapids are a rarity in Florida, but you can find them at beautiful Hillsborough River State Park. Just minutes from downtown Tampa, this diverse park offers a refuge from city life with seven miles of nature trails and ample places to cool off in the water.
15402 U.S. 301 North
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Lake Kissimmee State Park
Florida's heritage comes alive with living history demonstrations of the early Florida cow hunters in an 1876-era cow camp. White-tailed deer, bald eagles, sandhill cranes, turkeys and bobcats have been seen in the park, located on the shores of lakes Kissimmee, Tiger and Rosalie.
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Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park
Situated on the banks of the legendary Suwannee River, this center honors the memory of American composer Stephen Foster, who wrote "Old Folks at Home," the song that made the river famous.
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Deepika Padukone, who has proved her reign once again as Queen of box Office success with last outing, ‘Piku’, hosted a special celebratory bash on Monday night (May 18) in Mumbai. (Source: Photo by Varinder Chawla)
The beauty, who received much praise for her performance, was fresh and beautiful in a white Greek inspired one-shoulder Nikhil Thampi dress. Deepika’s boyfriend Ranveer Singh looked thrilled and excited to partake in his ladylove’s success as he arrived in a quirky getup.
Ranveer Singh at Deepika Padukone’s success bash. (Source: Photo by Varinder Chawla)
One of Deepika’s favourite co-stars and no doubt box office lucky charm, Shah Rukh Khan also attended the party. The duo have created magic onscreen with ‘Happy New Year’, ‘Chennai Express’ and ‘Om Shanti Om’.
Shah Rukh Khan enters the venue of Deepika’s Piku bash. (Source: Photo by Varinder Chawla)
Among others were National awardee Kangana Ranaut, Sophie Choudry and Malaika Arora Khan.
Sophie Choudry and Malaika Arora Khan looked pretty. (Source: Photo by Varinder Chawla)
Alia Bhatt and Sidharth Malhotra enter the venue. (Source: photo by Varinder Chawla)
The party had a host of filmmakers including ‘Piku’ director Shoojit Sircar, Farah Khan, Rajkumar Hirani, Anurag Kashyap, Karan Johar, Vishal Bhardwaj, R. Balki, his wife Gauri Shinde and Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
Karan Johar along with Zoya Akhtar and Farah Khan. (Source: Photo by Varinder Chawla)
Deepika’s onscreen love Irrfan Khan was also seen at the Monday night bash. But, surprisingly, the actress’ onscreen dad, Amitabh Bachchan gave the bash a miss.
Director Anurag Kashyap looked unaffected by the debacle of his recent release ‘Bombay Velvet’ and was seen enjoying with SRK and Ranveer.


By Angela Brooks
LARAMIE, Wyoming, Dec. 24. SOME of the most prominent men in Laramie have stripped off their clothes to raise money for an eight-lane competitive swimming pool.
About 35 local men cast off their inhibitions — and business suits — for a 2004 calendar designed to raise money for an eight-lane pool at the Laramie Community Recreation Center.
“We wanted to show these normal, dignified people in their jobs, being a little undignified,” said Lisa Kinney of Friends of Community Recreation.
“Wyoming Male Celebs” is a takeoff of a calendar done in Iowa where everyday men posed nude to raise money. Hoping a similar idea would work in Laramie, Kinney collected beach supplies and began calling businessmen.
“We’re a group of women, so we decided men would be the best subjects,” Kinney chuckled.
Some weren’t so keen on the idea, but others gladly joined in on the fun.
“The people who made it into the calendar were very fun-loving and understood it was just going to be a silly way to raise funds for the pool,” Kinney said.
All photos are wholesome, like the one featuring Laramie bank presidents Gary Negich, Dan Furphy and Stig Hallingbye.
“I think there was a bit of disbelief that (Kinney) would ask me,” said Negich of First Interstate Bank. “I thought she’d go ask the cheerleaders or the firemen, something like that.”
In the photo, Negich, 51, poses topless with his comrades in an office at First National Bank.
Negich said he got a few strange looks when he appeared in the bank wearing nothing but swimming trunks. Since then, Negich has been the butt of several jokes and has even been asked for autographs.
“It’s something that bankers don’t normally do — get semi-naked for the public,” he said.
But Negich said he was happy to help with the eight-lane pool campaign. First Interstate Bank contributed about $37,000 to the effort two-years ago.
Other pin-ups include former mayor Joe Shumway and County Commissioner Pat Gabriel posing in city council chambers with lifejackets and beach towels.
“Mr. September,” Ivinson Memorial Hospital CEO Jeffrey Feike, models a life preserver, rubber ducky and snorkel.
And in perhaps the most daring photo shoot, Laramie police officer Mitchell Cushman strikes a pose on top of a police car in subzero temperatures, wearing a lifeguard uniform and sunblock.
The $12 calendars are available at Chickering Bookstore, The Other Store and Grand Newsstand in Laramie.
Kinney said the group would most likely release another calendar for 2005.
“For those people who didn’t get the opportunity this year, we’ll be calling next year,” she said.
In just four months, Friends of Community Recreation has raised over $1 million for the pool, including funds from the Albany County Recreation Board.
City officials estimate pool construction could cost about $1.25 million. The group recently hired architects to create design documents so the exact costs are known.
Kinney said the documents are finished and the cost estimates will be complete in about 2-3 weeks.
Architects will begin working on a change order the pool if enough money is raised by Jan. 6.
Meanwhile, the group has kicked-off other creative fundraisers, such as a polar bear run and an art raffle. Pool supporters can also purchase bottled water and be among the first to pour water into the pool.
(Courtesy Laramie Boomerang)


Why did most media (we're looking at you, E!), choose not to run the Kate Middleton pregnant bikini pics? They've turned up in Italian and U.S. tabloids already, so what gives? —MacKenzie, Seattle, via email
We've speculated for weeks about when we might catch our first glimpse of Kate Middleton's baby bump. After all, they're the pictures the world's been waiting for. And when the palace announced the duchess would be making a public appearance later this month, it seemed like we pretty definitively had our answer.
But when mainstream media (and yes, that includes E!), were offered shots of Kate and Prince William strolling on the beach in Mustique, with her hand tenderly thrown around his neck, they turned them down. No matter how much we wanted that first bump pic—and of course, we all did—these shots were not photos we wanted to run.
But why? Will and Kate live in the public eye and are not exactly camera-shy.


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A relaxed foodie festival, the Pure Markt offers a variety of international and local dishes to sample, including paella, bun cha, ice cream, oysters, cava, sausages, goulash, and beer. You can also purchase food to take home like cheese, jams and olive oil as well as clothing and home decor items.
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers won their second Super Bowl in franchise history as they stunned the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9 in Super Bowl LV on Sunday. Here are the top five offensive performers for the Buccaneers in the contest.
5) Ronald Jones II–The third-year Buccaneers running back from Fort Stewart, GA, had 12 carries for 61 yards. Jones’s best rush was for 13 yards on the Buccaneers’ first play of their second possession in the first quarter.
4) Antonio Brown–We all know of the issues Antonio Brown of Miami, Florida, has had in recent years. When the Buccaneers came to terms with Brown, it was considered very controversial. In Super Bowl LV, Brown had five catches for 22 yards and one touchdown. He caught a huge one yard touchdown pass from Tom Brady with six seconds left before halftime. At the time, the Buccaneers took a 21-6 lead.
3) Rob Gronkowski–Despite being out of football for a full year, Gronkowski came out of retirement, joined Brady in Tampa Bay, and was an absolute beast. He was by far the best tight end in Super Bowl LV, as he had six catches for 67 yards, and two touchdowns. Gronk caught an eight yard touchdown pass from Brady with 37 seconds left in the first quarter to put Tampa Bay up 7-3, and then had a 17 yard catch for another major score in the second quarter to put the Buccaneers up 14-3.
2) Leonard Fournette–Back in May, Leonard Fournette ran into contract problems with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Then in August, Fournette was waived by Jacksonville after the Jaguars could not trade him. A week later, Fournette signed with the Buccaneers, and now he is a Super Bowl champion. In Super Bowl LV, Fournette, a native of New Orleans, LA, had 16 carries for 89 yards and one touchdown, along with four catches for 46 yards. Fournette’s touchdown came in the third quarter on a 27-yard run which put the Buccaneers up 28-9 at the time.
1) Tom Brady–The G.O.A.T. may not have been spectacular from a statistical standpoint, but was a terrific game manager, and in the process won his record fifth National Football League Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award. Throughout the 60 minutes of action, Brady completed 21 of 29 passes for 201 yards, and three touchdowns. He also won a record seventh Super Bowl title.

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Do not go gentle into that good night.
Lu Feng watches as the two doctors bustle about, arranging and rearranging equipment in a way that looks more disorganised than professional. It’s not the first time he’s been taken for genetic testing, but the buzz of activity outside the testing capsule is… new.
“You should be testing suspected heterogenous.”
“Without proving the validity of our upgrade, Colonel Lu? Surely you aren’t suggesting we use faulty equipment on our people.” One of the doctors looks at Lu Feng with contempt poorly-hidden in his eyes. “You might believe in solving all problems with intuition and bullets, but we believe in rigorous testing and tangible results.”
Lu Feng meets that doctor’s contemptuous gaze without blinking.
Three seconds later, that doctor looks away and mutters, “I thought the colonel would be more well-informed. What a pity that he remains ignorant to scientific enlightenment.”
Lu Feng stays silent, because there is no point in defending himself.
He knows the specifics of the latest upgrade — how could he not, when the Trial Court relies so heavily on the doctors and their testing? That he chooses not to speak of it does not mean he is ignorant, but that seems to be a concept the doctors testing him do not understand. The way they glance at him out of the corner of their eyes, then whisper behind raised hands to one another, is even less subtle than the one time a ‘human’ had mutated into an anthropod before his eyes.
Thankfully, they are not paid to be subtle or judge the people of the settlement. Their job is to test for abnormalities, ones that can now be detected beyond animal and plant targets — testing him might seem like a waste of time, effort and equipment, but Lu Feng cooperates for the same reason he lets them take his blood once a month.
It’s the same reason Lu Feng continues to stay silent instead of expressing his opinions on the test — he may be cooperating, but cooperation is not the same as acceptance. His eyes are far colder than they were an hour ago, by the time the doctors indicate that the full-body enhancement scan, but the doctors are too busy bustling again to care for Lu Feng’s mood.
Another person might tap their foot against the floor, or clear their throat loudly until one of the doctors attended to them. Lu Feng retrieves his gun from a side table, tucks it into his waistband, and discreetly monitors the doctors.
“Are you 100% sure of the test results?”
“The results won’t be finalised until the blood sample is retrieved, but this…”
One of the doctors peeks at Lu Feng and lowers his voice. “There must be a mistake. We’ll need to run another full-body scan.”
“Why? You know the margin for error is less than one percent.”
“But if you’re saying the results are correct, then —”
“Have I tested positive?”
The doctors flinch as one — which would be amusing to Lu Feng, if not for the fact they were discussing his results. “What are you afraid of? Are your tests not accurate?”
One of the doctors draws himself to his full height. It would’ve looked more impressive, Lu Feng thinks, if the doctor wasn’t half a head shorter than him.
“Of course they’re accurate! It could even detect abnormalities in dead cell samples, let alone a living being like yourself, Colonel Lu!”
Lu Feng raises his eyebrows. “You had the time to test dead heterogenous?”
The doctor who’d spoken flushes a dull brick red. His companion, however, shakes his head and looks at Lu Feng with vigilant eyes. “You should know the consequences of your actions, Colonel Lu. Does it surprise you that some might demand a retest?”
It surprises me that you would waste your resources on a retest.
“Well, no matter. You’re too boring for such idle speculation anyway.” The two doctors look at each other, before one leaves the room and the other turns back to Lu Feng. “Now, I’m sure you know the correlation between DNA activation and categorial variations, but we’ve added parameters for radiation and other factors due to the atmosphere’s destabilisation.”
Lu Feng stares at the doctor. The doctor, after a few seconds of staring back, shakes his head.
“What I’m saying is that, according to these results, you do not match the profiling of a heterogenous.”
Lu Feng’s gaze cools further. “That proves your equipment works, since I’m human.”
“It would if it identified you as human, but —”
The other doctor enters the room with a phial of blood and a thin stack of paper. The one speaking with Lu Feng breaks off to read the results and discuss it with his colleague in a low voice, but Lu Feng is stuck on the doctor’s last statement.
He’s not a heterogenous. Lu Feng has never been in direct contact with one, and he has no memories of being contaminated. He’s a human that judges others’ humanity, executing them based on his intuition, but — no, the equipment must have malfunctioned.
Lu Feng, the Judge of the Trial Court, cannot be a heterogenous.
The doctors appear to reach the same conclusion, because they turn to him with serious looks in their eyes. Lu Feng eyes the needle in one’s hand, entertains the thought of leaving and recommending that funding to the Lighthouse should be slashed, but ultimately unstraps his gun and extends his arm.
“Don’t worry,” the doctor (uselessly) reassures Lu Feng. “It must be an external factor contaminating your results, Colonel Lu. A retest will give us more conclusive results!”
With the equipment you said was accurate? Equipment that should be free from contamination, no matter what?
Lu Feng gives the doctor a look that makes him wilt, but strides to the testing capsule and straps himself in. It is still, in his opinion, a waste of his time and the doctors’ resources, but how else can he prove that their equipment is faulty? The Trial Court exists for a reason. The doctors, no matter how they improve their equipment or method, will never be able to replace his training and intuition.
When the results come out for a second time, Lu Feng is the first to compare the results from his blood test and full-body scan. He’s no scientist or doctor, but the letters and numbers on his genetic report are plain enough to understand at a glance.
“Colonel Lu, this…”
Lu Feng sets down the report, gives the doctors an insipid look, and walks out the door. The doctors do not follow him or raise an alarm before Lu Feng leaves the Lighthouse, but it is an oversight he does not intend to report — not now, nor any time after.
If the results reach the city council before Lu Feng does, he doubts they would listen to him anyway.
That thought, to Lu Feng’s consternation, is less troubling than his genetic report.
Lu Feng finds An Zhe in the first place he thinks of: in front of the chamber holding the inert sample. It’s the best place to find An Zhe when he’s not on duty, but Lu Feng, like everyone else in the city, has never understood An Zhe’s obsession with the sample.
(It is one of the many things Lu Feng does not understand about An Zhe. It goes beyond his immunity to heterogenous attacks and the twinge in his intuition when they had first met, for all that An Zhe’s genetic tests have always come back clean.
It should annoy him that An Zhe remains a mystery to him, but Lu Feng’s feelings for An Zhe’s are the furthest thing from annoyance, or even rejection.)
The sample, like every other time Lu Feng visits, drifts in his direction and waves white tendrils at him. By the time Lu Feng is within arm’s length of the spore, An Zhe has turned to look at him too.
Lu Feng looks at An Zhe without saying a word. After a few moments, An Zhe’s gaze darts to the spore.
An Zhe’s eyes widen, gaze darting back to Lu Feng. It is not the first time Lu Feng has called his name, but it is the first time he’s done so without a smile in his eyes, or on his face. “Colonel?”
“I’m absolutely loyal to the base.” Lu Feng presses a hand to the chamber and watches the sample bump against the glass by his palm. “I’m a person of the base, and I have done everything for it.”
When Lu Feng looks at An Zhe, An Zhe’s lashes are lowered. There is no expression on his face, but the soft fall of black hair against his pale cheek gives An Zhe an air of naïve purity — one that is made starker by the soft grey robes he wears as a member of the Garden of Eden.
“The base has always safeguarded the interests of humans. As a Judge of the Trial Court, I must be responsible for the base’s security.”
“Why are you telling me this?”
Instead of answering An Zhe, Lu Feng asks, “Do you know how big the world is?”
An Zhe looks at Lu Feng like he did when they’d first met: with wariness and uncertainty, but no fear. When Lu Feng meets his eyes, An Zhe shakes his head once, then nods slowly.
Lu Feng takes his hand back from the chamber glass and tells An Zhe, “No, you don’t. Haven’t you only been outside once?”
An Zhe swallows. Lu Feng hears it clearly above the hum of machinery in the room, the crackle of static from the transmitter he leaves unanswered, and the rustle of clothing as he takes his necklace out.
“The first person I killed was my father.” Lu Feng looks down at the bullet casing resting on his palm, near-identical to the one that hangs on An Zhe’s neck. “The last person I killed was my mother.”
“Madam Lu —”
“Hated me for killing her husband and her children.”
Left unsaid are the words he’d exchanged with her before he’d pulled the trigger. For all that Lu Feng speaks more with An Zhe than any other person in the base, An Zhe doesn’t need to know that she’d smiled like she was crying inside the entire time, or that she’d never once referred to him as her son.
“But she told me she didn’t.”
Lu Feng looks at An Zhe and says slowly, “She does, because she should.”
“She hated me like everyone else in this base soon will — do you not hear the noise outside?”
There is the faint clamour of klaxons and the echoes of shouts, as though a mass protest was gathering outside the building. An Zhe looks at the door and takes a step towards it, but stops and turns to look between Lu Feng and the sample.
Lu Feng answers An Zhe’s unasked question, “No, I won’t take it away again. In an hour — no, in a few minutes, the military will come for me.”
An Zhe’s eyes tighten at the mention of the sample, but it’s Lu Feng’s last few words that makes An Zhe stare at him. “Why?”
Lu Feng looks calmly back at An Zhe, takes out a knife, and slices off his left hand. Immediately, thick red blood gushes from the wound, which is skin-coloured on the outside and white in the middle, but dull silver in the space between. Not a single bit of pain flashes across Lu Feng’s face, or in his eyes.
“According to the Lighthouse, it only takes a moment for a human to become a heterogenous.” Lu Feng watches as his skin writhes and a new hand grows from his arm, then bends to pick up the hand he’d sliced off. “It was once believed that all heterogenous could only be animal-based or plant-based — no human will exists after infection. Heterogenous could not be human and machine, either.”
An Zhe remains silent, gaze fixed on the limp hand Lu Feng holds in his new one. Lu Feng smiles, but it is too cold to be happy or comforting.
“I am the only Judge in the Trial Court who can screen heterogenous species with an 100% accuracy score. Once a month, the Lighthouse will take some of my blood and perform experiments on it.”
An Zhe whispers, “The doctor told me that… when I entered the main city.”
Lu Feng’s smile widens, but it does not get warmer. “I believed I was human until two doctors did a test they shouldn’t have on me. What would they say if they had done the test on you, An Zhe?”
Something aches in Lu Feng’s chest when An Zhe lowers his face, lashes shielding his eyes from Lu Feng’s gaze. An Zhe will say that he hates Lu Feng next and it will be as Lu Feng expects, but expecting and confirming are two different things.
(“The only regret I have,” his mother had said, “is that I can’t see the day you go crazy — if an android like you can express such a thing. What would it be like for the humanity you sacrificed yourself for… to turn against you?”
He’d pulled the trigger and watched her laugh, laugh until her heart stopped and all that was left in her eyes were tears and emptiness. His chest had ached as he’d turned his back on his mother, or the person who had pretended to be his mother, but it had ached softer and for less time.
Not once, in the time during their confrontation and before her death, did his ‘mother’ call his name.)
“A non-human killing non-humans.” Lu Feng stops smiling and walks over to stand in front of An Zhe. “Isn’t it funny?”
There is a long silence.
An Zhe’s fingers ripple and deform into soft mycelium — identical to the sample (spore, Lu Feng now knows) floating in the chamber. “You didn’t kill me.”
“Yet.” Lu Feng unholsters his gun and steps back in one smooth, practiced motion, levelling the muzzle so it’s pointed at An Zhe’s forehead. “I could still kill you.”
Though An Zhe shrinks back, he does not change his form completely or try to run. Lu Feng has seen many reactions before he shoots someone, from anger to denial to relief, but there is still that same expression of wariness and uncertainty (and no fear) in An Zhe’s eyes. He suspects An Zhe would still look at him with those eyes if he pinched An Zhe, or proposed to him on one bended knee.
(That the last thought makes his hand waver is… unacceptable to Lu Feng. There are other emotions at play beyond ‘unacceptable’, but the less he thinks of them, the better he can pretend they do not exist.
should not do not have feelings like ‘regret’ and ‘affection’.)
“What is your purpose in coming here?”
An Zhe’s gaze darts to the spore. The spore, as though sensing An Zhe’s attention on it, waves white tendrils at An Zhe.
“How did you become human?”
An Zhe says nothing.
There are many things Lu Feng can infer — he had long suspected An Zhe’s identity as a heterogenous, after all, and he had spent months in direct and indirect contact with the spore. What An Zhe chooses to stay silent on will not affect Lu Feng’s overall analysis, or their eventual end.
With his gun still pointed at An Zhe, Lu Feng lightly says, “The United Front has received my genetic report by now. It’s only a matter of time before they find me.”
And capture me to experiment on openly, now that they know what I am.
Interestingly, An Zhe’s gaze darts back to him at his words. It’s also at this moment that his transmitter crackles and a grainy voice demands, “Colonel Lu, report immediately! I repeat: Colonel Lu, report immediately!”
“You should answer that,” An Zhe says in a shaky voice.
Lu Feng does not move — neither to shoot An Zhe, nor to respond to his transmitter.
“This is your final warning, Colonel Lu!”
An Zhe takes a step towards Lu Feng. There is still no fear in An Zhe’s eyes, for all that Lu Feng’s gun is still pointed at him… and it is that fearlessness which convinces Lu Feng to pull the trigger.
The transmitter shatters instantly, pieces smashing into the floor and every other available surface.
The surveillance cameras explode in a shower of glass and plastic.
Lu Feng barely feels the bits that cut through his clothes and embed themselves into his skin, but An Zhe flinches back with a soft cry of pain. Lu Feng sways forward, but does not take a step towards An Zhe. His eyes stay fixed on the blood oozing from a cut on An Zhe’s cheek — blood that is as red as Lu Feng’s and any other human’s, for all that An Zhe’s hand is still but a mass of mycelium.
An Zhe, cradling his cheek with one hand, whispers, “Colonel…”
“Lu Feng. Only people — humans of the base can serve in the military, little mushroom.”
That, for some reason, makes tears well out of An Zhe’s eyes. “Didn’t you say you were a person of the base?”
“Does it matter if the base doesn’t want me?” Lu Feng smiles, but it is only an expression that hurts him (and An Zhe, from the way he shivers when their eyes meet). “If you were in my position, would you let me live?”
An Zhe says nothing. The spore, unaware of the commotion coming ever-closer to the room, bumps itself (himself?) against the glass.
“Do you like the base?” Lu Feng looks into An Zhe’s eyes, stops smiling, and says, “No. We took your spore away… I only hope you won’t infect anyone. That is, if you can.”
The destruction of the transmitter had been for himself, to buy a little more time before the judges he trained and the men who respected (and feared, or hated) him came. The destruction of the surveillance cameras, the only monitoring allowed for fear of contaminating the sample, had not just been for himself, but it is something Lu Feng will never tell An Zhe.
If he were human, if An Zhe was willing to go through him to take his spore back, would he have shot An Zhe? Would An Zhe be another to face the Judge’s sentence — another heterogenous destroyed, another life cut short?
(If he had never thought himself a human of the base, if he and An Zhe had met outside and he had never taken An Zhe’s spore, would they have been… more?)
Lu Feng holsters his gun, turns to the door, and says without looking back, “This might be your only chance to leave the base.”
Left unsaid is that Lu Feng’s own chance is gone, but why would a little mushroom with a bullet casing identical to Lu Feng’s care?
Beyond the door, a muffled voice calls, “Spread out! The target’s transmitter was tracked to this floor!”
Lu Feng had never thought about his death — only of serving the base he devoted his life to. He had killed so many with his own hands and his own intuition, but he is unarmed and walking to those who are, and who will not hesitate to shoot. His ‘mother’, he thinks, would be laughing if she saw him now.
“Live well, little mushroom… An Zhe.”
Lu Feng places a hand against the sensor and unlocks the door.
The last thing he sees, before it opens, is a wave of white swallowing him whole — like the mother’s embrace he never had, softer and warmer than he would’ve ever imagined.


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Maybe the term “video stalker” is well-understood in newsrooms, but I think the term has a very sinister ring to it for the rest of us who are largely unfamiliar with the term. I guess I’d just like to see a blow dealt to baseless political smears. I guy can dream, can’t he?
Unsuccessful Springfield Ward 8 aldermanic candidate George Petrilli has sued his opponent, Kris Theilen, former state treasurer Judy Baar Topinka and the Sangamon County Republican Central Committee over campaign literature distributed by the Theilen campaign.
The suit claims they defamed Petrilli when they referred to him in the literature as a "video stalker."
Theilen had not yet seen the lawsuit when reached for comment Wednesday.
"The video stalker terminology, it's a coined phrase by the media," he said. "It's been in use since 2004. Ms. Topinka used modern terminology in her endorsement, and she is entitled to her opinion."
Petrilli once videotaped a Peoria appearance by Topinka, the 2006 Republican candidate for governor, for the campaign of Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Petrilli has claimed he did the taping only as a favor to a…roommate who worked for Blagojevich.
Also notable, the fact that Patrilli filed the suit on election day seems to indicate he was pretty pissed about it. Of course, it also has the advantage of inoculating him from accusations of sour grapes since the suit was filed before anyone knew the results of the election.

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The Power of Acceptance: Embracing Change for a Brighter Future
Directed by William Arntz, reviewed by Maya, Internship Student at Serenity Vista Addiction Treatment Center
What the Bleep Do We Know is a 2004 film, which is part documentary, part story, and part inspiring visual effects and animations. The plot follows the story of a highly stressed photographer, Amanda, who finds herself facing emotional and extistential obstacles in her life. She begins to consider the idea that individual and group consciousness can influence the material world. The uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal reality starts to reveal itself to Amanda.
Throughout the telling of her story, many experts share on the connection between quantum physics and consciousness. Ultimately, the movie focuses on how quantum physics allows for the possibility that we, through our own intention, can create our own reality.
What the Bleep Do We Know is a fascinating movie I really enjoyed watching. In this movie, we are invited to have a new way of viewing events that happen in our life. We are challenged to wonder why we may be recreating similar situations over and over again. How come we get stuck in unfulfilling work or attracting unhealthy relationships? The answer seems to be in our misuse of our thoughts.
Science actually shows that the brain does not see the difference between what it sees in it’s environment and what it remembers. What does this means? This means that we build models of how we see the world outside of us and we use those models to make sense of new situations.
All new information we take in from our environment is always colored by our previous experiences we had. Consequently, if we continuously think negative thoughts, we are creating a long-term relationship in that neural net, which gets harder to change. And this neural net becomes a model from which we will view everything in our life.
The good news is we can re- wire our different associations and relationships in our neural net. As Amanda starts to change her thinking patterns, her reality starts shifting as well.
According to the scientist in this movie, we attract to ourselves situations that will fulfill the biochemical cravings of the cells in our body by creating situations that meet our chemical needs. In other words, if we bombard our cells with the same attitude and same chemistry over and over again on regular basis, once the cell divides in a sister cell; it will have more receptors for those particular emotions.
In other words, is we are angry repeatedly; our cells will begin to crave more suffering. So, we will perpetuate the same thinking pattern until we shift our mindset, and change our chemistry.This movie brings light to a new concept that is starting to emerge on the planet. The idea that we create our own realities and that we are not stuck in our experiences.All in all, this movie demonstrates how our mind is a powerful tool we can learn to use to attract what we want in our life. Even though this idea is still very controversial, I think the only way to know if it works is to try it for ourselves.
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Energy and Environment Cabinet Opens the TVA Grant Application Process
Thank you for your interest in the Tennessee Valley Authority Environmental Mitigation Projects program. The application deadline was Oct. 15, 2012.
The Energy and Environment Cabinet (EEC) invites various organizations across the Commonwealth of Kentucky to apply for a grant under the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Environmental Mitigation Projects program. This program stems from a settlement consent decree between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and TVA that funds the program $11.5 million over a five-year period. EEC will accept and review applications for a variety of projects and programs that advance energy conservation, efficiency and renewable generation in the Commonwealth.
A previous Request for Proposal (RFP) process for this program was determined to be inappropriate for this type of grant. For that reason, the EEC has ceased all activities associated with the initial RFP and is instead soliciting, through a grant application, project proposals from eligible parties, to fulfill the spirit and terms of the TVA settlement agreement.
EEC believes you will find the grant application process to be user-friendly and straightforward. We look forward to great ideas. Please apply by Oct. 15, 2012. As noted in the application manual, please contact Paul Brooks by phone 502-564-7192 or email email@example.com for any questions.
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The Piatt County board has extended its moratorium on wind farm applications for another six months, keeping it in effect until about mid-March.
A six-month moratorium was scheduled to expire in September, but the county has yet to finalize changes to its wind energy conversion ordinance, most notably the portion that covers large-scale wind farms.
Apex Clean Energy announced plans to pursue a 120-turbine wind project in northern Piatt County in April of 2019. The county has approved changes to its permit fee structure, but ordinance guidelines on turbine setbacks and allowable noise have been sticking points at zoning board sessions.
The moratorium extension was approved unanimously by the county board on Aug. 12.
“I don’t have a problem with an extension as long as we don’t use it as a crutch not to do anything for six months,” said board member Dale Lattz.
County Board Chairman Ray Spencer said the zoning board of appeals is still awaiting guidance in some areas of the wind energy ordinance before it can proceed. The board agreed to discuss those issues and pass along that guidance in September.
A spokesman for Apex Clean Energy said the moratorium should not affect its timeline noting the company does not plan to apply for permits until 2022. But Senior Development Manager Alan Moore hopes the moratorium does not stretch out further than March of next year.
“Goose Creek Wind supports the board’s decision to take a reasonable amount of time to ensure its updates to the wind ordinance are thoughtful and thoroughly researched,” said Moore. “As Mr. Lattz stated, it is important that this extension does not become a form of kicking the can down the road. This gives the ZBA and board a clear timeline to write an evidence-based ordinance, providing a path toward safe wind development that is fair to the many landowners who wish to participate.”
County board member Shannon Carroll agreed that the moratorium should not enable a posture of inaction.
“I hope during the six months we could have the language ordinance finalized so that we can have it before the moratorium has expired,” said Carroll.
The Goose Creek project is expected to generate about 300 Megawatts of energy and provide about 200 jobs during construction, in addition to 15 to 20 ongoing ones after construction is complete.
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Catch a Kero Kero Bonito tour date and enjoy an energizing performance from this English indie pop band. Fronted by Sarah Bonito on vocals, the group hit the music scene in 2016 with the release of their first album, Bonito Generation. The group released their second album, Time �n� Place, in 2018 following the success of their first synth-pop album. Buy your Kero Kero Bonito tickets at StubHub today to attend a performance at a venue near you.
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Kero Kero Bonito formed in 2013 by friends Gus Lobban and Jamie Bulled. Sarah Bonito, also known as Sarah Midori Perry, joined the group soon after. The group�s name derives from a variety of influences such as Japanese, Brazilian and Portuguese and is intentionally ambiguous. The group�s early music was the result of influences from J-pop, dancehall and video game music while their later music reflected the indie rock genre. With Bonito singing lead vocals, Lobban plays the drums and keyboards and sings backup vocals while Bulled adds his talents to the keyboards, electric and bass guitars.
Kero Kero Bonito career milestones
Since forming, the group has been busy writing and releasing singles, mixtapes, EPs and albums, gaining attention and fans. Intro Bonito, the group�s first mixtape, was released in August 2014. In 2014, Ryan Hemsworth�s EP shh#ffb6c1 included the single �Flamingo.� The group completed their first North American tour in 2015.
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When not creating and performing music for Kero Kero Bonito, the members engage in other creative pursuits within the music industry. Bonito collaborates with other artists, featuring on the single �Truly� from Spazzkid and �Everyday� by producer Chroma-Kei. Lobban records music under the names Kane West and Augustus. His extensive collaboration and work include contributing to DISown for PC Music and the original song �Vs.� for a Zoom Lens compilation. Before the formation of Kero Kero Bonito, Bulled performed in the band Kabogaeries. In his spare time, he records solo music under the name Wharfwhit, releasing the albums Evidently and Wharfwhat! in 2017.
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For every ninety-nine good eggs, there is one really bad one. But that one damn egg can leave a taint on all the other wonderful eggs and that blows. I can’t help but wonder how many people saw this story blazing a trail through Twitter and thought, “Screw it, why should I even bother writing anything?”
Don’t let the self-pubbed author title fool you- this is a JOB. Most of us are on Facebook, Goodreads and Twitter, writing on our blogs or are answering emails for hours each day. When we aren’t doing that we write, write, write– often times at the expense of family events, laundry, shopping, cleaning, meals and (on occassion) showers. We’re flaky when we’re in the writing zone, cranky if we’re disturbed and always (ALWAYS) on a deadline. We eat, sleep and dream these stories.
Recently I was out at dinner with friends having a good time when suddenly I had a lightbulb moment so… I LEFT THE RESTAURANT (before the food arrived) so that I could go home and fix a plot hole. This is a job, and I take it as such. It’s a job that I LOVE and I cherish every moment, but I am very aware of the business end of this endeavor and how much work it requires. If you’re going to self-pub, you should be aware of that as well. We aren’t all sunning ourselves while using royalty checks as fans.
Self-publishing is meant for authors to get their work out there. It’s the love of the story that gets us to our computers to create these tales and I for one can’t imagine what kind of a douchebag gets dollar signs in their eyes and decides to steal someones shit!
There are RULES to self-pubbing- perhaps unwritten, but I’m about to take care of that.
1. The absolute NUMBER ONE RULE of Self-publishing is:
HAVE PASSION FOR THE STORY THAT YOU’RE TELLING! Don’t just publish a story because you think you’re going to hit it like Amanda Hocking. Do it because YOU LOVE TO WRITE! There isn’t a road made of money that all self-pubbed authors drive onto. It’s not the lottery. I repeat: IT IS A JOB.
You wouldn’t start a fashion line as the head designer if you hated fashion and clothing… so don’t be a book hater who decides to write a book because you saw this one thing on the internet that made you think self-publishing was like getting the Golden Ticket.
2. Number two is a big one one for self-pubbers.
DO NOT SPAM PEOPLE with pleas to read your book. Don’t send out a Goodreads book suggestion to everyone and their brother. Just… don’t. I look at it like I want you to read my book, not hate my guts.
My experience with the Liz Thomas (the one that Teresa Mummert writes about in her post) was in line with what everyone else has reported. I got a bunch of suggestions from people on Goodreads, Liz included, to read the book. I’m a reader & a rock lover, so I totally went and bought the book. The fact is that the story was abysmal. I was stunned that anyone was giving it about a 1-2 star rating. It was vile, offensive, totally overdone crap. From time to time I come across a self-pubbed book like that and I always think… REALLY? Who the hell read this and thought it was good and rated it that way?!?!?!? I’ve already explained my reasoning for not reviewing anything under a 3 star, so it’s clear why I chose not to review it. I’m speaking out now because I suspect that ‘Liz’ is a pen name for several other writers, one of them being the person that plagiarised Jamie and Tammara’s work.
3. Do NOT put 9,852 Tweets out each day peddling your book(s). It’s flipping obnoxious! Retweet things from fans? YES. Retweet Reviews? YES. Compose a shit ton of Tweets telling people to buy your shit? NO!!!!!
A while back there was an author on my feed who literally put up 15-25 posts EVERY DAY about her books. It was always the same four tweets, she just kept sending them out again and again and again. I was so annoyed that I unfollowed her. Converse/share things with your fans that aren’t exclusively about your books! BE HUMAN. For the love of all that is holy- PLEASE DON’T BE A USED CAR SALESMAN ON TWITTER!
4. DO. NOT. EVER. HAVE. PEOPLE. LEAVE. FAKE. REVIEWS. This probably should be #1, #2 and #3, really. Don’t have Grama make a Goodreads/Amazon account so that she can tell everyone how amazing your book is. Don’t hire someone to do it.
The truth is this: Our books have to rise or fall on their own.
I know damn well that there are authors out there who have surrogates leaving bullshit reviews- it’s normally pretty damn obvious. As soon as I even suspect that someone is paying for reviews, I cross them off the list of people I will read.
Having said that, the MOST important thing a reader can do to counteract that bullshit is:
If you read a book, REVIEW IT! No one has so many surrogates (faux reviewers) that they can undo REAL readers leaving REAL reviews.
5. NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER steal someone elses fucking work!
Stealing someones work is a piece of shit/total asshole move. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again— K A R M A. If you don’t think about it, you should. I’m morbidly fascinated by people who don’t understand that what you put out, you get back. Really… who was the flipping brain trust that decided to copy and paste entire portions of another writers work? Did it really NEVER occur to them that (a) it was WRONG (b) it was going to get noticed and (c) it was going to come out to the public? For every action there is a reaction. Ripples on a pond. The idea is to always try to take POSITIVE steps so that what comes back at you isn’t a tsunami of negativity.
Also… if you’re copying and stealing someones work… you aren’t a writer and you never wanted to be one.
The decision to steal another authors work was pure greed. I’m sure the ‘writer’ thought, “oh hell, who would even notice?”
The thing is… there’s no line between right and wrong on this. Much like finding someones wallet on the ground with six thousand dollars in it and not returning it, stealing a kids bike, robbing a bank or killing someone- wrong is wrong. There is NO gray area between right and wrong on a lot of things, and plagiarism is one of them.
Clearly the person behind this recognized Jamie & Tammara’s talents and sought to use that as a jumping off point. But here’s the thing… stealing is STEALING.
Like everyone else on earth, there are things I wish I’d thought of first… Star Wars, the microwave, Facebook- but I didn’t decide to steal the idea, put a new sticker on it and put out Ella Wars, the Ellawave or Ellabook. MOST people wouldn’t steal the way whoever did this has, but sadly, it’s this one asshole that makes everyone look bad.
Everyone suffers from this story, sadly. Jamie & Tammara because the words in the stories that they worked so hard to create were stolen. Readers because their trust was violated. Self-pubbed authors because now some readers won’t take a chance on a self-pub again.
Like I said… there’s always one bad egg.


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A man was seriously injured and a number of people had to be rescued from a four-storey block of flats in Dundee at the weekend.
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service responded to multiple 999 calls about a severe fire at Kinghorne Court in the city’s Hilltown area at 8.45am on Sunday (21 February).
Firefighters from Blackness, Kingsway East and Balmossie raced to the scene to discover a well-developed fire in a first floor flat and a number of residents trapped on upper floors of the block of flats.
A team of four firefighters, wearing breathing apparatus, entered the flat and quickly dealt with the fire and removed the male resident.
At the same time firefighters, using ladders, rescued occupants from the affected upper levels and reassured others.
Operations Control in Dundee also provided fire survival guidance to those residents who were trapped in their flats due to smoke in the stairwell.
The male occupant of the first flat was treated by paramedics on scene and then taken to hospital, where he remains in a serious condition.
Five other adults, one child and one infant also received precautionary check-ups from paramedics on scene.
Officers from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Police Scotland are carrying out a joint investigation into circumstances surrounding the fire.
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service will now carry out a PDIR (Post Domestic Incident Response) whereby firefighters will visit local residents in the area and provide them with fire safety advice as well as offer a free Home Fire Safety Visit.


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We believe that the stereotypical and solely problematic image the media provides of this great continent, is wrong, offensive and economically disadvantageous.
However, the idea that we commonly have of Africa is a place that can be simply described with these words: hunger, death, poverty, war and diseases. This vision of Africa prevents us from discovering and being interested in a continent with great history and refined culture, characterised by an extremely lively and interesting art scene and it is a major obstacle to the affirmation of African art and culture around the world. We know very well how important it is for a country to attract investment and interest; but what can you attract when the image that the media and global institutions continue to convey is a place plagued by a sort of infinite divine punishment, where it is impossible to talk about business and talking about art and culture is ridiculous?
But how do you tackle this blindspot on Africa?
Africa has an artistic and cultural tradition of very high value. Contemporary African artists are quoted at extraordinary amounts at the major international auctions and continuously beat their records. The Nigerian film industry (Nollywood) is the second largest after Bollywood and comes before Hollywood for the number of films produced and the third most valuable film industry in the world after generating a total revenue of US$ 10 billion in 2013. But news like this is completely ignored by the public which sees Africa as a big, irretrievable disaster . Obviously no one invests money and has any interest in disasters.
We believe that creating a way to enable African artists to suceed is not only a good opportunity for them, but also a good opportunity for us to learn to see the citizens of African countries as active and supportive of the cultural world.There is an art made by African women and men, boys and girls today.
It is a substantial part of this world and provides an opportunity for the people of Africa to participate in an active and global cultural debate.
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