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(AUSTIN, Texas) — Last Friday night a group of immigrants incarcerated at the Eden Detention Center in Concho County, Texas refused to leave the recreation yard and return to their housing units, reportedly in protest of inhumane treatment at the facility. A CCA spokesperson confirmed the peaceful demonstration just after midnight. “A group of inmates at the Eden Detention Center is refusing to leave the recreation yard and return to their housing units. Throughout this incident, they have been passive. [node:read-more:link]
People who enter or re-enter U.S. borders without legal authorization do so mostly to better their families’ economic circumstances. Escaping misery should not be a crime.
But under a program launched 10 years ago, it has been effectively criminalized. The entirely predictable result has been a clogging of courts, an overpacking of federal jails, a wasteful expense estimated at $7 billion since 2005 and an unjust severing of families that imposes even more misery as breadwinners are imprisoned — for wanting to earn their bread.
This is laid out in a report by Grassroots Leadership and Justice Strategies. A recent Express-News article by Aaron Nelsen explained its findings. Nearly three-quarters of a million people have been prosecuted since 2005 in federal courts, 412,240 for improper entry (a misdemeanor) and 317,916 for re-entry (a felony). [node:read-more:link]
Eleven years ago, people caught entering the country illegally wouldn't even be criminally prosecuted. Instead, their cases went through a civil removal process. However, in 2005, the Department of Homeland Security instituted Operation Streamline, which moved immigration into the federal criminal courts.
The result? A dumbfounding amount of taxpayer dollars have been spent prosecuting what used to be civil cases, has clogged federal court systems along the border and has not stopped people from trying to cross the border illegally into the United States, according to research published by the Grassroots Leadership and Justice Strategies in a new book called Indefensible found.
"Operation Streamline is known for the disturbing spectacle of mass courtroom proceedings in which up to 80 shackled migrants are arraigned, convicted and sentenced for misdemeanor improper entry charges," study author Bethany N. Carson writes.
In 2015, nearly half of all federal prosecutions were of people accused of improper entry or re-entry. [node:read-more:link]
It was just over ten years ago that Operation Streamline debuted in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Del Rio Sector – it’s since been expanded to all federal district courts along the border except for the southern border of California.
Operation Streamline is a controversial approach to dealing with unauthorized immigrants that channels the apprehended into a criminal court system that has been called an assembly line and a kangaroo court. [node:read-more:link]
McALLEN — A controversial program that targets unauthorized immigrants for criminal prosecution has clogged border courts, cost billions to imprison them, and torn apart tens of thousands of families while doing little to deter illegal immigration, according to a new report published Wednesday by Grassroots Leadership and Justice Strategies.
The report, “Indefensible: A Decade of Mass Incarceration of Migrants Prosecuted for Crossing the Border,” highlights what it says are the failures of Operation Streamline, a decade-old initiative of the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice that handles illegal border crossing as a federal crime and treats unauthorized immigrants as criminals.
“This policy has resulted in a human rights disaster,” said the report’s co-author Judith A. Greene, director of Justice Strategies, an organization that supports criminal justice reform. “It’s ineffective, it’s wasteful and it’s failed by every measure.” [node:read-more:link]
Roughly 35 years ago mass incarceration was born in the United States. It began with draconian drug laws which disproportionately targeted the poor and communities of color. It then spread to other social ills, like mental illness and homelessness, which -- like drug addiction -- were punished rather than treated.
As the U.S. has become the prison capital of the world, many now recognize that mass incarceration is a moral failure. In 2014, 30 states passed laws aimed to reduce their prison populations. In November of last year, 6,000 drug offenders were released early from federal prison because of a retroactive reduction in drug sentences. An additional 8,550 individuals could be eligible for release this November.
Yet while bipartisan support to end mass incarceration has grown, the drive to criminalize and incarcerate immigrants has intensified. A new book released today by Grassroots Leadership and Justice Strategies, “Indefensible: A Decade of Mass Incarceration of Migrants Prosecuted for Crossing the Border,” demonstrates the inhumanity, futility, and exorbitant costs of criminalizing immigration. [node:read-more:link]
The 10-year-old, controversial "Operation Streamline," through which immigrants who cross the border are targeted for criminal prosecution, is wasting taxpayer dollars, tearing apart families, and driving mass incarceration, according to a new report.
The analysis from nonprofit groups Justice Strategies and Grassroots Leadership, released Wednesday in the form of a book (pdf), is based on interviews with judges, public defenders, advocates, activists, former prosecutors, and individuals who have been prosecuted as well as their families. "It was clear from talking to actors throughout this system that it is broken in every way," the report reads. [node:read-more:link]
“Indefensible: A Decade of Mass Incarceration of Migrants Prosecuted for Crossing the Border,” documents the history and failures of migrant criminalization through the voices of those most impacted—including migrants and their families; and those with a firsthand view into the system— including judges, defenders, and human rights advocates. In 2015, improper entry and re-entry accounted for nearly half (49%) of all federal prosecutions. [node:read-more:link]


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On Friday, May 1, Lionsgate Films has entered into a partnership with digital currency payments processor GoCoin.
“We continue to explore innovative new technologies for connecting with next generation consumers, and we’re intrigued by the possibilities offered by bitcoin in our media space,” said Lionsgate senior vice president Peter Wilkes.
Wilkes added, that Lionsgate is working to integrate digital currency payments into the company’s online store, and at several upcoming branded events.
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The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program enables trainees to develop competency in the diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional, physical, and developmental problems. Trainees develop their clinical skills while caring for patients from diverse backgrounds at Bradley Hospital, the nation’s first hospital dedicated solely to child and adolescent psychiatry, and at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, the state’s only pediatric hospital. Clinical rotations are arranged in an orderly progression of increasing responsibility over the two years and are supplemented by courses, seminars and both individual and small group supervision. Our weekly didactic seminars (via a full protected academic day each week) emphasize core aspects of the field, including neuroscience and evidence-based medicine treatment, as well critical aspects of psychotherapy. A large faculty of academic clinicians and scientists affiliated with the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University’s Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior provides supportive supervision and mentorship that lead to the creation of lifelong professional relationships. The Brown Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, along with Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School and the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, also makes an ongoing commitment to advancing social justice, structural competence, cultural humility, and anti-racism throughout our training programs, hospitals, and community. The fellowship program is dedicated to ensuring the cultivation of these skills and values in our trainees, as well as empowering them to be advocates and forces of change.
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There is a good aviation museum founded by a Russian pilot in Kurgan. Presently it has fifteen flying aircraft under the open sky. We are going to visit this place today.
The Soviet jet-fighter MiG-17 was the first mass produced Soviet fighter that went faster than the speed of sound.
Its cabin, just as the cabins of other aircraft in the museum, is in a good condition.
A MiG-19 – a Soviet single-pilot jet-fighter of the second generation. This particular one is an all-weather interceptor.
The MiG-19 was the first mass produced supersonic fighter, a formidable foe of American F-100 Super Sabre and F-4 Phantom II.
Further development of MiG-fighters – the Soviet multipurpose fighter MiG-21. This is also an all-weather interceptor.
The MiG-17 and MiG-19P were brought here to the museum in 1991 to become its first exhibits under the open sky.
MiG-23 – the Soviet multipurpose swing-wing fighter. This one is a two-pilot combat and training modification. Brought to the museum in 1993.
Su-7B – the Soviet bomber-fighter, it was the most dangerous aircraft to use in the 1960s – 28 aircraft were lost due to design or manufacturing troubles.
Su-17 – bomber-fighter, the first Soviet variable geometry wing aircraft. This one is a two-pilot combat – training modification. The only modification of Su-17 capable of gaining Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound).
An Su-7B next to Su-17UM3.
The Su-24 is a Soviet all-weather variable geometry wing front-line bomber.
Su-25 – the Soviet armored attack plane.
It has ten extra suspension points for armament. In general, 32 types of weapons can be mounted on it.
The armored glass is 55 mm thick.
The Su-27 is the Soviet multipurpose highly-maneuverable all-weather fighter of the fourth generation.
The museum has only one helicopter – an Mi-2.
Yak-52 is the smallest vehicle here.
They also have some passenger planes here. Il-14T is a pride of the museum.
You are welcome aboard!
A lot of rescue equipment is here.
Another passenger plane of the museum – An-24B.
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Stassi Schroeder’s recent visit to Universal Studios didn’t go quite according to plan as she wanted as she was kicked off a ride. According to a social media post, Stassi Schroeder’s pregnancy was to blame for what happened. But despite being denied the opportunity, the Bravolebrity was understanding, as it was for health reasons. What’s more, the Vanderpump Rules star made sure to make up for the lost opportunity by engaging in other fun activities with her beautiful little family.
Stassi Schroeder’s Universal Studios Experience
On May 31, 2023, Schroeder took to her Instagram story to fume after she was removed from a ride. The mom of one told her 2.9 million followers they had to stop the Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash ride to eject her because she was pregnant. Although it wasn’t the most pleasant encounter, Schroeder noted she wasn’t “embarrassed or anything.” Instead, she explained that the ride went negative two miles an hour, adding, “Don’t worry about it, don’t worry about it.”
While Stassi Schroeder’s pregnancy stopped her from getting on that ride, she did at least have some other fun experiences. According to the park’s website, expectant mothers aren’t able to participate in several attractions and rides at Universal Studios. However, they can enjoy the Silly Swirly Fun Ride, Super Silly Fun Ride, and WaterWorld Stunt Show, which Schroeder did. Also, she shared videos of herself walking around the popular theme park in a black jumpsuit and beige coat.
Stassi Schroeder’s Pregnancy Announcement
Stassi Schroeder’s Universal Studios experience comes about two months after she surprised fans with her pregnancy news. In March 2023, the star took to Instagram with a photo showing her baby bump alongside a caption, confirming the great news. The following month, the doting mom announced she was expecting a boy. While speaking on her The Good The Bad The Baby podcast, Schroeder said she knew the gender of her unborn child the whole time.
“I kept saying it. I felt it. It was a vibe. I don’t know how to f***ing explain it,” Schroeder said.
Although she was expecting a boy, the reality TV star said there wouldn’t have been any disappointment if it were a girl. It wasn’t surprising as Schroeder once said she loved being a girl mom, surrounded by feminine energy. Besides her unborn child, Schroeder is a doting mother to her adorable daughter Hartford, whom she welcomed in January 2021. The raving beauty shares her little bundle of joy with her husband, Beau Clark, with whom she tied the knot in 2020. Two years later, the couple had a beautiful wedding ceremony in Rome. Hopefully, their union will last a lifetime.


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CALEDONIA—The Guelph Hurricanes saw their Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League losing streak hit 12 games Wednesday when they suffered a 7-3 loss to the Caledonia Corvairs in a game that featured a penalty-filled third period.
Caledonia led 3-1 at the end of the first period and 6-1 after the second and the Corvairs outshot the Canes 42-23.
Goal scorers for Guelph were Zach McFadden, Ian Chan and Matt Lippa—his fourth in five games—while Steven Domenichini and Chan each had two assists. James Murray and Mike Wilkins had one assist each.
Tyler Norrie, Nate Mitton, Jeff Swift, Fabrizio Ricci, Brandon Montour, Connor Murphy and Mitch Brown scored the goals for Caledonia.
A total of seven game misconducts were handed out in the third period. Matt Nightingale, Craig Martini and Lippa of the Canes and Caledonia’s Dalton Riley, Justin Abraham and Simon Blythe were each assessed game misconducts for fighting while Guelph’s McFadden received a game misconduct for checking from behind.
Next game for the Canes is Saturday when they’re to host the Elmira Sugar Kings at the Sleeman Centre. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
No longer in the Guelph lineup is forward Mitch Klie, who has been traded to his hometown Cambridge Winter Hawks.


Update: Pokemon Unite Maintenance will expire at 8am GMT on September 22nd, across all platforms. It is worth noting that the release of the Pokemon Unite Android and iOS version is expected after the new update is published, however, more news about it can be shared by the development team in the coming hours.
A nativeSoon, players on Android and iOS devices will be joining their friends on the Nintendo Switch to play one of the latest Pokemon games released.
However, Pokemon Unite players will not be able to play for hours of the day as the servers are down for maintenance.
The bad news is that no one will be able to access the basic features of the game during this period, including online play.
The plus side is that all of this is done to support the release date of Pokemon Unite Mobile.
Pokemon Unite is set to release on September 22nd, and will soon be playable on Android and iOS devices.
This will unlock the game for millions of other players, making matchmaking easy.
This will also allow you to continue your game across multiple platforms, eliminating the requirement to own a Nintendo Switch.
How long are POKEMON UNITE servers downtime?
The Pokemon Company has confirmed that Pokemon Unite maintenance will begin at 2 PM PDT, or 10 PM GMT, on Tuesday, September 21.
Pokemon Unite servers are set to be down for eight hours, which means the game won’t be playable again until 8am GMT, on September 22nd.
A message from The Pokémon Company reads: “Attention Trainers! Pokemon Unite will be in maintenance on September 21st from 2:00 PM to 12:00 AM PT.
“During this time, the game will not be playable while we are making adjustments and preparing for mobile launch. We appreciate your patience and understanding.”
Meanwhile, The Pokemon Company has confirmed that the Pokemon Unite Mobile release date has been set for Wednesday, September 22nd.
On the island of Aeos, players will find the Unite Battle Committee (UBC), which runs a series of Unite Battle tournaments.
In Unite Battles, players form teams of five and compete against each other to see who can score the most points before time runs out.
Bringing traditional PC gameplay to Android, iOS, and the Nintendo Switch isn’t without its challenges, but plenty of fans seem ready to test out the new formula.
A message from The Pokemon Company adds: “Pokémon UNITE was released on Nintendo Switch on July 21, 2021, and soon, trainers will get a new way to play with the release of the mobile version on September 22, 2021.
“Pre-registration has already started in the App Store and Google Play Store. If you have not already registered, there is an additional incentive to do so. If the pre-registration total reaches 2,500,000, participants will receive a Pikachu Unite license. If the pre-registration numbers reach 5 00,000, participants will receive Holowear—Festival Style: Pikachu.”
More news about the rollout of Pokemon Unite on Android and iOS platforms can be shared in the coming hours.
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SAN JOSE - A new neighborhood night market is bringing people back to a once neglected part of San Jose.
Hundreds of neighbors have been turning out for food, music and games at the weekly Tully Night Market, located at the Tully branch library and ballfields.
"This is a nice park, there's a dog park, lots of food, music, ice cream. We get a lot of people who drive by and come and check it out," said Vendor Lawrence Crawford of VMGC Designs.
Beginning last year and all through the summer on Wednesday nights, the Tully Night Market transforms the space into a festive, family friendly place.
"This is about taking back the space," said City Councilmember Maya Esparza, who remembers how the park used to be.
Four years ago, the park and its facilities were overtaken by homeless campers.
Little Leaguers, families, even park rangers stopped coming here.
"This park really wasn't used as a public space anymore. People were afraid to come here. So, we came in, cleaned it up, re-engaged the community and started re-imagining the park to be what it was designed for in the 1990's," Esparza said.
After successful night markets in downtown San Jose, Esparza convinced the city to invest in one here, a diverse, low income but hard-working community.
Besides food trucks and vendors, city outreach workers also offer services to people in need.
A few homeless camps remain in the area, but are mostly located on the banks of the nearby creek.
"It gives families a place to go, a place to relax. But more than that, this is about community. It's about family, positivity, and pride. Pride that we can have events like these for all of us to enjoy," Esparza said.
The Tully Night Market will be held at 5:30 every Wednesday until October 26th.
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Evaluation and analysis of volatile organic compounds and formaldehyde emission of building products in accordance with legal standards:A statistical experimental study
- Evaluation and analysis of volatile organic compounds and formaldehyde emission of building products in accordance with legal standards:A statistical experimental study
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- Building materials have been developed mainly for thermal performance, strength, low energy consumption, and aesthetics. Consequently, large amounts of chemicals have been added to building products, resulting in the release of abundant pollutants that adversely affect human health. In particular, pollutants from the materials used to build modern dwellings can cause sick house syndrome, which leads to health resilience problems and diseases. In this study, more than 100 investigations were conducted annually from 2004 to 2017 by using the 20  L small chamber method to analyze the contents of formaldehyde (HCHO) and total volatile organic compounds (TVOC) released from 2780 building products in total. High emissions were released by some building components with raw materials containing hazardous chemicals. However, since the 2004 enactment of a legal standard for the regulation of emissions of harmful substances in building products, the pollutant emissions have tended to decrease over the years. As a result of the experiment, all 2780 building materials met the legal standard on average. Therefore, legal restrictions on the release of hazardous materials from building products have achieved reductions in pollutant emissions.
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The brothers Grimm meet Kosinski's The Painted Bird in the Hungarian-born Kristof's latest installment of the lives of identical twins Lucas and Claus (The Notebook, 1988). Separated by the postwar Communist invasion of their unnamed Eastern European homeland, Lucas and Claus lead very different lives. Lucas, who chooses to stay behind and bear witness to the horrors of life under the regime, keeps journals that later become the only proof of his existence in a place dedicated to eradicating the individual. At first, an archetypical innocent trying to survive by doing good, he remains in a cottage on the border (a landscape as menacing as that of a Grimm tale) where his mother and baby sister died (their skeletons are literally in the attic). Here, he witnesses shootings, feeds a local priest, and takes in Yasmine and her deformed baby Mathias, the product of Yasmine's incestuous love affair with her father. Incest is a recurring theme, as is necrophilia: a brother rapes his dead sister, and Lucas himself has a long affair with a woman who resembles his dead mother. When Yasmine leaves to find her father, Lucas and Mathias move to town, but Mathias, increasingly unhappy at school and jealous of Lucas's friendship with another child, hangs himself. Haunted by Mathias's fear of abandonment, Lucas exhumes Mathias's body and keeps it in the house, but then mysteriously leaves, thereby missing twin-brother Claus, who turns up again years later and adds another chapter to Lucas's story. The authorities suggest that the entire text is fiction: ``since neither the events described nor the characters portrayed ever existed in the town of K.'' Powerful writing, disturbing images, but this survival theme has too many familiar antecedents, and sexual aberration as a metaphor of times out-of-joint is equally worn.
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By the time Garret "G Love" Dutton kickstarted Jack Johnson's career with his Rodeo Clowns single , he was already four fine albums deep into a career that's still going strong today. I forget exactly where i heard him for the first time, i think it was on mark radcliffe's old late night show on radio 1 in the early nineties, or maybe on the soundtrack to an early snowboard video at my friend ed's house. What i do remember is how the mix of blues sounds with a strong groove and elements of hip hop topped with g love's laidback delivery was something i'd never heard before. Hell he just oozed cool!
After starting out busking acoustic blues on the streets of philadelphia before hooking up with "special sauce" his sound has evolved several times over the years but it's his early stuff i still like best. He's a very fine slide/acoustic blues guitarist and really underated. check his youtube channel for some evidence! (under the moniker phillyglove) He's still one of the best artists i've seen live and his first couple of albums are well worth re-visiting or discovering for that matter!
On present evidence we seem to have had much of our summer sometime in April, it certainly was a better month for sun and swell than june so far. I spent a week of it on the pembrokeshire coast, a little surfing snuck in on a family break with my parents and sister.
Most of my childhood holidays were in this part of wales. I rode my first wave on a polystyrene bodyboard at saundersfoot (quite how it got even knee high waves in summer i'm not sure!) first became aware of people actually surfing and it's really here that my love affair with the beach got started. Ironically i've only properly surfed up here a couple of times and i can honestly say it's the first time i've ever seen Newgale without blustery 4 foot onshore slop. This time i lucked into some quiet logging waves and light winds, both there and at Whitesands. It's a beautiful part of our coastline and it was fun to revisit, fun to go somewhere different than the well worn track down the A39
I'm proud to be one of those contributors and i'm amping to get my grubby mitts on an actual paper copy. If it's anything like the last issue it's going to be thoughtful, aesthetically pleasing and well worth supporting. I think Dan deserves congratulating for putting the huge effort in to get these out because it's not easy. Please support him if you can!
well ok, not the barbcue.........and i kinda need the suit (assuming summer ever arrives!) but the fish could be cos i'm selling it.....
Under the stripy wax it's a 5'9 double bump quad fish shaped by bro diplock drawing very heavily from the Mandala quads (i.e the same computer file!:-) It's a super fun board in great condition but a little bit surplus in the board store at the moment and room is needed so it's looking for a loving home.
On the way to Doheny one morning i rather randomly bumped into my friend Jake, who works for Almond and is a really talented surfer and one of the nicest guys you could ever hope to meet. He was on his way south with Alex who runs the tenpiggiesover blog and John Wesley who does some shaping for Gato as well as his own boards.
Like everyone i've met in Ca, they were really friendly and stoked to hear about our little corner of the world. I've checked Alex's blog for some time so it was cool to meet him in person. John's car, an old vw type 3 like the one i posted a photo of recently, deserves a mention too. Very cool indeed!
Doheny was tiny and those guys headed on south to san o. I paddled out anyway and got a couple of fun ones eventually, alone with just a few pelicans for company. The photos make it look better than it actually was if i'm honest!
So back to Blighty after nearly three weeks away, to be greeted by rain, onshore winds and rubbish swell. Business as usual then!!
We had such a good trip to California, even better than last year. Good weather, fun waves and nice people. There's a few tales to tell and plenty of film to scan but in the meantime heres a little iphone shot of one of the cottages in crystal cove near Laguna, one of my girl's favorite sun worshipping spots!
I want to say a thanks to the people that contributed to such good times. The Threadgills again for their hospitality and kindness. You guys are great and we so enjoyed spending time with you again. Christine and Austin in Carp too. Also Jake and Dave at Almond and Alex at ten piggies, JP at surfysurfy and Smukes, meeting you guys made me smile!
Ever since a scrappily recorded version of Tristan Prettymans "anything at all" turned up as a bonus on the soundtrack to the malloys shelter film, i've been a fan. Perhaps a little more mellow than much of my taste but her debut album 23 is great and well worth a listen if you haven't heard it.

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A Box for Rob (2013) : A Box for Rob: Rob Spencer is a troubled man and his world begins to really unravel when a murder happens. All fingers seem to point to him. The dark secret of Rob's childhood becomes reality... But is he a killer?
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A loans that are payday sometimes appears into the screen of Speedy Cash in northwest London in November 2013. The writers ask whether or not the enmity toward pay day loans is justified. Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters
aside from the 10 to 12 million individuals who utilize them on a yearly basis, pretty much everyone hates loans that are payday. Their detractors consist of numerous legislation teachers, customer advocates, people of the clergy, reporters, policymakers and also the president!
It is all of the enmity justified?
We reveal that numerous components of the lending that is payday unconscionable and spiraling costs and their targeting of minoritiesвЂ”don’t endure under scrutiny plus the fat of proof. After dispensing with those incorrect reasons why you should object to payday lenders, we give attention to a feasible reason that is right the propensity for a few borrowers to move over loans over and over.
One of the keys concern right here is if the borrowers susceptible to rollovers are methodically over-optimistic regarding how quickly they will certainly repay their loans. After reviewing the restricted and blended proof on the period, we conclude that more research in the reasons and effects of rollovers should come before any wholesale reforms of payday credit.
Pay day loan Rates: Tall but Justified?
The complaint that is first payday loan providers is the high costs: the normal brick-and-mortar payday lender charges $15 per $100 lent per a couple of weeks, implying a yearly interest of 391 %! Which is costly, to make sure, but is it unjust?
For economists, the solution is dependent on whether payday credit areas are competitive: With healthier cost competition, costs is going to be driven down seriously to the main point where they simply cover expenses, including loan losings and overhead.
Just by their sheer figures, payday financing is quite competitive. Experts usually fret that payday lenders outnumber Starbucks just as if theyвЂ”payday lenders, maybe perhaps perhaps maybe perhaps not StarbucksвЂ”were a plague upon the land. But should never competition among dozens of payday loan providers drive straight straight down costs? They appear to.
This research estimated that each and every extra payday company per 1,000 residents in an offered Zip rule ended up being connected with a $4 decrease in costs (in contrast to a mean finance cost of about $55). Into the old age of this research, the writers discovered that rates tended to payday advance in Ferriday gravitate upward toward cost caps, but that may seem like a issue with cost caps, maybe not competition.
Not to mention, payday loan providers also need to vie against other small-dollar loan providers, including credit that is overdraft (credit unions and banking institutions) and pawnshops.
Competition appears to limit lenders that are payday earnings along with their rates. this research and also this research discovered that risk-adjusted comes back at publicly exchanged pay day loan businesses had been much like other monetary organizations. An FDIC research making use of store-level that is payday concluded “that fixed working expenses and loan loss prices do justify a big area of the high APRs charged.”
Is really a 36 interest that is percent in Order?
And even though cash advance charges appear competitive, numerous reformers have actually advocated cost caps. The middle for accountable Lending (CRL), a nonprofit developed by a credit union and a staunch foe of payday financing, has suggested capping yearly prices at 36 per cent “to spring the (debt) trap.”
The CRL is theoretically proper, but just just because a 36 % limit eliminates loans that are payday. If payday lenders make normal earnings once they charge $15 per $100 per a couple of weeks, while the proof indicates, they must undoubtedly generate losses at $1.38 per $100 (equal to a 36 % APR).
In reality, Pew Charitable Trusts (p. 20) notes that storefront payday loan providers “are maybe maybe perhaps maybe perhaps not discovered” in states by having a 36 per cent limit, and scientists treat a 36 % limit being a ban that is outright. In view for this, “36 percenters” may choose to reconsider their place, except if their objective would be to expel loans that are payday.
A main part of your debt trap review against pay day loans is their “spiraling” charges: “When borrowers don’t possess the cash come payday, the mortgage gets flipped as a brand new loan, piling on more charges into a spiral of financial obligation for the debtor.”
It is undoubtedly real that cash advance charges mount up in the event that debtor expands the mortgage (like most financial obligation), but do they spiral? Assume Jane borrows $300 for a fortnight from a payday lender for a cost of $45. If she chooses to move on the loan come payday, she actually is designed to spend the $45 charge, then will owe $345 (the main as well as the charge regarding the 2nd loan) at the conclusion of the thirty days.
If she will pay the mortgage then, she’s going to have compensated $90 in charges for the sequence of two $300 pay day loans. Payday loan providers don’t charge refinancing/rollover charges, just like mortgages, together with interest does not compound (unless needless to say she removes a brand new loan to cover interest in the very very very first loan).
Possibly it is only semantics, but “spiraling” suggests exponential development, whereas costs for the typical $300 loan mount up linearly with time: total charges = $45 + quantity of rollovers x $45.
Do Payday Lenders Target Minorities?
It is well documented that payday loan providers have a tendency to find in low income, minority communities, but they are loan providers finding in these areas for their composition that is racial or of these monetary faculties? The proof indicates the latter.
Utilizing Zip code-level information, this research unearthed that racial structure of a Zip rule area had influence that is little payday loan provider places, offered economic and demographic conditions. Likewise, making use of individual-level information, this web site post revealed that blacks and Hispanics had been no longer prone to utilize pay day loans than whites who had been that great exact exact exact same monetary issues (such as for example having missed that loan re re re payment or having been refused for credit somewhere else).

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Breaking up wasn’t hard to do for Russell Simmons.
Hip-hop’s most enterprising entrepreneur is revealing he's cut ties to his former friend President Donald Trump.
“He wrote the foreword to my first two books — I know him very well,” the 59-year-old told The Daily News at New York City’s Cipriani 42nd St. on Monday night.
“Not anymore,” he said. “I’m sure he doesn’t consider me a friend after some of the statements I’ve made.”
According to the news publication, Simmons has been critical of the fellow Queens native since Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015. However, the Def Jam founder’s most damning attack came during a taped interview where he compared Trump to another famous reality TV personality.
“We haven’t been friends since the day he announced and I said, ‘I’d rather Kim Kardashian be President’ so he called the office and that was the end of our friendship,” he said.
Simmons also added that he didn’t take Trump’s call.
“I didn’t pick the phone up,” said Simmons, stating he had an assistant tell Trump to Google the interview himself if he had any questions. “I said, ‘It’s on video! Tell him it’s on video!’ And we didn’t speak after that.”
The realtionship between the pair wasn’t always so sour. Simmons claimed that he previously would spend “every weekend” with Trump at his Mar-a-lago resort in Florida.
“I was with him on his first date with Melania,” he said. “We were friends for many years.”
These days, Simmons doesn’t seem saddened by the friendship being officially over. The Daily News is also reporting that Simmons is planning to spearhead a “resistance” to his former friend’s recent executive order that impacts immigrants and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries.
“Well, you know, all of our friends have issues — I have issues,” said Simmons. “I accept people as they are as long as they’re not running for president.”

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Sandwich line must come. Let’s spread the word on the childhood menu from when we were in school again as usual. This menu combines delicious food together again, ham and cheese sandwich, how to make it. It’s easy to tell. Highlights. Fried ham and cheese sandwich. Anyone who likes crunchy, chewy and enjoyable, must try to make it. Everyone cooks it themselves. Anyone who likes greasy cheese or thick slices of ham can put it as they like. Let’s do it better.
- 4 slices of bread
- 4 slices of ham
- 3 tbsp mayonnaise
- 3 tbsp chili sauce
- Cheese slices as you like
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- oil for frying
How to make fried ham and cheese sandwiches
Prepare a mixing bowl, put chili sauce and mayonnaise in it. mix well
Put the prepared sauce on the bread, place the ham and cheese on top, cover with the bread and spread another layer of sauce.
Bring the finished bread to dip in egg and breadcrumbs all over.
Place a pot over medium heat and add oil. wait until the oil is hot put the sandwich down
When fried until beautiful yellow Bring to drain and serve.
It’s done with the fried ham cheese sandwich menu. A menu that invites you to be fat, it’s super easy to make, but it’s really delicious than expected. with crunchy bread crumbs Recommended to eat hot while the cheese is still greasy, delicious, one bite will never be enough for sure! Who tried to follow how to make a ham and cheese sandwich? then let’s tell

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"Sometimes I think that misery craves my scent. Then again, so does chaos."
Laylah, enslaved by Were customs and the will of her abusive husband, Alpha Yon, fights to win back her independence and happiness.
Her heart is pulled in opposite directions by two very different men. Miguel, steadfast and loyal, wants more than just friendship. Donil, her first love and true mate, desires to keep her safe but his Alpha ways keep coming between them.
With a baby on the way, Laylah must make a choice: become a Were in truth, or stay forever enslaved by Alpha Yon.
Will the price of living her dreams be too high when faced with the force of Were customs?
On Sunday, June 11, 2017, I lost my husband and fellow writer, Rich Garcia (R.M. Garcia). He brought smiles and laughter in my life at a time when I had nothing but darkness and sadness. He was a happy person who liked to share that happiness with others. Then yesterday, Monday, June 12, 2017,Read More
Here are a few things that I’ve managed to accomplish this month: Resumed work on Werelove #4. The goal is to get it finished by the end of the month Moved my lakishaspletzer.com website to a WordPress format. I think I’m liking it better this way.Read More


A field of 111 teams -- ranging India's Tata Motors Ltd., Silicon Valley startup Tesla Motors Inc. and a team backed by musician Neil Young -- will compete for a $10 million prize to build a practical vehicle capable of getting the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon of gas, the contest's backers said Monday.
The Progressive Automotive X-Prize contest, with its underlying premise that the legacy auto industry needs a shot of innovation to escape its current woes, coincides with the wrenching restructuring of Detroit's big automakers and heated debates about energy policy in Washington.
Most of the entrants are relatively small, startup car makers, such as Aptera Motors, a California company trying to drum up interest in a three-wheeled electric vehicle. Tesla Motors, which is already selling a $100,000 electric roadster, plans to enter its second car, the Model S sedan. Tata has proposed entering a hybrid and an electric version of its Nano minicar. Of the 136 vehicles entered, 91 are electric vehicles, the foundation said.
Among the more unusual entries is the LINCVOLT, a 1959 Lincoln convertible outfitted with a hybrid-electric drivetrain and promoted by Mr. Young, who's featured the car in some of his recent videos and plans a movie on the project.
The prize winners will be decided after a multistep process that will culminate with road competitions next year in four U.S. cities, X-Prize Foundation Chairman Peter H. Diamandis said in an interview Monday.
So far none of the big Detroit auto makers has chosen to enter the contest. Mr. Diamandis said that even if big car makers don't enter, they could benefit from the contest. "They have a beautiful off-balance-sheet R&D program," he said.
General Motors Corp. GM -0.31 % spokesman Greg Martin said the auto maker has had discussions with the X-Prize Foundation, but has decided to focus its resources on meeting a 2010 production target for its Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in hybrid designed to run 40 miles on electricity alone. "Everything we have is to get that vehicle to market," Mr. Martin said. "Everything beyond that would be nice to do, not need to do."
The Progressive Automotive X-Prize is one of a series of high-profile technology challenges backed by the X-Prize Foundation and Mr. Diamandis. The common theme is the use of a multimillion-dollar prize to inspire technological innovation. In 2004, the foundation awarded $10 million to a team led by aerospace designer Burt Rutan for building a vehicle that carried three people 100 kilometers above the earth twice within two weeks.
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Mahindra launched the SsangYong Rexton in India back in 2012. However, its innings in India was rather forgettable. This time around, SsangYong unveiled an all-new generation of its SUV, G4 Rexton, at the 2017 Seoul Motor Show. It’s likely to come to India early next year and here's what you should know about this new SUV.
New design language
The new design language, dubbed ‘dignified motion’, is inspired by nature. It now gets projector headlamps with LED daytime running lamps (DRLs), a slim hexagonal grille, LED fog and cornering lamps at the front and also gets 20-inch alloy wheels. It measures 4,850mm in length, 1,960mm in width, 1,825mm in height and comes with a wheelbase of 2,865mm. These dimensions make it shorter in length and height when compared to the Ford Endeavour but wider than it and with a longer wheelbase too.
SsangYong boasts that this car can carry five occupants and accommodate four golf bags at the same time. The luggage room ranges from 784- to 1,977-litres. Internationally, it is available as a five-seater, but, for India, there’s likely to be a seven-seater version as well.
This one comes with features such as a 9.2-inch HD screen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, 360-degree camera, 7.0-inch LCD instrument cluster, cooled seats wrapped in Nappa leather, smart tailgate, auto door locking – when the key is detected moving away from the car – and an easy access which adjusts the driver seat when the door is opened.
New diesel engine and Mercedes gearbox
The G4 Rexton is powered by an e-XDi220 four-cylinder diesel engine that makes 187hp and 420Nm of torque. It’s paired with a seven-speed torque-converter automatic sourced from Mercedes-Benz. It has a kerb weight of 2,095kg, which is nearly 300kg lighter than the Endeavour 3.2L. This SUV is off-road ready with four-wheel drive. For certain markets, there’s also an e-XGDI200T petrol engine that comes with a six-speed automatic gearbox.
Tougher yet lighter
It is built on a ladder-frame chassis that uses 81.7 percent high-strength steel, which is strong yet lightweight. The new quad-frame body, jointly developed with POSCO, is made of a 1.5 GPa-grade advanced high-strength giga steel that helps in substantial weight reduction and is claimed to reduce the impact on the other vehicle in the event of a collision.
Expected price and competition check
The new Rexton is likely to make its India debut at the Auto Expo 2018. It will be a direct rival, like its predecessor, to segment stalwarts including the Toyota Fortuner and the Ford Endeavour. Currently, Mahindra is doing the math to see if this latest Ssangyong, locally made in one of its plants, can meet a very aggressive cost target. It is likely to price the SUV at least Rs 4 lakh lower than its direct rivals and is quite confident about meeting that target. Also, there are chances that the new vehicle could be branded a Mahindra, possibly an XUV700.
2017 SsangYong G4 Rexton review


Optimus will launch the new dash Sales Manager for the first time in Africa at Africa Print 2015, taking place from 22-24 July at Gallagher Convention Centre.
Dash Sales Manager includes a dashboard showing the user key alerts of information about the customers and prospects assigned to them. Alerts are colour coded to ensure the priority is clear and correct action is taken.
Nicola Bisset, Optimus Group Managing Director said, ‘We continue to expand the award winning Optimus dash MIS to ensure that MIS is no longer just a production tool, but can also help our customers increase sales activity and maximise opportunities without increasing costs.
‘Dash Sales Manager Module contains all information required to assist in planning sales activities, pursuing new sales and responding to customer enquiries instantly. In keeping with the Lean Ethos, we have ensured that there is no duplication of effort. Complete transparency of sales activities and customer contact in a simple and easy to use web application.'
The contacts within dash Sales Manager include both customers and prospects. Lists are defined and available as a global view for the Sales Manager or, for the Sales Staff User, only those customers and prospects assigned to them. When clicking on an individual record, all information held about the contact is available including note fields which can be completed and activities raised.
For existing customers, additional information is available with minimal clicks that include: pending enquiries (estimates); active jobs; proofs outstanding; deliveries scheduled; invoices issued and customer owned stock levels.
Information displayed can easily be drilled down, for example, if the user chooses an active job, they are able to view the job and where it is in production. This is an invaluable aid in responding to customer queries instantly.
For prospective customers, all organisations, contacts within the organisations and locations are available. If enquiries (estimates) have been sent and not yet ordered, these are displayed to trigger action and follow up.
Organisations, contacts and locations for both existing customers and prospects are available to export to spreadsheet at the touch of a button, enabling the preparation of targeted sales campaigns, thereby ensuring all customers and prospects are kept informed of latest offers and products.
Sales budgets can be assigned to each customer and prospect and are monitored by customer, by prospect or by sales representative assigned. Monthly budgets are entered with a cumulative running balance available. Actual sales invoiced are viewed against budget with variances highlighted, keeping you in total control of projected sales.
Dash Sales Manager includes a Sales Activity Calendar, either ‘My Calendar’ for the user or ‘All’ for the Sales Manager to see the activities of the sales force. The calendar is populated with activities required, each activity can be dragged and dropped to re-schedule and when hovering over, the action required is easily visible. Alternatively by clicking on the activity, a form is presented and the user can fulfil and mark as completed.
All activities are colour coded for simple visual representation of the action required. The calendar can also synchronise with other applications such as Google Calendar and Outlook. Dash Sales Manager Calendar can be displayed as a day or week view with the list of activities presented for effective time management and control.
All activities raised in the dash Sales Manager Calendar automatically updates the Optimus Cloud Mobile Calendar ensuring that reps on the road are kept up to date on activities required. Cloud Mobile gives the sales rep the tools to be able to capture instant buying decisions in front of their customer. All activity completed in Cloud Mobile automatically appears in Optimus dash MIS, giving full transparency and maximum efficiency.
Entrance to the expo is free. Pre-register online and attend the expo, and you could win R1000 cash.


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Reza Babajani, Iman Safaei, Mohammad Jamshidi, Mohammad Khodashenas, Ehsan Mahdavi, Davoud Morgan, Ladan Rezaei and Mehdi Saeedi will be among the participants of the Polish event.
Noushin Karami, Kaveh Maddah-Raad and Seyed Mojtaba Rouhani will compete in the biennial's Golden Debut category, and Amir Rezaei will take part in the Chopin Anew section.
This year's international jury is composed of Cao Fang (China), Alejandro Magallanes (Mexico), Finn Nygaard (Denmark), Marian Oslislo (Poland), Gunter Rambow (Germany) and Monika Zawadzka (Poland).
The first biennale of its kind in the world, the Warsaw International Poster Biennial was launched by Professor Jozef Mroszczak in 1966.
The event is endorsed by the International Council of Graphic Design Association (Icograda), which funds an Excellence Biennale Award.


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Laramie, WY – Wyoming is slated to receive roughly $500 million through the federal stimulus package. However, the state can also compete for additional funds. The University of Wyoming's Deputy Director of Government Relations, Don Richards, says the university is already preparing to apply for research money. He says the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health all have funds available. "We believe the University of Wyoming is well-positioned to compete for this funding within our institutional priorities," Richards said.
Many other state agencies also plan to apply for grants. The Department of Health is looking at one that could allow it to create an electronic database of health records.


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Many politicians, media pundits and commentators, along with the mainstream cultural apparatuses, are decrying property destruction produced by protesters in the face of unrelenting police assaults on unarmed Black people. Their critical focus has been not only on the broken windows, burning cars and alleged "looting" of stores, but also on the so-called violent tendencies of the "left" and anarchists who serve as stand-ins for the thousands of peaceful protesters who have taken to the streets.
Violence in this right-wing logic is equated with the destruction of property while at the same time it ignores "the pain and/or bodily injury" inflicted on human beings, especially those not deemed worthy of civil liberties and human rights. Nobody should justify assaults that lead to needless human suffering and the destruction of neighborhood property, especially in impoverished cities. Nor should violence be used as a rhetorical device to include property damage. Violence is a term that should be limited to assaults, injuries and harm waged against human beings, not property. When talking about violence, it is crucial to make a distinction between the destruction of property and violence against persons.
Right-wing extremists are not only considered terrorists by the FBI but also rank among the most dangerous threats to the U.S. According to the Center for Strategic & International Studies, most terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994 were conducted by right-wing groups. Moreover, the Center noted that, "Right-wing extremists perpetrated two-thirds of the attacks and plots in the United States in 2019 and over 90 percent between January 1 and May 8, 2020." Unfortunately, when the focus of violence is strictly applied by politicians and the media to protesters, the assaults, murders and aggression produced by right-wing groups disappear from public view or get defended as a public service. For instance, the right-wing youth, Kyle Rittenhouse, who was arrested for the murder of two demonstrators and the wounding of another in Kenosha is being hailed by some, such as Tucker Carlson, in the conservative media echo chamber as a "law and order" warrior acting against the lawlessness of the left. President Trump has not only refused to condemn Rittenhouse's actions, along with the violence waged by white supremacists, he has also defended him, stating that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. As Greg Sargent observes, "that makes Trump not the law-and-order candidate, but rather the candidate of arbitrary violence, lawless abuses of power and civil breakdown.""The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose." James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time.
Trump is not alone in his denial of systemic racism. Attorney General William Barr, Trump's Roy Cohn, in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer both denied the existence of systemic racism in the United States, and once again repeated his belief that whatever violence and abuse Blacks suffer at the hands of the police is due to their own criminality. As the Associated Press notes, Barr has argued "that there is a 'false narrative' that the country is in an 'epidemic' of unarmed Black people being killed by white police officers."
Furthermore, focusing on the alleged violence and looting associated with groups demonstrating against police violence and institutional racism often sets up a false equivalency. It suggests that there is no difference between the power and brutality of state violence and the incidental violence produced by people often demonstrating against police brutality and institutional racism. The violence produced at times by oppressed groups is often the outgrowth of the despairing circumstances in which people find themselves, especially those who are desperate to retain their dignity, civil rights and a modicum of security. Many oppressed groups find it almost impossible to put up with the massive injustices and assaults on their dignity, ability to survive, and the anxiety of having to live in a constant state of fear and terror. Why shouldn't they revolt and take out their frustrations in a literal display of direct action and in some cases looting? Is it really that hard to understand? The different contexts that produce violence, and the accelerated scale and order of it as part of a network of capitalist institutional violence is what should be focused on, not the minuscule acts of aggression committed by protesters. Racist violence, police brutality and state aggression are in the bones and soul of the United States.
Yet, when car windows are smashed, goods are seized, fences are torn down and buildings are burned, the elite and right-wing press are quick to label all protesters as outside agitators who destroy their own neighborhoods, and invite further police violence. Or, they remain silent when Trump, as he did at the Republican National Convention, labels all protesters as "anarchists, agitators and criminals" code for Black people. These protests are not viewed as moments of direct action rooted in revealing the racial character of oppression, egregious economic deprivations and ongoing life-threatening incidents of state violence. On the contrary, the arguments that focus on the violence in such demonstrations divert any analysis from addressing a fascist politics that embraces white supremacy, economic inequality, the rise of the punishing state, and a range of injustices that threaten both human life and the planet itself. Nor do such analyses focus on the role of white, right-wing militia groups and white supremacists in instigating violence in many of these demonstrations.
When the elite press does at times acknowledge that Trump enables violence through the incendiary incitement of racist fears while engaging in endless acts of lawlessness, they offer little analysis to how such tactics are central to the workings of fascist regimes. Instead, they either focus on Trump's lawless actions as a wide effort to broaden his appeal or they call upon Joe Biden to respond to the charge that he and a host of Democratic governors are responsible for the violence in some cities.
As a political strategy, this is not unimportant, but it does not get to the heart of the predatory and egregious state violence at work in the United States, which, incidentally, helped create the conditions that got Trump elected to the presidency. For instance, no dots are drawn connecting Trump's camouflaged troops gassing and grabbing protesters off the street, encouraging the police to rough up suspects, refusing to condemn police officers who kill unarmed people of color, and his retweeting of a supportive message regarding Kyle Rittenhouse's "fatal shooting of two protesters and the wounding of a volunteer medic."
Trump is doing more than amplifying white fears, enabling right-wing violence, using racist appeals to sway white suburban voters and terrorizing peaceful protesters -- he is establishing the conditions for a fascist state.
State violence comes in many forms and extends from the criminalization of social problems and the horrors of the carceral state to the militarization of the police and the increasing violence waged against undocumented immigrants, poor youth of color, and anyone who is not white and viewed as expendable, if not disposable.
Consider agents of the state suffocating, with impunity, a Black man, Eric Garner, on the streets of New York in full view of bystanders. Consider police officers shooting 12-year-old Tamir Rice while he was holding a toy gun; consider the police kicking in the door and killing Breonna Taylor while she slept in her bed; consider a cop putting his knee on George Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes until the last breath passed from his body. Consider a government that separates children from their parents and puts them in cages. Consider that waging violence against Black men and women did not end with slavery and Jim Crow, but continues into the present era, especially under Trump, whose call for "law and order" functions as "an enabling tool for providing an open season on killing Black men." Moreover, "law and order" as a defining principle of Trump's mode of governance is best defined by the White House's ties to criminals, such as the eight associates of Trump arrested or convicted of crimes, including Steve Bannon, Roger Stone and Michael Cohen.
The property destruction committed by protesters shrinks in importance compared to this relentless racist state violence. This is in addition to the state violence that results in thousands of children who die in the U.S. every day because of poverty and the elderly who are thrown into nursing homes that have become the new funeral parlors. Consider the more than 192,000 needless deaths in the U.S. as a result of Trump's shameless disdain for public health, science and human life. The COVID-19 disaster was not simply a crisis of health and economics, but also a political crisis. All of which is on full display in Trump's failure to produce a national plan to deal with the spreading virus. The Trump administration has blood on its hands because of its failure to act. There is also his relentless efforts to promote Wall Street profits while shamelessly focusing on economic growth to increase his political ratings and ensure his reelection.
Another failure rested on Trump's use of conspiracy theories rather than science to sacrifice investing in public health in order to revive the economy, all of which was supported by his Vichy Republican allies and his base. What are we to make of Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee stating at the Republican National Convention that, "if the Democrats had their way, they would keep you locked in your house until you became dependent on the government forever. That sounds a lot like Communist China to me." This is hard to make up and reads like a narrative that is a mix of elements from The Truman Show and A Nightmare on Elm Street, all of which is appropriated by Trump and his lemmings to deny the reality of the pandemic itself. In this story, the pandemic crisis and Trump's failed response is just a fictitious plot hatched by advocates of socialism.
State violence enshrines the economy while stating without apology that the elderly, the sick, and those with fragile health and serious conditions should sacrifice themselves on the altar of neoliberal capitalism. Looting becomes a rhetorical tool of the right wing to discredit organized protests against systemic police violence and institutionalized racism. As Robin D. G. Kelley notes, looting is now applied to people stealing from stores in the midst of an uprising rather than viewed as a way to make visible how "Indigenous land was ... seized, the value of Black-owned homes ... suppressed, Black wages suppressed, [and] how the massive transfer of wealth to the financial elite functions as a form of looting."
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The conclusion to the latest story arc of Kieron Gillen & Dan Mora’s fantasy series is in stores now.
Written by: Kieron Gillen
Illustrated by: Dan Mora
Colored by: Tamra Bonvillain
Lettered by: Ed Dukeshire
Cover by: Dan Mora
Note: the following review contains spoilers for the issue being discussed. For a spoiler-free verdict, scroll down to the bottom of the post.
Any series that leaves you wanting to research centuries old British history and the “Matter of Britain” has to be a good one.
Once & Future has been a roller coaster since day one and this issue takes the coaster and completely derails it. After the British Isles were moved into Otherworld at the end of Parliament of Magpies, Monarchies in the UK has spent a lot of time worldbuilding and setting up future pieces for Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora to play with. And while most of our time in recent issues has been spent with Duncan, Gran, and Rose, this issue takes more space to show us what’s going on with King Arthur and Merlin, as they prepare to fight the alternate King Arthur and Merlin.
If that last part sounds confusing, don’t worry, that’s by design. There are so many different ways that the Arthurian legends have been told and retold over the years that Gillen is able to throw a few curveballs our way by introducing the Norman and Welsh versions of Arthur and Merlin by the end of this arc. The way Gillen has woven these myths together with British history and Shakespeare is amazing and it always leaves me wanting to read more about the history of storytelling in the British Isles.
I can’t stress this enough, but Mora and Tamra Bonvillain are a dream team in this issue and I will gush over anything they create together (hmm… does this week’s DC Roundup have any thoughts about this?). The art is cracking with electricity in every panel, and I wish I could take the whole series and pin it to my wall. Everything looks gorgeous: Mora’s line art is crisp and smooth while Bonvillain’s colors are lush and vibrant, perfectly encapsulating the fantasy world the team has created.
Ed Dukeshire only adds to this powerhouse lineup, making some excellent lettering decisions that clearly delineate who’s talking from panel to panel. He could have given them all one style and called it a day. But in taking the time to craft unique word bubbles and fonts for every mythological character in the series, Dukeshire takes the time to showcase his mastery over lettering and care for the world in this series.
This series has only improved as it’s kept going, and I think the end of the last arc was really where it found its footing. Gillen is known to be a master planner, but this series feels much more experimental than his usual books. The story evolves rapidly as the creative team figures out what new pieces they want to play with, and it’s fascinating to see things change and get even bigger over the course of the series. Trapping the UK within Otherworld did a lot to open up the story and push the pedal to the metal, and I’m hoping things keep moving in that direction.
The series hasn’t been shy in it’s allusions to the growing tide of white nationalism in England, but that takes a backseat with this issue. Instead, we get a few quiet moments between Merlin and Arthur that adds a bit of a wrinkle to their relationship. Now, it’s not that we have sympathy for them (they’re absolutely reprehensible here), but it’s interesting to see some nuance creep into Merlin’s personality, rather than straight evil. I will say, Gillen always writes lovely characters, and the quieter moments of Once & Future have been some of my favorites. Even if the action is one of the major draws of this series, Mora and Bonvillain are still able to render these less bombastic scenes beautifully.
I was hoping for a little more time with the mysterious Guinevere on the cover of this issue, but I have a feeling Gillen is going to let that mystery marinate for a bit. Also, it might be weird to include this part this late in my review, but not only do we see the debut of another King Arthur and Merlin, but Mora draws an incredible design for a new Robin Hood, who looks to be an ally for our protagonists. I sure hope this is the case, ‘cause it feels like Duncan, Gran, and Rose never seem to catch a break
The end of this issue is also the end of this arc, and while I’ve noticed a similar structure in the endings of the last three arcs, Gillen flips things a little bit and leaves the story more open-ended than it’s been in the past. Normally, we end things with a bit of a denouement and a lil tease for the next arc — but instead, the story wraps up with two (or three if you count an earlier reveal) teases for what’s to come and keeps the momentum moving. With that, you’d think there was another issue coming out next month, but there’s an indefinite hiatus ahead that’s going to drive me crazy wondering what’s next.
Final Verdict: BUY.
Published by BOOM! Studios, Once & Future #24 is on sale now


The British watchdog CMA should not have forced Meta to sell poison platform Giphy. The judge finds that CMA’s investigation was flawed. The watchdog now has to take another look at the investigation and the decision. Meta had appealed the forced sale.
It Competition Appeal Tribunal overturns the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s decision to force Meta to sell Giphy. CMA stated that the acquisition reduces competition between social media platforms and that the acquisition would prevent Giphy from becoming a competitor in the advertising market.
According to the authority, Giphy was planning to allow companies to advertise on its platform, which could have made Giphy a competitor of Meta. That plan was put on hold with the takeover. In addition, Meta was able to restrict access to Giphy for competitors and favor its own platforms. As a result, platforms could be forced to hand over more user data to Meta upon Giphy implementation. Blocking the takeover was the only way to prevent the problems, according to CMA.
According to Bloomberg the Competition Appeal Tribunal had reservations about the approach to CMA. The watchdog is said to have incorrectly consulted certain parts and used certain research findings on incorrect grounds or painted them black. Therefore, the tribunal overturns CMA’s decision, in agreement with CMA and Meta.
The watchdog now says it is reconsidering its decision to sell Giphy. CMA expects to issue a new verdict within three months. Meta announced in 2020 that it wants to buy Giphy, probably for around 400 million euros.


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The most dreamy and gorgeous gowns of the night
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It's not awards season yet, but celebs delivered some major fashion moments anyway
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Where is the hurricane now
- 5 p.m.: Tropical Depression Flossie Continues to Weaken: Monday Updates
- Spectacular Hurricane Barbara Peaks With 155 mph Winds, But Now Weakening
- Hurricane Dorian could hit Florida as a category 4 hurricane on Labor Day
- Hurricane Dorian tracks toward Florida, expected to reach Category 4
5 p.m.: Tropical Depression Flossie Continues to Weaken: Monday Updates
The National Hurricane Center provides an update on Hurricane Dorian - USA TODAYthe your get watch
Our live coverage of Tropical Storm Barry has ended. Scroll through the posts below to see how it unfolded. She lives in a trailer surrounded by trees and she didn't feel it was safe to stay there. Because of Hurricane Katrina, Webber said, she prefers to stay in shelters throughout major storms. Webber is among the more than people who arrived to shelters in Louisiana as Tropical Storm Barry approached landfall. Barry made landfall this afternoon in Louisiana as a Category 1 hurricane, before being downgraded into a tropical storm. The system is now crawling north-northwest at 7 mph, brining extended downfalls that could prompt heavy flooding to the area.
Hurricane Dorian, a Category 1 storm, is expected to strengthen to at least a Category 3 hurricane on Friday as it moves over warm Atlantic waters. It's expected to remain an extremely dangerous hurricane through the weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center NHC , and hit Florida's eastern coast as a major hurricane perhaps even a Category 4 on Monday. The storm could bring 5 to 10 inches of rainfall to coastal areas of the southeastern US this weekend, with some areas seeing up to 15 inches. This rain could cause "life-threatening" flash floods, the NHC said. The hurricane's eye was miles east of the southeastern Bahamas as of 11 a. ET Thursday, with wind speeds of 85 mph.
The 5 PM Advisory for Dorian. No changes, forecast to hit Florida on Labor Day as a Category 4 hurricane. ABC11 pic. Panthers preseason game to preempt regular programming Thursday. Full Story. Local News. Raleigh Durham Fayetteville Surrounding Area.
It helps cover the cost I incur with this high bandwidth website. We bring original content not found anywhere else, so, please support this unique website by visiting the donations webpage credit card, PayPal, Venmo, check. Any amount helps! Thank you so much! Then, he has the audacity to further throw the models and forecasters into a tizzy by becoming a Cat 1 hurricane right on top of St. Thomas way earlier than expected.
Spectacular Hurricane Barbara Peaks With 155 mph Winds, But Now Weakening
Spectacular natural fireworks were on display over the Eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, when Hurricane Barbara exploded into a high-end Category 4 hurricane with mph winds at the same time that the shadow of a total solar eclipse darkened the waters to its south. A mere tropical storm with mph winds at 11 am EDT July 1, Barbara rapidly intensified into a Category 4 storm with mph winds just By 11 pm July 2, Barbara had reached its peak intensity of mph, falling just short of the mph threshold needed for a Category 5 rating.
Hurricane Dorian could hit Florida as a category 4 hurricane on Labor Day
Hurricane center is now forecasting Dorian to reach Category 3 intensity by this weekend. The medical examiner concluded that all of the deaths were homicides caused by heat exposure. Authorities have said some patients had body temperatures as high as One is uncomfortably close to Florida, and the other is something for the Caribbean to watch. Camille one of only four Category 5 hurricanes to hit the continental U.
Dorian is now a hurricane as it pushes through the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, the first storm there since 's Hurricane Maria, and is an increasing danger to the Southeast U. - Local News.
Hurricane Dorian tracks toward Florida, expected to reach Category 4
By Meg Wagner , Paul P. The company has added two extra nights and turned the trip into a five-night sailing journey returning on Wednesday. The cruise was initially set to arrive back in Florida on the same day Dorian is expected to make landfall. The cruise line is giving options to passengers do not want to sail on the updated itineraries. It's unclear whether the company has canceled any other routes. The International Space Station's camera is keeping an eye on Dorian from above.


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Borneo is known for an amazing number of unique plants and many can be found In Mt Kinabalu National Park, a world heritage site. The Rafflesia is one of them. On the floor of the jungle, this non-descript plant flowers once every nine months and when it does, the flower is the size of a charger plate and bigger. It also has an aroma of rotting flesh! We were “lucky” enough to see a flowering rafflesia on day one ( a day before the stench). Insects, frogs and even snakes climb into the centre to eat all the insects and other small animals that are attraced by the scent
We also saw lots of orchids, the pitcher plant and the lovely ‘elephant ear’ plant.
An orchid that flowers once every five years
In the cooler highlands of Sabah at the base of Mt Kinabalu they grow tea and coffee. We had a wonderful hour at the Fatt Choi coffee plantation where we were very well looked after by Mr Foong. We enjoyed fragrant coffee as well as ‘five in one coffee’ which included Ginseng. I recommend the iced coffee…loads of icecream 🙂
After a day of walking in Mt Kinabalu National Park we enjoyed soaking our muscles in the Poring Hot Springs.
Poring Hot Springs
Next up, the buildings of the Raj! Borneo, the British and WW2

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As agriculture commodity prices stay high and arable farmland globally continues to shrink, there has been a made dash into the location where 60% of the world's untilled arable land remains - Africa. Whilst most observers focus on other commodity investments in Africa, especially energy and minerals, the rush into farmland has been extraordinary.
Nations are increasingly concerned with "food security", and as a result there have been huge agricultural investments made by sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises. According to a recent article in Business Insider, farmland investments on the continent have surged 1,500% since 2008. According to an article in Forbes, UK hedge fund Emergent Asset Management launched a farmland fund dedicated solely to African agriculture, and they are targeting returns of 270% over a five year period. The Emergent farmland fund has a minimum investment of US$500,000 as it is targeted at institutional investors and family offices, but there are also now options for retail investors who may be interested in riding the agriculture commodity wave and diversifying a small portion of their portfolios into a unique alternative Investment.


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Earlier this week, I bought Humble Indie Bundle #4. I’m usually in on these specials regardless of content: For instance, I bought the Humble Introversion Bundle, but I’ve yet to play anything from it. This iteration, however, features a particularly strong stable of games that I’ve lusted over but haven’t purchased, including Cave Story+, Gratuitous Space Battles, and Super Meat Boy.
I would argue that the Humble Bundle initiative has been a success. In the first few days, 260,000 people purchased Humble Indie Bundle #4, totalling almost 1.4 million dollars. That may be small potatoes for the Activisions of the world — World of Warcraft makes that every few hours in subscriber fees alone — but three days ago, that was a lot of money that the participating Humble Bundle developers, Child’s Play, and the American Red Cross didn’t have previously to split amongst themselves.
The success of the Humble Bundles is the result of a variety of phenomena we have witnessed in video games of late. In particular: the rise of indie video game development, the adoption of digital distribution services, and gamers’ newly found sense of charity spurred by Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play project.
If you wanted a theme to all these activities, it would be: "We are sick of being told what to do and tired of being taken advantage of." That’s not to be facetious. Whether a person is struggling for democracy itself or for the rights within a democracy that have been stripped through artifice and manipulation, the entire world is just exhaustedof being told what to do, particularly when it holds little benefit for the public and immense benefit for a select few.
I can’t help but think that this thought is — if not created — abetted by the Internet. I’m 30 years old, a digital-age elder, and I have been told for most of my life that I can do what I want, that I can contribute how I see fit, and that I am equal to those around me. Tell that to millions of people for dozens of years, then empower them by giving them the greatest communication and collaboration tool the world has ever seen?
Yes, things will change.
Ultimately, these higher-minded protests are the most important expressions of this movement, but that same ethos is permeating everything we touch, particularly in entertainment. Television audiences are abandoning conventional cable and satellite providers in favor of Internet-based subscription and a la carte content. Louis C.K. scored success with the release of a self-produced, self-distributed comedy special. Music has long been freed of the tyranny of physical media and copyright protection and dissected into its smallest parts.
Enter the Humble Indie Bundle. Ultimately, we are allowed to dictate not only our actions but who will benefit from those actions — very powerful tools that audiences have chosen to exploit.
One could point to a negative element in this payment model. Usually the average take is about 5 dollars per sale, which is less than a dollar per game. But these games have already seen release (with the exception of Voxatron, which debuted as part of its own bundle promotion) and have, one hopes, already made a little bit of money for their creators.
Of course, the Call of Duties will always exist, demanding billion-dollar release sales and then convincing players to spend even more money after the fact. But for every Call of Duty subscription service; massively multiplayer-online monthly fee; or triple-A, assembly-line downloadable content, there are dozens of indie games whose creators don’t want to take advantage of their audience.
They would rather use their games as part of a greater global discussion about who we are and what we are going to do with ourselves…and who makes those decisions in the first place.
And that’s a discussion I want to be a part of. Seven amazing games are just a great perk of participating.


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Sea level rise is threatening Cape Cod’s coastline, but the impacts are not always visible. Funded by the Massachusetts Environmental Trust, the Association to Preserve Cape Cod teamed up with the US Geological Survey and the Cape Cod Commission to map and model how rising seas are causing groundwater to rise under our feet. As USGS Hydrologist Peter Weiskel puts it, this could be called “an inundation from below” study.
A homeowner’s experience with three failed septic tanks is rounded out by comments from the director of the Barnstable County Department of Health and the Environment on the public health risk of septic systems and sewer lines that are too close to groundwater. Laurel Schaider, a research scientist with the Silent Spring Institute, talks about her study of pharmaceuticals and other unregulated contaminants in wastewater, and how they’re getting from septic systems and into drinking water. APCC Director Ed DeWitt follows up with a call to action: we need to stem the rising tides by reducing our carbon footprint, and mitigating its inevitable effects of sea level rise by protecting our vulnerable coastline.


I hope you enjoy the selection of music for today. I have probably haven’t told you before but…picking the music for any given day is one of the hardest parts of posting things. I guess because I have an idea of what I want but finding it is the difficult part.
I must be getting old, but I like the traditional sound of Christmas music. So, if the videos seems a little hodge podgey? (is that a word?) then I suppose they are. I’ll try harder this next Christmas. That is if Christ has not come yet. (I believe he’s coming soon.)
I suggest that you close your eyes and really listen to the words of the music and imagine the wonderful scene’s of Christ’s birth.
May you all have a wonderful and blessed Christmas day.


Sales of the battery-powered city car have grown steadily since the initial launch and are expected to shoot upwards as the i-MiEV moves into additional markets. By the end of October, Mitsubishi reported that 3,000 individuals and businesses now own the i-MiEV, but those purchaser numbers pale in comparison to the 5,000 that Mitsubishi has produced (as of November 23rd) at its Mizushima plant in Japan.
Next fall, the automaker will roll out its battery-powered, North-American-spec Mitsubishi i and aims to expand its production capabilities by shifting the i-MiEV from the commercial-vehicle line over to its minicar assembly site.
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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation Reaches 5,000 i-MiEVs Produced
Tokyo, November 24, 2010 - Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) announced that it reached 5,000 units*1 of its i-MiEV new generation electric vehicle (EV) produced at its Mizushima Plant as of November 23rd.
MMC was first in the world to start production of a full-fledged mass production EV with the i-MiEV in June of 2009. The month after that MMC introduced the i-MiEV to the Japanese market, and has sold about 3,000 units to individuals and businesses nationwide (as of end October 2010). MMC also started left-hand drive European-spec i-MiEV production from October 2010, and is steadily proceeding with global rollout of EVs.
Also, in fiscal year 2011, in order to further expand its production scale via starting North American-spec i-MiEV production, MMC plans to transfer production of the i-MiEV from the current commercial vehicle assembly line to the minicar assembly line for cars such as eK Wagon and i.
*1:Does not include EV production for PSA Peugeot Citroën


MIL-PRF-25134 §4.6 Unpainted Aluminum Test Panels
Unpainted aluminum panels used in testing solvent-type paint removers by MIL-PRF-25134. These 5" x 24" aluminum test panels are described in MIL-PRF-25134 §4.6. Metaspec provides these panels with an as rolled solvent-cleaned surface finish (unpainted). These panels are painted and coated before testing the paint remover's consistency & flow characteristics, removal power, rinsibility, and coating residue.


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You can call Tuesday's action in the stock market a rebound from Monday's rout if you want to.
But when you scratch the surface, the way up looked a lot different than the way down – and not just because the gains were about half the previous day's losses.
More importantly, the S&P 500 on Tuesday was led by a mix of defensive and cyclical stocks – consumer staples and health care stocks were among the top performers for the day.
Conversely, Monday's nerve-rattling decline hit cyclicals far harder, with energy, materials, industrials, consumer discretionary and financials bearing the brunt of the selloff.
So it goes in 2013, where defensive stocks have been crushing their cyclical peers on the way up and the way down, raising questions about whether this latest phase of the bull market is being propelled by caution rather than optimism.
Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ, believes the charge into defensive stocks is only partly owing to bull-market latecomers staying clear of so-called high-beta sectors – which tend to be more volatile than the overall market – out of concern of a repeat of scary market turbulence.
Mostly, the favouritism is tied to a frantic search for yield. Defensive stocks have considerably higher dividend yields than cyclical stocks, on average, at a time when government bonds are yielding next to nothing.
But this preference for defensive stocks, whose gains are 50 per cent more than cyclicals since the bull market's latest sprint began in mid-November, could be causing some market distortions: Defensive stocks within the S&P 500 have heftier valuations.
Mr. Stovall noted that they have an average price-to-earnings ratio of 17, based on estimated earnings. That is well above the 13.5 P/E for cyclical stocks and the 14 P/E for the entire S&P 500.
Defensive stocks are also pricier when looked at from a technical perspective: The average defensive sector is 10 per cent above its 200-day moving average, versus an average of just 2 per cent since 1994.
By comparison, cyclical stocks trade just 4 per cent above their 200-day moving average, versus a long-term average of 3 per cent.
If that looks like a good reason to avoid defensive stocks for being too, well, offensive, Mr. Stovall offers one good reason to stick around: Dividends.
Regular payouts contribute meaningfully to long-term gains and they tend to lower volatility in portfolios. And even with recent share-price gains, the yields on defensive stocks average 3.2 per cent, which is meaningfully above the average of 2.1 per cent for cyclicals.
"So even though stocks have soared, and the higher-yielding defensive groups have led the way, S&P Capital IQ equity analysts believe several stocks paying yields of 3 per cent or more are still attractive and deserve a second look by investors," he said.
These stocks are: McDonald's Corp., Altria Group Inc., General Mills Inc., Lorillard Inc., Chevron Corp., Pennsylvania REIT, Bank of Nova Scotia, General Electric Co., Waste Management Inc. and South Jersey Industries Inc.
Even broad baskets of dividend payers come highly recommended. S&P Capital IQ has an "overweight" recommendation on the SPDR S&P Dividend exchange-traded fund, which tracks stocks within the S&P 500 that have increased their dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years.
Investors are paying a lot for dividends right now. But with payout levels historically low amid high corporate cash levels, the expectation that dividends will continue to rise looks like a safe bet.


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Earlier this fall, we gave you a listen to Intellect’s single “Scarface Fitted,” a song about the struggle of continually trying to win the love and affection of hip hop itself.
If you stick through the mud long enough, periods of struggle will often lead to breakthroughs. That’s the message of Intellect’s latest single, “My Soul.”
Hear the Single
Last month, we gave you a look into the world of Michael Dowd, an actor and hip hop artist known to fans as Intellect.
He released his new single, “Scarface Fitted,” a week later. However, that is not all he had in store.
Watch the video
Earlier this month, we chatted with D.C.-based hip hop artist and actor Intellect (real name Michael Dowd). We talked about his life experience, his message, and how both of those things inform his single, “Scarface Fitted.”
Now, that single is here — and we want you to listen!
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For as long as Intellect can remember, music has been a part of his world.Coming from a family where all of the men were singers, the hip hop artist and actor (real name Mike Dowd) followed in their footsteps, growing up on classic Motown, soul, and funk while finding his own way to hip hop from the likes of the Beastie Boys, Run DMC, and Sugar Hill Gang.

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text: -  “Esther A Gheen,” Patriarchal Blessing Index, 1833–1971 (closed to research), CHL. Temple Records Index Bureau of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846 (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1974), 28. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 2014), Esther Ann Pierce KWJ5-71Y . 1850 U.S. census, Weber Co., Utah Territory, Esther Malory, NARA. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Jan. 2014), memorial no. 14815531, Esther Ann Pierce Gheen; Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, UT.

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The colors are derived from those of the city of Cartagena (capital of Bolivar).
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Today's online edition of El Tiempo newspaper, show an article
where one can see the flag of
Bolívar with the Coat of Arms in the middle. In the picture
one can see three flags (from left to right): Bolívar flag
variant with Coat of Arms, Colombia and Cartagena.
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Bolívar Coat of Arms was adopted on 16 November 1857.
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