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Fire destroyed a wood shed off Easton Road in Lower Saucon Township yesterday afternoon, causing an estimated $5,000 damage to it and two nearby structures, fire officials said.
Chief Kenneth Luybli of South-Eastern Volunteer Fire Co. said the shed, owned by John DeLeon, was ruined after sparks blew into it from a barrel in which DeLeon was burning trash or wood.
The chief said a tractor was among the contents of the shed, which was ablaze when firefighters reached the scene at 3 p.m. Damage there was listed at $4,000.
The fire, reportedly reaching 20 to 30 feet high, leveled the shed, which was in a wooded area several yards behind a row of homes.
Luybli said the wind-whipped blaze caused $1,000 damage to two storage buildings owned by a neighbor, John Urogi.
Henry Cambiotti, a brother-in-law of Urogi, said one of the structures, a large wooden building, stores lumber and a grass cutter. A corner of the building caught fire, but firefighters put it out before any extensive damage was done, Luybli said.
Cambiotti said lawn furniture and other items are stored in a smaller, metal structure. It received smoke and heat damage, according to Luybli.
Cambiotti, who lives in the neighborhood, said Urogi was in New Jersey visiting relatives yesterday.
Responding to the blaze with South-Eastern were the Steel City and Leithsville volunteer fire companies. The Dewey volunteer fire company manned hydrants in Hellertown.
Firefighters were on the scene for 2 1/2 hours. No injuries were reported.


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John Speke, the greatest Victorian explorer?
EXPLORERS OF THE NILE
The triumph and the tragedy of a great Victorian adventure
510pp. Faber. £25.
978 0 571 24975 6
I t is March 8, 1858, and John Hanning Speke is on an island in Lake Tanganyika trying vainly to hire a dhow from an Arab slaver, the better to explore the waters around him. That night, while he camps, a small beetle crawls into his ear and begins “to dig violently at my tympanum”. In terrible agony, Speke sticks a penknife blade in his ear and “applied the point . . . to [the beetle’s] back, which did more harm than good; for though a few thrusts quieted him, the point also wounded my ear so badly that suppuration took place and all the facial glands extending from that point down to the point of the shoulder became contorted . . . . It was the most painful thing I ever remember to have endured”.
On July 22, 1870, Dr David Livingstone, arrives at Bambarre, a slave-trading depot, barely able to walk, his feet are so heavily ulcerated. The ulcers “eat through everything – muscle, tendon and bone, and often lame permanently, if they do not kill”. And on January 7, 1862, James Grant’s “right leg, above the knee had become stiff, swollen and alarmingly inflamed. He could neither walk nor leave his hut. The intense pain was only eased by his making incisions to release the fluid. Yet fresh abscesses would form within days”.
And so, eye-wateringly, on. Perhaps the most abiding impression that one takes from Tim Jeal’s masterly overview of the two key decades of exploration of the Central African lake district from 1856 onwards is the butcher’s bill of human suffering and the Stoic courage of the explorers and their African guides and porters (commendably, Jeal, wherever he can, names those Africans without whom these great journeys would have been impossible), whose epic wanderings were made against a backdrop of torture, casual execution, disease, warfare, massacre, pillage and extortion that is almost impossible to imagine today.
Jeal, the biographer of Livingstone and also of Henry Morton Stanley, begins with Richard Burton and Speke’s journey to Lake Tanganyika (1856–9) and Speke’s “discovery” of Lake Victoria and ends with Stanley’s legendary trans-African crossing (1874–7) from Zanzibar in the east to the mouth of the Congo in the west, one of the greatest feats in all the annals of exploration. A second part takes the story up to the present day, and examines the historical and political consequences of this great generation of Victorian adventurer-explorers and the unforeseen reverberations of their discoveries in the century that followed. They include, for example, the Battle of Omdurman and the Fashoda Incident and, in the twentieth century, the forty-year civil war in Sudan, the Darfur atrocities, and Idi Amin’s despotic rule over Uganda, all of which can be traced back – without unseemly benefit of hindsight – to the exploratory journeys made in search of the source of the Nile and the Central African watershed in the mid-nineteenth century.
The complicated narrative is well told, with exemplary scholarship and great and compelling lucidity, but at the centre of this endeavour is a more intriguing and controversial act of reclamation and reassessment that is concentrated on the relationship between Richard Burton and John Speke and their journey of 1856–9, and Speke’s later journey of 1860–63 with James Grant. Jeal seeks to set John Speke at the pinnacle of this generation of explorers and to expose Richard Burton as a duplicitous opportunist whose greater fame and legend have unjustly banished his one-time subordinate to the shadowy fringes of the history of African exploration.
As Jeal points out, there have been ten biographies of Burton (not to mention novels about him) to only one of Speke – and yet it was Speke, not Burton, who solved the world’s greatest secret by discovering the source of the Nile. For 2,000 years the answer to this abiding question – where does the Nile rise? – had been denied mankind and yet in 1858 John Speke stood on the shore of the huge lake that was called Nyanza Ukerewe (renamed by Speke as Lake Victoria) and sensed instinctively that this was the source of the great river that flowed 4,230 miles north to the Mediterranean. Burton had it completely wrong – he was convinced the Nile originated in “his” lake, the lake that he mapped and named Lake Tanganyika – and yet Burton was knighted and his boosters were legion, not least among them his clever young wife, Isabel, who started the myth-making with her biography after Burton’s death in 1890.
Jeal’s case for Speke and against Burton is thorough and convincing. In May 1858, Speke, on his own inclination, left Burton’s Lake Tanganyika expedition (Burton was ill and could not or would not travel) and journeyed with a few men the 200 miles or so north to try and find the legendary Lake Ukerewe. The sheer size of the body of water and its height above sea level (it was, he calculated, 4,000 feet above sea level and considerably higher than Lake Tanganyika) convinced him that here lay the headwaters of the mighty river. Returning with James Grant in 1860–63, Speke explored more of the lake’s shore and found the falls (the Ripon Falls) where the White Nile exited Lake Victoria at the beginning of its long journey to the Mediterranean. There were crucial gaps in Speke’s evidence (he never circumnavigated the lake, for example) – and this was to be his undoing – but there was also a huge contemporary disinclination to accept his findings as accurate. Not only Burton but also Dr Livingstone were violently against Speke’s deduction and conclusion, as well as many armchair geographers of the time.
Until now, it would be fair to say Speke has been regarded as something of a simple soul who had almost blundered across his great discovery. Compared to Burton’s raffish charisma, Speke appeared gauche, a junior-officer type who wrote clumsily and could not master the public speaking or networking that were essential to making his name. Jeal’s research – he has assiduously read Speke’s unedited manuscripts and collated them with the doctored published versions – reveals a different man from the one depicted by his enemies. Stubborn and incredibly strong, generous and forgiving where Burton was vindictive and deceitful, Speke emerges from these pages transformed from the image that the Burtonophiles have tenaciously cultivated.
So what went wrong with Speke’s reputation? The answer is that Speke died – in a shooting accident – in 1864, exactly at the moment when the Nile Debate was at its feverish height, leaving the field clear for Burton and Livingstone and others to propagate their counter-theories. It wasn’t until Henry Morton Stanley circumnavigated Lake Victoria in 1874 during his own astonishing trans-African journey that Speke was vindicated and shown to have been right all along. But by then Speke had been dead and all but forgotten for ten years.
Jeal’s powerful case for Speke is weakened, however, by his palpable dislike of Burton. Speke can do no wrong and Burton can do no right. The Burton and Speke collaboration was “one of the greatest misalliances in history”. Burton, in Jeal’s eyes, is a racist, two-faced, lazy, debauched, a liar, a cheat and a skinflint who wouldn’t pay his porters. “Burton despised Africans and the antislavery humanitarians who espoused their cause.” Burton’s books were “overlong and invariably overwritten . . . very hard to get through in their entirety”. Speke’s, by contrast, were “extremely readable”. And so forth. Jeal’s arguments are telling but, again and again, as he musters the evidence to condemn Burton and promote Speke, his zealotry damages its forensic force.
This comes to a crux over the matter of Speke’s death. Speke and Burton were due to debate with each other at the Royal Geographical Society in Bath in the summer of 1864, arbitrated by Dr Livingstone. The source of the Nile was the subject and each man would present his own theories and arguments. Speke knew that both Livingstone and Burton thought he was wrong about Lake Victoria being the source of the Nile, and the debate would either be a very public vindication or demolition of his contention. The stakes were very high indeed. The day before the debate, he went shooting on a cousin’s estate (killing animals always relaxed Speke). He was seen to climb over a stone wall and the shotgun he was carrying went off, fatally wounding him. He died minutes later. An accident or suicide? No one can know for sure, but the suspicion mounted over the years that Speke contrived to kill himself rather than be defeated in debate by Burton (a brilliant public speaker) and have his discoveries nullified. The explanation of the timing and nature of Speke’s sudden death leads only in two directions: it is either a bizarre coincidence or something more sinister.
Jeal is an adamant advocate of the former, seeing Speke’s death as a straightforward, tragic accident: “No man intending to commit suicide would have chosen to shoot himself while clambering over a rubble-stone wall”. However, one thing that everybody agrees about Speke is that he was a brilliant shot and had “twenty-five years’ experience of firearms”. Speke was over a hundred yards from the nearest witness when he shot himself. One of the two witnesses, Speke’s cousin, George Fuller – the other was a gamekeeper – wrote a somewhat inaccurate memorandum of the incident later (quoted at length in Alexander Maitland’s 1971 biography of Speke), in which he says that Speke’s gun, significantly, had an “extremely light pull on the trigger” – it would fire very easily, in other words. Furthermore, Speke, he says, was accustomed to shooting with rifles, not shotguns, that had a “heavy pull on the trigger and [were] not broken for safety”.
This is at least disingenuous if not nonsense: in August 1859, for example, Speke went to Scotland for some weeks for the shooting season – and you don’t shoot driven grouse with a rifle. Even more baffling: would such an accomplished shot – who in his hunting life in England, India and Africa must have been familiar with and accustomed to all manner of firearms – use his shotgun as a kind of stick to help him over a wall? This violates the most basic safety procedure in the handling of a cocked and loaded shotgun and this, more than anything else, is what seems so very strange indeed about the incident. Burton – who had witnessed Speke shoot hundreds of animals during their expedition – made the point that Speke “was remarkable for the caution with which he handled his weapon”. “The cause of the accident must always remain a mystery”, Speke’s cousin concludes, though he had been initially at pains to quash the suicide claim.
Whether it was an accident or a contrived “accident” we will never know (my own supposition is that Speke must have known all about the shotgun he was carrying; in his dread over the imminent debate he cocked the hammer of one barrel so lightly that a jar on the stock would make it fire; he climbed the wall, jammed the gun under his left armpit and brought the stock down on a stone: a tragic accident). But whatever the explanation, Speke’s untimely death had a disastrous effect on his reputation, and his absence allowed Burton to retell the story and nature of their joint expedition in a manner that favoured him and denigrated his former companion. Jeal, again, is vigilant in pointing out the discrepancies between the facts and Burton’s biased account. But one of the other key arguments levelled against Speke occurs when he and Burton had returned from their expedition in 1859 and landed in Aden. Burton was ill again and was forced to convalesce, but Speke had the opportunity to return almost immediately to London. Speke promised Burton that he would not go to the Royal Geographical Society with the news of their discoveries until Burton was well, back in London and in a position to recount the story of their journey himself. Burton was the expedition leader and this was the recognized protocol. Yet Speke did the opposite: as soon as he reached London he announced he had discovered the source of the Nile before Burton returned – thereby, so the anti-Speke camp has it, claiming the glory for himself and diminishing Burton’s role. It was, they claimed, the act of a cad. Burton felt grievously betrayed: Speke was reaping the acclaim and the RGS quickly agreed to finance another expedition to Central Africa to verify his Victoria Nyanza claims. Burton was not invited to participate.
Jeal’s researches exculpate Speke to a degree (did Speke in fact actually “promise”? did not Burton in fact enjoin him to tell all to the RGS?), but I think he underplays the role in the matter of the shadowy figure of Laurence Oliphant. Oliphant barely appears in Jeal’s book, but in Alexander Maitland’s biography of Speke and other biographies of Burton he is a significant presence. Oliphant was one of those eccentric figures that Victorian society occasionally threw up. Flamboyant, clever, waspish, probably homosexual, he was personal secretary to the diplomat and colonial administrator Lord Elgin. Oliphant sailed back from Aden to London with Speke and during the voyage encouraged Speke to go public and publish his own account of the expedition in Blackwood’s Magazine – where he himself had been published – again a gross violation of the accepted protocol. Significantly, Oliphant was also in Bath just before the Nile debate. Jeal describes Oliphant as “mischievous” and Oliphant was very keen for Speke to take on Burton in the debate – even going so far as provoking Burton (a former friend) by jeeringly telling him that Speke was going to “kick” him. One wonders if Speke – then exhausted and embroiled in other explorational antipathies and intellectually well out of his depth – was misled by this wily sophisticate not once, but twice. Each time he followed Oliphant’s advice, he would come to rue it.
All this is speculation, but one of the fascinations of Jeal’s book and his account of this astonishing period of exploration is that it makes great efforts to strip away the accumulated myths and through this process we can begin to see these “heroic” figures plain, to imagine them as they were to their contemporaries. Each one was highly idiosyncratic (with the possible exception of James Grant). Burton, Speke, Livingstone, Stanley and Baker were all notable outsiders, driven by their own egos, demons and motives. And Africa acted as a potent catalyst. Solitude, strangeness, danger and the lure of great fame and wealth (not to be forgotten) propelled these men to test themselves to the limits. And at the same time, in stark contrast, were the unending displays of petty bickering, petulance and self-regard that went on among these brave explorers.
Tim Jeal’s rehabilitation of Speke and his thorough reassessment of his achievements on his two trips to Central Africa are overdue. The laurels clearly go to Speke when it comes to discovering the source of the Nile. But his personality, his nature and his behaviour belie the image of the “right, good, jolly, resolute fellow”. All the great explorers of Africa were complicated individuals whose eccentric psyches and multiple neuroses contributed to their tremendous energies, unearthly stamina and the inevitable personal problems they created for themselves. “The devil drives”, was Richard Burton’s revealing explanation of his mania for exploration. It applied to John Speke also.
William Boyd has written extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century African history for the New York Times and the New Yorker. His new novel, Waiting for Sunrise, is due to be published next year.
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Scuffles break out, police don gas masks and use pepper spray on the crowd
Eleven people are injured, police say
At least 21 people were arrested as Trump supporters and opponents clashed Saturday at a park in Berkeley, California, police said.
Eleven people were injured, with seven transported to the hospital in unknown condition, Berkeley Police spokesman Byron White told CNN.
“A large number of fights have occurred and numerous fireworks have been thrown in the crowds,” Berkeley police said in a statement. “There have also been numerous reports of pepper spray being used in the crowd.”
CNN affiliate KPIX reported that Trump supporters planned a “Patriot Day” rally at noon and counter-protesters showed up a few hours earlier.
Hundreds of people had gathered in Civic Center Park. Police set up a barrier of orange mesh fence to separate the two sides but it quickly fell down as protesters started fighting, KPIX said.
Video showed crowds spilling into nearby streets. Scuffles broke out, fireworks, bottles and traffic cones were thrown into crowds and dumpsters and trash cans were hauled into streets. One man set afire a red “USA” hat and held it overhead.
Police donned gas masks as they used pepper spray on the crowd. A Berkeley station for BART, the mass transit system, was shut down because of the disturbance, CNN affiliate KRON said.
Police said they confiscated prohibited items including hand-held flagpoles, a knife, a stun gun, helmets and signs, and flags attached to poles, KRON reported.
A police officer was treated and released from a hospital after someone threw either pepper spray or tear gas into the crowd, White said. He added that a person in the crowd was treated and released after being sprayed with “bear spray,” an irritant spray used to deter aggressive bears in wilderness areas.
An even larger protest erupted in February when people took to the streets to protest an appearance by right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley. The university said more than $100,000 in damage was done.
In early March, 10 people were arrested when pro- and anti-Trump groups fought in Berkeley.
Protests were held in dozens of cities across the United States on Saturday for the anti-Trump “Tax Day,” but the Berkeley rally was about free speech, according to local news reports.

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Yesterday, a customer came in confessing that he was twenty minutes down the road home to Toronto when he realized he had forgotten to stop by our store before leaving. He turned around. Last weekend we had a group of Torontonians come by. Immigrants from Russia, they were in town to see the historic Welland Canal. We also have people coming in regularly for family in Toronto because they can’t find products at home.
These incidents got me thinking about this shift. I grew up just outside of Toronto. In those days, we often traveled to “the city” to purchase products not available in our moderately large city. Now people travel to outside the city to shop. Why?
Most certainly, internet has changed the environment. Well maintained websites allow businesses in smaller communities to connect with customers on a provincial and even broader level. But I think there are also other…
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|“The galaxy blesses us with virtually infinite energy in the form of stars, vast electromagnetic generators whose fruits are ripe for the harvest. If life gives you lemons, you brew lemon cider. If life gives you starlight, building antimatter reactors or plasma drives seems kind of redundant, doesn't it? How odd the ways of these aliens. Or, perhaps it is we who are odd; perhaps lightriding comes so naturally to us that we won't even begin to consider anything else.” – Spacecase Hex Five Nine 59-1372-5684 The Art of Never Again, Chapter 770: On Sails of Crystal Light|
In their eternal quest for simplistic starship design, the Freespacers have discovered countless different low-power systems to produce, or rather refine, energy. The Starlight Cell is considered the epitome of this philosophy: a system that requires no fuel, no maintenance, and can work under the harshest conditions deep space has to offer.
A Starlight Cell can have countless shapes and dimensions, from a thin metallic coin to power a lightbulb to huge blocks of composite machinery as large as a car, but all have the same fundamental structure and function: composite voltaic cells of polymers and nano particles are used to form an array of multi-spectral radiant energy cells.
Centuries of refining solar harvesting methods means that Starlight Cells can absorb most conceivable types of radiant energy (plus some extras), and with exceptional efficiency. This system relies on ambient energy, so it's not very useful in emergency situations, unless a very small craft is powered by a very big cell, and even then it's still a gamble. What Starlight Cells ARE useful for is to allow every single secondary system aboard a ship to be powered locally, so that there are no power lines that can be damaged or cut. It basically works like a high-efficiency, full-spectrum solar panel that tries constantly to convert just about anything going on in its vicinity in a form of energy. FREE Energy.
Starlight Cells give their best in the proximity of a star, of course, channeling its radiations and transforming them into power. However, they can also leech off other EM emissions, such as radio communications, communications lasers directed onto them, or even sound energy if there is an atmosphere. Additionally, if energy-based weaponry is being used in the area, Starlight Cells can feed off the residual radiation. Many large ships have folding deployable mirrors installed, allowing them to enter a sort of “recharge mode” and concentrate on collecting ambient energy by focusing radiation on their Starlight Cells.
The energy harvested from Starlight Cells and not immediately used is usually stored in high-density capacitor banks called Starlight Capacitors. Starlight Capacitors are usually shielded by a buckypaper Faraday cage, which both shields their energy signatures from external sensors and prevent damage if the capacitor itself malfunctions or overloads.
The only shield technology used by the Freespacers, thanks to its low power consumption, ease of use, lack of need of an advanced energy grid all over the ship, and, last but not least, the fact that it can be used both as a solar sail and to refract sunlight and energy-based attacks in such a way as to be focused against a craft's Starlight Cells and therefore re-used. Prism Shield-Sails allow to reflect and refract energy, and can be used for defense (although they are not very sturdy), but also for stealth, disguising its sensor signature as something like an asteroid or “hiding in the shadow” of a nearby ship. Thanks to solar sails (both normal and Prism Shield-Sails) being completely emissionless, this low-energy cloaking system ensures that a ship using it will almost never show up on passive long-range sensors. In summary, it uses a contemporary shielding systems to create a giant invisible starlight cell 'sails' around the craft, dramatically improving the performance of the vessel without compromising it's low sensor profile.
Older versions look like masts with literal sails of billowing golden foil, but more modern designs look like long thin wings. As a rule of thumb, long and wide arrays tend to be faster, whilst shorter designs arrayed closer to the hull have better shield efficiency.
Shield Rating: 4 for merchant ships, 5 for combat ships.

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Air Vice Marshal M Mafidur Rahman, Chairman, CAAB and Chairperson, CAPSCA says
CAPSCA member states should take all-out measures to tackle COVID-19
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Members of CAPSCA from CAAB are seen attending the video conference organised by the association's APAC regional office in Bangkok today
Air Vice Marshal M Mafidur Rahman, Chairman, CAAB and Chairperson, CAPSCA
Dhaka: All member states of CAPSCA should come together and take all-out measures to save the global aviation industry from the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Air Vice Marshal M Mafidur Rahman, Chairman of CAAB and Chairperson of CAPSCA said this during a video conference today organised by the Asia Pacific regional office of CAPSCA, affiliated with ICAO, in Bangkok.
The purpose of the conference was to discuss how the global aviation industry can overcome the coronavirus pandemic and what should be the following measures for recovery in the post COVID-19 era.
Arun Mishra, Regional Director - Asia Pacific, ICAO delivered the welcome speech at the 3.5 hour long video conference while Air Vice Marshal M Mafidur Rahman, Chairman of CAAB and Chairperson of CAPSCA delivered the inaugural speech.
In his speech, Rahman mentioned several initiatives which the government and CAAB have taken so far to curb the coronavirus spread.
It may be mentioned here that Rahman has been elected as the Chairperson of CAPSCA by the member states for the next three years.
Dr Ansa Jordaan, Chief of Aviation Medicine Section, ICAO and Global Programme Manager, CAPSCA also spoke at the conference from the organisation's headquarter in Montreal.
She presented the Public Health Corridor Concept of ICAO in details. It included how those offering aviation services can protect themselves from COVID-19 while ensuring healthy services to the passengers.
Moreover, representatives of WHO, IATA and ACI also delivered speeches and highlighted steps to prevent the spread of the coronavirus to save the global aviation community.
Furthermore, the aviation authorities of China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea described their initiatives and plans to resume flight operations.
Air Vice Marshal M Mafidur Rahman also delivered the closing speech in which he urged all to work together in compliance with WHO and ICAO's directives during this virus outbreak.
The conference was attended by 23 member states of CAPSCA along with representatives from WHO, ICAO and many other organisations.
Brig Gen (rtd) Md Abdur Rab Miya, Co-Chairperson, CAPSCA and Aviation Public Health Inspector; Air Commodore Md Khalid Hossain, Member - Management and Planning; Md Shahiduzzaman Faruqi, Member - Security; Group Captain Chowdhury Md Ziaul Kabir, Member - Flight Standard and Regulations; Group Captain AHM Tauhid-ul-Ahsan, Director, HSIA; Group Captain Imranur Rahman, Director - Flight Standard, Regulations and Internal Affairs; Dr Shahriar Sazzad, Health Officer, Airport branch, Health Department and many other officials from CAAB were also present on the occasion.


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[Originally written by Jento] Events and characters in this story have been established in other various writings. Suggested reading are:
The Imperial Army Chronicles: Dark Legacy
The Imperial Army Chronicals: The Hand of Fate
Rise of the Relentless: The Arrival
Although this story will follow close to the timeline of Rise of the Relentless, events may unfold at a different pace. Time references will be provided on the chapter marks to assist in matching up these events. Please refer to the Great Galactic Timeline to see how all events relate to those within Star Wars: The Old Republic.

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Renowned Colombian photographer Nereo López was just a few days shy of his 95th birthday when he passed away Aug. 25 in Upper Manhattan. Queens Latino remembers the New Yorker and his 70 years of taking photos.
For more than 40 years, immigrants from Montenegro, Colombia, have settled in Morristown, New Jersey, finds El Diario.
Immigrants keep coming to the Ironbound, home to the largest Portuguese and Brazilian communities in the tri-state area.
Three national parades – of the Dominican, Peruvian and Colombian communities – took place last weekend in the tri-state area, El Diario reports.
Three Venezuelans ended a hunger strike in front of the United Nations headquarters in protest against human rights violations in their country, El Diario reports.
The dozens of members of Batala NYC, described as an “Afro-Brazilian samba reggae percussion band,” will celebrate the group’s third birthday at “The Carnival Project” in Gowanus.
Jesús Hidalgo speaks about his “medicine music” before performing at the Teatro LATEA on May 9 and 10.
Sombra Negra (Black Shadow), a violent gang born in Ecuador, is also active in Queens, El Diario/La Prensa reports.
Middle school students from Sunset Park got to spend a week studying the flora and fauna of the Amazon, reports Brooklyn Daily.
Queens Latino reports on Colombians in New York who marched in support of efforts in Havana to bring a peaceful resolution to the decades long conflict between the government and the insurgency in Colombia.
The language is one of only four languages for which enrollment has been growing at the university level.
Domício Coutinho studied to spread the word of God, but ended up promoting the work of Brazilian writers through the Brazilian Endowment for the Arts in New York, which he founded.
In “Tala,” Korean-Chilean playwright Kyoung H. Park blends stories of couples around the time of Sept. 11 – of 1973 in Chile and 2001 in the U.S. – who get tangled up in conflicts of identity, government and immigration, reports Downtown Express.
The recipient of a recent award in Stamford, CT, chef Javier Wong is interviewed by El Diario.
Ecuadoreans seek answers after 200 immigrants have disappeared at the Mexican border and transit countries on their way to the U.S., El Diario reports.

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This November the Veterans of Foreign Wars Chapter 13 organization celebrates its 75th anniversary.
The 108 VFW members at the Chapter 13 Post work hard to ensure that someone out there is advocating for the welfare of veterans and their families. Many of these veterans served in the Vietnam War and Desert Storm as well as WWII, and take their part in the VFW seriously so veterans everywhere can have a voice in the Legislature. COVID-19 regulations have not made their job any easier this year.
Vietnam Veteran and VFW Direct Commander Bob Beck said the post was holding off on having meetings due to COVID-19, but then they weren’t able to get anything done. Right now, the biggest issue is making sure the funds are secured so that Chapter 13 can keep up their service welfare fund, and scholarships, and help veterans in need.
“There was a horrendous fire somewhere around here about 4 years ago,” Beck said.
“Members of the family were killed. The woman was a veteran. She died, her husband was badly burned and our post and the District and the State of Oregon paid for whatever hospital bills he had that insurance didn’t cover.”
Some of the ways the post makes money is through selling poppies, making coffee and winning awards.
Vietnam veteran and current VFW State Legislature Chairman Rick Higgins said, “We’re here to support each other, we’re brothers. It goes on and on, the list of things we do.”
Last year the VFW was able to pass two major accomplishments: the Blue Water Navy Act and the Widow Tax.
Veterans Service Officer and Vietnam Veteran Vern Beard has been a part of VFW for 23 years. Beard has helped veterans process their benefits paperwork for years, and said he would drive out as far as Eastern Oregon to take a veteran fishing if it meant something positive for them. Before passing the Blue Water Navy Act, processing paperwork relating to the side effects caused by Agent Orange was challenging. Now, it is much easier for Beard to help fellow veterans get the care they need.
Higgins has two diseases related to Agent Orange exposure. He said the Blue Water Navy Act helps cover more veterans who were within the zone of the Agent Orange chemical. And the Widow Tax prevents widows from being penalized out of full retirement benefits if the veteran passes away.
One way the VFW is able to assist the needs of veterans is by earning the All American annual award, which gives the VFW an opportunity to visit Washington, D.C. and have their concerns heard by the Legislature directly. COVID-19 has created a barrier in their traditions and their usual trip to Washington this year was canceled, instead taking the form of a far less glamorous zoom call instead.
“Right now we’re just surviving,” Beck said. “Our goal is to try and make All American again this year. The requirements for all Americans is that you increase your post membership.”
Beck said they’ve won this award many times in the past. After completing a hefty checklist of requirements, winning All American again this year will help to push forward their future plans which include budgets for funding veteran programs, timely access to health care, disability assistance and education.
Bob Beck said, “I wanted to join something rather than be drinking something. That’s why I joined the post.”
VFW Essay Contest Winners
EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLETripp Johansen won the Patriot’s Pen competition and $100.
EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLEBrooke Moehlmann finished second.
EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLEHaley May takes third place.
EMMA ROUTLEY/THE CHRONICLELexie Smith (right) was second in the Voice of Democracy competition, and sister Kylie Smith (left) was runner-up for Patriot’s Pen.


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In the summer of 1979, Glen Campbell and Willie Nelson performed a free concert for local bankers at the Amarillo Civic Center.
In 1979, Nelson and Campbell performed a free concert in Amarillo for local bankers organizations. The show was in the Civic Center and featured the two country legends along with several opening acts.
A highlight of the evening was Glen Campbell's playing of the bagpipes. Campbell played "Amazing Grace" on his bagpipes and the audience roared.
Because of Campbell's bagpiping, a group of local musicians started the High Plains Pipers group.
The concert was enjoyed by everyone in attendance.

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With the Toronto Blue Jays losing 8 of their last 10 games, the trade rumours involving the team have once again heated up. Add in the injury to Edwin Encarnacion, the lingering effects of Jose Bautista‘s sore hamstring’s, plus the teams overall offensive swoon and you can see why the myriad of problems has the Blue Jays linked to trade rumours.
One of the names heavily linked to the Blue Jays recently is San Diego Padres third basemen Chase Headley. Fox Sports analysts Jon Morosi and Ken Rosenthal report that talks between the two teams have increased since some within the Jays brass feel their biggest need is a bat, not pitching.
Talks between Padres, Blue Jays on Chase Headley remain ongoing, source says. Toronto’s need increased in light of Encarnacion injury.
— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) July 7, 2014
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 7, 2014
With Toronto general manager Alex Anthopoulos proclaiming that he would prefer to trade for “rental players” back in May to Peter Gammons, Headley would appear to be an ideal candidate for the Blue Jays with his contract up at season’s end.
Although Headley has not hit the ball very well since his monster 2012 campaign, he is still a great third basemen defensively. The other upside of potentially acquiring Headley is that he will allow Brett Lawrie to move over to second base full-time – filling a visible hole for Toronto.
Headley himself has admitted that he has struggled at the plate this season, but a recent change of his grip might have helped him right the ship according to MLB.com’s Corey Brock.
Headley has raised his BA 28 points since July 1. He’s gone back to his old grip, the one that allows him to control the barrel better.
— Corey Brock (@FollowThePadres) July 8, 2014
Or maybe just a change of scenery to a contender would further spark him at the plate? Hitting in front of, or behind the likes of Jose Bautista or Edwin Encarnacaion would almost certainly excite any player in the MLB. But for a player like Headley, an increase of runners on base would more than likely change the way pitchers approach him. With runners on base, Headley would more than likely see more fastballs on a regular basis.
But is Headley the only player Toronto is interested in from San Diego?
What about starting pitcher Ian Kennedy? Kennedy is set to become a free agent at year’s end and could he be part of a package with Headley if the Jays desired. Or maybe relief pitcher Joaquin Benoit intrigues the interest of the Blue Jays front office? Either way, the Padres seem like a perfect trade partner for the struggling Blue Jays.
With the New York Yankees roster ravaged by injuries again, you can bet that they will be kicking the tires on Chase Headley too in the coming weeks. While the Yankees don’t boast the same kind of assets the Blue Jays do, acquiring a player like Chase Headley is something both organizations are more than capable of doing. But with the AL East slipping away from the Blue Jays each day, the pressure will be on Toronto – not New York – to make a move sooner, rather than later.


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Dr Graham claims that our study overestimated the rate of ALF and implies that the sponsor had undue influence over the study design. The essence of ALF is diminished hepatic function occurring over a period of a few months.1 Our criteria for probable ALF were new-onset encephalopathy, hyperbilirubinemia, and coagulopathy. At least one of these criteria of impaired liver function was required for a diagnosis of possible ALF. In our study,2 10 of 26 patients with probable or possible ALF without probable cause other than use of hypoglycemic agents had encephalopathy. If we count only these 10 patients, as Graham suggests, the ALF incidence estimate among patients using hypoglycemic agents would be approximately 4 per 100 000, still higher than the 1 per million rate he cites, and would not substantially alter our conclusion.
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Kristen Stewart & Alicia Cargile Pick Up Coffee During Golden Globes Weekend
The 24-year-old actress was joined on the rainy day by other close friends, who walked a few paces behind her.
Kristen‘s co-star Julianne Moore is nominated for a Golden Globe this weekend for her work on their film Still Alice.
We can’t wait to see what Julianne will wear on the red carpet tomorrow (January 11) and hopefully we’ll get an appearance from Kristen too!
FYI: Kristen is wearing 7 For All Mankind jeans.
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(TT GUARDIAN) – Huddled under umbrellas, scores of pensioners turned up for vaccines at health centres in South Trinidad on Wednesday.
At the La Romaine Health Centre chairs were provided for the pensioners as they sat, socially distanced, in the rain. Those under the age of 65 years were turned away.
This was also the case at the Ste Madeleine Health Centre where only 100 vaccines were administered.
Hansraj Muradali, who stood under an umbrella, said the conditions could have been better.
“Look where they have us, in the rain! It should be a system where we walk in get vaccinated and walk out,” Muradali said.
Robert Smith said he came for a vaccine but was told only 100 people would be accommodated.
Despite the hiccups, staff worked quickly to ensure that the vaccines were administered swiftly.
At SAPA where second doses were being given, people were also socially distanced under tents.
By 10 am, the lines had dissipated. Many people came for vaccines as early as 6 am.
The South-West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) has since issued a statement in its social media pages, concerning those persons who were turned away from health centres, today.
“The SWRHA notes videos and pictures circulating on social media of persons 65 years and over outside a few of our health facilities. While we strive for an efficient system overlay for the vaccination process, these valued citizens were without confirmed appointments. These persons were so advised by our attending staff to resolve the situation. We continue to remind that SWRHA will call and schedule appointments for persons 65 and over. This process avoids congregation in breach of the current public health regulations,” the SWRHA statement read.
Appointment system in place and working
Speaking to Guardian Media, the chief executive officer of the Southwest Regional Health Authority, Dr Brian Armour, said the SWRHA was satisfied with the process so far.
He said the second AstraZeneca vaccine is being administered at SWRHA’s mass vaccination site at SAPA, while 14 Health facilities administer concurrently the 1st and 2nd dose of Sinopharm.
“The issue of persons receiving an advance appointment of date and time is currently the same at sites administering both types of vaccines,” Dr Armour said.
He noted that SWRHA has been allotted about 6,000 first doses of Sinopharm vaccine to be administered from this batch.
“This can be subject to change by the Ministry of Health, based on their national policy review of national uptake and all priority groups under their purview to receive. This is part of the 20,000 vaccines allocated and assigned to Trinidad Regional Health Authorities, nationally,” he said.
He noted that despite complaints, the appointment process has been working well.
“Persons are visiting our centres based on an appointment system. SWRHA has contacted eligible persons in the 65-years-plus category to receive the first dose to visit our centres. All persons upon receiving their first dose are automatically given a date and time appointment for their second dose before leaving the facility,” he added.
He said even though people are eager for appointments, they should await further directives provided by the Ministry.
“The SWRHA, in collaboration with volunteer organisations and individuals as well as retirees, has teamed up to ensure the rollout exercise is seamless and of an excellent standard,” Dr Armour noted.


Three states and Washington, D.C. are collaborating to reduce pollution while also promoting clean transportation.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) committing to a program reducing motor vehicle pollution by at least 26 percent and generating over $1.8 billion in Massachusetts by 2032.
The Transportation and Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) would allow participants to invest in equitable, cleaner transportation options, and create new employment opportunities while substantially improving public health across the Commonwealth and New England.


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Mid-Atlantic ProTel Ranks No. 2271 on the 2017 Inc. 5000
With Three-Year Sales Growth of 161%
Inc. Magazine Unveils 36th Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies — the Inc. 5000
NEW YORK, August 16, 2017 — Inc. magazine ranked Mid-Atlantic ProTel №2271 on its 36th annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment — its independent small businesses. Companies such as Microsoft, Dell, Domino’s Pizza, Pandora, Timberland, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zillow, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees of the Inc. 5000.
Mid-Atlantic ProTel was previously ranked no. 4323 on the 2014 Inc. 5000 list, no. 3534 on the 2015 Inc. 5000 list, and no. 2223 on the 2016 Inc. 5000 list. “For the fourth year in a row, Mid-Atlantic ProTel is honored and humbled to be one of the many outstanding companies on the 2017 Inc. 5000 list.” says Bryan Butler, CEO of ProTel. “Our employees are the lifeblood of our company and we are grateful for all of their dedication and persistence in a highly competitive business environment. With highly motivated employees, it is much easier to implement the company’s vision and achieve goals and growth forecasts.” ProTel is the area’s leading AT&T Authorized Retailer and 24-hour answering service. Mid-Atlantic ProTel has been in business for 21 years and currently averages more than two hundred twenty employees with 29 stores across Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
“The Inc. 5000 is the most persuasive evidence I know that the American Dream is still alive,” says Inc. President and Editor-In-Chief Eric Schurenberg. “The founders and CEOs of the INC. 5000 tell us they think determination, risk taking, and vision were the keys to their success, and I believe them.”
For more information about Mid-Atlantic ProTel
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An antique ‘Satlada’ necklace embedded with 1,888 pearls, once a possession of Arab world’s most famous singer, Umm Kulthoum got sold for $1,385,000 at a Christie’s auction in this rich Gulf emirate. This nine-strand necklace was purchased by an unnamed buyer from the Middle East and has fetched almost 10-times the pre-estimated sales price of $1, 20,000. The necklace is a part of the valuables collected by the Egyptian-born singer.
The descendants of Arab’s diva had put this necklace for sale. This necklace was flaunted by Umm Kulthoum at number of her stage performances. The pearl necklace with its multihued enamel and white stone minutiae was designed in 19th century India. It was a gift to the Umm by diva by Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the late president of the United Arab Emirates in 1975 when she was 70.


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Hardware Societe, located in Melbourne, Australia is probably one of the more unique and memorable brunch places that we’ve been to, and my family goes to brunch almost every Saturday, looking for new places to try each week. I was there for the World Cardiology Conference a few years back and E and little c tagged along with me. The place was small and the decor was whimsical and crafty looking with baskets of yarn and ribbon hanging off the counters and a tea cup wall installation behind the register.
I ordered tea and E had a latte per usual.
The food was so good and uniquely presented that I have been trying to replicate it ever since. I ordered Baked Eggs with Chorizo Sausage, Piquillo Pimento Sauce, Crunchy Almonds, and Queso de Cabra Goats Milk Cheese pictured below. It was presented in an individual cast iron pot sitting on top of a cutting board with toasted baguettes drizzled with olive oil. I had this dish over two years ago and can still remember slathering the perfect baguette with the runny baked eggs, cheese, chorizo, for the most delicious, savory, and crunchy bite. Everything about it was wonderful: the flavor, the crunch, the process of compiling each bite, the presentation and even the remote, back alley location of the restaurant.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve never had anything like it before or since and have been scouring the internet for a similar recipe. I even bought mini cast iron pots and cutting boards to replicate the look.
What I found was Rachel Khoo’s Eggs in Pots recipe. Rachel Khoo is British and trained as a chef in Le Cordon Bleu in France. I’m intrigued with how she cooks in her tiny kitchen. Watching her cook makes me want to cook. I even bought her cookbook, but ended up returning it because I couldn’t see myself making any of the recipes. They were a little too French for me (like liver, duck con fit, etc). In any case, I tried making her Eggs in Pots recipe but felt the creme fresh made it too heavy for our taste. However, the concept is similar with the eggs being baked in the oven. I’m guessing that I can replicate the dish by adding chorizo, goat cheese and pimento sauce.
E ordered this charcuterie board mainly because of the coddled eggs you see in the shot glasses. He loves runny, even completely raw eggs. This dish was fun to compile as well, with a bit of runny egg, salmon, cheese, prosciutto, and pickles for a bite that was salty, creamy, and sour at the same time.
Little c got this banana loaf with marscapone and berries and he loved it. I normally do not like baked goods at all, but remember this as being delicious. Not quite as memorable as my dish so I can’t quite describe what it tastes like but for me to enjoy a baked dessert, it probably wasn’t overly sweet or heavy.
Because we went on a random weekday, we didn’t have to wait for seating at all. Depending on the exchange rate, it could be quite expensive to eat here, with the three of us at nearly $70, but I still thought it was worth it, especially since everything in Australia seemed quite expensive, anyway. Australia is one of those places we love to visit. I hope we’ll be back soon!

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Football Manager Classic 2014
The Football Manager series has something uncannily special about it. For the best part of the last 20 years the series has been entrancing football-loving gamers despite its plaing menu and statistic-heavy appearance.
Sports Interactive has managed to produce a very strategic game that allows football fans to get as close to becoming Jose Mourinho or Sir Alex Ferguson as they every could be and they've done it without the flash and pomp of 3D graphics and massive scripted set-pieces.
After losing it's way a little in the search of a more accurate and authentic management experience the series came back in 2012 with the new Classic mode which recaputured the elegance of it's late nineties incarnation as Championship Manager with simpler menus and some of the deeper elements of the main game trimmed down or handed off to computer-controlled assistants and it was glorious.
This year they've managed to take this Classic mode one step further by building it into a complete game for the PS Vita – a version that also allows players to share their savegames with the Classic mode of teh PC version.
Football Manager Classic 2014 is quite possibly the most ambitious game that Sports Interactive has ever built and for the most part they have managed to bring a complete PC-style experience over to the PS Vita including the match highlights shown in their entertaining 3D match engine.
Naturally it's an experience which is a perfect fit for the Vita's HD touchscreen and it doesn't disappoint. The menus and options are all clear and crisp and SI has opened up the visuals by placing all of primary menu bar across the top of the screen in as a toggleable feature that drops in from the top of the screen at the press of the right shoulder button.
The entire game is touchscreen controlled. Most lists in the game can be scrolled using either thumbstick and the left shoulder button enables the drag and drop features of the PC version handily when held down.
In fact, everything works almost exactly as it does on the PC version and seasoned Football Manager veterans will be picking their next winning strategy in no time. It's quite staggering just how much of the PC original that they've managed to adapt to the PS Vita.
Of course, this being the first incarnation of Football Manager to grace the PS Vita means it's not without teething troubles.
The menus are all very as finely and simply detailed as the are on the PC but this does create a slight issue when selecting some items. Loading up a player's stats by tapping on their name on the team sheet can require a few attempts before the game responds which is a tad frustrating.
There's also some lag after selecting an action which again prompts some frustration. This lag also exists when trying to use the left-shoulder-button-powered drag and drop. It only works if you make sure that you button is properly depressed before you touch the screen at all. If you're accidentally touching the edge of the screen it can mean that you'll need several tries to drag and drop your players into a new formation.
Another issue is the placement of the 'back' function. It lives in the main drop-down menu on the left-hand side. This means to come back out of a player's stats screen for instance requires you to press the right shoulder button and then tap the back button on the screen and wait for the lag between tapping the button and the game responding.
The final major issue that I had with FMC 2014 is in the 'quick' substitution menu. It's laid out with the players on the pitch down the left and the bench player on the right. There's a distinct lack of information here though especially the players condition level and performance rating which are necessary factors in deciding what players to substitute.
It feels a bit redundant when all of this information, and the ability to effect subtitutions and formation alterations are available from the in-match tactics screen. This screen is also much better laid out as it follows the PC game's conventions of players names and stats down the left and a pitch positional map fo your chosen 11 on the right.
I've laid into the game quite a bit here but it's more from a sense that I can see that it's a great game hindered by a few clumsy design choices and hardware optimization issues rather than it being a bad game.
It's not the perfect introduction to the Football Manager series that Vita gamers could have hoped for but in it are the seeds of a game which will be insanely addictive in future and possibly even a compelling reason for folks that may not have otherwise bought the PS Vita to consider it. Still it's not bad for a first effort.
Football Manager Classic 2014 is out now on PS Vita. The full version of Football Manager 2014 is also available now on PC, Mac and Linux.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III is coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360 after all
- Tomonobu Itagaki's Devil's Third gets a release date
- Adr1ft is coming to PC and consoles at the end of the summer
- EA gives the new Mirror's Edge a name – Mirror's Edge Catalyst
- ZombiU PS4 and Xbox One port reportedly in the works
- Mike Bithell's Volume to be released this August
- Gearbox's new shooter Battleborn gets a pre-E3 trailer
- Steam Controller launches in October, Steam Machines arrive in November
- Gears Of War devs Black Tusk change their name to The Coalition ahead of E3


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How to Grow a Miniature Alberta Spruce From Cuttings
Reaching heights of 6 to 10 feet, dwarf Alberta spruce (Picea albertiana "conica"), sometimes known as miniature Alberta spruce, is a cone-shaped tree with soft, bright green needles that turn a soft shade of grayish-green as the tree matures. The tree's dense green needles and symmetrical shape make it popular in formal gardens. It also makes a lovely Christmas tree or container plant. Dwarf Alberta spruce is a hardy tree native the northern United States that thrives in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 2 through 8. You can grow this miniature evergreen from a cutting taken in midsummer.
Take 2- to 6-inch cuttings from stems that are firm and slightly flexible but not hard and woody. Cuttings from young trees less than six years old root best. Before taking cuttings, sterilize a sharp knife or pruners by wiping the blades with a mixture of one part chlorine bleach to nine parts water.
Pinch side shoots from the bottom one-third of each cutting.
Prepare a 3-inch pot for each cutting. Place a pinch of general-purpose, slow-release fertilizer in the bottom of the pots, then fill the pots with equal parts fine bark and peat moss.
Make a planting hole in the center of each pot, using a pencil or similar object. Dip the bottom of each stem in rooting hormone and plant the cuttings in the holes just deep enough that the stems stand upright and the needles are above the soil.
Firm the planting mixture around the stems. Water the mixture so it is evenly moist but not dripping wet.
Cover each pot with a plastic bag, then close the bag with a rubber band or twist tie. Place the pots in indirect light. Although normal warm room temperature are suitable, a location on top of a warm appliance such as a refrigerator speeds rooting. Avoid bright light because it may scorch the cuttings.
Check the cuttings every week. Water lightly if the potting mixture feels dry. Remove the plastic when new growth appears -- typically in about three months -- indicating the dwarf Alberta spruce cuttings have successfully rooted.
Transfer each cutting to a 6-inch pot filled with two parts garden soil, one part sand and one part peat moss. Place the pots in partial shade for five to seven days. Then move the pots to bright light.
Allow the new dwarf Alberta spruce to mature at least until all danger of frost has passed the following spring, then plant the tree in full to partial sunlight. If possible, let the plants mature for an extra year. A larger tree with a well-developed root system is more likely to survive outdoors.
- The New Sunset Western Garden Book; Kathleen Norris Brenzel, Editor
- The American Horticultural Society: Plant Propagation
- University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture: Dwarf Alberta Spruce
- Monrovia: Dwarf Alberta Spruce
- Rooting hormone, in liquid, powder or gel form, is readily available at garden centers.
M.H. Dyer began her writing career as a staff writer at a community newspaper and is now a full-time commercial writer. She writes about a variety of topics, with a focus on sustainable, pesticide- and herbicide-free gardening. She is an Oregon State University Master Gardener and Master Naturalist and holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction writing.


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Last week, DJ Akademiks was under hot fire, for making derogatory comments at Mr. John Legend and his wife, Crissy Teigen. While he hasn’t apologized, he was banned from his gaming channel and suspended from a web series. This week, he went live on the gram with 6ix9ine to air out a few issues with Meek Mill and twitter’s attempt to cancel his last week.
Take a look at the content below from the live session.


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Germany’s Federal Network Agency (FNA) has published for public consultation a position paper on the future allocation of certain mobile radio frequencies, with the aim of balancing the interests of established mobile operators with those of potential new market entrants. At the end of 2025 the allocations for the usage rights for spectrum in 800MHz, 1800MHz and 2600MHz bands will expire, and the regulator is aiming to give all market participants investment and planning security at an early stage as to how the frequencies will be made available again.
The FNA’s position paper outlines initial assessments of the further allocation procedure: due to the scarcity of frequencies, the FNA prefers an award process, specifically an auction, but for the 800MHz band, it proposes a ‘frequency swap’, whereby the existing usage rights would expire at the end of 2033, rather than 2025, while the usage rights for the 900MHz band would expire at the end of 2025 rather than 2033 and would then be assigned at the earlier date. The regulator states that this move would secure the existing LTE coverage based on 800MHz frequencies in the longer term, but would also enable newcomers to obtain spectrum in the range below 1GHz.
Interested parties have until 21 November 2021 to submit comments on the position paper.

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Swansea City’s Garry Monk has stated on numerous occasions that the Spanish forward Michu does not play any role in his plans and that the 29 year old attacker is not expected to perform for the Premier League club in this entire new season. West Ham have been linked.
The career of Michu has slowly taken a turn for the worst as the Spanish attacker made a huge splash in the Premier League during his debut season in Swansea City when he managed to score 22 goals in his first season and helped the Premier League club in winning the Capital One Cup.
Things began to fall apart for Michu when he picked up an ankle injury and had an underwhelming loan spell with the Italian outfit Napoli.
Michu has a contract with Swansea City which expires in 2016 but his stay at the Liberty Stadium will be ending sooner than what his deal states as the Spanish attacker no longer plays any important role in the Premier League outfit. The latest odds according to StanJames betting suggest he will end up playing back in Spain from January.
When Garry Monk was asked about the possibility of Michu remaining as a player of Swansea until the end of his contract, the English manager replied by saying: “There’s always a possibility. He’s not part of my plans going forward. Michu made his decision last season to try and go on and further his career elsewhere and it’s the same situation now”
“Whether the window shuts it’s an ongoing situation where we’re trying to find the right solution for him. We want the best for him because we’re very thankful for what he’s done for the club”
Persistent injuries have halted the progression and development of Michu and despite what he has accomplished with Swansea City in the past, there is no place left for him in the Liberty Stadium and even if Michu does remain with the Premier League club for another season, Monk has reiterated that the Spanish player will not be given any playing time at all.


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The Urban Institute has issued a report on the effect Covid has had on enrollment in public schools. Findings include: Over the first two school years under the pandemic 2021–22, K–12 enrollment in public schools fell by more than 1.2 million students… Private school enrollment was 4 percent higher while home school enrollment was 30 percent higher. So, what are the implications?
I think the growth in homeschooling and private school enrollment raises some great questions about the quality of the learning environments our kids are experiencing.
Just as we don’t trust the healthcare experts, like the WHO, National Institutes of Health or doctors, nurses and hospitals after being so brazenly lied to by power-hungry technocrats in charge, parents don’t exactly feel comfortable leaving their kid’s education in the hands of a mentally dysfunctional and ideologically deranged education system— not after online learning gave PARENTS a glimpse into the WOKE LEFTIST insanity their kids are subjected to.
By destroying vast fortunes, crushing small business, and forcing hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work, Covid hysteria sowed the seeds of our unfolding economic ruin, which if you know anything about the Cloward – Piven Strategy you understand why the elites put us through it.
But consider this, if the end result is the prying the American educational system out of the hands of the green haired, nose ring wearing, brain dead liberal establishment, it could end up actually saving our country in the long run.
By millions of Americans waking up to the reality surrounding us the Elites are losing their grip on society, let’s just hope that trend continues..


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For testing liquids the pads are a must. Place the moisture pan and pad on the moisture balance, adjust the setting time to zero so the moisture analyzer is in auto mode and run the test with no sample on the pad. Many times the fiber pads can hold up to 2% moisture and this preps the pan and fiber pad to be moisture free and only takes typically 1 minute with most moisture analyzer.
Now with the dry filter pads if you are working with a liquidity substance 70% water or more place the sample with an eye dropper, syringe or pipette is a spiral pattern and then cover with the filter pad.
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This fantastic half-day wine tour gives you the chance to visit three traditional wineries and learn all the secrets about the Greek wine production.
Duration: 4 hour
It was a rare experience with many wines (for tasting)..Also we had too many photos from this tour we are waiting to see our photos!!!!!Thank you!!!

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The Director, Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has called for probe into the relationship between the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and violent groups.
The former aviation minister made the call in a statement in Abuja on January 9, 2015, Friday, following Buhari’s alleged endorsement by the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND).
FFK said Buhari’s endorsement by MEND, a discredited militia group, should give Nigerians and the international community great concern, Punch reports.
According to Fani-Kayode, Buhari’s comments over insurgency in Nigeria were worrisome.
He added that it won’t be surprising if Boko Haram equally endorses him.
READ ALSO: Buhari Will Bring Darkness To Nigeria - FFK
“It is important for Nigerians to take another look at Buhari’s comments about Boko Haram and the way he has encouraged Boko Haram group.
“It is on public record that Buhari had announced to the whole world that it was unfair and unjust for the Boko Haram to be tackled (after it) had killed over 20,000 innocent Nigerians, mostly women and children, after burning their homes and destroying their communities,” he said.
Fani-Kayode therefore called on Nigerians and the international community to investigate the relationship between Buhari and MEND as well as the deadly Boko Haram sect.
Femi Fani Kayode was formerly a member of the APC but later defected to the PDP. Since his defection, he has repeatedly attacked the main opposition force of Nigeria and the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari. He said Buhari’s election would do more harm than good to the already troubled country.


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KIEV, August 8 (Itar-Tass) — Ukraine’s Central Elections Commission (CEC) on Wednesday denied the registration of united opposition leader Yulia Timoshenko and People’s Self-Defense party head Yuri Lutsenko as parliament candidates.
According to deputy chairperson of the Ukrainian Central Election Commission, Zhanna Usenko-Chernaya, both Timoshenko’s and Lutsenko’s curricula vitae have information about “politically-motivated records of conviction.” The Central Election Commission is not authorized to give assessment of criminal record but “there are no legal grounds to register Yulia Timoshenko and Yuri Lutsenko as parliament candidates,” she said. Both politicians are serving prison terms but are among the top five on the party list of the united opposition.
Ukraine’s Minister of Justice Alexander Lavrinovich said on Wednesday that people who are serving their terms are not allowed to run for parliament seats. “A citizen with outstanding convictions may not run for a parliament seat. This is fixed in the Ukrainian constitution and no law can change it,” he stressed.


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Just over 2 hours drive from London is a remarkable structure. Dating back to prehistoric times it might not be as impressive as some of the structures I have seen in South East Asia. However, it still stands out here in the UK as not to be missed.
Limited to a 2 hour window due to our new normal ( covid -19) it is still worth seeing.
You will arrive at the visitor centre and after looking around the place seeing artefacts encased and explanations about the time around of building and also what life was like. Also, look out for an impromptu guide who just happens to be part of the assembled crowd. Whilst you are looking at the exhibition with your fellow visitors he just appears amongst you and starts to explain about the Stones. 🙂
At first I thought he was just a fellow visitor with some degree of knowledge but he is one of the tour guides and does a wonderful job of keeping you informed but at the same time entranced.
He stops talking as abruptly as he started and wanders off and as you move around into one of the other rooms he appears again and explains more.
Great performance from a knowledgeable man.
Worth the visit?
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, two miles west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, each around 13 feet high, seven feet wide, and weighing around 25 tons.
Ticket prices: £19.50 for adults
Opening Hours: 9.30am- 5pm
Address: Salisbury SP4 7DE
How to get there?
Directions from London
Take the A4 out of London and pick up the M4
Take M3 to A303 in Hampshire. Take exit 8 from M3
Follow A303 to your destination in Wiltshire


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Hey It’s Mik from the power9podcast! And yes we know it’s August! But it’s been kind of a slow year, so what better time than now should we do a best of 2017 so far? We talk our picks for outstanding film and videogame as we wind down the season. Listen now! Does your film or game get mentioned in our best of the year.
Cry Havoc and let slip the Last King fans. Eccentric Tom goes full colonial and has invaded the Last King studios. Having sacked both Mr Toffee and Dr Shafique in a special episode dedicated to his favourite videogame studio “Paradox Development Studios”. We talk very much in detail about “Europa Universalis”, “Crusader Kings” and maybe a little “Stellaris” among others. Plus a special game of “Actual History or Paradox Achievement”.


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Serena, the exquisite blend of Spanish Mediterranean design and elegance. Serena is an upcoming project by Dubai properties built to accommodate families seeking comfort from the tumultuous city life yet remain close to the city. Serena is both affordable and unique, offering a huge collection of lifestyle amenities and recreational facilities creating a spirited communal feel.
Serena is conveniently located within Dubailand, one of the Emirates most in-demand residential areas because of its presence near main roads that connect to the rest of Dubai’s key points. Around the residential community are parks and fitness paths just as jogging and cycling tracks. It is just a minute drive away from the Jumeirah Beach and minutes away from Downtown Dubai. Dubai Airport and Al Maktoum Airport are also minutes away from the community.
Serena; where elegance meets serenity.
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