2017 Lexus IS
Every year since the third-generation IS's launch, Lexus has made changes to the sedan, although for 2017 they’re mostly cosmetic. They include new taillights and a revised front-end with side air intakes that can best be described as massive. Returning are the sedan’s three trims, starting with the IS 200t equipped with a 241-horsepower four-cylinder. The mid-point IS 300 gets a 255-horsepower V-6, while the IS 350’s 3.5 puts out 306 ponies. The IS 200t is exclusively rear-wheel drive, while the IS 300 is all-wheel-drive only and the IS 350 can be either. The AWD system splits the torque evenly between the front and rear wheels in normal driving situations, but can transfer up to 70 percent to the rear when front slippage is detected. The IS has Drive Mode Select throttle and transmission programming, with ECO, NORMAL and SPORT S settings for rear-wheel-drive models, plus a SNOW mode for AWD-equipped cars. The optional F SPORT package adds a SPORT S+ setting that firms up the suspension for more spirited driving.
Base price (incl. destination): $38,750
Type: Four-door sedan
Engines (h.p.): 2.0-liter I-4, turbocharged (241); 3.5-liter DOHC V6 (255, IS 300; 306, IS 350)
Transmissions: Six-speed automatic (IS 300; IS 350, AWD); eight-speed automatic (IS 200t; IS 350, RWD)
Drivetrain: Rear- /all-wheel-drive
Base MPG (city/highway/combined): 22/32/26 (2.0)
Base Weight (lb.): 3,620
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I’m not a map expert, but I know that it takes a lot of time and money to set up a full map of a city. In the short-term, you might be able to take a quick snapshot, but if you need to know what you’re looking at, then you’re going to have a lot of work ahead of you.
So if you have the money (and some know-how) you can use some of your saved funds to get yourself a full map of your hometown. Modern mapping allows you to capture an image of your hometown from any angle, and then upload it to a map app like Google Maps or Bing Maps. With the right software these pictures can be uploaded to a map service like MyMap, where they can be searched and analyzed for location information.
I’ve spent so long on this game though, that I’m not sure what I’m going to be able to do if I can’t get some money back. I’ll probably get some money back at some point, but that will probably be a while from now.
It just took me a while to find the one. Basically, I want to get a license to use this thing. I also want to use it to take pictures of the places I visit.
Most people have a map of the places they visit, but they may not have a map of the places they are in. This is because it may be possible to create a map with a large quantity of points. But I don’t think people really need a map in the first place.
There are a lot of mapping tools out there. Many of them are commercial, or they are freemium. A map is a way to visualize the space inside a geographical area. The more points it has, the more detail it creates. A map is also a way to show the location of things. There are also some free mapping tools out there, but the majority of them are fairly limited and they are mostly used for showing the location of specific points on a map.
So if you don’t need a map of the world, if you don’t need to see the location of specific points on the map, if you don’t need a detailed map, then don’t use it. But if you want a map for navigation, you can go to a map maker like Google Maps or MapQuest. If you want a detailed map, you can use software like Google Earth or Google Maps.
Mapmaker is free (and fairly well supported) and if you use Mapmaker on your computer you can save your map like you would a CAD file. If you don’t want to save your map then you can get a free software that lets you see the location of specific points on the map. The most popular free map maker is Google Maps, but there are a number of others as well.
Well that’s the simple answer, but there’s actually two more that are pretty important. The first is the question of what sort of map you’re looking at. If you’re in the United States then the primary map maker is USGS, but for the United Kingdom there are a few competing options: Ordnance Survey (OS), OpenStreetMap, and the UK’s own GIS database.
The second is what you are actually looking at. There are actually three kinds of maps available in Google Earth. The first is the standard map. This lets you see where you are, but not what. If you want to go to Canada, this is the map you get. This has some features like a road system, so if youre in North America, you can go to Ontario, Quebec, and so on.

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On Wings of Devotion by Roseanna M.White is the second in her “Codebreakers” series. It is simply fantastic! It can be read as a stand alone novel, but oh the magic in having read The Number of Love and seeing how White weaves together the two stories and the characters is truly remarkable.
In this adventure Arabelle and Phillip Camden go on a ride of romance, hardship, faith, war and true human relationship that has the reader transported and enveloped in all its detail and vivid imagery. White’s powerful storytelling voice had me completely enthralled. She has a true knack for weaving a tale that is also filled with historical accuracy and a beautiful way of exploring issues of faith and hardship that mirrors real life.
Ara and Phillip are individually struggling with self worth, and feeling wanted. They both seem to be looking for fulfillment and long to impact the people around them; and for whatever reason can see the good and worth in each other even when they can’t identify that within themselves. However, Phillip dubbed Blackheart, has huge doubts about God and faith while Arabelle’s steady belief and reliance on God are starkly contrasting.
White really has done a masterful job of entwining history, deep characters, faith, and a plot that kept me reading with baited breath. I will be looking anxiously for White’s next installment and hope you will grab your own copy of On Wings of Devotion or The Number of Love.
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All of England thinks Phillip Camden a monster—a man who deliberately caused the deaths of his squadron. But as nurse Arabelle Denler watches the so-dubbed “Black Heart” every day, she sees something far different: a hurting man desperate for mercy. And when their paths twist together and he declares himself her new protector, she realizes she has her own role to play in his healing.
Phillip Camden would have preferred to die that day with his squadron rather than be recruited to the Admiralty’s codebreaking division. The threats he receives daily are no great surprise and, in his opinion, well deserved. What comes as a shock is the reborn desire to live that Arabelle inspires in him.
But when an old acquaintance shows up and seems set on using him in a plot that has the codebreakers of Room 40 in a frenzy, new affections are put to the test.

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A dad slapped and kicked an 11-year-old boy after tracking him down - because he threw SNOWBALLS at his wife and young son, a court heard.
Bogdan Okonski, 37, cornered the primary school pupil in a basketball court.
The dad-of-two slapped the boy around the face before kicking the back of his right leg as the child tried to escape on a scooter.
District Judge Lynne Matthews described the snowball incident as something out of a "comic book strip" that reminded her of Dennis the Menace.
Bristol Magistrates' Court heard the primary school boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was left with a red mark on his left cheek.
The youngster, giving evidence via videolink, said: "He said to me if I came back the next day, he would hit me again. I didn't say anything to him, I just wanted to leave.
"Since the incident happened, I've been scared to go out anytime, particularly near the area where it occurred. I'm scared I will get hurt again."
He said he had been throwing snowballs at his friends when one of them "curved" and hit Okonski's wife.
The young man's account was backed up by his friend who told the court he saw the red hand mark on his friend's face after the slap.
Okonski, from Lawrence Weston, Bristol, was found guilty of assault and ordered to pay nearly £1,000 in costs and fines following the altercation on March 19 this year.
He said: "I told him I was going to leave now. I had no intention of hurting him. I'm bigger than him, I know I'm more powerful than him and I had no intention to beat him up in any way.
"We just had a situation for the last three years."
In sentencing, District Judge Lynne Matthews said the whole incident sounded like something from a comic strip.
She said: "The first part of the incident seemed like a comic strip, something from Dennis the Menace. For time immemorial, children have thrown snowballs at passersby.
"The defendant's act of chasing the culprits two times around the court, the adult getting red faced.
"The whole incident, however, departed from the comic strip when the adult lay a hand on the face of one of the children. There is nothing amusing about that."
Okonski was ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid community work and pay £100 in compensation to the children.
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Deerfield Township continues to sponsor curbside pickup at no cost to township residents. The calendar is found on this web page under the “Curb-side Recycling” icon. Pickup is on Tuesdays for residents who live North of M-20, Wednesday for those South of M-20 and East of Vandecar Road and Thursday for residents South of M-20 and West of Vandecar.
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Dear Ott, how does one combat the evil curse known as "Gear Lust". Is there some magic set of armor locked deep within a dungeon that will protect me from it's black magic?
I found the best way to deal with gear lust is to spend every penny you own on stupid shit that you never use and then drive around in a shitty 1996 Toyota while it all sits there in your studio covered in dust.
I reached the point of having way more gear than I need a few years back and the amount of stuff I had piled up in my spare room while I was building my studio genuinely concerned me. I'm about to have a huge eBay studio sale because I need the space and I want a Neve 33609.
The thing to do is to isolate what you are trying to achieve and buy only what you *need* to achieve it. Anything else is a distraction. Make absolutely sure your studio is a workplace and not a status symbol.
And never forget - it's your brain which makes the music, not your equipment.
What machine would you recommend for live sequencing? My friend swears by Akai MPC series (he's really satisfied with his MPC 2000).
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Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has welcomed the announcement that the government has reversed its decision to remove funding from the Sea Survival Centre at the Greencastle National Fisheries College.
Funding for the Centre was first announced in 2016, just before the General Election, but was withdrawn a few years later as it was about to go to construction, the Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Fisheries and the Marine said.
“This is another welcome decision, following the announcement to complete the breakwater at Greencastle Harbour. I congratulate the local community on successfully challenging the scandalous decisions to remove funding from both projects,” he added.
“However, what was clear from the recent protest in Dublin attended by large numbers of fishermen and fishing families from all across Donegal, including Greencastle and North Inishowen, is that the government have just not stood up for them and their just demand for a fair share of the fish in our Irish waters.”
Deputy MacLochlainn said the outcome of Brexit and the EU/ UK Trade Agreement has only ‘made a bad situation worse’ and Donegal boats are still being locked out of fishing in Rockall.
“This investment in Greencastle must now be built upon by the government and by the local Minister for the Marine, Charlie McConalogue. They need to fight for fairness for our fishermen in Europe and they must secure a future in fishing for them”.

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Lewis Hamilton And Co Kneel at the start of British GP, Hamilton who has fought to raise awareness of racism in
Formula One, was joined by fellow Brit Lando Norris.
It is not mandatory to kneel, some F1 stars decided not to Kneel and stood instead.
Hamilton, 35, insists he doesn’t want his rivals to “feel forced” to kneel. After last month’s Austrian GP,
when six drivers stayed standing, he said: “I don’t want it to be a case of people feeling forced.
I want people to be excited to be a part of the change.
“I want people to think that while they are fortunate not to have experienced racism, they can try to understand
what it feels like and that they don’t want people to feel,
that way and want to be part of change so in the future our kids can lead a better quality of life.”
“Whether we do take the knee or we don’t take the knee, that is not the question.
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'It will be my go soon!' Robbie Williams jokes about Taylor Swift's promiscuity at the Brits
She's dated stars from John Mayer to Jake Gyllenhaal, and most recently Harry Styles.
But the latest famous face to express a desire to try his luck with Taylor Swift is Robbie Williams, who controversially joked about the singer's promiscuity at the Brits on Wednesday night.
The Candy singer, who is married to actress Ayda Field, said that Taylor was 'really fit' before adding that he was hoping for a shot with the singer, saying: 'It will be my go soon.'
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She's really fit: Robbie Williams joked that he thought Taylor Swift was hot and said it was his turn to bed her next
Give us a hug! Robbie went to greet Harry as One Direction took to the stage to collect their Global Success Award from Harry
But Robbie wasn't the only star to reference the doomed relationship between Taylor and Harry, who was present at the ceremony with his One Direction bandmates.
Sharon Osbourne, who presented the International Female Award alongside Dermot O'Leary, said as she took to the stage: 'Where is that little Harry Potter? Has he got his little magic stick here tonight – that’s his willy!'
Sharon's controversial joke came after Brits host James Corden poked fun at Harry's love of 'cougars', asking him who he was hoping to score with - giving him the choice of 60-year-old Sharon or Annie Lennox.
How rude! Sharon Osbourne joked about Harry Styles' penis as she and Dermot O'Leary announced the winner of International Female
Embarrassing his friend: James was seen asking Harry who he was after between Sharon Osbourne and Annie Lennox early on in the evening
Keeping quiet: The 19-year-old singer was hid behind a programme to avoid answering
Harry responded by hiding his face with an awards programme.
Taylor performed a raunchy set and she was seen grinding around on stage singing her track I Knew You Were Trouble, which is thought to be about Harry.
Corden, who hosted the awards ceremony for the third consecutive year, didn't shy away from making jokes during the evening, also poking fun at the stripper that appeared at Harry's recent birthday.
'I'm ready': After James kissed Nick Grimshaw he joked that the Radio 1 presenter was sexually aroused as he sat on his lap
swore calling Simon Cowell a 'beautiful b*****' as he chatted to the
Syco boss live on air while the show was screened on ITV.
jokes didn't stop there and he was seen kissing Nick Grimshaw directly on the mouth before
making jokes about the Radio 1 DJ being sexually aroused as he sat on
Nick said: 'I'm ready' to which James replied: 'I can feel you are ready'.
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Drawing cells can be a fun and educational way to better understand the human body. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist, this step-by-step guide will provide you with clear instructions and techniques to help you draw a realistic cell.
Before starting your cell drawing, you will need the following materials:
- Blank paper
Step 1: Sketch Basic Cell Shapes
Start by sketching basic shapes, such as circles, ovals and rectangles, to represent the different parts of the cell. Pay attention to the size and proportion of each shape, as this will affect the overall representation of the cell.
Step 2: Outline the Cell Membrane
Draw a larger oval shape around your basic cell shapes to represent the cell membrane. This will be the outer boundary of the cell.
Step 3: Add the Nucleus
Draw a smaller circle within the cell to represent the nucleus. Make sure it is centered in the cell and proportionate to the cell membrane.
Step 4: Add Organelles
Add small circles, rectangles and oval shapes within the cell to represent the organelles, such as mitochondria, ribosomes, and lysosomes. These should be placed in proportion to the cell membrane and nucleus.
Step 5: Add Detail to Organelles
Add more detail to each organelle by drawing small lines to represent the inner structure. For example, draw small squiggly lines within the mitochondria to represent the inner membrane structure.
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Step 7: Add Color (optional)
If you want, you can add color to your cell drawing. Use a reference image to determine the colors of each organelle and apply them to your drawing.
- Use light, quick strokes when sketching the basic shapes. This will make it easier to adjust and correct mistakes.
- Use reference images to help you identify each part of the cell and how they are proportioned.
- Use shading to give your drawing depth and dimension.
- Practice drawing cells from different angles to improve your overall understanding of its structure.
Q: Why is it important to draw cells?
A: Drawing cells can help you better understand the structure and function of the human body on a microscopic level.
Q: What types of cells can I draw?
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Q: Do I need to be an experienced artist to draw cells?
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Q: Can I use different materials to draw cells?
A: Yes, you can use different materials, such as colored pencils or markers, to draw cells. However, it is recommended to start with basic pencil and paper first.
Q: How can I improve my cell drawing skills?
A: Practice drawing cells regularly and use various reference images to help you understand the structure and function of each part.
Q: How long does it take to draw a cell?
A: The time it takes to draw a cell varies based on your skill level and the level of detail you are aiming for. It can take anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours.

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In a case involving shocking cattle, a lawyer asked an expert witness to shock himself with a novelty pen in order to prove that electric currents from a 1.5 volt AAA battery could be felt by a person. The only problem was that the pen contained a transformer that could convert the 1.5 volts to as many as 750 volts — enough to kill someone with certain health issues. Luckily, the witness came away unharmed, but we bet it came as a shock to no one that the judge sanctioned the lawyer for the stunt.
The police are not allowed to wait for as long as 45 minutes outside a resident’s home for a response, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled, citing a recent Fourth Amendment ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision comes following an incident in which several officers surrounded a man’s residence around one o’clock in the morning, knocked on the door for over 45 minutes, peered in the windows and yelled into the house demanding that he open the door. The court found that the officers’ conduct “went far beyond anything that would ordinarily be expected to occur on one’s doorstep,” and that such a situation would inspire the average homeowner to … call the police.
The unprecedented amount of money a Canadian judge ruled that the government must pay criminal defense lawyers after he declared a mistrial over the prosecution’s failure to provide timely information to the defense. The delay caused the three defendants to rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees that could have been avoided, the judge said. We guess the prosecution never learned the age old saying: Time is money.
The number of shotgun pellets an Indiana attorney was treated for after staging his own shooting. Peter Raventos called 911 and told officers he had been shot in the back by an unknown gunman in a state park. As the story began to unravel, it was discovered that Raventos had rigged the gun so it could shoot from a distance. The perpetrator/victim has provided no motive for the shooting, and has been suspended by the Indiana Supreme Court.
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One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. At least, that’s what one Washington, D.C. artist and her friend thought, when they snatched trash bins with a yellow sticker that said “Take Me!” The stickers were distributed to D.C. residents as part of an effort to recycle the old bins. The artist jumped on the opportunity and had plans to turn the bins into flower planters, until she and her accomplice were arrested and charged with theft. Police say the two took 51 bins, although the number is disputed.


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I'll probably have to stop covering the latest record if we keep setting a new record every other day.
Several states reported record numbers of positive tests yesterday and that led to the United States as a whole recording over 47,000 cases and surpassing the previous record of about 45,000.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. COVID-19 cases rose by more than 47,000 on Tuesday according to a Reuters tally, the biggest one-day spike since the start of the pandemic, as the government’s top infectious disease expert warned that number could soon double.
California, Texas and Arizona have emerged as new U.S. epicenters of the pandemic, reporting record increases in COVID-19 cases. [...]
COVID-19 cases more than doubled in June in at least 10 states, including Texas and Florida, a Reuters tally showed. In parts of Texas and Arizona, hospital intensive care beds for COVID-19 patients are in short supply.
Just a few minutes before I began writing this, Arizona reported that their positive test rate over the past 24 hours was 28.3 percent, meaning almost 1 in 3 people in Arizona are getting infected.
If we were to replicate Arizona's current positive infection rate nationwide, it would lead to about 100 million infections. And I don't think that's going to happen, but I also don't feel especially confident that it won't if about half the country continues to pretend that everything is normal.
Arizona also reported nearly 90 deaths in the past 24 hours and that's the number that won't truly catch up to current infections until later this month. Most people who die from complications of COVID-19 do not drop dead immediately, although that has happened too in rare cases.
And not to continuously pick on Arizona as several other states also set new records yesterday, but the state also just implemented a patient scoring system that will determine who lives and who dies in overwhelmed hospitals that are now rationing treatment and performing triage.
In brief, the rules allow hospitals to deny critical healthcare resources such as ventilators to patients based on medical judgments about their likelihood of living even five more years despite surviving COVID-19.
In practical terms, that means that on average, older adults are more likely to be denied care than younger persons. Those with medical conditions other than COVID-19 would be more vulnerable to denials than those judged to be healthier, whatever their age.
Under the rules, doctors making triage judgments that deprive patients of necessary care will be immune from legal liability.
Trump held a packed rally at a mega-church in Phoenix last week (pictured above) where virtually no one wore a mask.
Because wearing a mask at a Trump rally would be sacrilege, right? You might be mistaken for a liberal infiltrator even if you're also wearing a red hat.


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As such, the law is often used to harm Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities and to uphold systems of white supremacy and patriarchy. It also has a long history of being used as a tool for transphobia, homophobia, and sexism.
We aim to use this website to give Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming peoples tools to combat these injustices if they wish to fight within the legal system.
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One of the most important facets of Canadian law is federalism, or the existence of other provincial and territorial governments within Canada. These governments have the power to make laws in certain areas while the federal government has the power to make laws in other areas, as defined by the Constitution Act of 1982. While these powers intersect in some cases, in general provinces are responsible for law relating to education, healthcare, private property, and all matters that are local or private in nature (such as personal identification documents or birth certificates). The federal government is responsible for areas of law relating to citizenship, marriage and divorce, criminal law, unemployment insurance, trade, defense, and statistics, among other areas. Provinces and territories also all have uniquely structured justice systems.
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Kansas City’s next mayor will take office this summer with a City Council where at least six of the twelve members will be new.
While they will be novices on the council, the contenders are not new to politics or community activism. The field includes a pastor, a barber, the editor of a labor newspaper, a real estate agent and an incumbent in the Missouri House of Representatives.
The first-term members will be joined by at least three council incumbents who are running unopposed.
A look at Tuesday’s ballot:
Kevin O’Neill, 1st District at-large
A reporter and columnist for the KC Labor Beacon for the past 27 years, O’Neill said his career experience had “loosened (his) filter” and given him “the opportunity to call out injustice when I see it.”
“While I don’t always take the most popular side, I do believe I take the right side more often than not,” he said.
O’Neill, who is running unopposed for a first term, said he’s seen middle and lower-class families “stripped of wages, benefits, rights and other middle class traits.” The most important issues facing Kansas City, he believes, are crime, trash pickup and reform of tax incentive agencies.
Teresa Loar, 2nd District at-large
Loar served on the City Council from 1995 to 2003 and was elected again in 2015. This would be her fourth term. She is running unopposed.
“I know my community inside and out—from the schools to the business, from the faith community to the nonprofits,” she said. “I have always been a very active member of my city and still am. I’m persistent, bold, assertive and some would say fearless. But those are qualities that you must possess to lead.”
In 2011, she went to Kabul, Afghanistan, for two years to work on an infrastructure project.
It “was an experience of a lifetime,” she said.
Brandon Ellington, 3rd District, at-large
Ellington was elected in 2012 to the Missouri House of Representatives, where he currently serves. He was vice chair of the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus and is the current minority whip.
He decried the status quo of council leadership in Kansas City: “(It is) corporations over people, and with me as Councilman, it would always be people over corporations.” He called for more evidence-based practices and programs in policing and investment in basic services and infrastructure for neighborhoods to be “made whole.”
Ellington used to own an entertainment company and enjoys producing “socially conscious visual and audio material.”
He added that he wants to go skydiving some day.
Wallace Hartsfield, II, 3rd District at-large
Hartsfield has been a professor, community organizer and pastor. He said he would bring to the council an ability to build consensus and work together across disparate groups in Kansas City.
“I strongly believe the most pressing issue facing our city is the deep economic and racial divide that has plagued us for the last 50 years plus,” he said. “Our city must not become numb to these disparities, rather I believe we must move a collective response that will require the support of the entire city council.”
Hartsfield graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Conservatory of Music, and loves to play the keyboards.
Katheryn Shields, 4th District at-large
Shields is an incumbent who has served as a Kansas City councilmember for 12 years and Jackson County executive for 12 years. She was on the Council from 1987 to 1994, and elected again in 2015. She’s a lawyer, and believes her experience in government will allow her to work well with the new mayor and council members.
The current mayor and city manager have focused on new large-scale projects to the detriment of maintaining existing infrastructure, she said. She believes that infrastructure decay is the most important issue in Kansas City.
She has one son who was born on her 10th wedding anniversary.
“We will be celebrating his 30th birthday this July 28 and our 40th wedding anniversary,” she said. “Other than a few years at Chuck E. Cheese, it has all been wonderful.”
Robert Westfall, 4th District at-large
Westfall, born and raised in Kansas City, studied business and public policy at the University of Missouri. In his 20s, he developed a drinking problem and received multiple DWIs until his license was suspended for a decade.
He quit drinking when he was 27.
The experience of addiction and “squandering many of the opportunities I was given as a youth” made him quit “feeling sorry for myself,” he said.
This led to him becoming “committed to fixing the systemic roadblocks that have kept too many from having their own opportunities for far too long.”
“How do we define success as a city? Is it by changes to our skyline? Or is it that everyone living within our city who is willing to put in the work should have the same opportunity for a safe, happy, and fulfilling life?” Westfall said. “I think it is the latter.”
Lee Barnes, Jr., 5th District at-large
Barnes, an incumbent, grew up in Kansas City and graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in engineering. He is a director of a nonprofit that develops educational programs and a Treasurer and Trustee for Metropolitan Missionary Baptist church.
He said the top priority facing the city is “repairing or replacing our aging infrastructure, in addition to improving our basic services to citizens.” Funds need to be distributed equally, he said, but communities should understand that circumstances dictate that some areas need more money from the city than others at a given time.
Barnes has recorded and performed on the drums for Ground Level, a local band, for more than 25 years.
Dwayne Williams, 5th District at-large
Williams is president and CEO of the Twelfth Street Heritage Development Corporation that rehabilitates inner-city homes in Kansas City. It also runs programs to mentor urban core youth and to help those who have been released from prison readjust to society.
He wants to see more neighborhood policing, more investment in law enforcement equipment and technology and a focus on economic inequality to address the issues of crime and public safety in Kansas City.
Williams said he has a “great love for and appreciation for horses,” and loves fishing, having gone in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the Sea of Cortez and the Gulf of Mexico.
Andrea Bough, 6th District at-large
Bough is an attorney specializing in commercial real estate, land use, development and economic development. She was a member of Mayor Sly James’ transition team, and chaired the mayor’s Commission on Ethics Reform.
She believes that violent crime is the single most important issue facing Kansas City. While it should be addressed through “immediate solutions,” she said, it’s especially important to also do so through its “root causes,” such as community policing, mental health services and help for the needy.
Bough described herself as a “huge sports fan” who has tracked statistics for her son’s baseball and basketball teams and went to a Red Sox vs. Royals game at Fenway Park in Boston with her husband for her 25th wedding anniversary.
Stacey Johnson-Cosby, 6th District at-large
Johnson-Cosby has been a real estate agent in Kansas City for 32 years. She said this experience gives her the perspective to advocate for economic development projects and help shepherd them forward.
She believes crime and neighborhood safety is the biggest issue facing Kansas City.
“We must do something different than we have done in the past,” Johnson-Cosby said, so she wants to start a summit to bring together experts and community members to brainstorm potential solutions.
She has been married to her husband for 31 years, and both of her parents and two of her sisters are military veterans.
Heather Hall, 1st District
Hall, an incumbent running unopposed, said she is diligent about seeking new information and is consistent in her decision making process before voting.
“I’m working on roads, sidewalks and trash collection. I will continue to work with law enforcement to keep our citizens and officers safe,” she said.
She and her husband love to sail.
Dan Fowler, 2nd District
Fowler, an incumbent, has lived in the Northland since 1987 when he moved from the Kansas side and has represented the 2nd District since 2015. He has been Chairman of the Ethics and Legal Review Committee and vice-chair of the Airport Committee.
Public safety is the most important issue facing Kansas City, he said, and since state and federal funds are so scarce, the city, local businesses and philanthropies and other groups need to work together to find solutions.
He loves riding his bike, hanging out with his grandkids and reading history. His favorite historical figure is Winston Churchill.
Kevin M. McEvoy, 2nd District
McEvoy works as a sales manager and has lived in Kansas City since 2004. He enjoys volunteering and coaching youth sports.
He said he “would ask voters to understand that I am not someone steeped in the connections of City Hall and the failures of the past.”
He believes violent crime and the homicide rate are the most significant issues facing the city, and one specific solution that he recommended was investing in streetlights and road and sidewalk maintenance in high-crime areas.
He was a volunteer firefighter. He once dressed up as Santa Claus and rode around on a firetruck talking to children about their Christmas wishes, and he also volunteered at Ground Zero in New York City in the days after 9/11.
Melissa Robinson, 3rd District
Robinson has worked for health care nonprofits and chaired the Kansas City Public School Board of Directors. She is currently executive director of the Black Health Care Coalition.
She wants to improve public safety by investing in mental health support, education and providing jobs that pay a living wage. She said she supports community policing and background checks to buy guns.
Her father loved chess, and she grew up playing against him, beating him for the first time when she was a teenager.
“I challenged him to replay the games from his chess magazines and I would always choose the winning player,” Robinson said. “Now, that my dad has passed away, I still love the game but will only play solo from his old magazines.”
Joseph “Joey Cuts” Thomas, 3rd District
Thomas runs a barbershop in the 18th and Vine District. He started the Know Joey Foundation that provides professional development for young men in the city and hosts two annual events: Fresh Cut Fresh Start and Turkey Tuesday.
He said he doesn’t believe any issue should be more important than another, but if he had to pick one especially important one facing Kansas City it would be “the heart and mindset of the people.”
He loves weather and clouds. He and his brother want to go storm chasing in a refurbished truck.
“I see myself being a meteorologist in my older days. Not sure how far away but years from now,” he said.
Geoff Jolley, 4th District
Jolley has worked as a firefighter, lawyer and aide to Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, which he said combines to give him an ability to empathize with the public as well as to work within the government to get things done.
“Many of the difficult issues we face in our community, from crime to poor health, can be traced to our socio-economic divide,” he said. “By using our resources strategically, and encouraging economic development throughout our entire city, we will help to create a city that can continue to thrive.”
After he graduated from law school, Jolley was a firefighter in Antarctica for six months at a research facility. He said there were days with 24 straight hours of sunlight and wind chills as low as minus 90.
“I arrived on the first flight of the season and left on the last flight,” he said. “It was certainly one of the most interesting and memorable experiences of my life.”
Eric Bunch, 4th District
Bunch is co-founder of BikeWalkKC. He is an advocate for investing in Kansas City’s infrastructure, and he wants to add more bike lanes as streets are repaved. He said one of the proudest moments of his life was leading a campaign that led to Kansas City approving $150 million in 2017 to repair sidewalks.
“Generations of inequality continues to be the most deeply rooted challenge our city faces,” he said. This can be addressed “by investing in affordable housing, public transportation, and education.”
His grandmother, a small-town mayor in southeast Missouri, introduced Bunch to progressive politics, he said. She also passed along an interest in native birds and foliage.
Ryana Parks-Shaw, 5th District
Parks-Shaw was born in Kansas City and has worked in healthcare administration for 25 years. She has served on the Eastern Jackson County Workforce Development Board and the statewide Missouri Hospice and Palliative Care Board.
She wants to create more quality affordable housing in Kansas City through funding the established fair housing plan, through community benefit agreements on developments, through general obligation bonds and by working together with other council members.
“I enjoy line-dancing to all types of music, including country line dancing. It is a fun way to get some exercise without it feeling like you are exercising,” Parks-Shaw said.
Edward Bell, II, 5th District
Bell, born and raised in Kansas City, studied public administration and political science at Park University, then got his Master’s in business administration from Benedectine College.
“My professional experience includes being an educator, community relations specialist, nonprofit leadership, retail management, and executive consulting,” he said. “I serve as a mentor, community advocate, and a caring member of my community.”
Workforce and economic development are at the center of Bell’s campaign. He wants to strengthen unions in his district, and he wants neighborhood groups to collaborate more often and more effectively with elected officials.
Kevin McManus, 6th District
McManus, born and raised in the 6th District, is the incumbent councilman. He previously served in the Missouri House of Representatives.
“As a former member of the state legislature, I know firsthand what happens when a legislative body is more focused on hyper-partisanship than getting things done,” he said. “We accomplish much more -- and have a far greater impact -- when we work together.”
He wants more social workers and more community interaction police officers to make neighborhoods safer, he said, and he wants to forge partnerships with private, public and nonprofit groups to create an affordable “pathway toward homeownership.”
McManus hosted a late-night blues program on FM radio when he was in college, and used to play guitar for a band called the Reg.


Rolling bearing is one of the most important parts of rotating machinery. Its operation state directly determines whether the whole machine is safe, efficient, and reliable. However, due to the influences of transferring load and the additional load by the gear meshing in motor bearing, the fault rate of rolling bearing is always high without decreasing, and even shows an upward trend sometimes. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly important to improve the reliability of rolling bearings and to accurately detect bearing faults in time. When motor bearing faults occur, the periodic pulse impact force is generated, the nonlinear vibration of the mechanical system causes a collected vibration signal that often takes on nonlinear and non-stationary characteristics. At the same time, the fault will rapidly develop and the collected vibration signals often contain a large amount of noise. Moreover, the early fault features of the bearing in the vibration signal is relatively weak, which easily overwhelms the signal due to the noise. It is generally known that the bearing is one of the most vulnerable components in the motor and is where faults occur. Bearing damage constitutes about 44% of the total number of motor faults [1
]. Therefore, accurately extracting fault features from the motor bearing and successfully separating the fault mode has been a serious and difficult problem.
In order to effectively extract fault features of bearing from the vibration signal, many scholars have proposed many effective methods, such as short time Fourier transform (STFT), wavelet transform (WT), Hilbert–Huang transform (HHT), empirical mode decomposition (EMD), ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), entropy, and so on [2
]. Seker and Ayaz [6
] proposed a new method to extract features from the measured vibration signals in motors subjected to accelerated bearing fluting aging and to detect the effects of bearing fluting at each aging cycle of induction motors. Yang et al. [7
] proposed a fault diagnosis method based on empirical mode decomposition energy entropy according to the non-stationary characteristics of roller bearing fault vibration signals. Cheng et al. [8
] proposed a new fault feature extraction approach based on EMD method and an autoregressive model for roller bearings. Cheng et al. [9
] proposed a local rub-impact fault diagnosis method of a rotor system based on empirical mode decomposition. Immovilli et al. [10
] compared the bearing fault detection capability obtained with the vibration and current signals. These studies contributed to the use of a simple and effective signal processing technique for both current and vibration signals. Lei et al. [11
] proposed an automated and effective fault diagnosis method of a locomotive roller bearing based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition and a wavelet neural network. Wang et al. [12
] proposed a bearing fault diagnosis method (named cyclic spike detection method) to extract weak bearing fault features from a multi-component signal mixture. Liu et al. [13
] proposed frequency band entropy based on short-time Fourier transform to detect hidden periodical components in signals and extract fault features from strong background noises. Wang et al. [14
] proposed a new method for diagnosing faults and assessing the health of bearings by using the Mahalanobis–Taguchi system. Liao and Li [15
] proposed a hybrid fault-feature extraction method by detecting localized defects and analyzing vibration signals of rolling element bearings via customized multi-wavelet packet transform and a swarm fish algorithm. Wang et al. [16
] proposed an early weak fault feature extraction method of a rolling bearing based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition and tunable Q-factor wavelet transform. Ahn et al. [17
] proposed a fault detection method of a roller bearing system by using a wavelet denoising scheme and a proper orthogonal value of an intrinsic mode function covariance matrix. Jiang et al. [18
] proposed a novel approach of condition monitoring and fault diagnosis for rolling element bearings based on an improved ensemble empirical mode decomposition. Zhu et al. [19
] proposed a roller bearing fault diagnosis method based on hierarchical entropy and a support vector machine with a particle swarm optimization algorithm. Gao et al. [20
] proposed a novel time–frequency distribution matrix factorization method based on combining the concepts of a time–frequency distribution with non-negative matrix factorization to enhance representation and identification of bearing faults. Henao et al. [21
] reviewed the trends of diagnostic techniques in fault diagnoses for electrical machines in recent years. The total number of operating electrical machines in the world was around 16.1 billion in 2011. Lucia et al. [22
] proposed a novel technique based on the stray flux measurement in different positions around the electrical machine, and reports an extensive survey on the stray-flux-based fault detection methods for induction motors. Wang et al. [23
] proposed a general sequential Monte Carlo method and a joint posterior probability density function of wavelet parameters by a set of random particles with their associated weights for extracting bearing fault features. He et al. [24
] proposed an ensemble super-wavelet transform based on the combination of tunable Q-factor wavelet transform and Hilbert transform for investigating the vibration features of induction motor bearing faults. Wang et al. [25
] proposed an early weak fault diagnosis method of rolling bearing based on minimum entropy de-convolution and a fast Kurtogram algorithm. Wang et al. [26
] proposed a novel non-negative empirical mode decomposition manifold method for feature extraction from the fault-related intrinsic mode functions in machinery fault diagnosis. Shi et al. [27
] proposed a method of empirical mode decomposition based on a cascaded multi-stable stochastic resonance system. Wang et al. [28
] proposed a novel faint signal extraction method by a time–frequency distribution image dimensionality reduction in order to overcome the shortcomings of the fast Kurtogram method. Li et al. [29
] proposed a new bearing vibration feature extraction method based on self-adaptive time–frequency analysis, multi-scale permutation entropy, and an improved support vector machine based on a binary tree for rolling bearings.
In recent years, many feature extraction methods based on nonlinear dynamics parameters have been proposed, such as fractal dimension, approximate entropy, sample entropy, and so on. They are widely used in signal analysis and processing of machinery and have become new methods for analyzing nonlinear time series. Approximate entropy was proposed by Pincus and applied to analyze physiological time series [30
]. However, the approximate entropy has its matching features [31
]. Richman et al. [32
] proposed sample entropy for compensating approximate entropy defects. Approximate entropy and sample entropy are statistical indexes for measuring the complexity of the signal. When two models are evaluated to be similar or not, the given threshold is used as the criterion. If the distance between two models shows small changes near the threshold parameter, it will cause different discriminated results and affect statistical stability. For this problem, Chen [33
] proposed the fuzzy entropy method. This method used the membership function instead of the hard threshold criterion in fuzzy theory. Fuzzy entropy is used to measure physiological signals and obtain an improved measure effect. On the basis of studies, some new entropy methods are proposed for feature extraction, such as scale entropy [35
], multi-scale entropy [36
], multi-scale permutation entropy [38
], and multi-scale fuzzy entropy [41
]. For the vibration signals of mechanical equipment, the vibration signals of different faults have different complexities, and the probability of generating new models are different. Thus, the entropy values are also different. Moreover, some faults usually appear in a certain frequency band. The fault types are different, as are the corresponding characteristic frequency bands. The signal in the fault frequency band changes, and its complexity will change. Thus, the values of multi-scale fuzzy entropy are used as the fault feature index for the pattern recognition of rolling bearing faults in this paper.
These proposed methods have their own limitations in feature extraction and fault diagnosis for rotating machinery. In a mechanical fault diagnosis, wavelet transform has achieved good results, but it is not clear as to how wavelet function can be chosen with improved time and frequency resolution. The threshold of manual operation needs to be determined. The EMD method has been widely used, but there are problems of mode mixing, end effects, over envelope, under envelope, and so on in the decomposition signal. The EEMD method is an improved EMD method, which can adaptively decompose the signal into a series of IMFs with different time scales according to the characteristics of the signal, and can effectively solve existing problems. Multi-scale fuzzy entropy measures the complexity of the time series under different scales and the probability of generating new information under a new dimension. It is a new method based on multi-scale entropy and fuzzy entropy and takes on the advantages of small data, anti-noise, and relative consistency.
Due to the complexity of the mechanical system, the vibration signal contains related fault information, which is often distributed at different scales. The different fault vibration signals have different complexities, the probability of the generated new model is also different, and the entropy is also different. Thus, the multi-scale analysis method is a valid method for calculating the entropy values to generate the fault feature vector. When the bearing fault occurs, the complexity of the vibration signal will change. For different fault types and severities, the frequencies of the friction and impact are different. The complexities of the corresponding vibration signals are also different. Thus, a new fault feature extraction of the motor bearing based on EEMD, mode selection, and multi-scale fuzzy entropy is proposed in this paper. The EEMD is used to decompose the vibration signal into a series of IMFs with specific physical meanings. Then, three more sensitive IMFs are selected to represent the original signal by using the correlation coefficient method. Moreover, the multi-scale fuzzy entropy is used to extract the features of different faults under different scales. The support vector machine (SVM) classifier is used to classify, identify, and determine the working condition and fault type of the motor bearing. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by analyzing and testing the fault signal of a real motor bearing.
5. The Experiment Validation and Result Analysis
5.1. Effectiveness Validation and Comparative Analysis of the Proposed Method
The motor bearing with no-load and a fault diameter of 0.007 in. is selected to validate and analyze the effectiveness of the proposed method in this section.
The original data were divided into segments of samples where each sample covered 2048 data points. Each of the three fault states (the inner race fault, the outer race fault, and the rolling element fault) includes 40 samples. There are 60 samples for training and 60 samples for testing. The dataset consists of 120 data samples of three fault states.
The SVM with small sample classification and the short training time is selected as a classifier here. The obtained values of multi-scale fuzzy entropy are selected as characteristic vectors. That is to say, T = [MFE1, MFE2, MFE3, ..., MFE15] is selected to form characteristic vectors. Then, the characteristic vectors T is input into the SVM model to train the SVM model and obtain the SVM classifier. The diagnosis results of the testing samples are shown in Table 4
In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed EOMSMFD method for feature extraction and fault diagnosis, the EDOFSFD method based on EEMD, mode selection, and fuzzy entropy is selected here. In the EDOFSFD method, the fuzzy entropy is used to replace multi-scale fuzzy entropy. Thus, the flow and steps of the EDOFSFD method is quite similar to the proposed EOMSMFD method. The EDOFSFD method is not described due to the limited space. The comparison results for two fault diagnosis methods are shown in Table 5
As can be seen from Table 5
and Figure 20
, for the fault vibration signal of the inner race and the outer race, it can be seen that the proposed EDOFSFD method and the EOMSMFD method can both obtain a diagnosis accuracy of 100%. However, for the fault vibration signal of the rolling element, it can be seen that the test accuracy of the proposed EOMSMFD method and the EDOFSFD method is 100% and 25% in the experiments, respectively. Thus, the proposed EOMSMFD method has a higher diagnosis accuracy than the EDOFSFD method. For the EDOFSFD method and the EOMSMFD method, the EEMD, mode selection, and SVM are the same. Multi-scale fuzzy entropy is used to extract the feature from the vibration signal in the proposed EOMSMFD method, and fuzzy entropy is used to extract the feature from the vibration signal in the proposed EDOFSFD method. This shows that the multi-scale fuzzy entropy can better extract features from the vibration signal than can fuzzy entropy. Thus, the feature extraction and fault diagnosis capabilities of the proposed EOMSMFD method outperform the EDOFSFD method. The EOMSMFD method is the most effective method for extracting the fault feature from the collected vibration signal and for diagnosing the faults.
5.2. Diagnosis Results and Analysis under Different Loads
In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed EOMSMFD method under load changes, the fault feature extraction and classification of the inner race fault, the outer race fault, and the rolling element fault of the motor bearing under no-load and 3HP loads are studied and analyzed. Fault diameters of 0.007 and 0.021 in. are selected here.
The original data were divided into segments of samples where each sample covered 2048 data points. For each fault under each fault severity and each load, there were 40 samples. Twenty samples were randomly selected as training samples, and the remaining 20 samples were selected as testing samples. Four hundred eighty samples for the motor bearing were obtained here. For each fault diameter, hybrid samples of no-load and 3HP loads were used to diagnose fault type. The diagnosis results are shown in Table 6
As can be seen from Table 6
, for the inner race, the outer race, and the rolling element of the motor bearing, the correctness rates of fault diagnosis are 100% for the motors under no-load and the 3HP load and the fault diameters for 0.007 and 0.021 in., respectively. The experiment results show that the proposed method does not have any influence and is very stable for different loads. That is, the proposed method is not sensitive to the load on the motor. It takes on an improved stability and effectiveness in fault diagnosis for the motor under different loads.
5.3. Diagnosis Results and Analysis under Different Fault Severities
In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed EOMSMFD method for different fault severities, the fault types and fault severities of the inner race, the outer race, and the rolling element of the motor bearing are diagnosed. The motor with fault diameters of 0.007 and 0.021 in. under 3HP load is selected here.
The original data were divided into segments of samples where each sample covered 2048 data points. For each fault type under each fault severity, there were 40 samples. Twenty samples were randomly selected as training samples, and the remaining 20 samples were selected as testing samples. Four hundred eighty samples for the motor bearing were obtained here. The hybrid samples of fault diameters of 0.007 and 0.021 in. were used to diagnose fault type and fault severity. The diagnosis results are shown in Table 7
As can be seen from Table 7
, for the inner race and the outer race faults of the motors with 3HP loads and fault diameters of 0.007 and 0.021 in., the correctness rate of classification and the correctness rate of fault severity are 100%, respectively. For the rolling element fault of the motors with 3HP loads and fault diameters of 0.021 in., the correctness rate of classification and the correctness rate of fault severity are both 100%. However, for the rolling element fault of the motors with 3HP loads and fault diameters of 0.007 in., the correctness rate of classification are 95%, and the correctness rate of fault severity is 100%. The experiment results show that the proposed method does not have any influence and is effective for different fault severities on the motor bearing. That is, the proposed method can effectively diagnose the fault for different severities on the motor bearing. Thus, the proposed method is an effective method for realizing the fault types and fault severities of the inner race, the outer race, and the rolling element of the motor bearing.
To summarize, the proposed EOMSMFD method mainly has the following advantages:
(1) The EEMD can effectively decompose the vibration signal into a series of IMFs and residual components. Moreover, it can effectively avoid the mode mixing phenomenon.
(2) The correlation coefficient method can effectively select three corresponding sensitive IMFs to represent the original signal. It can not only extract the effective mode and reduce the workload, but can also avoid dealing with useless modes.
(3) Multi-scale fuzzy entropy can better extract fault features from the vibration signals than can fuzzy entropy. The extracted fault features take on an improved distinguishing ability.
(4) The proposed EOMSMFD method is an effective fault diagnosis method for motor bearings. Moreover, this method does not have any influence on motors with different loads and different fault severities. It can effectively diagnose fault types and fault severities on motor bearings. Moreover, it takes on an improved stability and effectiveness in fault diagnosis for motors under different loads and different fault severities.
To perfectly extract the multiple scale characteristics of the vibration signal of the motor bearing and well diagnose its faults, a novel feature extraction (EDOMFE) method is proposed in this paper. The proposed method integrates EEMD, mode selection, and multi-scale fuzzy entropy. Moreover, the SVM is used as a classifier to obtain a fault diagnosis (EOMSMFD) method. The EEMD method is used to decompose the nonlinear and non-stationary vibration signals of the inner ring, the outer ring, and the rolling element of the motor bearing, and the IMFs with small modal mixing are obtained. The correlation coefficient analysis method is used to calculate and determine three improved IMFs, which are close to the original signal. Then, the multi-scale fuzzy entropy is used to calculate the entropy values for the three selected IMFs in order to generate the fault feature vector, which is input into SVM classifier to identify the fault types and fault severities. The effectiveness of the proposed method is fully evaluated by experiments and comparative studies. The experiment results show that the proposed method provides an improved recognition performance under the motor with different loads and different fault severities. The recognition rates of the inner race, the outer race, and the rolling element of the motor bearing, with hybrid samples of no-load and 3HP loads, reach 100% under the fault diameters of 0.007 or 0.021 in., respectively. For the motors with hybrid samples of fault diameters of 0.007 and 0.021 in. under 3HP loads, the recognition rate of classification and the recognition rate of fault severity are 100% for the inner race and the outer race of the motor bearing, and the recognition rate of classification is 95% and the recognition rate of fault severity is 100% for the rolling element of the motor bearing. Moreover, the comparative studies with the other mentioned methods show that the multi-scale fuzzy entropy can extract much more diagnostic information compared with fuzzy entropy, and the proposed method can effectively eliminate the influence of the mode mixing. Thus, the proposed method is found to be an effective method for the fault diagnosis of the motor bearing and has potential application for other rotating machinery.
Due to the lower computational efficiency of the proposed method, in future work, we will attempt to improve the computational efficiency for obtaining the fault feature vector by using multi-scale fuzzy entropy. The goal is to develop a real-time fault diagnosis system for rotating machinery.


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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Here is a full list of scheduled events for Oahu.
December 3, 2015 Thursday
6PM - 8PM KAIMUKI CHRISTMAS PARADE sponsored by Kaimuki Business & Professional Association. The event is expected to have 1,500 marchers, 35 vehicles & 5 floats. It will start at St. Louis HS/Chaminade University grounds, to Waialae Ave., to Koko Head Ave., to end at Municipal Parking Lot. Parade will be on makai half of Waialae Ave., mauka half to be contraflowed from 3rd Ave to Koko Head Ave.
December 4, 2015 Friday
6:30PM - 8:30PM WAHIAWA TOWN XMAS PARADE sponsored by Wahiawa Community & Buisness Association. The event is expected to have 300 marchers, 10 vehicles, & 2 floats. It will start at Kaala Elementary School, to California Ave., to North Cane St., end at Center St.
December 5, 2015 Saturday
9AM - 10:30AM 30TH ANNUAL MILILANI HOLIDAY PARADE presented by the Mililani Lions Club and sponsored by Mililani Shopping Center & Town Center of Mililani. The event is expected to have 1,500 marchers, 30 vehicles, 10 floats & 2 bands. It will start at Town Center of Mililani near Longs/Theatres Parking Lot, to Lanikuhana Ave., to Meheula Prkwy., to Kuahelani St., to Moenamanu St., to Kipapa Dr., to finish at Mililani Shopping Center near Jack in the Box.
9AM - 12PM KANEOHE CHRISTMAS PARADE sponsored by Kaneohe Christmas Parade Committee.The event is expected to have 1,800 marchers, 40 vehicles, 18 floats, & 5 bands. It will start at Windward Mall at Haiku Rd., to Kamehameha Hwy., to Kaneohe Bay Dr., to end at Castle High School.
4PM - 10PM WAIKIKI ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL sponsored by Go Holoholo, Inc. The event is expected to have 25,000+ participants. The event will close Kalakaua Avenue., all lanes and sidewalk areas from Lewers St. to Kealohilani Ave. Lane closures start at 5:30pm for set up.
6PM - 11PM MAYOR'S ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY/PARADE sponsored by the City and County of Honolulu. The event is expected to have 2,000 marchers, 40 floats & 15 vehicles. It will start at Aala Park to King St., kokohead on King St., to end in closed off portion of King St., between Punchbowl & South Sts.
December 6, 2015 Sunday
11AM - 1PM STREET BIKERS UNITED-TOYS FOR TOTS CARAVAN sponsored by Street Bikers United Hawaii. The event is expected to have 6,000 motorcycles. It will start at Magic Island, to Ala Moana Blvd., to Kalakaua Ave., to Monsarrat Ave., to Diamond Hd. Rd. to end at Kapiolani Community College-DH campus.
4PM - 6PM PEARL CITY CHRISTMAS PARADE sponsored by Pearl City Shopping Center. The event is expected to have 2,000 marchers, 30 vehicles, & 10 floats. It will start at Momilani Elementary School, to Hookiekie St., to Hoomoana St., to Hoolaulea St., to end at Pearl City Shopping Center.
December 10, 2015 Thursday
6:30PM - 8PM KAPAHULU-MOILIILI CHRISTMAS PARADE sponsored by Kapahulu-Moiliili Lions Club. The event is expected to have 250 marchers & 5-8 vehicles. It will start at Kuhio Elementary School, to King St., to Beretania St., to end at Isenberg St., fronting the Old Stadium Park.
December 11, 2015 Friday
6PM - 8PM HALEIWA TOWN CHRISTMAS PARADE sponsored by North Shore Community Chamber of Commerce/Haleiwa Main Street. The event is expected to have 500 marchers, 45 vehicles, 5 floats & 3 bands. It will start at Weed Circle, to Kamehameha Hwy., thru Haleiwa Town, to end at Haleiwa Beach Park.
December 12, 2015 Saturday
8:30AM - 11AM AIEA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION CHRISTMAS PARADE sponsored by Aiea Community Association. The event is expected to have 200 marchers, 10 vehicles, & 2 bands. It will start at Pearlridge Elem School Parking lot , to Moanalua Rd., to Kaamilo St., to Ulune St., to Halewiliko St., to end at Aiea Sugar Mill Site.
9AM - 11AM WAIMANALO CHRISTMAS PARADE sponsored by Waimanalo Construction Coalition. The event is expected to have 120 marchers, 4 vehicles, 4 floats & 2 bands. It will start at Waimanalo District Park, to Hihimanu St., to Kakaina St., to Mahailua St., to Kumuhau St., to Kalanianaole Hwy., to end at Waimanalo Beach Park.
10AM - 11:30AM GENTRY WAIPIO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION CHRISTMAS PARADE sponsored by Gentry Waipio Community Association. The event is expected to have 800 marchers & 15 vehicles. It will start at Gentry Waipio SC on Ukee St, near the Outback Steakhouse, to Ka Uka Blvd., to Waipio Uka St., to end at Gentry Waipio SC.
10AM - 12PM WAIANAE COAST CHRISTMAS PARADE sponsored by Waianae Coast Rotary Club. The event is expected to have 1,000 marchers, 30 vehicles, 30 floats, 5 bands & 3 horse groups. It will start at Waianae Boat Harbor, to Farrington Hwy., to end at Waianae Mall.
2PM - 4PM WAIPAHU CHRISTMAS PARADE sponsored by Leeward Oahu Lions Club. The event is expected to have 10 vehicles. It will start at Waipahu Elementary School to Waipahu St., to Leoku St., to end at Leolua St. behind Waipahu Town Center.
5PM - 7PM MANOA COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS PARADE sponsored by East Manoa Lions Club. The event is expected to have 1,100 marchers, 12 vehicles, & 5 bands. It will start at Noelani School., to Woodlawn Dr, to Kolowalu St., to East Manoa Rd., to Lowrey Ave., to Manoa Rd., to Manoa Park finish.
6PM -8PM WEST OAHU ELECTRIC LIGHT PARADE sponsored by Friends of Kapolei Hale/C&C Honolulu. The event is expected to have 25 vehicles, 3 floats & 4 bands. It will start at Kamaaha St./Kapolei Parkway, south half, west on Kapolei Parkway, past Fort Barrette Rd., right onto Kamaaha St and finish. The following closures will take place approx 3:00 pm: 1. Portions of south half of Kaplolei Prkwy will be closed for parade, 2. One (1) lane will be contraflowed on Kapolei Prkway for east bound traffic from Ft Barrette to Kinioki St.
December 19, 2015 Saturday
10AM - 12PM EWA BEACH LIONS CLUB CHRISTMAS PARADE sponsored by Ewa Beach Lions Club. The event is expected to have 1,000 marchers, 80 vehicles, 12 floats & 2 bands. It will start at Ilima Intermediate School Parking Lot, to Ft. Weaver Rd., to Kuhina St., to Hanakahi St., to North Rd., to Ft. Weaver Rd., to end at Ilima Intermediate School Parking Lot.
December 20, 2015 Sunday
2:30PM - 3:30PM OLOMANA CHRISTMAS PARADE sponsored by Olomana Community Association. The event is expected to have 30+ marchers, 10 vehicles & 7 floats. It will start at Maunawili Elementary School, to Ulupii St., to Ulupuni St., to Uluohao St., to Uluhala St., to Ulupuni St., to Ulukou St., end at Maunawili Elem School.


International sales and finance company Protagonist Pictures has beefed up its slate with five new titles - The Firm, The Unloved, Shifty, Nativity and Dogging: A Love Story - in time for American Film Market (AFM).
'I feel that we are exactly where we want to be as a company; working with both exciting new talent and established but invigorating filmmakers,' said Protagonist CEO Ben Roberts.
Directors Nick Love (The Football Factory, Outlaw) and Debbie Isitt (Nasty Neighbours, Confetti) provide the features track record.
The Firm is Love's latest offering and a new take on Alan Clarke's 1988 award-winning TV film. Shooting from this month, it is produced by James Richardson and Allan Niblo of Vertigo Films.
The comedy Nativity is a BBC Films production that reunites Isitt with Confetti producer Nick Jones and stars Martin Freeman (Love Actually, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and Ashley Jensen.
Three debut features complete the slate. Oscar-nominated actress Samantha Morton makes her first foray into directing with The Unloved. The film starts shooting in November and is funded by C4 and produced by Kate Ogborn with Andrew Eaton of Revolution Films as executive producer.
Writer/director Eran Creevy's first feature, Shifty casts rising star Riz Ahmed (Britz, The Road to Guantanamo) alongside Daniel Mays (Atonement, The Bank Job) and Jason Flemyng (Stardust, Layer Cake). Production is by Ben Pugh and Rory Aitken.
And award-winning short filmmaker Simon Ellis directs the comedy Dogging: A Love Story. Dogging is written by Brock Norman Brock and Michael Groom, and is produced by Vertigo Films.


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We later found out that the place is called Çinçin. The women standing at their gates wave at us again to return, but we’re already used to this behaviour. Some of them even make signs warning us to be careful with our camera and kit bags. Many of them insisit that Petrut took them a picture. The streets are calm, crowded with children, it’s almost noon. Every now and then a van passes by with loud music, commercials for watermelons or gas bottles. At the corner of the street, a kite is being lifted – it seems to be a very popular sport. A child talks to us in English, we try to chat for a while, but all he does is to repeat over and over a lesson learnt at school.
Somewhere on the hilltop we meet a group of young people – with pretty awkward appearances. Behind us, there is a plump of children whistling and shouting „tourist, tourist”. The young men ask us if we come from Almanya. We answer with Romanya. Their faces turn suddenly happy and they begin to talk tall: “Roma, roma”. Two of them take care of us, a child with a plastered hand and another child, riding a bike. The group of young men waves at us, smiling toothy, until we disappear from view. The ‘rider’ shows us to a platform-sight and proudly points at the view over the city. He even prompts us to climb a scaffold and take a picture. The child with a plastered hand asks for money, the rider scolds him. He shows us the way out of the neighborhood and we leave the area accompanied by a speech of the rider, in which Allah’s name is frequently mentioned. The boy with the plaster gives another whispered shot: “money, money”.
We rush our way down and come across a policemen car, who seem to be having a hard time trying to refrain from laughing when they see us. They say something in Turkish and leave. At the last street corner of this neighborhood, a boy leaves his group of friends to tempt us quite rudely with a speech containing words like „coke” and „heroin”.
When we got home, we began doing a little research on the area we had just visited. The internet said that Çinçin is considered to be the most dangerous neighborhood of the city. We find texts about “gangsta city”, where highbinders ride in luxury cars, thugs can be met at every street corner, the police uses armoured cars and merchandise vans are secured. This is exaggerated! It doesn’t look like the perfect place for a walk at night or for sightseeing, but things are not so frightening.

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Submissions to the 2018 East Doc Platform are now open.
The East Doc Platform (EDP) is the largest co-production, funding and distribution platform tailor-made for Central and East European documentaries. Every year, we connect 120 East European filmmakers to more than 100 key decision makers - producers, broadcasters, distributors and festival programmers from around the world.
Dates: March 3 - 9, 2018
Where: Prague, Czech Republic
Deadline for application: November 10, 2017
>>> APPLICATION FORM HERE <<<
The East Doc Forum is the flagship pitching opportunity for the funding and co-production of projects in the development/early production stage.
Open to: Creative feature-length documentary projects in development/early production stage
The East Doc Market offers curated meetings between filmmakers and decision makers to pitch projects in the late production/post-production stage.
Open to: feature-length projects, series and shorts in production and post-production
Meanwhile, the new East Doc Interactive facilitates collaboration between the storytellers and potential partners through a round-table pitch.
Open to: all kinds of interactive projects
In 2018, we are launching a partnership with the Tribeca Film Institute to stimulate short form documentary storytelling. For the first time, we present the IF/Then Short Pitch competition that will take place in the Central European region! The winner will receive USD 20,000 to complete the film and the IF/Then support for multi-platform distribution.
Open to: short documentary with a final duration (TRT) under 40 minutes
The East Doc Platform is organized by the Institute of Documentary Film in association with the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
We are looking forward to receiving your projects!
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Angel Girls Vector
A cool abstract image made up of a vector trace of a young girl, beautiful wings and floral elements. A nice soft image that could look great as a wallpaper or be the focal point of an abstract and decorative design. Download as AI and PDF for your designs.
Vector art by ysr1.deviantart.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Tags: Abstract, Angel, Feathers, Floral, Girl, Leaves, Wings, Woman.
File formats: AI, PDF.

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Century: Golem Edition
Century: Golem Edition Essentials:
- No. of players: 2 - 5
- Playing time: 30 - 45 minutes
- Age: 8 +
Century: Golem Edition - Rules of Play says:
Centuries have passed since the first humans arrived on Caravania. Legends have been shared from one generation to the next explaining Caravania's most exotic and rare mysteries – the soul crystals. Legend has it that the souls of the planet's original inhabitants were so pure that after death they were preserved as mesmerizing and powerful crystals. Simply holding a soul crystal, one could feel the essence of life radiating from deep inside. It wasn't long after the discovery of the soul crystals' power that humans used them to build and activate towering golems. After many forgotten centuries, those pure souls are able to breath life once again. In Century: Golem edition, players serve as traders attempting to collect crystals to create the most ornate and powerful of golems.
Century: Golem Edition Review:
Don't just take our word for it! Check out this review of Century: Golem Edition.

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Posted Apr 22, 2008 05:57 pm CDT
Embattled New Hampshire Superior Court Justice Patricia Coffey, who last week was suspended for three years, is stepping down from the bench.
The paper notes that Coffey’s resignation ends a lengthy ethics probe and likely heads off a vote by the state legislature to remove her.
Coffey reportedly said in her letter of resignation that she took issue with the high court’s opinion sanctioning her, asserting that the court was selective in its characterization of her actions in creating land trusts to protect her disbarred husband’s finances.
“I was disappointed in the decision issued by the Supreme Court because of the manner in which it emphasized certain evidence and ignored other evidence,” Coffey wrote.
She also offered an apology.
“I have taken responsibility for what I did and I did try to deal honorably and in a forthright manner with counsel for the Professional Conduct Committee and the Judicial Conduct Committee,” Coffey wrote. “My regret is that my actions, when I was under extreme emotional duress, may have reflected poorly on the judicial system as a whole and on those people who strive daily to make the system work, and to them, I apologize.”
Gov. John Lynch, who had called for the judge’s resignation, praised her decision to step down as “the right thing to do.”


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Posted 12 months ago | by Catoshi Nakamoto
Nathalie Brähler, Marko Atanasievski, Arnaldo Pereira, & Alex Mikhalevich
With the introduction of Cartesi Governance, the listing of CTSI on Crypto.com and the support of Coinbase Custody being announced in recent weeks, things are really heating up at Cartesi HQ as we near Q3; we have been working tirelessly to expand operations in all areas, from payment solutions with partners such as NOWPayments to building decentralized gaming models with leading blockchains such as Polygon.
We’re not planning on slowing down anytime soon and, in order to keep up the pace, we are excited to welcome four talented individuals to the ever-expanding Cartesi team! Assisting us with marketing efforts and adding to our already stellar engineering team, these new additions will ensure that we enter the second half of 2021 ready to develop Cartesi like never before.
Nathalie Brähler, Head of Marketing
Nathalie Brähler has a wide and award-winning global experience as a creative marketer and business strategist. She has carried projects out in different cultures, such as Europe, the Middle East, Russia, and South Africa. On her quest to create fairer business systems for people, she discovered blockchain technology and decentralisation. She got hooked and since 2018 she set up and taught university courses on bachelor and master level where students learn to ideate fairer, decentralised business concepts. Previously, she co-founded a blockchain-based startup in Influencer Marketing.
Nathalie is the initiator and chair of the annual The Future of Creative Business Conference, showing how AI, blockchain, bots, and new ecosystems are transforming the creative industry worldwide. She has been a speaker and jury member at several international festivals, as well as a workshop leader in innovation-related issues for leading brands.
“When I first read about Cartesi I understood: this is it. This is the transition we have been waiting for!”
Marko Atanasievski, Senior Software Engineer
Marko is a software professional with 12+ years of software development experience, including team lead and software architect positions in both startup and corporate environments. With a great interest in C++/Rust blockchain and system software development, Marko previously worked as a lead blockchain developer for a startup developing a Monero fork, also filling a team lead role for another company working on Edge AI projects.
With a Masters in both Science and Electronics, Marko studied at the University of Belgrade and although his primary field is system software development, he also has expertise in embedded systems, applications, blockchain and web technologies, and working knowledge of various programming languages including Solidity. We’re excited to utilize Marko’s experience in full-stack and blockchain application development to push the envelope for Cartesi’s various products in the coming months!
“I joined Cartesi because it made me believe again that making scalable real world applications with Ethereum is possible.”
Arnaldo Pereira, Senior Software Engineer
Arnaldo has 20+ years of experience delivering software and managing the infrastructure of high-scale distributed systems. He has worked on the human genome project in the 2000s, on the Escola Paulista de Medicina cell, and over the last 10 years has been primarily involved with retail, payment systems and cryptocurrencies.
Despite having led people over the last several years, Arnaldo has always been a hands-on professional; he has always been up to date with the latest technology trends and looks to keep his finger on the pulse of technological innovations.
Arnaldo has led architecture and SRE areas of the biggest retailer in Brazil, as well as the IT, engineering and security of one of the biggest crypto exchanges in Latin America. His main interests are the whole software delivery process, SRE and automation, scalability and decentralized architectures.
“I believe there’s too much potential on decentralized applications. Cartesi has the skills and ambition to turn that potential into reality and has already addressed some of the most fundamental problems, showing a unique perspective on how to approach them. The team’s passion and talent catches my eyes.”
Alex Mikhalevich, Software Engineer
Alex Mikhalevich is a software developer with a passion for cybersecurity and low-level development. Having worked at reputable companies such as Kaspersky Lab in previous years, Alex has for several years worked on developing and troubleshooting antivirus engines and cryptographic libraries.
As an instructor at both the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Moscow Higher School of Economics, Alex taught classes covering an array of topics surrounding Linux kernel development, as well as meta-programming, dev ops and more. When it comes to languages, Alex is fond of C++ and Rust.
“I joined Cartesi because it allowed me to apply my cybersecurity knowledge in an ever-evolving and truly exciting field, that of blockchain technology and distributed systems.”
We look forward to welcoming Nathalie, Arnaldo, Alex and Marko to the Cartesi team in what has already been a year of rapid expansion. We are confident that combining their knowledge with that of our various highly skilled developers and blockchain engineers will produce more fireworks for the Cartesi platform this year and beyond!
Cartesi Ecosystem Links:
Discord (Development Community): https://discordapp.com/invite/Pt2NrnS
Telegram Announcements: https://t.me/cartesiannouncements
Original article published on Cartesi’s Medium.


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Cobra Superformance MKIII 427 Roadster
Superformance MKIII 427 Cobra Roadster SP03420 is painted in stunning Ferrari Grigio Silverstone. With all chrome trim on headlights, quick jacks, turn signals, roll bar, and even the nickle-plated brass Windscreen frame finished in a Satin Black-Out Package. This Cobra has the elegant lines that defines the Cobra Roadster, but offers the modern feel of a Deep Metallic paint Job and serious black trim.
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