2021 begins the UN decade of Ecological Restoration. Quality ecosystems support all life on Earth. Healthy ecosystems are essential to us living and thriving on a planet that can sustain us for the future.
At Carbon Positive Australia we know that carbon planting must go hand in hand with quality ecological restoration work if we want healthy ecosystems to emerge from this revegetation. This means that when we plant, we do so not with just one or two species, but with tens of species. This type of dense, multi-species planting not only sequesters carbon, but also restores land back to a similar level of species activity as the remnant bush.
How do we know? We know because of the rigorous citizen science and the data collected. Citizen Science projects such as those undertaken by CCWA and others provide us with valuable monitoring data as to how our projects are performing beyond just the measured carbon sequestration.
Sensitive ecological restorations provide benefits, for habitat, water, and soil. A restoration when done well increases the aliveness of the area, bringing social and wellbeing benefits, as well as increased biodiversity. The CarbonCare co-benefits study that is being published this month quantifies and values these other benefits. It also investigates the most efficient and effective ways of measuring them.
When we restore land we do so by direct seeding with a variety mix of native seeds with local provenance, and more established canopy cover stems. We plant in narrow or curvy rows, and we plant with density, matching seeds to soil types. In a recent bird survey of one of our properties at Yarraweyah Falls bird species diversity was found to be as abundant across functional groups within the restored property as with native vegetation in the Fitz-Stirling Link. In particular species of three types of honeyeater were comparable even though conditions have been difficult across the area due to a drying climate. (“What the birds told us” – Nic Dunlop CCWA citizen science project)
We also know from similar studies in other areas where carbon planting is undertaken without a multi-species planting approach, and where trees are planted in rows, that the outcomes for wildlife and in particular birdlife are less beneficial. This is also demonstrated by an increase in invasive species.
When designing an ecological restoration project there is a lot to consider. Not least a reference site to compare against. The SERA (Society Ecological Restoration Australia) ecological standards are a great way to evaluate a site and determine how well it is tracking against a reference community.
Citizen Science monitoring is also invaluable, as are methods for capturing information about the site, shrub and tree growth, and species development.
All of the sites that we plant go through a rigorous planning exercise prior to planting to ensure that the outcomes for the site can be measured and evaluated over time.
The cost of this monitoring and evaluation process is met through grants and your generous donations. It provides us with feedback as to the efficacy of the planting and the robustness of the project.
When planting for carbon outcomes, if restoration is part of the plan, there can be a bounty of other benefits not just for plants and animals but for humans too. We want to celebrate a culture of restoration, and ensure that our projects build capacity on the ground. We can’t do that on our own, so collaboration with partners is a key to success.


I’ve never been a person who prides themselves on their music taste. I wouldn't necessarily say my taste is bad (considering I edit for a music magazine), but I don't always listen to what is considered to be “good” music. My music taste is a combination of those around me. My best friends, my parents, my boyfriend, and even random songs in movies all accumulate into long nonsensical playlists that I hide safely from the public eye in my Spotify account. I had rarely paid attention to the idea of having “good” playlists for aux. I assumed that everyone around me also listened to music the way I did. I would find songs through friends or movies or TV shows, enjoy them for a while, and then move on. I didn't really have a favorite artist, album, or song, and I rarely even knew the famous artists my friends talked about.
This all changed when I made the mistake of letting my best friend go through my Spotify account. She was looking through my playlists to find something to listen to when she happened upon my Spotify top songs of 2016 playlist. This playlist consisted of quite a few embarrassing songs, most notably Pompeii. Now the song Pompeii itself isn't inherently bad, but my 12-year-old self had not only listened to Pompeii enough times that it made this playlist, but the version of Pompeii was the Glee Cast version. Yes, you read that right. I listened to the Glee Cast cover of Pompeii enough times in 2016 for it to be my number one song. The best part of all of this is that I have no memory of ever even listening to the song.
This funny (and slightly traumatizing) experience has set the stage for my yearly Spotify panic. As December approaches each year I pray nightly to the Spotify gods that my wrapped playlist for the year will never match the embarrassment felt from my 2016 playlist.
This year, however, music took on a different meaning for me. I, along with the rest of NYC, spent the majority of the year cooped up, with little but my phone to entertain me. This led to my best friend and I making playlists for each other. Some of these playlists were recommendations, others are specific vibes we get from songs, and some are simply things we like. I noticed while listening to my “Top Song 2020” playlist that most of these songs aren't things I had listened to for my own good, but they are mainly songs making up the hours and hours of music recommended to me. I sought new ways to make emotional connections to my friends while unable to see them in person.
My Spotify Wrapped playlist of 2020 may not be full of particularly good songs; some are jokes, some are lyrically simple, and others are just genuinely bad songs. But, the common link between all of these is that they got me through the year.
Not only is having good taste in music an arbitrary measurement of character, but it also overlooks the personal aspect of music. We love good music when it connects to us, but the music we connect to doesn't always have to be “good.”
Embrace the embarrassment of your Spotify Wrapped. That weird collection of music and artists is what got you to where you are now. Going into 2021 my resolution is to just allow myself to enjoy whatever I enjoy. Music is a personal experience and you should be able to experience it without fear or embarrassment.


See the pdf and the collection of the individual charts linked below.(1) Economy good. Earnings not so good. (2) Google reports more searches for “recession.” (3) The profits cycle drives the business cycle. (4) Unprofitable companies are retrenching, particularly in Energy and Materials sectors. (5) Jobless claims remain surprisingly low in oil-patch states. (6) A tough earnings season. (7) Forward earnings is a good leading indicator, but misses recessions. (8) The dollar is a drag. (9) Overall revenues growth and profit margins weighed down by Energy and Materials. (10) Other sectors still showing good revenues and margins.
Strategy I: Earnings & the Economy. Yesterday, Debbie and I observed that the US economy started the new year on lots of upbeat notes. However, we also updated our analysis of corporate profits, which remains downbeat. Earnings misses contributed to the 10.5% plunge in the S&P 500 since the start of the year through the recent low of 1828.09 on February 11. But February’s batch of US economic indicators has been surprisingly strong, helping to boost the index from that low by 5.6% through yesterday’s close. No wonder that the S&P 500 has been so choppy so far this year.
We obviously are pleased by the recent performance of the economy since we aren’t predicting a recession anytime soon. Our optimistic outlook appeared less credible over the past two months as perma-bears came out of hibernation, with one particularly vocal polar bear vociferating about an imminent “Ice Age.” A Google search in the US shows that the word “recession” jumped from an “interest-over-time” index of 25 at the end of last year to 94 in late January and 100 in mid-February. It was back down to 76 at the end of last month.
Nevertheless, Debbie and I are concerned about the weakness in profits. That’s because we believe that the business cycle is mostly driven by the profits cycle, though causality obviously runs both ways. Our main point is that profitable companies hire workers and expand capacity; unprofitable companies retrench in an effort to restore profitability. The Energy and Materials sectors certainly provide lots of examples of these distressed companies that currently are cutting their payrolls and capacity.
As we’ve shown before, there is a very good correlation between the yearly percent change in S&P 500 forward earnings (which tends to be a good leading indicator for actual profits) and the yearly percent changes in both aggregate weekly hours worked and real capital spending (Fig. 1 and Fig. 2). Forward earnings is up only 0.7% y/y through late February, while hours worked is up solidly, with a gain of 2.1% through January, and capital spending in real GDP is up just 1.6% y/y through Q4. (See ourForward Earnings & the Economy.)
As we noted yesterday, the weakness in capital spending is mostly attributable to the Energy sector, as is much of the weakness in profits over the past year. So far, there is no evidence that the profits problem is depressing the labor market. Initial unemployment claims averaged 272,000 over the past four weeks (Fig. 3). Even in the four major oil-producing states (Texas, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania), jobless claims remain remarkably low (Fig. 4).
Here’s more on earnings:
(1) This year. January’s Q4-2015 earnings season was full of disappointments that caused analysts to cut their estimates for this year (Fig. 5). Their consensus 2016 estimate for the S&P 500 has fallen 4.3% from $126.91 per share at the start of the year to $121.48. That suggests earnings growth of only 3.5% for the year. We think consensus 2016 earnings will decline further to around $119 and that growth will be just 0.6%.
(2) This quarter. The analysts have taken an axe to their Q1-2016 estimate, which is down 7.6% since the beginning of the year and suggests Q1 earnings will be down 5.9% y/y. We’re estimating an earnings decline of 3.8% after the usual positive earnings surprise bounce. But that still would mark the worst quarter for earnings growth since Q3-2009 (Fig. 6).
(3) Forward earnings. As noted above, forward earnings tends to be a very good leading indicator of actual S&P 500 operating earnings over the next four quarters, as long as both are based on data compiled by Thomson Reuters (Fig. 7). Even so, this statement is only true when the economy is growing. Industry analysts, like economists, aren’t good at anticipating recessions. When economic downturns happen from time to time, everyone scrambles to cut their estimates.
Furthermore, during recessions Standard & Poor’s earnings data tend to be weaker than Thomson Reuters’ numbers because the former is closer to GAAP, while the latter is based on “majority rules,” as we discussed yesterday. In other words, forward earnings is even a worse predictor of GAAP earnings during recessions (Fig. 8). (See our S&P 500 vs. Thomson Reuters Earnings.)
In any event, forward earnings has been virtually flat in record-high territory since late 2014. It has edged lower over the past 24 weeks, as Joe reports below. The flattening has been all attributable to the renewed plunge in the forward earnings of the S&P 500 Energy sector (Fig. 9). Joe uses aggregate forward earnings rather than per-share data to show that. He also observes that excluding Energy, forward aggregate earnings has flattened out since mid-2014. (See our S&P 500 Excluding Energy.)
(4) Sectors. On a per-share basis, the forward earnings of the S&P 500 Energy sector has collapsed by 80.7% since July 2014 (Fig. 10). The more recent flattening of forward earnings excluding this sector is fairly widespread among the other nine sectors (Fig. 11). Actually, Materials has gotten weaker since the fall of last year after flat-lining since late 2010. Financials has been hard hit recently by the volatility in the equity and credit markets as well as the flattening of the yield curve.
(5) The dollar. Also weighing on many of the S&P 500’s sectors is the strong dollar. There is an inverse correlation between the yearly percent change in the trade-weighted dollar and the yearly percent change in S&P 500 forward earnings (Fig. 12). That’s not surprising since roughly half of S&P 500 revenues and earnings are from abroad. The dollar is up 7.5% y/y. On this basis, its relative momentum peaked at 15.7% on August 21. Nevertheless, it is up 21% since July 1, 2014, which remains a negative for profits.
Strategy II: Revenues & Margins. Yesterday, we reviewed the latest earnings figures for Q4-2015, comparing the data compiled by Thomson Reuters and Standard & Poor’s. Today, let’s have a look at the quarter’s revenues and profit margin results. When we do so, we find that the profits problem is due to both the weakness in revenues growth as well as the drop in the profit margin, both of which are mostly attributable to the Energy and Materials sectors. More specifically:
(1) Revenues. Fortunately, there’s no reason to adjust the revenues data so there is only one series, which is compiled by S&P. S&P 500 revenues rose last quarter for the third quarter in a row after falling sharply during Q1-2015, led by the drop in Energy revenues (Fig. 13). Nevertheless, revenues were down 3.9% y/y last year, though they edged up 0.4% excluding Energy (Fig. 14).
(2) Margins. As we noted yesterday, the S&P 500 quarterly profit margin has dropped from a record high of 10.7% during Q2-2015 to 10.2% at the end of last year using Thomson Reuters data for earnings (majority rules) (Fig. 15). It is down much more using S&P earnings data (GAAP rules) from a record high of 10.1% during Q3-2014 to 8.1% last quarter.
(3) Sectors. We can disaggregate the S&P data for the 10 sectors of the S&P 500. First, let’s look at the sectors’ revenues per share on a y/y basis through last quarter (Fig. 16): Consumer Discretionary (7.0% to a new record high), Consumer Staples (-2.1), Energy (-35.5%), Financials (1.7), Health Care (11.6 to a new record high), Industrials (0.3 to a new record high), Information Technology (-3.9), Materials (-10.5), Telecom Services (3.4), and Utilities (-9.5). Other than Energy and Materials, there are few signs of a revenues recession in the other sectors.
Now using S&P earnings data, which were especially depressed for Energy and Materials (more so than shown by Thomson Reuters data), we see that the steep declines in the margins for Energy and Materials last year account for the weakness in the S&P 500 margin, as calculated with S&P earnings data (Fig. 17).


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Turkey Shepherd’s Pie
The cheesy mashed potato-covered turkey shepherd’s pie has peas, celery and carrots with Ro-Tel and Hunt’s diced tomatoes, all in a creamy herb sauce. This dish is comfort food at its finest.
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Last week I was craving some cold weather and comfort food, so I decided to bring comfort food to me. I can’t bring the cold weather, but I can cross my fingers and hope that it comes soon. When I think of comfort food, I think of pasta, mashed potatoes, soups and breads. Not all in that order, but those are my go to foods. I realize my list might not be actual comfort food to some, but they bring me comfort.
I was shopping at Wal-Mart last week and grabbed some ground turkey, potatoes, Ro-Tel Tomatoes and Hunt’s Tomatoes. Ground turkey, potatoes, Ro-tel tomatoes and Hunt’s diced tomatoes are a staple in our house. We always have them on hand. You can make so many things with those items, so I just make sure to always have them stocked in my pantry and fridge. Normally I never know what to make when I’m at the store, but this day was different.
I’ve made tons of Chicken Pot Pies and Beef Shepherd’s Pie back in the day, but never Turkey Shepherd’s Pie. When I was at Wal-Mart I totally had a Wha-la moment. It was like a light bulb went off in my head. Why not make a ground turkey shepherd’s pie, add some Ro-tel and Hunt’s diced tomatoes, some carrots, celery, peas. Mix everything together in a hearty herb sauce, then top it off with some red mashed cheesy potatoes.
My oh my was this dish amazing! Not only was it easy to throw together, but it was a winner for comfort food. I’m so glad that I made this and I was pleasantly surprised how easy and quick everything was to throw together. Now granted the first time you make this recipe, it might take you a while just because you have to cut all the veggies, but I feel like once you’ve done it once, you could whip this together within 30-45 minutes tops.
You can literally add or take away any vegetables to this dish and it would still taste phenomenal! I urge you to head to your local grocery store and make this recipe. It’s comfort food in a bowl and you’ll love it on those cold days or not so cold days like we have here in Las Vegas. 😉 Enjoy!
Be sure to check out the ConAgra Foods website for more fun and delicious recipes!
Get the Recipe: Turkey Shepherd's Pie
- Turkey Filling:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 carrot, diced
- 2 celery ribs, chopped
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 pound ground turkey
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 3 tablespoon Worcestershire
- 1 1/2 cups beef broth
- 3 teaspoons all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoon milk
- 3/4 cup frozen peas
- 3/4 cup diced tomatoes (I used a combination of Hunt’s Diced Tomatoes and Ro-tel Tomatoes, drained
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 pound red-skinned potatoes, cubed
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/3 cup shredded sharp Cheddar plus 2 tablespoons for the top
- 2-3 scallion, chopped, divided
- Freshly ground black pepper
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Once the oil is hot add the garlic, carrots, celery, onion and thyme. Cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the ground turkey. Cook until crumbly and cooked through. Stir in the ketchup and Worcestershire sauce and cook until lightly caramelized.
- In a small bowl or glass measuring cup, whisk together the beef broth and flour together. Whisk together until incorporated and no lumps. With the heat on medium, slowly add the beef broth mixture to the skillet. Cook until the mixture starts to thicken, about 2-3 minutes (your meat mixture should be at a low boil for it to thicken up). Add the milk and mix to combine all the flavors.
- Stir in the peas and tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Turn heat to low until your ready to assemble.
- While the meat is browning, add the potatoes to a medium pot, cover with cold water. Bring the potatoes to a boil, lower the heat and simmer until tender. Drain and return to the pot to the stove over low heat. Smash the potatoes a few times before add any of the other ingredients. This will allow the potatoes to dry out a little bit. Add the butter, milk and 1/3 cup shredded cheese, mixing and mashing everything together. Add 1 chopped scallion and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Place 3-4 large bowls on top of a baking sheet. Scoop in the meat mixture evenly and top with mashed potatoes. Bake until potatoes are lightly browned and the turkey meat is bubbly around the edges, about 10-15 minutes.
- Sprinkle remaining cheese and scallion on top.
- Serve and enjoy!

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Since the mass commercialization of cell phones in the 1980s, the devices have always been charged with a charger that connects to the phone with a long cord. However, conventional charging could be problematic due to unavailable or inaccessible electrical cords. Now, wireless charging technology promises to change all that.
There are many approaches in wireless charging, and the inductive approach is the most common. Similar to conventional chargers, a wireless charger, normally called a charging station, also has a plug that connects to an electrical socket. It differs from conventional types in that it has no physical cord that connects with the devices.
Inside the small charging station are one or more sets of coils. The cell phone has the similar set of them as well, which couple with the ones in the station. By using alternating current (AC) electricity from your house, the coils in the station generate a magnetic field that transmits energy to the coils inside the phone. The energy is then transformed into current, which will charge the battery.
The advantage of wireless charging is simple—no more cords. Sadly, there are currently quite a few disadvantages to going wireless. Since most mobile devices do not have the coils installed, the user would have to attach the coils to phones as an accessary. Most importantly, the charger itself is considered by many to be costly, since it runs at least 100,000 won.


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- Carl Czerny - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
(1791-1857). An Austrian pianist, teacher, and composer, Carl Czerny is best known for his exercises written for the piano student. He knew and was influenced by well-known pianists Muzio Clementi and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

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Almost 10,000 fewer Mayo people received the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) last week compared to the scheme’s peak in May.
6,800 people in Mayo were issued payments on July 28, representing a decrease of 800 on the 7,600 who received payment the week prior on July 21.
400 people closed their account for PUP payments in the week leading up to July 28 for returning to work reasons.
16,400 people in Mayo had received PUP payments at the scheme’s peak on May 5.
There was no change on the number of people in Mayo receiving the Covid-19 Enhanced Illness Benefit on a week to week basis in Mayo; the figure remains at 1,300
Nationwide, the Department of Social Protection issued payments valued at €88.9m to 286,900 people for the (PUP), a decrease of 26,900 on the 313,800 people paid last week and a 52% drop on the 598,000 paid at its peak on May 5.
The top three sectors in which employees are returning to work this week are accommodation and food services, wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles; and construction.
The largest cohort returning to work is aged under 25 years.
As well as those availing of the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment, there are now over 68,400 employers who have registered with the Revenue Commissioners for the Temporary Covid-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme (TWSS). An estimated 400,000 employees are currently being supported by the scheme having received a subsidy in their most recent pay period.


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San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard and forward/center Tiago Splitter won't play in the team's season opener Tuesday night against the Dallas Mavericks due to injuries.
San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard and forward/center Tiago Splitter won't play in the team's season opener Tuesday night against the Dallas Mavericks due to injuries, the team announced Monday night.
Leonard has been dealing with an eye infection that's kept him out of most of the team's training camp. He's missed all but one of the team's preseason games because of the infection, which spread from one of his eyes to the other.
Leonard, 23, was named the MVP of last season's NBA Finals after averaging 17.8 points, 6.4 rebounds, 1.6 steals and 1.2 blocks while shooting 61.2 percent from the field and 57.9 percent on three-pointers. He averaged 12.8 points and 6.2 rebounds in the regular season.
It was reported Monday that long-term contract extension discussions between Leonard and the Spurs have recently stalled. If the fourth-year pro doesn't agree to an extension by Friday, he'll become a restricted free agent next summer.
San Antonio would have the right to match any offer sheet extended to Leonard in restricted free agency.
Splitter, 29, averaged 8.2 points and 6.2 rebounds in 21.5 minutes per game in his fourth NBA season in 2013-14.
It's unknown exactly how long either player will be out, though neither is expected to miss significant time.
The Spurs will receive their 2014 NBA Championship rings and raise the banner commemorating their title before playing the Mavericks on Tuesday.
The game is a rematch of a first-round playoff series last season, in which San Antonio defeated Dallas in seven games. No opponent won more than two games in the Spurs' final three playoff series.
- Ben Estes

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Great Britain was once Europe’s problem child in the corona pandemic. Pubs and shops are now open. He is not only ahead of Merkel with the vaccination campaign.
London – The UK has been celebrating again since April 12th. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had promised his country a “careful but irrevocable” way out of the corona lockdown – and prepared it. Now it was the turn of the outdoor catering. Likewise the retail and hairdressing businesses.
Johnson had missed a lot at the beginning of the crisis. In keeping with the Brexit disagreements, the prime minister’s calls from the mainland apparently left cold. His country was in dire straits. And he himself in the intensive care unit. Great Britain has the highest Covid death toll in Europe (127,000 victims). The sad consequence of the initial inconsistency.
The next bad news came about the turn of the year. Virus mutant B.1.1.7 has appeared in the London area. It is significantly more contagious than its original form. As a result, the crisis worsened in January. Over several days, it claimed more than 500 lives. England’s 7 day incidence shot over 600.
Coronavirus: Great Britain suddenly leads the way – the exact date for the end of the lockdown is already targeted
Almost three months later, some of them are sure to be envious of the island. Johnson’s easing plan has been running since the beginning of April. Schools opened first (a controversial topic in Bavaria), a few days later hairdressers, shops and outdoor restaurants. Indoor restaurants and museums are to follow on May 17th. With good developments, travel is even allowed. Johnson’s plan ends at the end of June. Because then all lockdown measures should be terminated.
And the process works. The English incidence was 17.3 last week. For comparison: in Germany it rose to 162.3 on April 18. What is suddenly making Britain so much better? Angela Merkel and the Prime Ministers are behind their British colleagues in two ways.
Corona management: Vaccinations in England are well advanced – Germany is not only lagging behind here
Prominent and extensively discussed: The progress of the vaccination campaign. While breakdowns and delays occur almost as usual in Germany, spraying has been busy on the island since December 8, 2020. Around 33 million people, well over half of adults, have now received a first dose, a good 8.5
Millions of people are fully vaccinated.
So over half of British adults have already been vaccinated. The British government has announced that all people over 50 have now been offered a corona vaccination. Soon it will be the turn of the younger ones.
England: Johnson imposes tough lockdown – rigorous closings make U-turn possible
By completely turning away from his initially lax course, Johnson has probably made the turnaround possible. In January he started the lockdown hammer. Wales and Scotland took part – and public life rigorously closed. Shops, schools, restaurants, hotels, cultural institutions, everything was closed. Companies were consistently motivated to work from home. And in addition, strict exit restrictions took effect. The apartment could not be left without a valid reason. Traveling abroad is still strictly prohibited at the moment. Mallorca is almost as popular with the British as it is in Germany.
Far-reaching corona measures that are being implemented in Great Britain with no ifs or buts. Even at the funeral of Prince Philip, the royal family was not allowed to exceed the maximum number of guests.
Brits comply with corona rules: does Johnson motivate better than Merkel? Great Britain creates prospects
Relaxation is now possible. Also because Johnson has one trump card up its sleeve: a population that adheres to the regulations. The pubs are now open, but not without strict distance and hygiene rules. While party debauchery and demonstrations can be heard almost every week in Germany, the guidelines on the island work almost without any background noise. One of the reasons for this is that violations on the island quickly become very expensive. On the other hand, the perspective created. If the corona numbers stay within limits, the easing will come. The British population seems to have understood their role in the pandemic.
And Boris Johnson has completed his transformation from half-hearted to admonisher. The vaccinations primarily protect against severe courses, it is the lockdown measures that curb new corona infections. He recalled the recent easing.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A store that has been a staple in Greensboro for decades is closing for good.
Thursday, a spokesperson with Sears Holding, confirmed to WFMY News 2 that the Kmart store on Bridford Parkway will close to the public in early November. The store will begin its liquidation sale on August 17, but will remain open to customers, Howard Riefs said.
The store has 96 employees who will all lose their jobs. Reifs said employees were told Tuesday that the store would be closing.
Riefs said, "Store closures are part of a series of actions we're taking to reduce ongoing expenses, adjust our asset base, and accelerate the transformation of our business model. These actions will better enable us to focus our investments on serving our customers and members through integrated retail – at the store, online and in the home."
The company will offer severance to associates who qualify and other employees will be offered an opportunity to apply for open positions at area Sears or Kmart stores. Most of the associates are part-time or hourly, according to Riefs.

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Thursday, 10 November 2016
Batman: As The Crow Flies Review (Judd Winick, Dustin Nguyen)
Penguin’s recruited Scarecrow to help corral his mob captains – and then suddenly a 10-foot tall Scarecrow monster begins murdering them! Sounds like a mystery for Scooby-Bat and the gang to solve!
Batman: As the Crow Flies isn’t a great Batman book. It reads like a Scooby-Doo cartoon where the monster terrorises everyone for the duration with the story hinging on the reveal of who it really is. And they would’ve gotten away with it if it weren’t for the meddlin’ Bat-family!
While Penguin’s Machiavellian plan was kinda clever and Dustin Nguyen’s art was decent, the story is spread thinly over five issues, is largely forgettable and ultimately inconsequential – are any readers keeping tabs on the Gotham underworld power structure? Exactly.
Just a few issues after this, Judd Winick would go on to write one of the most significant and brilliant Batman books of the last ten years with Under the Red Hood where Jason Todd was resurrected and reintroduced to the DC Universe (there are a couple of scenes foreshadowing this event here too). As the Crow Flies though? Pointless and uninteresting!


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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A conservative advocacy group is trying to find out whether health officials met what it says is a legal obligation to inform police about abortions on two 14-year-old girls.
Family Foundation of Virginia officials say their concern was triggered by the state Health Department’s December 2012 inspection of the Roanoke Medical Center for Women. The inspector noted that the clinic failed to supply notarized parental consent forms for the two girls.
The Family Foundation says state law requires the clinic and the state health commissioner to report the pregnancies to law enforcement because “carnal knowledge” of a 13- or 14-year-old is illegal. The organization filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking documentation that the cases were reported.
The Health Department said it had no relevant records.

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It’s all about the little ones on Australia Day in Canberra, with some great free events to take the kids to.
A range of events and activities culminating in the Australia Day in the Capital concert and fireworks will mark Australia Day celebrations this year.
From 7.30am, ActewAGL will host the Great Aussie Day Breakfast on the lawns of Stage 88 in Commonwealth Park. Along with a breakfast sausage sizzle there will be free family entertainment, including the Sing Australia choir, Dora the Explorer, as well as free kids activities including jumping castles, face painting and soccer darts.
At 9am, Canberra will welcome our newest Australian citizens at the National Flag Raising and Citizenship ceremony, hosted at Rond Terraces. The event will feature a traditional flyover and 21 gun salute.
From 4pm – 9pm, Regatta Point will host a program full of free music and entertainment, including a special appearance of the Queens Baton Relay as it completes a lap of Lake Burley Griffin. Additional activities will also be hosted at Patrick White Lawns and Rond Terrace, including children’s picnic games, a giant slide, jumping castle, face painting and glitter tattoos. Food and beverage vendors will also be open at these sites.
A highlight of the day for many people is the impressive fireworks display. Our skies will be lit up above Lake Burley Griffin at 9pm, with the best vantage points from Regatta Point and Patrick White Lawns.
ARIA nominees Justice Crew will headline the concert at Regatta Point performing some of their greatest hits, alongside local Canberra band Tuchasoul, and pop duo Jess & Matt.


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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Christian Examiner)—A woman suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder—after a decade of sexual abuse as a child—has been given a lethal injection under Dutch euthanasia laws. According to The Daily Mail, doctors and psychiatrists concluded the woman's PTSD and other conditions that resulted from the sexual abuse were incurable.
"It is both horrifying and worrying that mental health professionals could regard euthanasia in any form as an answer to the complex and deep wounds that result from sexual abuse."
The news comes as The Telegraph has written about the sharp increase in people choosing to end their lives due to mental health issues in the Netherlands. In 2010, The Telegraph reports, just two euthanasia cases in the country were attributed to mental health. Last year, 56 people were euthanized related to mental health issues. Euthanasia was legalized in the Netherlands in 2002.
The Dutch woman had been abused from the ages of 5 to 15, according to papers released by the Dutch Euthanasia Commission. Although she improved in her mental state, doctors called her "incurable" and they agreed with her desire to kill herself. In doing so doctors judged her to be "totally competent" to make such a decision, The Daily Mail says.
"It is both horrifying and worrying that mental health professionals could regard euthanasia in any form as an answer to the complex and deep wounds that result from sexual abuse," Nikki Kenward from the disability rights group Distant Voices told The Telegraph.
The case's details have been released by the Dutch authorities in order "to justify the legality of euthanasia," writes The Telegraph.
Paulan Starcke, a Dutch psychiatrist who has been a part of euthanizing patients, said this week that psychiatrists have been "too hesitant" to approve euthanasia for patients with psychiatric issues.
The Telegraph says Starcke will present her research on the topic at the Euthanasia 2016 conference in Amsterdam on Thursday. She reportedly will say that children as young as 12 should be taken seriously when expressing an interest in being euthanized.
Last year the Dutch Pediatric Association announced that it was seeking to allow terminally ill children under 12 years old to seek euthanasia.
"There's a giant misunderstanding. Euthanasia is a good death by the wish of the person who dies and no-one else," Starcke has said according to The Telegraph. "It is an execution of the wish of a patient."
Euthanasia 2016 organizers are lobbying its government to allow trials of a "suicide pill" currently used in Oregon.
Oregon, Washington, California and Vermont are the only U.S. states to pass laws allowing assisted suicide. Courts in Montana and New Mexico have ruled in favor of it as well.

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The digital economy remains a prime focus for APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Brunei Darussalam to build the capacity of local SMEs and strengthen their access towards newer markets.
ABAC Brunei recently presented the ABAC Report 2019 titled “Inclusive and Collaborative: Growth in the Digital Era” to Minister of Finance and Economy II Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Setia Dr Hj Mohd Amin Liew Abdullah.
According to a press statement by the council, the report highlights the work undertaken by ABAC throughout the year and its recommendations that form the basis of dialogue between APEC Leaders and the APEC business representatives in November, on the sidelines of the APEC Summit in Santiago, Chile.
The ABAC 2019 report sets out practical recommendations aimed at addressing current challenges and boosting regional growth and prosperity while enhancing inclusion.
“At this crucial juncture of transformation with a fast-changing landscape and a slowing global economy, it is imperative that all economies take action to boost growth, enhance inclusiveness and strengthen resilience,” the statement read.
It added that under Chile’s leadership, ABAC 2019 has focused efforts towards inclusive trade policies to foster growth in the digital era and advancing regional economic integration by following a number of key priorities.
These include; reaffirming regional economic integration, building sustainable communities through social innovation and green growth, facilitating micro, small and medium enterprises’ (MSMEs) market access and success in global value chains, achieving inclusive growth through financial inclusion, innovation and integration, and promoting digitalization and innovation for greater inclusion.
Reflecting on the drive to push forward the digital economy agenda, ABAC Brunei believes that Brunei could benefit from learning the best practices of economies from the APEC region and is advocating for Brunei to implement the five pillars identified in the APEC Cross Border E-Commerce Facilitation Framework.
ABAC Brunei also believes that the sultanate should place a priority on digital literacy, with skills and training on a lifelong basis from early education to in-work upskilling, to enable a future-ready workforce, and enhance capabilities of Brunei to reap the benefits of modern digital technology.
In support of MSMEs, ABAC Brunei has co-led and facilitated the setting up of Monde B2B Platform, an online marketplace that connects importers and exporters across the APEC region.
Due to this, the online platform will enable Bruneian SMEs to export producers and services across borders and ABAC Brunei aims to support this initiative by extending the opportunity to 100 local SMEs by 2020, with market access within the BIMP-EAGA and the Pacific Alliance regions.
The Bruneian | BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN


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And yet, knowledge of the urban forest — where the trees are, what species are represented, how old and healthy they are, the distribution of trees geographically — has great value for planners, city foresters, ecologists, landscape architects, tree advocacy groups, and residents, too.
Our goal with the Urban Forest Map is to provide a one-stop repository for tree data, welcoming information from any agency or group and enabling and celebrating citizen participation. Together we’ll work toward building a complete, dynamic picture of the urban forest.
Neat. I found 1,699 Japanese cherry trees in the city. About three are on my block. I’m going to go and take some photos of them. And look - shapefiles!

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Prevention is believed to be better than cure. A chronic disease such as diabetes if not controlled can lead to kidney failure, heart diseases and blindness. One of the best ways to control and reduce the risk of diabetes is through your diet. That doesn’t mean living in deprivation, but observing simple steps such as taking a healthy balance diet can reduce your risk of getting it.
Here’s what you can do to reduce the risk of diabetes
Choose the Right Healthy Food
Your choice of food is very essential if you need to prevent diabetes. According to National Diabetes Statistics Report, 7.2% of the U.S populations (i.e. about 23.1 million) were diagnosed with diabetes. But the good news is, 9 out of 10 cases of diabetes especially type 2 diabetes is preventable. Your healthy food choices can help manage your weight and reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. 70% of people who have diabetes are overweight. There are currently weight loss pills that can help fight obesity and overweight. But if you minimize fat food intake like fried foods, cheese and milk can also be of good help. Cut back fats and calories and eat more of veggies and fruits. This will help manage your weight and reduce the amount of fats and calories consumed.
Avoid Sugar and Refined Carbs at All Cost
Eating sugary foods increases your risk of type 2 diabetes. The increase in blood sugar level stimulates the pancreas to produce a hormone called insulin. This hormone enables sugar to escape from the bloodstream into the body cells. As the blood sugar level increases over time, the pancreas will produce more insulin to lower blood sugar and this will lead to type 2 diabetes. Beverages such as soda and energy drink, corn syrup, table sugar, fruit juice concentrates and sorghum contain high amount of sugar. Minimizing your sugar intake lowers the risk of diabetes.
Refined carbs with high glycemic index can as well increase your risk of type 2 diabetes. Refined carbs (such as cereals, white rice, corn starch, potato starch, pudding and custards) digest faster and are easily absorbed in the bloodstream as sugar. Unrefined carbs with low glycemic index (whole grain like oats, barley, quinoa, whole meal flours, whole legumes, frozen meat and seafood) digest and are absorbed more slowly into the bloodstream. They have low sugar effects to your body. Studies have shown people that frequently consume fast digesting carbs with glycemic index were 40% more likely to develop diabetes.
Eat High Fiber Diet
As proposed by the US dietary guidelines, people who consume high fiber diet lower their risk of type 2 diabetes by 18%. Consuming high fiber can help absorb water, slow down the rate at which nutrients are absorbed, reduce your blood sugar level, promote weight loss and alter fermentation in the large intestine. You are adviced to eat about 20-30 grams of fiber each day. High fibre foods, fruits and vegetables include kidney beans, cereal, bananas, popcorn, oats, pastas, almonds, dark chocolate, pears, carrots etc. can help reduce your cholesterol and prevent spikes in your insulin level.
Your ability to prevent diabetes is more likely between you and your diet. Eating the right healthy diet and avoiding sugary foods and refined carbs can help maintain a low blood sugar level and insulin spikes, thus lowering the risk to diabetes.
David Johnson is a versatile content writer known for his ability to breathe life into words and create engaging narratives on diverse subjects. With a passion for effective storytelling and a keen eye for detail, David crafts content that resonates with readers and sparks their curiosity. He is dedicated to delivering high-quality, informative, and enjoyable content, making him a respected voice in the digital landscape. Beyond the keyboard, David enjoys exploring the outdoors, immersing himself in literature, and finding inspiration in everyday experiences.


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|Location Map ( geo)
|Apsley, Hemel Hempstead (TL049052)
|66.9 miles (107.7 km)
|A41, A4251, A4146, A4147, M1, B4630, A405, A5183, B5378, A1081, A1(M), A1001, A6129, A1000, B1455, B195, A119, B158, B1197, A10, B1502, A1170, B181, A1019, A1169, A1184, B183, A1025, M11, B1393, A128, B184, A1114, A12, B1002, A1060, B1010, B1418, B1018
|M10, A405, A11, A122, A12, B1009
|Old route now:
|A4147, A1057, A119, A1060, A1114
|Route outline (key)
The A414 runs from Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire to Maldon in Essex, but very little of it follows the original 1922 route. The construction of the M25 resulted in a large scale renumbering exercise which affected many roads, including the A405, A1057 and A121 as well as the A414.
Section 1: Hemel Hempstead - St Albans
The A414 begins on the A41 in Apsley, Hemel Hempstead. But with the construction of the A41 bypass to the west of the old A41, the A414 had to be extended westwards as well. We start at a dumbbell roundabout under the A41, then descend down a steepish hill to a large signal controlled junction with the A4251 (old A41) where we pick up Two Waters Road. A short hop past B&Q and we reach the Plough Roundabout, better known as the Magic roundabout. Take your pick - negotiate three mini roundabouts by going anticlockwise, or five by going clockwise. Either way, we climb up the St Albans Road dual carriageway past Jarman Park, a large retail / leisure park containing a McDonalds and a large Tesco store. Don't ever arrange to meet anyone there - the place is vast.
We stay on the dual carriageway through a couple more roundabouts. At Leverstock Green, the A4147 turns to the right towards St Albans. This was the original A414 which now continues east of St Albans as the A1057 to Hatfield. The present A414 continues along Breakspear Way, named after the local 12th-Century English man who eventually became Pope.
At the next roundabout, the A414 continues forward as far as the police / maintenance compound. Beyond here, you used to find yourself on the M1 junction 8 slip road, but due to the construction of non-motorway collector distributor roads running parallel to the M1 between junctions 8 and 7, we can now remain on the A414. We cross over the M1 before doing a 270-degree swerve to the left to merge onto the southbound collector distributor road. There are three lanes here, but only lane 1 continues on the A414 to St Albans, with lanes 2 and 3 merging onto the M1 London-bound. (On the northbound c/d road, the opposite happens with only lane 3 merging onto the M1.) Indeed, the A414 between here and the Park Street Roundabout was formerly known as the M10, but this was de-specialised on 1 May 2009 following notices originally published in January 2004. The de-specialisation was part of the M1 junction 6A to 10 Widening scheme, as were the collector-distributor roads, (which usefully remove traffic travelling between St Albans and Hemel Hempstead from the main line of the M1.) However, the de-specialisation took effect formally from the time the main M1 widening scheme was completed in December 2008, and it was possible to drive on to the M10 without passing any 'start of motorway' signs from Hemel Hempstead from around this time. The former M10 is still trunk - the only part of the A414 to be so.
Section 2: St Albans - London Colney
At the end of the former M10 (or A414 restricted section), we reach the Park Street Roundabout, immortalised in successive editions of the Highway Code. Here we pick up the North Orbital Road (A405) from Watford, and cross the A5183 (ex A5) to enter zone 5. This next section of the A414 also used to be a trunk road, but it reverted to local authority control in the 2000s. This section used to be the A405, but was renumbered as part of the M25 project. The section is dual 2-lane carriageway, with a grade separated junction, but also with direct access from a pet shop and garden centre. The alignment is tighter than you'd expect for a road subject only to the National Speed Limit.
At London Colney Roundabout, we cross the A1081 (formerly known as the A6), into Zone 6, though we are further south than any road with a number beginning with 6. The reason will become apparent shortly. The London Colney roundabout was upgraded in the late 1990s to provide traffic signals and additional capacity. Generally it is better than before, though many drivers ignore the lane markings, resulting in frequent use of the horn in the area.
We continue east on dual carriageway, past the Colney Heath longabout, reaching the A1(M) at Roehyde and the 1-zone. We've just cut across the bottom corner of the 6 zone - hence no roads beginning with a 6 further south than the A414.
Section 3: London Colney - Hertford
We now do multiplex with a motorway - the A1(M) through the Hatfield Tunnel. As we do so, we pass under the former line of the A414 as it runs on the present A1057 into Hatfield. We leave the A1(M) at junction 4 (Oldings Corner) and pick up the A414 again, heading east. At the next small roundabout, a detour to the right (almost a U-turn) will take you onto the old A414 alignment. These days it forms the back entrance to Tesco and Homebase, but you can still see a very old primary route sign for the A414 on it.
Back to the present route, the next section of dual carriageway runs east between Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield along the original alignment of the A414. Text books on road design say that horizontal and vertical curves on a road alignment should start and finish at the same point. This doesn't seem to have been done on this next section as we approach the Holwell Roundabout.
After Holwell, we pass the Welwyn Hatfield refuse tip - beware queues of people on the A414 queuing to get in on a weekend afternoon in the summer. We then deviate from the original line again - running along the Cole Green Bypass, opened in 1993.
We descend into Hertford, round another roundabout and along more dual carriageway, subject to a 40mph limit. The dual carriageway ends for a few yards as we pass under the Hertford Loop railway line, then we reach the dual carriageway Gascoyne Way - Hertford's inner relief road.
Prior to the construction of Gascoyne Way, the A414 passed right through the middle of Hertford, through narrow streets such as St Andrews Street and Fore Street. A couple of roundabouts later, the A414 turns right along London Road towards the A10 at Rush Green. Once again, this is a "new" alignment - the old road followed the line of the B1502 Gallows Hill, running parallel to the present A10 to Great Amwell.
Section 4: Hertford - Chelmsford
We multiplex with the A10 for a mile or so before taking a left onto a spur to the Amwell Roundabout, labelled on the OS Landranger Map as part of the A10, but logically ought to be A414. From Amwell, the present A414 runs along a dual carriageway bypass to Stanstead Abbotts. Yet again, this is a newish alignment (opened in 1987) and the original route runs through Stanstead Abbotts itself. We cross a long viaduct, running over the Hertford East Branch Line, the River Lea and the New River, a canal built a couple of hundred years ago to bring fresh water to London.
At the far end of Stanstead Abbotts, we reach a limited-access junction with the B181, where we meet the original A414 alignment again - albeit one that was dualled and straightened out in 1990. Having passed a grade-separated junction, we almost immediately come upon a series of at-grade junctions with minor roads. The accident record here is sufficiently poor to warrant the addition of a large amount of anti-skid surfacing, yellow-backed signs and a 50mph speed limit, enforced by a couple of cameras. The junction design is not appropriate for the speed of the road, but given the layout, I can see the justification for the speed limit.
At Eastwick, we once again say good-bye to the original alignment of the A414. We will not meet it again until we get to Chelmsford. The old A414 ran along the unclassified road through High Wych, into Sawbridgeworth, then to Hatfield Heath, where the A1060 takes up the mantle to Chelmsford. There are many that think this is a faster route to Chelmsford than the present A414. Back at Eastwick, we turn right onto a single carriageway road running into Harlow, and across the Essex County Boundary. The A414 skirts Harlow to the north and east making its way towards the M11, junction 7, at Hastingwood. The eastern leg of the A414 around Harlow was at one stage the A11.
East of the M11, we bypass North Weald Bassett, then meet the B181 for a second time. From here it is a single carriageway to Ongar, once known as the last stop on London Underground's Central Line, though a place more different from central London is hard to imagine.
A ten-mile stretch along a typical rural single carriageway A road follows, taking us past Writtle, where a bypass was opened in August 1987, and on to the Chelmsford ring road. At one stage, the A414 carried on from here past the Britvic Tower, through the middle of town, past the Army and Navy Roundabout complete with its prefabricated flyover, then out towards Great Baddow and the A12 on its way to Maldon. A weak bridge near the old Britvic site now has width restrictions on it, as such the A414 is now signed back towards London along the old A12, then doubling back along the 1980s A12 bypass towards Great Baddow. The old section of A414 between the Army and Navy and the A12 is now numbered A1114. I wonder how long it took them to come up with that number.
Section 5: Chelmsford - Maldon
Having been primary all the way from Hemel Hempstead to Chelmsford, the last leg is a non primary road out to the Blackwater Estuary. The road runs through the middle of Danbury, where there's a sharp set of bends in the centre, turns left at a roundabout near Woodham Mortimer and continues up to the edge of Maldon. This section of road was all originally the B1009, becoming the A414 in 1935. Originally the road ended in the centre of Maldon, but now it turns left and runs along a better quality single-carriageway bypass of the town, before turning right and ending up just north of the bridge over the River Chelmer. Here, only a couple of miles from the Blackwater Estuary, the A414 can finally rest: turn right to head back into Maldon, or left onto a isolated spur of the B1018 to Heybridge, from where the B1022 leads to Tiptree.
- The A41 Trunk Road (Two Waters) (Detrunking) Order 2003 - This detrunks the Two Waters Interchange and the link road to the junction with the A4251. Interesting the legislation gives the link road to be part of the A41, although it is signed as a continuation of the A414
- The A414 North Orbital Trunk Road (M10/A414 Park Street Roundabout to A1(M) Junction 3) (Detrunking) Order 2003


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Game recap: Florida A&M dominates Mississippi Valley 34-7, improves to 3-2
Florida A&M downs Mississippi Valley State 34-7 on Saturday night and improves to 3-2 overall and 2-1 in the SWAC. See below for a recap.
Previously: Florida A&M football (2-2, 1-1 SWAC) is looking to surpass .500 in its Week 5 game against the winless Mississippi Valley (0-4, 0-1 SWAC) at Bragg Memorial Stadium.
The Rattlers are defending its 12-game home winning streak which is tied for second with North Dakota State and Kennesaw State. They are one spot behind Montana State (14).
Last week, FAMU defeated Alabama A&M, 38-25 in a comeback victory to earn its first SWAC win of the season.
Mississippi Valley suffered a 49-7 drubbing to SWAC East leaders Jackson State.
Last season, the Rattlers defeated the Delta Devils 31-28 after a 19-yard game-winning touchdown pass from quarterback Rasean McKay to wide receiver Jah'Marae Sheread.
The Rattlers are separating themselves from the Delta Devils.
The pass rush has amounted to three sacks by the Rattlers.
They forced MVSU to punt after pinning them to its own goal line. It turned into a 7-yard touchdown run by Jaylen McCloud.
Isaiah Land also recover fumbled from a bad snap near the goal line, leading to the Rattlers to kick a field goal.
4Q | 14:50 | FAMU 24, MVSU 7
The FAMU defense is beginning to pressure Jones in the pocket.
The defensive front is beating the MVSU offensive line which eventually amounted to Dre Jones sacking Jones.
3Q | 3:38 | FAMU 14, MVSU 7
FAMU went for a fake punt on fourth down before the half to keep their drive alive for the hopes of scoring.
Punter Chris Faddoul completed a pass to former Florida High standout Javan Morgan for a 10-yard pass.
MVSU defensive lineman Ronnie Thomas beat FAMU left tackle Jalen Goss for his first sack of the night to raise his SWAC-most total to seven.
The Rattlers are still passing well.
Moussa has completed 13-of-18 passes for 145 yards and a touchdown.
FAMU's defense allowed a score from blown coverage where they blew a coverage to allow a 83-yard touchdown pass by Mississippi Valley's Jamari Jones to Cobie Bates.
2Q | 3:50 | FAMU 14, MVSU 7
The Rattlers are taking advantage of Mississippi Valley's SWAC-worst pass defense.
On the first drive of the game, FAMU ran 10 plays for 71 yards.
Eight plays were passes.
Quarterback Jeremy Moussa went 6-of-8 for 57 yards, punctuating the drive with a 1-yard touchdown pass to receiver Xavier Smith.
1Q | 9:44 | FAMU 7, MVSU 0
FAMU notable inactive players: Defensive back Winsome Frazier Jr. (undisclosed), tight end Koby Gross (leg), quarterback Rasean Mckay (undisclosed)
Right guard Bryan Crawford is returning from a strained pectoral — injured in the season-opener at North Carolina.
FAMU uniforms: White helmets, orange jerseys, white pants
MVSU uniforms: Green helmets, grey jerseys, grey pants
Weather: 85 degrees, sunny
Key matchup to watch: Right tackle Cameron Covin vs. defensive lineman Ronnie Thomas
Mississippi Valley has the current SWAC sack leader Ronnie Thomas (six) on its team to lead a four-man rush.
The Rattlers' 12-game home win streak is tied for second in the FCS with Kennesaw State and North Dakota State.
Montana State's 14-game home winning streak leads.
Kennesaw State is playing away at Jacksonville State.
North Dakota State is currently home leading Youngstown State, 24-6 in the fourth quarter.
Montana State plays at home against UC Davis 10:15 p.m


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Not many people today know the name Tom Laughlin, but once upon a time he was massive. In the ‘70s, he rose from a faintly recognizable staple of drive-in cinema to a major cultural force when his film “Bill Jack,” which he directed, co-wrote and starred in, became a surprise box office juggernaut.
Laughlin died Dec. 12 at the age of 82 after battling illness, according to his website. He was surrounded by his family in Thousand Oaks, California.
Laughlin’s story is one of the strangest in Hollywood — a tale of sudden success and sudden downfall that all but erased him from the zeitgeist. He began acting in the 1950s, and made his screen debut in 1957’s regional drama “The Delinquents.” Its director, a young Robert Altman, would later describe him as “an unbelievable pain in the ass,” which sounds about right, as you will discover.
Laughlin was a regular of TV and low budget junk cinema. Probably his highest profile gig in his early years was playing “Loverboy” in the 1959 “Gidget” film. Around that time is when he first turned to directing, debuting with 1960’s “The Proper Time,” concerning a boy with a speech impediment.
He first introduced what would become his signature character, Billy Jack, in 1967’s “The Born Losers,” a more-or-less straight-up exploitation film (albeit one that, atypically, runs nearly two hours). It concerns a mysterious wanderer (Laughlin) who battles a vicious motorcycle gang.
It wasn’t until 1971’s “Billy Jack” that the character was fully fleshed out. Laughlin’s Billy Jack is a “half-breed” Navajo vigilante battling an evil small town mayor and his thugs, who are persecuting a counterculture school and its hippie participants. Laughlin had first conceived the script in the mid-1950s as a reaction to the persecution of Native Americans. (Laughlin, for the record, was noticeably not Native American.) Laughlin also co-wrote (with his wife Dolores Taylor, who also starred) and directed them, which he did, as with most of his films, under one of several pseudonyms.
Initially the film, which Laughlin self-distributed, was ignored. In 1973, Laughlin tried again, with a radical distribution plan he himself conceived. This time it worked, and how: It took in more than $40 million and elevated its character and creator/portrayer into a folk hero.
Its success is one of the oddest flukes in pop culture history. “Billy Jack” satiated America’s hunger at the time for cucumber cool, quipping vigilantes, among them Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty” Harry Callahan. But where Callahan is a right-wing (or at least libertarian) blowhard, Billy Jack fights for the left. He unleashes his considerable ass-kicking abilities — including a penchant for kicks to the head that he performs without moving one of his legs — upon racists, capitalists, big-wigs and anyone else he felt was destroying the country.
Liberalism and vigilantism are not comfortable bedfellows. In his pan, Roger Ebert railed, “‘Billy Jack’ seems to be saying that a gun is better than a Constitution in the enforcement of justice. Is democracy totally obsolete, then? Is our only hope that the good fascists defeat the bad fascists?”
That’s not all that’s unusual about the film. While there are a fair amount of YouTube-able moments of admittedly stunning hurt bombs, a rather large chunk of the film — roughly half — is devoted to footage at the hippie school, observing long talent shows and hanging with the kids. It’s the gentlest movie ever made in which a badass brings the pain.
Laughlin took his sudden fame to heart, although it can be argued he simply didn’t understand it. Did the audience really want to see more political commentary and long scenes of counterculture brouhahas? Laughlin thought so. His hotly anticipated follow-up, 1974’s “The Trial of Billy Jack” is a three-hour protest movie that largely lacks Billy Jack, who goes to jail for the events in the previous picture.
Instead, the film dwells on the school growing in power, getting a new building, starting its own newspaper and its supporters taking a louder stance in local politics. Here, the running time is devoured by hearings, which lead to such vitriol that the National Guard is summoned.
It’s a nakedly political movie, featuring a few token ass-kicks. (The ending, appropriately, involves an epic chant-along of “Give Peace a Chance.”) Mostly Billy Jack is absent or embarking on a freaky Vision Quest that eats up even more screentime. It delivers little of what fans of “Billy Jack” presumably wanted.
And yet it still made money. Laughlin had the brilliant idea to release the film nationwide at once, which at that point was not how movies were released. The studios would roll films out gradually. But Laughlin — perhaps unconsciously, or down very deep inside, recognizing that word would quickly spread of its toxic tediousness — gave everyone what they wanted right away. And it changed how movies were released from then on.
Laughlin was therefore a true visionary, if not the kind he perhaps wanted to be. This makes the next part of his story all the more bizarre. His fourth Billy Jack picture, a shockingly almost faithful remake of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” called — yes — “Billy Jack Goes to Washington,” was never released theatrically at all. There’s a long story behind that, but it didn’t help that it’s pretty terrible, with Billy Jack lacking the charm that James Stewart brought to the original. Here, Billy Jack beats up a couple people, but saves most of his energy for the big filibuster climax, which finds him ranting, with Guinness-level spittle, about the many, many, many things that piss Tom Laughlin off.
Billy Jack and Tom Laughlin’s career were no more, although he attempted a few comebacks. In 1984 he tried a new platform for independent filmmakers that involved home video. It failed, although presumably part of his plan can be seen in today’s Video OnDemand craze. He also attempted, even up to a few years before his death, to do a fifth Billy Jack film, at least at one point to be called “The Return of Billy Jack.” For years, his website bore a “trailer” for this film, which was actually a long video of him talking about what was wrong with today’s America and a montage of news clips of various atrocities, tragedies and ills. He stayed political to the day he died, and even technically ran for president in 2004 and 2008, first as a Republican, then as a Democrat. He did not win, although in the latter he did get 47 votes in the New Hampshire primary.
Say what you will, but Laughlin was an original, and it warms the heart to see Billy Jack box sets as staples of the nation’s Best Buys.

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Collected Poems 1950-1993
In 2002 Vernon Scannell wrote the following: ‘It has been my firm belief since I first began to attempt the art of poetry that the making of a poem should be, as Yeats asserted, a difficult business. However, I have always felt reservations about what seems to me the only partially true belief, stated by both Eliot and Hopkins in their different ways, that the meaning of a poem is of less significance than its structure and texture, Eliot’s ‘nice bit of meat for the house-dog.’ Ideally the poem should be the perfection of expression of meaning inseparable from the methods by which that expression is achieved. As Paul Valéry has said, ‘A man is a poet if the difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him if ideas.’
That was an important statement, his credo. It can accurately be said that almost every poem in this collected volume bears testimony to it. Although not covering the full span of his career - Scannell didn’t die until 2007 and was writing almost literally until the very end - the body of his work is here and how impressive it is. On immaculate display is a conspectus of poems embracing the narrative, lyrical, satirical and contemplative. There are poems of pathos and comedy, intelligence and passion: whatever their form, free verse or rhyming, tenor or subject, they are executed with unfailing craftsmanship.
In his obituary of Vernon Scannell, Alan Brownjohn wrote, ‘What might have been considered unusual given a colourful, even swashbuckling, personality that spawned innumerable anecdotes, was his fastidious procedure as a poet, his unflinching focus on the age-old themes of love, war and death, his concern for 'a real involvement with living experience'. Craft and care, and for that matter clarity and accessibility, were unquestionable necessities if you were serious about the art; students on Scannell’s creative writing courses were liable to be sat down, hangover or not, to write a sonnet after breakfast.'
‘Scannell is one of what appears to be a vanishing breed, a poet of technical accomplishment who understands that poetry, like the other arts, is a craft as well.’ Charles Osborne, Sunday Telegraph
Alan Brownjohn on Vernon Scannell:
'Vernon Scannell’s is a poetry that joyfully inhabits an immediately recognisable modern world. Childhood, growing up, falling in love, witnessing courage and suffering as a serviceman during World War Two are all vividly rendered by a poet who never lacks for formal skill and resourcefulness. As a love poet he is amazingly tender and truthful, although he believes that love has given him more pain than anything he experienced in his early life as a professional boxer.'
Anthony Thwaite on Scannell's Collected Poems :
‘These poems are colloquial, eloquent, direct, the compassionate and often witty expression of a poet whose work was firmly rooted in recognisable human experience.’
More on Vernon Scannell at the Poetry Archive .
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BELLEVILLE, NJ - Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray has announced that the Essex County Prosecutor's Office Critical Incident Response Team is investigating a police involved shooting earlier Wednesday night in Belleville.
The incident occurred shortly after 6:00 p.m. on December 21 at a residence in the 300 block of Joralemon Street.
No police officers were injured but one male suspect suffered a gunshot wound. The suspect is currently in serious condition at University Hospital in Newark.
As per established protocol, the Prosecutor's Office investigates all police involved shootings. This investigation is active and ongoing.
No additional information is available at this time.


In the early days of the automobile, engines were simple. Their only real function was to provide power to the wheels which pushed the car forward. There were no belts on the front of the engine. Why? Because there were no additional components that needed to be powered. Alternators, power steering, air conditioners and other components were all added later as the automobile evolved.
When Belts Appeared
As these advanced engine components began to appear on engines, drive belts made of hemp, cotton, leather, were used to share power from the turning engine. Belts made from these natural materials were sufficient in turning the various pulleys in the engine. Only problem was: they were prone to stretching and breaking.
Evolution of Belts
In 1911 Charles Gates Sr. purchased Denver based Colorado Tire and Leather Company. The manufacturer produced a steel-studded leather belt which motorists put on their car tires to extend the life of the tire. By 1917 the company was phasing out the use of leather for a more durable product: rubber.
As Charles Gates transitioned the manufacturing to rubber, his brother, John, developed a rubber belt that would replace the rope and leather belts on car engines. They called it a V Belt based on its “V” shape. It would later become the model for the serpentine belt – widely used on today’s vehicles.
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The small company’s success skyrocketed with the new belt and the company quickly grew. In 1919 the Colorado Tire and Leather Company would be renamed the Gates Rubber Company and would go on to be the largest producer of V-Belts in the world.
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade, have resulted in over 50,000 United States combat related injuries. Injuries to the genitals or urinary organs accounted for roughly one in twenty of all these injuries in male troops.
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Tonight I am going to Coney Island with my kids to see the fireworks. We will ride the Cyclone first (at least they will, you can't get me on a roller coaster to save my life) and then Nathan's, and after that we'll hang out on the board walk until the display starts a little after sundown. I love Coney...
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If you are undergoing In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), your doctor will try to safely produce as many eggs as possible for fertilization and hopefully, pregnancy. One to two embryos will be implanted per attempt and if any are left over, frozen (cryopreserved) and stored for future use. According to the non-profit National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC), there are over 625,000 cryopreserved...
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Endometriosis was first described in the mid-19th century. It is a benign gynecological condition where endometrial glands and stroma grow outside of the uterus. It is a disease dependent on hormones, thus manifesting mostly in reproductive-age women.
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Flatscreen TV stolen from Burkland Drive home
A woman reported to police Saturday that someone entered her Burkland Drive home and stole a flatscreen TV.
According to an Athens-Clarke police report, the incident occurred sometime between Friday and Saturday.
There were no forced signs of entry and the TV was the only thing stolen, police said.
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The Camberwell Composers' Collective is Mark Bowden, Emily Hall, Chris Mayo, Anna Meredith and Charlie Piper, five of the most interesting young composers working in the UK today.
Between them they have received commissions from most of the country's leading institutions and ensembles. In this specially devised performance for the intimate space of Southwark Playhouse they present (as composer/performers) new music-visual collaborations with four artists. The mood is relaxed and approachable, with genre-crossing electronic and acoustic sounds.
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Washington 'deplores' Turkey's 'calculated provocation' in the E. Mediterranean as Ankara renews seismic surveying
Ankara has been criticized by the US State Department for restarting hydrocarbon exploration in contested waters. Washington said the move “deliberately complicates” de-escalation talks between NATO allies Greece and Turkey.
In a statement released on Tuesday, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said: “The United States deplores Turkey's October 11 announcement of renewed Turkish survey activity in areas over which Greece asserts jurisdiction in the Eastern Mediterranean.”
Coercion, threats, intimidation, and military activity will not resolve tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean. We urge Turkey to end this calculated provocation and immediately begin exploratory talks with Greece. Unilateral actions cannot build trust and will not produce enduring solutions.
On Monday, the Turkish exploration vessel, Oruc Reis, returned to sea to continue carrying out exploration activities in the waters south of the Greek island of Kastellorizo until October 22. News of the vessel's redeployment drew condemnation from Athens.
Greece and Turkey had only last week settled on dates to renew “exploratory talks” over the ongoing dispute concerning the Eastern Mediterranean region, and to discuss “confidence building measures.”
However, on Tuesday, Greece’s minister of state told national radio that there would be no exploratory talks so long as the Oruc Reis survey vessel remained in contested waters. “Turkey is the side trying to establish a status quo using violence and threats,” he added.Also on rt.com ‘An unwise move’: Berlin warns Ankara over fresh exploration activities in contested waters of East Mediterranean
The Greek Foreign Ministry had already described the development as a “major escalation,” while other European counterparts have weighed in to support Greece. Earlier in October, the EU claimed it would continue to punish Turkey if it maintained its exploration activities in the disputed waters.
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Amid the grimness that came with the Covid19 shut down, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) and the conservation fraternity in the country are celebrating the birth of two baby gorillas.
The infants are thought to have been born on May 1st and April 25th in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park amongst the Muyambi and Nshongi Gorilla groups.
UWA spokesman says this development has been a source of celebration.
“Mother Kabagyenyi and Silverback Bweza and Nshongi are tightly guarding the baby gorilla while in Muyambi group silverback Muyambi and the unnamed mother are soothing and warming their new family member,” he said.
The sexes of both baby gorillas are not yet known due to the tight security mounted by the parents to guard them against any danger.
Gorillas tend to be very aggressive when they get a baby therefore it is not possible to get closer to establish the sex of the baby few days after birth.
Nshongi was the first gorilla group to be habituated in Rushaga with at least 35 individuals that kept on splitting.
Currently, the group has 9 individuals and the infant brings the number to ten. Kabagyenyi joined the Nshongi from a wild group when she was a sub adult.
Later, the Silver Back called Bweza who is the head of Nshongi group started mating with her. The mother is about 10 years this is her first born.
Muyambi group on the other hand is the newest group that opened to tourism in 2019. It has six family members. The unnamed mother joined the group from the wild. Muyambi was an adult member of Mubare family but split away from the family and formed other group called Muyambi.
The birth of new mountain gorillas is testimony to Uganda’s successful conservation efforts. With enhanced integrity of protected areas there has been a general increase in wildlife populations in Uganda.
The recently concluded census for Bwindi Impenetrable National Park indicates that the park had 459 individuals.
The number of mountain gorillas in the Virunga Massif stand at 604 shared between Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) effectively bringing the total number of mountain gorillas in the wild to 1,063. Uganda hosts over 50% of the global population of mountain gorillas.


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Today is inspiration day at Little Miss Muffet Stamps! With the freedom to choose whatever I wanted the surprise is that I decided to make a "boy" card. A baby boy card to be exact.
I will be in need of baby boy cards over the next few months so I set out to make a welcome baby card and reached for Babe Superstar, one of my favorite baby images.
Ah, sweetness, right???
The layout on my card is based on Splitcoast Stampers' sketch 469. I kept my take on the sketch CAS by keeping everything ivory besides the copic colored in stamp.
That's it for today, stop on over at the LMMS blog and pick up some more inspiration from my teammates!


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I recently found inspiration from a story told to me by a local woman, about her father. After his application to join the forces, at the outset of World War Two, was rejected for reasons of invalidity, he and his wife ended up living a life of subsistence on the edge of the moors a short way up the road from here, near a place, which is one of our favourite local walks. She told me that her father had laid claim to an MOD Nissen hut, abandoned after the First World War, which provided a base for them to scratch a living. Some of the stories she told us of her father, revealed an unusual perspective of wartime life. He told her of the need for the long time tenants to vacate the old farm, the ruins of which lie just below the horizon in the photograph, which was then used as target practice for tanks sitting on the reservoir’s damn. This farm is named ‘North America’, seemingly because its last tenants emigrated to North America.
Her father told of watching the surreal images of the glow of fires burning from bombing raids on Sheffield, ten miles to the South West and of the German bombers circling above to take another run at the city, as well as the occasional bomber crashing on the moors. One such crash produced a surprising result, when her father went up onto the moors to investigate, he returned with a German officer, who claimed he never wanted to be a part of the war and pleaded with her parents to allow him to stay and work for them, incognito. They did this for him, until the authorities found out and came to take the reluctant German officer away. The stones that lie amidst the ruins of what was once a healthy moorland farming community, if they could speak to us now, would tell one hell of a tale of human history.
What life there was around these stones when they
relate their story; most of it to tell
of shallow graves that churned to deafen men,
that scoured their souls and took them off to hell.
A far-off high command, then turned to those,
whose livelihood lay barren on the moors,
who toiled their flesh to bone, and on their clothes
the mud that turned to blood beyond these shores.
And if you wake to sounds that beat your drums
with shock and awe, expunging breath like skeet,
recalling tales your father told, the thrums
of flying ordnance, far off orange heat.
That piercing distant flaming glow that looks
so harmless in the stillness of the night;
that gave him time to listen, as he brooks
a merlin’s prey befalling nature’s plight.
His art, tattooed upon his weathered face,
like scars upon the Langsett landscape, where
your story lies beneath; but save this place;
these stones have memories, and tears to spare.
Across the water, calm reflects the shapes
in space that stretches to infinity;
a universe that sees these human apes
pass through in a micro-blink. Sublimity.
Poem and Photo © 2014, John Anstie, All rights reserved
JOHN ANSTIE (My Poetry Library and 42) ~ is a British poet and writer, a contributing editor here at Bardo, and multi-talented gentleman self-described as a “Family man, Grandfather, Occasional Musician, Amateur photographer and Film-maker, Apple-MAC user, Implementation Manager, and Engineer. John participates in d’Verse Poet’s Pub and is a player in New World Creative Union. He’s been blogging since the beginning of 2011. John is also an active member of The Poetry Society (UK).
John has been involved in the recent publication of two anthologies that are the result of online collaborations among two international groups of amateur and professional poets. One of these is The Grass Roots Poetry Group, for which he produced and edited their anthology, “Petrichor* Rising“. The other group is d’Verse Poet Pub, in which John’s poetry also appears The d’Verse Anthology: Voices of Contemporary World Poetry, produced and edited by Frank Watson.
* Petrichor – from the Greek pɛtrɨkər, the scent of rain on the dry earth.


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