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Three Fort Campbell soldiers, nine other men charged after guns in pipeline traced to Chicago mass shooting
Federal authorities issued new indictments against three Fort Campbell soldiers, adding nine new defendants, in connection with an illegal gun pipeline to Chicago after firearms found at a mass shooting scene in Chicago were traced to Middle Tennessee purchases, the Nashville U.S. Attorney's office announced.
Demarcus Adams, 21; Jarius Brunson, 22; and Brandon Miller, 22, all enlisted members of the U.S. Army stationed in Clarksville face multiple federal charges in the case. Eight of the additional defendants live in Chicago, while the ninth is from Davenport, Iowa.
Guns traced to the group have been connected with multiple shootings including a 2021 attack that left one person dead and multiple others wounded in Chicago’s Southwest Side. Two people alleged to be part of the gun-running outfit died as a result of gang violence facilitated by firearms illegally moved to Chicago.
All three soldiers were initially arrested in May 2021 by ATF agents and agents of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division, said Acting U.S. Attorney Mary Jane Stewart for the Middle District of Tennessee. The new indictments were issued Wednesday, according to a news release.
Each solider, and the nine other men, are charged with transferring a firearm to an out-of-state resident; making false statements during the purchase of a firearm; engaging in the business without a firearms license; wire fraud; money laundering; and conspiracy to commit Title 18 offenses, according to a criminal complaint.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois will handle the initial court hearings for all defendants before they are transferred to Tennessee for future hearings.
Investigation of the firearms began in March 2021 when Chicago police responded to the mass shooting. The shooting took place on the 2500 block of W. 79th Street, court documents show.
Multiple firearms were recovered from the shooting scene and five of the firearms were found to have been recently purchased from Federal Firearms Licensed dealers in Clarksville, court documents show.
Further investigation, the complaint continues, identified Adams, Brunson and Miller as the majority purchasers of these firearms.
A broader investigation into firearms transaction records determined that since September 2019, the men had purchased 91 firearms from multiple federal firearms dealers in Clarksville; Oak Grove, Kentucky; Hopkinsville, Kentucky; Fort Campbell, Kentucky; and Paducah, Kentucky.
After the firearms were purchased, Miller would provide them to people he was associated with in Chicago, investigators claim in the criminal complaint.
A federal search warrant was executed at the Clarksville home of Miller and Adams.
There, 49 empty firearms cases were discovered — many of them matched to firearms recovered by the Chicago Police Department at the scenes of recent shootings and homicides, the complaint noted.
The government asked the court to detain Miller pending a further detention hearing, which a magistrate judge approved. The hearing has been set for Friday.
Adams and Brunson were released to the custody of their units and must remain on Fort Campbell as well as avoid excessive alcohol and firearms.
Prosecutors claim Miller led the effort to transport the guns and noted he is currently facing court martial proceedings through the military base related to an alleged sexual
Court documents go on to show agents noted on April 7, Miller and a different Chicago area code phone number had the following text exchange:
- From Miller: “We gotta hold this shit together ima still play the back role g I ain’t never turning my back on gang whatever got going on y’all ina door wit me stand on business ima stand on my business to make sure mfs got what they need.”
- From Chicago phone number: “Sayless."
- Later on the same day; from Miller: “We gone win this *war* we losing the battle but this a marathon not a race.”
Investigators did not share further details of who Miller may have been communicating with or the context of the messages.
As Miller "faces significant civilian and military justice charges and has very few, if any, connections with the Middle District of Tennessee, the defendant would pose a significant flight risk if he were released," prosecutors argued in the motion to detain him filed Tuesday.
If convicted, under federal law, the men each face up to 20 years in prison.
Tennessean reporter Mariah Timms contributed.
Natalie Neysa Alund is based in Nashville at The Tennessean and covers breaking news across the South for the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at firstname.lastname@example.org and follow her on Twitter @nataliealund.


McDonald's has fired CEO Steve Easterbrook due to what the company described as a "recent consensual relationship with an employee" that violated company policy.
Easterbrook, who became CEO in 2015, "demonstrated poor judgment involving a recent consensual relationship with an employee," McDonald's said in a statement.
He has been replaced by Chris Kempczinski, with immediate effect. Kempczinski, who joined McDonald's in 2015 and was most recently president of McDonald's USA, said in a statement that he is "energized by this challenge" and looks forward "to guiding McDonald's continued success."
In an email sent to McDonald's employees, Easterbrook expressed regret over the relationship.
"As for my departure, I engaged in a recent consensual relationship with an employee, which violated McDonald's policy," Easterbrook wrote. "This was a mistake. Given the values of the company, I agree with the board that it is time for me to move on. Beyond this, I hope you can respect my desire to maintain my privacy."
He also said that his time as CEO "have been the most fulfilling years of my working life."
The board said it is confident in Kempczinski's ability to lead the company.


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Happy sweater weather, oona-naut! What are you reading as the colors turn? We're leafing through the following:
• Every aesthetic movement needs its bard, & life in the suburbs is no exception. Check out our (r)'s interview with Stephen Burt about his new book, Belmont (Graywolf, 2013), over at Bookslut.
• We're pretending David Shook's Our Obsidian Tongues (Eyewear Publishing, 2013) is a notebook Jerome Rothenberg lost on his way back from the field. ("The sun rises each morning without human sacrifice./The misery of the city is enough" (13)).
• We read Vijay Seshadri's 3 Sections (Graywolf, 2013) in the heat of summer, & we still can't shake this poem:
On our first date, I told my wife
I was a lesbian trapped in the body of a man.
Everybody says that now, of course,
on TV and radio, alternative media outlets,
tattoos and bumper stickers, but this was long ago, when
none but the brave (who deserve the fair)
would come up with something like that.
She smiled the pleased and goofy smile that flowers in her big eyes,
and I thought I had her.
Looking back now, though,
I can see her appraisal of me rounding to completeness.
I can hear her cognition firing.
She knew it. She knew even then
the truth it has cost me the aeons to acquire,
climbing and climbing the broken stairs:
I'm a man trapped in the body of a man.
I clutch the smooth walls and see through his eyes
the oil fires and containment units,
the huge clawed gantries strung out on the twilit polar horizon.
Through his alloyed ears, I hear
the objects of his scorn, his compassion, his hatred, his love
crying out and crying out.
Half my arms are his arms.
Half my face is welded to his face.
The other half mouths his clumsy ironies.
"Life is war," he says.
"Tragic," he says. "Tragic."
The simulacra are marching everywhere,
and deep in the caves the chimeras are breathing.
Hey, Vijay. (May we call you Vijay?) Elizabeth Bishop & Philip Larkin called. They want their collaborative poem back.
• It's fitting that we came to Kristina Marie Darling's Melancholia (An Essay) (Ravenna Press, 2012) a little late, invested as it is in Romantic refractions, in ephemera, in the postscript and the footnote, in definitions & redefinitions. ((("you were like bits of broken glass/when the jewelry box shattered//night & the ocean's coldest shore" (2).)))
• Speaking of cross-genre experiment, we're fascinated by Martha Ronk's Transfer of Qualities (Omnidawn, 2013), a book of prose poems that crosses over into experimental criticism. ("Hamlet refers to 'the book and volume of my brain,' and with the one word, 'volume,' points simultaneously to books as volumes of written words and to the volumes of space inside the globe of his skull. The oscillation of the two meanings, between the 'book' as mentally conceived and the book as an object to be picked up and held, a thing to be read, the volume Ophelia, as directed by her father--'Read on this book, that show of such an exercise may colour your loneliness'--lures him with, makes a reader of the play helplessly intimate with this character who is as mere words as unreal as the clouds he sees as camels or at least says he sees, an insubstantial pageant" (35). Exegesis as the only thing that's truly lyrical? You're preaching to the choir.
• & while we're heading back to school (see! we told you, you can trust us), let's not forget Ciaran Carson's IN THE LIGHT OF (after illuminations by arthur rimbaud) (Wake Forest University Press, 2013), the kind of literary/critical homage we wish we could (let ourselves) write. It's a translation of a translation in the tradition of Spicer's After Lorca--"I've brewed my blood. Paid all my dues. I really do come/from beyond the tomb. Commissions? That I've done" (34).
Our trend forecast? Poetry is/as criticism, translation, & afterthought. A new identity politics. The best of the bad modernisms making a comeback. Plaid & lace. However you pull it all together, school's definitely in session.
R & (r)
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Jane Austen lived here slash didn't like it.
But, as I hope we've established by now, I'm not Jane Austen.
I picked up Carrie Etter's The Tethers (Seren Books, 2009) & a self-published chapbook by James Anderson called Zebra Skin (ephemera & Rimbaudelairianism being among my many weaknesses).
Perfectly curated Mr. B's Emporium of Reading Delights, my new favorite bookshop
(the cozy chairs tell you everything you need to know)
Can somebody tell me what "glocal" means?
I liked Anderson's pamphlet/chapbook most for its postcard-like qualities ("I tied a lock to the bridge and writ J & Bath" & "Bath is a dream from which I never wake") & for its cross-genre staging of textual encounters ("The stranger had a single espresso and rested a selection of books on the table [...] she understood herself at a wholly new angle, which would not have happened had she been with someone familiar").
Speaking of, I was so glad to encounter Carrie Etter's book, which articulates its own timid, reluctant, almost logistical faith:
[...] Poseidon, the presumably
not arbitrary god who saved them.
[...] so I listened
with dismissive boredom
and watched the girl who spoke
of souls in all creatures
breaking pencils in her lap one by one
through a once inexhaustible supply.
bank to bank: there is no universal
for what keeps us aloft, but O
I cherish it.
All day, each day, the world was at dusk,
the change of light incidental.
When at last I walked to the postbox, afternoon
was everywhere. I had decades to live.
Dear (r), skepticism can be pretty gorgeous, no?
I read Anderson & Etter (& also Austen (The Watsons)) on the lawn in front of the Royal Crescent. There was a guy with an aggressively loud boom box, so I also listened to some classic reggae hits.
Did the Romans read in the bath?
& then I left on a train. That's pretty much it. Tell me where you're headed next.

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At the ongoing NATO Brussels summit and the Trump-Putin meeting following right after, there will be one issue that can make all the difference between a success and failure: the ability to resolve the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) crisis.
The landmark deal removed an entire category of ground-launched weapons with a range between 500 and 5,500 kilometres, both conventional and nuclear, from Europe. The crisis arises from mutual allegations on non-compliance. The United States accuses Russia of testing and deploying cruise missiles banned by the deal. Moscow repeatedly denies these allegations. It also formulates counter-accusations of US non-compliance, including those concerning US missile defence interceptor launchers in Europe.
Even though Washington and Russia agreed to “work to preserve and strengthen” the treaty at the latest meeting of a commission tasked at resolving questions of compliance in December 2017, the future of the accord is in serious doubt. The ongoing NATO Brussels summit and the subsequent Trump-Putin meeting, if handled correctly, can change the fate of the treaty and pave the way for future arms control agreements.
Europe—partner in response. Although the deal is bilateral in nature, Washington expects its NATO allies to support a common solution to bring Russia back to compliance. At a top-level meeting in Brussels, U.S. defence chief James Mattis set the ongoing NATO summit in July 2018 as a deadline for the Europeans to make up their minds.
The stakes are high for Europe as the arms pact is a key pillar of European—not American—security. If the INF collapses, Russia could deploy an unlimited number of ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles that would mainly threaten all of European territory. Such development would further increase the potential for miscalculation and escalation in the already tense relation with Moscow.
Keeping the INF in limbo is not viable in the long term either—at least not for US domestic and foreign policy. And the US administration already eyes solutions which are not only highly divisive inside the Alliance, but could potentially further destabilise European security.
Additionally, ambiguity around the INF is destructive of trust in traditional arms control. It is highly unlikely to negotiate future agreements with the INF remaining unsolved. At the same time, by having the largest nuclear weapon arsenals, U.S. and Russia are key in pushing the global nuclear disarmament agenda forward. As such, there is no way around the INF.
Put Russia to a diplomatic test. In the communiqué, NATO should brake the stalemate and unanimously support the United States offering transparency measures on its ballistic missile defence system in Europe, provided Russia moves on its missile. Being the first to make an offer would prove the sincerity of one’s conviction that it was INF-compliant and that the other side was not. This would give moral and negotiating high ground, build pressure on the other side for transparency, and strengthen the credibility of its position in Europe. As technical measures to refute bilateral allegations are on the table and are known to both concerned parties, it is solely a matter of political good will in Washington and Moscow to resolve their compliance concerns.
Refuse implausible military solutions. European allies should decline those US proposals of military coercion against Russia that have little potential to plausibly bring the Kremlin back to compliance.
The US Defence Department’s plans to review development options for a tit-for-tat ground-launched intermediate-range missile system and to reintroduce of nuclear sea-launched cruise missiles simply lack credibility.
While the Donald Trump administration still did not launch its own strategy on missile defence, Congress tasked the Pentagon to direct additional missile defence capabilities towards Russia. This, however, would be problematic to those European NATO allies which agreed to a missile defence system under the condition that it will be specifically not pointed to Russia.
And since Moscow believes that by fielding ballistic missile defence and offensive capabilities in Europe and East Asia, Washington wants to increase its superiority over Russia, additional military measures introduced by the U.S. would probably fuel Moscow’s sense of being under siege and thus lead to a Russian military counter-reaction.
Be ready to threaten with credible sticks. This is not to say that military measures should not be pursued at all. NATO is currently waging options to strengthen the credibility of US extended nuclear deterrence for Europe and further improve its conventional offensive response capabilities. These measures make sense for wider deterrence purposes and signal seriousness of intent. And if Russia does not take the transparency bite, NATO should be ready to implement some of them. Yet it needs to be clear to all Europeans that these means would not defend Europe from non-compliant Russian cruise missiles.
Helsinki Summit. Right after the NATO Summit, President Donald Trump will meet with President Vladimir Putin on a one on one talk in Helsinki. The two leaders will discuss US-Russian relations and a range of national security issues. President Trump wants to determine whether Russia is willing to make progress in the bilateral relationship. INF could be the ultimate test of Russian seriousness and sincerity.
While it would be profoundly unwise and undesirable to link extension of the New START Treaty to the fate of the INF, President Trump should nevertheless privately, and supported with the NATO communiqué, undertake a “deal”. If Moscow could satisfy US concerns about the alleged missile by–say–the end of 2018, then President Trump would not further delay over the New START extension.
If successful, President Trump could add the INF as another peace trophy to his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, President Putin would reopen the door to stabilise relations with the West, while Europeans could at least check one issue out of their concern list.
The opinions articulated above also do not necessarily reflect the position of the European Leadership Network or any of its members. The ELN’s aim is to encourage debates that will help develop Europe’s capacity to address pressing foreign, defence, and security challenges.


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LPG tanker blast in Turkish port kills one crewmember, injures 15
The vessel was anchored in the Petkim petrochemical plant operated by the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR when the incident occurred.
“At Petkim Pier 5 around 23:20 (2020 GMT), a fire broke out due to an unspecified reason during the connection to the Italian flagged Synzania for the filling of liquid hydrocarbons,” Petkim said in a statement.
“As a result of the immediate intervention of our teams, the fire was extinguished and cooling work on the ship is continuing,” it added.
All the injured are now out of hospital, the company said.
SOCAR said an investigation into the fire was ongoing.
Operations at the Petkim plant and SOCAR’s STAR refinery were continuing, it said. ■

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The conventional wisdom has it that if you want to commit a crime with a cell phone, use a prepaid model. That’s what a woman in California did to get back at her ex-boyfriend and his sister-in-law, by sending harassing text messages to herself and then reporting them to the police. The plan fell apart, however, when her victims hit the pavement to find proof that they were being framed.
According to the Orange County Register, both the ex-boyfriend and his sister-in-law were arrested on false charges of making criminal threats (three times in the sister-in-law’s case) before they were able to expose the woman.
[In 2008] she took out a pre-paid cell phone in his sister-in-law’s name, and started sending the threatening text messages to her regular cell phone.
Her scheme was uncovered when the victims went to the phone store, talked with the salesman and learned that [the woman] had bought the pre-paid phone.
During a follow-up investigation, the detective discovered that most of the threatening text messages were sent when the pre-paid cell phone was in close proximity to [the woman’s] home or work.
Last week, a jury convicted the woman of three felony counts of false imprisonment and two misdemeanor accounts of making a false police report, and the judge sentenced her to a year in jail. She also has to pay the victims $50,000.

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A man walking his dog recently near Capena, in the countryside to the north of Rome, came across what appeared to be a strangely shaped stone. When the dog sniffed it the stone turned into a very aggressive alligator terrapin, a small example weighing 2 kg (they can grow to 200 kg) but none the less very dangerous. The alligator turtle is a native of Missouri in the United States where there are public notices that warn of the danger of these beasts. The man who found the terrapin says that a few days ago he saw a five-metre long snake which could have been a either a boa or an anaconda, in the same area.
It is illegal to keep many kinds of exotic animals, birds and reptiles in Italy, and it is thought that someone with a small private zoo may be releasing these examples from captivity rather than be fined for keeping them illegally.
The dog survived his unpleasant experience and the alligator terrapin has been taken to a specialist centre belonging to the World Wildlife Fund.


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Four Westmoreland churches united last Saturday attracting many from far and wide.
Packed with games, attractions, entrees and deserts, the Community Fun Day held at Zion Baptist Church in Tucker Hill featured primarily Westmoreland County congregation members from Community of Light Ministries, and Baptist Churches of Zion, New Jerusalem and Potomac.
Pastor Paul Jones, of Zion Baptist Church, referenced the Bible stating “We are all one body in Christ.” He believed the message helped organizers collaborate for the community fun day.
“I hope that this will be just a start and will continue not only this day…but any kind of outing that each other has,” Jones said.
Pastor Gerald Smith said even before Saturday’s event, the Lord called for all people to unite.
“We’re just trying to fulfill the mandate that the Lord has established through his word and manifestation of uniting together for fellowship, fun, family, friends and just having a wonderful time in the Lord,” Smith said.
It wasn’t until later in the afternoon that Smith was pushed in the dunk-tank from behind by his good friend Pastor Caroll Wilson of Community of Life Ministries. Wilson was pleased to see the effort in joining the churches together.
“A community is built on people loving and reaching out to one another. That’s what it is all about,” Wilson said.
If anyone knows about pulling resources and helpers together it’s the Northern Neck’s 2012 Volunteer of the Year Daisy Howard Douglas, a title voted on by the regional public earlier this year.
“Everywhere around the huge yard, I saw smiling, happy people wearing bright new T-shirts that represented their churches,” Douglas said, representing St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Hague. “The young children were elated with the many games and array of delicious food and cold drinks were greatly appreciated by everyone.”
Potomac Baptist Church, another church minister in Hague is led by pastor Carey Parker. “It’s great for fellowship, great for bringing the community together and more powerful for the children,” Parker said. “They need to see we can get together and enjoy one another in a setting such as this. It’s a blessing.”

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The Function of Painting as a Visual Language (Djoko Pekik Trilogy Analysis)
Painting is a language expression that is expressed by artists through symbols or visual signs. Painting does not only reveal beauty, but also the role of symbolic language that will be realized by artists. The role of symbolic language in paintings is very influential to imply meaning, both denotation and connotation. Painting in general certainly aims to convey an unlimited message, it can be a social criticism, a historical record, and can also be present as an appeal. The message conveyed depends on what he wants to convey. So the focus of this study, how the role of painting as a visual language is realized through the symbols in the painting. This study uses the literature study method which is reviewed from some previous literature which is used as a sample or reference. The formation of visual language began in cave wall paintings, pictographs, and contemporary paintings such as the Djoko Pekik trilogy. Every painting shows that humans are able to express something through pictures or paintings.
Keywords: Painting, Visual Language, Djoko Pekik Celeng Trilogy.
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MARKY RAMONE ARTICLE IN JAPAN ON JANUARY 19,
Article was released in Daily Yomiuri (Japan) on January
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Marky Ramone living proof of punk
Article is by Les Coles
Thirty years ago, the Ramones released a self-titled debut album that lit
the fuse on a stick of audio dynamite that exploded into the punk
revolution. Ever since then, music critics periodically have taken
pleasure in proclaiming that "Punk is dead."
Thirty years on, in a basement club called Pink Noise in Futako Tamagawa,
western Tokyo, surviving member Marky Ramone is taking an equal amount of
pleasure demolishing that statement with a high-energy set of 20 Ramones
songs that had the audience frantically pogoing.
Marky, who spent 15 years and 11 albums behind the Ramones' drums and was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 along with the
original four--Johnny (guitar), Joey (vocals), Tommy (drums), and Dee Dee
(bass)--is the last of the Ramones on the road, for alas, some parts of
punk are dead: Joey died of lymphatic cancer in 2001, Dee Dee succumbed to
a drug overdose in 2002, and Johnny lost his battle with cancer in 2004.
"Johnny went through living hell, and Joey never lived to see the band
inducted into the Hall of Fame," Marky reflected sadly in the dressing
room prior to the start of a seven-day tour of Japan.
It is partly in memory of his bandmates that Marky continues to perform
"The Ramones were the first," Marky asserted. "We were doing it before
And how. The Ramones rocked the house and they rocked the boat. They
punctured the self-indulgent egos of arena rock superstars, and they
taught the Brits how noise annoys and helped kindle the flame of anarchy
in the U.K.
Asked whether he thought the Sex Pistols had snuck in and taken the money
and run, Marky replied: "Anyone can say 'f---' on television; we just
never felt the need to do so. We'd already been doing it for a couple of
years. But I don't resent it."
He added that he isn't upset that another generation of punk bands, such
as Rancid, Offspring, Green Day, are also making it.
"It keeps it alive. It just continues. It never stops." Marky said, adding
that he plays new punk along with the old on his program on Sirius
But the main reason Marky continues is the fans.
"We play Ramones songs because that's what the kids want to hear," Marky
said. "The songs are too good not to be played. A lot of kids weren't
around when the Ramones were together. This is their second chance."
One such kid at Pink Noise on Sunday was Yoko, who was in grade school
when the Ramones broke up, but has been a fan ever since her teens.
"Finally, I'm going to see Marky Ramone," she exclaimed.
The latest Japan tour is Marky's fourth since the Ramones split up but
breaks new ground in that he is performing a Ramones-only set backed by
two Japanese punkers, Stone Deaf guitarist Yukio Yamamura and bandmate
Kojiro Akai on bass. "There's Ramones fans everywhere in the world who
grew up on this music because it's so much fun to play. So we can always
get good local bands," Marky said.
But he is taking no chances with vocalists, and has made David Brooks a
fixture. Having had to step into a pair of pretty big Converse sneakers,
Brooks did a stellar job Sunday, belting out classics such as "Beat on the
Brat," "Blitzkrieg Bop" and the great Dee Dee classic "Poison Heart."
"It's amazing. It's a dream for me. I grew up listening to this music.
They're great songs, they're anthems," Brooks said.
Demand for these tributes to the Top 40 7-inch-vinyl songwriting aesthetic
keeps Marky busy handling the Ramones vast back catalog. A tremendously
prolific band, the Ramones produced 21 studio and live albums from the
moment of their inception in Forest Hills, N.Y., in 1974 until their
2,263rd and final concert, in Los Angeles on Aug. 6, 1996.
The latest offering, "Weird Tales of The Ramones," is a mammoth three-CD,
one-DVD boxed set, containing 85 songs and 18 videos that comes bundled
with a full-color comic-book complete with 3-D glasses. Not surprisingly,
it is up for a Grammy next month, as is the End of The Century documentary
on the band.
All of which argues most convincingly that punk is not dead.


Your RV tires read max. 50 psi and you have aired them up to 50 psi thinking that you have set them at the right inflation and pressure. But wait! Why does the trailer behind your vehicle suddenly feel very shaky and starts bouncing when heavy vehicles pass by? It happens because the travel trailer tire pressure is incorrect. Maximum tire pressure does not mean that you have to inflate the tires at that pressure.
Finding the Correct Tire Pressure for Travel Trailer
Maintaining the correct tire pressure is critical for ensuring road safety. Replacing a damaged or blown-out tire is costly and a bad tire can cause accidents on the road too. To slow out the wearing rate, you have to inflate them to correct psi.
The psi is specified to the tires depending on the weight carrying capacity of a travel trailer. Somewhere inside the vehicle, you will find a label mentioning the maximum psi. The label might be missing in some motorhomes. In that case, check the owner’s manual or contact the dealer to get the right information.
The tire’s sidewall displays ratings including the information regarding the tire pressure. If the tires come with the trailer, then the psi on the sidewall and inside the vehicle will be the same or have a slight difference.
What Is the Correct Travel Trailer Tire Pressure?
How do you know what is the correct camper tire pressure? There is no definitive answer. Different travel trailers require different tire pressures. Plus, the psi ratings could be different based on the tire types.
What is the average recommended trailer tire pressure? The tire pressure of most travel trailers remains between 40 and 65 psi. The ratings are for trailers that weigh somewhere from 1,500 lbs to 15,000 lbs. Remember that you don’t have to set the psi at this range. These are just average figures.
Finding the Right PSI for Your Trailer
How do you choose the psi when the trailer tires say, suppose, max. psi 70lbs? Every tire manufacturer publishes a tire load and RV tire pressure chart. However, not everyone is skilled enough to calculate the precise inflation pressure from the load and psi tables.
The trailer’s front left corner is likely to have a Federal Certification Tag or label, displaying GVWR, GAWR, and tire inflation pressure. This pressure is determined according to the weight of the trailer. This is accurate if the vehicle does not have to carry any extra weight. But this is not possible as the vehicle will carry load and passengers.
The inflation pressure etched on the tire’s sidewall is the maximum amount of inflation for a tire given that it is carrying a full load. The sidewall also carries information about the tire’s max load range.
When the vehicle is not overloaded, the air pressure in the tire should be somewhere between the numbers mentioned on the Federal Certification Tag and the tire’s sidewall. You should never exceed the maximum pressure molded on the sidewall.
To maintain the ideal travel trailer tire pressure, you should ensure that both ends of the axle have the same inflation pressure.
In case if you are replacing an old tire, you should check whether the psi on the new tires is similar to the old ones. Also, the psi of the new tires should not be less than the number mentioned on the trailer’s tag. The tag’s pressure indicates the minimum that the tires should have to carry the trailer’s weight. Pressure lower than that the tires will not be capable of bearing that load. On the contrary, if the psi is higher than the old tires, the trailer may not ride ideally.
RV Trailer Tire Pressure Tips
Following these tips will help you maintain the right travel trailer tire pressure and avoid accidental over-inflation.
- Never set a tire pressure because another RVer or your neighbor has set it. Two trailers are always different and the tire pressure is related to the vehicle’s weight capacity and the current load.
- Always refer to the owner’s manual when you need to find out the recommended tire pressure and maximum weight capacity.
- Purchase a good-quality RV tire pressure monitoring system for real-time report/warning about tire pressure status.
- Don’t pull a motorhome with under-inflated tires. The air pressure should never be less than the amount needed for the bulk placed on the tires.
- The tires should never have less pressure than what’s mentioned on the certification tag. No matter how heavy a load you are carrying on the trailer, the pressure should be equal or more than the number mentioned on the tag.
- The psi mentioned on the sidewalls indicate the maximum tire pressure. Never inflate the tires more than that recommended pressure.
By understanding the right tire pressure for your travel trailer/RV, you can ensure the safety for your family in RV camping trips!


Crash diets around Christmas time aren't exactly new - but for Sally - it could mean a whole new life. - She weighs a whopping nine stone and is one of the biggest ever taken into Bridgend Dogs Trust and she isn't going to be easy to rehome. Tom Sheldrick has been to meet her.
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Mumbai: Eight civil rights activists and academicians currently in jail in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist relationship case moved the said court on December 21, seeking modification of the Bombay High Court’s order denial of bail earlier this month.
The accused have moved the High Court claiming that the order denial of bail to them is based on a “factual error”. The accused include Sudhir Dawle, Varavara Rao, Rona Wilson, Advocate Surendra Gadling, Professor Shoma Sen, Mahesh Raut, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira.
A bench of Justices SS Shinde and NJ Jamdar granted bail to advocate and civil rights activist Sudha Bhardwaj on the ground of technical snag. However, the bail applications of eight other accused were rejected on the same ground.
According to the report, the bench had observed that these eight persons did not exercise their right to seek default bail in time, while Sudha Bharadwaj had filed a petition before a Pune court seeking 90 days to file the chargesheet. Default bail was sought as soon as the period expired. These eight had delayed filing their applications.
The Elgar Parishad case was earlier with the Pune Police and is now being handled by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
However, on December 21, the eight accused approached their counsel R. Satyanarayanan that the decision to deny him default bail was based on a ‘factual error’.
They said Dhawale, Wilson, Gadling, Sen and Raut had filed default bail pleas before the Pune sessions court on September 26, 2018, after the 90-day period of their arrests and charge sheets were yet to be filed. .
He said that he was arrested on July 6, 2018 and the first chargesheet against him was filed on November 15, 2018. He had filed his default bail plea in time, but the hearing is still pending before the sessions court.
Gonsalves, Rao and Ferreira told the high court that they had applied for default bail on November 30, 2018, just four days after Bharadwaj filed his application in a Pune court.
He told the High Court that the Pune sessions court, through a general order passed on November 6, 2019, had dismissed Bhardwaj’s default bail applications along with a similar plea.
“The date of arrest of the accused (Gonsalves, Rao, Ferreira and Bharadwaj) is the same and all the accused had preferred the application for default bail and hence are equal,” the plea said. The accused (Gonsalves, Rao and Ferreira) have been denied the relief granted to Sudha Bharadwaj due to a factual error.
As per the law, once the maximum period from arrest i.e. 60, 90 or 180 days, has been provided for investigation in the case and no charge sheet is filed, the accused becomes entitled to be released on bail, which It is called default bail.
The High Court will next hear on the subject on December 23.
The Bombay High Court had granted bail to 60-year-old Sudha Bhardwaj on December 1 and released her from jail on December 9.
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Nothing sounds so dull — even for most environmentalists — as sand mining. But in India, reports of sand mafias cashing in on the country’s construction boom have lately been making headlines. Last month, the issue went viral — a 17-year-old girl named Kavya in a fishing village in the state of Kerala posted a video on a mobile phone app about how excavators and dredgers had invaded her coastal community. “The land beneath our feet is sinking away,” she said. It became a sensation across the country. Bollywood actors backed her, and now the country’s National Green Tribunal, a government body aimed at settling environmental disputes, is to consider the case.
Sand mining is the world’s largest mining endeavor, responsible for 85 percent of all mineral extraction. It is also the least regulated, and quite possibly the most corrupt and environmentally destructive. So could this be a turning point?
In recent years, as I have traveled the world looking at environmental issues, sand mining has kept appearing out of the corner of my eye. Always there, but rarely the main story. While in Kerala in August, researching the environmental factors behind recent floods, I found that sand is dredged from local rivers 40 times faster than the rivers can replace it. Riverbeds have been lowered by around 6 feet as a result.
A month later, in Ethiopia’s Rift Valley, while visiting the Abijatta-Shalla National Park, I watched as trucks drove into the park and loaded up with sand destined for building sites in Addis Ababa, 100 miles away. It was illegal, but park officials shrugged their shoulders.
China is estimated to consume more sand in three years than the U.S. consumed in the entire 20th century.
In Cambodia, researching land grabs in the western province of Koh Kong, I drove past three local estuaries where dredgers, organized by real estate tycoon and politician Ly Yong Phat, were extracting vast amounts of sand for land reclamation projects in faraway Singapore. Sand mining concessions in national parks and internationally recognized wetlands were killing mangroves and sea grasses that were home to Irrawaddy dolphins, green turtles, and hairy-nosed otters, one of the world’s rarest mammals.
Sand and gravel are mined on a huge scale around the world. But few global data are collected on this activity. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) estimated that the total exceeds 40 billion tons a year. But its estimate had to be based on a proxy: cement manufacture. Every ton of cement requires six to seven tons of sand and gravel to make concrete.
Concrete is the predominant use for sand. But sand also makes up 90 percent of asphalt on roads. It also is used for land reclamation in places like Singapore. And it is widely used in industries such as glass manufacturing and fracking, where it forms part of the gritty mixture injected underground to fracture shale deposits and release natural gas or oil.
Around 60 percent of sand use worldwide is in China, which is estimated to consume more sand in three years than the U.S. consumed in the entire 20th century. Yet despite the vast scale, ubiquity, and environmental footprint of sand mining, licensing is often delegated to local authorities; environmental impact assessments are rare; laws are routinely flouted; and there are no global treaties governing its extraction, use or trade, or even to promote good practice.
Not all sand is the same. Some is refined to extract high concentrations of rare earths or metals. I reported here two years ago on the assassination of an environmental and community activist in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, who was fighting plans by an Australian company to excavate local sand dunes for titanium.
But even regular sand is not suitable for all uses. Desert sand, for instance, is mostly useless for construction, because its grains have usually been rounded by wind erosion and do not bind well in concrete. Miners mostly target sand dug from pits on land, dredged from riverbeds, or scooped up from the seabed.
Marine sand is less good for concrete, however, because it has to be washed clean of salt that could otherwise corrode metal in structural building reinforcements. That makes river sand the source of first resort — even though mining it is, according to the environmental group WWF, usually the most environmentally destructive. Typically, floating platforms employ buckets on conveyor belts to gouge sand from riverbeds. Such crude methods, though cheap, can drastically alter river flow, erode riverbanks, dry up tributaries, lower water tables, and trash wetlands and fisheries. The impacts are made worse, says UNEP researcher Pascal Peduzzi, because “a lack of proper scientific methodology for river sand mining has led to indiscriminate sand mining, while weak governance and corruption have led to widespread illegal mining.”
Rivers will attempt to fill in the holes dug out by sand miners, but with twice as much sand estimated to be taken from the world’s rivers as natural processes of sedimentation can restore, they will rarely do it fast enough to undo the damage. Researchers have spoken of a “looming tragedy of the sand commons.”
Take what WWF calls “the largest sand mine in the world”: Lake Poyang on the Yangtze River in China. For many years, sand from the main stem of the Yangtze was dredged to build the megacity of Shanghai downstream, which has erected more skyscrapers in the last decade than New York. That practice was stopped in 2000 because the floating platforms were blocking the river.
But the miners simply moved from the river itself to Lake Poyang in the Yangtze’s floodplain. China’s largest lake is also Asia’s largest winter stopover for migrating birds, including 90 percent of the world’s endangered population of Siberian cranes. By 2006, the last published estimate, dredgers were annually removing more than 400 million tons of sand, mostly from the waterway that links the lake to the Yangtze.
By removing so much sand, the miners have almost doubled the waterway’s capacity, partially draining the lake and making it more vulnerable to drought. Researchers also blame the mining for reducing lake fisheries and for a catastrophic decline in the number of finless porpoises in the main river. Xijun Lai of the Chinese Academy of Science in Nanjing called for a ban on sand mining in the lake.
Equally disturbing is the situation on the Mekong River in Vietnam and Cambodia. Jean-Paul Bravard of the University of Lyon, in a detailed study for WWF, found around 55 million tons of sand was extracted from the lower reaches of the river each year, almost double the input from upstream. The Stockholm Environment Institute concluded that the mining lowered river levels by more than 3 feet, while contributing to both coastal erosion and an invasion of saltwater into the delta, where it was poisoning rice fields. Ironically, much of the sand was being used to maintain coastal defenses and raise delta roads above flood levels.
The mining could also undermine Mekong river fisheries, which directly feed more than 60 million people, says hydrologist Lois Koehnken. The biggest concern, she wrote in a study for WWF, is dredging on the river near the fast-growing Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, where a vital tributary called the Tonle Sap joins the main river. Much of the Mekong’s fish stock originates in marshland at the head of the Tonle Sap. Fish breed there and return to the main river during the monsoon season, when the swollen Mekong bursts its banks and forces the Tonle Sap to flow in reverse. Dredging could increase the main river’s capacity sufficiently to halt this reverse flow, which would dry up the fish breeding grounds.
Singapore has created an extra 50 square miles of land thanks to 500 million tons of imported sand.
River and beach mining have been largely banished in developed countries, although not entirely. America’s last beach mine is in Monterey, California. It extracts as much as half a million tons of sand a year. The controversial operation is due to shut next year, under a deal with the state authorities. There is also a push in Houston to halt sand mining on the banks of the San Jacinto River, which is alleged to have caused sedimentation that played a part in flooding during Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
But sand mining in rivers and on beaches continues to expand in many developing countries. It is often a lawless business, beset by corruption and violence. In India, the world’s second-largest sand mining country, widespread illegal extraction “occurs through the country… run by highly organized and often violent sand mafias,” reported Koehnken. Rogue operators routinely bribe officials, and even the courts prove powerless. A policeman was crushed to death by a tractor while trying to halt illegal mining in a national sanctuary for the Indian crocodile, the gharial, in Madhya Pradesh.
Violent gangs protect sand miners around Nairobi in Kenya. Malaysian officials have been charged with turning a blind eye to smuggling in a “sex-for-sand” scandal. There have been beach battles over sand from Java to Jamaica.
In some countries, miners are heading offshore. But in estuaries and close inshore, the ecosystem damage may be as great as in rivers. Dredging destroys sea grasses, creates plumes of sediment that can drift for miles, and may trigger coastal erosion. In the low-lying Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives, sea defenses for the capital Male are being reinforced using sand dug from offshore sand islands, thus “paradoxically… increasing the need to relocate their populations,” UNEP’s Peduzzi notes.
So there are moves to take the dredgers further out to sea. Britain, for instance, now gets up to a quarter of its sand from the sea floor. It dredges up to 10 million tons, much of it from sand banks off East Anglia in the North Sea, a region where there has been concern that the loss of sediment accelerates rampant coastal erosion, as well as damaging sea-bed communities such as crabs and starfish.
Much offshore sand is used for land reclamation projects, where the risks of salt causing corrosion do not usually matter. Most notoriously, Singapore has created an extra 50 square miles of land, growing its size by 20 percent, thanks to more than half-a-billion tons of imported sand. Much of that sand has come from Indonesia, where at least 24 small islands have reportedly been removed from the map as a result, and from Cambodia, where sand miner Ly Yong Phat sent large quantities of sand to Singapore before the Cambodian government shut down the trade in 2016.
Land reclamation is a craze in coastal Asia, from Penang Island in Malaysia to New Manila Bay in the Philippines. Dubai’s construction of extravagant artificial islands, earmarked for real estate investment, has soaked up more than 750 million tons. When they ran out of marine sand, the island builders imported from Australia – a strange case of sending sand to Arabia.
China’s coastal cities, meanwhile, are said to have been reclaiming enough land from the ocean to make a new Singapore every year. Projects include Nanhui New City outside Shanghai, and Cafofeidian in Bohai Bay, which has been promoted as an eco-city development. China also dumps sand on reefs in the South China Sea to create islands as part of its territorial claim to the surrounding sea.
A simple rule is that sand mining in rivers should not exceed the rate of resupply of sand from upstream.
What should be done? Technically, some options exist. An untapped source of sand is the material that accumulates on the bottom of reservoirs. It could be dredged or flushed out. There is a win/win here. Dam operators would get the benefit of extra capacity for water storage, though arguably the sand should really be put back into the rivers it came from, rather than diverted for construction.
In developed countries, where new construction often replaces demolished buildings, there is untapped potential to recycle building rubble instead of using new concrete. A third of construction material for housing in the UK is already recycled. Glass recycling reduces that industry’s need for new sand. And there are substitutes for sand in concrete manufacture, including ash from power station incinerators, and dust from stone quarries. The problem is that at less than $10 a ton, sand remains very cheap.
Sand mining will clearly continue, including in rivers. So better regulation is vital. Sand is, to an extent, a renewable resource, created as rivers erode upstream and deposit sediment farther downstream. WWF’s Koehnken says that “rivers can sustain sand extraction.” But there are limits. The amount mined, she says, should be “within the natural variability of the sediment load of the system.” That suggests a simple rule that could be applied around the world. Sand mining in rivers should not exceed the rate of resupply of sand from upstream. Until that happens, the stories of heedless sand mining will keep coming.


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What to read after... Dread Wood 28/02/24
A little boy who really, really loves his mum’s chocolate cake wakes up in the middle of the night and decides to go downstairs just to look at it. Super quiet, he tiptoes past his parents’ bedroom and takes care not to wake up his brother, down to the kitchen. There’s the cake: brown and gooey and totally brilliant in every way.
Of course, eating a couple of crumbs off the plate turns into cutting off one small slice, and then another, until the boy realises he’s eaten the whole cake. OH NO! Thinking he can hide the evidence, the little boy washes up the plate and the knife and goes back to bed. Will his mum guess the truth?
Michael Rosen’s stories are often inspired by his own life, and anyone reading Chocolate Cake definitely gets the impression that he might be drawing from his own childhood in this tale of the irresistible cake. It’s certainly something that many families reading will recognise too, and Kevin Waldron’s illustration of an absolutely yummy chocolate cake are also sure to get some tummies rumbling. Marvellous fun!

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CBDT issues clarification on continuation of concessional rate of tax on interest income of FPIs
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) issues clarification on the continuation of concessional rate of tax on interest income of Foreign Portfolio Investors.
CBDT vide its Press Release dated 17th March 2021 clarified that:-
“Section 115AD of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the ‘Act’) inter alia contains provisions for taxation of income of FPIs. Proviso to section 115AD(1)(i) provides that the tax shall be chargeable at the concessional rate of 5% on interest income referred to in section 194LD.
There are reports in certain section of media that the said concessional tax rate of 5% has been withdrawn. It is hereby clarified that there is no change in the said proviso even after amendment of Section 115AD vide Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation and Amendment of Certain Provisions) Act, 2020 and the concessional rate of tax of 5% shall continue to be applicable for interest income referred to in section 194LD of the Act.”

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For anyone who still somehow doesn't understand who can and can't use the N-Word, here's another helpful reminder courtesy of this deeply misguided man.
Conservative radio host Dennis Prager defended his use of the word "ki*e," on his show Thursday by insisting that people should be able to use the word ni**er as well.
It all started when a caller asked why he felt comfortable using the term "ki*e" while discussing bigotry while using the term "N-word" when referring to a slur against African-Americans.
Prager used the discussion to make the point that people are allowed to use anti-Jewish slurs but cannot use the N-word because "the Left" controls American culture.
This was a less-than-thoughtful point by a man who claims to be a public intellectual.
"So, why didn't I say 'k-word'? Because the left has made it impossible to say the n-word any longer. That's disgusting, it's a farce. It's the only word that you can't say in the English language," Prager said.
"But why is it OK to say the k-word?" the caller asked.
"Because the left doesn't give a damn about that word. That's why. The left runs the country in the culture. The Republicans have the Senate and the presidency and that's very important. But the culture?"
"And the more the left controls the more totalitarian it is," Prager continued. "That is not an attack, it's a statement of fact like two plus two equals four. It is idiotic that you cannot say the n-word. Idiotic."
"Of course you should never call anybody the n-word, that's despicable. But to say the word? You cannot even say that the word is despicable. You have to say 'the n-word.' That's the answer," he added.
Prager makes a few points in this piece that are questionable to say the least.
First, he says that "the left," which refers to liberal Americans and Democrats, don't "give a damn" about the word "ki*e."
Nearly half (47%) of Jewish Americans identify as Democrats, and an additional 32% are independent. Only 18% identify as Republican. Why would Jewish people be far more aligned politically with "the left" if they are anti-Semitic?
Studies show that American Jews are more fearful of anti-Semitism is coming from America's political right wing than left.
A recent study of nearly 1300 American Jews found that 89% feel that the extreme political right represents "very serious" or "somewhat" a problem. Whereas, 64% feel the same threat from the extreme political left.
Second, Prager, who is Jewish, uses the full word "ki*e" on his program. The reason people aren't bothered by his use is that he is Jewish. In the same way that when a black person uses the word "ni**er," it's culturally acceptable.
If a non-Jew was throwing around the word "ki*e it goes without saying that they would be in big trouble.
Finally, the truth is, that Americans can use the "N-word" or "K-word" whenever we like because we have freedom of speech. But, like any other freedom, comes the responsibility to be held accountable for our words as well as our actions.
So, Dennis Prager, you can use the N-word whenever you like, just be prepared to take responsibility.
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Transforming New Orleans & Its Environs (Paperback)
Centuries Of Change
Human settlement of the Lower Mississippi River Valley—especially in New Orleans, the region\u2019s largest metropolis—has produced profound and dramatic environmental change. From prehistoric midden building to late-twentieth century industrial pollution, Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs traces through history the impact of human activity upon the environment of this fascinating and unpredictable region.In eleven essays, scholars across disciplines––including anthropology, architecture, history, natural history, and geography––chronicle how societies have worked to transform untamed wetlands and volatile floodplains into a present-day sprawling urban center and industrial complex, and how they have responded to the environmental changes brought about by the disruption of the natural setting.This new text follows the trials of native and colonial settlers as they struggled to shape the environment to fit the needs of urbanization. It demonstrates how the Mississippi River, while providing great avenues for commerce, transportation, and colonization also presented the region\u2019s greatest threat to urban centers, and details how engineers set about taming the mighty river. Also featured is an analysis of the impact of modern New Orleans upon the surrounding rural parishes and the effect urban pollution has had on the city\u2019s water supply and aquatic life.

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The large majority of US consumers still prefer to shop at a physical retail location, but often they’re using the smart phone to assist.
These are the findings of a recent survey conducted by RetailMeNot, who note 85 per cent of Americans shop in a non-grocery physical retail store during a typical week, and on average, they visit up to three stores.
Here’s a further insight into their survey results…
Physical retail far from dead
RetailMeNot’s findings illustrate just how important physical retail continues to be in everyday American’s lives. In addition to 85 per cent of all shoppers visiting up to three non-grocery outlets each week, that number increases in younger generations.
The survey found millennials stop in at four physical locations a week while Gen Z visits on average 5.25.
While that’s great news for real-world retail, what is changing is the role that technology plays in that shopping journey.
The mobile retail assistant
Chances are, if you’re shopping, you’re doing it with a mobile phone in hand, and you’re using it to assist in your decision making.
The survey noted a mobile device is the number one retail companion and people use it to seek out reviews, price match, and source offers and deals, often in preference of dealing with a retail associate.
- Most in-store shoppers (69 per cent) would rather consult a product review on their phone than ask a store associate.
- More than half (53 per cent) would rather use a mobile device to find deals and offers on products they are considering purchasing than discuss promotions with an in-store associate.
Meanwhile, that mobile device is also being employed to seek out the best deals, and consumers are more than happy to embrace a retail app if it offers them this service.
- Nearly half (49 per cent) of Americans have an app that collects and provides deals and discounts across retailers on their smartphones.
- 65 per cent of Americans say receiving mobile coupons they can redeem in-store is important when shopping in physical stores.
- Even more significantly, 69 per cent say receiving a personalized offer on their phone that they can use in-store would make them more likely to visit a physical retail location.
“In-store retail is still the most important channel for consumers, and the role that mobile plays in the shopping journey is notable to retailers who want to reach in-store shoppers,” CEO of RetailMeNot, said Marissa Tarleton said.
“The mobile device is the number one in-store shopping companion, which is a marketing opportunity for retailers to drive in-store footfall, incentivize sales and understand online-to-offline behavior.”
The journey starts long before the retail outlet
RetailMeNot noted 65 per cent of shoppers complete their retail journey in-store, but that’s not necessarily where it starts. Over a third (39 per cent) start their purchasing mission on a smart phone, while 14 begin on a desktop.
Of those who start with a smart phone, 38 per cent then go on to complete the purchase in-store, while 43 per cent who begin on a desktop go on to buy at a physical location.
“Mobile browsing and research are standard for most shoppers, and a substantial number of consumers are comfortable converting on either that same smartphone device or in a physical store, based on what is convenient to their needs at the time of their journey,” Ms Tarleton said.
Meanwhile, Americans are 30 per cent more likely to complete a purchase in person than on their smartphone when they find a deal on their phone.
So, what’s the takeaway for retailers?
Omnichannel is essential
Bricks and mortar may continue to reign supreme but there’s no doubting the importance technology plays in the purchasing journey.
Using it to best effect involves:
- Ensuring retailers have a digital presence including a desktop site and mobile optimised option
- Facilitating the customer’s desires for online reviews through social media, and online testimonials
- Personalised product deals and offers, based on a consumer’s previous shopping habits
- Mobile apps that harness push notifications and product deals when a customer is in-store

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On this amazing Caribbean experience, snorkel alongside the world’s largest fish — the gentle whale shark — and get an up-close look at these spectacular endangered species in their natural habitat.
On this amazing Cancun whale shark tour, snorkel alongside the world’s largest fish — the gentle whale shark — and observe these spectacular endangered species in their natural habitat.
Take a boat ride from Cancun into Mexico’s Yucatan Channel, where the whale sharks migrate each year in search of the warm, plankton-rich waters of the Caribbean. Here, jump in and swim alongside these gentle giants. Encounter dolphins and manta rays, too!
Duration: 6:30 am – 15:00 pm
Start/End Location: Playa del Carmen Marina
Availability: June to mid-September (migration season)
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Title. The Floral world and garden guide. Related Titles. Succeeded by: Floral world, garden guide and country companion By. Hibberd, Shirley, Type. Journal Material. Full text of "The Floral world and garden guide" See other formats. The Floral world and garden guide by Hibberd, Shirley, Publication date Digitizing sponsor The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden Contributor New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library Language English Volume 8, Addeddate This book is available with additional data at. THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE [from ] AND COUNTRY COMPANION Author Hibberd, [James] Shirley [ed] Book condition Used Quantity available 1 Binding Hardcover Publisher Groombridge and Sons Place of Publication London Date published Product_type Note May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Blackstone isn't planning to advertiseJuly 18, 2013: 11:31 AM ET
Blackstone president plays down new general solicitation rules.
FORTUNE -- The Blackstone Group isn't planning to advertise its new funds anytime soon, according to firm president Tony James.
Speaking during a media call for the firm's second quarter earnings, James responded to a question from Fortune about the SEC's recent decision to end the decades-old ban on "general solicitation" for Rule 506 offerings -- an umbrella that usually covers hedge, private equity and real estate funds.
"I don't think it makes much of a difference for Blackstone (BX), at least in the short term," James said. "We're really focused on bigger investors and have a limited amount of bandwidth and marketing people... Our systems aren't set up to serve thousands of masters. Our approach to the smaller investors has been to work through other systems -- like Merrill Lynch (BAC) and J.P. Morgan (JPM) -- although over time I guess that could evolve."
RELATED: Why general solicitation isn't evil
James reiterated the point for Park Hill Group, a Blackstone business unit that serves as a placement agent for third-party fund managers. In both cases, however, he did add that the aforementioned banks and various sub-advisors could be impacted by the new rules.
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The control performance of an adaptive and a fuzzy neural network (FNN) sliding-mode controlled quick-return mechanism, which is driven by a field-oriented control permanent magnet (PM) synchronous servo motor, is presented in this study. First, Hamilton's principle and Lagrange multiplier method are applied to formulate the equation of motion. Then, based on the principle of the sliding-mode control, an adaptive sliding-mode controller is developed to control the slider position of the motor-mechanism coupled system. Moreover, an FNN sliding-mode controller is implemented to control the motor-quick-return servomechanism for comparison. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed adaptive and FNN sliding-mode controllers are demonstrated by some simulated and experimental results. Compared with the adaptive sliding-mode controller, the FNN sliding-mode controller results much less tracking error with improved control performance.


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The Balearic Islands and Madrid have already provided the information requested by the institution on the abuse of minors in care
MADRID, August 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ombudsman, Ángel Gabilondo, has expressed concern about the increase in gang rape in the country, as well as the fact that the victims are “getting younger”. In this sense, he has indicated that “it is essential to influence commitment to education in egalitarian values and compulsory affective-sexual education at all levels of education”.
In an interview with Europa Press, Gabilondo referred to this measure as “an effective tool to combat machismo and violent behavior”.
However, she also recognized as “essential” measures “that women feel that they are not alone” and “that the forces of the state and of society as a whole are united to combat this serious problem”.
The government, through its spokeswoman Isabel Rodríguez, already acknowledged last May the existence of an increase in “herds” that “sexually abuse young women with multiple rapes”. Two cases have been registered this month, in Almería and Castellón, and in the latter the victim interviewed is 14 years old.
The latest data from Feminicidio.net captured a peak in sexual violence in 2019 due to a lack of data from the previous two years. According to their statistics, there were 211 group sexual assaults in Spain between 2016 and 2020.
ABUSE OF MINORS IN PROTECTION
Other cases of sexual violence with greater repercussions in recent years have been those of minors under guardianship in centers in the Balearic Islands, the Valencian Community and Madrid. The institution has launched a procedure against them and has requested data from the competent autonomies to investigate what happened.
And, as Gabilondo pointed out, the department he heads is currently in the phase of collecting information on the cases that have occurred in each autonomy.
The Ombudsman has stated that “the ex officio complaints related to the Mallorcan Institute for Social Affairs (Illes Balears) and to the ministry responsible for this matter of the Autonomous Community of Madrid remain open” and, as indicated, both departments “responsive” to your requirements.
“In both cases, we are interested, among other things, in the development and application of the prevention and early detection protocols in the youth protection centers provided for in the new law on comprehensive protection of children from violence,” he explained. Gabilondo, regarding the rule approved last year.
In addition, as explained, the institution has received the complaint about minors under guardianship in the Valencian Community that already existed
studied its regional counterpart, the Síndic de Greuges. In this case, the Ombudsman explained, the event is in a judicial proceeding which, as he has indicated, “limits the Ombudsman’s room for manoeuvre”.
Likewise, he recalled that on May 25, alongside the Ministry of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, an official act was initiated with the competent administrations for social affairs of all autonomous communities, to find out the possible cases of sexual exploitation of minors under guardianship, occurring in each territory have been uncovered and, in such a case, the special protective measures taken for those concerned.


An astrobiologist and a chemist team up on a new equation to describe the conditions needed for life to arise on a planet.
Gather ‘round, all you truthers, conspiracy theorists, and lizard people, for today is World UFO Day.
A critical review of arguments for and against sending messages to ET calls the process “unscientific and potentially catastrophic.”
Motherboarders respond to reader mail.
A Radio Motherboard chat with the late astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man on the moon and a connoisseur of consciousness, psychics, and aliens.
Welcome to a really, really deep dive on “Chasing Shadows.”
I spoke to the band about aliens and crystals and sweat that literally melts guitars, which means I personally think this interview rules but also means you might not want to take my word for it and check them out for yourself.
Like “Europa Report,” but real life.
We have some theories.
“We’re in the galactic boondocks.”


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The Pet Connection - BC’s only local pet magazine – look for our ad and articles
Pet Professional Guild – the Association for Force-Free Pet Professionals
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Petfinder – Make your next pet a rescue animal from a Local rescue organization and help lower the number of homeless animals in our community.
Pacific Animal Foundation

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~B-SAPP~ The Brookline Substance Abuse Prevention Program
The Brookline Substance Abuse Prevention Program (B-SAPP) provides confidential consultations and counseling to students and their families for any alcohol or other drug- related problems. To contact program staff, call 617-713-5155, or stop by room 149 at BHS.
Information and Referral:
Program social worker Abby Dean provide students, parents, and school staff with information on marijuana, nicotine, alcohol, and other drug use. Counselors can help access community resources, such as outpatient providers, residential programs, and self-help groups.
- For help with alcohol/substance use issues.
- For mental health resources
B-SAPP Counseling Services:
Free and confidential counseling services are available for all students and their family members to address substance misuse and associated risk behaviors. Social workers with expertise in adolescent development support students with a wide range of issues, from early experimentation to heavy substance use. The program provides substance abuse and mental health evaluations, individual and group counseling, and parent guidance.
Youth Diversion Program:
In lieu of disciplinary or legal action, students may be referred to this program for violation of the school chemical health policies or community laws. Referred students receive a substance use assessment and intervention plan that may include alcohol and drug education, counseling services, and referrals to community resources.

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In an unusual arrangement, an Iranian animated feature is being localized for the Chinese market, according to Iranian media reports. The Gools is also said to be heading for the U.S.
The family cg feature is due to be released in Chinese theaters this summer, writes the Tehran Times, which adds that a filmmaker named Wang “has helped make the movie suitable for the Chinese audience.” The film will be released in the territory as Kung Fu Gools.
The Iranian Students’ News Agency specifies an August 2021 release in China, and adds that The Gools is due to be released in the U.S. this February. It does not comment on whether the film will be adapted for the American market.
As the Chinese title implies, martial arts play a central role in the film. Based on a Persian legend, the story is set in a realm of anthropomorphic animals where predators and prey have struck a fragile truce; the weaker animals train in a dojo for self-protection. When a wolf tries to bypass the ceasefire, three young goats set off on an adventure to uphold the peace.
The legend previously inspired the 2000 short Shangoul and Mangoul, a work of cut-out animation directed by Farkhondeh Torabi and Morteza Ahadi (watch it on Youtube here). We’re also reminded of Amir Houshang Moein’s short Am I a Wolf?, which recently qualified for this year’s Oscars. And there’s more than a hint of Disney’s Zootopia in the premise.
The Gools is directed by Farzad Dalvand and animated by Tehran-based Aria Animation, whose credits include the Iranian video game Quest of Persia: Nader’s Blade. Major Iranian production company Tasvir Gostar Pasargad is producing. The English-language cast includes Kaitlyn McCormick, Brian Patrick Butler, Caroline Amiguet, and Mark Atkinson.
Last year, The Last Fiction became the first Iranian animated feature to qualify for an Oscar. The international distribution of The Gools is another sign of the industry’s rising profile. As far as we know, this is the first time an animated feature from the country has been localized for China, whose appetite for animation is also booming.
“The Iranian screenplay attracted me quickly and I wanted to cooperate in this project. I hope the Chinese audience will like the film,” Wang told the Tehran Times. Chinese producer Jin Yang estimates that the film will earn about $21 million in China.