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So it’s obvious… since coming to Japan, Kyle and I have acquired a great many tattoo. Thanks to Hayakawa Taketoshi and Taku Yoshikawa at Eternal Crest in Hirosaki, Aomori, we have been permanently painting our bodies with some of the most meaningful and beautiful art this city will ever see:) I’ve had a few requests for tattoo pictures, meanings, and feelings of Japanese people about our tattoos. I HEAR THE PEOPLE!! So, let’s get started:
HUGGED OR SHUNNED?
Before coming here, Kyle had a half sleeve and I had a small tattoo on my wrist. We knew that we wanted to get some ink done in the Land of the Rising Sun, but everything we had heard before coming here was, “They hate tattoos. you will get fired. People will be afraid of you. You can’t go into onsens (public baths). People will think you’re trouble makers. You can’t walk around town showing them. You’ll scare your coworkers away.” What I have actually come to realize is there is some small truth behind some of these comments, but definitely not all of them.
Yes, as a whole tattoos are generally still not accepted as the norm in many places. Some of our good friends have actually been fired from their jobs when their bosses found out they had small tattoos. Some of our friends can show their ink whenever they want and be fine. It all depends on the profession a person has. There are still signs up in onsens that specifically say they don’t allow tattoos, people will sometimes complain causing them to kick you out. Some gyms also don’t allow people with tattoos to be a member. As for me, my coworkers and student parents know I have ink, and they are completely fine with it. Being a foreigner in Japan definitely has its perks, and this is just one of them.
My coworkers have accepted me as one of the active staff members at this school. For that, I am eternally grateful. They treat me as an equal among other teachers. They look to me for advice, ask for my opinion, and listen to my concerns. I know that there are a few that have strong opinions against my tattoos, but as long as I cover my ink while at any work related event, life is just peachy keen. I think that this can be true for a lot of places in America too though.
But, WHY Japan?
There is a long history of tattoos in Japan. The Yakuza (Japanese mafia) are known for having full body artwork done to represent that they are a member of the gang. Many of these people would hide their ink by wearing a penguin suit just like the rest of the salary men in the world, so no one could ever be sure who was Yakuza unless they took off their business attire. The Yakuza have caused many people to suffer with the things they’ve done, just like any gang could, and because of this, tattoos have long been regarded as a sign that you were a part of the Yakuza.
Of course, with the explosion of tattoos as a form of self-expression, the trend has been changing. Japan, deeply driven by tradition, is having a bit of a hard time adapting to the change. So, that’s why I still can’t go into some onsens, or am required to wear 1/2 sleeve shirts in the hot humid summer while doing any activity involving work. Sometimes, while riding my bike, or walking around the mall, I get stared at a lot, and I can hear whispers behind me. In onsens, I catch dirty looks from the Obas, probably wondering if I am a Yakuza chick (even though my work is NOT Japanese style). Generally though, people are just curious about them, so as often as I can, I like to engage people who I know are staring at me. Usually, they just have questions they wanted to ask, but were 1)Too shy to speak English 2)Afraid to be rude.
AND WHY TORI?
I’m sure Kyle has his own theology and reasons behind getting tattoos. We’ll share about all his in another post. But, as for me… I have long thought about tattoos before I ever got my first one. Especially, because I knew that every decision I made in life needed to be for a reason, not ‘just because I felt like it’. I worked in Christian ministry for a good chunk of my professional life as well, and I needed to know that I had a good solid theological belief in what I was doing. Especially, because I would be explaining it to hundreds of kids in the future. So, in a nutshell, I love tattoos. I always have. For me, they tell a story about my life. They are a beautiful reminder of how far I have grown as a person, and how I have triumphed over life’s obstacles. They whisper how to love people, and how I am loved exactly how I am. They are my key to unlocking conversation with others about all of these things. So, here they are…
This is my first tattoo. It is the only one I did not get in Japan. Mine is the the one on top. It says “Em Gai”. It’s Vietnamese and means second born sister. My older sister has “Chi Ca” and my younger sister has “Em Ut”. I titled it ‘clay’ because my sisters have put meaning into my shapeless life, they have molded me into the woman I am today. We have seen and experienced more things in our childhood together then most will in their entire lifetime. We have supported and loved each other since the day our mother explained what the word ‘love’ really meant. They have always been my only true friends in life, and I know that no matter what happens, that they WILL always be there to pick me up. It has not been an easy journey with them, but it has been one that has shaped my heart. One that I will never want to change.
A long blade piercing a rose with a banner that reads 27:17. Kyle has one almost identical to this on his shin. We got these together as a symbol of our promise to one another through our marriage. 27:17 is a verse from the book of Proverbs in the bible. “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” – Proverbs 27:17. It is our promise, and our reminder, that every thing we do in life is done in order to make each other a better person. If the things we are saying and doing to each other aren’t being done to make the other a better man or woman, then we need to rethink what we’re doing. Our hope is to help each other be the best human being we can possibly be.
Meet Hanging Cloud. She is a Chippewa (or Ojibwa) woman in a traditional Chippewa porcupine head roach. She was the only woman in the Chippewa history who was regarded as having a full warrior status. She was a strong, independent, loyal, and courageous woman who overcame so many physical and emotional boundaries in her life. She represents my mother. A half Chippewa woman who overcame prejudice, gender boundaries, social economic hardships, and who gave everything in her life to her three daughters. She worked extremely hard to provide us with opportunities to succeed in life, and put a strong willed independent spirit into the heart of each one of us. Always promising us that we were worth the very best, that we should be proud of who we are and what we look like, and that no matter what anyone tells us, WE can accomplish anything.
This is a beautiful broken mirror. The frame is perfect, flawless, just as we are all created to be. But there is brokenness within it, which can eventually be repaired, but can always be broken again. It is a reminder to me that I cannot judge anyone. No matter their life, their choices, or their looks. That, when I look in the mirror, I will not see the face of someone who hasn’t made a mistake before, or who hasn’t done things that they wish they could take back. I cannot judge others, because what is inside the mirror is not perfect. Until I am perfect, I am the same as everyone else.
This is Vietnam with a red star on the city of Hue, where my father was born. He had to leave Vietnam during the war in the early 1970’s and take refuge in America. His 8 brothers and sisters, mother, father, and friends would soon follow him to create a new life for themselves. Coming from a rich farming family, to basically nothing in the state of Washington on the west coast. Stripped of all titles and history, to working hard from nothing. His family would take boats to the free land hoping for a new shot at a brand new life. Waving to their home country that they loved so much, in the distance, as they floated away. The other piece is a medicine wheel. My mother has the exact same wheel tattooed on her upper arm. She was born on a Chippewa reservation in Montana, and was put up for adoption when she was just a baby. She would never loose the strong hold she had with her heritage. Always teaching us as much as she could about the things of the Ojibwa tribe, showing us pow-wows and explaining the culture. The medicine wheel itself is separated into four quadrants. One represents the north and signifies the spiritual aspects of human behavior, the winter season and the life stage of the elderly. Another represents east and signifies spring, new life and physical aspects of self. The next represents south and correlates with adolescence, the summer and mental behaviors. The last represents the west and stands for adulthood, the fall season and emotional aspects. THIS is where I come from. THIS is who I am.


The World Boxing Council (WBC) India Championship fight has been postponed due to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The first-ever WBC India Championship fight, between the country’s top women boxers Chandni Mehra and Suman Kumari, was initially scheduled to start on May 1 at the Great Khali Academy in Jalandhar, Punjab.
Despite continuous efforts, the prevailing surge in cases and the lockdown forced the organisers to postpone the event.
"Unfortunately, due to the growing number of COVID-19 cases across India and guidelines issued by the Indian Government, we have decided to postpone the first-ever WBC India Championship event to a later date," Parm Goraya, CEO of LZ Promotions, which is conducting the event, said on Friday.
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In the small town of Atwood in Northwest Kansas, it is easy to get distracted by its natural beauty and friendly faces. Though Atwood may be scenic, it and many other surrounding communities find it difficult to maintain reliable mental health resources. In 2020 and 2021, Rawlins County suffered the loss of eight people to suicide out of a total population of approximately 2,500 people. It was that which inspired the creation of The Cardinal Initiative.
The Cardinal Initiative is a nonprofit organization geared toward bringing reliable, multifaceted, and consistent mental healthcare to Rawlins County and the surrounding communities. Cardinal hopes to bring real change to the area by providing numerous avenues for people to choose from when seeking the care they need.
With your help, The Cardinal Initiative can become what it set out to be. By donating to Cardinal, you will be assisting us in creating an essential resource Northwest Kansas has needed for a long time.

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PeopleFund is being recognized by Bank of America for its work in Austin which in turn supports the sustainable growth of the Central Texas economy.
The nonprofit has been announced as one of Bank of America's Neighborhood Builders. It provides small business loans in Texas to established businesses, nonprofits and startups.
Sharon Miller, Bank of America's Managing Director and National Sales Executive, and Gary Linder, PeopleFund's President and CEO, talk more about the organization and why Bank of America decided to get involved.
You can find out more information about PeopleFund here.
More information about Bank of America's Neighborhood Builders program can be found here.

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Get Ready for Allergy Season With These 3 Simple Tips
Sneezing, itchy eyes and sinus congestion are just some of the symptoms that allergy sufferers experience at the onset of allergy season. If pollen and other allergens have you racing indoors for relief, you may be surprised to learn that indoor environments in Middleburg, FL are typically many times more polluted than the great outdoors. Today’s tightly sealed homes are great for keeping the air that you’ve paid to condition inside, but they can also trap allergy-trigging contaminants indoors too. These three simple tips can help you manage allergies without sending your air conditioning bills skyrocketing or sacrificing your comfort at home.
1. Schedule HVAC Maintenance
Your first defense against poor indoor air quality is a clean-running air conditioner. Your central air conditioning system doesn’t just cool indoor air. It helps exhaust pollutants outside and control your home’s humidity levels as well. Without proper maintenance, however, an air conditioner can trap allergens indoors and worsen allergy symptoms. Regular tune-ups also optimize your air conditioner so it works at peak energy efficiency, saving you money on summer energy bills. To ensure that AC systems get the regular care they need, many homeowners choose to enroll in a preventative maintenance agreement. By keeping your equipment in top-notch condition, maintenance plans pay for themselves in fewer repairs and a longer service life.
2. Upgrade Your Air Filter
The generic air filters that comes with most cooling systems are primarily designed to protect the equipment from dust and debris. If you or another family member has allergies, upgrading the air filter can help clean the air. Before you start shopping, however, it’s a good idea to consult a reputable HVAC technician first. A too-dense filter impacts air circulation and AC performance. For optimal allergy relief, consider a whole-house solution. Deep-pleated filters like Carrier’s Comfort EZ Flex Cabinet Air Filter are engineered to work in concert with your existing central air conditioning system to keep air flowing while capturing particulates as small as 1.0 micron.
3. Improve Ventilation
Allergens like dust mites, mold spores and bacteria thrive in climates where summers are hot and humid. Introducing fresh pre-dried air into your home helps keep indoor allergens at bay. Energy recovery ventilators offer savvy solutions when you want to lower humidity levels while improving ventilation. Carrier’s Performance Energy Recovery Ventilator, for example, uses the warm air that your AC vents outdoors as an energy source to pre-condition incoming fresh air. It’s an energy-efficient way to enhance your home’s indoor air quality without driving up your cooling bills.
Mike Merritt Heating and Air Conditioning offers a broad array of products and services that help clean, filter and purify the air that you and your family breathes. From ultraviolet lamps that zap mold and bacteria to whole-home air purifiers, you can count on finding effective solutions for all of your comfort needs when you choose Mike Merritt Heating and Air Conditioning as your HVAC provider.


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By BiSM1LLah-empiritrage. Home Accent. At Saturday, October 13th 2018, 09:54:35 AM.
Being too cluttered doesn't make a home more attractive. It just makes it look cluttered. Using accent pieces to spruce up your home shouldn't create a cacophony of various artifacts that just end up needing a good dusting every week. You are looking for spatial relationships that work well within each room of your house. So, if you start with the basics and then work your way from there you can enhance your home without cluttering it.
Mirrors: Aside from being decorative mirrors are very functional. They come in various sizes, shapes and designs. A mirror creates an illusion of a larger room. It should reflect an interesting home décor, for example a vase or the garden outside. You simply need a little creativity and experimenting on where to hang it.
You don't have to buy all the expensive and unique home decors to come up with an impressive look. There are home decors which are offered with discounts in stores if you try to look for them. Your special touch and attention can help you do things that will give your home the fresh look you always wanted.

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What is Hijiki Hada in Japanese Katana terminology?
Hijiki Hada or ひじき肌 in Japanese, refers to a distinctive state of the ground iron (jigane) seen in the works of the swordsmith Hankei (繁慶), who was active during the early Edo period. The term ""Hijiki Hada"" literally translates to ""hijiki skin"", which describes the appearance of the pattern that resembles the texture of hijiki, a type of seaweed that is commonly used in Japanese cuisine.
This pattern is characterized by a forging skin (Kitae Hada) made of Itame (wood grain) that is created by mixing and forging together iron of different hardness. The welded parts open up, and the ground pattern (Chikei) along these parts takes on a blackish hue, which is reminiscent of hijiki. This is why it is called ""Hijiki Hada"".
The pattern of the ground iron (jigane) plays a significant role in the aesthetics and value of a Japanese sword. It is one of the factors that sword connoisseurs look at when evaluating a sword. The Hijiki Hada, with its unique pattern that resembles the texture of hijiki, is a distinctive feature that sets Hankei's swords apart.


Noah Preminger, tenor sax; Gary Versace, piano; Vicente Archer, bass; Rob Garcia, drums
The Rob Garcia 4 is a working group that has been, “among the vanguard of modern jazz” (TheNYC Jazz Record) since 2009. Garcia has led them through performances at major venues and festivals around the world, such as Smalls Jazz Club, The Kitano, The Cornelia Street Cafe,mFirehouse 12, Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open, The Rex (Toronto), Jamboree (Barcelona), The Toronto Jazz Festival, The Kingston Jazz Festival (Canada) and the Ottawa International Jazz Festival. The group has released four critically acclaimed albums on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records. The latest, Finding Love In An Oligarchy On A Dying Planet, features Noah Preminger, Gary Versace, Masa Kamaguchi and special guests, jazz legend Joe Lovano, vocalist Kate McGarry, and actor, musician and activist Brendan Burke.
“Thoughtful original music delivered with rare conviction.” – Jazz Times


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I’ve previously blogged, written about and, at this year’s Digital Odyssey, spoke on conflict minerals and the need for librarians to be aware of and respond to the issue. In the video above Bandi Mbubi speaks at TEDxExeter on his own experience of the effects of the war in Congo caused by tantalum mining.
Bandi Mbubi grew up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, experiencing first hand the political unrest and oppression which have since worsened there. As a student activist, Bandi suffered persecution and fled the country, seeking political asylum in the U.K. But Mbubi has kept his home country on his radar, noting how the mining of tantalum — a mineral used in cell phones and computers — has fueled the ongoing war there in which 5 million have died.

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I had an American made Traeger for 6 years and after it rusted out I was looking something built for the long haul. The YS 640 is it. Built like a tank it will hold up for years and the extra steel helps retain the heat. Temperature control is spot on and recoverey after opening the lid is amazing. I thoroughly researched all my options and I could not be happier. I cooked steaks the other night in 40 degree weather and had no issues whatsoever. The grille grates are a must and leave beautiful lines. Before you buy anything else, investigate what the other cookers are made of. There really is no comparison.
If you have faced or currently face the problem with common things like pellet feed jamming or wear and tear of your smoker, then replacing the exact component will solve your problem. Thus, without changing your whole smoker you can continue with some $40 – $50 changes. It might seem complicated for you if you face a problem with your digital control system. Adding the element of professional knowledge will help tremendously. Solving problem with $150 is much better than spending $500, right?
Their behavior is sometimes counterintuitive. The hotter they get, the less smoke they produce, and at their top settings, they don't produce much smoke at all. This is good for when you are baking cakes or pies or doing dishes that don't need smoke. But down under 250°F, they produce plenty of mild, elegant smoke. And even though the fuel is wood, it is hard to oversmoke with a pellet smoker. Burning wood on a charcoal grill produces much more intense smoke flavor.
Pellet grills come in many different sizes that accommodate food as per those sizes. However, even the smaller kinds are able to cook up a meal for a large family of 4 to 5 at a time! The larger ones are obviously able to accommodate large portions of meat and other food in it. In fact, some large pellet grills are used to cook up a whole baby lamb or large fishes at a time! This is one appliance that has been proven ideal for feeding a lot of heads at a time without the stress and the hard work of course, making it great for small to medium parties and get-together.
And #3, good bbq or grilled meats should taste great without a ton seasonings or sauce. Beef especially can be excellent with simple salt! Make sure your seasonings enhance flavor. Another great read, the late (and much grieved at our house) Paul Prudhomme’s ‘Louisiana Kitchen’ again available on Amazon used for a couple of bucks and a masterpiece! Paul was a master of seasoning. Don’t kill it with seasonings and sauce, enhance the foods flavors. Barks on meat are great if they are right. However burnt, sugar and many other seasonings detract from the meats natural flavor. I personally love a meat you can eat without a sauce and then sauce if you want some added flavors going on!
Who says bigger is always better? Our fourth contender to make it to our pellet grill review is the The Traeger TFB29LZA Junior elite grill. This petite pellet grill has been specifically designed to meet the needs of small households. Its small body makes it ideal for travelling and tailgating. It features a 300 square inch cooking surface. This pellet grill weighs just 60 pounds. You will get an LED digital, multi-position thermostat that comes with a 3 year warranty.
I bought a Yoder YS480 three years ago. I still use my cheaper pellet grill for everyday smokes, but I use the Yoder when I want to get serious. It does a beautiful job on baby back ribs (can do up to 8 racks laying flat on the grate) and I have smoked two complete turkeys at a time. The only time I have had a problem after 2 1/2 years of smoking was caused by a failed temperature probe. I got a new probe, installed it in a few minutes, and was back up and smoking again.
While many people enjoy pellet grills, some find it difficult to use pellets to produce true, flavorful steaks and barbecue since the fuel often lacks the same flavors as traditional grills. That smoky, wood flavor many steaks have is not impossible to get with the right pellet grill however. The Z Grills Wood Pellet Grill sports a combined grill/smoker setup with temperature control for the best pellet grilling experience available.

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Lisburn building company TAL Ltd goes into administration
A County Antrim building firm with an annual turnover of about £20m has gone into administration.
Lisburn-based TAL Ltd, which was established in 1981, employs about 50 people directly, with other jobs linked to sub-contractors.
It hopes the posts can be saved as negotiations start into the future of the business.
TAL Ltd carries out work in both the private and public sectors.
'Industry facing challenges'
Construction Employers Federation managing director John Armstrong said the news was "devastating".
"Workloads are short, margins are tight and industry confidence remains incredibly low," he said.
"In light of the ongoing political challenges at Stormont, this news reinforces the need for the executive to pro-actively address the challenges that our industry faces."
But he added: "We hope that a positive resolution to TAL's current administration can be found so that jobs can be saved."
Tal Civil Engineering Ltd continues to operate as normal, with the company continuing to deliver a £4m public realm scheme in Ballymena, County Antrim.

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text: Happy 1st day of Spring from the Tuileries Garden in Paris. The 55 acre garden is all that's left from the Tuileries Palace, a royal palace from 1564 until 1871 when it was burned down during the Paris Commune. Louis XVI and his family were forced to live here from their palace in Versailles in 1789. Napoléon Bonaparte also lived here in 1800. The garden separates the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde. There are over 200 statues and vases here dating back to the 17th century. You can tour the gardens for free from March until November.

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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Matt Smith is Dr Who-the Trailer-2010
Still about a month away before we find out if Matt Smith's youngest ever Dr. Who can fill the decidedly impressive supergeek shoes of the departing David Tennant. As with Seth Rogan's upcoming GREEN HORNET, I'm keeping as open a mind as possible. Here's the official BBC trailer for the upcoming season five!


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The VR market is quickly transforming into an entertainment and productivity platform.
OTT video revenue for media and entertainment (think: HBO Go, Hulu, Netflix) in the U.S. reached $20.1 billion in 2017. Global Internet advertising market, with total to reach $127.4 billion revenue of 2022
The move to 5G wireless makes what’s possible in terms of the experiences faster broadband will facilitate.
It enable it to launch an internet-delivered television service across the network. 5G is developing alongside continuing advances in artificial intelligence, the worldwide rollout of IoT devices, the evolution of virtual and augmented reality, and location-based services.
Convergence will be a big M&E theme during the next five years.
TV companies, and social networks are now competing over both conventional sports and e-sports rights, the report points out.
TV companies, telecoms, tech companies, OTT operators, and movie studios are competing to provide TV content.
Radio stations, podcast companies, and streaming services are competing to provide radio and podcast content. Brands, too, are jumping on board, creating content to engage the same audiences.

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This contemporary hotel, located on Jeongnong-dong, is centrally situated in verdant Seoul. Guests will enjoy unfettered access to the central business district as well as numerous shopping, dining, and entertainment venues. The hotel features modern guestrooms that are decorated with a traditional Korean ambience that highlights the vibrant aura of Seoul. Patrons will enjoy the lounge which offers sanctuary for intimate meetings as well as small business gatherings. The hotel offers a great location for exploration of downtown Seoul, providing tourists as well as business guests the ideal environment for a long or short stay. The New Boolim Hotel is a great property for leisure and business travelers who want a central location that is close to everything Seoul has to offer.
620-25, Cheonnong-dong, Dongdaemun, Seoul, South Korea,
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The public has only limited means to constrain state lawmakers in the conduct of their business. Legislators are not even covered by most of the conflicts-of-interest provisions of the state ethics code, for example. And this session, efforts to pass a law reducing the potential for political corruption are going nowhere.
Perhaps the only recourse is to prod legislators to make what good-government improvements are still possible, and shame them about their inaction where it’s not.
The record is mixed where it concerns keeping lawmakers more accountable to their constituents than to their financial and fundraising interests.
Starting with the bad news, tonight a group of seven legislators will be holding a fundraiser in which the suggested donation amount is $50. This is only one of a slew of events benefiting campaign war chests that are being held in the middle of the 60-day state lawmaking session.
The appearance of influence-peddling is undeniable: These events provide an opportunity for an individual or interest group hoping to steer legislation one way or another to wave some dollars in front of lawmakers whose vote might help them.
Two virtually identical bills to ban fundraisers during session — House Bill 1246 and Senate Bill 843 — were introduced, respectively, by Republican state Rep. Cynthia Thielen and Democratic state Sen. Les Ihara. Neither measure moved an inch and are now dead for the year.
There is still hope for two other bills, championed in particular by Common Cause Hawaii, that now seem headed for House-Senate conference committees. They should be passed into law.
HB 1147 would require noncandidate committees, also known as political action committees, to identify certain top contributors in their advertisements, making the source of the funding more transparent.
The other is HB 1132, which seeks to move up the deadline for lawmakers to file public financial disclosure statements. Now the deadline is May 31; enactment of the bill would make them due Jan. 31. That’s soon after the Legislature convenes, shedding more light on the politicians’ financial interests.
Despite the movement of these latter two bills, it’s especially distressing that the bills targeting campaign fundraising events were essentially ignored.
Old habits die hard, apparently. Legislators have a long tradition of holding benefits during session. Some make the argument that it’s an opportune time to hold them, when public interest in the Legislature is riding high, when representatives and senators from all islands are all on Oahu and can coordinate functions.
All of that is irrelevant. The public trust in government has withered so significantly that legislators ought to be concerned about the appearance of impropriety. Yes, lobbyists can approach legislators at any time, promising campaign support, but seeing names from multiple interest groups on an RSVP list, along with actual checks in payment, sends a more potent message: You’d better vote the way we expect.
Don’t forget, the legislative session is a fluid process, with bills morphing or growing unrelated appendages all along the way. Take, for instance, the sudden pairing of a bill about the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission with one beneficial to geothermal development — the latter bill never having had a hearing.
In short, there are ample opportunities for lobbyists to press their cases all throughout the session, and giving them the entry point of a fundraiser is asking for trouble. The ethical record down at the state Capitol is tarnished enough as it is.
Lawmakers have limited time for doing the people’s business: 60 days. That’s where their focus should be, rather than on the balance of their campaign fund bank account.


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In a review meeting held by the Railway senior superintendent of police, the officer directed the railway police force to launch intense checking drive in trains coming to Haridwar. The Railway police SSP Roshan Lal Sharma directed the railway police to work in tandem with the local police. Constable Qurban Ali deployed in GRP Haridwar was rewarded for his timely action in arresting a man posing as an IPS officer from railway station. For his action, Ali was adjudged the policeman of the month.
With about a week left for polling in the Lok Sabha elections, the police have stepped up their activities. The Railway SSP Roshan Lal Sharma said that the police must conduct intense checking drive in trains. He directed them to make necessary security arrangements at railway platforms, parking areas and ensure security of passengers.
The SSP directed the personnel to check the incidents of robbery, nab the conmen and pick pockets who are often active especially when long distance trains halt for few minutes at the railway station.
Additional SP Narendra Singh Bhandari, and posts in-charge were also present in the review meeting.
Meanwhile, for ensuring the conduct of free and fair polls, paramilitary force personnel took out a flag march in villages of Shyampur, Kangri, Gaziwali and other neighbouring areas. The authorities appealed to the common people to maintain peaceful atmosphere during the polls.
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The volume of plastic waste collected separately has more than doubled from 6 million kg in 2006 to 13 million kg in 2008.
The volume of plastic waste produced by households is estimated at 750 million kg in 2008. This means that only 1.7 percent of the total volume of plastic waste produced by households is collected separately.
The increase is partly the result of local public campaigns to collect plastic waste separately and improved collection facilities. In 2009, a large-scale national campaign was set up to promote separate collection of plastic waste.
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After missing its deadline for 2018, rumors are that Apple has finally put its wireless charger AirPower to production. The AirPower charging mat, which also works for the Apple Watch and AirPod headphones, was first unveiled in 2017 but has been beset by delays.
Back in October 2018, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that Apple would launch the AirPower during the first quarter of 2019. ChargeLab’s tweeted information falls in line with the Kuo stated. However, the website’s past claims on rumors have been a hit and a miss. It claimed that Apple would launch the Xs lineup with an 18-watt USB Type-C charger. The website did show an accurate render of the charger, but it ended up being for the 2018 iPad Pro, so the rumor wasn’t entirely off base.
It is the difficulty of engineering a mat capable of charging multiple devices at once that has led to delays in the production, according to some industry insiders.
Notorious Apple leaker Sonny Dickson previously said the issues with the charging mat included overheating and interference.
There is still no word on when the release date or price for the AirPower charging mat will be, though unofficial Apple news site MacRumors said it expected it to be early in the first quarter of 2019.


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The Houdini team has shared a new guide that steps through the basic workflow of adding muscles to an animated creature and applying them as a skin deformer. It is worth noting that this method does not require any dynamics simulation. You will start by creating simple muscle forms using Houdini’s Muscle Tool Shelf and learn how to adjust shape and placement, attach them to your character rig, and how to enable automatic secondary animation (jiggle). What is more, the video shows how the shelf tools easily set up your muscles as a skin deformer leveraging Houdini’s Muscle Displace operator.
Muscles in Houdini are versatile, easy to use, interconnected tools. Houdini’s muscle system has been designed to serve both FEM (dynamics simulations) and non-FEM (skin deformer) workflows while using a unified set of digital assets. With the foundational information presented in this video, you’ll be ready to rig up a creature with simple muscles and you’ll be prepared to take the next steps: creating custom muscles, and using muscles in simulations with Houdini’s Tissue System.
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In Panama City, Spanish urban art collective Boa Mistura decked out a building in a colorful, collaborative graffiti project.
While some cities are eager to raze and replace their concrete housing blocks (demolition of Alison and Peter Smithson’s Robin Hood Gardens sadly began just over a week ago), others don’t quite have the privilege of blithely erasing these enduring — though often clearly unloved — emblems of social welfare. To enhance one such building in the neighborhood of El Chorrillo in Panama City, Spanish urban art collective Boa Mistura painted the facade of the housing block to convey the message "somos luz" (translated as "we are light"), using a vibrant polychrome scheme to not only beautify the formerly drab, gray exterior but also express the value of the diverse community housed within.
Founded in 2001, Boa Mistura consists of an architect, a civil engineer, two artists, and an advertising and public relations professional. As their website explains, the name of the collective means "good mixture" in Portuguese, referring to the diversity of perspectives within the group. The recently completed Somos Luz project likewise celebrates the virtues of a diverse collective: Boa Mistura took the original color palette of the facade — derived from the colors that each inhabitant independently chose to paint his or her own unit — and used it to paint a new unified scheme with the help of the residents. Thus part of the beauty of the repainting is its preservation of the color selections that signify the eclecticism of the building’s tenants, as well as the actual participation of the tenants in the painting process.
When viewed up close, the facade seems bedizened in abstract patches of color that bring attention to the small, everyday modifications of each balcony, from the lines of hanging clothes to the tilting satellite dishes, which add their own stray elements of color to the design. The literal message of the artwork — "somos luz" — is only legible when one views the facade of the building in its entirety. With Boa Mistura’s colorful intervention, the different hues of paint join together not to emphasize but to dissolve the regular grid of the concrete facade. Thus Somos Luz is meant to inspire residents, neighbors, and passersby in this impoverished Panama City neighborhood, reminding all who catch sight of the building that they are invaluable members of a larger community.
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Offering bowls, miniature Hsun Ok 19th century
Two offering bowls, miniature Hsun Ok, Burma 19th century, height 7 cm.
Used in Theravada Buddhism, a larger Hsun Ok is an offering bowl with a circular bowl on a pedestal that extends into a circular foot ring, with a stupa-like pointed finial at the top. Traditionally, many Burmese households use large barrels to regularly bring food to the local monasteries and temples to feed the monks. They are usually made of bamboo or other thin wood and covered with several layers of red lacquer made from cinnabar mixed with natural tree sap. Buddhists in Burma/Myanmar believe that offering to support monks is an important duty and that making offerings helps accumulate merit to ensure better karma in their next life. Smaller ones were also used in the home for decorative purposes. Miniature vintage hsun-oks are relatively rare and are traditionally used as home decorations or at Burmese domestic shrines to hold very small objects that are offered to the statue of the Buddha located there, along with flowers and fruits. Household shrines are usually built into the side walls of homes and are the focus of daily devotions.


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Frustrating, heartbreaking, and eye opening, Lisa Genova brings us Inside the O’Briens, a story about the impact of Huntington’s disease. Genova, the author of the award-winning novel Still Alice, has an incredible talent in her ability to personalize terrible illnesses and create stories that strike a chord with readers.
The O’Brien’s, an Irish Catholic family, are from Boston, Massachusetts. Joe O’Brien, father of the family, is a tough cop with a knack for swearing who learns that Huntington’s disease (HD) is the cause behind his jerky movements and mood swings. HD is a lethal neurodegenerative disease without a cure and is passed down genetically, meaning that Joe’s children each have a 50% chance of testing positive as well.
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The Forgotten Room is a multigenerational story of three women spanning the decades between the 1890’s and 1940’s in New York City. To make the book even more special, it’s written by three wonderful authors, Beatriz Williams, Karen White, and Lauren Willig. It’s no secret that I’m a HUGE fan of Beatriz Williams’ work so I immediately jumped at the chance to read and review The Forgotten Room.
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Problem with these two class of ship are that they cost a lot of money for build, a lot of money for keep them operational... and when they are in maintenance cycle, it take years...
Clearly you missed the very first line of my post when I said: "It's more due to cost of constantly keeping large ships in service in peace time." That, of course, is in reference to all large ships, not just certain ones. Also the largest problem in trying to use the Russian Navy as an example of cost and maintenance cycles, was their obvious social and economic collapse of the soviet union. Pretty tough to maintain a powerful warship when you have no money and a third of your country is giving you the middle finger and creating their own countries. Look at the US. We maintained battleships into the 90's. Just as before, even though those ships are not in service, we can bring them right back in because they are still somewhat maintained.
Well, they are called battlecruiser now but they are similar in size to battleship and have more firepower... for example :
I'm well aware of the battlecruiser class created by the Brits when they ditched armor for speed, while they may be similar in size, their firepower isn't nearly on par with a battleship, and their displacement is around half. Kilrov 28,000 tons fully loaded. Iowa (Though designed in the late 1930's just prior to WW2, used as a comparison because it was the only class of battleship in service in the 1980's by a navy that could rival the Russians) 58,000 tons fully loaded. Amusingly enough, even an Iowa that is considered to be light at 45,000 tons of displacement still has a top speed of 3 knots faster then the Kilrov. So the sacrifice in armor for speed seems to be for nothing if a ship designed almost 40 years prior not only has more armor, but still can go faster... But in reality, size doesn't really mean much to warships because Cruisers, for which the Kilrov really is, can be similar in size to WW1 battleships, but destroyers, such as the newest classes, can be even larger then that, which puts them as similar in size, or even bigger then WW1 battleships, yet we still call them destroyers none the less.
Now to firepower. Kilrov: Their biggest gun is their twin 130mm... Basically a 5 inch gun. The Iowa? Nine 16 inch and twelve 5 inch guns. Total guns: Kilrov: 15. Iowa: 21. Offensive Missiles: Kilrov (Ushakov only): 34, (the other three only have 20). Iowa: 48. Defenses: Kilrov: 332 Surface to air missiles. Iowa: four 20mm Gatling cannons that can spit out 4500 rounds in under a minute and send them more then 2 miles down range. I'm willing to give that one to the Kilrov based on the fact I like missiles better then bullets, but then again, you've only got 332 chances to hit your target who in all likelihood can make your missiles miss with flares and chaff, and you can't really use those to defend against incoming missiles. The phalanx on the other hand, will hit whatever its aimed at because you can't force it to miss, and its an automatic system which means the only input from us is reloading the ammo compartments and allowing it to shoot in the first place (which in all honesty is only human controlled because of friendly fire concerns).
Let's just face the facts here, the slight retrofitting of the 30 something, damn near 40 year old Iowa class Battleships around the same time as the designing and building of the first Kilrov, put the Kilrov to shame. The Kilrov is slower, much less armored, and severely underwhelming in the weapons department. The only advantage the Kilrov has is its nuclear powered engines which gives them an approximate 30 year lifespan between refueling (but not resupplying which makes this a moot point) should they want to maintain a 20 knot top speed for that entire lifespan which means the Iowa would be going nearly twice as fast as it. The armored cruiser/battlecruiser just doesn't have what a true battleship can bring to the fight.
Just be glad the US never built any of the Montana Class Battleships or the weapon systems would be much further in favor of the true battleship. Twelve 16 inch cannons, twenty 5 inch guns, for a total of 32 big guns, forty 40mm AA, fifty six 20mm AA, totaling at 96 defensive guns, and this is just for WW2, this ship would have gotten all of the retrofits over the years that the Iowa class got instead, so this beast would be loaded with missiles and the four Phalanx Gatlings instead of all of those AA guns during the 1980's.
As for a mix of battleship and carrier, we have it already on earth
Holy crap, not even close. Two 100mm (4 inch) guns 10 torpedo tubes and 12 ship to ship missiles isn't even in the same ballpark as a battleship, let alone a cruiser, let alone a destroyer... Its a light aircraft carrier with meager non aircraft offensive capabilities. That carrier only carries 30 aircraft... The Nimitz class, designed and built around the same time as the Kiev class, carries 90 aircraft. Granted the Nimitz doesn't carry anything even worth mentioning as a non aircraft offensive weapon, but when you carry 3 times the aircraft, are a couple of 4 inch guns really worth worrying about finding a spot for? So no, we do not have a melding of battleships and aircraft carriers today. When one carries at least a pair of main guns ripped off from an Iowa class, them big old triple side by side 16 inch barreled bad asses and has them slapped onto either end of the flight deck, carries 8 times as many of those little 4 inch guns, and houses a few dozen ship to ship missiles (not including anything on the defensive side of things like sea sparrows or phalanxes) then go ahead and make your claim to them already existing. But today? HAH! No. By that comparison, I could claim that battleships in WW2 were battleship and aircraft carriers combined because they could maintain and launch two to four seaplanes. Granted these seaplanes were used as scouts and not actual bombers or anything, but if you think a single twin 4 inch gun is the same as nine 16 inch guns, then I guess the seaplanes were great bombers that changed the outcome of the war.
So in other words, a Battlestar right?
I've never had the time to watch the new series so I don't know how things go in that, but the old series, even though they had main guns that they treated like the main guns on a battleship, as far as I remember, they were only really ever used with the point defense guns to ward off incoming threats making these guns just larger defensive weapons, not offensive guns. They still used the Vipers to take down large enemy ships. So in this instance, no. If in the new series, they use them like a battleship would to shell structures and other ships as an actual attack option, then yes, I could see that being a good example. The problem in sci-fi is, no one is really willing to combine the two ships because they think like modern day navies. Carriers are for wings of strike craft, battleships (if they even include them) are loaded up with big hulking guns that make everything else look like toys, and frigates are sprinkled in for a variety of purposes. In space, you don't need the flight deck, so load that bitch up with the biggest most powerful things you've got. Just take a battleship, forget about everything that is duplicated between both ships, add in an area to store your strike craft, add in a couple launchers on one end of it and receivers on the other, and bam, you have a battleship/aircraft carrier.
I guess the best example I can think of would be the Eclipse Class Super Star Destroyer from Star Wars. It was designed and built to combat and destroy other large ships, destroy space stations, and even blast a good chunk out of a planet should they choose to do so using a superweapon like the deathstar, which was also used to one shot kill other capital ships. It was armed with thousands of other offensive weapons and carried nearly 700 strike craft. That to me is a battleship melded with an aircraft carrier. It was armed to kill everything it encountered, it carried a crap ton of strike craft that could do the same thing.


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It was a a pin on Pinterest, I believe...or maybe it was an ad on Facebook that I came across, perhaps, that advertised techniques for speed knitting. I didn't read it because I don't want those last two words to be side-by-side in my knitting experience. A voice in my head whispers that I am a stuck-in-the-mud oldie who is just resistant to change. But rushing through a project just to get it done seems to defeat the purpose of knitting in the first place, which was to relax and enjoy the hobby.
Oh, I get it. Sometimes you do have to knit in a hurry. There are deadlines in knitting just as in anything else. One lady had to have knitting samples completed for a photo shoot scheduled as a book publication date loomed. The holiday season doesn't delay its arrival dependent on the progress of the gifts we want to give. And babies come when they are ready, even if the baby blankets we want to wrap them in are not. But to deliberately knit faster just so I can finish one project and jump quickly into the next doesn't appeal to me at all.
Perhaps my reluctance to try this new idea stems from my enjoyment of the knitting process itself, even more than the projects I complete. The speed-knitting techniques I've passed in my online scrolling seem to use just the fingers rather than the full-hand movement to wrap the yarn around the needle each stitch. But I find the rhythm of that repeated arm motion to be soothing and comforting in its steadiness. Maybe because everything else in life seems so rushed, it is nice to have something I can do slowly, savoring the enjoyment I find in the minutes devoted to the activity. I love to be able to stop frequently and simply enjoy the sight of the knitted piece growing from the needles, or examine the way the plies of yarn blend together to form the irresistible color combinations that attracted me initially. A whole amount of joy is lost in the hurry to simply get another thing done.
I've been thinking about that a lot of late at the start of my days. As I sip my coffee I've been instructing myself to take the time to simply enjoy the hours ahead of me... to notice the minutes as they pass and the joys each contain...to give thanks for the same. Maybe it's having reached an age where the end of my life is nearer at hand than the start of my life which has sparked a greater appreciation for the moments in between. I am just not in a hurry to spend them any more quickly than I need to...my knitting included!
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P-Square were a Nigerian duo of identical twin brothers Peter Okoye and Paul Okoye. They produced and released their albums through Square Records. In December 2011, they signed a record deal with Akon’s Konvict Muzik label. In May 2012, they signed a record distribution deal with Universal Music’s South African branch. On 25 September 2017, numerous media outlets reported that the group disbanded. Reports about a breakup surfaced after Peter reportedly sent a termination letter to the group’s lawyer. Prior to this report, the duo disbanded in 2016, supposedly over a disagreement about the role of their manager.
P-Square began in St. Murumba secondary school, a small Catholic school in Jos, Plateau State Nigeria. Peter and Paul joined their school music and drama club where they began singing, dancing, and mimicking songs by MC Hammer, Bobby Brown and Michael Jackson.
In 2001, “P-Square” won the “Grab Da Mic” competition, and hence Benson & Hedges sponsored their debut album, titled Last Nite, which was released under Timbuk2 music label. P-Square was also nominated as “Most Promising African Group” in the Kora Awards three months after the release of their debut album. They eventually won the 2003 Amen Award for “Best R&B Group”.
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In his three opening holes on Sunday, Dean Burmester made sure no-one else was going to win the Tshwane Open. And he carded a six-under-par 65 at Pretoria Country Club as he marched to a commanding three-stroke victory in the tournament co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour and the European Tour. SOURCE : SUNSHINE TOUR
He made three consecutive birdies to start his final round, and three more from the sixth to the ninth to turn in 29 and take the wind out of his pursuers’ sails. Finland’s Mikko Korhonen and Spaniard Jorge Campillo shared second, with American Peter Uihlein in fourth.
“I didn’t think I’d wrapped it up with those three birdies in the first three holes,” said Burmester afterwards, “but it turned out to be that way. Those three birdies calmed my nerves.”
The birdie on the first hole was probably the one which flipped the switch that turned the Burmester machine on. He hadn’t made birdie on the first all week, and had bogeyed it twice, and he suggested after the third round it was the most difficult hole on the bourse.
But when he rolled in a 45-footer for birdie, the game was over for everyone else. “I sank probably the best putt I hit all week on one,” he said, “and I was actually quite nervous when I was standing over it. When I saw the line it was on and the speed, I knew it was in when it was two metres from the hole.
“And then it just kind of snowballed. I birdied two, and before I knew it, I’d birdied three in a row. It was a lovely start.”
After the turn, he kept pushing, despite having a lead that was looking increasingly impregnable, and he made his seventh birdie on the 11th. But then came a bogey. “I’ve been in similar positions in the past,” said Burmester of his tactic to continue pressing, “and I’ve backed off a little bit. I could have made it a lot closer than I should have. The great players in the world tend to win by 10.”
He made birdie on 12 to rectify the little slip, one more on 14, before bogeys on 16 and 17 saw his winning margin trimmed. “My only goal was to hit good shots,” he said. “The more I hit, the more birdie putts I’d have, and the less stress I’d have. I probably shouldn’t have gone at the flag on 11, but other than that, I think I played a pretty good round.”
It was his seventh victory on the Sunshine Tour, but his first on the European Tour. “There are no words to describe the feelings I have,” said Burmester. “I’m obviously elated and I’m looking forward to a full season on the European Tour.”
The victory capped a run of three top-10s and a share of 11th in four of his five tournaments this year and top-five finishes in the Tshwane Open the previous two years. He’s been knocking on the door of the international stage for some time now, and the victory vindicates so much of the work he has done.
“I had planned to play in Morocco, where I was in on an invitation,” he said, “and then two events in China, which I wasn’t in yet. Now my next year on the European Tour is taken care of, and I get in to all their big events. I’m excited to go and play in their premier events.”
As if to underline this big step, the Official World Golf Ranking on Monday will have him inside the top 100 in the world. He belongs there.


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Floor Statement of Sen. Chuck Grassley
On Terry Branstad as the Longest-serving Governor in U.S. History
Delivered Thursday, December 10, 2015
Mr. President, I’d like to recognize the Iowa governor, Terry Branstad, on a significant milestone. On December 14, 2015, Governor Branstad will become the longest-serving governor in the nation’s history.
That’s a large feather in the cap of a farm kid from the town of Leland, population 289, in Winnebago County in northern Iowa.
In many ways, a small town farm background prepared Terry Branstad for his success as a state House member, lieutenant governor, and then governor in two separate tenures.
The farm crisis of the 1980s hit every farm state hard, and Iowa, at the heart of the nation’s bread basket, suffered deeply.
All of us who lived in Iowa at the time saw friends and neighbors lose their family farms and struggle with what to do next to earn a living.
The state needed men and women with vision and ambition to pull the economy out of the doldrums. It needed people who could see the potential for farmers to add value to their operations and for Iowa to diversify its economy. Terry Branstad was one of those people.
He was at the forefront of creating a new environment to do business. He welcomed and actively encouraged innovation that would capitalize on Iowa’s bedrock work ethic and strong schools.
As a result, agriculture was and continues to be a mainstay of the Iowa economy, but agriculture more than ever is an engine for many other employment sectors: renewable energy, manufacturing, crop research, insurance and financial services, and much more.
As governor from 1983 to 1999, Terry Branstad took the helm during some of the state’s worst economic turmoil in decades and steered the ship toward impressive economic growth. The unemployment rate went from 8.5 percent to a record low 2.5 percent.
The governor could have rested on those laurels and continued to work outside of state government, but he answered the call when the state needed him again in 2010. He put the state of Iowa’s interests ahead of his own and went to work for Iowans a second time, bringing his valuable leadership to the governor’s office for another round. That in a nutshell tells you everything you need to know about Terry Branstad.
The state of Iowa comes first for him.
Iowans are well-acquainted with Terry Branstad’s accomplishments and work ethic. It’s gratifying to see those attributes get attention on a national scale and in the history books. He’s earned his place. We’re lucky to have him in Iowa.


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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will stop using its satellites to monitor the 121.5 MHz frequency used by older analog boater distress beacons.
The signals come from devices known as Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons, also known as EPIRBs.
For recreational boaters, EPIRBs are not mandatory but are required for commercial vessels operating more than three nautical miles offshore.
Like the switchover to digital TV this year, the changeover to digital EPIRBs has been in the works for years.
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Jerusalem is concerned that the Austrian troops of the UN force in Golan Heights, which are its largest contingent, will leave the area soon and will effectively cause the dissolution of power. In a situation like this there is a reasonable possibility that opposition Islamists will take over the Golan border positions, including the Syrian Hermon post.The UN had hinted that this might happen over two weeks ago:
In the coming weeks the arms embargo imposed by the EU on all sides in Syria should expire. It is believed that Britain and France will start to arm some rebel groups fighting Assad, but Austria has threatened in that case to consider pulling its soldiers....Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Sfindlgr, currently visiting Israel, expressed during his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his fears of possible arming the rebels, ...saying that arming the rebels would bring the government to seriously consider the evacuation of the Golan Austrian battalion.
The United Nations peacekeepers in the Golan Heights have reduced their activities in response to the presence of armed groups from the Syrian conflict, the world body’s peacekeeping chief said today, calling for respect for the safety and security of UN personnel.(h/t Yoel)
Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous told journalists in New York that the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) has had to “adopt a posture which is somewhat more static” and take additional security measures, which include the use of more armoured vehicles.
“We have had to reduce somewhat the footprint of UNDOF in the Golan Heights in the area of operation,” Mr. Ladsous said after briefing the Security Council behind closed doors on actions taken since the seizure and safe release of 21 blue helmets earlier this month. In the days following, UNDOF vacated two positions which were particularly exposed to gunfire.
He thanked the countries contributing troops to the region and said he very much hopes that they will stay the course on this “very important mission.”
Ambassador Vitaly Churkin of Russia, which holds the presidency of the Council for this month, told reporters that the armed groups are being “provocative” in the area where the peacekeepers operate, but the blue helmets do not have the mandated authority from the Council to stop them.


Not many deer hunters would have the guts to move in on a 230-inch buck, hunting him close to his bed, in the woods, from the ground. But Donnie Monroe, an expert whitetail hunter from Kansas, did just that and ended up killing what will likely be among the biggest whitetails taken in the state this year.
Monroe had seen the buck during the previous season on a small parcel of private land, along with a mature 8-pointer and a younger 10-point. Last year, Monroe estimated that the buck was three years old, and he was getting bullied by the older (but smaller) 8-point. So, Monroe decided to shoot the bully buck, which turned out to be a 5-year-old that scored about 130 (a great buck by any measure, but not necessarily a trophy for this part of the country).
Monroe looked at that hunt as an investment in the future. Even though the younger bucks would have scored better, letting them walk would hopefully give him opportunities in seasons to come. Fast forward to this summer, when Monroe got his giant buck on trail camera again. He couldn’t believe how much the deer had grown.
“I’m more than confident that the deer is only 4.5 years old,” Monroe tells Outdoor Life. “Which is unreal. I can’t believe how much he blew up. In fact, going into this year I didn’t even think he’d be my target buck.”
But trail camera pictures can be deceiving, Monroe says. He wasn’t certain if the buck was truly as big as he thought. So, he texted one of the trail camera photos to a buddy who was a veteran whitetail hunter and deer scorer. The buddy, severely underestimating the size of the buck, texted back: “Tiny Tim.”
Both hunters were being thrown off by the 10-point pictured beside the big buck. From photos, it didn’t look like the 10-pointer had grown at all from the previous season, which made them underrate the growth of the giant buck. Plus, both hunters knew deer look much more massive in velvet and they expected the big buck to look much smaller when he was hard horned—he didn’t.
“When I went out in the summer to get velvet [spotting scope] pictures of them, I knew that the 10 point did put inches on,” Monroe says. “Especially when I saw him on his own, I was like, Dang, something’s not right here.”
From there, Monroe knew that he was hunting a buck that would likely break the 200-inch mark.
The Hunt for Tiney Tim
The Kansas early season opened on a Monday, and by Wednesday Monroe thought he had a good plan to hunt Tiney Tim (now spelled with an “e” because he had so many tines). The deer was feeding in a neighboring beanfield during daylight hours, and Monroe had a good idea where the buck was bedded. His plan was to sneak in and ambush the deer on a wooded hillside as it headed to feed in the evening. He’d hunt from the ground and find a spot to set up when he got there.
Monroe doesn’t hunt sprawling properties in Kansas. He’s got three smaller parcels ranging from 40 to 160 acres acres that he owns or leases. Blowing a mature buck out of one of these properties would likely mean he’d never see it again. But with the weekend coming, Monroe knew there’d be more hunting pressure, and with the buck on its feet during daylight hours, there was a good chance another hunter would kill him.
Even though Monroe is a diehard bowhunter, he made a last-minute decision to bring a muzzleloader on this hunt, because he had no idea how far the shot opportunity might be. Since he was going to set up on the fly, he figured the shot could be 70 or 80 yards (too far for his bow), but it turned out to be much closer than that.
The wind would be a critical factor in the hunt. From experience, Monroe knew that the forecasted wind direction is often different than what you get on the ground, especially when you’re dealing with hilly terrain. Monroe decided that he’d back out if the wind was bad when he got there; luckily it wasn’t.
He used an Ozonics unit and Raw Frozen Scents—two products he uses faithfully—to minimize the risk of getting busted. He settled into spot with good cover, sitting on a simple folding stool.
“The only thing was the visibility was poor,” says Monroe, who self-films his hunts for Team 200. “I had only a few windows where I could get a shot. I had both cameras in position and the muzzleloader already on the shooting stick. I wasn’t messing around.”
As if on cue, Monroe caught movement in the woods below him. He immediately turned the cameras on and then looked back to the deer and recognized the mass of antlers and tines coming through the timber. It was Tiney Tim.
“I threw the scope up, got on him, bleated to stop him, cocking the hammer at the same time, and boom.”
The buck whirled around and ran back the way it had come. Monroe reviewed his footage of the shot and confirmed it was a good hit. Some coworkers came to help him recover the buck, which did not run more than 45 yards.
“I wrapped my hand around one of the bases [of the rack] and my thumb and index finger didn’t touch. I took a picture of it and sent it to that buddy of mine with a text that read “Tiny Tim? Lol.’”
All crowded around the tailgate, one of Monroe’s other buddies put a tape to deer’s rack. They got a rough score of 223 4/8.
“We don’t usually officially score our deer,” Monroe says. “I was happy with that. Honestly, I would have never rechecked him.”
But eventually, Buckmasters contacted Monroe and encouraged him to get the rack scored formally, Monroe says. Two Buckmasters scorers came up with a 230 4/8 gross score, and declared that it was the No. 1 muzzleloader buck in the state by the Buckmasters records.
This is the second buck that Monroe has killed that tops 200 inches—an incredible feat for any deer hunter. He’s on prostaff or sponsored by a variety of companies, including Athlon Optics, ASIO Gear, QuietKat, Whitetail Institute, RAW Frozen Scents, Moon Guide, and Ozonics Hunting. He has dedicated his life to hunting and filming trophy bucks, with his hunts running on the Pursuit Channel and Team 200 TV.
But Monroe was not born into America’s elite class of whitetail hunters. He grew up poor in Indiana and got into hunting and fishing as a way to put food on the table.
“I started hunting and fishing so we could have better meals,” Monroe says. “Growing up in Indiana, that made me who I am.”
He moved around for a bit, working for utility companies before finally moving to Kansas, a whitetail hunter’s paradise.
“I moved my family to Kansas to chase trophy whitetails,” he says.
But Monroe knows that “trophy” doesn’t necessarily mean score. He has the discipline to pass bucks that many other hunters would shoot, and says it’s important to target mature bucks, even if younger bucks would score higher.
“I know people who move to Kansas or buy property in Kansas and just shoot the biggest bucks on the place every year [regardless of their age],” he says. “After a few years they have no more quality deer.”
The other key to Monroe’s success is minimizing hunting pressure. He hunts his three small properties cautiously. He checks trail cameras with his e-bike. He’s a stickler about scent control. Most of the time, he doesn’t ramp up his hunting until the third week of October when mature bucks are daylighting on camera. But there are always exceptions—like this year.
“You have to be adaptable,” Monroe says. “Take advantage of the opportunity when you have it.”


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Story highlights: WMU sets tuition in wake of state cuts; CAS associate deans named; University signs on to help GRCC students earn associate degrees; On Campus with Janice Anderson.
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Story highlights: Kalamazoo one of top-25 best cities for college grads; New Center for Gerontology to serve aging population; Service anniversaries for June; On Campus with Jacmauzs Juraudakarr.
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Story highlights: Recent WMU grad named Oprah's favorite guest; Groundbreaking set for honors college addition; Twelve new teaching fellows headed to WMU; On Campus with Joanne Barretta.
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Story highlights: Faculty, Board of Trustees approve three-year contract; East Campus rehab faces new threat; Service anniversaries for May; On Campus with Kim Ballard.
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Story highlights: WMU to honor Dominican Republic official; WMU wins Stryker Challenge; Van Der Kley, Gilchrist replace retiring administrators; On Campus with Cheri Bales.
Western News, April 7, 2011
Story highlights: Bronco named national coach of year; Diversity award winners announced; Service anniversaries for April; On Campus with Diana Sawyer.
Western News, March 24, 2011
Story highlights: WMU gets record $100 million gift for med school; Electric vehicle charging stations open to public; Bronco Transit offers new GPS locator; On Campus with Ed Maring.
Western News, March 10, 2011
Story highlights: Archer, Johnston to lead WMU trustees in 2011; Differential tuition plans OK'd; Temporary sites identified for medical school offices; On Campus with Chris Wang.
Western News, Feb. 24, 2011
Story highlights: WMU sustainability initiatives gain national recognition; Class registration begins for Lifelong Learning Academy; Service anniversaries for March; On Campus with Samer Shammas.
Western News, Feb. 10, 2011
Story highlights: Debel named trustee; Miller reappointed; Renewed effort to boost STEM leadership statewide; Service anniversaries for February; On Campus with Kirk Sundling.
Western News, Jan. 27, 2011
Story highlights: Founding medical school dean announced; Carnegie Foundation lauds WMU's community engagement efforts; Service anniversaries for January; On Campus with Lisa Johnson.
Western News, Jan. 13, 2011
Story highlights: Variety of MLK celebration events slated; Fund started by Sindecuse doctor helps students pay medical bills; New cadre of 52 faculty, staff members inducted into 25 Year Club; On Campus with Sherri Alvey and Bradley Galloway.
Western News, Dec. 2, 2010
Story highlights: Gordon wins National Book Award for fiction; Older adults encouraged to attend learning academy info session; Applications sought for MLK activity proposals; On Campus with Sarah Hamilton.
Western News, Nov. 18, 2010
Story highlights: WMU, MCC to offer two joint academic programs; Researchers get $3.5 million education grant; Service anniversaries for December; On Campus with Cari DeLong.
Western News, Nov. 4, 2010
Story highlights: Medical school initiative gets high praise; Open enrollment period is under way; Service anniversaries for November; On Campus with Terri Stowers.
Western News, Oct. 21, 2010
Story highlights: WMU seeking proposals for East Campus development; HP grant will boost global educational collaboration; Service anniversaries for October; On Campus with Bill Emmert.
Western News, Oct. 7, 2010
Story highlights: WMU one of nation's 'best for vets' colleges; Major NSF project aims to boost college math readiness; Chinese studies center named for Tim Light officially opens; On Campus with Ray Murphy.
Western News, Sept. 23, 2010
Story highlights: Enrollment surpasses 25,000 students; Transformation of Bernhard Center takes next step; Two academic centers created; On Campus with Ronald Schubot.
Western News, Sept. 9, 2010
Story highlights: Convocation to feature State of University address, campuswide awards; WMU on magazine's new top-tier list; On Campus with Cara LaLumia-Barnes.


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Gylfi targets win
29 November 2013|Tottenham Hotspur
Gylfi Sigurdsson is targeting three points against United on Sunday.
The midfielder was in fine form as we toppled Tromso in the Europa League on Thursday night, going closest in a goalless first half before providing the assists for both of our goals as we ran out 2-0 winners.
That got us back to winning ways after Sunday’s heavy loss at City and Gylfi is looking for us to step up again as we face the champions at the Lane at midday.
“United have fantastic players but we’re back at home and we're after the three points,” said the Iceland international.
“We’ll need to play at the top of our game to do that but everyone is determined to put on a performance.
“We beat United at Old Trafford last season and drew at home, so we know we’re capable.”
Gylfi has been in fine form but admitted it was difficult to talk about personal performances when results aren’t going the right way. “We’ve lost a couple of games and you really only focus on the team,” he added.
“Hopefully we can continue doing what we did against Tromso and score a few goals on Sunday. We need to bounce back and give the fans what they deserve.
“Personally, I just hope I can continue to play well and score a few more goals.”


If the Indiana-based members of the Bridges (Tolling) Authority retain any semblance of intellectual honesty, they need to eavesdrop on conversations today, whether electronic or voiced, to the effect that Louisvillians will stay where they are if tolls are required to cross bridges traveling northward.
Have each of you you been willfully blind to this eventuality from the start?
And where’s that economic impact study (on Hoosier small businesses) that at least one of you promised to look into, what, more than a year ago?
Benedict Arnold did less damage to his country than you have to Southern Indiana. Shameful. Absolutely shameful.
Governors agree to financing plan for the Ohio River Bridges Project, by John R. Karman III (Business First)
The plan approved by the governors today calls for tolls to be collected on the two new bridges and the revamped Kennedy Bridge. Tolls will begin as soon as the first bridge is completed.
Under the current plan, tolls would be in the range of $1 per crossing for frequent commuters in cars and sport-utility vehicles. Tolls for other cars and SUVs would be in the $2 range.
The rates would be about $5 for panel trucks and $10 for tractor trailers.
Tolling has been among the most controversial aspects of the bridges plan.


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Fatboy Slim, James Zabiela and others will play the 4-day festival in New York next month.