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• Revegetation will be taking place for the Freeway Landscaping Project near the following streets, in the area of the freeway: North Carson Street, Arrowhead Drive, Northgate Lane, Emerson Drive, College Parkway, Northridge Drive/Carmine Street, and Highway 50. All work will be shoulder work, no lane closures are expected.-
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Beer review: Mission Pale Ale, Widmer Brothers Brewing
A recent trip to the US was topped off with sampling a few craft beers. This one in particular had travelled a fair distance to end up in a pizza place in Atlanta, and has given me good reason to put Portland, Oregon on my bucket list.
This brew is part of the Omission craft beer brand, which claims to be the first in the US to focus on using traditional beer ingredients, including malted barley, that are specially crafted to be gluten-free.
Served from the fridge with a chilled glass, it was the perfect refreshment at the end of a long day at work. It was bitter with a distinct orange taste, and a hop profile which made it beautifully easy to drink.
It’s taken me a while to appreciate craft beer served completely chilled; the temperature really limits the aroma, which means that the taste has a lot of work to do. In this case, it worked, and in the 94 Fahrenheit Atlanta heat, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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If you are suffering from psychological issues such as PTSD, depression, anxiety, or stress, it is important to seek out professional help. However, finding a psychologist in New Orleans can be difficult.
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- Dr. Christy Glassman is a well-known psychologist in Louisville. She has been practicing for more than 20 years, and her specialty is counseling adults. She can help you deal with issues such as anxiety, depression, and addiction.
- Dr. Marilyn Hughes is another highly-rated psychologist in Louisville. She has worked with patients of all ages for more than 30 years. Her specialties include psychological assessment and diagnosis, trauma therapy, and couples therapy.
- Dr. David Finkelstein is a noted expert on bipolar disorder and ADHD. He specializes in working with children, adolescents, and adults who have these conditions. He also helps people who have suffered from abuse or trauma develop coping mechanisms and repair their relationships.
- Dr. Sabrina Rosenthal is a clinical psychologist who specializes in working with children and families affected by mental illness or addiction. She also provides counseling services for people struggling with stress, anxiety, or other problems.
- Dr. Kathleen Weber is an expert on eating disorders, trauma, and an autism spectrum disorder. She can provide treatment for these conditions as well as psychological testing and consultation for families trying to understand their children
- Dr. Adrian Gartrell is a clinical psychologist with more than 20 years of experience in the field. He specializes in counseling adults, adolescents, and children with a range of issues, from anxiety to depression. Dr. Gartrell also has expertise in trauma-related disorders and has treated clients who have experienced sexual abuse or violence.
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Edward Weston, Photography—An Eighth Art?, The Argus, vol. 3, no. 4-5, July/August 1928, p. 3.
Merle Armitage, Fifty Photographs, Edward Weston, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1947, pl. 28.
Look, Cowles Media, Des Moines, Iowa, July 4, 1950, p. 95.
Edward Weston, The Daybooks, Volume II, Aperture, Millerton, 1973, pl. 3.
Beaumont Newhall, Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston, The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, 1986, cat. 144, pl. 28.
Amy Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, 1992, cover and fig. 549/1927.

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HelenKay: Naked Truth is a non-stop, fast-paced romantic adventure. From the first page, Fetzer grabs the reader and drags her into the life of Alexa Galvin, an undercover CIA agent on the run and on her own. If you like your romance quirky or light or funny, this probably isn’t the book for you. If, instead, you look for romance mixed with suspense and delivered at a speed that leaves you breathless, this is your answer.
Naked Truth takes the reader from CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia to Colombia to China without missing a beat. The action takes place on the ground, in the streets and around helicopters, boats and ships running guns. But it all starts with Alexa waking up alone, naked, with a chunk of her memory missing and her relay contact dead beside her. She’s lost thirty days of her life and failed to check in with her CIA boss. The misstep puts her in danger both from the bad guys who think she has something they need and from the CIA where she is now considered rogue and a possible traitor.
Alexa’s boss, Lania Price, sends Killian Moore, disgraced former military, to find and eliminate Alexa. Price sweetens the deal by suggesting Alexa is responsible for Killian’s last assignment which lead to the death of his men and his booting from the military. Killian takes the deal and his team into Colombia prepared to take Alexa out but determined to get some answers of his own.
Fetzer matches Killian and Alexa in strength, determination and even brawn. Alexa is not a woman in need of rescue in the general sense. She’s tough on her own because she’s had to be. She doesn’t depend on Killian to solve her problems or uncover the mysteries of her last thirty days. Despite her attraction to Killian, when she feels threatened by his presence or the job he’s there to do – which could include killing her for the good of Country – Alexa protects herself. She, at times, outmaneuvers Killian with moves not often seen in romantic suspense novels.
Fetzer sets up Alexa as a loner with significant abilities that have served her well in the CIA. Fetzer then gets out of the way and lets Alexa be Alexa. Her character is tight and true, believably vulnerable at times and hard at others. Her motivations are clear and her development over the span of the book is refreshing in that Alexa never falters into the common too-stupid-to-live heroine problem found in some romances.
While Killian is an equal to Alexa, the book belongs to her. Naked Truth is about Alexa’s journey. About Alexa’s damaged past and drive to clear her name. Killian is a sexy and non-nonsense partner. His troubled past takes a backseat to Alexa’s plight. His motivations are clear but become a bit muddled early when his attraction overcomes his desire to clear his own name and take his revenge. While this is a potential weakness of the book it is not significant because Alexa is fleshed out in such a way that Killian’s immediate and undeniable attraction to her is easy to see.
Naked Truth expertly folds the budding romance into the adventure storyline. At times, the suspense overwhelms the romance as the story switches locations and the third party players get more attention, but the romance is never lost. The pacing, which does not have a single down moment, helps to keep the reader’s attention so that the desire for more Alexa-Killian time is satisfied even though many pages pass with action unrelated to their attraction.
Fetzer’s knowledge of the military and military operations is clear. She uses terms and jargon consistent with the story she’s telling. For the novice in this area, the acronyms and words can be jarring and, at times, confusing. A further problem is Fetzer’s tendency not to identify who is speaking with dialog tags. These factors do not detract from the overall story but can pull the reader out of the action.
Naked Truth promises romance with a mix of adventure. It delivers.
Wendy: Amy J. Fetzer’s Naked Truth is a high octane adventure that moves seamlessly from the jungles of Columbia to the crowded streets of Hong Kong and beyond. Alexa Galvin is an undercover CIA operative on assignment in South America when she awakens in a cane field, naked, next to a dead man who just happens to have her knife sticking out of his chest. She knows that her cover has been compromised and she needs to “come in” to the CIA. What she doesn’t know is: what’s happened in the last month, who wiped her memory clean, or that the CIA doesn’t want her back. Killian Moore left the military in disgrace after an operation gone bad was pinned on him. When CIA deputy director Lania Price—and Alexa’s boss—tells Killian that Alexa is a rogue agent who needs to be “retired” and the Intel leak that lead to the deaths of Killian’s men as well as the ruination of his career, Killian agrees to go after her.
Left on her own, without protection or country, Alexa knows the key to getting her life and memory back is to follow her own clues, complete her original mission, and stay a step ahead of those who would like to kill her. Including Killian Moore. But, when he finally catches up with Alexa, Killian realizes Lania Price didn’t tell him the truth about Alexa and eventually they team up to take on a Colombian drug king, the Chinese mafia, U.S. backed assassins, cutthroat Chinese military, and a Colombian gun runner with a tanker full of Russian long range missiles.
The action in Naked Truth is nonstop and fuels this plot driven book. As bullets fly and people die, Fetzer unfurls the story, detail by precious detail, stingily holding on to the most vital pieces for the length of the book. Alexa’s story is intricate; the cast of characters she encounters is large, and the double time pacing doesn’t allow for so much as the bat of an eyelash.
Fetzer backs her characters into corners and forces them to fight their way out, piling on conflict after conflict. This works well to reveal Alexa: she is repeatedly shown to be alone, betrayed, and a fighter. Unfortunately, Killian is left unexplored; his feelings and his tenderness toward Alexa occur with little explanation. As to be expected with so much emphasis on the external conflict, Alexa and Killian’s ability to dodge bullets is more well developed and more compelling than their love story.
The narrative is jargon heavy — for those not familiar with military or spy thriller lingo a translation is needed. This scene, where Killian and his men discuss the advisability of bringing the team’s helicopter into enemy territory, is a perfect example:
“Outlaw, are you crazy?”
“Low and hot, sir. ETA one minute.”
“God dammit. MSS will shoot you out of the sky!”
Farther out, Logan popped a can of smoke.
“Outlaw to Cutter, I have a visual, coming in.”
“Finn, make a hole,” Killian ordered.
Moreover, the ease of the read is strained by POV warbles that in spots shift from sentence to sentence and dialog that is disjointedly formatted — mudding secondary action and thoughts belonging to one character, while another speaks. As in this scene between Alexa and supposed pal and fellow operative Cal Pritchard:
“The pay, the women. The perks.” He shrugged, then stood, motioning her to do the same. “Over there,” he said and she just noticed the drop cloth on the floor behind the dining table. “I’ve never eliminated anyone in my own place.”
Overall Naked Truth is an exciting, hard to put down read. The fast pace and never ending action coupled with a heroine that is darker and more rough than the norm more than make up for the construction issues.
Wendy’s response to HelenKay: Naked Truth does not shy away from violence against its heroine, Alexa. Fetzer spares her leading lady, and her readers, nothing. Alexa is repeatedly molested, hit, tortured, and drugged, to say nothing of the sleep deprivation and starvation she endures. The blows she receives and the unwanted hands that roam over her are, perhaps, more shocking because the unified romance front is that nothing truly bad should happen to the heroine. Did you appreciate Fetzer’s more realistic approach or flinch at the brutality?
HelenKay’s response to Wendy: Fetzer could have taken the easy way out and given Alexa a softer road. She didn’t and it served the story well. For the first in a long time, we see a heroine with a dangerous and difficult job where the action takes place on screen and not off. This isn’t one of those she-was-tortured-in-the-past stories where you are waiting for the heroine to re-live her dark past. You actually see the darkness. Alexa is confronted with the type of situation you would expect of a woman in her position as a CIA operative on the run. Anything less would have destroyed the believability of the story. And, Fetzer goes one step further and has Alexa not only react to violence against her but also dole out some of her own. When threatened she acts exactly how you think someone in her position would act, even when that means shooting the man she thinks she’s falling for. That’s not the usual heroine act but it was true to this character.
Wendy’s final thought: Naked Truth is a thrill ride from the first page to the last. There isn’t chance to catch one’s breath, or look too closely at the plausibility. Though weak mechanics mar this otherwise sexy and breathlessly fast paced read, the pages turn quickly enough to forgive the grievances. Recommended.
HelenKay’s final thought: Naked Truth is pure action. The story moves and the heroine never falters. As a romantic adventure, I highly recommend this book. For everyone else and anyone looking for something a little grittier, this is recommended reading.

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Mandeville is the capital and largest town in the parish of Manchester in the county of Middlesex, Jamaica. In 2005, the town had an estimated population of 50,000, and including the immediate suburbs within a radius of 16 km the total population is about 72,000. It is located on an inland plateau at an altitude of 628 m (2061 feet), and is 103 km west of Kingston. It is the only parish capital of Jamaica not located on the coast or on a major river.
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Microcantilever based sensors can be used for detection of specific target molecules in a solution. In conventional mode of sensing, receptor molecules are immobilized on the cantilever surface and the chemical interaction between receptors and ligand molecules causes surface stress change resulting in cantilever deformation; however, in the competition mode of sensing, the cantilever surface is covered with complex molecules and after immerging cantilever in the solution of target molecules, ligand molecules diffuse away from the cantilever surface and causes cantilever deflection. In this method, the rate of ligand dissociation can be measured as a sensing tool.
In this report, both mode of sensing is considered and theoretical models are developed to understand the mechanism of cantilever tip deflection in conventional mode of sensing and ligand dissociation rate in competition mode of sensing.
For the conventional mode of sensing, it is shown that, the molecular interaction model, which is based on interaction energy between double strand DNAs, can predict the cantilever deflection better than entropy model.
Also, it is proved that the competition mode of sensing can be a good method of sensing and its advantages and limitations are shown.
Taghavi, Nazita, "Mechanism governing surface stress generation" (2014). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 14023.

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Double-A Frisco shortstop Jurickson Profar waited until his final at-bat on Friday night to push his hitting streak to 28 games.
Profar tripled to lead off the ninth inning of a 5-2 loss to San Antonio (San Diego) for his only hit in three at-bats. Profar is batting .325 with a .530 slugging percentage during the streak, longest in organized baseball this season.
San Antonio right-hander Josh Geer, of Forney, held Frisco hitless for the first seven innings. It was Geer’s first start at the Double-A level since 2007. He made 24 appearances with San Diego in 2008-09.

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20. Nov. 2023 · Beginning with a 1971 session with Graham Nash and David Crosby, the set moves through recordings and performances during the years spanning the releases of the albums For the Roses (1972), Court and Spark (1973), the live Miles of Aisles (1974), and The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975).
19. Okt. 2022 · Appearing on Mitchell’s 1974 album Court and Spark, Joni’s song ‘Free Man In Paris’ was inspired by the head of Geffen records, David Geffen. The pair enjoyed a close relationship over the years, and, in the song, Mitchell describes the trip she shared with Geffen, Robbie Robertson and his wife Dominique as they travelled to Paris.
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23. Jan. 2023 · Court and Spark – Joni Mitchell. For Joni Mitchell’s 1974 album, Court and Spark, Crosby provides vocals to tracks like “Free Man in Paris” and “Down to You.”. Crosby and Mitchell have ...
Court and Spark er det sjette studioalbumet til den kanadiske visesongaren Joni Mitchell, utgjeve i januar 1974. Det selde raskt og godt og fekk god omtale. Albumet er blitt skildra som pop, men blanda òg inn folkrock -stilen til Mitchell, som ho hadde på dei tidlegare fem albuma sine, i lag med element av jazz.
This realization is underscored by David Crosby and Susan Webb joining Mitchell to sing the line. This recognition then leads to an extended orchestral interlude.  While the orchestral instruments alternately take up the musical theme, Mitchell plays the piano using different types of chords , including major key , minor key , diminished and augmented chords.
David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 – January 18, 2023) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He first found fame as a member of the Byrds, with whom he helped pioneer the genres of folk rock and psychedelia in the mid-1960s, and later as part of the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, who helped popularize the California sound of the 1970s.


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Born 1967, lives in Bitburg.
2009-2013 Studied at the European Academy of Art in Trier, specialising in painting and drawing.
During this time she developed her own style, with the human being predominantly at the centre of her work. With her art, she keeps discovering new views and facets of the humans and herself. Her art is at the same time a mirror for herself and others.
Art in the open space and nature always arouses her interest, because it offers the possibility to dedicate herself to the subject of man, as a part of nature.
Numerous exhibitions, among others in: Cologne (Galerie Artclub, Galerie K 49, Messe artpu:l), Luxembourg (CAL), Trier (TUFA, Galerie Palais Walderdorff, Moselufer), Prüm (EVBK), Belgium (St. Vith, Eupen) Bitburg as well as Frankfurt am Main.
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With my work I want to draw attention to a detail that, like many others, is often not consciously seen.
It offers a somewhat altered view of what is there anyway. It offers the possibility of a kind of change of perspective, which also plays an increasingly important role in our daily life together. Everyone should be given space to follow their own thought processes. I find the question of which associations are awakened by the changed view exciting.


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This study examined sex differences in calculated and perceived weights and weight-based stigmatization. 371 African Americans (females=258) responded to a health and wellness survey. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated from self-reported height and weight and categorized as underweight (7.0%), normal (48.2%), overweight (29.9%), and obese (14.8%). Perceived weight was measured by asking participants, "Do you consider yourself to be overweight?" Responses were then dichotomized as accurate or inaccurate. Stigmatization was constructed from 16 statements regarding perceived treatment due to weight status. Males and females differed in their perceptions of their weights. More than 20% of the participants had inaccurate perceptions of their weights, with the majority of the inaccurate participants (82.5%) perceiving their weight status lower than their actual weight status. More overweight or obese males than overweight or obese females did not perceive themselves as overweight (60.3% vs. 28.3%, respectively, P <.001). While male and female perceptions of weight-based stigmatization were not statistically different (P = .071), participants who accurately perceived themselves to be overweight had higher perceived weight-based stigma scores than inaccurate participants who were overweight (P =.001). Males and females who were inaccurate were less likely to perceive weight-based stigmatization.
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Regular dental checkups are important if you want to achieve optimal oral health, and have a bright smile. The dentist is a knowledgeable and skilled professional and works to help you attain your oral health goals. It is therefore important to maintain your dental visits for our dentist to examine your dental health and make recommendations that will be critical for your proper dental health. the following factors are why it is important not to miss or skip your dental visit.
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When you come to the practice, our dentists examine your gums, teeth, and other soft tissues. During the examination, our dentist can detect a problem that is starting to develop. This will give our dentist ample time to address the issue and prevent the condition from progressing. You can also get cancer screening during your visit. Therefore, when you miss or skip a visit. The problem will go unnoticed, progress, and pose complex oral health problems.
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Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded by Maxwell Maltz
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Cybernetics (loosely translated from the Greek): “a helmsman who steers his ship to port.” Psycho-Cybernetics is a term coined by Dr. Maxwell Maltz, which means, “steering your mind to a productive, useful goal so you can reach the greatest port in the world, peace of mind.”
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“Go to My Grave is both a classic ‘country house mystery’ and a thriller. Atmospheric, with mind-bending twists, a narrator who may or may not be reliable, and an ending that will take your breath away and leave you astonished.” —Louise Penny
Donna Weaver has put everything she has into restoring The Breakers, an old bed and breakfast on a remote stretch of beach in Galloway. Now it sits waiting—freshly painted, richly furnished, filled with flowers—for the first guests to arrive.
But Donna's guests, a contentious group of estranged cousins, soon realize that they’ve been here before, years ago. Decades have passed, but that night still haunts them: a sixteenth birthday party that started with peach schnapps and ended with a girl walking into the sea.
Each of them had made a vow of silence: “lock it in a box, stitch my lips, and go to my grave.”
But now someone has broken the pact. Amid the home-baked scones and lavish rooms, someone is playing games, locking boxes, stitching lips. And before the weekend is over, at least one of them will go to their grave.
“Be careful, Fran,” the man said quietly. “About what you think you know.”
In a dilapidated farmhouse out in the vast waterlogged plains of the English Fenlands, Fran awakes groggily to her baby’s cries one February night and finds the bed empty beside her. Her husband, Nathan, is gone.
Moving uneasily through the drafty rooms, searching for her husband, Fran soon makes a devastating discovery that upends her marriage and any semblance of safety. As she tries desperately to make sense of what happened to Nathan, Fran is forced to delve dangerously into the undercurrents of his claustrophobic hometown and question how well she knew him in the first place. Fran, increasingly isolated, grows paranoid—but Nathan isn’t the only one hiding something. Though she can’t tell a soul, Fran is shielding a damning secret of her own: a hazy, dreamlike memory from the night of Nathan’s disappearance that might be the key to it all.
From the bestselling author of The Crooked House comes an utterly gripping psychological thriller spanning the traditions of Daphne du Maurier and S. J. Watson. Christobel Kent’s The Loving Husband is spooky and skillfully written, dragging readers deep into the unsettling world of the Fens and into a marriage of half-truths and past lives, where no one can be trusted—especially not your spouse.
It’s the oldest bookshop in a town full of bookshops; rambling and disordered, full of treasures if you look hard. Jude found one of the treasures when she visited last summer, the high point of a miserable vacation. Now, in the depths of winter, when she has to run away, Lowell’s chaotic bookshop in that backwater of a town is the safe place she runs to.
Jude needs a bolt-hole; Lowell needs an assistant, and when an affordable rental is thrown in too, life begins to look up. The gravedigger’s cottage isn’t perfect for a woman alone, but at least she has quiet neighbors.
Quiet, but not silent. The long dead and the books they left behind both have tales to tell, and the dusty rooms of the bookshop are not the haven they seem to be. Lowell’s past and Jude’s present are a dangerous cocktail of secrets and lies, and someone is coming to light the taper that could destroy everything.
A 2016 Agatha Award Finalist for Best Contemporary Novel
A 2017 Mary Higgins Clark Award Finalist
A 2017 IPPY Award Bronze Medalist for Mystery/Cozy/Noir
"Quiet Neighbors drew me in from the very first page, and I stayed up late reading it because I couldn't wait to find out what happened next. That's the definition of a good book."—Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"McPherson writes mystery stories that are both cozy and creepy, which accounts for the quirky charm of Quiet Neighbors."—The New York Times
"Outstanding."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Layer upon layer of deception."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"McPherson is a master of slightly creepy narratives that are complex and character driven."—Library Journal (starred review)
"Quiet Neighbors is a real find . . . This is one of those ideal stories that you cannot put down and actually feel sad when it's over."—Suspense Magazine
"Quiet Neighbors is a cleverly conceived, skillfully executed, decidedly nontraditional small-town mystery that is bursting at the seams with warmth, wit, moxie, and menace."—Mystery Scene
“Despite the dark underpinnings, this is also a story of love, family, trust, and forgiveness.”—Booklist
"Intricately layered and psychologically taut."—The Strand Magazine
The lies we tell ourselves are often more dangerous than the truth.
When forty-one-year-old Sarah Price is reported missing after having arranged a date with a man she met on the internet, her son is distraught.
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Mantua, like every year by twenty years, hosts this event that is articulated in a plot made of squares, palaces, gardens of Mantua, artistic background of a cultural event made up of literature, sharing, formation and discovery.
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Meeting point for “exchange libraries” where you can between the events during the breaks take a book to read it and leave another in the book box.
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Aggregation space for young people and dialogue on the european vocabulary words with a collection point for the words of the adopted vocabulary, there will also be meetings with the authors and will be possible to watch live on Radiotre Fahrenheit radio.


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Just spinning the dail and wanted to say Happy New Year from W3WAN a.k.a KB3ORS as Mission Control for The Wide Area Network Repeater System... note: Brian did not post this so it is only fair that it makes its way around the web or you can go to our Facebook page...
The Punxsutawney Area Amateur Radio Club, of Punxsutawney PA, is once again hosting the "Groundhog Day Special Event Station" on February 4, 2012 from 0900 until 1600 or so. We have new this year a special event callsign "W3P" and as before there will be available a...
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The overview that follows explains an amateur radio linking system which has been deployed in western and central Pennsylvania which has near seamless north-south coverage from the New York State line into northern Maryland and Washington, DC. It is the intention of the team that this link system remain fluid in its application; which can and will change in purpose, as the need arises. The official name of the link system is “The Wide Area Network Repeater System” or WANRS. In times of disaster, it can serve many purposes, helping agencies like FEMA, PEMA, ARES and RACES/ACS, The Red Cross and Salvation Army, but from a neutral standpoint.
The WANRS includes several repeaters located in many counties in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and Washington DC, and other cities and States. These repeaters are linked (connected) together with a private wide area TCP/IP network connection (WAN) and Linux based repeater controllers which have the ability to allow multiple, simultaneous, high-quality duplex audio/telemetry connections. While similar linking systems require use of the public Internet to provide the path between sites, many of our core sites utilize a Private WAN to make this connection. This means if there is an Internet outage, the system will continue to operate over the private WAN; as it can exist without Internet bandwidth being supplied over it. Of course, if a repeater outside our private network is connected over the Internet, and the Internet goes out, this repeater will still operate stand-alone, but will no longer be part of the system as a whole. In other words, Internet connected repeaters will not totally fail, they will continue to operate – locally.
While many miles exist between physical tower locations, all core connectivity is over private, locally owned and operated networks. These networks are comprised of a mix of fiber optic and wireless topologies which are all either owned or operated under the direct control of the core team. Some of these sites have or will have redundant LAN connectivity, as it is our intention to make the system as robust as possible. It is not within the scope of this document to detail the connectivity between sites because of security and non disclosure agreement policies. The core system is, for the most part, privately held by members of the development team and organizations they work directly for.
The WAN repeater system uses a repeater controller which is based upon VoIP technologies that allow for very high quality audio throughput and configurability on a near infinite scale. It is based on the Asterisk/app_rpt system utilized in the AllStar Link system and a few others, with some minor exceptions. One exception is, for all repeater sites, we have chosen to use a special distribution of the application called XIPAR written by a mutual friend, Steve Henke – W9SH. This distribution allows for greater flexibility and support. It is the concern of the core team that this system not be dependent on the integrity on the public Internet; in which it has no direct control over. AllStar linking between segments like ours is almost totally done over the public Internet, however, it can be configured so sites which can see one another over a private WAN can be connected without Internet bandwidth. This means that systems that are connected in a private manner will not fail to be connected to one another, as long as the private WAN does not fail. Our WANRS link system has been configured to allow direct connectivity fail-over in the event of a Internet outage. This configuration allows our link system to be accessible anywhere in the world as long as the Internet is healthy, and will continue to operate locally and regionally if the public Internet should fail.
This amateur radio link system is the result of work done originally by Scott Zimmerman – N3XCC and David Hunter – N3YFO. It was their desire to connect Cambria and Somerset Counties in Pennsylvania together with this technology. The system has expanded into other Counties by cooperation of Jim Knox – N5NWC and myself, Kevin Custer – W3KKC. Tom Brew – K3WS has enabled the system to grow at an explosive rate with donations of computer equipment, additional repeater sites in Maryland – Washington DC, technical knowledge, and enthusiasm. Brian Burton – AB3AA is our network administrator. While the system already provides a nice coverage area, we are hopeful it will continue to expand to enable the repeater coverage desired by the core team, and regular users of the system.
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But the ideologically diverse parties will have to devise a strategy to counter PM Narendra Modi's pro-Hindu image
Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party cheer for Prime Minister Narendra Modi after a landslide in his home state Gujarat during a victory rally in Ahmedabad on Dec. 8, 2022. (Photo: AFP/ UCAN files)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reason to be worried. In a throwback to 1977 – when the entire opposition united to dislodge the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi – Modi’s political rivals from diverse ideologies seem headed for united opposition to an ‘undeclared emergency” prevailing in the country under him.
A veteran of many poll battles, Modi must be well aware this could prove a zero-sum game for him and his pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), ruling the country since 2014.
The sudden expulsion of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, grandson of former prime minister Indira Gandhi, from the elected lower house of Parliament, triggered this unprecedented unity among opposition parties.
Rahul Gandhi was dismissed less than 24 hours after a local court in Modi’s home state convicted him of making defamatory remarks at a public rally during a 2019 election campaign.
Opposition unity had proven elusive so far with the sundry political ideologies and interests of a plethora of national and regional parties in this vast country, which is home to varied cultures and ethnic groups with substantial differences in language, religion, and customs.
With only a year to go for the general elections of 2024, it seems some 18-odd parties are set to join hands to ensure Modi suffers an equally humiliating defeat as Rahul Gandhi’s grandmother.
Keen observers of Indian politics still believe this so-called opposition unity may still be a chimera, meaning it’s more a stage show than real action.
But still, it is equally true that until the 52-year-old Gandhi scion was dislodged as a parliamentarian, this elusive unity seemed a far-fetched idea even for most opposition leaders.
The opposition now believes that Modi is replicating Indira Gandhi’s dictatorial ways in every manner, be it dealing with the opposition, trampling upon the freedom of institutions including the press and judiciary, or browbeating the opposition by misusing government agencies.
Rahul Gandhi became the prime target for Modi when he exposed the links of the prime minister with businessman Gautam Adani, the world’s third and Asia’s richest man a couple of months back until his sprawling conglomerate spanning ports to airports, energy and cement, edible oil and data centers, came under attack by US short-seller Hindenburg Research.
The Congress has already announced its month-long, multi-tier countrywide agitation to explain to people the Modi-Adani nexus – an issue that virtually washed out parliamentary proceedings with the prime minister choosing to avoid uttering a single word to rebut the charges.
It is expected that the non-BJP parties will come together and join forces with the Congress in the coming days to expose how Modi is “destroying democracy and subverting institutions.”
Similar concerns and sentiments prevailed when Indira Gandhi, called the “Iron Lady,” chose to declare an emergency in 1975.
In her time, the popular national slogan was “Save Democracy.”
Modi, who went underground to escape arrest during the emergency years, now likes to call India the “mother of all democracies.”
Ironically, his critics believe it’s time now to “save democracy” from him.
Indian democracy is at a crossroads with many possibilities. Nothing can be ruled out at this juncture.
“A repeat of the 1977 general election is likely. But Modi will cling to power and can go to any extent to create hysteria by playing the ‘Hindutva card,’ which may be difficult to counter for the opposition parties. This fear is very much there,” social scientist Ghanshyam Shah believes.
Others feel this opposition unity is a “sham” and Hindutva, a movement seeking to establish Hinduism and Hindu culture as dominant in India, will triumph.
“You take it from me. Opposition unity will never happen. It is next to impossible. In 1977, people’s pressure propelled non-Congress parties to come together. No such thing is happening now,” political observer Anil Tyagi said.
Modi may not have done exceptional work as prime minister, but he knows how to keep people engaged and entertained. He remains very popular among the Indian masses.
It is not as if the BJP is not rattled by Hindenburg’s report on Adani. It has had an impact on the Modi government’s image. The prime minister’s effort to project a studied silence, refusing to answer uncomfortable questions fired at him by Rahul Gandhi, and instead choosing to remove him from parliament, may likely dent his popularity.
But to fight the BJP's Hindutva, the opposition parties will have to devise a strategy, which they have failed to do so far. Rahul Gandhi could play an important role here but he cannot hope to be a top leader with several veterans in the opposition vying for that position.
One idea floating around is the united opposition fielding a single candidate against the BJP in all 543 parliamentary constituencies. This, some political strategists believe, can ensure a landslide victory for them.
However, that kind of electoral arrangement looks like a pipe dream at the moment.
So, will Modi eventually face a united opposition? It will be difficult to speculate.
At stake will be the prime minister’s own assertions about India in his opening remarks at the second edition of the Summit for Democracy, which aims to push for a “democratic renewal” against a rising tide of authoritarian rule across the globe.
“The idea of elected leaders was a common feature in ancient India, long before the rest of the world,” Modi reportedly said referring to the ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, and the sacred Vedas, and other historical references to Republic states in ancient India.
“India is, indeed, the mother of democracy," he reiterated in the presence of world leaders.
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We already know the power of telling a great story for our clients. We want to sell that punch-in-the-gut moment, the horse and the puppy Super Bowl tear-jerker, time and time again.
I was reading an article recently, however, about what comprises an epic relationship. The author surmised, nicely, that at a distance sweeping romances and lifelong relationships are, indeed, epic, but upon closer look, are made up of 20,000 everyday Wednesdays.
It made me think that in marketing and PR, we are always looking for the next big story, or the next great angle on our product, service or business.
Awesome. That’s our job, and it’s why the people who are making sure their products or services actually work are paying us to take care of this part of the business.
But a truly sweeping story–the ones that snare us from the first gripping sentence to a neatly resolved “the end”–can’t always be full of narrative climax.
Every story has an arc or dramatic structure, and each piece must fit together with the whole (what good old Walter Fisher would call narrative probability). Gustav Freytag, a German novelist and playwright, identified five parts of the dramatic arc after studying Greek and Shakespearean dramas.
Each part serves to push the audience through the story, and each part–though some parts less narratively sexy than others–plays an important role in how effectively the climax or main idea of the story is conveyed to the audience.
In this part, important background information is laid out for the audience. You could also call this “context.” Either way, it’s an essential part for building a story that makes sense.
2. Rising Action
This part of the arc is the series of events that build immediately upon the background information and begins to lead the audience toward the point of greatest interest. Interestingly, this part of the arc is arguably more important than the climax, because without these events, the climax will not make sense, will feel jarring…or, frankly, the audience won’t care about the climax in the first place.
This part of the arc is the big moment people talk about after the movie is over, or that “turning point” where things go from bad to good…or sometimes bad to worse (in the case of a tragedy like Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare was dark, ya’ll.)
4. Falling Action
This part of the arc is “what’s next,” where we see if there is a win or lose situation based on the climax, and how characters respond to the “big thing” or turning point in the story.
In this part of the arc, all conflicts are resolved, characters return to normal life, and there is a pervading sense that the big events that got us here might still shape the future, but they are firmly in the past.
Critics of Freytag’s model are quick to point that this arc only applies to tragedies or dramas, but personally, I’m a big fan of allowing any storytelling theory to be a guide for the way we do PR and marketing.
I’m also a big fan of any model that very closely resembles a sales or buying cycle, and how those models might give us deeper insight on how we might anticipate where customers are in the cycle, and deliver the information they need before they know they need it.
For example, a customer at the very beginning of the sales cycle who is unfamiliar with a brand or product is going to be in dire need of exposition (“Who are you and why should I care?”) whereas a customer who is familiar with a brand or product’s key selling points might need that extra “what’s next” information or story (“Your product sounds great…how does it positively or negatively affect my life?”).
When we can think of the stories we tell as larger parts of the whole, we can more ably tell the smaller stories that pack a little less punch, because we know how they play into the narrative arc.
So tell that epic story. Just remember epic stories are composed of just a few heroic moments…and 20,000 everyday anecdotes.
Written by Sarah J. Storer. Sarah has been a fan of stories ever since she memorized ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ at the ripe old age of three. Today she channels that passion to help individuals and businesses tell their stories with heart. Learn more at about.me/sarahjstorer or follow her on Twitter @sarahjstorer. Visit PRTini.com where this excerpt is originally appeared.
Sell yourself on your own ideas, learn from Michael Lewis’ writing habits, think before you type, and embrace “clickbait.”
Pitching yourself: If Internet articles about writing are any indicator, the hardest parts about being a scribe is actually finding the time and motivation to write. The next hardest part, then, has to be the most important: having something to write about.
In a given week, there are probably 15–20 topics that I consider writing about but dismiss because I’m not convinced they’ll be good posts (or because there’s not time). Sifting through these ideas to find the best can be paralyzing. (“If I begin writing that, then I won’t have time to write this.”)
Blogs without Blah, a consultancy in the U.K., offers tips on pitching yourself each of your stories to determine the pieces worth publishing. If you’re already indecisive, being the writer and the editor may not be the right solution, but it might at least help you figure out some headlines.
Michael Lewis on writing: Michael Lewis released his latest book, “Flash Boys,” this week about high-frequency trading to some debate. Whatever you think of the issue, you can bet it’s a good read because above all, Lewis is a writer and storyteller. He talked with Bloomberg this week about his approach:
You’re just trying to get your particular vision down on the paper. You learn something in the world, you try to explain it to a reader and do it in your voice.
Writing is thinking: This piece from The Huffington Post is about how writers are the heroes of our time because, unlike science and technology, writing provides lasting stories with recognizable character traits. There are a lot of things writers feel at the keyboard. It’s unlikely that heroism is one of them. What struck me about this piece was something Richard Vetere mentioned on the way to making his point:
And writing never ends, meaning writers are always writing even when they are not doing it physically. Their entire being is directed toward working out in their minds and in their hearts the story they want to tell.
So much of writing happens when you’re walking around, eating lunch, reading. By the time you’re ready to type, you know how your piece is going to look, or at least how it’s going to start.
“Clickbait” is not new: This piece falls outside the seven-day window I try to stick to, but because it addresses something I highlighted last week, writers’ getting paid for clicks, it’s worth including here.
It’s not all that surprising to hear that editors have sought to entice eyeballs through headlines for a lot longer than the Internet has been around. This piece from Deadspin focuses on the negative connotation placed on “clickbait” headlines, explaining why they’re not only not bad, sometimes they’re completely necessary. Old-school journalism—say, before 1960—was very much the same as what we’re seeing now.
It’s any way of presenting a story that doesn’t follow the dreary precepts that prevailed in high-end U.S. newsrooms over the last half-century—a period, incidentally, of widespread newspaper consolidation that allowed those newsrooms to be just as self-serious as they liked in the absence of any real competition. It’s anything anyone might actually want to read.
In other words, competition breeds the necessity for strong language and imagery, and in the end, people need to read what you wrote.
Writing headlines is an art form. Measuring clicks is just technology.


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- Is GTX 1650 good for gaming?
- Is RTX 3050 TI good?
- Is there a GPU shortage?
- Can a GTX 1650 run 4k?
- Can a GTX 1650 run GTA 5?
- Will cyberpunk run on GTX 1650?
- Is 1050Ti worth it 2021?
- Is it worth buying GTX 1050 Ti?
- Is a 6GB graphics card good for gaming?
- Is 6GB graphics better than 4 GB?
- Is a 1030 graphics card good?
- Why are gigabyte graphics cards cheaper?
- Who makes Nvidia chips?
- Is i5 good for gaming?
- Does RAM increase FPS?
- Can Intel i7 run games?
- Does Apple use Nvidia?
- Which is better Ryzen or Intel?
- Which is better Ryzen or Nvidia?
- Does GTX have DLSS?
- What is the cheapest GPU with ray tracing?
- Can you upgrade GTX to RTX?
- What is bad graphics card?
- What is the most powerful graphics card on the market?
- Which is better NVIDIA 1050 TI or 1650?
- Will a GTX 1650 run warzone?
- Is GTX 1650 future proof?
- Can RTX 3050 run Cyberpunk?
- Can 1660ti use DLSS?
- Is RTX 3050 future proof?
- Why are GPUs so hard to find?
- Will GPU shortage ever end?
- What GPUs are coming out in 2021?
Is RTX better than GTX?
The best graphical experience can be found in games such as League of Legend, and other Esport games. The best performance in those games can be found in the graphics card of the same name.
Is a GTX 1650 Good?
What is that thing? The new GTX 1650 provides a significant performance boost compared to the previous generation of graphics cards, so it’s definitely a step up from the previous generation of graphics cards. It’s a good card for high definition.
Is a 4GB graphics card good?
The minimum amount of video memory for high definition gaming is 2GB, but 4GB is better. Graphics memory can be found in cards under $300. Some of the key cards for gaming are available in 6 and 8 gigabytes of storage.
Which is better Nvidia or AMD?
For a long time, Nvidia has been the leader in graphics performance, but it has been overtaken by AMD. The margins of graphics cards are thinner than they used to be, even though they are better performers. In some cases, the competition between the two companies is closer than the other way around.
Can GTX do ray tracing?
Older graphics cards won’t perform well because they don’t support ray tracing. Basic ray tracing effects can only be offered by the old graphics cards. Multiple effects being presented with a higher ray count is one of the more complex effects that the graphics processor can manage.
Is GTX 1650 good for gaming?
Yes, that is correct. It’s nice to have a graphics card that can play games in high definition. You will get a lot of frame rates on old games. You will get low frame rates for playing games that have just been launched.
Is RTX 3050 TI good?
The 3050 Ti is powerful enough that it’s not too far off laptops that are fullyCPU limited with more powerful hardware, but it’s also just slightlyGPU limited, offering 220 frames per second compared to 260 frames per second.
Is there a GPU shortage?
The shortage of graphics cards has made it difficult to play PC games. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, according to the company. The company believes that supplies will improve by the middle of the next decade.
Can a GTX 1650 run 4k?
The budget gaming card is not intended to play 4k gaming. That is what the 2080 and1080 cards are for. If you want to play 4k gaming, you need at least 6 gigabytes of vRAM.
Can a GTX 1650 run GTA 5?
It’s possible to run Grand Theft Auto V at 50 frames per second on Max Graphics settings. AA and AF can be turned off for smooth 60 frames per second. You have to increase them until you get 80 frames per second in the game. This will give you smooth game play and a buffer from the fast paced game.
Will cyberpunk run on GTX 1650?
The Gtx 1650 can give up to 30 frames per second on Cyberpunk 2077.
Is 1050Ti worth it 2021?
The 1050 Ti is not great. It is possible to play games in high settings. Games that are demanding will only run in low settings at 30 frames per second. The 1050 Ti is not great.
Is it worth buying GTX 1050 Ti?
I don’t think it is worth buying in 2020. If you have a budget, you should go for 1650 super or 587. The 1650 super will cost around 14k Indian rupee and the rx570 will cost around 11k Indian rupee.
Is a 6GB graphics card good for gaming?
You can play most games at any resolution, but some will not work well at 2160p (4k). It’s because games will have to load their models in the VRAM and mod if you have any that can do that. It is not an amazing amount of storage.
Is 6GB graphics better than 4 GB?
It was the conclusion of the story. Most people who want to run games in 1440p or in 4K, or just those who want something more future-proof, would benefit from a minimum of 6 to 8 gigabytes of storage.
Is a 1030 graphics card good?
Although we might have hoped for better performance in taxing graphics workload, the GeForce GT 1030 performs admirably in the competitive gaming titles it was designed to serve.
Why are gigabyte graphics cards cheaper?
Why are Gigabyte cards more expensive than others? Graphics cards from Gigabyte are often less expensive than those from other manufacturers. The video card’s size, memory capacity, and performance ratings are just some of the factors that can affect the price.
Who makes Nvidia chips?
99% of the most advanced chips are made by TSMC, a Taiwanese company. This is the story of TSMC founder Morris Chang.
Is i5 good for gaming?
It was the conclusion of the story. Mainstream users who care about performance, speed and graphics will find the Intel Core i5 to be a good processor. The Core i5 can be used for a lot of tasks.
Does RAM increase FPS?
Depending on how much RAM you have, it’s possible to add more of it. If you have a low amount of memory, you can add more RAM to games that use more of it.
Can Intel i7 run games?
Is I7 good for video games and streaming? The i7 processor with 8 cores and 16 threads is great for gaming and streaming.
Does Apple use Nvidia?
The MacBook Pro with a GT 750M uses a graphics card from nVidia. Based on who gives them a better deal and which is a better fit for a specific product, Apple is likely to switch between the two graphics card vendors.
Which is better Ryzen or Intel?
When it comes to single-core tasks, it’s better to use an Intel Core processor than it is to use an AMD Ryzen processor. The best value for money can be found in the CPUs of the same name.
Which is better Ryzen or Nvidia?
If you have a budget that’s around this level, you’re getting much better performance in high-spec games than if you have a budget that’s not around this level. When you start going up the price stack, things don’t stay the same.
Does GTX have DLSS?
The hardware required for Dlss is specifically dedicated to the study of artificial intelligence. The cards don’t support the system because they don’t have any tensor cores.
What is the cheapest GPU with ray tracing?
The most affordable entry to ray-traced gaming will be offered by the RTX 3050, which has 8GB of GDDR6 memory and 60 frames per second.
Can you upgrade GTX to RTX?
Yes, that is correct. The RTX is an upgrade from the previous generation of graphics cards. It’s worth it to upgrade to the RTX 2080 Ti.
What is bad graphics card?
There are a few early warning signs of video card failure. Stuttering can be seen when a graphics card is malfunctioning. A bad graphics card can cause weird artifacts on your screen.
What is the most powerful graphics card on the market?
120 Teraflops of performance can be achieved with the power of 12 gigabytes of memory and 640 Tensor Cores. It has maximum results thanks to the NVIDIA CUDA.
Which is better NVIDIA 1050 TI or 1650?
It is much better than before. The two year old 1050 was beaten by the two year old GTX 1650 by over 50%. The 1650 is powered by a base/boost clock of 1485/1665 MHz and 4GB of GDDR5 memory.
Will a GTX 1650 run warzone?
The best graphics card for Call of Duty: Warzone is the one from Nvidia. The best card to get the job done for the price is the GTX 1650 Super, if you’re only playing at a high refresh rate and don’t want to spend a lot of money.
Is GTX 1650 future proof?
The direct texture streaming from the PS5 and Xbox Series X will mean that games will be designed for much higher VRAM capacities and bandwidth. The GTX 1650 isn’t future-proof at all.
Can RTX 3050 run Cyberpunk?
The graphical part of the game looks great. The Top 100 Best Laptops for Cyberpunk 2077 list can be found here.
Can 1660ti use DLSS?
The 1660 and 1660 Ti have some of the same tensor cores as theDLS. You can’t turn it on in 1660.
Is RTX 3050 future proof?
It isn’t a good or future proof. There isn’t enough memory for the low to mid-range graphics card, the RTX 3050.
Why are GPUs so hard to find?
Graphics Processing Units used for mining are more powerful than those used for gaming or general work. They don’t have a lot of resale value on the market.
Will GPU shortage ever end?
TSMC is the sole supplier of most of the products from Advanced Micro Devices, while Samsung is the sole supplier of the products from Nvidia. TSMC and Intel both expect shortages to last until at least 2022.
What GPUs are coming out in 2021?
At the start of the year, the mobile versions of the RTX 3080, 3070, and 3060 were released, followed by the Ti version in May.


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Athenaze: Teachers Handbook 2 : Introduction to Ancient Greek
Designed to accompany the corresponding student's textbook, this volume contains the full English translations of all exercises. The Athenaze course aims to promote the fluent reading of ancient Greek through a series of exercises, grammatical explanations and essays on culture and history.
- Paperback | 138 pages
- 165.1 x 234.2 x 8.1mm | 238.87g
- 11 Apr 1991
- Oxford University Press
- Oxford, United Kingdom
- Revised edition


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Eugene Jarecki takes to the road in Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls Royce in The King. The documentary’s narrative itself is like Jarecki’s luggage – crammed-full and seeping out of the zippers. However, this stuffed film is interesting in ways thought-provoking open discussions can be.
Part of The King chronicles Presley’s life and career as a rising musician, an icon, and his unfortunate older years. While discussed before at length, Eugene Jarecki puts a new spin on the biographical retelling by inviting famous fans of Presley’s to add their own knowledge and appreciation of the musician, while also allowing current musicians to share their own opinions and talk about how Elvis influenced soul music as well as their own musical craft. These interviews are usually recorded from inside the Rolls Royce, giving this documentary a consistently casual pace even though sometimes it resembles a long episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
The other half of the film consists of these aficionados applying Elvis’ legacy to define and elaborate on “the American dream”. With the help of other esteemed outsiders, Eugene Jarecki develops some intriguing theories and ideas he illustrates with amateur video and news footage reflecting the current condition of the United States of America.
The King gradually broadens its scope to encapsulate more themes, but this dimishes the doc’s impact; especially when Jarecki becomes less particular of which celebrities he interviews for the project. However, even though the filmmaking becomes more general, The King still offers audiences a new way to look at a legend and an all-American way of life.
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When we’re upta camp, we often sit around our neighbor’s fire pit at night. Sometimes we toast marshmallows and sometimes we take it a step further and build a few s’mores.
The first time I ate a s’more was at Girl Scout camp. I always figured they were invented by a Girl Scout. According to a 2012 article by Brendan Leonard in the Adventure Journal, I might be on the right track.
We can accurately state that the Girl Scouts first published the recipe for Some Mores in 1927, in a book called Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts (a copy of which sold on eBay for $250 in 2011). The recipe was credited to a woman named Loretta Scott Crew. The name “Some Mores” can be found in publications up until 1971, but at some point was shortened to its contracted form, s’mores.
Crew may be credited in the first publication of the recipe, but she may or may not have been the first to create it – some sources attribute the recipe to the Campfire Girls, and one site claims the name Loretta Scott Crew is a Wikipedia hoax.
I never gave the nutritional value of s’mores much thought except to imagine that the graham cracker might be healthy enough to cancel out the marshmallow. And that even though it wasn’t dark, the chocolate could have some benefit.
Who better to ask about the nutritional value (or lack thereof) than my camp neighbor Patsy. The same woman who proffers up the ingredients for our summertime indulgence. I should mention that Patsy is a registered dietitian. One who fully admits to being human and unable to resist certain temptations.
Here’s what Patsy had to say about the health benefits of s’mores:
Sadly, s’mores have no redeeming value as a source of nutrition. The healthiest option is to have just one, and truly enjoy it.
In my opinion, switching to gluten-free graham crackers or vegan marshmallows wouldn’t do a darn thing to make them healthier. Using dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate would be a slight upgrade.
Feel free to quote me!
Hmmm … so, what’s my response to Patsy’s assessment? “Could I have just one more s’more, please, Patsy? I’ll make one for you, too.”
By the way, if you have never experienced a s’more, here’s how to make one the traditional way over a campfire. Try not to overindulge.
- Place a piece of milk chocolate on a graham cracker.
- Toast a marshmallow.
- Squish the toasted marshmallow onto the chocolate with a second graham cracker.
- Cool a bit and eat.

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Last month, Lambeth Council agreed a significant step forward in plans to deliver 64 new homes at council rent at Westbury estate in Clapham. The project, which will be the first phase of the redevelopment of the Westbury Estate, will see the new homes built by the St James Group on unused Council owned land on the estate just off Wandsworth Road.
Astonishingly, the decision to progress the project was challenged by the opposition Green party, attempting to block the construction of brand new council-rent homes which are desperately needed by local families on the council’s waiting list.
This once again shows how despite all their rhetoric, Lambeth’s Greens have opposed Lambeth Labour’s plans to build brand new council homes for local families. We’re delivering on our ambitious programme of 1000 new homes at council rent, with recent progress including construction starting on 40 brand new council rent homes on disused land on the Fenwick estate, 70 new homes opening at Lollard Street early next year and brand new council homes being completed as part of the ambitious development of Lambeth’s Town Hall.
To tackle the housing crisis, we’re committed to maximising every opportunity to build new homes for the families who need them even over the opposition of the Green Party.


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More than 1,500 people have died from the devastating floods in Pakistan that, at one point, had about one-third of the country underwater. Megadroughts in the West U.S. are threatening Lake Powell. Wildfires have been burning through Spain and Portugal. Heat waves have dried up part of China’s Yangtze River.
It’s getting harder and harder to ignore the disasters being caused by global warming. “Business leaders of all ages are responding—and many of them are saying we think we can make a difference with our business models and with our business plans,” former vice president Al Gore, who has spent decades warning about what rising temperatures will do to the planet, told me peppily over a Zoom call recently.
Gore has a front seat to how businesses are reacting as an investor. About 18 years ago, he launched Generation Investment Management, a sustainable investment company that invests across the public and private markets and now oversees about $35 billion in assets. On the private side, the firm’s growth equity arm raised a $1.7 billion fund earlier this year and now has about 18 investors on its growth equity team, which is led by Lila Preston.
“We don’t see a drying up of startups or even funding for these companies,” Preston says of companies geared at tackling problems in climate, health, or financial inclusion—startups she describes as sitting under the umbrella of “sustainable.”
The firm, which publishes annual research on sustainability, has pegged the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act as major inflection points in its most recent report, released this week, which lays out where the firm sees opportunity in the power, transportation, land and food, and other markets.
In Europe, which is highly dependent on Russia for oil and gas, that dependence has become a “national security concern,” Gore says, in addition to the environmental and business concerns it was already posing. And Gore says the new legislation in the U.S. is a “threshold crossed” as it is the “largest investment in the sustainability transition that we have ever seen on the part of any country.” He is already seeing companies Generation backs making changes in order to qualify for the tax credits they can receive by transitioning to clean energy.
“I think it’s going to be a real game changer,” Gore says.
Preston anticipates that Generation will invest in between 15 to 18 companies from the new growth fund. Generation has already backed Gloat, an A.I.-powered career development marketplace that helps managers make data-informed hiring decisions. The firm has closed another investment focused on planetary health, but Preston says they aren’t ready to share what it is.
Preston acknowledged that both the public and private markets are in a period of volatility, but said that “company fundamentals remain strong,” even if companies have to “hunker down and think about their cost structures.”
“These are not trends. They are movements,” Preston says. “We are absolutely shifting massive swaths of our economy for a lower footprint and a more sustainable model—and that just has a lot of economic opportunity.”
Equities go down. Interest rates go up… Yesterday the Federal Reserve approved another 75 basis-point rate hike, lifting the bank’s lending rate to target 3%-3.25%. Rising interest rates mean borrowing capital is more expensive for private companies. It also means that LPs might turn their attention to other asset classes. I’ve written about that here.
Kittyhawk to close… The autonomous electric aircraft startup backed by Google cofounder Larry Page is winding down, according to a LinkedIn post from the startup yesterday—showcasing how the current market conditions may prove to be difficult for companies in high-cash-burn industries. Kittyhawk has a venture arm that had backed startups including Vytalize, Outpost, and Orbify, among other companies. Boeing says it doesn’t expect Kittyhawk’s closure to interrupt operations for Wisk, a joint venture between Kittyhawk and Boeing to develop an autonomous air taxi.
See you tomorrow,
Jackson Fordyce curated the deals section of today’s newsletter.
– Pie Insurance, a Washington, D.C.-based workers’ compensation insurance provider to small businesses, raised $315 million in Series D funding. Centerbridge Partners and Allianz X co-led the round and were joined by investors including White Mountains Insurance Group, Gallatin Point Capital, Greycroft, Acrew Capital, and others.
– Innovafeed, a Paris-based insect producer for animal and plant nutrition, raised $212 million in Series D funding. Qatar Investment Authority led the round and was joined by investors including Creadev and Temasek.
– OpenStore, a Miami-based startup that acquires Shopify businesses and gives entrepreneurs liquidity, raised $32 million in funding. Lux Capital led the round and was joined by investors including Atomic, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Khosla Ventures.
– Monos, a Vancouver-based travel and sustainability lifestyle brand, raised $30 million in Series B funding. venn growth partners led the round and was joined by investors including Strand Equity and Michele Romanow.
– Gigs, a Berlin-based wireless subscription provider for phones and wearables, raised $20 million in Series A funding. Gradient Ventures, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, YC Continuity fund, DoorDash CEO Tony Xu, Instacart CEO Fidji Simo, and other angels invested in the round.
– Hyperlane, a secure infrastructure platform developer for interchain applications, raised $18.5 million in seed funding. Variant led the round and was joined by investors including Galaxy Ventures, Coinfund, Circle, Figment, Blockdaemon, Kraken, and NFX.
– Noble, a Tel Aviv-based credit-based products and services platform developer, raised $18 million in Series A funding. Insight Partners led the round and was joined by investors including Cross River Digital Ventures, Y-Combinator, Flexport Fund, TLV Partners, Operator Partners, Verissimo Ventures, Interplay Ventures, Plug and Play, and the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
– Codacy, a Lisbon-based code shipping platform for software development teams, raised $15 million in Series B funding. Bright Pixel Capital led the round and was joined by investors including Armilar Venture Partners, Faber Ventures, Join Capital, Caixa Capital, EQT Ventures, and Iberis Capital.
– Sylvatex, an Alameda, Calif.-based clean battery production solutions company, raised $8.4 million in Series A funding. Catalus Capital led the round and was joined by investors including Amplify Capital, How Women Invest, and others.
– Lyfegen, a Basel, Switzerland and Newark, N.J.-based value-based health care software analytics company, raised $8 million in Series A funding. aMoon led the round and was joined by investors including APEX Ventures and others.
– Civ Robotics, a San Francisco-based autonomous surveying solution for civil engineering and infrastructure projects, raised $5 million in seed funding. ff Venture Capital and Alley Robotics Ventures co-led the round and were joined by Trimble Ventures.
– TULU, a New York-based appliances, groceries, and entertainment devices provider to in-building tenants, raised $5 million in additional Series A funding from Regeneration.VC.
– Neem, a Karachi, Pakistan-based embedded finance platform, raised $2.5 million in seed funding. SparkLabs Fintech led the round and was joined by investors including Arif Habib, Cordoba Logistics and Ventures, Taarah Ventures, My Asia VC, Concept Vines, and Building Capital.
– Vector Capital invested $100 million in Malwarebytes, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based cyber-protection company. Vector Capital will hold a minority stake in the company.
– Admiral Pioneer acquired a minority stake in Wagonex, a Cardiff, U.K.-based mobility subscription platform provider. Financial terms were not disclosed.
– H.I.G. acquired Northern Biogas, a Morgantown, W.V.-based natural gas company. Financial terms were not disclosed.
FUNDS + FUNDS OF FUNDS
– Lerer Hippeau, a New York-based venture capital firm, raised $230 million across two funds. LH Seed VIII will focus on pre-seed and seed-stage companies, and LH Select IV will focus on companies from Series A to C.
– SentinelOne, a Mountain View, Calif.-based autonomous cybersecurity platform company, allocated $100 million for a fund focused on security and data companies.
– Giant Ventures, a London-based venture capital firm, hired Hayden Wood as a venture partner. Formerly, he was with Bulb.
– ICG, a London-based alternative asset manager, hired David Lomer as head of UK, Nordics, and Benelux. Formerly, he was with J.P. Morgan.
– Manna Tree, a Vail, Colo.-based investment firm, hired Steve Young as managing director. Formerly, he was with Bellisio Foods.
– Monroe Capital, a Chicago-based asset management firm, hired Brian Dutzar and Brian Lee as directors and Mark Friedrich as managing director. Formerly, Dutzar was with Perella Weinberg Partners/Agility, Lee was with Ashmore Group, and Friedrich was with Western Asset Management Company.
– Norwest Venture Partners, a Palo Alto-based private equity firm, hired Zack Scott as general partner for the healthcare practice. Formerly, he was with Revelation Partners.
– Vision Ridge Partners, a Boulder, Colo. and New York-based asset investment firm, hired Christina Scalzo as principal. Formerly, she was with Vistra Corporation.


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Imperialism and Human Rights: Colonial Discourses of Rights and Liberties in African History
Looks at the language of rights used by diverse interest groups in British-colonized Nigeria.
In this seminal study, Bonny Ibhawoh investigates the links between European imperialism and human rights discourses in African history. Using British-colonized Nigeria as a case study, he examines how diverse interest groups within colonial society deployed the language of rights and liberties to serve varied socioeconomic and political ends. Ibhawoh challenges the linear progressivism that dominates human rights scholarship by arguing that, in the colonial African context, rights discourses were not simple monolithic or progressive narratives. They served both to insulate and legitimize power just as much as they facilitated transformative processes. Drawing extensively on archival material, this book shows how the language of rights, like that of “civilization” and “modernity,” became an important part of the discourses deployed to rationalize and legitimize empire.
Bonny Ibhawoh is Assistant Professor of History at McMaster University, Canada.
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Rishi Romero (1978), an Amsterdam based DJ, comes from a musical background. With his a father a piano player and his mother a singer, it was only a matter of time he would start his own musical career. Aged 15 he was fascinated by American Hip Hop DJ’s, MTV and vinyl records and started buying music on wax. After getting his first work money he bought turntables and started to practice.
Soon he found his religion in dance music and now specializes in garage, latin and housemusic. With his energetic mixing style, blending electro and latin he gained a lot of popularity amongst clubbers. Residencies in the biggest clubs in Holland such as the Powerzone, Panama, Escape, Thalia, Offcorso, and many more made him a household name in the Dutch house and latin scène.
Rishi’s talent is not limited to the Dutch dance scene only. At the SeeMe festival in Sofia, Bulagaria, he rocked the place and with his bi-monthly residency in Norway and regular gigs in Surinam, his international career is taking off as well.
Besides being a great dj, Rishi Romero is also a very good promoter. His own concept Ritmo is one of Holland’s most successful club nights, each night sold out in no-time. International dj’s such as Harry Choo Choo Romero, Jose Nunez, Ron Carrol, Tom Novy, Freestylers and Speakerjunk, where very eager to play at these events. Rishi herewith proves he knows exactly what an audience wants.
Already spinning his own bootleg remixes, Rishi Romero is now working on new material, which will be released this year.


In the fall of 1776, a revolutionary attempt was made to launch submarine warfare when the Turtle set out to attack a British flagship. The inventor of this phenomenal craft was David Bushnell, who had experimented for many years with gunpowder explosives and submarine mines. This biography tells of his efforts to activate his inventions during the American Revolution, and of the successes and failures involved. At the same time the events of the war itself parallel Bushnell's activities and the traditional figures -- Washington, Franklin, Nathan Hale, Benedict Arnold,- are drawn into the background. There is much technical detail in the descriptions of the effect on the on the action of underwater mines in the Battle of the Kegs, on Bushnell's repeated efforts to improve his invention.


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It’s Nobody’s Fault: New Hope and Help for Difficult Children
Brain chemistry, not bad parenting, is responsible for the 12 percent of children younger than 18 who have diagnosable brain disorders, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), separation anxiety disorder (SAD), or enuresis (bed-wetting). Through case studies, scientific data, and information about children’s development and brain chemistry, Koplewicz helps parents understand the obstacles their brain-disordered children face. A practicing psychiatrist, he also suggests means, including therapy and medication, by which families may lessen the difficulties posed by those disorders. He devotes the final section of the book to considerations of the nature and treatment of problems including, besides those noted above, depression, conduct disorder, bipolar disorder, and autism. Presented with compassion but in no-nonsense style, his effort offers a wealth of scientific information in a format easily accessible to parents, extended families, and friends of “difficult” children.
—Kathryn Carpenter from Booklist