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Overcoming Sexual Abuse : From The Inside Out
In her debut book, Theresa Reiff offers hope and encouragement for those struggling with the aftermath of sexual abuse. Follow along on the steps of her journey to recovery from sexual abuse in her childhood. Discover how she traded slavery for freedom, mourning for joy, anger for peace, blame for forgiveness, and foolishness for wisdom. Ultimately, learn how she overcame confusion about who she is, as she uncovered her true identity.
Wherever you are in your journey to healing and wholeness, you are invited to combine Theresa’s process with your own, to overcome sexual abuse from the inside out.

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When Vice President Dan Quayle visited Haiti in August, he urged President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to bring to the Caribbean nation more than political reform.
Suspicious of the leftist leanings of the Roman Catholic priest, Quayle left the impression that if Haiti moved toward a free-market economy, U.S. aid and investment would swiftly follow.
The vice president said the United States would consider annulling Haiti`s $107 million debt in an effort to help the nation move forward. It was a carrot dangled before a nation hungry for rescue from the depths of the Duvalier dynasty.
Aristide, freely elected, has demonstrated his ability to change the face of Haiti beyond cosmetics. The remnants of the oppressive Duvalier dynasty, particularly the notorious thuggery exercised by the Tonton Macoutes, are disappearing. . . .
Before Aristide took office last February, Haitians in Port-au-Prince were hacking one another with machetes and burning alive suspected Duvalier informants. Aristide has brought a sense of order and optimism.
Aristide can only do so much. Haiti is impoverished, dependent on wealthier nations and has mostly labor to offer. The U.S. government can help, not by issuing litmus tests or providing opportunities to exploit Haitians`
misery, but by throwing a genuine lifeline.


Rapid drilling of an access hole in ice sheets can complement the prospection of potential deep drilling sites and serve to locally explore an ice sheet. RADIX is a rapid access system for an access hole of 20 mm diameter optimized for minimal resources and logistics demand. It is based on a coiled drilling system. The drilled ice cuttings are available for analysis. The drilling speed is about 10 mm/s, resulting in less than 4 days of continuous drilling for a 3000 m hole. We present the experience of a 4-year testing phase and the current system as will be deployed to Little Dome C, Antarctica.
A battery operated 15-mm diameter downhole sonde has been designed and constructed for logging. Hole inclination, azimuth, temperature and dust content of the surrounding ice are transmitted to the surface through an optical fiber cable.


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Lincoln County Board of Education acknowledged this year’s recipient of the Big Apple Award — Doug Pendygraft, an individual who began a memorable coaching and teaching career over a half century ago. A 1958 graduate of Parksville High School, “Coach P” played ball for the legendary Adolph Rupp as a Wildcat from 1960-1962. It is at the University of Kentucky where he completed his undergraduate degrees in Biology and Physical Education. Over the years, Doug has influenced countless young people, on the court and in the classroom—in the Lincoln, Mercer, Danville, Harlan, and Casey Systems and Centre College, as well. However, Coach has served as the Home/Hospital Instructor here in Lincoln County for the last 18 years.
Retiring this year, Coach Pendygraft recently announced that he is to spend more time with family and enjoy his well-earned retirement. We want to thank Mr. Pendygraft for his years of service and for this last honor of being named the 2014 Big Apple Award. Congratulations!!

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What kind of people do you most enjoy working with?
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I enjoy working with people who enjoy what they are doing.
I enjoy working most with people who are considerate, respectful, and have a positive attitude.
I most enjoy working with children and underprivileged people, or even a combination of the two. A few years ago I traveled to India, and during my stay there I visited an orphanage for physically and mentally disabled children. I was blessed with the opportunity to interact with them, read to them, and play games with them.
People who are cosiderate, respectful and have a positive attitude.
I enjoy working with other people that also care about the work that neither of us has to be in charge of the other.
People who are comfortable in a team dynamic who can both take the lead and support another, and can judge when to take on these roles.
I am all rounded person so I generally try to get along with every person. Or if I cant I always maintain a professional relationship. People who are polite and considerate of others are my favourites though.
I enjoy hard working people with positive attitudes.
I mostly enjoy working with the public and children. I love making friendly conversations and being social!
I can work all kind of people different background.
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Corrie McKeague and his mother Nicola Urquhart
Nicola Urquhart, 48, revealed her son and his partner April Oliver, 21, were members of a swingers’ website. She said it could hold vital clues to what happened to him.
The RAF gunner, 23, disappeared after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on September 24 last year.
Ms Urquhart said 100,000 pieces of information from social media will be handed to police this week, including a potential sighting the morning after he vanished.
Other data has come from a phone line offering a £50,000 reward.
Ms Oliver also revealed this month that she was pregnant with McKeague’s baby in the hope it would bring him back.
Ms Urquhart will join 100 volunteers today to search for her son
Ms Urquhart, from Dunfermline,Fife, said: “With the dating sites they were on, and for her [April] to go out there and say they weren’t seeing each other exclusively, that is an awful thing for her to have to tell.
What if these sites had something to do with what happened to Corrie?
“It’s because she wanted to be honest. She could have closed the site and I could have closed Corrie’s but we have deliberately not done that because finding Corrie is more important.
MISSING RAF serviceman, Corrie Mckeague
Mon, January 9, 2017
Corrie Mckeague, of Dungermline, Fife, has been missing since he disappeared after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk on September 24.
The 23-year-old's girlfriend, April Oliver, 21, of Norfolk, revealed she found out she was expecting his child two weeks after he vanished near RAF Honington where he has been based for three years while training to be a gunner and a medic.
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April Oliver, 21, girlfriend of missing 23-year-old Corrie McKeague (right), who has revealed she is expecting his child
Missing airman Corrie McKeague and girlfriend April Oliver
“What if these sites had something to do with what happened to Corrie? This shouldn’t be about trying to find salacious gossip on Corrie or April. We’ve not painted him as an angel. We’ve tried to be honest about everything we know.”
Ms Urquhart will join 100 volunteers today to search for her son, who was based at RAF Honington near Bury.


(Posted 5:00 a.m. EST Monday, January 25, 2010)
By SKEETER SANDERS
When the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, it did so against the backdrop of a world still reeling in shock and revulsion at the unspeakable crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis before and during World War II.
Indeed, national and international pressure for a global bill of rights had been building throughout the war and reached a crescendo after the Nuremberg trials of top Nazi leaders in 1946.
The United Nations Charter "reaffirmed faith in fundamental human rights, and dignity and worth of the human person" and committed all member states to promote "universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion."
To that end, Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — to which the United States was one of its principal authors — says:
"Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control."
President Franklin D. Roosevelt had championed a global bill of rights as far back as 1941, when, in his State of the Union address, Roosevelt called for the protection of what he termed the "essential" Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom from fear and freedom from want.
Yet more than 60 years after its adoption, the United States remains out of compliance with Article 25 because it is the only industrialized nation on Earth that does not have a system of universal health care for all of its citizens.
And the minority Republicans on Capitol Hill — emboldened by Scott Brown’s victory in last week’s special Senate election in Massachusetts, robbing the majority Democrats of their filibuster-proof 60-vote majority — appear determined to keep it that way.
BULK OF UNINSURED MAKE LESS THAN $39K A YEAR
For months now, the Republicans have been fighting tooth and nail against every single health-care reform bill that’s been proposed by the Democrats, yet they have steadfastly refused to come up with any viable reform proposals of their own.
And when this writer says "viable," I mean proposals that enables the estimated 31 million Americans who cannot afford private health insurance to obtain coverage they can afford.
These 31 million Americans — as well as the estimated 13 million illegal immigrants living in this country — are only one serious illness or accident away from financial ruin because they cannot afford the high cost of private health insurance.
According to a 2006 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, two-thirds of the uninsured are low-income individuals or from low-income families, making less than 200 percent of the poverty level, or $38,614 for a family of four in 2004.
Over a third of the uninsured (37 percent) are poor, according to the Kaiser study and another 28 percent are near-poor — defined as those with incomes between 100 percent and 199 percent of the poverty level, or between $19,307 and $38,228 in 2004.
Were it not for Medicaid, the Kaiser study notes, "many more of the poor would be uninsured. The near-poor also run a high risk of being uninsured because they are not likely to be eligible for Medicaid."
LACK OF INSURANCE OFTEN MEANS INADEQUATE — AND EVEN NONEXISTENT — CARE
What impact does not having health insurance have on receiving the kind of adequate medical care that all Americans are entitled to under Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? A very severe impact, according to the Kaiser study, which says that the uninsured are up to three times more likely than those with insurance to report problems receiving needed medical care, even for serious conditions.
Part of the reason many of the uninsured postpone or forgo needed care is because "over 40 percent do not have a regular place to go when they are sick or need medical advice," the study found, "compared to just nine percent of those with coverage.
"About 20 percent of the uninsured — vs. three percent of those with coverage — say their usual source of care is a [hospital] emergency room," the study found. "Anticipating high medical bills, many of the uninsured are not able to follow recommended treatment. Over a third of uninsured adults say they did not fill a drug prescription in the past year and over a third went without a recommended medical test or treatment due to cost."
The Kaiser study also found that insured adults under 65 years of age are at least 50 percent more likely to have had preventive care such as pap smears, mammograms and prostate exams than uninsured adults.
HIGH NUMBERS OF UNINSURED IS COSTING TAXPAYERS BILLIONS
Aside from the risk to one’s health that lack of health insurance poses, there is also the severe financial strain that lack of health insurance can wreak, not only on individuals, but also on the country’s health-care system as a whole.
The Kaiser study found that having health insurance makes a huge difference to a person’s credit worthiness. "Like any bill, when medical bills are not paid or paid off too slowly," the study found,"they are turned over to a collection agency, and a person’s ability to get further credit is significantly limited. Nearly a quarter of the uninsured — 23 percent — report that they were contacted by a collection agency about unpaid medical bills in just the past year ."
More importantly, the cost of caring for the uninsured is costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
In 2004, the Kaiser study found, taxpayers forked over $41 billion to pay for the health-care costs of the uninsured. More than half of all public funds to cover the costs of medical care for the uninsured came from the federal government, with the majority of federal dollars — 70 percent — flowing through Medicare and Medicaid.
Most government dollars to cover the uninsured goes for hospital care, which is paid indirectly to hospitals based partly on the share of care they provide to the uninsured. Health-care costs in direct service programs to the uninsured, such as community health centers and the veterans’ health system, are funded almost completely by taxpayer dollars.
The Kaiser study notes, however, that federal health-care spending "has not kept up with the recent growth in the number of uninsured. Although federal support for community health centers increased by more than 50 percent between 2001 and 2004 — from $430 million to $670 million — these expenditures account for only three percent of total federal spending for [caring for the uninsured]" — even as the number of uninsured Americans increased by 11 percent during the same period.
ACCESS TO ADEQUATE HEALTH CARE IS INDEED A HUMAN RIGHT
The bottom line is that if you don’t have health insurance, you have no guarantee of access to adequate health care which Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says you are entitled to — and to which this country is a signatory.
That the Republicans on Capitol Hill have fought against all attempts to enable the uninsured to afford health insurance — while at the same time refusing to come up with any viable health-care reform plan of their own — means that they are violating Americans’ right under international law to universal access to adequate health care.
At the same time, the Republicans’ intransigence is costing taxpayers billions of dollars that would otherwise not be spent if the uninsured had health insurance that they could afford.
That many private insurers continue to exclude hundreds of thousands of Americans from coverage due to pre-existing medical conditions also violates Article 25. Such discrimination is unconscionable and can no longer be tolerated. Outlawing such discrimination is long overdue and absolutely essential for any meaningful health-care reform.
The United States has been out of compliance with international law on health care for more than 60 years. How much longer will this country remain an outlaw state when it comes to universal health care?
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2 newspapers sue to get officers’ names in UC Davis pepper spraying
Published: Thursday, May 24, 2012
Updated: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:05
SAN FRANCISCO — The Los Angeles Times and Sacramento Bee filed suit Wednesday against the University of California Board of Regents, demanding the release of police officers’ names removed from a critical report on the controversial pepper spraying of UC Davis students.
The lawsuit, filed in Sacramento County Superior Court, contends that when university officials agreed in a court settlement last month to redact all but two names, they “failed to represent the interests of the press and public,” leaving the newspapers with “no choice but to bring this petition to protect the public’s right of access to this important information.”
The use of pepper spray by UC Davis police against students opposing tuition increases in November triggered international outrage when videos of Lt. John Pike casually dousing seated protesters went viral. The incident also prompted soul-searching by university officials, who convened a task force headed by retired state Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso to analyze the incident.
Wednesday’s litigation is the latest tussle over transparency in the matter. Earlier this year, the Federated University Police Officers Associatio sought to block public release of much of the Reynoso report and an accompanying investigation by the Kroll consulting firm, contending that the information was equivalent to protected “personnel” material.
UC officials argued for the full release of the reports.
In the end, an Alameda County Superior Court judge rejected most of the union’s legal arguments but agreed that the names of most officers should be redacted. Only the names of Pike and former UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza — whose identities were widely known — were left in the report.
The report concluded that the incident “could and should have been prevented.”
UC officials said they acquiesced to the settlement last month to expedite the already delayed report. But reporters for the Bee and the Times continued to pursue access to the names under the California Public Records Act.
In denying the newspapers’ requests, UC officials said the judge’s permanent injunction barred them from revealing the names.
However, the petition filed Wednesday notes that Judge Evelio Grillo made a point of stressing that “the judgment would not affect any obligation of the Regents to provide the redacted information as required by law.”
John Bakhit, the lead attorney for the officers’ association, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
The union had argued strenuously against the release, speculating that officers would be harassed. Pike’s declaration stated that he had received hundreds of letters, and more than 10,000 text messages and 17,000 emails, most of them “threatening or derogatory,” as well as unsolicited home deliveries.
Attorney Thomas R. Burke, who is representing the newspapers, countered Wednesday that Pike’s declaration presented “only speculative concerns about his safety” and “didn’t have anything to say about the other officers.”
“It’s far more important to make sure that people responsible for spraying industrial-grade pepper spray into the eyes of passive students are fully accountable for their involvement,” Burke said. In commissioning the Reynoso task force, he added, the Regents “wanted an unvarnished public explanation of what happened and that is a mission that we are trying to fulfill with this litigation.”
A UC spokeswoman said officials learned of the litigation Wednesday afternoon and were reviewing it.

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The Argentina born Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (1928-67) was a revolutionary and a guerilla warrior for Castro, helping to sever Cuba's economic ties with the U.S. and to direct trade to the Communist bloc. In recent years, he has become a symbol for rebellion and an icon decorating numerous T-shirts, stickers and posters.
While in his 20s, Guevara, then known as Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, linked up with a pal, Alberto Granado, and embarked on an 8000-km trip across South America.
"The Motorcycle Diaries" visits this early part of Guevara's life. It could have been a brutal, intense, probing story of a fascinating personality, but unfortunately the film was directed by Oscar-winning soft-pedal Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles. This is the equivalent of getting Mike Nichols or Ron Howard to direct a biopic of Sid Vicious.
Continue reading: THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES Review
The actor says he isn't "holding out for more money or doing anything like that".
The drama will be making its return to the streaming service in the near future.
Charlie Cox explains why his character Daredevil 'doesn't have time' for Jessica Jones.

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A perfect addition to every classroom! A great way to acknowledge a superstar student, special event, or just to start the day off with a cheery thought. Write your special messages on the erasable Chalkboard Cloth "Slate"! Approximate size: 19" X 41". Chalkboard Cloth available through Pieceful Designs Online Store under Miscellaneous.
About the Long and Short of It Series: A new, fun, easy and affordable series of wall hanging patterns! The wall hangings are sewn using a raw appliqu̩é technique, but can be easily adapted for turned edge appliqu̩é as well. Each has a theme: what's in the long area coordinates with what's in the short area. And that's the "Long and Short of It! Size: approximately 17 1/2" X 19 1/2"

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MEERUT: Nine persons, including four women, have been arrested for duping people of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of providing them job under the Prime Minister skill development scheme here, police said today. Acting on a tip-off, the nine persons, who were part of a company, were arrested at a hotel in Abu lane here, the district police spokesperson said.
The accused were conducting interviews of unemployed men and women in the hotel. The accused were identified as Dhwani Jain, her husband Sushil Jain, Suman Wadhwa, Deepa, Anuradha, Aman, Vishal, Sankalp and Ayush, the spokesperson said.
The nine persons have been accused of taking lakhs of rupees from men and women by promising to provide them jobs in government and private sector banks under the Prime Minister skill development scheme, the spokesperson added.


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Roulette is a very simple game. You basically just need to place a bet on any number or other sections on the roulette table layout and wait for the result of the spin. You can’t influence the result of the game and almost all bets have the same return to player, so the only thing you can influence is the volatility (by changing the types of bets you place). Note: We mentioned that almost.
Applying one or other online roulette strategy can make the game more interesting, and help manage your budget with regards to avoiding large losses. Keep in mind that nothing will guarantee generating profits. Any blog or theorist making this claim is best avoided. Maths will always favour the house in the long run. Use these tools purely to keep the game interesting, and be sure to consult.
The best strategy for roulette ultimately depends on how you play the game. If you have a large bankroll and find an online casino that allows you to bet large limits, then the Martingale strategy might be worth trying. If you stick to the rules and don’t reach the maximum betting limit, you will eventually recoup your losses and secure a small profit.Any discussion of roulette strategy must begin with some observations about the mathematics behind the game. And the math behind roulette is straightforward. I’ll explain why later on this page, but the least you need to know is that roulette can’t be beaten in the long run with any kind of strategy. All of the bets on an American roulette game offer the same house edge (5.26%) except for.American roulette is a game of luck and its good to expect some losses along the way. The James Bond roulette strategy American is not a get-rich-soon scheme, but a regular strategy that makes gaming more exciting while providing a kind of structure. You can maintain the wager the same amount throughout the game. There is also a progressive betting system that you can opt for which allows you.
Some roulette systems are rather complex and difficult to learn. Print out the strategy and try to become good at it by playing the practice games on the website. And last but not least: don't forget that the profit margin for casino roulette in theory is still only about 2.70%.Read More
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With the inception of this game being France, Monte Carlo casino, found in Monaco, France has become one of the most famous joints for the rich and wealthy who want to play casino roulette. Besides the land-based casinos that offer this game, there are also the online casinos, which offer you the live casino games and services. All the casino roulette services provided at the land based casino.Read More

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text: Everything is coming up blue recently; Paramount Pictures has recently revealed a reworked Sonic for their upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog film due out in February of 2020, starring Jim Carrey and James Marsden. Sega's most recent Sonic offering, Team Sonic Racing, was a surprisingly serviceable entry for the franchise that has notably suffered in its more recent titles. \n \nNow Steam is poised to also celebrate the fastest hedgehog, with their weekly Midweek Madness celebrating SEGA's iconic speedrunning platformer himself, Sonic the Hedgehog. \n \nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/steam_games\/status\/1194427157877075973 \n \nSonic was originally Sega's response to Nintendo's Mario platformer series that helped bring Nintendo intense popularity throughout their lifespan, back in the early 1990s for the Sega Genesis, and similarly helped staple the system with their own iconic character. \n \nMore recent titles of Sonic have suffered poor ratings, as the primary developer 'Sonic Team' consistently missed the mark in what made the series so enjoyable as they tried to break into a full three-dimensional title multiple times. \n \nSonic Forces has had its title dragged through the mud by critics multiple times, with bizarre levels that last under a minute, missing bossing resulting in anticlimactic levels, and frustrating level design that had most users holding boost until the level basically completed itself. For a developer named after the series, that they were to carry the torch for, Sonic Forces left many with more questions than answers. \n \nPerhaps Sonic Lost World was an even worse entry to the series, however. They introduced parkour moves to help Sonic maintain the speed that he's known for as he moves around the levels with ease. Yet the control schemes tended to change every level, and it awkwardly switched from 3D to 2D rather unceremoniously. \n \nWorse yet, is the levels would come to a grinding halt as players were forced to awkwardly platform through complex regions that they would drop all speed for. Again, the idea behind publisher Sega creating a developer for Sonic, and having that aforementioned Sonic Team fail, is both spectacularly funny and wildly infuriating for fans of the almost 30-year-old franchise. \n \nDespite these missteps the blue blur has found himself dealing with, to disregard the entire series is a foolish move. Many entries are on Steam and most are offered for under $2 right now; every classic title is on the Steam platform, from the cult-classic Sonic The Hedgehog Spinball to the original Sonic The Hedgehog, where our speedy friend had an interesting potbelly. \n \nThere are good vibes coming Sonic's way currently; with the upcoming film scheduled to drop in early 2020, it may be enough to refill the sails of the flagging franchise.

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The eye-catching Rita Hayworth is best known for her role as ‘Gilda‘. She is absolutely stunning and glamorous. Here’s some photos along with some funny and beautiful quotes from the star herself. I hope all you Rita lovers out there enjoy this.
“Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I`m attracted to mean personalities.“
“I always considered myself as a comedienne who could dance”
“All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.“
“Sensitive, shy–of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.“
“I did not have everything from life. I`ve had too much!“
“When you’re in, love you’re living; you matter.“
Have a lovely Wednesday, vintage lovin’ friends. XO

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When my youngest son was beginning to read, I created several sets of BOB Book Printables for him.
These printables go with the BOB Books, a set of books made for beginning readers.
We love BOB Books! They are just right for little readers–the books were made for small hands and with a few words on each page the text doesn’t overwhelm. The simple stories builds confidence for beginners. Both of my boys began their reading adventures with BOB Books.
I’ve created some printable activities specifically for the BOB Books.
I tried to vary the activities for your student to keep things fresh and fun. You can use as many or as few activities as you like to compliment the books.
What Are BOB Books?
Some of you might be wondering what BOB Books are. Are they books about short haircuts, or a boy named Bob, or what?
BOB Books were created by Bobby Lynn Maslen while she was teaching 3-5 year-olds at a private school.
She wanted something small for her students’ hands, and she wanted something that would be easy for them to read.
So, she made them.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
For over 40 years, BOB Books have continued to be used by educators to help boost student confidence and get them on the road to reading.
How to Use BOB Books
BOB Books are easy to use. You simply start with Set 1. Teach your students a few alphabet sounds for letters A, M, S, and T.
Once students know those sounds, they will be able to read the entire book. Truly! It’s that easy.
BOB Book Printables
I decided to share them here as a way to help other homeschool moms and teachers to reinforce the concepts taught through the BOB Books.
BOB Book Printables for Set 1: Beginning Readers
BOB Books Set 1 is the perfect place for your beginning reader to start as it uses simple two and three letter words. Click on the book titles to access the free BOB Book printables.
- Book 1: Mat
- Book 2: Sam
- Book 3: Dot
- Book 4: Mac
- Book 5: Dot and Mit
- Book 6: Dot and the Dog
- Book 7: Jig and Mag
- Book 8: Muff and Ruff
- Book 9: 10 Cut-Ups
- Book 10: Peg and Ted
- Book 11: Lad and the Fat Cat
- Book 12: The Vet
BOB Book Printables for Set 2: Advancing Beginners
In addition to the printables for Set 1, I also created a variety of activities for Set 2. Set 2 continues to build your student’s reading skills. It includes three-letter-words and consistent vowel sounds.
Click on the book titles to access the free BOB Book printables.
- Book 1: Fun in the Sun
- Book 2: Up, Pup
- Book 3: Pip and Pog
- Book 4: Bow-Wow!
- Book 5: The Big Hat
- Book 6: Sox the Fox
- Book 7: OK, Kids
- Book 8: Rub-a-Dub
- Book 9: Go Bus
- Book 10: The Red Hen
- Book 11: The Sad Cat
- Book 12: 0 to 10
BOB Books Sight Words: Kindergarten
In addition to learning letter sounds and phonics, students also benefit by learning some sight words. This will increase the variety of materials the student is able to read.
Click on the book titles to access the free BOB Book printables for BOB Books Sight Words: Kindergarten.
- Book 1: Mat Hid
- Book 2: Hop
- Book 3: The Jet
- Book 4: Who?
- Book 5: As Big As
- Book 6: Milk
- Book 7: She Did It
- Book 8: Frog Sat
- Book 9: The Trip
- Book 10: Sun Sets
I also made a few additional printables for the BOB Books Sight Words: Kindergarten set. You can access them by clicking on the links below.

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Anyone who had read Obama’s and Bill Ayers’ book, ‘Dreams from my father,’ knew that Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, was in the US somewhere when he claimed not to know in 2008.
She had been ordered deported in 2004, but in a much publicized court case, she was granted asylum in 2010.
Keep in mind that her home country of Kenya is not one of the top places in Africa people claim asylum from, it is a stable country (Well, except for the Somali agitators and terrorists. I doubt she told the court she was running from Somalis!). All of our coverage on Aunt Zeituni is here.
Aunt Zeituni died on Monday in a rehab center in Boston.
I wonder if the Obama’s will attend her funeral. Aunt Zeituni had complained in 2009 that her famous nephew didn’t invite her to family gatherings. That snub and the apparent disregard for the “brother in a hut” in Kenya are strange actions indeed for our supposedly good-hearted young President.
From the Boston Globe (Hat tip: Judy):
President Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, who won asylum in 2010 after living illegally in Boston for several years, died on Monday night in a nursing home in the city, her legal team said.
The law office of Margaret W. Wong, one of Onyango’s immigration lawyers, confirmed on Tuesday that she died the night before in her sleep at the Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation Harborlights facility in South Boston.
Onyango, 61, had taken ill in January and suffered from breast cancer and respiratory problems, Wong and a relative said.
The White House had no comment on Onyango’s passing. She was a native of Kenya and moved to South Boston in 2000, Wong’s office said. She was the half-sister of Obama’s late father.
Wong’s office said that Onyango was denied asylum in 2004 and nearly deported. Her case was leaked to the press during Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008.
Onyango, whom the president called Auntie Zeituni in one of his books, was ordered to leave the country in 2003, but she stayed. Later that year, she tried to stay again. But she lost the appeal, and an immigration judge ordered her deported in October 2004.
Instead, Onyango remained in Boston and lived in state and federal public housing. Critics have denounced her for defying deportation and for living in public housing while scores of families are on waiting lists.
Her lawyers successfully argued to reopen her case, and she was granted asylum in 2010.
In 2011, Zeituni’s brother Omar was discovered (drunk driving) living on the US taxpayers in Boston as well, and subsequently granted asylum. Here is our archive on Uncle Omar. See especially, Obama lies!
If you would like to learn more about the Obama ‘family’ tree—a fantastic book on the old man (Barack Sr.) is Globe reporter Sally Jacobs’ ‘The other Barack…..’ He was a creep, a cad, a liar and more.

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Feargus O'Sullivan is a contributing writer to CityLab, covering Europe. His writing focuses on housing, gentrification and social change, infrastructure, urban policy, and national cultures. He has previously contributed to The Guardian, The Times, The Financial Times, and Next City, among other publications.
One of the most historically resonant sites in Germany’s capital has been left in ruins.
This post is part of a CityLab series on wastelands, and what we squander, discard, and fritter away.
If Germany’s capital were a more rationally run place, you might expect tour buses to fill the streets around Berlin’s Teufelsberg. In a city full of mementos of 20th century history, this artificial hill on the city’s western edge is perhaps the most bizarre. Created soon after World War II, the city’s highest hill is made up of the wreck of a Nazi military academy that has been covered with rubble from wartime bombardment, then later capped by a now derelict American spy station. As if all this wasn’t gothic enough, locals have given the hill a name straight out of the Brothers Grimm: Teufelsberg means Devil’s Mountain.
For decades, the hill has functioned almost literally as a dumpster for the city’s painful historic remnants. Its freight of memory and uncanny atmosphere should be attracting the legions of tourists who hunt down remnants of the Berlin Wall. Instead, it lies empty and largely off limits, having been sold off to private investors in 1996 for a preposterously cheap price of just 2.6 million Deutschmarks, or around $1.84 million. Now it seems Teufelsberg could be stuck in this Purgatory indefinitely. The investors who bought the site (and then failed to develop it) won’t sell it back to the city for anything south of €50 million ($52.8 million). As broke as ever, Berlin can’t afford to buy it back. This means it can’t become a museum, an arts venue, a sporting site, or any of the other facilities suitable for this location’s huge potential.
Instead, the overall effect of the complex right now looks a bit like an obsolete NASA facility cross-bred with Daphne Du Maurier’s Manderley. Weeds and briars are starting to weave ropes around the structure as if they’re trying to drag it beneath the surface of the hill, while the listening post’s mushroom domes are now tattered skeletons. Out of mind (if not out of sight), Teufelsberg’s current outcast state belies its history as one of the most pregnant symbols of Berlin’s complex postwar recovery.
It’s certainly a strange history. The hill first started to rise immediately after the war, when much of Berlin lay in ruins. Before reconstruction could begin, all that rubble needed to be recycled or removed (work that was largely performed by women). Across Germany, cities assembled rubble hills to stow bombing debris (including several smaller ones elsewhere in Berlin, east and west), but West Berlin faced a particular quandary. Surrounded by East German territory, it couldn’t remove the rubble from the city. Instead it dumped it on top of an existing building on the edge of the Grunewald, a huge forest within city limits, largely felled for firewood during the postwar years.
The city’s chosen dumping grounds was a planned Nazi military training college, where construction had started as part of Albert Speer’s incomplete project to refashion Berlin as Germania, a monumental (and probably unrealizable) plan for a new capital representing Nazi ideals. The academy’s raw hulk proved too sturdy to demolish easily, so the city instead covered it in debris. A planned monument to Nazi ideology thus became appropriately entombed in the remnants of buildings ruined by the ideology itself.
Debris dumping around the site continued until 1972, after 26 million cubic meters of rubble had accumulated. It’s not surprising that with this huge tonnage, Teufelsberg eventually reached over 120 meters (394 feet) tall, making it a veritable mountain in Berlin’s flattish terrain. This eminence made it as good a site as any to set up a listening post for the U.S. National Security Agency. While the hill’s slopes were populated by a ski jump, parkland and even a vineyard, the current building at its crest was completed in 1964 to listen in to nearby Russian and East German communications. Once again yoked into the service of heavy-handed historic symbolism, the hill thus became an embodiment of Cold War intrigue in a city that, to the rest of the world, personified the tensions of those years.
Since being decommissioned in 1991, the station has largely fallen into ruin. It has been used as an occasional photoshoot backdrop, proposed as the site of a hotel, luxury apartments and even a “University of Esoterics.” So far, however, the only creatures to have truly profited from the Teufelsberg’s post-Cold War dereliction are the numerous boar that now live wild on its slopes. You can visit the place by guided tour, and many people have at some point sneaked in by night. This is a pretty risky thing to do, given that there are no guard rails on the buildings’ upper floors, that some masonry may be lose, and that, somewhere in the complex, there is a vacant elevator shaft.
What’s surprising about this situation is that re-purposing obsolete buildings is usually Berlin’s strength. The national parliament is a former ruin, the city’s largest contemporary art museum is in a former railway station, and its best known nightclub is in an old power plant. Against this backdrop of ingenuity, the failure do anything with the Teufelsberg site is, along with Berlin’s ongoing airport fiasco, a sign that the city may still be struggling to get its act together. As the capital of what’s arguably Europe’s most powerful nation, this slapdash attitude belies Germany’s reputation for efficiency and pragmatism in a way that could make the local authorities squirm.
Still, as part of a city whose reputation for creative chaos is somewhat hackneyed but not undeserved, the overgrown site’s disrepair isn’t entirely negative. Berlin’s old warehouses may be undergoing conversion to apartments, its cracking facades plastered over and its occupied houses (often inaccurately referred to as squats) being cleared and rented. But with even historically significant spots like the Teufelsberg showing weeds growing up through the cracks, it can feel reassuring to know that the city’s transformation to sparkling, antiseptic new German showcase is ongoing, not complete.


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Motorsport Formula 1 says the Miami GP will be sold out
November 4 (Reuters) – The demand for Miami Grand Prix tickets before the debut of the second US race next year already exceeds capacity many times over, the Formula 1 owners reported on Thursday.
Miami in May will be the second US round after Austin, Texas, whose race last month drew a record 400,000 spectators over three days with 140,000 spectators on Sunday.
The popularity of the Netflix F1 documentary series “Drive to Survive” has been linked to a large surge in the sport’s popularity in the United States.
Greg Maffei, president and CEO of commercial rights holder Liberty Media, told analysts on a conference call on its third quarter results that about 70% of the Austin audience attended their first Grand Prix.
“We are excited to host our second race in the USA and welcome the Miami GP in May. The demand is high: 275,000 people have pre-registered to buy tickets, compared to a planned capacity of around 80,000, ”he said.
Grandstand tickets sold out on day one, with 1,800 people paying a $ 5,000 deposit for luxury hospitality.
The Formula 1 group as a whole posted a profit of $ 68 million in the third quarter, compared to a loss of $ 115 million in the same period in 2020 when races were held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic became.
There were seven races in the third quarter of 2021, compared to ten in the same three-month period in 2020.
The total sales of the Formula 1 group increased from 597 US dollars previously to 668 million US dollars.
“Formula 1 is running at full speed and is delivering results on the track for our fans, partners and investors,” said CEO Stefano Domenicali.
“We already know that the 2021 season will be one for the ages, with a fierce battle on the grid and among the constructors. We saw the results with the fans on the track and with commitment on all platforms.”
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen leads seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton from Mercedes by 12 points ahead of the Mexico City Grand Prix on Sunday, the 18th of 22 races this season. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Ed Osmond)


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These orchids want low to medium light, I’m told they’ll bloom in light as dim as you use for your phalaenopsis, but cattleya light is better. The leaves on these are almost a dark solid green, with more light the leaves will get a brown speckling. I’m still experimenting to see how much light they can take you can see the newer leaves beginning to get some color as I increase the light. I put these in a AeroGrow Ultra LED garden, they are in a tray, planted in clay pellets (semi-hydro) and thriving.
Some growers say to let them dry a bit between waterings, others say never let them dry. After the PostOffice experiment I’m leaning towards letting them get a bit dry between waterings. Make sure the leaves and pseudobulbs stay firm, roots should be green to white, the greener the better.
I’ve taken to keeping all my orchids in clear glass containers so I can keep an eye on the roots. If you use bark and or sphagnum moss make sure there is no water sitting in the bottom of the container and use a shallow, wide container. If you use clay pellets ( semi-hydro ) plant the orchid so the roots are above the bottom third of the container and leave water in the bottom third of the container. I have these planted in semi-hydro, it hasn’t been very long but so far they are doing extremely well.
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Imagine a serene riverside park, where the water glistens under the sun, teeming with life and vitality. The reality of many river parks is often far from this idyllic image, marred by pollution and neglect. The quality of water in these precious natural resources is important, for aesthetic value, and for the health of ecosystems, wildlife, and communities.
The Importance of Water Quality in River Parks
The important role of water quality in river parks extends far beyond the visible beauty of clear, unpolluted water. It forms the foundation of intricate and diverse ecosystems, each element interdependent on the health of the water. Aquatic species, ranging from the tiniest microorganisms to larger fish and amphibians, rely on clean water for survival. These creatures are integral to the food chain within the river ecosystem and play an important role in maintaining the ecological balance.
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The human aspect of water quality in river parks is equally significant. These parks are often hubs of community activity, offering a range of recreational opportunities. Activities like fishing, swimming, and boating provide leisure and exercise for individuals and foster community bonding and mental well-being. The presence of clean, safe water is a key factor that makes these activities enjoyable and safe.
The economic impact of water quality in river parks is substantial. High-quality water attracts more visitors, which in turn boosts local businesses and economies. This can include everything from tourism, hospitality, and retail to the businesses directly involved in recreational activities, such as boat rentals and fishing gear shops. The financial benefits also extend to property values, with properties near clean, well-maintained river parks often being more desirable and valued higher.
The role of river parks in the broader environmental context cannot be overstated. These water bodies are often connected to larger ecosystems, meaning that the quality of water in a river park can directly affect downstream areas. Poor water quality can lead to problems in downstream ecosystems, including lakes and oceans, harming wildlife and impacting human communities that rely on these larger bodies of water for their livelihood and recreation.
Current Challenges in Maintaining Water Quality
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When Greece arrives at an agreement with the institutions “the policy mix will be far better than some in the opposition had hoped for, in order for the government to suffer political wear, but also from the assumptions made by much of the media,” government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said on Sunday.
In an interview with the Greek radio station ‘Alpha 989’, Tzanakopoulos said that current conditions made it possible to reach an agreement with the institutions — both on a staff-level agreement (SLA) and on the positive measures and reforms going forward — before the Eurogroup on March 20. This was the goal of the Greek government and the institutions involved, he added, and would open the way for a discussion on Greece’s debt and the size of primary surpluses, leading to a comprehensive agreement.
The mistake that Greece must now avoid repeating, as had been happening for many years in the negotiations on the Greek program, Tzanakopoulos said, was to rush under the pressure of time and the uncertainty caused by a failure to complete the review and postpone the problem for two, three, four or five months later. “At this time, the central goal must be a comprehensive solution that will finally open the way for a final exit from the memorandums,” he said. This would require calmness and a more low-key tone from the opposition at home, the spokesman added, though noting that main opposition New Democracy appears not to share this view. “We must all understand that the Greek economy needs a comprehensive agreement that will finally untie the various Gordian knots that have accompanied the Greek program since the start of the crisis,” he said.
Regarding the policy mix, he said this would include more austerity and reforms but also equivalent measures counteracting this, either in the form of lower taxes or by increasing social spending, in order to create a socially sustainable and balanced fiscal mix. Asked about the issues now under negotiation, Tzanakopoulos singled out that of labor market reforms, where he said Europe must “assume its political responsibilities. According to the spokesman, the IMF was demanding things that are “outside the European social model, violate the European Charter of Fundamental Rights and cannot therefore be accepted, not just by Greece but also by Europe, to the extent that Europe wants to continue respecting itself.”“In this sense, there are discussions on all levels and we will strive for the greatest possible consensus in order to support our positions about the need to restore collective bargaining and the need to re-regulate the labor market in Greece,” he said.


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The couple are due to arrive in the northern Italian city on Saturday for Beckham’s official unveiling at the San Siro stadium.
Reports in the Italian media claim that Victoria has ruled against Sky Sports presenter D’Amico having any part in her husband's introduction to his new public.
Organisers had initially intended to have D’Amico interview David as part of a special feature on the couple but, at Victoria’s insistence, will instead undertake a more formal press conference.
The reports claim that the changes were made ‘at the request of the Beckham camp’ after Victoria had ‘researched Ilaria on the internet’. (A simple Google search suggests why ).
D’Amico first made a name for herself in sports media when she appeared on La Giostra Dei Gol and since then she has covered the 1998 World Cup in France and hosted a Uefa Cup special.
Before jetting out to the Italian fashion capital the couple took time to make a short visit to England where they were able to spend time with their three children – Brooklyn, nine; Romeo, six; and Cruz, three.
The clamour from fashion designers, hotels and schools for an association with the Beckhams has been intense and dubbed by the Italian media ‘Il fenomeno Beckham’.
Beckham, who is registered with Major League Soccer side LA Galaxy, is reported to have been handed a penthouse in the £1,000-a-night Chedi Hotel which is in the same district as the San Siro.
The former England captain agreed to a temporary move to Milan during the US off-season as a means of maintaining his fitness with a view to remaining part of England coach Fabio Capello’s plans as England resume their World Cup qualification campaign in 2009.
The Italian coach left Beckham out of his squad last year when he felt the former Manchester United midfielder was short of match practice.
His stay is expected to last for three months though some observers have suggested that if his time at the club is a successful one that period might be extended.
Beckham’s first training session with his new club will take place on Dec 29 and he will be available for his first competitive action when Milan travel to the Italian capital to face AS Roma on Jan 11.


In 1988, in accordance with the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Short-Range Missiles, the Soviet Union decommissioned several missile systems covered by the agreement. The newest systems with a medium-range missile, which had to be abandoned, were the systems of the Pioneer family. Since the mid-seventies, these complexes have ensured the country's security and kept potential adversaries from attack. Nevertheless, due to their characteristics, the Pioneer complexes were cut down and were disposed of by the beginning of the nineties.
SPU 15U106 of the 15P645 "Pioneer" complex - SS-20 SABER in the prelaunch position (photo processing from the collection "Arms of Russia", MilitaryRussia. Ru, 2011)
The development of a new missile system, which received the 15P645 index and the name "Pioneer" (later the designation RSD-10 appeared), started in 1971 at the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering (MIT) under the leadership of Alexander Davidovich Nadiradze. The engineers were required to create a new medium-range ballistic missile capable of hitting targets at ranges up to 4500-5000 km, and other elements of the missile system, including a mobile launcher on a wheeled chassis. To simplify the creation of a missile system, it was proposed to take the Temp-2S intercontinental missile as a basis. The two upper stages of a previously developed rocket were used as the basis for the Pioneer.
MIT was appointed the lead developer of the new project. In addition to this organization, the Titan Central Design Bureau, the Soyuz NPO and other organizations were involved in the creation of various components of a promising missile system. In accordance with the resolution of the Council of Ministers of April 20, 1973, it was required to complete the design work and begin testing the complex by the middle of the 74th. Such terms became one of the reasons that a large number of elements of the complex were borrowed with minor modifications from the Temp-2C project.
Tests of the new Pioneer missile system started in mid-1974. Flight tests began on September 21 of the same year. Development and testing of systems continued until the spring of 1976. On March 11, 1976, the State Commission signed an act on the acceptance of the new 16P645 missile system with the 15Zh45 missile into service with the Strategic Missile Forces. Delivery of new complexes to the troops soon began.
The main elements of the 15P645 Pioneer mobile ground missile system were the 15Zh45 ballistic missile and the 15U106 self-propelled launcher. Such an architecture of the complex made it possible to carry out patrolling at a distance from the bases and, after receiving an order, to launch a rocket in the shortest possible time.
The 15U106 self-propelled launcher was developed at the Volgograd Central Design Bureau "Titan". The basis for this vehicle was the MAZ-547V chassis with a 12x12 wheel arrangement. The total length of the launcher exceeded 19 m, the total mass of the complex (with a transport-launch container and a rocket) - 80 tons. Thanks to the 650 hp B-38 diesel engine. the 15U106 car could accelerate on the highway up to 40 km / s. It was provided to overcome the rise up to 15 °, the ditch up to 3 m wide and the crossing of water obstacles with a depth of no more than 1, 1 m ford.
On the 15U106 launcher, a lifting unit with hydraulic drives was mounted, designed to install the transport and launch container (TPK) of the rocket and bring it to a vertical position before launch. The 15Ya107 container was proposed to be made of fiberglass reinforced with titanium rings. The structure of the TPK was multilayer, with a layer of thermal insulation between the two fiberglass cylinders. The length of the TPK is 19 m. A cover of a characteristic hemispherical shape was attached to the front / upper end of the container on pyrobolts, to the rear / bottom - the case of a powder pressure accumulator (PAD), which provided the mortar launch of the rocket.
Rocket launch 15Ж45. On the left picture you can see the shooting of the ORP of the stage of breeding warheads, on the right - the shooting of the ORP of the 1st stage of the rocket. (Dyachok A., Stepanov I., Storen. Mobile ground-based medium-range missile system RSD-10 (RT-21M) (SS-20 "Saber"). 2008)
The launch of the Pioneer missiles of all modifications was carried out by the so-called. cold method. The product was ejected from the TPK due to the powder charge in the bottom of the container. For greater efficiency, the PAD body was made in the form of a cylindrical part attached to the TPK and a retractable cup located inside it. During the launch, the pressure of the PAD powder gases had to act on the rocket, and also push the glass of the hull down. Sinking to the ground, this part was supposed to serve as an additional support for the TPK. In case of abnormal combustion of a powder charge capable of destroying a rocket, the retractable glass had to break through and release the gas pressure inside the TPK.
Inside the transport and launch container, the rocket of the Pioneer complex was held by means of detachable support-leading belts (OVP), which also served as an obturator. Immediately after the missiles left the ORP container, they fired back and flew at a range of at least 150-170 m, which imposed certain restrictions on the organization of group missile launches from one site. In order to avoid damage to surrounding objects, the TPK cover being fired off was attached to the launcher with a cable and had to fall in the immediate vicinity of it.
The first ammunition developed as part of the Pioneer project was the 15Ж45 medium-range ballistic missile. It was created with extensive use of developments and rocket units of the Temp-2S complex, developed earlier. The design of the 15Zh45 rocket consisted of two sustainer stages, a breeding stage and an instrument compartment. With a total length of 16, 5 m, the rocket had a launch weight of 37 tons, a throw weight of 1.6 tons.
The first stage of the rocket with a length of 8.5 m and a weight of 26.6 tons was equipped with a 15D66 solid-propellant engine with a fiberglass body that used a composite fuel. To reduce the length of the rocket, the nozzle of the first stage engine was partially recessed into its housing. It was proposed to control the operation of the engine using gas-jet rudders made of heat-resistant material. These rudders were coupled with aerodynamic lattice rudders located on the outer surface of the rocket. The engine had a cut-off system.
The design of the second stage with a length of 4, 6 m and a mass of 8, 6 tons was similar to the architecture of the first stage. The second main stage was equipped with a 15D205 solid-fuel engine with a partially recessed nozzle. To change the range of the rocket, the second stage received a thrust cut-off system, designed anew, and not borrowed from the previous project. The flight control of the second stage was carried out using a system of gas rudders.
The 15Zh45 rocket breeding stage was equipped with four 15D69P solid-propellant engines with rotary nozzles. Small-sized engines were located on the lateral surface of the breeding stage, below the warheads. The combat equipment of the 15Zh45 missile consisted of three individually guided nuclear warheads with a capacity of 150 kt each. The warheads were located on the sides of the central cone of the instrument compartment and gave the missile head a characteristic appearance. Means of overcoming the missile defense were not envisaged.
The 15Zh45 ballistic missile received an inertial guidance system developed by the Moscow Scientific and Production Association for Automation and Instrumentation. The control system was based on an on-board computer and a gyro-stabilized platform. The capabilities of the control system made it possible to enter a flight task before lifting the rocket to a vertical position, and also provided the ability to fly in any direction, regardless of the position of the launcher. During the flight, the on-board control system used two-stage rudders and dilution stage engines to correct the flight trajectory.
According to official data, the 15Zh45 missile could deliver three individually guided warheads at a range of up to 4,700 km. The circular probable deviation (CEP) did not exceed 550 m.
The rocket launch of the Pioneer complex could be carried out both from a prepared open area and from the Krona protective structure. The latter was a disguised garage with gates at both ends. While on duty, the launchers of the Pioneer complex could enter such structures and await an order. Before launching, the roof of the structure was to be dropped with the help of squibs, after which the calculation of the complex should have been lifted by the TPK with a rocket and other preparatory operations should be performed. For camouflage, the structures of the "Krona" were equipped with electric furnaces. The structure with working ovens in the infrared range had the same appearance as the "Krona" with a launcher inside. The relatively large number of defensive structures made it difficult to track the Pioneer missile systems using reconnaissance satellites.
Regardless of the location, the launch procedure looked the same. Upon arrival at the position, the calculation had to hang the launcher on jacks and prepare the rocket for launch. All preparatory operations were carried out automatically after the appropriate command. During preparation for launch, the TPK lid was shot off and the container was raised to a vertical position. When launched, the PAD gases threw the rocket to a height of about 30 m, after which the OVP was fired and the first stage main engine was launched.
The 15P645 Pioneer mobile ground-based missile system was put into service in 1976. Serial production of missiles started a year earlier at the Votkinsk Machine-Building Plant. The first regiment, fully equipped with the Pioneers, took over duty in the summer of 1976. Missile systems "Pioneer" served in different regions of the USSR, which made it possible to "keep at gunpoint" a variety of targets in Europe, Asia and some part of North America. At the same time, the Pioneer complexes of all modifications served mainly in the European part of the Soviet Union. The number of missiles deployed east of the Urals never exceeded several dozen. New missiles have replaced obsolete weapons in the military, such as the R-14 ballistic missiles.
It is known that over the years of service of the Pioneer complexes in the strategic missile forces, 190 launches were made. All launches took place without serious malfunctions or accidents and ended with the fall of warheads in the target area.
According to some reports, information about the appearance of new medium-range missiles from the Soviet Union caused a real stir in the leadership of the NATO countries. In the documents of the North Atlantic Alliance, the Pioneer complex appeared under the designation SS-20 Saber. In addition, it is known about the existence of the unofficial nickname "The Thunderstorm of Europe", due to the tactical and technical characteristics of the complex.
Having completed the development of the 15Zh45 rocket, the unification of several organizations led by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering began to improve this product. In August 1979, flight tests of the upgraded 15Zh53 rocket began. Testing and fine-tuning the rocket took about a year. In December 1980, the 15P653 "Pioneer-2" or "Pioneer-UTTH" ("Improved tactical and technical characteristics") complex with the 15Zh53 missile was put into service.
The first and second stages of the modernized rocket remained the same. All changes concerned only the control unit, which was located in the housing of the breeding stage. The use of new electronic equipment as part of the control system made it possible to reduce the CEP to 450 m. In addition, some sources mention the use of modernized dilution stage engines, which made it possible to increase the permissible distance between attacked targets.
In the mid-eighties, the USSR and the USA, realizing the danger of medium and short-range ballistic missiles, began negotiations, the purpose of which was to be a new international agreement. The result of these consultations was the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Short-Range Missiles, signed in December 1987 and entered into force in mid-1988. The agreement implied a complete abandonment of missile systems with a firing range of 500 to 5500 km. The RSD-10 / 15P645 / 15P653 "Pioneer" complexes fell under the contract, as a result of which their disposal began.
More than 520 Pioneer self-propelled launchers have reportedly been built over several years of production, although at the time of signing the agreement, only 405 launchers with 405 missiles were deployed. In total, the troops at that time had 650 missiles. In accordance with the agreement, by the end of 1988, the Pioneer complexes began to be removed from duty and disposed of. The last missiles, launchers and other elements of the 15P645 and 15P653 complexes were destroyed in the spring of 1991.
Currently, four launchers and TPK complex "Pioneer" are museum exhibits. Two samples are kept in Ukrainian museums: in the Military-Historical Museum of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Vinnitsa) and in the Museum of the Great Patriotic War (Kiev). Two more copies are in Russian museums: in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces (Moscow) and in the museum of the Kapustin Yar training ground (Znamensk). In addition, several 15Ж45 missiles became museum exhibits. The rest of the launchers and missiles were destroyed.
The Pioneer missile system was distinguished by its high mobility, it could be quickly brought into combat condition and re-targeted at higher priority targets. The range of the Pioneer missile is 5,500 kilometers. The warhead could carry a nuclear charge with a capacity of one megaton.
Source: Infographics: Leonid Kuleshov / Artem Lebedev / Nikita Mityunin / RG


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We reserved a private room to celebrate my boyfriend's 40th birthday. We had 12 people, our waiter Collin did not disappoint. Collin was so extremely nice, thoughtful, paid attention to detail, engaged, knowledgeable, any simply on point. Collin thank you for assisting my family in having an extremely enjoyable night, filled with priceless memories. The food was served timely, hot, and was very flavorful. The drinks were great too. This experience was worth everything that it took to make it happen, and the money. Collin, thank you and all the staff that assisted you. Keep doing what you do. Ocean Prime is lucky to have you on their staff. Vegetarian options: The vegetable tool was great. Kid-friendliness: They gave a kid Kenny that you have to request
Really excellent food. Delicious cocktails, appetizers (oysters and tuna tartare were the stars for us), filet mignon and lobster tail cooked perfectly. Also ordered mushrooms, garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus and hollandaise. Got a doggy bag for the leftovers and a peanut butter pie to go.
The reservation started well with a "happy anniversary" greeting and drinks and appetizers were handled well but it soon became apparent that our waiter was trying to handle too many tables. Then our attempt to order fish at a restaurant with "Ocean" in its name was just ok. Should have ordered a steak. Suggested sides were weak also. They seated a couple with a toddler next to us who needed to be in bed and we decided to call it a night. My expectations were too high I suppose.
Natasha had me well-fed and drinking beautiful cocktails! The twin lobster tails here are out of this world!
Excellent experience overall

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Two items of business to get out of the way first:
1. As I mentioned in last week’s Groove Tube Update, I’ve started a “spin off” column entitled “Mr. Coogan’s TV Q & A” where I answer (serious) questions from 411 readers about the television industry. Please feel free to continue to send questions and I will answer them when I can. However, I will say that as of now, I have enough research to do to fill up two columns, so it may take me a little while to address your question(s) in the column. To those that did ask a question, I’m researching the answers to your questions and will answer them in the form of a fresh column as soon as possible. Also, THANK YOU very much for coming to me with your queries. I’ll do my best to take care of business.
2. This past week was one of the busiest of the year for those working in network television as the annual “upfronts” took place. This is when the six major broadcast networks (or the three major networks plus ABC, the WB, and UPN depending on your vantage point) unveil their fall schedules for all to see with the idea that each network will show off their new shows or their old shows with new timeslots and, hopefully, sell a boat load of advertising time to sponsors as they see what new shows are coming up the pike.
While there are a load of intriguing new shows airing this fall (and beyond) and some interesting trends in the television industry, I’m going to save all that analysis for the next column I write when I’m not traveling and have more time to look at the new offerings and also explain at least part of the reason why the upfronts bother me.
In the mean time, an abbreviated, Groove Tube Update…
Hey “Angel” fans .THIS is why the WB pulled the plug on the show
While at the “Upfronts” in New York City last week, E! Entertainment Television’s star TV gossip columnist/reporter/critic Kristin Veitch actually got some one-on-one face time with the WB’s President Jordan Levin and asked him point blank why “Angel,” a show insanely popular with its hardcore, faithful fans, was tossed aside in favor of sketch shows led by comedians Jeff Foxworthy and Drew Carey.
According to Veitch’s May 21st column, Levin had this to say when faced with the extremely difficult question:
“The big problem with Angel is it didn’t repeat well. It wasn’t growing its audience, but it was a show we loved. We adored that show. It was a really hard decision. Joss Whedon came to me in February and said, ‘If you don’t think the show is going to come back, I’d rather know it now, so I can end it appropriately.’ When we looked at our schedule, with “Charmed,” “7th Heaven,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Angel” and “Smallville,” we realized we had a lot of veteran series. And one of the challenges of any schedule is to let your veterans retire so you can make room for the rookies, like “Jack and Bobby” and “The Mountain.” It’s a balancing act, and it’s not fun. That was a sad day.
So, there it is whether you like it or not, that’s probably as honest as a network executive is going to be about the cancellation of a popular television show. Two things stuck out at me in regards Levin’s statement. The first is pretty obvious and says a lot about the WB when compared to its big brother networks like NBC, CBS, and Fox:
The big problem with Angel is it didn’t repeat well. It wasn’t growing its audience, but it was a show we loved.
Considering “Angel” appealed to such a small audience (the type that likes well-written dramas, I presume ), it was imperative that this small dedicated audience try to attract more people to tune into the show and grow from there. Unfortunately, that never seemed to happen. Instead, the same small, devoted audience would tune in to watch the new episodes faithfully and blow off the repeats causing ultra-low ratings that weren’t being viewed by any new people. This isn’t to say that “it’s the audience’s fault Angel didn’t get huge ratings” but the point is without new people trying the show, it was destined to get canceled prematurely without the numbers to back it up.
The WB NEEDS to air repeats of their shows, because unlike the other four major networks, they don’t have the luxury to constantly debut brand new shows in place of repeats of the more popular shows. The network can’t afford to debut new series four times over a 12-month period. They pretty much need to rely on the traditional television season to add new programs to the prime-time schedule. If repeats of certain shows on the WB can’t garner a definite number of viewers, it hurts the network as a whole, where as NBC or Fox can simply debut new shows or in Fox’s case air another “American Idol” special like “American Idol: Simon’s colonoscopy” and still attract more than 10 million viewers.
Since the WB hasn’t had the financial success of the other networks (primarily because it continually lags behind in the ratings), it’s difficult to put up the money for additional series that will continually get low ratings and not be even in the same area code as profitable.
Also, consider this quote from the WB’s Jordan Levin in Veitch’s column:
We adored that show. It was a really hard decision. (“Angel” creator) Joss Whedon came to me in February and said, ‘If you don’t think the show is going to come back, I’d rather know it now, so I can end it appropriately.’
That really is a sign of respect that network executives had for “Angel” and its creators. In the world of network television where the clichÃ© question “What have you done for me lately?” doesn’t even begin to describe exactly why television shows get canceled, often with little, if any, warning. Maybe it has something to do with the cost of the show, not wanting to deal with actors or production staff, or the obvious reason, putrid ratings. Jordan Levin could have simply canceled the show and pushed up the debut of “American Idol” knock off/huge practical joke, “The WB’s Superstar USA” instead. However, Levin and his executives knew that despite the low ratings, “Angel” meant a lot to many people and the network allowed Whedon to wrap the show on his terms despite it being obvious the show was not going to be renewed for a sixth season.
Obviously, that “sign of respect” brings little consolation to committed and, now, upset “Angel” fans as the series hits reruns just as other high profile offerings like “Friends” and “Frasier” did this month. However, Veitch did try to offer “Angel” and fans of the WB some sort of solace by complimenting two new dramas the network is getting behind:
For the record, though, and I know you Angel fans might not be ready to hear this, but “Jack and Bobby” (a modern story very loosely based on the life of John and Robert F. Kennedy) and “The Mountain” (Basically, “The O.C.” on a mountain instead of on the beach) look phenomenal. Should you ever have the strength to watch the WB again.
Then again, according to Zap2it‘s Rick Porter, the Buffy franchise may not be dead after all. Porter said:
He’s talking with Dark Horse Comics about reviving the “Buffy” comic-book series and making that a place where the show’s mythology lives on. He’s also had a few discussions — although nothing more than that — about a TV movie or another spin off, which he says he’d only do if a cogent idea comes to him and he can assemble enough of the cast and crew to execute it properly. “I’d rather stop now than do anything by halves,” he says.
He also says, though, that “I just don’t believe that the Buffyverse is dead.”
A reality show that could have some harsh reality accompany it
Last week, saw the fifth season finale of ABC’s “The Bachelor” and New York Giants Quarterback, Jesse Palmer, choosing 22-year-old California law student, Jessica over Tara, the 23-year-old general contractor from Oklahoma. The two hour season finale featured all sorts of (stomach) twists and turns that started with Jesse taking both of his remaining ladies to Peyton Manning country, Indianapolis, IN, to meet his family, and in a bit of a surprise also have dinner with Jenny “The Spy” and her husband, Nick.
The evenings with Jesse’s family offered little of substance considering the split decision on who his parents liked more. Mom loved Jessica and Dad thought she may have been too young to take real life seriously. Meanwhile, Dad loved Tara thinking she was charming, open, and more affectionate than Jessica and Mom was put off by the fact that Tara was engaged once before and that her dad greeted Jesse with a shotgun. And for those wondering Jesse’s younger brother, Billy, a football player at Notre Dame himself, thought Jessica was the hotter of the two.
Before that, Jesse’s double dates with Jenny and Nick seemed to attract stronger opinions from Jenny anyway. Nick refused to offer any strong opinions on either woman for fear that he makes strong comments about one woman and Jesse picking the other creating awkward moments in the future. This cemented Nick’s status of either being a supreme wuss or one of the smartest, most diplomatic friends in the history of the male gender. I suppose that depends on your view.
In the meantime, Jenny offered slightly stronger opinions saying that she liked Tara all along, though she saw Jesse and Jessica as the stronger “couple” as opposed to Jesse and Tara. However, Jenny also turns the awkward switch on “high” when she tells Jesse that she wishes to remain close friends with Tara NO MATTER who she picks. After that, to show that there really are no boundaries amongst close friends, since Jenny already made things pretty awkward, she suggested that when Jesse and his lady love have sex for the first time, Jenny should be there to give pointers. Ugh.
After meeting with friends and family, Jesse returned to Los Angeles with both women to go shopping for engagement rings (speaking of the awkward switch being turned on “high” ). Both women show a keen eye for diamonds and state that they like a massive 3.5 carat rock. Jesse, at least acting like more than a pretty boy, picks that ring and charges it to ABC.
Jesse gets one more opportunity to go on individual dates with each woman, but neither is very telling as “The Bachelor” does a good job of not showing his cards leaving both women questioning what will happen. Jessica even gets upset with Jesse when he informs her that he hadn’t officially decided who he is going to choose in the final rose ceremony.
Finally, the end of the season finale comes and both women are intensely nervous, Tara especially is having a difficult time as she’s having a hard time keeping her most recent meal in her system. Ironically, as Tara’s stomach is turning inside out, Jesse is inside the glorious “The Bachelor” mansion telling Jessica that he is in love with her and wants to be with her. Interestingly, instead of giving Jessica the ring and proposing, Jesse slows things down and gives her a one-way first class plane ticket from California to New York City so they can be together. That’s a hell of a lot better symbol of being together than giving the “winner” a “promise ring” (Bob Guiney I’m talking to you. We’re not in 9th grade here What were you THINKING??).
After Jesse officially makes his decision, Jessica moves inside the mansion and watches Jesse “let down” Tara from a window above inspiring a creepy feeling reminiscent of Norman Bates’ mother. However, in the end, it’s Tara that looks like the psycho when the apprehension and nervousness she was feeling turned into rage as she yelled at Jesse and accused him of essentially leading her on. It’s good to see she took it so well. Actually, Jesse is probably happy that he didn’t wake up the next morning with Tara’s cowboy daddy thrusting the barrel of a shotgun down his throat.
Despite the tense moments, the show ends with Jesse and Jessica living happily ever after and getting ready to live their lives in the New York City area while Jesse continues his career with the New York Giants.
But is that move to New York going to be necessary?
According to New York City’s Daily News, Palmer could be in danger of losing his job with the New York Giants and forced to scramble and find employment elsewhere in another NFL town. As of now, it appears the team will be starting rookie #1 pick Eli Manning next year with a yet-to-be signed experienced veteran quarterback backing up possibly splitting time with the new rookie. In the mean time, Palmer will be competing to be the third (and last) quarterback on the roster with rookie free agent Jared Lorenzen, NFL Europe import, Ryan Van Dyke and highly sought after waiver pick-up, Kurt Kittner and “The Bachelor” is at a decided disadvantage because he makes the most money of the four. It’s safe to say, the team would rather spend that money and pay someone who isn’t a third string quarterback.
That’s where the real life drama begins
If the Giants end up letting Palmer go, will he get picked up by another NFL team? After all, he isn’t exactly widely regarded throughout the league for his playing ability. If he does get waived, and get picked up by another team, will his new lady love, Jessica, go with him? She’s started law school and from what’s been said publicly, appears to have every intention to finish and put that degree to good use. What if he has to take his “talents” to Canada and play in the clearly talent inferior, Canadian Football League (Sorry guys, but we all know it’s true )? Palmer was born in Canada and likes it there fine, but would Jessica want to leave the sunny California to live there? The real life drama here is FAR MORE intriguing than what “The Bachelor” producers put together (except for Tara vomiting all over the place and yelling incessantly that was gold ). I’m surprised ESPN or ABC hasn’t already gone after the couple to at least get a two-part special or even a full-fledged series following the two around. Wouldn’t it be comedic gold for “The Bachelor” host, Chris Harrison to interview Palmer as he talks about his NFL failures and exactly what he and Jessica are going to do next? All this after he was so sure he was staying, he gave Jessica a one-way ticket to the city where he thinks he’s going to be playing? I’m sure the word “amazing” wouldn’t come up in that conversation.
I’m going to go and giggle as I think about the possibilities
Until next time,
Enjoy the show!


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The coronavirus can remain on the outer layer of a face mask for a week, research from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has found.
Bacteria from COVID-19 can also stick to stainless steel and plastic surfaces for up to four days, the study, published in the medical journal Lancet, said.
The report is among latest research into the stability the coronavirus and what measures can stem its transmission.
Researchers found that popular household disinfectants, including bleach, were effective in "killing" the virus.
Their work included testing how long the virus could remain infectious at room temperature on different surfaces.
"Strikingly," the researchers said, the virus was detected on the outer layer of a surgical face mask after seven days.
The finding supports advice by medical experts including the WHO that people wearing a face mask should not touch the outside of it.
They caution that if you contaminate your hands from the mask, it can easily be transferred to your face or eyes.
And it also supports widespread advice that regular hand washing can help stop infections.
On all surfaces, the concentration of the virus reduced quite rapidly over time, the study said.
When tested on stainless steel and plastic, it was present for four to seven days, while it stuck to glass and banknotes for two days but was gone after the fourth.
The bacteria lasted less than three hours on printing and tissue paper.
When the researchers tested it on treated wood and cloth, the researchers found it was gone by the second day.

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