they can go through .22's like a beaver through soft wood.
I took 400 rounds along today, and my daughter went through most of it. She'd have gone through all of it if a: her hands hadn't tired out and b: I hadn't left the red-dot on the Trailside turned on and run the !**^%#! battery down. In the past, with daughter and son both along, we've gone through more than a brick along with some other stuff.
Speaking of which, I need to stick the spare in and get some replacements. Assuming I can find the spare.
It had been a while since she'd gone out to put some wear on her rifle, took her a bit to get the hang of it back. Pistol she's fired much more recently, started off pretty good there. So I need to get another brick for next time.
Ever hear some idiot newsreader tell-with Great Concern and Emphasis- how some guy must have had something bad in mind because he had an 'arsenal' of three guns and 'at least' 300 rounds of ammo? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I don't think I've got LESS THAN 4 or 500 for any firearm I own. I know I've got at least 2000 rounds of .22, because a: it comes in bricks(there's a name for a new blog, hmmmm) and b: you can go through so much of it. I just number the bricks and use them up in order.
Friend of mine was in Britain about two years ago, about the time some poor bastards were busted by the police with the aforementioned 'arsenal'. They hadn't done anything, but in New Socialist Nanny-State Britain it was assumed that there was no good reason- in the opinion of the assholes in charge- for anyone to have such a HUGE supply of arms & ammo. He said something about how stupid that was and the folks he was with asked- he having mentioned having a couple of Enfields- how much ammo he had? When they heard "About 400 rounds of .303" they were shocked; whatever would you do with such a stockpile? Apparently 'shoot it at the range and then get some more' just didn't make sense to them. Let's see, last big gunshow I got a case of 800-something rounds to feed the Mosin sniper and the M38, and a 440-round can of 8mm and the last 500-round pack of 9x18mm the dealer had. They'd have had kittens if they'd heard something like that.
Let's see, today I fired about 30 rounds of 7.5 Swiss, about the same of 8mm, about 40 of 7.62x54r, and a box of .380. Daughter went through most of 400 rounds of .22's(taking her time; nice, slow day at the range). Gee, I guess that makes us some of those 'People Who Should Be Watched' according to the bedwetters. Who can kiss my ass.
Let's see, a brick of .22... need to get some .284 brass and 7.5 dies... batteries, of course(find out where has best price)... Things to see, people to do, but at least the guns are already cleaned.


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"I received the recipe for this moist meat loaf in my high school economics class," recalls Lisa Malone of Cordell, Oklahoma. "At the time, I made it for my mom and dad. Now I fix it for my husband and daughter. We all love it."
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce, divided
- 1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup finely chopped onion, optional
- 1/2 cup finely chopped green pepper, optional
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano, divided
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1-1/2 pounds ground beef
- 1/2 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- In a bowl, combine the egg, half of the tomato sauce, bread crumbs, onion and green pepper if desired, 1/2 teaspoon of oregano, salt and pepper. Add beef; mix well.
- On a large piece of heavy-duty foil, pat meat mixture into a 14-in. x 8-in. rectangle. Sprinkle cheeses to within 1/2 in. of edges. Roll up, jelly-roll style, starting with a short side and peeling foil away while rolling. Seal seam and ends. Transfer to a microwave-safe glass 9-in. x 5-in. loaf pan.
- Microwave, uncovered, at 50% power for 9 minutes, rotating a half turn once; drain. Continue cooking on 50% power for 14-16 minutes or until meat is no longer pink, rotating a half turn once. In a bowl, combine the remaining tomato sauce and oregano. Pour over meat loaf. Microwave, uncovered, on high for 1-1/2 minutes. Cover loosely with foil; let stand 5 minutes before serving. Yield: 6 servings.
Originally published as Italian Meat Loaf in Quick Cooking March/April 2000, p35
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Durbar Square Complex of Palaces. The name of this city may not be as famous as Kathmandu. Patan is the 3rd largest city in Nepal. The city is famous for the arts and crafts traditions of wood, stone, and metal. Some of their works become interesting products such as beautiful statues carved by hand and other tools (https://knightsandsnails.com/dws779-vs-dws780/) found in the Buddhist and Hindu temples.
On Patan, you can visit the Durbar Square Complex of Palaces. You can see many temples standing there. You can also enter and see the 12th and 18th-century palace castles. This palace complex has been included in the list of places of world-historical and cultural heritage by UNESCO. For those who want to shop, try to stop by the Thamel Market.
This is the main city in Nepal. Kathmandu has several tourist attractions in Nepal that must be visited. One of them, Swoyambhunath Temple. Here, you can see the beauty of the temple as well as a beautiful view of the Kathmandu valley from a height. You can also see the Boudhnath Stupa, the largest stupa in Nepal with a height reaching 36 meters.
This stupa is also included in UNESCO’s world cultural heritage site. This stupa is the most sacred in Nepal for the people of Nepal. You can capture it on social media.
Nagarkot is famous for its beautiful sunset views. In addition, in the morning, you can enjoy the view of the sunrise against the background of Mount Himalayas. From here, you can also take a walk to the former capital of Nepal in the age of the 12th and 15th-century kings. There, you can also see some of the legacies.
Also take a moment to see Nyatapole Temple, the temple offering to Goddess Siddhi Lakshmi. This temple is one of many temples that still survived the 2015 Nepal earthquake.


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Macedonia /ˌmæsɨˈdoʊniə/, Macedonian: Македонија), officially the Republic of Macedonia (Macedonian: Република Македонија, transliterated: Republika Makedonija [rɛˈpublika makɛˈdɔnija] ), is a country in the central Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991. It was admitted to the United Nations in 1993 under the provisional reference of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, sometimes abbreviated as FYROM.
Religion in Macedonia
Macedonia is a Christian majority country, 64.7% of Macedonia's people adhere to the Orthodox Church. Islam is the religion of 33% of Macedonia's population, making it the country with the fourth largest Muslim population in Europe, after Kosovo, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
About 0.1% or less of the people of Macedonia are Buddhists.
- The Complete Book of Buddha's Lists -- Explained. David N. Snyder, Ph.D., 2006.
- Wikipedia article about the Republic of Macedonia.
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Released in July of 1980, AC/DC’s Back In Black is a hard-rock fossil that is bigger than a dinosaur as a place in rock history. By far the band’s trophy album, and is the 2nd best-selling album ever (behind Michael Jackson’s Thriller) with over 50 million copies sold, and reached #4 on Billboard 200. The record was recorded just 6 months after the death of their frontman Bon Scott due to an alcohol overdose, then replaced by Brian Johnson, and the result was stellar, not only for its hard-driving material, but the band’s inspirational determination to keep going.
Much of the record’s credit goes to Johnson whose brutal raspy scream gives the band their signature sound, coupled by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young on guitar, Phil Rudd on drums and Cliff Williams on bass.
The record opens with Hell’s Bells, a brooding bell tolls out a warning to be met by Angus’ ‘70 Gibson SG Custom, the rhythm section stomps in and Johnson wails away like a banshee extolling what hard rock dreams are made of, “I’ll give you black sensations up and down your spine/ If you’re into evil, you’re a friend of mine.” Along the same rock vein, track 2, Shoot to Thrill has Johnson screaming the virtues of virility, warning the lasses, “I’m the one who’s gonna make you burn”., Rudd’s sexy drum beat and the Young brothers bluesy rock riffs make this song strut, and truly “pulls the trigger”. Cut to track 4, Give The Dog a Bone, a rousing thumper that might be the most explicit song about oral sex ever written, “She’s blowing me crazy/till my ammunition is dry”, relies on simplistic drums and bass behind classic rock guitar licks and a shredded solo by Angus that gives it that head-banging thrill. Let Me Put My Love In You is pretty well self-explanatory, with Johnson presenting his ’johnson’ (for translation- johnson another name for penis) as the hero of the song, another rockers fantasy that gets a bit creepy, “Don’t you struggle/Don’t you fight”, but in the end seems to ask, “Let me put my love into you”. Angus’ pleading solo on this number is as tasty as ever.
The record is proud, pomp, arrogant, and levels both barrels of mojo right between the legs, which remains true to the genre, to their needs, (sex, drink and drugs) and their massive fan base.
The title song Back In Black, is considered a tribute to Scott, and maybe one of the best title rock tracks of all time. A song that kicks ass from top to bottom, it leans into the hard, heavy throbbing bass beat and drums, then a peeling solo, and back on track to a climactic conclusion. It’s hard to think of a bar, arena, strip club, or stadium in the world that doesn’t have this on the shelf, ready to go. And the next track You Shook Me All Night Long, the band’s first top 40 hit, is another anthem to the rock & roll lifestyle of sex, drugs, conquest, “She was a fast machine/kept her motor clean..knockin’ me out with those American thighs/taking more than her share/ had me fighting for air/she told me to come but I was already there…”.Malcolm Young shines on his 1959 Gretsch White Falcon, and brother Angus rips another wicked solo for good measure.
Back In Black has been described as the best ‘one-night-stand’ record in rock history (Allmusic) and you can’t argue with that. It’s simply timeless, a record that keeps giving it 38 years later. It was also praised by Paul Elliott of Classic Rock as “...not just the best album AC/DC ever made, it’s the best album anybody has ever made.”

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Premier Limited is engaged in the manufacture of automobiles and machine tools. The company has manufactured the widest range of commercial vehicles, which includes Premier Padmini, one of the popular cars in India. It manufactures commercial vehicles under the brands 'Dodge' and 'Fargo' for use by the defence department of the Government of India. They were the first company to introduce diesel taxis in Mumbai. Premier introduced the concept of Cool Cabs (A/C taxis) in Mumbai city and were the first Indian passenger car company to set up a Press plant. Premier manufactures machine tools such as special purpose machine (3-axes and 6-axes), CNC gear hobbing machine, horizontal machining centres, vertical machining centres and many more. The company markets their products under the brand name 'Cooper'. Under vehicles, the auto major manufactures cargo carriers, ambulances, tippers and pick-up trucks. The company markets them under the name Sigma Express, Sigma Lifeline, Tipper and Roadstar. Under engineering, this the company provides total solutions in the production process staring from raw material to the finish goods inclusive of machining–line boring, honing, broaching leak test, washing, etc.


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Imagine a loud ringing noise waking you up in the middle of the night and quickly realizing it’s your building’s fire alarm.
That was the case for hundreds of residents in a White Rock apartment this past weekend.
The fire initially started in a construction zone and caught reach of a nearby condo. All residents were forced to evacuate, with a large amount losing their homes.
One of the residents, YouTube user Messycars, captured a short clip of the evacuation, while also presenting the size and chaos of the blaze.
Given the of the fire, White Rock’s water resources were heavily taxed, leading to a 4-day water boil advisory.
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“Thank you,” the old man said. He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.” The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Humans lost their humility somewhere on the highway of time. We are too occupied with proving we are worthy of things and recognition which does not have any true meaning. Our hearts became empty empires where only the superficial longings can be found in the darkness.
What happen to the spirit? Where did the souls vanish? Our hearts are ghost towns and we are sadly proud of it. Blindly, we are trying to justify our ignorance to ourselves with delusion, ‘nothing can hurt us anymore’, just because we were disappointed, humiliated or hurt once upon a time. We pay more attention to the appearance rather than to the essence of anything and everything. We take care of our bodies and practice regularly, but do we take care of our souls and our hearts? If so, then how?
We miss something and we are not able to detect what exactly it is; we are ready to grab that ‘something’ in the moment we recognize it, but are we capable of acknowledgement? What will you say after you read that our eternal longing is the longing for the love of God? Feel free to deny. It is a personal choice. It is also a personal path. Those who seek shall find what they are seeking for. For me, existence of God is a fact. For others perhaps is not, but no one can deny the divine force of perfect order and movement in the Universe. Observe the nature! Stare at the sea. Admire it’s movement! Try to imagine what is under the surface that you did not have a chance to see on the documentary TV shows. Think about the known world and yourself. Think about all people before you and the ones who will come after. Think about your transience and feel proud to be part of harmonic cosmos. Think about others who are alike; think about those who are less lucky than you. Think about death as an essential part of a life. Nevertheless, think about the world as a master piece.
And you shall be able to understand the fragments and you shall find the path which will lead you back to your heart. The love you are looking for is also looking for you. The love is not only the significant person in your life. Neither religion is occupation for retired people. Love and truth are worthy of living and dying for.
Learn to overcome your ego. Learn to feel constant hunger for knowledge. Learn to obey and to be humble. Accept that each person has their inner small doubts and fears within their inner small cosmos, but also believe that everyone is worthy of love and respect. Embrace the religion you feel close to, or revive the one you were given when you were born, but you rejected afterwards. Trust in God and in yourself.
Pray, love and contemplate.

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Another alumnus of Coinbase has left the cryptocurrency industry unicorn for a smaller startup.
Vaishali Mehta, who worked as a senior compliance manager at Coinbase from November 2017 to November 2018, joined TrustToken last month as head of compliance, according to her LinkedIn (NYSE:) profile.
TrustToken, the company behind the TrueUSD stablecoin, confirmed the hire. Neither Coinbase nor Mehta herself responded to CoinDesk’s requests for comment at press time.
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By John L. Ross, Staff Writer
No raises for the city council — that’s what the Barbourville City Council unanimously agreed to during its regular meeting Thursday.
Prior to the vote, Leonard Lester, who attended the meeting, said council members should vote themselves for a raise.
“You ought to be compensated more,” Lester said, adding that doubling the salaries would be “more than reasonable for what you do for the community.”
Currently salaries for the council members are $1,200 annually. The mayor receives $12,000 annually.
“If we change, it affects the employees more than us,” Mayor David Thompson said. He explained that “it’s been tight the last couple of years (to) do the budget.”
He added that despite the hard times the city has faced, they still made it through “without cutting the budget” or services to the citizenry.
It was then asked whether or not a raise was affordable.
“(I’m) not saying we couldn’t afford it,” Thompson said, again adding the money for the budget “was really tight this year.”
He also added an increased salary may directly affect some of the current council members, even though the vote itself concerned “future” raises that would take effect years after the vote.
Council member Wilma Barnes motioned to keep the salaries at their current rate, and it was seconded by Council member Gary Williams.
In other council business:
— Mayor Thompson provided pictures for council members to review. The photos showed the wear and tear on the playground equipment at Thompson Park.
Thompson said the equipment was used when it was donated to the city in 2008, and now there “are several things wrong with it.”
He said there were a couple options for the council to review — both of which mean ultimately replacing the current playground equipment with new pieces. Thompson said they needed to vote to make the current equipment surplus, then either sell it outright or sell it through a government auction website.
Council member Ronnie Moore asked when the equipment was worth.
Thompson said they could possibly realize “a couple thousand dollars” if they chose to auction the equipment off through the government website.
Otherwise they may only get a few hundred dollars through a bidding process.
Council member Darren West motioned to surplus the equipment and sell it through the government website, and that was seconded by Moore. The council was unanimous in its decision.
— Mayor Thompson announced the Red Cross approved the First Baptist Church in Barbourville as a “safe haven” during emergencies which may strike the city. He explained that he and Fire Chief Doug Dozier attended a Local Emergency Planning Commission meeting to discuss ways to pull a community through a disaster, such as “tornadoes, fires, a bus or a plane crash.”
He said the Red Cross offered its “highest praises” to the church and said the church was “prepared and ready” to handle a crisis.
“This is good for the city,” Thompson said.
— Denise Wainscott, the new director of the Barbourville Tourism Director, announced the annual Barbourville Christmas parade, traditionally on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, will be moved a week ahead. She said all other Barbourville annual celebrations will remain the same, but it order to ensure better participation and attendance for the parade, it will be the second Saturday after the Thanksgiving holiday.
— Also discussed during the meeting was a homeless situation facing the city. While there are several places to house women who are or become homeless, there are no places for men to go. Homeless men have been found sleeping under bridges, in the ballpark and under overpasses. No action was taken on the issue.
— Council members did go into executive session “to discuss the sale of property.” The 40-minute closed session opened back up, but no decisions were reached during the session.
By John L. Ross, Staff Writer
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Hospital taxing district public hearing Friday
The Knox County Fiscal Court wants to form a taxing district to support the Knox County Hospital. But first they will have to hold a public hearing to see if there is approval or opposition to the plan.
Inmates charged for drugs
Drug charges came to 21 inmates at the Whitley County Detention Center this week after a week-long investigation by the detention center and the Williamsburg Police Department.
Whitley Fiscal Court passes its budget
The second reading of the ordinance for the Whitley County Fiscal Court’s budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year was unanimously passed during the court’s regular session Tuesday evening.
- Man indicted for detention center escape
Man indicted for five counts of first-degree sodomy
A man indicted in September for sexual crimes against a minor was indicted on more charges Monday in Whitley County Circuit Court.
Man indicted for Topix post
A man jailed after attempting to hire a killer online was indicted Monday in Whitley County Circuit Court.
Wanted man arrested after traffic stop
A man wanted in Pike County was arrested Friday after a traffic stop for speeding, according to Laurel County Sheriff John Root.
'God Speed and Blue Skies'
After the funerals of three of their crew members last week, it was time for Air Evac Lifeteam to remember Eddy Sizemore, Jesse Jones and Lee Dobbs. On Saturday morning the company did just that, during an emotional and moving memorial service in London.
W’burg approves new budget
While Williamsburg City Council members unanimously approved the new budget for fiscal year 2013-2014, Mayor Roddy Harrison let council members know cutbacks are likely imminent for future budgets.
As many as 45 jobs could be created by new business
Jobs may soon come to Williamsburg. During Thursday’s meeting of the Williamsburg City Council, Mayor Roddy Harrison offered few details about the potential new business, however, he did say as many as 45 jobs could be created.
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It definitely sounds like it is getting too much fuel. When you are holding the accelerator down to the floor, you are entering what is called clear flood mode. Basically this tells the PCM to cut the injectors off. If it is still not running on all cylinders then I suspect those injectors are still dumping fuel or there are other issues.
I would suggest starting with pulling the plugs and seeing if they are fouled. If they are wet or smell like fuel after cranking this way then it is still dumping fuel. The reason it starts this way is because it is getting fuel but when you cut the injectors, the plugs are able to fire with the remaining fuel in the cylinders.
Let me know what you find with the plugs and we can go from there.
Lastly, if it sat that long, I would put new plugs in it when you pull them all out since they are coming out anyway.
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- 1 cupWater
- 2 tbspWhite Sugar
- 1/2 tspSalt
- 2 tbspVegetable Oil
- 1 cupFlour
- 1/4 cupWhite Sugar (for coating)
- 1 tspGround Cinnamon
- Oil (for frying)
- 1In a saucepan, combine water, sugar, salt, and vegetable oil. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat.
- 2Remove the saucepan from heat and add the flour all at once. Stir vigorously until the mixture forms a smooth dough.
- 3Heat oil in a deep fryer or a large pot to 375°F (190°C).
- 4Fit a piping bag with a large star tip and transfer the dough into the bag.
- 5Pipe 4 to 6-inch long strips of dough directly into the hot oil, using scissors or a knife to cut the dough. Fry the churros until golden brown and crispy, about 2 to 3 minutes per side.
- 6Remove the churros from the oil and drain them on a paper towel-lined plate.
- 7In a shallow dish, combine the sugar and ground cinnamon. Roll the warm churros in the cinnamon sugar mixture until well coated.
- 8Serve the churros immediately and enjoy them plain or with your choice of dipping sauces like chocolate, caramel, or dulce de leche.
Step into a world of sweet indulgence with churros, a Spanish delight that captivates with its golden and crispy exterior, tender interior, and aromatic cinnamon-sugar coating. Churros have earned their place as a beloved treat enjoyed by people of all ages.
Creating churros starts with a simple yet magical dough, combining water, sugar, salt, vegetable oil, and all-purpose flour. This mixture is transformed into a smooth and elastic dough that is then piped into hot oil, creating those iconic long and ridged shapes.
As the churros sizzle and turn golden, their irresistible aroma fills the air, building anticipation for that first delightful bite. Once cooked to perfection, they are carefully rolled in a heavenly mixture of sugar and ground cinnamon, adding a touch of sweetness and spice.
Churros are incredibly versatile and can be enjoyed on their own or paired with an array of delicious accompaniments. Dip them into rich and velvety chocolate sauce, creamy caramel, or even fruity sauces for a burst of flavor. Each bite is a delightful combination of textures and tastes that will transport your taste buds to new realms of satisfaction.
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I was never a coffee drinker until I started my first full time job after college. Then I slowly started to feel like I could not survive without my morning cup. I gave up coffee at various times over the last few years because I didn’t always fee great after drinking it. But when I did give it up, I always missed the comfort of a warm drink early in the morning. I tried tea and hot chocolate but never really enjoyed them the same way I did coffee.
Recently I was given a sample of Cafe Cebada, a coffee alternative made from certified organic dark roasted barley. I had tried other coffee alternatives in the past so I was curious to see how Cafe Cebada compared. I was pleasantly surprised! Unlike the other “instant” substitutes, Cafe Cebada is meant to be brewed just like you would brew coffee. It filled my kitchen with a pleasant aroma while brewing.
And I made it just like I would make coffee – with a little sugar and a little half and half, and it was delicious! The best part was, it did not have that horrible after taste of coffee, and I felt good after drinking it too. (No caffeine side effects).
Their website lists some other tasty recipes using Cafe Cebada such as Gingerbread Latte Cebada, Iced Mochas, White Chocolate Latte and Nogged. These would make excellent party drinks for the holiday season.
If you are looking for an alternative to coffee or even just a healthy organic cold or warm drink, you should try Cafe Cebada. To learn more about the product and company and for those yummy recipes, visit www.cafecebada.com.


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The National Observer Pervasive disinformation around Canada’s voluntary fertilizer reduction plan makes it hard to have a rational discussion on this critical topic , Green and NDP MPs say.
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Investigation reveals Poilievre, populist and pro-natural gas groups spread fertilizer disinformation to whip up outrage against Trudeau
The National Observer Last month, a video was posted to Pierre Poilievre's Facebook page accusing the federal government of causing high food prices and driving farmers to ruin. The post on the Tory leader’s page laid the blame on "proposed fertilizer cuts" that would force Canadians into an "irresponsible" reliance on expensive imported food. The video was misleading. Story here.
The National Observer Days after signing a landmark $2.5-billion deal with the provinces and territories to subsidize Canada's farmers, federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she was betrayed by a cadre of conservative premiers. The leaders of the three Prairie provinces, who had supported the pact, echoed a far-right disinformation campaign linked to Canada's Freedom Convoy movement telling farmers the feds were going to force them to drastically curb fertilizer use. Details here.
truthdig - by Chris Hedges The greatest moral failing of the liberal Christian church was its refusal, justified in the name of tolerance and dialogue, to denounce the followers of the Christian right as heretics. By tolerating the intolerant it ceded religious legitimacy to an array of con artists, charlatans and demagogues and their cultish supporters. It stood by as the core Gospel message—concern for the poor and the oppressed—was perverted into a magical world where God and Jesus showered believers with material wealth and power. The white race, especially in the United States, became God’s chosen agent. Imperialism and war became divine instruments for purging the world of infidels and barbarians, evil itself. Details here.
Rural Manitobans need to stop electing Tories if we hope to make progress on climate mitigation. (Opinion)
by Larry Powell I believe we rural Manitobans need to do a deep “re-think” of how we traditionally vote if we want to do anything meaningful about our looming climate catastrophe. In my own riding of Dauphin-Swan River-Neepawa, for example, we're about to elect Dan Mazier (l.), to a four-year term as our Conservative Member of Parliament. While he wouldn't accept the label of " climate-denier" (he does use solar panels to help power his farm and has been endorsed by an environmental group), he’s still echoing on social media, his own party’s shrill opposition to the carbon tax. (In my books, this makes him a candidate for that label.) Despite the fact the tax applies to fossil fuels only, is refundable and exempts many farm fuels like the ones Mazier burns on his own farm, he a mazingly concludes, it will “increase the cost of almost everything!” In my mind, one cannot be a true supporter of climate action while opposing a price on carbon.
EcoWatch The U.S. Senate has passed a Republican tax-reform package that contains a provision to authorize oil drilling on the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, placing the biological heart of one of our last pristine, untouched places in severe peril. Story here. Barrenground caribou, Nunavut. Ansgar Walk photo. RELATED: Proposed oil development threatens yet another caribou herd.
Trump administration releases report finding ‘no convincing alternative explanation’ for climate change
The Washington Post The Trump administration released a dire scientific report Friday calling human activity the dominant driver of global warming, a conclusion at odds with White House decisions to withdraw from a key international climate accord, champion fossil fuels and reverse Obama-era climate policies. Story here. Another disastrous wildfire season in Portugal. Wikimedia Commons.
A/J Alternatives Journal by Bob Paehlke The election of Donald Trump is unlike any change in American history. It will transform America’s role in world politics. It is my view that Canadians should not pretend otherwise (however polite our government might choose to be in the diplomatic realm). Story here. Air pollutants from Texas used to be found in the Canadian Arctic. Will history now repeat itself?
Dear Larry, Join the resistance: Stop Donald Trump's attacks on our environment. Donate now! The election is over. Donald Trump is our next President. There is no sugar-coating this. Trump is a grave threat to everything we stand for. He could unravel decades of hard-fought victories for people and the planet.
by Larry Powell I hope we Canadians are resisting feelings of superiority while watching the horror show unfold before our eyes that is the U.S. election. If we haven’t done it ourselves, I’m sure we’ve seen others wag their fingers or click their tongues at that pitiful excuse for a “Commander-in-Chief,” Donald Trump. And rightly so. But make no mistake, he has his supporters right here in Canada, too. I just read a letter-to-the-editor from a fellow Manitoban, for example, which loudly proclaims “I think we desperately need a Donald Trump here in Canada!” Odd, isn’t it? Those words are eerily similar to these. “I think Donald Trump would be best for the job.” Who said that? That was the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the U.S. Beating the drum, as Trump does, for a wall on the US-Mexico border and a ban on Muslims, he wears his racism on his sleeve like a badge of honour. How this hateful, lying demagogue can attract supporters here in my country, or anywhere for that matte
Don't forget, Premier Brad Wall opposes a carbon tax but supports nuclear power and federal tax dollars to help the oil industry "clean up." He is not a leader we need in an era of profound and destructive climate change. We need, instead, visions for alternative energy sources other than fossil fuels. Nuclear is not one of them. (Read post directly below.)


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U.S. President Donald Trump is on the verge of being impeached for a second time in an unprecedented Home vote Wednesday, every week after he inspired a mob of loyalists to “combat like hell” towards election outcomes simply earlier than they stormed the U.S. Capitol in a lethal siege.
Whereas Trump’s first impeachment in 2019 introduced no Republican votes within the Home, a small however important variety of leaders and lawmakers are breaking with the occasion to affix Democrats, saying Trump violated his oath to guard and defend U.S. democracy.
The gorgeous collapse of Trump’s ultimate days in workplace, towards alarming warnings of extra violence forward by his followers, leaves the nation at an uneasy and unfamiliar juncture earlier than Democrat Joe Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20.
“If inviting a mob to revolt towards your personal authorities will not be an impeachable occasion, then what’s?” mentioned Jamie Raskin, the Maryland Democrat who helped draft the article of impeachment.
Trump, who would turn out to be the one U.S. president twice impeached, faces a single cost of “incitement of revolt.”
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The four-page impeachment decision depends on Trump’s personal incendiary rhetoric and the falsehoods he unfold about Biden’s election victory, together with at a White Home rally on the day of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, in constructing its case for prime crimes and misdemeanours as demanded within the Structure.
Trump took no duty for the riot, suggesting it was the drive to oust him, quite than his actions across the bloody riot, that was dividing the nation.
“To proceed on this path, I believe it is inflicting large hazard to our nation, and it is inflicting large anger,” Trump mentioned Tuesday, his first remarks to reporters since final week’s violence.
A Capitol police officer died from accidents suffered within the riot, and police shot and killed a girl in the course of the siege. Three different individuals died in what authorities mentioned had been medical emergencies. Lawmakers needed to scramble for security and conceal as rioters took management of the Capitol and delayed by hours the final step in finalizing Biden’s victory.
The outgoing president provided no condolences for these useless or injured, solely saying, “I would like no violence.”
Some Republican assist for impeachment
Not less than 5 Republican lawmakers, together with third-ranking Home chief Liz Cheney of Wyoming, had been unswayed by the president’s logic. The Republicans introduced they’d vote to question Trump, cleaving the Republican management and the occasion itself.
“The President of the US summoned this mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this assault,” mentioned Cheney in a press release. “There has by no means been a better betrayal by a President of the US of his workplace and his oath to the Structure.”
Senate Republican chief Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is claimed to be offended at Trump, and it is unclear how an impeachment trial would play out. Within the Home, Republican chief Kevin McCarthy of California, a prime Trump ally, scrambled to recommend a lighter censure as an alternative, however that possibility crumbled.
To this point, Republican Reps. John Katko of New York, a former federal prosecutor; Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, an Air Pressure veteran; Fred Upton of Michigan; and Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington state introduced they, too, would be a part of Cheney to vote to question.
The Home tried first to push Vice-President Mike Pence and the Cupboard to intervene, passing a decision Tuesday night time calling on them to invoke the twenty fifth Modification to the Structure to take away Trump from workplace.
The decision urged Pence to “declare what is apparent to a horrified Nation: That the President is unable to efficiently discharge the duties and powers of his workplace.”
Pence made it clear he wouldn’t accomplish that, saying in a letter to Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi that it was “time to unite our nation as we put together to inaugurate President-elect Joe Biden.”
With new safety, lawmakers had been required to move by way of steel detectors to enter the Home chamber, not removed from the place Capitol police, weapons drawn, had barricaded the door towards the rioters. Some Republican lawmakers complained in regards to the screening.
The impeachment invoice attracts from Trump’s personal false statements about his election defeat to Biden. Judges throughout the nation, together with some nominated by Trump, have repeatedly dismissed circumstances difficult the election outcomes, and former Legal professional Normal William Barr, a Trump ally, has mentioned there was no signal of widespread fraud.
Trump was impeached simply over a yr in the past for abuse of energy and obstruction of Congress for attempting to strong-arm Ukraine’s chief to assist harm Biden politically.

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Speculation is rife that French smartcard maker Oberthur could return to the field once its prohibition on bidding again runs out in December.
It mounted an aggressive campaign to buy De La Rue early this year but shareholders decided to give new CEO Tim Cobbold a chance to deliver a share price recovery.
Since then, Oberthur has raised cash and poached a senior De La Rue executive.
But with its takeover target seemingly on course for recovery, it could have to stump up more this time.
The firm’s price rose to 885p yesterday, not far below the maximum offer of 905p per share made by Oberthur last December.
A source familiar with Oberthur’s previous takeover attempt told City A.M. that a big increase on its offer price is very unlikely, suggesting that any attempt to re-enter the field could be short-lived.
Oberthur had argued that a recovery was unlikely after De La Rue saw a contract with a major client, the Reserve Bank of India, suspended last July.
However, yesterday De La Rue reported pre-tax profits of £29m for the six months to October, versus £24m for the same period last year, excluding a one-off gain of £46m last year from disposals.
Revenues grew 14 per cent to £238m. Cobbold also suggested that the firm could itself be acquisitional and has its eye on opportunities on the continent.


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We reported some time ago on rumors regarding a new Galaxy O series of smartphones. Well, we now have some specifics to report regarding the new series. The Galaxy O5 (under the model number SM-G550) has been cited in benchmarks, with the specs suggesting this will be a mid-ranger.
GFXBenchmark points to the Galaxy O5 as a device with a 5-inch, HD display with a screen resolution of 1280 x 720p, a 1.3Ghz, quad-core Exynos 3475 processor with a Cortex A7 chip, an 8MP back camera (7MP usually translates to 8MP when smartphones arrive on the market), 5MP front camera, with some of the usual features (minus NFC, interestingly enough). Both front and back cameras will have 1080p video recording capabilities, but the mere 1080p back camera video recording is far from the 4K Ultra HD video recording capabilities of the Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 4, and the new Galaxy S6 series and Galaxy Note5. The handset will arrive with Android 5.1.1 out of the box, but even Android 5.1.1 will be outdated by September 29th, when Google unveils Android 6.0 Marshmallow for the upcoming Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P devices.
The 900MB of RAM and 5GB of storage with the Galaxy O5 seems to hint at a low-end smartphone, but mid-rangers often have specs of both the low-end and high-end. The 5MP and 8MP cameras hint that this is a typical mid-ranger with specs from both ranges.


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Hi Damian, and all the boys from the Just Adam Band, apologies for only messaging you now, wow what a day we all had at my sisters wedding few weeks back..the lads were amazing, my family from Castlewellen, Newcastle , Australia, Boston, England and Belfast loved everything the singing, music, lighting outfits and atmosphere was just fantastic, the bands style of music is just brilliant, boys my sister and her new husband passes on their thanks for playing your part in making a wonderful day..thank you soMuch..Thomas
The Just Adam Band played at my daughter Eve’s wedding on Saturday...they are absolutely fabulous! Just Adam entertained in the afternoon too...amazing voice. We had guests ranging in age from 12 to 90 all on the dance floor all night long! Just a fabulous band made up of a bunch of friendly guys..highly recommend if you book this band you will be delighted! Thank you for such fabulous entertainment
I just wanted to say thank you so much for doing such an amazing job at our wedding. You were amazing and so many said how amazing you were! Everyone loved you and you had so many on the dance floor. Such a friendly, talented and amazing band. We had an amazing night and are definitely recommending you to everyone. Thank you again!!
Hi guys Sorry this is a bit late we have had a pretty busy few weeks!Well what can we say other than you guys literally made our wedding day into the best party possible! We have been to a lot of weddings and seeing the dance floor rocking and full like it was on our day seems to be very rare these days so for a bride who literally just likes to dance we couldn’t have picked a better band to party with! The song choices were just perfect! There was no waiting around you guys were so professional set up before we even arrived to the hotel and literally ready to go straight away when dinner etc was over! This meant there was no lull in our big day!Adam created such an amazing atmosphere getting down onto the dance floor to boogy with the guests!Then the smooth transition from band to do again was flawless! We could not have a asked for a better band for our wedding day! So from both of us thank you!!!
A shot my photographer captured when you played at our wedding on Lusty Beg Island.. you where all fantastic- thankyou ! X
A little late but a huge thank you to the band for playing at our wedding in April and to Adam for playing acoustic after the ceremony, brilliant singer and everyone absolutely loved it. Amazing atmosphere created by the band and got everyone up dancing! Big thanks to the DJ for playing our song requests, such a brilliant band and helped make the night so special.
Hi Adam!! just wanted to fire you a text to thank you and the boys so much for Saturday!! It was the best day of our lives and we want to say thank you for getting the guests to throw some mighty shapes on the dance floor!! All guests were raving about the just Adam band!!thank u xx
Hey guys...Just wanted to say a MASSIVE thank you to you all for the fantastic entertainment...you were...as always...brilliant and everybody commented on how amazing you were. So thank you for making our wedding day exceptional...Huge hugs
Thank you for an amazing evening last night everyone loved you guys definitely danced the night away!
Class act! Were absolutely brilliant at our wedding! - wouldn’t hesitate to book again for any future occasion!
Thanks so much guys for providing exceptional entertainment at our wedding. Fantastic night. Everyone had a ball. Highly recommend to anyone looking a wedding band. These guys are brilliant!
Thank you so much for rocking our wedding party last night!! Everyone loved you’s! All my stalking paid off!! Lol
Hi Adam, I just wanted to thank you for Friday night. I absolutely loved you’s and so did everyone else! You’s were brilliant
Hey Adam. Just wanted to thank you so much for Friday. You and the boys made it brilliant. The dance floor was full the whole night and don’t think I left the dance floor all night lol. Thanks again
Where do I start??? thank u and the boys for making our evening do AMAZING!! yas were defo the best band we could ever have chosen and I think the dance floor proved that!! thanks again buddy.
Just a note to say thank you so much for all your help towards making our wedding. EVERYONE commented on how great the Band and DJ were. I certainly enjoyed it as you saw! lol...
I booked The Just Adam Band for a corporate event on 20/Nov/2014 for 550 guests in the Titanic Centre, Belfast, the guys were Superb! Professional, Great Fun and had everyone dancing all night, the perfect end to the evening. They were really fantastic, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them for any event and will definitely book them again. Thanks guys.
We want to thank the Just Adam Band for the amazing music and night we had at our wedding! The dance floor was literally hopping the whole night, everyone had a blast and the wedding guests have been raving about the party & music ever since! We would like to mention how grateful we are to the guys for learning the music to our first dance in the run up to the wedding - it was performed to perfection! The music was simply amazing, Adam was great banter & up for the laugh. We would highly recommend the Just Adam Band to anyone getting married....or anyone who is doing anything that requires having fun & dancing the night away. Absolute legends!!!
Just wanted to thank you all for Saturday night! You were amazing, soo many people (old and young) commented that you were the best wedding band they had ever seen! We will be recommending you to everyone we know getting married! Xx
Amazing night at the Ballydugan Mill Adam, we danced our legs offThanks to you and the guys you really made our wedding
What a night Adam, they said you were good but that was amazing. Emma and I had a ball we couldn’t even get my granny back off the dance floor. Thanks a million mate. I hear you’ve already picked up 2 weddings from the day, send the commission to PO Box 14………LOL
If you need top class entertainment for any kind of function, you won’t be disappointed by Adam McKee. No idea what he charges but having seen him at Titanic, trust me... it’s not enough for the show he puts on!!


Kamareddy Independent Candidate Alleges Ill Response From RO!
Recalling her experience Bhargavi said that she went to the returning officer saying that the election symbol baby walker that was allotted to her is not visible in the EVMs properly.By: Tupaki Desk | 24 Nov 2023 2:03 PM GMT
The Kamareddy Assembly constituency which falls under the Kamareddy district is one of the four constituencies had become a sensation in the state with the upcoming elections. The reason for this is Chief Minister KCR is trying his luck here besides sticking to his Gajwel seat. So the constituency became a hot topic.
To take on the BRS chief, big leaders are also contesting from the seat. The upcoming elections in the constituency is expected to be intense with the fight between the giants. All eyes are on the Assembly constituency.
A few independent candidates are also trying their luck from the seat. Out of all independent candidates, one lady is grabbing everyone's attention who goes by the name Bhargavi. She is actively taking part in the election campaign activities and meeting the public.
Now she is in the news as she alleged that the Returning Officer spoke ill about her when she approached him for a complaint. Recalling her experience Bhargavi said that she went to the returning officer saying that the election symbol baby walker that was allotted to her is not visible in the EVMs properly.
"Saying that the symbol is visible properly, the Returning Officer said you look better than your symbol. People will vote for looking at you," Bhargavi said, quoting the RO as saying.
Her comments increased the political heat in the state. She asked if this is how lady contestants are treated. She also asked if they behave similarly to Kavitha if she is a contestant from the BRS.


By Attorneys Robert L. Reeves and Jeff L. Khurgel
In October of 2009, Congress made an important and much-needed change to immigration law by passing Section 204(l) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). This section of law allows one to apply for their Green Card even if their petitioning family member has passed away. In the past, only qualifying widows and widowers of U.S. citizens were provided with the remedy of obtaining permanent resident status when their spouse passed away.
Although Section 204(l) has been in existence for over one year, immigration officials have been slow to adapt to the new law. Because the new law creates such a broad benefit for a variety of individuals throughout the U.S., Immigration Officers have been understandably reluctant to interpret the new law too generously in light of the many situations in which it may apply. In light of this, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently released a Policy Memorandum which provides its Officers with clarification regarding exactly who can qualify for immigration benefits under the new law. Below, we discuss some of the highlights.
Section 204(l) permits immigration benefits for an applicant who is the beneficiary of a pending or approved family-based petition. Benefits can also flow to the derivative child or spouse of the beneficiary of both family and employment-based petitions, if other eligibility requirements can be satisfied.
• Example #1: If Father petitioned his adult or minor child, but Father passed away, the child may still immigrate.
• Example #2: If Grandmother petitioned Mother, but Mother passed away, the derivative Grandchildren may still qualify for benefits based on Grandmother’s petition.
• Example #3: If Company petitioned Father as an employee, but father passed away, the Children of Father may still qualify for benefits based on the Company’s petition.
Other categories of applicants; such as asylum seekers, their derivatives, and T and U status derivative beneficiaries may also qualify.
In order to qualify, the immigrant beneficiary must have resided in the United States when the deceased qualifying relative died and must continue to reside in the U.S. on the date of the decision on the pending petition or application. This does not mean that the immigrant must have been physically present on the exact day that their relative passed away. It means that the immigrant must have maintained a residence in the U.S. at the time of the qualifying relative’s death and up until a decision on the pending petition or application.
Under Section 101(a)(33) of the INA, a someone “resides” in the United States when their home in the U.S. is a “principal, actual dwelling place in fact, without regard to intent.” Thus, if the immigrant’s “residence” was in the United States at the required times, the immigrant resided here for purposes of section 204(l). The statute does not bar someone who was actually abroad when the qualifying relative died from proving that the aspiring immigrant still resides in the United States. This provision may prove useful for individuals who had been living in the U.S. when their family member passed away, but happened to be out of the country on the exact day when their relative passed away.
It is also relevant to note that Section 204(l) does not require the immigrant applicant to show that he or she was, or is, residing here lawfully. The concept of residence pertains to where someone maintained a primary living place, regardless of one’s immigration status.
As described above, the derivatives of a qualifying relative may qualify for benefits notwithstanding the death of the principal beneficiary (the derivatives’ parent or spouse). The USCIS Policy Memorandum clarifies the residence requirement on the part of the derivative beneficiaries. According to the guidance, the derivative beneficiaries can benefit if any one of the beneficiaries of a covered petition meets the residence requirement.
In a situation where a company petitions the father/husband in a family, and the father/husband passes away, only one of the derivative beneficiaries must meet the residence requirement. In this example, suppose the derivative beneficiaries consisted of a wife and three children. Suppose further that only the wife meets the residence requirement, while the three children do not. The USCIS makes clear that as long as one derivative meets the residence requirements of section 204(l), all of the children may immigrate to the same extent that would have been permitted if the father had not died. This provision is a significant benefit to many possible applicants and should be closely considered where multiple derivative beneficiaries are involved.
Reeves & Associates welcomes the recent Section 204(l) clarifications from USCIS. The new law may benefit many immigrant families seeking to reunite despite the death of a loved one. In order to understand whether a particular family or individual can benefit from the new law, a detailed consultation with an experienced law firm is recommended.


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Sensi #1318 CBD feminized seeds
Sensi #1318 CBD: A Blend Made in Heaven
Sensi #1318 CBD Seeds are created by the Sensi Seeds Research breeding project that’s a cross between Harlequin and Black Domina. Harlequin seeds are 75% Sativa and 25% Indica that are a mix of the legendary Colombian Gold seeds with a Nepali Indica, and a Swiss and Thai Landrace strain.
Black Domina is an Afghanica blend that combines Northern Lights, Hash Plant, Ortega, and Afghani SA. Together they produce an extra-extra high-yield crop in an average flowering time.
A Learning Curve for Growers
The CBD-dominant strain is an ideal choice for new cultivators that require low to medium maintenance to help the plants reach their maximum potential.
- Tall, skinny plants with oblong fan leaves, and a compact flower structure.
- Use 12 hours of light/12 hours of the dark with an outdoor temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit for optimal growth.
- Gently bend young plant branches using the Low-Stress Training grow technique to increase indoor yield.
Sweet Dreams with Sensi #1318
Sensi #1318 CBD combines the stress relief, energy, and euphoria from the Harlequin strain and the extreme sedation effects of Black Domina to create a perfect 1:1 THC/CBD ratio with a flowery scent and a strong, pungent flavor. The ideal combination offers pain-relieving properties without the intoxication and potential for paranoia or excess anxiety that can accompany a high-THC strain.
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With stellar participation of Joshua Garcia, Ivan Martinez and Mariel Mondragon-Becerra
Members of the Lazcano Laboratory attended the 2nd Annual South West Groundwater and Sustainable Agricultural Systems Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona. This event brought together teams of researchers from UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Fresno State, University of Arizona, and New Mexico State University to showcase their current projects and discuss the future of irrigated agriculture in the South West.
The Lazcano Lab team included members: Dr. Nall Moonilal (Postdoctoral Researcher), Sarah Brickman (PhD Student), and Raymond “Charlie” Reis (Junior Specialist). Each team member designed and presented a poster highlighting their most recent findings. Congratulations to Dr. Moonilal for his poster winning 2nd place amongst the postdoctoral researchers!
As a result of a workshop hosted by the University of Cadiz (Spain) in March 2023, our lab had the opportunity to work with a team of Spanish researchers to write this collaborative paper. In this article, we provide an overview of nature-based management strategies that may be used for the regeneration of the functioning and biodiversity of vineyards and that may also lead to improved plant nutrition, grape berry quality and the suppression of pathogens and pests. These strategies include the use of microbial and nonmicrobial biostimulants, fertilization with organic amendments as well as foliar fertilization with nature-based products, the use of cover crops and the reintegration of livestock in vineyards, especially sheep. We will also pay special attention to the implementation of circular economy in the vineyard in relation to the previously mentioned management strategies and will also discuss the importance of considering all these aspects from a holistic and integrative perspective, rather than taking them into account as single factors. Assuming the integral role of soils in the functioning of agroecosystems, soils will be considered transversally across all sections. Finally, we will argue that the time is now ripe for innovation from the public and private sectors to contribute to the sustainable management of vineyards while maintaining, or even improving, the profit margin for farmers and winemakers. The full article can be accessed here: https://doi.org/10.1002/sae2.12088
We are excited to announce that our 2022 paper ” Assessing the Short-Term Effects of No-Till on Crop Yield, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Soil C and N Pools in a Cover-Cropped, Biodynamic Mediterranean Vineyard“ was selected as the winner of the 2023 ASVO Viticulture Paper of the Year Award. Our paper was chosen by a panel of industry experts from research papers in the Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research. This award honours outstanding researchers where the potential application of their research to industry is deemed the most significant.
We are grateful to the ASVO for this recognition. This award gives a true purpose to the many hours spent in the field, analyzing samples, and data.
We would like to thank our industry collaborator in this work, Tablas Creek, and many other producers throughout the world, for pushing the envelope leading the charge on regenerative practices and redefining the meaning of success in the wine industry.
Thank you to the Healthy Soils Program of the California Department of Food and Agriculture for supporting our work. By supporting these unique partnerships between growers and researchers, this funding has helped advance our understanding of the potential of soils to mitigate the climate crisis under real life, commercial-scale conditions. This funding has also supported several early career scientists many of us from underrepresented groups.
This summer the Lazcano Lab participated in two of the most important conferences in viticulture and enology, the 74th ASEV National Conference in Napa, California on June 26 – 29, 2023, and the 22nd GiESCO (Group of International Experts for Cooperation on Vitivinicultural Systems) meeting at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., July 17-20, 2023.
At the ASEV Conference, Dr. Axel Herrera presented a poster with an overview of our current project on regenerative viticulture, titled ‘Assessing the efficacy of regenerative agriculture to sequester C and support soil health in vineyards ‘. The PhD candidate Noelymar Gonzalez presented part of her dissertation work in the poster ‘Assessing the variability of Soil Health indicators across California Vineyards‘. Noely received the best student poster presentation award for this work!
At the 22nd GiESCO meeting Dr. Lazcano presented a summary of the lab’s research over the last 6 years in the talk ‘Managing soil health in vineyards: knowns and unknowns’ and the PhD student Amanda Rodriguez presented the first results of her dissertation in the poster ‘Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Grapevine roots Across and Edaphoclimatic Gradient‘.
After many conversations with colleagues and lots of interesting talks, we feel more inspired and full of energy than ever!
Luisa Robles will be starting a MSc at Penn State this August to study temporal variability in soil health. She will be working under the supervision of Dr. Many Ann Bruns and Dr. Estelle Coradeau. Luisa started working with the lab back in January 2021 as an undergraduate student assistant and then continued to be our Junior Specialist for one more year after graduating in 2022. Upon graduation, she received a Citation for Outstanding Performance in Environmental Science and Management and a Department Citation in Land, Air, and Water Resources. During her time at the lab she also presented at two conferences and was awarded with the best poster at the 2021 SSSA diversity student poster competition. We are looking forward to seeing her achievements in her new role as a graduate student! Go Luisa!!


As the insurance market gets more competitive, insurers are using technology to improve service offerings. As of tomorrow, insurance will be digital, or it will not exist. Technology is especially effective in the insurance industry for attracting millennials and Gen Z customers who are more tech-savvy compared to the earlier generations.
ALSO READ: Top 8 Technology Trends That Will Drive Growth in the Insurance Industry
With the advent of technology, there is availability of data and as everyone is aware, the insurance industry thrives on this data. It is based on a simple equation i.e. better data leads to more accurate risk calculations which, in turn, leads to higher margins. Thus, data analytics plays an important role in insuretech.
Before we delve further into this, let us first understand what is data analytics?
Data turns into a strategic asset when you can actually put it to work. Data analysis is a process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modelling data with the goal of discovering useful information, inferring conclusions, and supporting decision-making. IDC Data Age predicts that by 2025, the total amount of digital data created worldwide would rise to 163 zettabytes.
How Does Data Analytics Benefit Insurers?
Data analytics tools can now collect data from a variety of sources – both internal and external – to better understand and predict the behavior of the insured. This leads to several benefits, some of which are listed here:
- Lead Generation: Unstructured data available on the web is a valuable source of lead generation. Data analytics of such unstructured data provides insurance companies with key insights into the customer behavior and market opportunities to up-sell and cross-sell.
- Enhance Customer Satisfaction: Using predictive analytics, insurers can quickly and accurately consolidate data and generate new insights regarding their buying habits and understand the needs/desires.
- Claims Prediction: Predicting the turn of events in the future is of paramount interest to the insurance industry. Being able to make accurate claim predictions helps to mitigate risks, gain competitive advantage, and reduce financial losses.
- Reduce Fraudulent Claims: Frauds are common in the insurance industry. Thanks to data analytics, there are ways to reduce the attempts of fraud by a considerable extent as the insurance companies can make use of the actionable data intelligence to figure out who may be a likely fraudster even before the fraud happens.
- Predicting Accurate Risk for Underwriting: Underwriting is a complex task for the insurers which can be simplified through data analytics. For example, the data trend coupled with telematics helps to predict a higher premium for a customer with rough driving pattern as compared to the customer with relatively safe driving pattern.
- Improve Claims’ Process: There are many customers who may complain that claim settlements often take a long time as there is a lot of analysis that needs to be done by the insurers. This process can be simplified with the help of data analytics leading to faster settlement, which means that customer satisfaction will also greatly increase.
- Provide Personalized Experience: Just like most other industries, personalization holds the key in the insurance industry as well. Customers are willing to avail services that best suit their needs and lifestyle and look for personalized offers, policies, loyalty programs, and recommendations. Data analytics provides insurers with valuable insights such as demographics, preferences, lifestyle details, interests etc., which enables them to provide highly personalized and most appropriate experiences.
- Accurate Pricing of Premiums: One of the major challenges faced by the insurance industry is to accurately calculate the premiums for each policyholder. By deriving actionable insights from data analytics and tracking individual policyholders’ behavior, the prices of the premiums can be set.
- Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) Prediction: CLV is predicted using customer behavior data which helps to determine the customer’s profitability for the company. Such data gives insights on the likelihood of customers’ behavior in maintenance or surrendering of a policy. It can also be leveraged for developing market strategies.
- Self-servicing of Policies: Insurers are offering a portal for policyholders to manage their own policies which takes a lot of work off their plate and makes customers happier as well. Such portal helps insurers to automate the process of making smart recommendations to customers right when they are looking for a new policy or making changes to an existing one.
Having good data is one thing; knowing how to maximize its usefulness is something else entirely. In recent years, as insurers have sought to become more relevant to their customers, they have realised the strategic importance of their data investments. Predictive modelling and big data have become the insurance industry powerhouses. Data-driven organizations are more likely to acquire new customers than their peers which is why going forward, more and more insurers will use data analytics to help forecast events and gain actionable insights into all aspects of their businesses.


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Contemporary Wales is stalled by ‘cultural narcissism and the atrophy of intellect’, writes Dai Smith
Ahead of an IWA panel event at this year’s Hay Festival, where Dr Rowan Williams, Professor Laura McAllister and Miguela Gonzalez will talk to Auriol Miller about the work of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales, we asked leading Welsh writers for their answer to the question: What kind of Wales do you want to live in? In this piece, Dai Smith suggests a cultural shift must precede constitutional transformation.
We have gazed into this crystal ball before.
In 1907 Thomas Stephens gathered eighty Welsh sages in a thick volume entitled Wales: Today and Tomorrow to second guess by prophecy the glorious future surely ahead of us. The Editor himself concluded, with a sidelong glance at ‘social problems… attendant evils and difficulties’ (aka a disturbingly novel and alien working-class population) that ‘a new race is appearing in Wales – a middle class, wealthy, manufacturing folk, not Anglicised, not spoiled (sic)…which might serve Wales splendidly.’ Oops. That’s just widespread industrial conflict, two world wars, global economic depression, grinding poverty and de-industrialisation to come, then, to ruin the Big Picture. Oh, and the concomitant rise of Social Democracy, root and branch, to counter the smug hubris of that past century’s dawning, and indeed that of this one.
We have to find the will within this Wales, here and now, to ditch the politics of Influence in favour, once more, of the influence of Politics
Drawing up a blueprint for a future Wales, whether in 1907 or 2023, is akin to moving the deckchairs on the Titanic before she sailed. The Governance of Things on a directionless Ship of Fools. Effective constitutional change always comes after the revolution in attitudes which it facilitates and never as a bells and whistles vehicle without wheels only fit for a society in stasis.
We are currently stalled by a contemporary cultural narcissism and the atrophy of intellect which values description more than analysis. In this a-historical perpetual present to which we have consigned ourselves we are all too ready to forget that our near past was lived out in a Wales that was neither a Brand nor a Team nor a Logo nor a Bucket Hat or any kind of name-changing Cymru.
Our overwhelming need for a meaningful connection between an actual past and a definable future will not be found in any mooning after a cosmetically emotive unity but rather in a mature acceptance of who we have been, in all our diverse complexity, within the borderlines of a geographical expression which we should be variously seeking, again, to fill with social purpose and communal vigour.
Gofod i drafod, dadlau, ac ymchwilio.
Cefnogwch brif felin drafod annibynnol Cymru.
Not policies, therefore, to be administered and formalities to be managed for us – but the politics of vision and of social transformation which we once manifestly created and possessed for ourselves. Our greatest rooted visionary, Aneurin Bevan, thought that informed public life required an educated citizenry for whom there would be ‘no conflict between a wide cosmopolitanism and a rich local life. The one gives meaning and particularity to the other’. He wrote that just before 1945 when the notion of constitutional tinkering came a long way down the list of his priorities for principled equality in all things, from health to education from welfare to aspiration, and all powered by the accessibility made potent and possible by a social democratic polity.
The latter is necessarily universal in reach and secular in stance. It is pluralistic in both intent and its outcomes. It should not be undermined, however understandable the reasons, by the fissiparous tendencies of all manner of identity politicisation which remains secondary to the common good.
Its endeavours were collective and must be so anew as we move on into an undoubtedly murky future of uncertainty and fear. We have been there before, as Raymond Williams told us in 1983 when, looking towards 2000, he recalled how communities of self-worth and intense loyalty, the one to the other, had been made from virtually nothing in the former mining valleys, and could be fashioned, but differently so, again: ‘I believe in the practical formation of social identity and how that has to be lived… It is by working and living together, with some real place and common interest to identify with, and as free as possible from extreme ideological definitions that real social identities are formed.’
As to whether they will flourish through struggle within a unified or federated UK state or via an independent Wales circumstances will dictate in due course, but first, we have to find the will within this Wales, here and now, to ditch the politics of Influence in favour, once more, of the influence of Politics. Remember there will always be icebergs ahead and to see them clearly we will need to be more Wide Awake than Woke.
Dai Smith’s Off The Track: Traces of Memory is now out from Parthian Books.
To join the IWA at the event on Wales’ constitutional future, buy tickets here.

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Secondhand smoke could be killing your pet, according to a new study from Tufts University’s School of Veterinary Medicine in Massachusetts, Colorado State University and other schools and reported by CBS Sacramento.
The reports indicate that this deadly smoke can cause lung and nasal cancer in dogs, malignant lymphoma in cats and allergy and respiratory problems in both.
According to Dr. Kerri Marshall, the chief veterinary officer for Trupanion pet insurance, the number of pets that die each year from tobacco exposure isn’t available, “but vets know from lab tests and office visits that inhaling smoke causes allergic reactions, inflammation and nasal and pulmonary cancers in pets.”
To hammer home the point, CBS shared the story of pet owner Shirley Worthington, who “rushed Tigger to the vet when the dog’s mouth started bleeding. When she was told he had cancer, she knew to blame her heavy smoking, an addiction she couldn’t kick until after her pet died.”
The site added: “Despite Worthington’s certainty about the cause of her dog’s death, more research needs to be done before veterinarians can definitively say whether a dog’s cancer was caused by secondhand smoke or something else, said Dr. Liz Rozanski, whose research at Tufts College focuses on respiratory function in small animals.”
Still, while pets weren’t mentioned in this year’s surgeon general’s report, they were said to be “at risk” when around secondhand smoke as recently as 2006. Also, The Legacy Foundation, the nation’s largest nonprofit public health charity, has encouraged smokers to quit “for the sake of their pets,” noted CBS, “and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals urged making homes with pets smoke-free.”
From the CBS report:
“It’s even more important to safeguard cats, which are more susceptible to tobacco smoke than dogs. Lymphoma is one of the leading causes of feline death. The Tufts research showed that repeated exposure to smoke doubled a cat’s chances of getting the cancer and living with a smoker for more than five years increased the risk fourfold. It can also cause a fatal mouth cancer.”
In other pet-related studies, it was found that pets could be harming their humans if they share the same bed.
That study cited one case of a 69-year-old man, whose dog slept under the covers with him and licked his hip replacement wound, coming down with meningitis. Another incident involved a 9-year-old boy who got plague, a potentially deadly bacterial infection, from sleeping with his flea-infested cat.
As for the secondhand smoke study, do you think smoking harms your pet and shortens its lifespan?
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Roland Hayes: My Favorite Spirituals
Thirty musical arrangements by noted African-American tenor recall biblical events in such well-known tunes as Deep River, Dry Bones, Steal Away, and Were You There? Perceptively written introduction to each song includes background history. Rich collection will appeal to lovers of great spirituals and the rich legacy of African-American song.
Reprint of My Songs: Aframerican Religious Folk Songs Arranged and Interpreted by Roland Hayes, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1948.
- - Editor: Hayes, Roland
- - Pages: 144
- - Year of Publications: 06-22-2012
- - Instruments: Piano Accompaniment, Voice
- - Arrangement Format: Mixed Songbook
- - Language: English
- - Genres: Spiritual
- - Level: 3
- - Media: Sheet Music
- - Publisher: Dover Publications
|Contributors||Hayes, Roland (Editor)|


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The support structure of tire inspection apparatus is provided with a parallelogram system which permits the structure to be elevated to an inspection position and lowered to a loading position. A ramp is associated with a pair of parallelogram system legs at the forward end of the support structure to facilitate loading of heavy tires.
1. Tire inspection apparatus comprising a support structure including means for supporting and rotating a tire in an upright position, said support structure further comprising means for spreading apart opposed bead regions of the tire to facilitate inspection of the tire, said support structure being movable from a lowered, loading position to an elevated, working position, said supporting structure having a forward end over which a tire is loaded thereon, a ramp positioned at the forward end of the supporting structure to facilitate loading the tire on said structure, a parallelogram system of arms for guiding movement of said support structure between its loading position and its working position, said ramp being connected to and movable with said parallelogram system of arms.
2. The inspection apparatus of claim 1, further characterized in that said parallelogram system of arms comprises a first pair of arms pivotally connected to said support structure and having their opposite ends extending toward the forward end of the structure and a second pair of arms pivotally connected to said support structure near the forward end of the structure and having their opposite ends extending forwardly of said structure, said ramp being connected to and movable with said second pair of arms.
3. The inspection apparatus of claim 2, further characterized in that said first and second pair of arms have their opposite ends pivotally connected to a frame.
4. The inspection apparatus of claim 2, further comprising at least one pneumatic cylinder for raising and lowering the support structure.
5. The inspection apparatus of claim 2, further comprising more than one pneumatic cylinder for raising and lowering the support structure.
This invention is concerned with facilitating the inspection of the interior of a tire casing, particularly truck tire casings, prior to retreading.
Numerous machines have been devised for supporting a motor vehicle tire in an upright position, spreading opposed bead regions of the tire to expose its interior to inspection, and rotating the tire to progressively inspect the interior of the entire tire carcass.
One of the earlier such machines is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 1,863,764, granted Jun. 21, 1932, to W. G. Prentice for "Tire Machine". This machine supports the tire in an elevated position above the floor at a comfortable working height for the person inspecting the tire. Such an arrangement, although possibly satisfactory for inspecting lightweight passenger car tires, places a tremendous burden on persons trying to lift a heavy truck tire onto the machine.
It was inevitable that some inventor would devise a mechanism for assisting the operator inspector in lifting the tire onto the inspection machine. U.S. Pat. No. 4,160,537, granted Jul. 10, 1979, to L. A. Severson for "Tire Spreading and Inspecting Machine" discloses a pneumatically powered lift for this purpose. Another approach to solving the problem of lifting heavy tires is represented in U.S. Pat. No. 3,542,340, granted Nov. 24, 1970, to J. Peisl for "Apparatus for the Control and Examination of Wheel Tires". This inventor separates the tire support and rotating apparatus from the bead spreading apparatus. The support apparatus is made movable from a lower, loading position to a raised, inspecting position by mounting it on a pneumatic lift. Unfortunately, this considerably complicates the construction of the bead spreading apparatus inasmuch as it must be moved out of the way of the tire as the tire is elevated.
Arne Hjorth-Hansen in his U.S. Pat. No. 4,678,163, granted Jul. 7, 1987, for "Tire Handling Apparatus" discloses another approach to tire inspection. Hjorth-Hansen incorporates the tire supporting and rotating apparatus in a fairly low profile box which also supports the bead spreading apparatus. Because the tire supporting structure is a fairly short distance above the floor, the inventor suggests that the tire can be bounced onto the support over a forward protruding edge member. This maneuver can be awkward with very heavy truck tires.
Lastly, in an inspection machine identified as the Branick AH/RI, manufactured by Branick Industries, Inc. of Fargo, N.D., a ramp member is pivotally hung to the front of the support structure to assist in loading the tire onto the support. The ramp serves no useful purpose when the tire is in place and elevated to working height.
This invention contemplates housing the tire support and rotation apparatus in a fairly low profile support structure. This structure also supports and contains apparatus for propelling the bead spreading apparatus. A parallelogram arm system is provided for guiding the support structure between a lower, loading position and an elevated, inspecting position. A ramp structure which is physically associated with portions of the parallelogram arm system not only makes it possible to roll large, heavy tires onto the support structure when the latter is lowered, but also assist in guiding and supporting the support structure when it is elevated.
The invention is described in greater detail hereinafter by reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of tire inspection apparatus embodying this invention;
FIG. 2 is a frontal elevational view of the apparatus with the tire support structure in an elevated, inspection position;
FIG. 3 is a partial side elevational view of the apparatus shown in FIG. 2 with portions broken away to show the interior; and
FIG. 4 is a side elevational view of the apparatus with the tire support structure in its lowered, loading position.
Referring particularly to FIG. 1, the tire inspection apparatus there depicted includes tire support structure 11 having a pair of rollers 12 in an upper region thereof. Rollers 12 provide supporting surfaces for a tire resting on the rollers in an upright position. Drive means (not shown) housed in support structure 11 rotate rollers 12 under control of the inspector to effect rotation of the tire during inspection.
Support structure 11 is movable between the lowered, loading position (shown in FIG. 1) to an elevated, inspection position (shown in FIGS. 2 and 3). In the latter position, a pair of spreader arms 13 are swung into the tire casing and moved apart by a drive mechanism (not shown) in support structure 11. When the spreader arms are pulled apart, they spread apart opposite regions of the tire beads as shown in FIG. 2 to expose the interior of the tire for inspection. The drive mechanism for the rollers 12 may then be energized to rotate the tire and permit progressive inspection of the entire inner walls of the tire casing. If desired, a light tree 14 may be provided above the support structure 11 to illuminate the interior of the tire.
As thus far described, the tire inspection apparatus of this invention operates pretty much like some of the prior art machines referred to previously. This invention is particularly concerned with providing a low cost, reliable mechanism for facilitating the placement and removal of heavy truck tires on the support structure 11.
In accordance with this invention, a ramp 16 is provided at the forward end 17 of support structure 11. Further in accordance with this invention, this ramp 16 is structurally associated with a parallelogram system of legs for guiding the support structure 11 in movement between its lowered, loading position and its elevated, inspection position.
Referring particularly to FIGS. 3 and 4, this parallelogram system includes a first pair of legs 18 (only one of the pair appears in the drawing). The first, or rear, pair of legs 18 has one end of each leg pivotally connected at 19 to the support structure 11 near the rear end thereof. The first legs 18 extend forwardly with respect to the support structure 11 and have their opposite ends pivotally connected at 21 to a stationary structure such as a frame 22. The parallelogram system also includes a second, or front, pair of legs 23 (again only one of the pair being shown in the drawings). This second pair of legs 23 have one end of each leg pivotally connected at 24 to the support structure 11. Legs 23 extend forwardly of the support structure 11 and have their opposite ends pivotally connected at 26 to the frame 22.
Ramp 16 is structurally connected to the forward pair of legs 23 by means of side plates 27 which are welded or otherwise affixed to the legs 23 and the ramp 16. Arrangement is such that any movement of front legs 23 is accompanied by a like movement of ramp 16. Moreover, ramp 16 and side plates 27 serve to reinforce and strengthen the legs 23 and the legs do the same for the ramp. There is thus provided a reliable ramp 16 structure utilizing a minimum of material for achieving maximum strength and rigidity. The ramp 16 is thereby able to absorb and withstand repeated blows from heavy tires being rolled onto the support structure.
It will also be observed that with the support structure 11 in its lower, loading position (FIG. 4) in which the ramp is used, both pairs of legs 18 and 23 of the parallelogram system act through the frame 22 and the support structure 11 to resist unwanted rearward movement of the ramp during tire loading. This contributes to the reliability and safety of the apparatus.
Any suitable power mechanism may be used to raise and lower the support structure 11 as guided by the parallelogram leg pairs 18 and 23. The preferred mechanism is that illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4 wherein at least one pneumatic cylinder 28 and preferably a second pneumatic cylinder 29 are pivotally connected to the frame and, respectively, to the support structure 11 and the ramp side plates 17.
When air is introduced into cylinders 28 and 29, the support structure is elevated to its inspection station. When air is allowed to escape from the cylinders, the support structure descends to its loading position. Movement in both directions is guided by the parallelogram leg pairs 19 and 23.
The use of more than one pneumatic cylinder 28 and 29 permits the size of the individual cylinders to be held to a minimum.
From the foregoing, it should be apparent that this invention provides reliable tire inspection apparatus capable of handling large truck tires with a minimum of effort on the part of the inspector.


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Marine Anthropogenic Litter
by M. Bergmann, L. Gutow, M. Klages
Publisher: Springer 2015
Number of pages: 456
This book describes how man-made litter, primarily plastic, has spread into the remotest parts of the oceans and covers all aspects of this pollution problem from the impacts on wildlife and human health to socio-economic and political issues. Marine litter is a prime threat to marine wildlife, habitats and food webs worldwide.
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This book covers the principles of technologies for the control of pollution originating from organic wastes and the recycling of these organic wastes into valuable products such as fertilizer, biofuels, algal and fish protein and irrigated crops.