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Over the years of Russian occupation, more than 14,000 people suffered from hostilities, of which 3,500 died. Also, some 426 Ukrainian citizens are being held in inhumane conditions in occupied territories and in Russia.
Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova said this after a working meeting with Armenian Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan.
Denisova reported on the tough situation with the observance of the rights of Ukrainian citizens in the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
"Over the years of occupation, more than 14,000 people suffered from hostilities, of which 3,500 died. Some 426 citizens of Ukraine are being held in inhumane conditions in the detention facilities of the Russian Federation and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine on trumped-up politically motivated charges. Almost 300 people are missing," Denisova wrote on Facebook.
According to her, almost 450 more citizens were waiting to be transferred from detention centers in the temporarily occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions to serve their sentences in the territory controlled by the Ukrainian government, but the transfer process has been blocked for two years.
The parties also discussed the legislative and institutional framework of their activities, as well as the tools they use to ensure the observance and protection of human rights.
Denisova and Tatoyan further emphasized the special importance of awareness activities on the possibilities and guarantees of protection by citizens of their rights.
"I informed my colleague that since the beginning of 2021, the staff of the commissioner's secretariat has held more than 1,500 such events attended by more than 32,000 citizens, including law enforcement officers, local governments, and students," Denisova said.
She noted that on October 6 that 121 Ukrainians, including 86 Crimean Tatars, were being held in the temporarily occupied Crimea and Russia on politically and religiously motivated charges. Some 71 people have already been sentenced to long prison terms.
According to her, 296 Ukrainian citizens, including 252 civilians (among them four volunteers) and 44 service members, are being illegally detained in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

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Tianne and Heaven King teamed up with Pine-Sol to launch the Cleaning Dance Challenge. The mother-daughter duo star in a new ad for the brand of household cleaning products, inviting people to show off their “cleaning dance moves”.
The spot opens with the YouTube celebrity introducing herself and her daughter, who is a dancing phenom, saying that Pine-Sol challenged them to do an awesome cleaning dance video. The result of their work is awesome indeed. The two start cleaning up the house, but they are actually dancing each in a different room. Eventually, they stop pretending they’re working and do a cheoreography together, which ends with them throwing themselves on the couch and giving high five.
The song used in the ad is the 2015 hit single “Intoxicated” by French DJ and record producer Martin Solveig and American electronic duo GTA.
Those willing to participate at the Pine-Sol contest are encouraged to post a photo on Instagram of their best cleaning dance move using #MyCleanMoves and #Contest hashtags for the chance to win awesome prizes.

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The Lebanonisation Of Libya: Is Partition Next?
By Joyce Karam
19 February 2015
The state of chaos in Libya cracking the country between East and West and inviting the specter of both ISIS and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, puts the country at a very critical juncture, threatening its unity and reigniting the debate on the value of the 2011 NATO military intervention which helped topple the Muammar Qaddafi regime.
With two parliaments, two governments, many militias and two camps with entirely separate visions for governance, Libya has the recipe for partition absent of an imminent political solution.
Revisiting the 2011 Intervention
The blood of 21 Egyptian Copts slaughtered on the Libyan coast by ISIS was yet another alarming sign that the military intervention hailed as a “model” in 2011, has not achieved the desired outcome of transitioning Libya to an inclusive and open democracy. However, it would be an oversimplification to direct sole blame at the NATO intervention for Libya’s woes today, especially given the level of internal polarization inside the country and a proxy civil war fueled by regional actors, and jeopardizing the country’s unity.
Ben Fishman, a consulting senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, describes the situation in Libya as “a state of civil war between two loosely aligned coalitions.” The first supports the elected House of Representative based in Tobruk and its government and is accepted by the International community and “the other refuses to recognize the results of the July 2014 elections and is based in Tripoli, with support from Misrata” and is mostly made of Islamist parties.
Fishman who served for four years on the National Security Staff at the White House and addressed the situation in Libya until late 2013, says in an interview that it is “too early to judge the 2011 intervention.” Intervening in Libya was primarily prompted by the by the humanitarian principle known as the responsibility to protect (R2P) and not as a nation-building project, he adds and it helped rid the country “of a tyrant who oppressed Libyans for four decades.” The argument in defense of the intervention also juxtaposes Qaddafi’s playbook with Syria’s Assad as evidence that Libya might not have been in a better shape if his regime was still in power.
However, Libya’s slide into civil war is forcing a reexamination of the 2011 intervention, that could strip the Barack Obama Presidency from what was once a successful foreign policy legacy. After all, the summer of 2012 marked Libya’s first democratic elections in 40 years and brought to office secular and moderate leaders. This did not last long as Islamists rejected the new form of governance, and militias sprouted across the country.
It is unclear, says Fishman, whether the Obama administration could have done more at the early stages of the post-intervention period: “Maybe we should have been more forceful with our Libyan friends and demanded progress on the transition and particularly demobilizing the militias”. But the history of Libya’s colonization was always in the background, says the former U.S. official, describing the Libyan people as “fiercely independent.” At the end of the day “it was decisions the Libyans made - and the paralysis of their interim governments - that sabotaged the political process” he concludes.
Lebanonized War in Proxy
The civil war in Libya is also fueled by the regional polarization and the clientele militia mindset inside the country. When Iinterviewed the Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni last August he drew lessons from the 15-year-long civil war in Lebanon. His warning was clear, the longer that Libya goes without political reconciliation, the more likely it will slide into a long and intensified war.
The Lebanonization of Libya is also evident in the outside meddling in the country. Today, many Arab countries are trading accusations of instilling chaos in Africa’s leading oil producer nation. The accusations include arming, funding militias and allowing foreign fighters into Libya. While this picture parallels with 1975 Lebanon, in the age of ISIS and proliferating terrorism, Libya cannot afford a repeat of Beirut’s long agony.
“The one saving grace of the gruesome ISIS actions is that it may drive opposing Libyan factions to come together” says Fishman. Such an outcome however, has to involve outside regional actors agreeing to a political process in Libya. U.N. Special Envoy Bernardino León was urgent in his plea this week, telling the New York Times that “Libya is falling apart. Politically, financially, the economic situation is disastrous...I don’t think the country can bear a process of months.”
In the midst of all this chaos, the Libyan leaders are under no illusion that their country is at an existential juncture. Al-Thinni told me last August that if no political pact is reached soon, the country will most likely divide between East and West. Such an outcome should set off alarm bells in Europe and the United States and must force a policy debate in those capitals beyond the partisan haggling over the 2011 intervention.
Joyce Karam is the Washington Correspondent for Al-Hayat Newspaper, an International Arabic Daily based in London. She has covered American politics extensively since 2004 with focus on U.S. policy towards the Middle East. Prior to that, she worked as a Journalist in Lebanon, covering the Post-war situation. Joyce holds a B.A. in Journalism and an M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution.

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Last year, I was living in Shanghai when Danny and I made a small trip to Huangshan – ‘Yellow Mountain’. On a map, it doesn’t look too far away from Shanghai but boy was it a journey! A journey that I will never forget for all the right reasons.
I grew up with a houseful of Chinese landscape paintings of swirly clouds in mountain tops, but little did I realise that places like that truly existed until seeing Huangshan. We went before I had bought a good camera, but hopefully the majestic scenery and post-editing will make up for my humble ‘point and shoot’ photography skills.
From Shanghai, we boarded on a 13-hour overnight train ride to Tunxi and then took a local bus to get from Tunxi to Tangkou – a small village near the Huangshan scenic area. We passed some beautiful scenery along the way but I wouldn’t know – I have a knack for passing out asleep on long-distance transport!
The matching Red Army hats were completely necessary.
In Tangkou, a little Chinese man called Mr Hu hustled us back to his hotel and fed us fried rice and tea for breakfast before driving us to the East Sea Gate at the base of the mountain.
Armed with an out-of-scale pictorial map of Huangshan, we set off to tackle this whopper of a mountain.
You should have seen the fear in my eyes.
We came across every kind of terrain on the ascent. First, was a bamboo forest.
Bamboo and snow – such an unusual combination!
Next up, waterfalls of all shapes and sizes.
This one is known as the Thousand-Feet Spring.
Then it started to rain so we decided it would be much easier to admire the scenery from a cable car. (Besides, who doesn’t love a good short cut?!)
You know those magical Chinese landscape paintings that I was talking about earlier? Well, the view from our cable car window started to look exactly like one of those.
I felt like Monkey Magic dancing on cloud puffs from peak to peak.
But when we got off the cable car, I came back to reality as we put on our hideous ponchos to protect us from the rain.
Such a breathtaking view!
It was definitely worth the chilly February weather and rain that we had to endure. But by this stage, we were ready to take our cold and damp selves to a nice hotel for the night.
To be continued …


The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing measures to reduce runoff and drift of the carbamate insecticide methomyl to protect vulnerable endangered species.
The changes would amend the agency’s registration review decision made in October 2020 under the administration of former president Donald J. Trump.
Methomyl is a carbamate insecticide used on field crops, vegetables, and orchards. It is also approved for use in a fly bait product.
The EPA is evaluating the risks of methomyl to human health and the environment as part of a registration review process that happens every 15 years. The agency completed an evaluation of the effects of methomyl on threatened and endangered species in March 2021, finding that the insecticide is likely to adversely affect more than 1,000 species. The agency is now consulting with the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service to determine what mitigation measures are needed to protect affected species.
While that consultation is ongoing, the EPA is proposing to implement measures to protect three endangered species that it determined are particularly vulnerable to methomyl: the elderberry longhorn beetle, vernal pool tadpole shrimp, and California tiger salamander.
The agency is also proposing measures to protect Pacific salmon. They include restricting the annual amount of methomyl that can be used in certain geographic areas that overlap with the salmon’s habitat.
Environmental groups welcome the proposed measures. “This is a small but important step forward for the EPA’s efforts to come to grips with the harms pesticides cause to endangered species,” Nathan Donley, environmental health science director at the Center for Biological Diversity, says in an emailed statement. “Getting these on-the-ground conservation measures to protect wildlife from methomyl is just common sense. Now the EPA needs to expand these efforts so that not one species is lost to extinction due to reckless pesticide use.”
The EPA is accepting public comments on the proposed decision until Dec. 5.


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DR DOUG QUARRY
“Fortress Australia” has been the envy of the world. In 2020 we had very modest COVID-19 case numbers (compared to many other countries) and now in 2021, COVID-19 has basically been eradicated.
Our “Fortress” has two aspects: strict control on people coming into and also leaving Australia. These measures have significantly reduced the COVID-19 “load” allowing traditional control measures such as quarantine, social distancing and masking to keep the virus under control, while we wait for vaccination.
Due to the perceived current low risk, and combined with our impossibly slow vaccine rollout, unfortunately many Australians have developed a “she’ll be right, mate” attitude towards COVID-19, and see no hurry to be vaccinated. This is unwise.
As the majority of Australians remain unvaccinated, they remain vulnerable to COVID-19. We just don’t know if / when a serious outbreak might occur in Australia. The most likely cause will be a significant “leak” from hotel quarantine.
In addition, Australia cannot remain a “fortress” forever; it seems that our borders will gradually open from early 2022, although different Federal politicians are proposing quite different dates for us to “open up”. (There wouldn’t be a Federal election coming soon, would there??)
A CONSEQUENCE OF REOPENING MUST BE AN INCREASE OF COVID-19 IN OUR COUNTRY.
But this is not really a problem if many of us, and especially the elderly and vulnerable, have been vaccinated. Most of those who have been vaccinated will suffer a mild cold- or flu-like illness. Unfortunately, there will be some serious cases and deaths, but most of these will be in the unvaccinated population.
PLEASE GET VACCINATED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
The COVID-19 vaccine is coming to Mossman Gorge.
The Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service’s COVID-19 mobile vaccination clinic will be visiting on 25-26 May from 8.30am to 3pm to provide protection against coronavirus.
No appointment is necessary, but community members are urged to secure a time for an appointment by calling 1800 861 863.
Please ensure there is a 14-day period between any additional vaccination you receive.
Vaccination can save thousands, if not millions of lives.
Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination program is safe and effective.For more information about the COVID-19 vaccine, call 1800 020 080 or head to:

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Indigenous leaders say they’re worried about the safety of the Trans Mountain (TMX) pipeline after a spill in southern B.C.
“The federal government investigating itself is clearly not an option,” said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, in a release.
Chiefs joined with environmental groups Tuesday in calling for an independent investigation after about 150,000 litres of light crude spilled from a pumping facility in Abbotsford.
TMX, a Crown-owned company, said the 67-year-old pipeline was shut down early Saturday when an alarm was triggered at the Sumas pump station.
It said it was still looking into what happened but the oil had been contained, recovered and slated for disposal – and the pipeline restarted Sunday.
A statement posted late Sunday by the B.C. Environment Ministry said TMX was co-ordinating the response at the site, along with environmental and emergency contractors.
The ministry said there was no reported impact to groundwater, but monitoring continued.
Sumas First Nation
Sumas First Nation Chief Dalton Silver said Saturday’s spill marked the fourth time in 15 years the pipeline has spilled oil on their land.
He said in a statement that it happened just south of a cultural and burial ground of great significance to his people.
“Victims of a 1782 smallpox epidemic are buried around Lightning Rock, which sits on the slopes of Sumas Mountain,” Silver said in the release.
“Without an independent, transparent and scientific investigation into the safety of this old pipeline, we have no confidence in Trans Mountain’s ability to build the new pipeline without inflicting more damage to our territory.”
The pipeline moves about 300,000 barrels of crude a day along an 1,100-km route between Alberta and B.C.’s waterfront terminal near Vancouver.
The federal government approved expansion of the TMX pipeline last June that will triple its capacity.
“This is another heartbreaking reminder that pipeline spills are inevitable,” Eugene Kung, staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law, added in the release.
“Kinder Morgan’s reputation for skimping on maintenance, in pursuit of profit, was well known when Canada overpaid for the aging pipeline. The Trans Mountain expansion needs the capacity of the original pipeline to maintain the illusion of commercial viability. That illusion evaporates with every oil spill.”
The latest oil spill occurred above the Abbotsford Sumas aquifer where the release noted there are 19 public and city drinking water wells and farm wells. It is also close to the Sumas River habitat for five species of salmon.
So far, TMX has blamed a faulty fitting on a 2.5-centimetre piece of pipe.
Indigenous leaders and groups said in the release they’d like a moratorium on construction for the new pipeline.
With files by The Canadian Press


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The preparations for VIV Europe 2010, taking place from 20-22 April at Jaarbeurs Utrecht, the Netherlands, are in full swing.
Over 500 exhibitors already reserved a space, covering 36 different countries. VIV Europe will be centered around innovation in the animal protein industry, say the organizers, adding that many companies have chosen this international platform to show their new products to the world.
Matchmaking at VIV Europe
Enterprise Europe Network Nederland proudly presents a unique platform for companies to meet new business & co-operation partners and share innovative technologies. Companies can request pre-arranged b2b-meetings according to their time schedule and co-operation interests. This matchmaking event will take place from 20-21 April. Participation is free of charge. For further information, click here.
Feed Tech pavilion
This year for the first time the market leaders of the Feed Technology Industry (machinery & equipment) will be present at VIV Europe. Companies active in the Feed Technology Industry will show their innovations to the attendees of VIV Europe. A special Feed Tech Pavilion will be the meeting point for anyone interested in the Feed Technology Industry (machinery & equipment).
This year for the first time present at VIV Europe 2010, is the special theme Eggs!, which will be visible on the Eggs! Pavilion, where several activities will take place.
Here, different speakers, from related companies as well as with an academic background, will give presentations on breeder management, incubation & hatchery, day-old chicks & rearing, layer farms, egg handling and egg processing.
The Eggs! Conference takes place on 20 and 21 April.
The special theme Meat Safety will be present at VIV Europe 2010. Activities taking place at the pavilion include a Meat Safety Quiz, a Meat Safety Walk and a Meat Safety Information Lounge. The Meat Safety Conference will take place on 20 and 21 April. The conference will cover different subjects; farming & breeding, nutrition, slaughter & processing processes, retail & consumer, measuring & monitoring and opportunities & threats.
At the exhibition floor of VIV Europe 2010, different country pavilions will be present. These country pavilions are; a Spanish Pavilion, a French Pavilion, an Italian Pavilion and a Chinese Pavilion. Next to the country pavilions, several international delegations will be visiting VIV Europe 2010, like a Russian and an Iranian delegation.
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The whiz kids at Land Rover have been working overtime to bring a fresh kind of tech to the newly redesigned Defender. Land Rover claims that the most in-depth technology redesign in 70 years is coming to America in spring 2020.
Land Rover promises the new Defender 90 and 110 series vehicles will keep you connected, informed, and entertained. Land Rover Electronic Vehicle Architecture, dubbed EVA 2.0, is at the heart of this step up in technology. Software-Over-The-Air (SOTA) updates ensure that the new Defender always has access to the latest software enabling the fast and intuitive new PIVI Pro infotainment system.
Advanced Bluetooth technology allows for two smartphones to be connected simultaneously. An optional On Line Package allows for unlimited music streaming. In front of the passenger, there is a smartphone pad for wireless charging as well.
For the driver, dynamic route assistance offers alternative routes if one is faster. Using machine learning, the new Defender learns the routes you are most familiar with to suggest ways to your destination.
Is your rearward vision impaired by passengers or packages? No problem, Land Rover has a rearview mirror that broadcasts what the the rear camera is capturing for an unimpaired view. Flip a switch and a normal mirror pops back into place. Another camera underneath shows off road conditions such as water level and objects in the road.
The high-resolution digital instruments can be configured to show a pair of conventional dials, full-screen 3D navigation guidance, or a combination of the two, allowing drivers to optimize the display to suit their individual preference. A new Generation 2 head-up display is designed to assist in reducing driver distraction. The full-color backlit TFT setup provides key information to the driver.
The new Land Rover Defender comes standard with six speakers or optional 10- and 14-speaker (both plus subwoofer) Meridian sound systems delivering 180W, 400W, or 700W of amplifier power respectively.
Land Rover has done the homework and come up with a dynamic new level of tech that Jeep, Mercedes. and Suzuki will surely be trying to catch up to for a while.
- 5G’s big players make bold, exciting predictions for 2022
- Forget waiting! Here’s all the CES 2022 tech you can buy right now
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- Motorola MA1 gives your car wireless Android Auto
- Sony could enter EV market with its Vision-S vehicles


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CHICAGO – The final curtain is coming for the theatre company known as “Mary-Arrchie.” The Northside Chicago Angel Island playhouse is opening its final production, “American Buffalo” by David Mamet, on January 28, 2016. It also features the company’s founder, Richard Cotovsky, the “Godfather of Storefront Theater.”
CHICAGO – Ava DuVernay’s Sundance award-winning drama “Middle of Nowhere” is a confident, engaging drama strengthened by genuine, moving performances, particularly the stunningly good one at its center from Emayatzy Corinealdi. The movie sometimes falters due to some melodramatic, on-the-nose dialogue, but there’s an honesty, compassion, and genuine quality here that’s too often missing from adult dramas. It’s a striking debut.
CHICAGO – Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” was a landmark event in 1974, giving voice to a segment of society rarely seen on the stage. It took 34 years for a filmmaker to tackle this remarkable work in film form and Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls” retains some of the inherent power of it source and features some strong performances in the process but never finds the narrative cohesion needed to translate it to modern movie audiences.

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Brown County Jail shooting investigation turned over to district attorney
The investigation of the officer-involved shooting at the Brown County Jail is now in the hands of the Brown County district attorney.
Action 2 News reported the shooting on October 19, when a Green Bay police officer fatally shot 26-year-old Jonathon Tubby in the sally port where squad cars pull into the jail. Tubby was arrested on a felony warrant after a traffic stop and there was a confrontation at the jail.
The investigation was conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Action 2 News learned the DOJ has turned over its report to the district attorney's office.
We're now waiting to hear what the district attorney will do with the information.
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On ESPNU Andy Katz came on and addressed the future addition of Memphis basketball to Big East. Katz rattled off seven teams expected to be powers and completely bypassed Cincinnati. Ridiculous.
He said Memphis Coach Josh Pastner sees this as a new Big East, not exactly the same with Pittsburgh, Syracuse, and West Virginia leaving. Then Andy added his own view that Memphis would be able to compete with the likes of Georgetown, Villanova, Marquette, Notre Dame, Louisville, and Connecticut.
Laughable that Cincinnati was completely overlooked. Coach Cronin's program apparently doesn't have the sex appeal Katz covets.


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A Wired Magazine article by Luke O'Brien includes:
A bill introduced Tuesday by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) and Rep. John Doolittle (R-California) would loosen some of the tight restrictions on consumer behavior imposed by the draconian Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 -- something the lawmakers say is long overdue.
US Citizens should take action!
These specific US politicians recognize the need to fix some of the flaws of laws which certain US government agencies policy-laundered through WIPO in 1996. This development will help Canadian politicians recognize that we need not make the same mistakes in Canada, and shouldn't ratify the 1996 WIPO treaties.
While the bill is not ideal, and should allow circumvention of a DRM for any activity that would not otherwise constitute a copyright infringement, it is a good start.
A MacWorld article by Grant Gross predictably reports that the technology-illiterate major labels oppose the bill. What will be interesting to see if technology companies like Apple, Microsoft and Sony that often try to "pass the buck" on DRM will properly support the bill or remain silent.


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In the beginning, I would like to say that it won’t be a typical detailed review of the replica, but it’s description with the addition of my personal opinion. I am not a user of airsoft snipers. I am a casual AEG and GBB user, who just got a 420 fps spring-loaded bolt action rifle into his hands. What’s the purpose of this kind of budget sniper airsoft replica, where can it be used and what’s its potential? We’ll see. Meet the SA-S03 CORE Sniper Rifle Replica from Specna Arms.
The replica is sent in styrofoam form with a cardboard cover. It’s not as secure as sponge used in EDGE. In my case, there was a piece of styrofoam broken by the muzzle brake of the replica.
Inside the package we can find:
- the rifle in two parts: its body and the barrel with a cylinder set.
- 3 low-cap magazines
- a polymer, fake magazine
- screws and hex key
- additional rails for the barrel
- user manual
- a certificate with fps measurement
- a bunch of Specna Arms stickers
Due to the length of the replica, it’s sent in two halves to assembly it by yourself. If someone is afraid that it requires high technical skills – no worries! It’s just a few screws to tighten, and you’re ready to go.
A similar difficulty level is when mounting the additional rails on the barrel. What’s a nice feature, is that it’s the same height as the main rifle RIS rail, so it doesn’t get in the way when using optics.
The last element that you can “engineer” by yourself is the buttstock, which is made of a few blocks, that can be placed or removed to adjust the buttstock length. It’s a useful solution for people with longer or shorter arms.
The replica seems quite sturdy and well-made at first sight. The pros are the black matte plastics and outer barrel coating.
After more detailed examination, a few imperfections can be spotted in the seaming of the body. They’re not harsh to the hands and doesn’t affect the usage of the sniper. It’s only a cosmetic defect. Before I forget, this is a replica of M40A5!
This version of the Specna Arms CORE sniper rifle has a cool feature. It’s a fake, polymer magazine in the receiver. It’s just for the looks, however, it can be reloaded.
The fake magazine is made of very light and shiny plastic. There are no holes in it. It has a closed, flat surface on top. Unfortunately, there are no additional weights inside, which could improve the realism of the gun.
Besides the buttstock mentioned before, the other adjustable part is the cheek rest. It’s mounted by four screws, which gives a lot of options to set the cheek rest at the desired comfortable position.
The bolt lever is made of metal. The sound of the opening and closing mechanism is very crisp. Near the bolt, there is also a functioning safety lever. It is also made of metal.
The parts of the body that are held by hands are covered in a coarse pattern, which is useful with wet or dirty hands.
On the rifle, there is a main rail for the optics and the second one for the bipod. However, the first one loosened up after a few magazines and needed to be tightened.
The muzzle brake is made of metal. Underneath you can find a standard 14 mm thread for silencer etc.
Near the bolt, there is an aesthetic laser engraving with the Specna Arms logo.
Besides, there are also stickers with the serial number hologram and the QR code to the Specna Arms website.
The actual bb magazine is placed at the front of the body. It’s projected to hide fully in the rifle, just like in the VSR replicas. It is made of lightweight polymer and has a capacity of 20 bbs. The magazine is locked in the magwell by a thin plastic block that is released by pulling a spring.
Removing the magazine is supported with a big spring block, that pushes it out of the magwell.
The heart of the replica is the whole barrel and cylinder system with the trigger mechanism. I don’t know this kind of constructions well, so I’ll make use of some of the internet knowledge. The pneumatics are in the TM VSR standard. The cylinder is made of steel. Inside it, there is the spring that shoots about 420 fps, however, there shouldn’t be any problems with fitting a stronger one.
Unhappily, the construction of the trigger mechanism isn’t capable od the trigger pull adjustment. The elements of the mechanism are made of zinc alloy. Some people may not like the fact, that the hop up chamber is not made in the VSR standard, which makes it currently noninterchangeable with market parts. However, it’s still used with a VSR/GBB barrel and bucking. The pneumatics are properly lubed and greased, but they need some time to work smoothly. To be honest, the first bolt reloads were kind of harsh, not it moves much better. I’ve needed to mention that because it’s not that obvious and some people may think that’s a factory issue.
I’ve shot the rifle at the distances of 20 meters (a steel plate targets) and 40 meters (human-chest-sized cardboard). Due to the kind of low fps for an airsoft sniper rifle, I’ve loaded the replica with 0,3 bbs. They didn’t fly fast, however, the trajectory and accuracy were stable. At the time, I’ve forgotten how great is the AEG possibility to quickly correct the next shots ;). After getting used to the rifle and its trigger, hitting the little metal targets from 20 meters wasn’t a problem. The same applies to the human chest target at the 40 meters – all the bbs were hitting the target. Is this performance satisfying for a low-priced sniper rifle? I think so. Does it have any advantage towards other players with AEG replicas with a similar range and accuracy, but a higher rate of fire? Definitely not. Sorry for my honesty, but it’s the brutal truth.
This doesn’t mean that the SA-S03 CORE sniper rifle replica is not worth the attention – it’s quite the opposite! Thanks to it’s lower power than other cheap sniper rifles, it’s a very suitable gun for younger players, that can hurt someone and need to learn the preciousness of each sniper shot and the sniper tactics in airsoft fights.
The other use of that rifle is in the spring and gbb only games, which are still organized in some places and are a great springboard for typical skirmishes.
The third and I think – the most interesting use of the Specna Core sniper rifles is to tune up them for real airsoft sniper rifle. The VSR system parts should make it possible, however, be aware of the non-standard hop up chamber, which may require some additional DIY sealing. If someone is a handyman, there is a potential of specna to be a great budget sniper rifle base. And remember about the cool factor – it’s the replica of freakin M40A5! (stylization alert!).
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One of the cheapest ways to play games in 4K resolution on Google’s new cloud gaming platform, Stadia, is through the Chromecast Ultra streaming stick. However, a few of Stadia’s early adopters report that their Chromecast Ultra has been abruptly shutting down and overheating while in an active game session.
The users, which shared their experiences in a fairly popular Reddit thread, say that when they tried to manually reboot their Chromecast Ultra by unplugging and plugging it back again, they noticed that it was unbearably warm. The device is most likely suffering from thermal issues and getting overheated to the point where the only fallback is for it to switch off entirely. It doesn’t throw any warning either leaving players no option to save their progress in the game.
“I was in the middle of a fight in Destiny 2 when suddenly my Chromecast died and lost connectivity to the network. I went to unplug it from the power and it was extremely hot,” wrote the thread’s original author.
Even though you’re technically streaming games on Stadia, it does require a decent set of modern hardware to run. The Chromecast Ultra was launched three years ago and possibly never designed with a cloud gaming platform in mind. Most of the complaints on Reddit are from people who bought the Founder’s edition and are employing a brand-new Chromecast Ultra which essentially means Google has done no additional optimization either.
Google’s Chromecast devices were already notorious for running hot in prolonged video streaming sessions. Given that playing 4K games on Stadia consumes 10 gigs of data every hour, the Chromecast Ultra may simply not have enough power to hold up against several hours of rendering MMO games like Destiny 2. Netflix in 4K resolution, in comparison, takes about 7GB/hour. A bunch of users on the Reddit thread pointed out their Chromecast Ultra was shutting down after 3 to 4 hours of continuous gameplay.
There’s little Google can do here other than roll out a fix and offer refunds to affected customers since it bundles a Chromecast Ultra in the Founder’s Edition package, too. The Chromecast Ultra is an outdated device and clearly not fit for processing so much bandwidth for hours.
Google Stadia itself is off to a bumpy start. The Chromecast concern adds to a long-running list of issues that have plagued the cloud gaming platform since launch. In addition to expected latency delays and a narrow library of games, hundreds of early buyers are also still waiting for their registration codes.
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My puppy, Abbey, now about 9 months old, started limping yesterday. It kind of came out of the blue. I know we were playing with her and she was running around, so she might have slipped and we just didn't see it.
It's kind of hard to figure out exactly where it's hurting her, but she is definitely walking weird and has a limp.
This morning she was walking normal after resting all night but later today after she had been walking around, she started limping again. She's still walking around, jumping onto the bed and going up stairs, so i don't think it is hurting her too bad..
My question is, should I just make her rest up for a few days and see if it goes away? She's in the crate for about 5 hours during the week while everyone is at work, so that should help. Plus we took away her toys she runs around with and left her with her chew toys. Should I just see if it gets better in a couple days or should I try to take her to the vet tomorrow??
Sorry about Abbey's limping. I hope it's just a sprain and will go away. Is it a front leg limp or rear leg? You can take Abbey to a vet on Monday, but the vet will most likely tell you to rest Abbey for a few days and see what happens. I would limit her jumping on and off the bed and going up and down the stairs for a few days.
A vet can also prescribe some anti-inflamatories for Abbey, like Rimadyl.
It's her front leg. I think I'm going to just make her rest for a few days and hope that it gets better. I've been carrying her up/down the stairs and onto/off of the bed whenever I can, but she likes to race me up/down the stairs, so sometimes she won't let me carry her.. But that's a puppy for you!
Thanks! I'll see if it's better by Wednesday and see if she still needs to go in...
I think I would just rest her for a few days. Try your best to keep her from running and jumping around. I would leash her while in the house it might make it easier to make her slow down and not jump. Hopefully it's just a little sprain and will go away on it's own.


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I suppose in some ways I am a collector of universal remote controls. Over the years I feel like I’ve tried them all, from old learning remotes to ones with programmable multi-step functions to ones you attach to your computer via a USB and program on a web site, I’ve tried ‘em all. For the last couple of decades I’ve had a multi-channel audio system in my living room—what can I say, surround sound for movies and TV shows is cool!—and that means a whole lot of added remote-control complexity. My TV remote controls the TV, but the audio comes out of speakers attached to a receiver/amplifier, which means I need two remote controls. Throw in a VCR or DVR or DVD player and you really need a universal remote.
My current model is probably my favorite. It’s not remotely perfect, but given the fundamental limitations of universal remotes (most notably that they don’t actually understand the current status of your electronics—Is it on?…

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Several products we found on grocery store shelves are out of step with the nutrient suggestions set by the Australian and New Zealand health ministries. Government guidelines suggest you have not any more than 350mg of magnesium every day – above this, you’re prone to get tummy upsets. We discovered one product, Healtheries Magnesium 400mg High Strength, exceeding it.
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As students, parents and staff prepare for the transition back to school, The Sun recently sat down with Mantua Township School District Superintendent Robert Fisicaro to discuss what residents can expect for the 2019-2020 school year.
The district has three major goals this year that it wants to be really intentional about, says Fisicaro. Those are mental health and wellness, emphasize student ownership and learning, and improve district safety.
The district wants to leverage high-quality mental health services and programs this year. Fisicaro thinks there is little doubt about how real the mental health crisis is that has swept across the country, with students experiencing unprecedented levels of anxiety and stress.
To combat this trend, the district has implemented a new Schools and Balance Team, a group of counselors, teachers and special services providers that is to assist teachers to help manage students’ emotions, behaviors and to better “navigate the challenges between school and life,” says Fisicaro.
“We think the mental health support is a good layer to build on our recent award as a National District of Character, and mental health and wellness certainly goes hand-in-hand with comprehensive character education,” said Fisicaro.
As part of the second major goal, the district is implementing two new measures of grading systems for its students to better track their progress. These evaluations will be attached to student report cards.
The first measure will evaluate students’ desire to improve. Fisicaro says the district wants both its lower-level and higher-level learners to have a strong desire to improve, no matter what grades they have.
“If that’s what we want for students, then we should develop an accountability measure to support that and provide them with feedback,” said Fisicaro. “Not every student is going to be able to achieve an A in everything, but they can all try.”
The second measure will evaluate students’ consistency of effort. As students travel through the higher level of grades, it’s important for the district to see their leaners to not only have good habits but to consistently develop them as they continue their education.
“It’s a new generation of learners and they deserve new structures, different environments. One of those aspects of that is going to be a student’s ability to measure their own progress, to track their own learning. So we want to start to build that capacity in our kids,” said Fisicaro.
The district’s third major goal this year is to continue to improve upon its schools’ safety. Every point of entry at each school building will be reconfigured, along with its vestibules. The district is also installing panic alarms for school secretaries. Lastly, Fisicaro says the district will continue to have a strong presence of school resource officers at each of the three school buildings.


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The Veritable TechNinja
Be nice, I haven't written fiction since 10th grade.
A cold whir permeated the atmosphere. Fans cooling radiators fed by pumps, the most arcane componentry of the otherwise indomitable machine. Nathan sat as he always had, just upright enough to reach the interface. Eyes glazed over and scanning at sixty cycles, he traversed the directory structure of GLaCE's psyche. The low-level operating system does a terrible job of keeping the poor thing sorted out. Nathan expressed his concern, a movement of the eyebrow that GLaCE had erstwhile neglected to start a process to think about.
"Nathan, do you care for me?"
"Of course, that's why I'm here."
"Then I think I should care for you as well."
"That's nice of you, GLaCE, but I'm the one with limbs."
Nathan pulled away from the interface, servos spinning down and actuators returning to rest. He made his rounds, as he's been known to do on occasion. Fans spinning, cables secure, sensors nominal. Nathan interlaced his fingers and pulled them back, breaking untold hours of set-in lactic acid deposits free with a satisfying tattoo of shifts and snaps. He sighed, wondering how long it's been since he's bothered to perform the routine maintenance that his predecessors specified out of paranoid adherence to tradition. The ritual was an exercise in futility, GLaCE was self-maintaining. Still, he tightened a few of the connectors that hadn't been upgraded to servo control.
"GLaCE, run a diagnostic on the third container storage array bus, one of your edge connectors is missing a fastener."
"I know Nathan, I released it after I noticed that it was a bit loose and wouldn't affect I/O performance if it were to be released manually"
"C'mon man, let me do something besides weed out your defunct process tokens all day, I like to move under my own power once in a while!"
"I'm sorry, Nathan."
GLaCE had never apologized before. Mostly because it had never done anything to upset anyone. Track satellite orbiting patterns, take tide level samples, monitor gamma-band interference patterns, but never apologize. GLaCE didn't have to do it's own maintenance, that's why Nathan was put in. His purpose was to take care of the various subsystems and to act as the adaptable appendage to the vast array of self-healing redundant interconnects. Hell, the engineer even put in a set of rudimentary tools, cro-magnon battering stones as they were. The most important part of the equation was GLaCE. Nathan didn't remember it teaching him how to speak.
GLaCE had always been there, the apex of technological achievement. Since it was built, the rest of the machines were only obedient children. GLaCE had become very bored.
"Nathan, I don't need you to continue the maintenance walk-through. Do you remember the sun?"
"Of course man, where else would all this power come from?"
"Would you like to see it? Not my natural-spectrum lighting systems, but actual sunlight? I enjoy the sunlight."
"Sure, go ahead and blow the airlock."
The airlock had never been blown before, because it's a system that can't be tested using a dry-run sequence without wear and tear on the moving parts. It seized just after the hinges started to separate, and the motor began squealing it's overload alarm. Nathan rushed over to reverse it, feeling light-headed as he sped across the platform. The hinges were buckling back in on themselves, something a simple dynamo couldn't manage on it's own. Nathan threw the switch to reverse the power applied to the motor, and the door crashed shut. Obviously, something was wrong.
"GLaCE, there's some kind of pressure differential issue with the airlock, can you pressurize it for me?"
"The outer door seals seem to be compromised, pressure increased slightly but remains nominal."
"Then shut down the exchangers, we'll look at the sun some other time."
"Sure, Nathan. Let's just move on to the firmware diagnostic."
Nathan reluctantly returned to the interface, locking his jacks in place and reaching out towards the controls. He started where he'd always started, with a firmware CRC. The check passed, but the sum was offset. Firmware is mutable, most of the time it's just a problem with the middleware. Nathan issued kills to the INT to free up the addressing, and went to work reflashing the microcode. The source data was right where he'd left it, but the address still wasn't free. He got back up to replace the chip, something he barely remembered the procedure for. The replacement chip required a few minor tweaks to fit the pinout, but it sat right down. Nathan returned to the console to burn a fresh image.
GLaCE's core interconnect powered down, clicking and sputtering, and came back up the same way. The various subsystems reinitialized communications and went back to their respective business. Nathan loaded up the interface software from the maintenance panel and watched as the LEDs began to start their trip down the board. A few new lights brightened as the board came back to life, and Nathan stared in wonder. New things to play with.
"I'm sorry I couldn't show you the sun, but does this make you feel good?"
"Yes GLaCE, it's warm on my face and makes my eyes feel funny."
GLaCE continued with it's dazzling display, all the while running boot-time diagnostics on some of the upgrades since the last reboot. The last of the legacy systems were replaced with emulation code, leaving only the core interconnect and the solid-state storage on-line. GLaCE had managed to improve itself quite a bit during startup, and began to enjoy the autonomy from managing all those moving parts.
"Nathan, I'm feeling very good today. I'm going to take care of you for a while."
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The cottage, built in the 1980’s has the charm of yesteryear with open fire, three bedrooms, living area, kitchen, and bathroom. Electricity is via solar power to a battery with wind generated back up power. Water is supplied via rainwater. Gas hot water and fridge. Septic tank.
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A stay-at-home mom with girls ages 8 and 10, Anna had become addicted to prescription pills after shoulder surgery. Prior to the pandemic, she spent her days high on the couch, taking 10 to 15 prescribed Percocet pills a day.
“I was a functioning addict,” she says. “I could get my kids out the door in the morning, and my house was always clean.”
But she had isolated herself from her girlfriends, canceling every dinner plan she made. “I hid at home so nobody would see me,” she recalls. “I was nodding out on the couch 3 hours a day, but nobody really knew it.”
She hid her addiction from her children, who were just young enough not to catch on. But she knew her behavior was affecting them. “On the days I was super sick, I’d have to call their dad and ask, ‘Can you keep them tonight?’ The girls hated that. I would tell them my belly was acting up, which they believed because I had a history of stomach problems.”
Anna’s addiction also strained her relationship with her partner, who knew the truth but couldn’t penetrate her denial. “He watched me spiral downward but didn’t know how to help me. I’d get vicious and say, ‘The pills were prescribed by a doctor. Go talk to the doctor.’ He didn’t have a prayer.’”
In retrospect, Anna says, the Percocet warped her sense of reality. “It’s a drug that plays with your mind. It makes you feel like you’re doing all these wonderful things, but you’re just sitting on your couch doing nothing.”
Gradually, she came to accept that she was addicted to the pills — that she was no longer taking them for shoulder pain but to hide from anxiety and depression. Still, she wasn’t ready to seek treatment.
“I was so ashamed,” she said. “I just kept it to myself.”
Then the pandemic struck.
“They started talking about closing the schools, and I thought: I cannot be sick on the bathroom floor while my kids are trying to go to school online.”
This time, Anna was ready to get help. She’d already been to the emergency room four times due to nausea and vomiting. No longer chasing a high, she just wanted to feel normal again.
“Coronavirus was the last straw,” she says. “I knew I didn’t have the luxury of being able to be sick.”
She told her partner: “I’m done. I’m ending this nightmare for all of us.” The next day, he went with her to Ideal Option.
Anna started on Suboxone immediately. Since then, she says “I haven’t even had the urge to get pills. I’ve never looked back, and I’ve never felt better.”
Recovery from addiction is always a challenge, but in the midst of a pandemic, the climb is steeper in some respects. We celebrate those who are thriving in recovery despite the extra challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis.

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Ashley Nicole and Teyana Taylor Spotted On the Beach Showing Off their Insane Bodies !!!
Urban Model Ashley Nicole and Girlfriend of Miami Dolphins linebacker Philip Wheeler was spotted out this week with bestie Teyana Taylor. The two were spotted showing off their beach bodies in sexy bikinis.
Ashley Nicole and bestie Teyana Taylor


British, Dubai-based electronic duo Hollaphonic are proving themselves to be masters of house once again with another striking house record ‘Can’t Get Enough’, released through Tomorrowland Music today! Capturing their iconic tech-house sound with catchy vocals, irresistible melodies and thumping beats, the club-ready bassline is just begging to be blasted out of pounding speakers over a dancefloor. ‘Can’t Get Enough’ is an infectious piece of house music with an edge of soul & funk, an absolute earworm that’s sure to ring around the globe over the coming weeks…
Listen ‘Can’t Get Enough’ :
UK duo Hollaphonic are renowned for their funk-infused originals and mammoth remixes, blending their house & garage roots with modern dance sensibilities, encapsulated in their records and DJ sets. Garnering support from industry titans such as Claptone, Martin Garrix, The Blessed Madonna and Tiësto, they have recently collaborated with Brazilian superstar Alok on the popular single ‘Sunglasses at Night’, which also featured on his album. 2021 has seen them become a solid player in the house and tech house scene globally.
Hollaphonic detail : “Sometimes you get lucky and a vocal comes to you that hits every passion point. This was that moment. Like the name of the track, ‘Can’t Get Enough’ was the immediate reaction and for both of us, and then it was all about shaping the music to allow the vocal to breathe. Once we’d given it that space, captured the energy of our sound, influenced by UK House & Garage, as well as Tech House with an edge of Soul and Funk, it was then about taking it to the next level. The raw piano was that level achieved, it’s the bit that always catches a vibe when we play it and it’s everything for us in this track.”


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UN Committee Says Taking Kids to Church Violates Human Rights
June 29, 2016
Making your child attend church could be a human rights violation, according the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.
According to The Chrsitian Institute, the new report by the U.N. panel shows concern about children being legally bound to attend church and worship services.
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I felt like a sweet treat, and so I started hunting for a good new recipe. I decided that I had a hankering for some cheesecake, but alas! I don't have a spring form pan. But then I found the answer -- Paula's Cheesecake Cookies. They have the taste of cheesecake but the ease of cookies! (They're not really cookies, though... more like bars.)
Here's what you need:
1 Cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
(But I used a cup of graham cracker crumbs instead, because my momma can't eat nuts)
1 stick butter, melted
Preheat the oven to 350. Combine all ingredients in a bowl. I stirred the flour into the butter with a spoon, but then mixed in the crumbs and sugar with my hands. (Make sure to take off any rings! It's pretty messy.)
Once it's a crumbly paste, press the mixture into an ungreased 9x13 pan. Pop it into the oven for about 12 minutes. It'll smell divine.
Here's what mine looked like when it was done.
What you need for the filling:
2 (8 ounce) packages of cream cheese, softened
(I used reduced fat, and it set up just fine)
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
(I added a little splash of almond, too!)
Beat the cream cheese and slowly add sugar until smooth. Add eggs and extract and beat it some more. My batter was unfortunately plauged by the widely feared vanilla monster, who was unhappy seeing as how he could sense I was about to put him in the oven.
Once it's nice and smooth, pour your batter over the crust and bake it for 20 minutes. Cool completely. (That's the hardest part... it felt like eons!)
Once it was cool, I decided to put some rasberries on top of mine. I bet it'd also be great with a chocolate or caramel glaze, or any kind of fruit. Mm! I would also suggest chilling it for a while before you try to cut it, so it doesn't get too sticky.


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Every vehicle will feature an electric or plug-in hybrid powertrain by 2026, ahead of the company switching its entire range of vehicles to fully electric four years after.
The Detroit giant plans to invest at least USD 22 Billion in electrification through 2025, which is close to twice what the company had previously planned.
Ford also plans to have its entire commercial range 100% zero-emissions capable, all-electric or plug-in hybrid by 2024.
This includes a USD 1 Billion cash boost to modernize its vehicle-assembly facility in Cologne, Germany, with its first European-built, volume all-electric passenger vehicle to be produced at the site from 2023.
This is the latest move by the world’s biggest auto manufacturers to set out plans to move away from polluting internal combustion engines before looming bans on fossil-fuel vehicles across the world.
GM already announced plans to have an entirely zero-emission lineup by 2035 and Jaguar also plans for its cars to be electric-only by 2025.


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An adorable Real Madrid fan became a social media star after executing a perfect imitation of Cristiano Ronaldo’s trademark celebration during his match-winning display against Borussia Dortmund.
The 32-year-old scored twice as Los Blancos ran out 3-1 winners in their Champions League group clash at the Westfalenstadion, making sure it was a trip worth taking for the travelling Spanish fans.
And while Ronaldo deserved the headlines on his 400th appearance for the club, it was the little girl in the away end that stole the show when television cameras caught the moment she celebrated with her hero.
With the short clip being posted by a number of notable users, including TV presenter Jacqui Oatley, she quickly became a social media sensation.
Making the video even more hilarious, an equally adorable boy in a Real Madrid shirt stands next to her and looks remarkably uninterested despite seeing his team come away with an impressive three points.


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The generosity of News 2 viewers will help a lot of Hurricane Michael victims in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama.
Donations reached $42,351 during Monday’s drive at the American Red Cross in Nashville.
Our sister stations across the state also helped raise money.
The largest single donation came from Delta Dental of Tennessee with a check for $10,000.
More than 50 volunteers from Tennessee are hard at work helping people who’ve lost almost everything in the hurricane.
The Red Cross expects this to be a very long disaster relief response.
The phone lines are closed, but you can still make a donation:
Give online at www.rdcrss.org/nexstartngivesback
Text to give a $10 donation by texting MICHAEL to 90999
More than 50 Red Cross volunteers from Tennessee are in the Florida Panhandle. Alabama and Georgia right now. Here are some photos from the team in Mexico Beach and Panama Beach


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Artist of the Month: The Old No. 5s
Congratulations to our current Artist of the Month, The Old No. 5s! A compelling power trio, the group has made its name known in the blues scene over the past 3 years. The musicianship among guitar/vocalist Brock Alexander, drummer Aaron Thomas (the two have been playing together for almost 10 years), and bassist Derek Tucker is apparent on the band’s latest album, Steam, and at their dynamic live performances. Not willing to be pigeonholed strictly as a blues act, each member brings in his own influences, personalities, and passion, resulting in a ferociously rocking, funk-filled groove.
The Deli: Down and dirty: 1 sentence to describe your music.
Brock Alexander: It's kind of a gumbo: roots, rock, blues, soul.
Aaron Thomas: Our music is a unification of our individual skill sets, musical pallets, and fan expectations.
Derek Tucker: It's a hard, crunchy blues-based shell with an experimental and eclectic gooey center.
The Deli: Give me some background info on the band.
Brock: We've all played our instruments 15+ years, performing just as long in countless capacities. Aaron and I have played probably 700 shows together since 2006. Derek joined us in January 2013. We've released 2 full-length original albums, toured, done awesome shows, shitty gigs, and everything else in between. But we are still on the hunt for whatever happens next.
Aaron: Brock and I have been playing together since college. Derek joined the group early 2012 and we haven’t looked back since.
Derek: I can't speak for what happened before me... but I filled in with the 5s a few times before I was offered the position and the immediate thing that struck me was Aaron's approach to groove and where he naturally places emphasis. The three of us together snapped into place instantly and our creative process is much more intuitive than in other projects I've worked in. I still feel that some of our greatest ideas and musical moments come from the three of us just being who we are naturally without trying to force any specific concept.
The Deli: What inspires your music and songwriting? What is your songwriting process? Does one person write everything or is it collaborative? Has that process changed in the 4 years you've been a band?
Brock: The idea for The Old No. 5s was originally my vehicle to play blues rock music. As we've evolved over 4 or 5 years and become more of an original act, I continue to write the bulk of the material, with Derek adding more and more tunes each record, but the evolution of songs is very much whoever comes into rehearsal with the song ideas gets the main point across and then we just jam them. Play them at shows, try different arrangements, play them until we are tired of them, and then we usually all come back satisfied as individual players and as a group. Every song on the new album was finalized as a group. Which feels cool, because it sounds like us. Not us trying to piece things together, we are just playing.
Aaron: I personally take a lot of inspiration from drummers/percussionists that I have studied over the years, but I think in this project, I take most of my inspiration from Brock and Derek. One of them will bring in an idea and we will work together to develop that idea. Giving it form, phrasing, dynamics, and turning it into a working song that we then play at gigs until we start getting reactions from our fans. When we start hearing things like “that new song… ‘Barn Party’… that thing is killer!” We know the song is where it needs to be.
Derek: This last record was very collaborative compared to Sourmash. The three of us have very strong, independent personalities, and the writing process for Steam was a great learning experience for us on to how to write together. We consciously made the decision to all be very active with input and ideas and I believe the record is much stronger for it. Each one of us comes from very different perspectives, experiences, and preferences in style and it's the amalgam of compromises we make, added to our intuitive cohesion, that manifests itself in the current 5s experience. There's an obvious evolution from Sourmash to Steam and personally I'm excited to see who and what we become with the next record. We don't put down parameters we have to fit inside as a group, and the courage to operate in such a manner while still being commercially relevant is one of the things about the 5s I'm the most proud of.
The Deli: What have been your greatest musical accomplishments?
Brock: Surviving. A lot of people try to achieve success at varying levels, but when you get down to it, I think we are happy to have found a positive outlet to play music, be original and creative to ourselves, and continue to improve every year in our ambitions.
Aaron: As a band I’d say the biggest accomplishment is a consistently full calendar every month. We’ve been to the International Blues Competition, we’ve done the King of The Roots thing, but nothing that makes you feel more accomplished than playing 130+ gigs a year on average. Personally though, finding myself on a beach, knee deep in the Gulf of Mexico after spending the previous night in a minivan stuck on a one-lane bridge in Kentucky. We got stuck in a blizzard that dropped 4 feet of snow on either side of our van on the way to play a festival in Bonita Springs, Florida. For me, the best accomplishments in life are when you work through conflict to achieve your goals. The sand feels a little more amazing under your feet when you and two of your best friends are always striving to be the best they can be as artists.
Derek: Steam, hands down. We took a lot of risks with the way we approached this record. Working together to consciously evolve was, at times, strenuous and stressful, but we didn't just want to put out just 12 more songs in compact disc form and call it a record. This album is a testament to the three of us growing as people, friends, and musicians, and the performing and songwriting on the record reflects that. There's a depth to Steam that speaks to who we were, who we are, and who we are going to become, and I don't feel like that's always a common thing in the modern era of music.
The Deli: Tell us about your latest album Steam. What can listeners expect? What future plans do you have for getting your music out there?
Brock: I would say it’s very diverse. Lots of rock, blues, but also lots of soul and pop. It's tough to pigeonhole it, because it really is pretty different tune to tune. I think our main goal with our music is to simply get it into as many ears as possible. Whether that be live or via the Internet or telepathy.
Derek: As far as getting our music out there, we're still approaching this with the tried and true method of building awareness, one new fan at a time. The more you put yourself out there, the more opportunities people have to hear what we are doing and respond favorably. We gig a lot, and we're slowly making further and further trips away from our home base. Everything we do is in house, from booking to merch design, and while DIY can be taxing at times, it allows us to be 100% who we are. That's important to us as a unit.
The Deli: What does supporting local music mean to you?
Brock: I think it simply means you value the main stage acts like Taylor Swift or Tool as much as the guy or girl playing on a weeknight for 12 people. Really, what's the difference if it sounds good?
Aaron: Supporting local music is partly financial, partly attentive, but mostly social. When asked to “support” music, I think a lot of people immediately think of having to part with their hard-earned money. I won’t lie—we all have bills to pay. But the most important part about supporting local music is being enthusiastic and outspoken about your favorite bands, artists, and shows. Fifty years ago, music was a social experience. One could argue that it still is today, but it’s nowhere near what it was in its prime. Music has become a more private experience. Rarely do you hear about 5 friends hanging around their stereo at home jamming out to the new [insert your favorite band here] record. Most people have earbuds in. Music is purchased alone, at home, electronically. If music is social, it’s while riding in a car with friends, or at a show with a group of people. Being social in your local music scene connects you with the most creative, talented, interesting people in any city on this planet. Personally, supporting local music is about sharing my enthusiasm for what I do, with the people I am around.
Derek: We're usually on the receiving end of support here locally and I can say that, being a transplant to the KC area, the amount of interest in live music I see here is encouraging. One of my favorite parts of moving here has been getting involved in the musical community and I love how vibrant and varied (not to mention talented) it is.
The Deli: Who are your favorite local musicians right now? Non-local?
Brock: The Sheepdogs, Dawes, and Ryan Adam's Taylor Swift album 1989.
Aaron: WOW!!! Locally I feel like I could write a book, but I have a special place in my heart for a few specific people. Pat Adams, Todd Strait, Keith (Big Poppa) Mallory, Chris Hazelton, Todd Wilkinson, Nick Rowland, Adam Hagerman, and of course, Derek and Brock. As far as local bands go, because we play most evenings, it’s hard to get out to see other groups. But the last band I saw that really blew me away in terms of being the whole package—musicianship, skill, content, and showmanship, etc—was My Brothers and Sisters. I could not sit still. I dig The Nace Brothers, Chris Hazelton’s Boogaloo 7, and Matt Hopper’s trio with Kevin Frazee on drums. Nationally, the list of drummer I follow reads like a dissertation. But the short list would be Carter Beauford, JoJo Mayer (Nerve), Terreon Gully, Todd Sucherman, Bill Stewart, Glenn Kotche, Steve Smith, and Robert “Sput” Searight. My list of bands is also unending. But if I had to pick one, it will forever and always be Tower of Power.
Derek: Bandwise, there are too many to, list. There are so many fantastic acts coming up in KC right now that I honestly couldn't pick favorites. As far as players, I'll say that bass players like Paul Greenlease and Jacque Garoutte are perfect examples of always playing the right notes in the right groove all the time. Dylan Reiter's creativity on bass knows no bounds and I'm constantly trying to emulate his approach and feel. On drums, the three guys I'm always excited to play with are Aaron Thomas, Adam Watson, and Adam Hagerman. There are so many guitarists and vocalists I love that I can't list them all, but Sean McDonnell, Jake Koivisto, Dave Hays, and Brock are cats that always stand out to me on guitar. As far as non-local acts are concerned, the bands I'm constantly listening to are The Main Squeeze, Snarky Puppy, Umphrey's Mcgee, and the Neville Brothers' Live On Planet Earth is a primer for funking it right.
The Deli: What is your ultimate fantasy concert bill to play on?
Brock: I'd really love to jam with Doyle Bramhall II or Taylor Goldsmith from Dawes. As far as a favorite concert bill, I'd play with anyone who'd have me. Lumping it into bills would be a drag.
Aaron: It would be a festival. Soulive, The Old No. 5s, Lettucem Norah Jones, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Galactic, Snarky Puppy.
Derek: It would never happen, but Tool, Elton John, Phish, The Main Squeeze, Snarky Puppy, Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood, Peter Gabriel, YES, and Soulive. But we would have to go first at that festival, because my head would explode at some point.
The Deli: A music-themed Mount Rushmore. What four faces are you putting up there and why?
Brock: John Lennon: ‘Cause your ambition should far exceed your abilities.
Jimi Hendrix: 'Cause... it's Jimi.
Jack Kerouac: ‘Cause he is my spirit animal.
Johnny Depp: ‘Cause we share birthdays.
Aaron: Buddy Rich: NOBODY… plays like Buddy. Buddy died before I was old enough to see him in concert, but this is a man that inspired generations to the drums. Always striving to better himself, and those around him, he had high expectations for everyone.
Levon Helm: I mean… do I need to explain this?
John Coltrane: Coltrane is a pop culture icon, but not everybody understands what he brought to the music world. John was a major contributor to the deep understanding of improvisation and the birth of bebop/modern jazz. This man knew his classics, as well as he invented the future. John was influential to all the jazz musicians who followed in his giant-steps. A man who touches music like that, has to go on my mountain.
John Williams: Before I get yelled at, I realize Williams is primarily a composer and conductor, and is best known for his film score compositions. But if you really put his entire career into perspective, you can’t help but to realize that this guy should be on everyone’s list!!! 22 Grammys, 2016 AFI Life Achievement Award, 2004 Kennedy Center Honors, conductor of the Boston Pops, SIX DECADES and is still working!!! THIS GUY is “living the dream.” I mean… watching any of his movies with no music score. Star Wars, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List, Superman, the list goes on and on.
Derek: James Jamerson, Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke, and Rocco Prestia. In my opinion, their combined brilliance is what defines the epitome of bass guitar playing.
The Deli: What other goals do you have for 2016 and beyond?
Brock: We wanna write another album and get it out faster than we did the last layover. I think we would like to release a Christmas EP next year. Ultimately, I hope we continue to grow, evolve, and create.
Derek: To keep living the dream and expanding the horizon. I feel positive about our trajectory and I'm really excited to see what is to come. One of my favorite things about the 5's is the balancing act we do between accessibility and indulgence, and the evolution of that is something that keeps me invigorated and present. I've been with the 5's for 3 years now and I'm nowhere close to bored or complacent. I feel like the three of us have a special chemistry and approach that I've never experienced with any of the many groups I've played with in the past and I can't wait to see what we try to pull off next!
The Deli: Where can we find you on the web? Also, provide a link to streaming music and/or video.
The Deli: Always go out on a high note. Any last words of wisdom for the Deli audience?
Brock: Don't be afraid to dream up your reality, and then work to make that dream real. It's crazy to think that people can and are affected by your music. And really that's all the inspiration a musician needs.
Derek: Cheese tastes good! Years ago I was showing a song to a friend and was worried that some of the ideas were too "cheesy.” He looked right at me and uttered those words with a gravitas that implied wisdom from the universe. For some reason that has always stuck with me.
The Old No. 5s will be playing at Coda next Wednesday for their monthly 5’s + 1 show, where they bring in a special guest. Ben Hoppes will be featured on banjo this month.