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My hands are starting to slip, I am gripped out of my mind and looking down all I see is a swirling pool of death. The base of the waterfall, 10 feet from my current position, was full of ice berg-like chunks of ice that were tossing and turning. I’m fixed in a figure-four position, only a couple more moves to go and I’m at the chains. Looking at my pick, I see it’s starting to break through the ice. No time, gotta move. Figure four, figure-nine, and repeat. I’m trying to breathe as my arms start to chicken wing. Step, step, swing – I’m holding on for dear life and scrambling onto the top of the ice dagger. It’s over, finally and I victoriously clip the chains. What a mind-blowing route.
Sometimes routes leave an imprint-because of the relationship gained from working it to sending it or from creating it to completing it. When you establish a route you pour your energy into every attempt. You remain awake at night, visualizing how it’s going to come to fruition, where the protection goes, the beta, clipping the chains. Routes that you establish tend to sit high on your list of favorites because they are yours – you built them and you climbed them first. The time spent working the route and sorting through the movement creates a relationship. This is why such routes aren’t forgotten easily.
Many such great routes exist in the world of mixed climbing – whether on the side of a mountain, deep in a cave, in a slot canyon or just off the side of the highway. It’s interesting to see the diversity in such a sport; between the climbers and the style of routes in existence. Some prefer the cragging style of mixed climbing while other prefer horizontally-hucking there meat across the roof of a scooped out piece of rock. And of course, some seek epic adventures on the side of a mountain. Perhaps this is why it’s so difficult to create a top-ten list. Especially in the Canadian Rockies where there are so many top-notch climbs. The only way this list can be created is if we start to define the qualities that make a top mixed route.
“To be a top-10 route it has to form somewhat regularly, at least have been repeated, and be very, very cool. The horizontal stuff is interesting, but it’s not really representative of Rockies mixed climbing,” say Canadian mixed climbing legend Will Gadd.
Mixed climbing is a sport that has seen growth in waves. It started back in the days of Jeff Lowe, progressed with the likes of Will Gadd and now being pushed forward by new climbers that share the same passion. But what’s interesting is that a lot of the top mixed climbs are routes that were established many years ago. Routes like French Reality, Mixed Master, the ground breaking Musashi and of course Nightmare on Wolf Street.
“Generally, my favourite climb is the one I am on at the time but if I had to choose I would say Nightmare on Wolf Street. It has good moderate dry tooling sections with insanely steep, serious, and challenging ice in between,” says Rob Owen. “It’s a really good challenging line where the mixed sections give access to some of the best ice climbing imaginable.”
I once had a discussion with Joe Josephson, a pioneer of ice climbing in the Rockies, about manufactured routes being the future in mixed climbing. I had suggested that perhaps hard mixed climbs don’t exist without manufacturing, fixated on the fact that to be a top-notch route, it had to be high on the difficulty scale. In Europe, a lot of the hardest lines have been manufactured – a practice that’s widely accepted. These routes could be accepted as top-ten worthy in Europe. But manufactured routes seem less desirable in North America and specifically in the Rockies.
But do routes that have been manufactured or “helped along” deserve to be on a top 10 list? Some of the groundbreaking lines in the Rockies, that have been manufactured, have won awards and have required creativity, energy and commitment. Should they be excluded from this list? There is no easy answer.
And what about routes that are condition dependent? Some great climbs rarely form or come in shape much differently than during the first ascent. When I climbed Cryophobia in the ghost, my partner and I used an unusual variation. Does that change its legacy or worth? Certainly not.
After talking with Will Gadd, Raphael Slawinski and Rob Owens it became clear that they all shared some common ideas about what made a classic mixed route – the climb had to somehow leave an imprint on their adventurous souls regardless of the grade, style or conditions.
Raphael Slawinski has established and climbed some of the most amazing Rockies mixed lines, but his top-10 list was not filled with grade-pushing routes. Instead, it consisted of climbs that represented different climbing styles: Real Big Drip, Mixed Master, French Reality, Nightmare on Wolf Street, Musashi M12. These routes force you to think, to climb, to risk, to endure adventure and to breathe under pressure.
“I also like routes that come in reasonably often. I would not want to include a once-every-10-years gem,” says Slawinski.
It’s becoming obvious that a top-10 list is not all about horizontal roofs and maxing out the hardest grades. Maybe it should also include climbs that are easily accessible and just fun; with minimal risk and low commitment. Not everyone is up for traveling to remote areas, suffering cold temps in dark, gloomy caves or surviving multiple pitches of difficult run-out terrain. When I was asked what my top-10 picks were, I naturally thought of all the routes I had done that involved big roofs with a lot of figure-four’s and nine’s. Routes like Musashi or The Game, El Matador, or Piltdown Man. I love horizontal roofs; the feeling of crawling along like Spiderman.
But then I remembered the route I climbed this last winter in the Bull River Canyon, located just shy of Cranbrook, B.C. It was a Scottish gully-style route (developed by Pat Delaney) and was one of the most entertaining lines I’ve ever climbed. Graded at M6- this route was an absolute blast from the moment I left the ground.
This climbed proved that hard grades are not necessary for a great route. Instead it’s the route quality, consistency and what you feel after climbing the route that determines whether climb is worthy of a top-10 list.
The Canadian Rockies offer so much climbing it’s hard to comprehend. For mixed climbing, there’s enough to keep anyone busy for a lifetime. And whether something is in its original state, rarely forms, comes in all the time, has been manufactured, is M6 or M14, you should climb what you want, decide what you want and create your list of favorites. In the end, only you can decide what routes had an impact, left a mark and put the biggest smile on your face – that’s what a top ten list is made of.
Collaborating with Slawinski, Gadd, and Owens and a group of Canadian Rockies adventure seekers, I created a top-10 mixed climbing route list. This list was put together to give some sort of direction; a guide to where you might find a climb that will leave you with shivers up your spine, grinning from ear -to-ear and hopefully psyched for more.
1. Musashi M12 – An incredibly fun route from start to finish. It has horizontal climbing, dynamic movement and finishes off on a sporty curtain of ice.
2. Real Big Drip WI6 M7+ 200m – A beautiful line in the on an astonishing setting. Fantastic climbing on bolts and sections of sporty ice. A must-do route in the Rockies.
3. Nightmare on Wolf Street WI6+ M7+ 175m – Like Rob Owens said, “It has good moderate dry tooling sections with insanely steep, serious, and challenging ice in-between. A really good challenging line where the mixed sections give access to some of the best ice climbing imaginable.”
4. Mixed Master IV 5.8 WI5 300m – The original classic mixed route with six pitches of climbing just off the highway. This line was cutting edge in the early 90s and set the standard for a sport.
5. Cryophobia WI5+ M8, 225m – A multi-pitch route just to the right of Hydrophobia WI5+ that has six pitches of hard and sustained drytooling and mixed climbing.
6. Rocket Man WI5+ M7+ 350m – Located to the right of Snowbird Glacier on Mount Patterson, this climb is one of the longest waterfall-style mixed routes in the Rockies. Nine entertaining pitches of smears and drips.
7. French Reality V 5.8, WI6+ 150m – Awesome mixed climbing at the Stanley Head Wall consisting of thin ice, mushroomed pillars and technical mixed climbing.
8. EL Matador M12 – This route offers steep climbing, gymnastic movement, technical terrain and ice that pushes physical and mental limits.
9. Caveman M10 – A Classic test-piece that starts off on a horizontal roof and climbs through a pumpy set of moves. Always fun.
10. Slaughterhouse M8+ 30m -Start in the steep amphitheater behind the first pitch of Ice Nine. Climb superb dry-tooling on excellent steep rock past nine bolts in the roof, pull the lip and continue up front of the curtain.
This article was written in 2012 by B.C.-based mixed climber Gord McArthur. No climber has yet climbed all 10 in one season.

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Fisher Tops Brunner, Will Face Portman
Updated: 11:58 p.m.
Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher won the Democratic Senate nomination on Tuesday and will face former Rep. Rob Portman (R) in what is expected to be one of the most closely watched contests of the cycle.
Fisher defeated Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner 55 percent to 45 percent in the Democratic contest. Fisher outperformed Brunner in fundraising, had the support of Gov. Ted Strickland (D) and was the preferred candidate of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
“Lee Fisher is focused on creating jobs, holding Wall Street accountable, and stopping the excesses of oil and insurance companies,” DSCC Chairman Bob Menendez (N.J.) said in a statement that also accused Portman, a former budget and trade official in the administration of President George W. Bush, of having “created the economic mess we are in.”
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) said in his own statement that Fisher “was hand-picked by Washington Democrats because they know he will serve as another rubberstamp” for President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) “deeply unpopular agenda” if he is elected.
One of Fisher’s top priorities is to forge party unity with Brunner, who accused Fisher’s allies of trying to push her out of the primary, and to replenish his campaign fund to stay competitive with Portman, who had nearly $7 million more in the bank than Fisher as of mid-April.
The winner of the November contest will succeed retiring Sen. George Voinovich (R)
In House race results Tuesday night, businessman Jim Renacci won the Republican nomination in the Canton-based 16th district, where he’ll face freshman Rep. John Boccieri (D) this fall.
With about three-fourths of the GOP vote counted, Renacci led Matt Miller, a former county commissioner, 49 percent to 40 percent.
Renacci, a former small-city mayor, and Miller, who ran competitive but losing efforts in the 2006 and 2008 primaries, were close during most of the vote-counting, but Renacci pulled ahead after populous Stark County, which includes Canton, reported the bulk of its votes late Tuesday.
Renacci was the preferred candidate of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is looking to reclaim the historically GOP-leaning district this November.
Republican officials think that Boccieri is vulnerable in part because of his votes for a health care overhaul and a climate change bill that called for a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gases.
Democrats see vulnerability in Renacci’s business operations and in his resistance several years ago to a tax assessment.
Elsewhere in the Buckeye Sate, the GOP primary in the 18th district remained too close to call just before midnight Tuesday. Fred Dailey, a former Ohio agriculture director and the 2008 nominee, and state Sen. Bob Gibbs, the NRCC’s favored candidate, were locked in a tight race that included six other candidates. The winner of the GOP contest will face Rep. Zack Space (D) in November in a race that national Republicans hope to target.


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Ford is reducing its commitment to a planned Marshall-area electric vehicle battery plant by 800 jobs and more than $1 billion, a move that will reduce the plant’s production capacity by about 40 percent. But the Dearborn automaker still intends to meet its goal of opening the plant by 2026, a company spokesperson said Tuesday.
The announcement represents a dramatic departure from the 2,500 jobs and $3.5 billion in investments promised earlier this year by Ford and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Ford spokesman Mark Truby acknowledged that the company’s budget cuts would almost certainly mean the state would reduce the roughly $1.8 billion promised in taxpayer subsidies for the megadevelopment.
“We’ve been looking at this project for a few months. I think we’re all aware that electric vehicle adoption is increasing, and we expect that to continue, actually. But it’s not growing at the rate that I think we’re “myself and the industry what I expected,” Truby said.
“We want to be very disciplined in how we allocate capital and think about the adequacy of production and future capacity based on demand.”
Truby said Ford initially anticipated the facility would produce 35 gigawatt hours of batteries per year, enough to power about 400,000 vehicles. Now, the company expects the factory to produce 20 gigawatt hours, which represents about a 42% reduction in production – or about enough batteries for 230,000 vehicles.
Although Truby would not say exactly how much he planned to reduce the $3.5 billion investment, he did say it was linked to the reduction in production. At 42%, that would mean a reduction of nearly $1.5 billion, to create a total new investment of $2 billion.
The company also intends to use less space at the site, which currently spans hundreds of acres just west of Marshall, a small town about 35 miles east of Kalamazoo.
Representatives for Whitmer and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the state entity that oversees incentives for this deal and other megasites, both focused on the fact that Ford still plans to invest in the site and not on the reduction of promised investments or jobs created.
“Today’s announcement means the creation of 1,700 new jobs in Michigan as well as billions in additional investment in the state, which will help grow the economy and put more money back into citizens’ pockets,” said Stacey LaRouche, Whitmer’s spokeswoman.
MEDC spokesperson Otie McKinley said incentives for the project “will certainly be revised based on the new investment parameters.”
At this point, McKiney expects Ford and Mnd MEDC to come together to submit a proposal on reduced subsidies to the board of directors of the Michigan Strategic Fund, the entity that authorizes the incentives. It remains unclear whether any changes will ultimately require legislative action.
The announcement confirms that Ford is resuming work at the plant; Nearly two months ago, the company suspended the heavily subsidized project due to uncertainty over the UAW strike.
In late September, Ford caught some policymakers and industry observers off guard by announcing it would “suspend work and limit construction spending” at the Marshall-area plant. Ford spokesman TR Reid said at the time that the company’s work would not resume “until we are confident of our ability to operate the plant competitively.”
This did not stop major contractor Walbridge from continuing site preparation; it received a contract worth up to $178 million to ensure the infrastructure is ready for Ford.
Jim Durian, director of the Marshall Area Economic Development Alliance, a local entity working with MEDC on the site, said in a statement during Ford’s hiatus that work continued on roads, wastewater treatment systems and d other public services.
“We are pleased to see Ford resume construction work on the BlueOval factory, which will create 1,700 local jobs,” he said.
On Tuesday, Truby explained what led Ford to officially resume its own work at the site.
“We’re making strategic decisions, and this would be just another one where we move forward. But we’re trying to right-size the investment and the footprint,” Truby said, referring to a previously announced decision. delay in the $12 billion investment in electric vehicle production.
“There have been a number of factors. Obviously it’s helpful to have some certainty, you know, we’re no longer in a strike situation and we understand what our labor costs are going to be, in the ‘together.”
The project is a key part of a broader policy championed by Whitmer and state economic development officials. They argue that using hundreds of millions of public tax dollars to subsidize such megaprojects will ultimately result in revitalizing communities and restarting industries critical to Michigan’s future.
While some local residents defend the site, others are waging an aggressive campaign against it. Many local residents object to what they see as a lack of transparency around the project, while others are concerned about possible environmental impacts.
Some on the site attack Ford’s partnership with CATL, a Chinese company and the world’s largest battery manufacturer. They suggest, without evidence, that there is a nefarious connection between CATL and the Chinese government.
Truby confirmed that Ford still intended to work with CATL on the site, emphasizing that the promised 1,700 jobs would all be Ford positions.
This is a developing story. Check for updates as they become available.
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Read each of the following statements and mark whether you agree or disagree with it in the “before reading” category. There are no “right” or “wrong” answers. To Kill a Mockingbird: Anticipation Guide. Pre/Post-Reading Survey Directions: Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. Be sure to answer all parts of. To Kill a Mockingbird Anticipation Guide. Many important themes and issues from To Kill a Mockingbird are introduced in the statements below. For each. To Kill a Mockingbird. Anticipation Guide. Please answer ALL of the following questions in at least 3 COMPLETE SENTENCES on a SEPARATE SHEET OF. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee -- Novel Anticipation Guide Since you probably haven't read the novel yet there are no right or wrong answers. So please.
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Of more than 100 Utah students who took the Advanced Placement test for computer science, only four were girls.
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Minority participation also was low; no black students took the test in Utah, and 6 Hispanic students took the test.
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Veramente dei gestori coraggiosi!: Siamo veramente nel nulla!!! Ci siamo fermati per un panino veloce durante il tragitto Uluru-Kings Canyon; addirittura possibilità di scelta tra vari panini, tra cui vegetariano, dolci fatti in casa, bibite di ogni tipo e prezzi molto bassi! Soggiorna in questo bed and breakfast a Kings Canyon. Potrai approfittare di utili servizi come la prima colazione inclusa nel prezzo, un parcheggio gratuito e una piscina all'aperto. Se hai letto le recensioni degli ospiti su Kings Creek Station e le informazioni sui prezzi e la disponibilità della struttura, non ti resta che prenotare! Situato in zona Watarrka - Kings Canyon Australia, Kings Creek Station offre camere a partire da 65 €. Prenota su Agoda recensioni, tariffe scontate, conferma immediata, mappa, info e foto. Kings Creek Station - Kings Creek Station Villa offre ai suoi ospiti un'area riservata ai fumatori e un negozio di articoli da regalo nonché una terrazza solarium, un'area picnic e un giardino. Reception 24 ore e servizio shopping sono offerti per rendere il vostro soggiorno più facile. Kings Creek Station is located in Kings Canyon. Some units are air-conditioned and include a seating and/or dining area. Buffet and Full English/Irish breakfast options are available daily at the lodge.
Watarrka National Park is only three hours’ drive from Uluru, and is home to the mighty Kings Canyon - a majestic destination featuring 300 metre high sandstone walls, palm-filled crevices, and views that stretch across the desert. For a more gentle hike - or for hikers who have done the rim and are looking to view the canyon another way, the Kings Creek hike is a gentle 2.6 kilometre walk that follows a trail between the two soaring canyon walls. As you arrive at the lookout point, you will be welcomed by spectacular views of the sheer cliff face at the far end of the. Looking up at the sheer canyon walls from the shady tree lined creek bed I could make out pimply protuberances sticking out along the top – People up on the Kings Canyon Rim Walk, were leaning out over the edge admiring the view or snapping a photie of the stunning red rugged cliff face, which from my vantage point, down here on the canyon.
Answer 1 of 12: Which one is better btw the King creek station safari cabin or deluxe spa room in Kings canyon resort ? Both locations are very expensive and doesn’t really have good reviews. Anybody been to both locations ? I will be driving from Alice spring. Kings Canyon Resort and Holiday Park provides lodging accommodation in the heart of Australia's Northern Territory, not far from Uluru & Kata Tjuta.
Kings Canyon is a canyon in the Northern Territory of Australia located at the western end of the George Gill Range about 323 kilometres 201 mi southwest of Alice Springs and about 1,316 kilometres 818 mi south of Darwin within the Watarrka National Park.Situated at the foot of the beautiful George Gill Range, just 35 kilometres from Kings Canyon, Kings Creek Station is a truly unique 2,000 square kilometre slice of the real Australian outback. Owned and operated by locals, brimming with true outback hospitality, Kings Creek Station is where an outback adventure begins.
I migliori hotel e alberghi vicino a Kings Creek Station, Kings Canyon, Australia: trova tra 11 hotel l’offerta che fa per te grazie a 7.824 recensioni e 1.512 foto inserite dai viaggiatori su TripAdvisor. Kings Creek Campground is located near Bryce Canyon National Park. Legal Option 1: Camping at Kings Creek Station. The Kings Creek campground is located 30km 20 min drive from Kings Canyon, and is set amongst natural bush with views of the George Gill Range. The Kings Creek campground has both grassed and un-grassed sites, with or without power. 08/09/2019 · This dramatic landscape testifies to nature's size, beauty, and diversity--huge mountains, rugged foothills, deep canyons, vast caverns, and the world's largest trees. These two parks lie side by side in the southern Sierra Nevada east of the San Joaquin Valley. Weather varies a lot by season and.
From AU$193 per night on TripAdvisor: Kings Creek Station, Alice Springs. See 358 traveller reviews, 243 candid photos, and great deals for Kings Creek Station, ranked 13 of 29 Speciality lodging in Alice Springs and rated 4 of 5 at TripAdvisor. Kings Creek Station mette a tua disposizione camere doppie, singole e altro ancora. Prenota la tua camera a Kings Canyon con la Garanzia del prezzo. 05/04/2019 · Accommodation options are limited - you can go to Kings Canyon Resort or Kings Creek Station. We chose the former because it was the closest option to Kings Canyon, and we wanted to minimise our driving time where possible. It is only 9km from Kings Canyon. We did investigate Kings Creek.
Der Canyon besteht aus imposanten, teilweise über 100 Meter hohen Felswänden, deren Farben von Rot und Gelb bis Weiß reichen. Durch die Felsschlucht zieht sich der temporär wasserführende Kings Creek, der an seinem Ende ein immer feuchtes Wasserloch formt. 15/11/2014 · Experience a real outback adventure staying at this working camel and cattle station, and explore the country on quad bike, camel or helicopter. For more information visit:.au. Bryce Canyon Campgrounds; Kings Creek Campground USFS; Kings Creek Campground USFS. Bryce Canyon, UT. 0.0. 0 Reviews. Add a Review Add Photos Edit Info. Email a Friend Copy Link. Own This Campground? Claim it and Unlock Features It's Free. 0 RVers Reviewed Kings Creek Campground USFS. Add a Review. 0 Reviews. Book Kings Creek Station with us today and enjoy exlcusive deals withDiscount Code! Check out candid photos, 25 reviews, location maps or other Kings Canyon hotels. Collect 10 nights get 1 free withRewards!
An alternative to Kings Canyon Resort We stopped in here a couple of times during our stay at the campground at Kings Canyon. The place has a nice feel to it, the cafe provides a reasonable coffee more so than up the road, the people are nice. There are 2 ways to get from Alice Springs to Kings Creek Station, Kings Canyon by car or plane. Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2rio's travel planner. Drive through the sand hill country towards Kings Canyon, stopping at Kings Creek Station for a delicious cooked breakfast including bacon & eggs, baked beans and toast with coffee, tea and juice. Continue on to Watarrka National Park where you can make the rocky climb with your Guide to the rim of Kings Canyon to be rewarded with marvellous views. The Kings River is a 132.9-mile 213.9 km river draining the Sierra Nevada mountain range in central California in the United States. Its headwaters originate along the Sierra Crest in and around Kings Canyon National Park and form the eponymous Kings Canyon, one. Camels and Canyons at Kings Creek Station. In the heart of Australia’s Red Centre, the scenery looks like it’s from another planet. Uluru casts an impressive silhouette against the skyline, while other incredible natural monuments show the centuries-old history that this part of the country holds.
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Capacity Increase for Voice Over IP Traffic Through Packet Aggregation in Wireless Multihop Mesh Networks
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Recently, Voice over IP (VoIP) has become an important service for the future internet. However, for ubiquitous wireless VoIP services, greater coverage will be necessary as promised by the advent of e.g. 802.11 WLAN based wireless meshed networks. Unfortunately, the transmission of small (voice) packets imposes high overhead which leads to low capacity for VoIP over 802.11 based multihop meshed networks. In this paper, the authors present a novel packet aggregation mechanism that significantly enhances capacity of VoIP in wireless meshed networks while still maintaining satisfactory voice quality.

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TREASURE ISLAND — Impassioned pleas to restore $107,000 in funding cuts for the Gulf Beaches Public Library in Madeira Beach failed to sway the City Commission on Wednesday as it set its property tax rate at a level that excludes any money for the library.
Once the 2008-2009 budget is approved, Treasure Island is expected to formally withdraw from the five-community consortium that financially supports the library. Other beach cities that sponsor the library are Madeira Beach, Redington Beach, North Redington Beach and Redington Shores.
Former elected officials from some of those communities were among the nearly standing-room-only audience.
"This came right out of the blue. If you pull out now and endanger the library's funding, you are not going to make a lot of friends up north on the barrier island. You people want to pull out and leave us in the lurch at the last minute. It's not good," former Madeira Beach Commissioner Martha Boos warned.
Former Vice Mayor Lee Holmes of Redington Shores said the "loss of financial support" from Treasure Island would "seriously jeopardize" continued operation of the library.
Former Madeira Beach Commissioner Art Thomas said "the library is the backbone of the future of your city," and offered to personally find enough money in the Treasure Island budget to restore library funding.
Thomas drew loud applause when he suggested commissioners start by cutting their own salaries to raise the money.
Many Treasure Island residents also pleaded with the commission to continue supporting the library, calling it a "basic fundamental need" and an "essential right" of the city's residents.
"Soon we will not have money for anything, but at least we can read books," said one resident concerned about the economy and rising gas prices.
Some residents and property owners supported cutting the library's money.
"In the past five years, my taxes have gone up 155 percent," said Janie Hermann, a longtime business owner. "The community can no longer support extreme increases in taxes. Those who want to use services are going to have to pay for them."
James Gustry, who owns and lives in a five-unit apartment building on the Isle of Capri, said the commission faced a "real simple matter of economics" and needed to "run the city like a business" by shifting responsibility for services to those who use them.
Travis Sherman, the youth services librarian at the Gulf Beaches Public Library, says that more than 2,500 Treasure Island residents are active members of the library.
With the city backing out of the library system, those or other Treasure Island residents will have to pay $100 a year for a family library card. Several other cities that do not have municipal libraries subsidize all or part of that cost, but Treasure Island commissioners have indicated they do not plan to.
The library has posted signs in its lobby and on its Web site warning Treasure Island residents that beginning Oct. 1, they will no longer have access to any library in Pinellas County unless they purchase library cards.
The Library Board is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. Sept. 22 to discuss how it will react to Treasure Island's action — and how to refinance its budget.
Treasure Island Commissioner Alan Bildz said he is not worried about the library's ability to stay in operation. "If enough residents sign up for the $100 cards, they would more than make up for the $107,000" cut by the city, he said.
Except for Mayor Mary Maloof, the commission joined Bildz in supporting the proposed property tax rate of 2.4999 mills, which is 8.52 percent less than the rollback rate.
The commission will meet again at 6 p.m. Sept. 17 for its final vote on property taxes and the city's budget.


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Back when I had IBS, I found there were very few foods I could digest. And although it sounds crazy, I found a comforting hot plate of chips and a can of Coke is what I digested the best.
But you can’t live long-term on junk food. And if you can’t absorb the nutrients you need, you can find yourself with other health problems too.
But what if you just can’t digest healthy food?
Despite trying a low Fodmap diet… It’s a real dilemma. You know your body is not getting all the nourishment it needs. And that can affect every aspect of your health.
But you just can’t do anything about it!
IBS: What’s behind your digestion
The physical side
I’m sure you are all familiar with how digestion works. And when the gut microbiome gets out of balance, the “bad” bacteria proliferate and interfere with digestion. This can lead to different types of dysbiosis: Candida, Sibo, H Pylori.
I had Candida. And even though I wasn’t “cured” by dealing with it, I did digest much better and felt less sluggish.
If damage occurs to the gut lining, over time you may find you develop leaky gut – and find yourself with more and more food intolerance.
The good news is that wherever you are, your body is exceptionally good at rebalancing when given some support.
The physical side is just a symptom
Behind your bad digestion can be found all the traditional range of IBS symptoms like bloating, abdominal cramps and transit problems.
While all eyes are (logically) on food and the digestive tract, few people examine what causes bad digestion in the first place:
Our psychological, emotional, energetic and physical reactions to fear.
While trigger loops are still going round, your digestion will likely be affected (remember the brain-gut axis we hear so much about).
So that is what you need to sort out. (If you need help, this is the work I specialize in).
To be able to eat healthy food and digest well long-term your body needs your nervous system to feel appeased.
It needs to calm down the digestive tract and repair the gut damage.
And to be able to do that, your body needs you to discover new ways of experiencing situations that are currently setting off your IBS.
I wish I had known this earlier. I wasted over 25 years of my life with IBS.
If you didn’t know this before, now you know. And I sincerely hope you that you will benefit from this knowledge.
We are all wasting far too much time, energy, money and quality of life on IBS.
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Climate change activists who blocked major intersections in Brisbane CBD on Thursday morning plan to hold traffic up again every weekday next week during morning peak-hour.
The group from Extinction Rebellion, responsible for a previous protest on the Victoria Bridge, started their action about 8am on Thursday.
The first intersection targeted was Elizabeth and George streets, where traffic was brought to a standstill for about 15 minutes.
The group, numbering about 40 activists, then moved to the intersection of George and Adelaide streets as well as George and Turbot streets, and repeated the process.
Protesters were also stopping traffic on Ann Street near King George Square, where drivers were getting out of their cars and trying to see what the hold-up was.
This was followed by a return to the George and Turbot street junction before they blocked the intersection of Countess and Roma streets.
Frustrated drivers honked at the protesters, who were showing their anger at the state government's decision to approve key parts of the central Queensland Adani Carmichael mine last month.
Frustrated motorcyclist Nelson Portela said he understood what the group was doing, but believed there were better ways to get their message across.
"I know why they're doing it and it's perfectly fine, but when you're interrupting people getting to work it's inconsiderate and it's rude," he said.
"They're trying to save the temperature and global warming, but what about the people who actually need to get to work to earn money to put food in front of their kids?
"They're blocking traffic, which is now going to affect the motorway [Riverside Expressway]. They say it will only be 10 minutes, but the traffic build-up will probably be two or three hours."
Truck driver Jeff, who did not want to give his last name, said he simply had a job to do.
"It's terrible, I’ve got a job to do and I don’t want to be sitting here for half an hour," he said.
"I don’t even know what they’re doing, but I don’t want to know because I think it's the wrong way to put the message across."
However, some motorists caught in the congestion were happy to sit and wait.
"I honestly don’t mind, it’s a pretty important thing they’re protesting for so go for broke, fight the good fight," driver Glynn Holland-Leam said.
"I was just dropping my wife off, so my day is not being impacted too heavily. But I understand other people do have places to be, but it’s an important thing.
"It was a bit of a shame [the Adani approvals]. The world is pretty flooded with coal anyway so it’s not like it’s a needed mine. There are better things that we can do with our time and money."
Protest spokesman Sergeio said they were bringing the "climate emergency" to the forefront of society's mind.
"We don’t take pleasure in disrupting people, our target is the government," he said.
"We are very sorry to the people who are inconvenienced by this. But we understand this is what we must do, we must do this now and we must do this more.
"The government depends on compliance from its population, so if it's not protecting its population, the population has a duty to not comply and to force a response from the government."
Sergeio said from Monday to Friday next week, Extinction Rebellion planned to do similar protests and block morning peak-hour traffic in the heart of Brisbane once again.
The Galilee Basin mine re-emerged as a hot political issue throughout the federal election campaign. Some blamed Labor's at-times ambivalent stance on the mine for its poor electoral showing in Queensland, before Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk sped up the approval process.
The activists' action were building towards a "rebellion day" on August 6, where hundreds of people were expected to disrupt the River City.

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Project Name: Celebration Boulevard Extension
Impacted Counties: Osceola
Condemning Authority: Osceola County
Osceola County is conducting a Feasibility Study to extend Celebration Boulevard from CR 532 to the Mattamy Homes Development. The County is evaluating three alignments. Alternative 2 is the preferred alternative as shown below. The new road is anticipated to be 2-lanes with a median with bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
A public meeting was held on May 12, 2022 and can be viewed here. A final Feasibility Study is expected in Summer 2022. The design and construction phases are not yet funded.
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Today i went to pick my friend up from the school that i went to, i’ve never felt so sad before, all the memories just came flooding back to me, i had tears in my eyes, just thinking about how much pain that place gave me.
I’m still so upset, i can’t think of any positives that the school gave me, everything i went through there made me so ill. That is where i started self harming, that is where i walked out to go to the nearest bridge to jump off but my mum got called to come and get me.
They didn’t know what i was planning, they just saw me walk out early and got worried, so they called my Mum to get me.
That place was a horrible place, with horrible memories, and horrible people.
It didn’t just make me sad, it made me angry too, thinking about all of the teachers there that ‘cared’ about me, well that didn’t last long, as soon as i left, they stopped caring, never called me, never asked about me ever again.
I actually went back inside today, to see if teachers asked how i was etc, but no, nothing just hi, that’s it.
I wish i could write the school a letter, tell them everything i went through during my time there, how i am now, how i can never wear short sleeves again, how i have ended up in hospital a few times due to suicide attempts. They don’t know this is all because of what i went through in their school. They don’t know who else could be going through the same things that i went through in the school. I don’t want anyone else to go through this, in that school, or in ANY school, workplace or ANYWHERE, because don’t you know, bullying doesn’t just happen to young people, it can happen to anyone, any age, any race, any religion etc.
I hope you like this post, i just tell the truth, i’m no one special, just someone who wants to make a difference and be heard.
Nobody should go through this.


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Peanut butter is a popular food that has been around for over a century. It’s made from ground peanuts and is used as a spread on bread, crackers, or used as a dip for fruits and vegetables. Peanut butter can be found in many different forms, including sweetened and unsweetened versions. In this article, we will focus on the health benefits of unsweetened peanut butter.
- Good Source of Protein: Unsweetened peanut butter is an excellent source of protein, with around 8 grams of protein in each tablespoon. Protein is an essential nutrient that is needed to build and repair tissues in the body. Consuming enough protein can help you feel full for longer and reduce cravings.
- Heart-Healthy Fats: Peanut butter contains heart-healthy fats, including monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. These fats can help reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering cholesterol levels in the blood. It’s important to note that peanut butter is also high in calories, so it should be consumed in moderation.
- Rich in Vitamins and Minerals: Unsweetened peanut butter is also a good source of vitamins and minerals. It contains vitamin E, which is an antioxidant that can help protect cells from damage. Peanut butter is also a good source of magnesium, which is needed for strong bones and a healthy immune system.
- May Help with Weight Loss: Although peanut butter is high in calories, it may actually help with weight loss. Studies have shown that consuming peanut butter can help reduce hunger and increase feelings of fullness. Peanut butter also has a low glycemic index, which means it doesn’t cause a rapid spike in blood sugar levels.
- Versatile Food: Unsweetened peanut butter is a versatile food that can be used in many different ways. It can be used as a spread on bread, crackers, or rice cakes. It can also be used as a dip for fruits and vegetables. Peanut butter can also be added to smoothies or used as a base for salad dressings.
In conclusion, peanut butter is a great addition to your diet due to its numerous health benefits. It’s packed with protein, healthy fats, fiber, vitamins, and minerals that your body needs to function properly. Plus, it’s a versatile ingredient that can be used in various recipes or eaten on its own as a snack.
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Tonality refers to the tendency of music to gravitate toward or around a pitch (or pitch class). It’s a kind of harmonic vocabulary frequently used by composers, so that “as long as there’s some pitch that’s pulling everything to it, we refer to it as ‘tonal,’” he explains, playing some chords to illustrate the tonal concept that influences and is defined by Western ears. According to legend, when Mozart sat down one evening and wrote the overture to Don Giovani, the ink was still wet when he gave it to the players. We marvel at this kind of prolific genius, yet music theorist Morton Subotnick contended that “Mozart was really improvising within a tonal system that was already set for him. He didn’t have to be concerned about the harmonic function of stuff.” One chord seemed to lead naturally to another. “The problem for twentieth-century composers,” says McKenney, “is that they must design their own tonal systems.” One might see this freedom as a blessing, but McKenney contends that, as far as composing music goes, sometimes too much freedom isn’t a blessing at all: “At some point in time, you have to put shackles on yourself and limit yourself; otherwise, it can be chaotic as far as the piece goes.”
“I believe that all art is a product of that society in which it exists, and our society has become much more conservative over the last number of years,” McKenney suggests. During the 1960s and ‘70s, America was experiencing social upheaval. “You had some composers who were using mathematical processes to write pieces and everything was intellectually conceived.” At the other extreme were composers who didn’t notate anything but geometric shapes. It was in this period of great experimentation that electronic music began to take hold. “Music is more tonally conceived now,” McKenney observes, and less experimental than it used to be.


New Addendum Makes Veritas NetBackup Data Protection and Management Solution Available to Intelligence Agencies for AWS Cloud Deployments.
SANTA CLARA, Ca. and RESTON, Va. – June 10, 2019 – Veritas Technologies, a worldwide leader in enterprise data protection and software-defined storage, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced that Veritas NetBackup is now available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) Marketplace. This new addendum allows the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and additional authorized federal agencies to purchase Veritas’ data protection and disaster recovery solution through the AWS C2S Marketplace.
Veritas NetBackup offers enterprise cloud data protection across cloud, hybrid or on-premises environments, creating one single platform to protect agencies’ critical information at rest or in motion. In addition, NetBackup can backup to any cloud or on premise target, physical or virtual, to improve disaster recovery strategies by removing the need for dedicated hardware, allowing government IT teams to recover lost data with ease.
“The flexibility of the cloud offers a number of benefits for the federal government,” said Jonathan Alboum, Chief Technology Officer, US Public Sector, Veritas. “This same flexibility also brings security concerns for agencies that handle critical data and face compliance requirements. Veritas NetBackup is the perfect solution to address these concerns, providing security and visibility across environments and preventing data loss in the event one of these storage environments experiences a failure or disaster. We are proud to be able to offer this versatile solution through AWS’s intelligence-focused marketplace.”
Veritas NetBackup’s capabilities eliminate the complexity of point solutions and infrastructure management associated with other cloud data protection tools. The simple user interface provides optimized workflows and automated restores of files on physical and virtual machines and simplifies administrative tasks for all users, saving time and speeding responses.
“Carahsoft is dedicated to streamlining procurement and simplifying the ordering process,” said Bryan Jenkins, Director of Sales for the Veritas Team at Carahsoft. “Veritas’ addition to the AWS C2S Marketplace allows agencies to deploy NetBackup in a matter of minutes and makes its data protection and disaster recovery capabilities readily available to address the critical missions of the Intelligence Community.”
Introduced in 2014, the AWS C2S Marketplace is AWS’s original government program and contract vehicle dedicated exclusively to the IC, providing cutting-edge products and services available on the commercial AWS marketplace in a pay-as-you-go model.
Veritas NetBackup is available immediately through the AWS C2S Marketplace and the commercial AWS Marketplace via Carahsoft, which serves as Veritas’s primary government aggregator and distributor. For more information, visit the Veritas booth #419 and attend demos of Veritas products including NetBackup at the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington D.C. on June 11-12, 2019; or contact the Veritas team at Carahsoft at (888) 944-VRTS or email@example.com.
Veritas Technologies is a global leader in enterprise data management. Over fifty thousand enterprises—including 90% of the Fortune 500—rely on us to abstract IT complexity and simplify data management. Our Enterprise Data Services Platform automates the protection and orchestrates the recovery of data everywhere it lives, ensures 24/7 availability of business critical applications, and provides enterprises with the insights they need to comply with evolving data regulations. With a reputation for reliability at scale and a deployment model to fit any need, Veritas supports more than 500 data sources and over 150 storage targets, including 50 clouds. Learn more at www.veritas.com. Follow us on Twitter at @veritastechllc.
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A woman who was labeled a “hoarder” due to the massive amount of belongings she kept in her house was found dead in the home, buried by clutter. According to reports, she had been dead for four-years.
Reports say the woman’s daughter had continued living in the house after her mother’s death, and that she was found trapped under clutter herself after police visited the house on a tip from concerned neighbors.
The Sun reports: Reclusive Gaynor Jones, 87, is believed to have died four years ago, with it taking authorities four days to find her remains after being called to the “heavily cluttered” 19th Century stone cottage.
Daughter Valerie, who is in her 50s, was discovered collapsed at the same home, under mounds of papers and was rushed to hospital in a “poorly condition”.
Police had to bring in skip bins as part of their hunt for her mother Gaynor, only to discover her badly decomposed remains at the Aberaeron, West Wales home days later.
Neighbours described the mother and daughter pair as “odd and “reclusive,” saying they did not visit with the family regularly. The house has been described as “heavily cluttered.”
The report continues: Valerie, who is believed to have been living with her mother since her father passed away several years ago, was found severely dehydrated on March 12 after police acted on a tip-off from neighbours who raised concerns for their welfare.
She was taken to Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth.
Of Gaynor, a police spokesperson said: “Following a search of the property the remains of a body have been found. The death is currently being treated as unexplained.”
Police are expected to investigate the circumstances behind Gaynor’s death.
According to the Sun, Gaynor’s home is one of three stone buildings known as the Dolheulog Cottages, believed to have been built in the late 19th century. However, it was in such a state of clutter and disrepair, a website noting a history of Welsh ruins listed it in 2016 as one of “three cottages, all now empty or ruined.”
Welshruins.co.uk goes on to note: “Number 1 I believe was lived in until quite recently, the middle one has recently been purchased, the land cleared away and the third and smallest is still filled with personal belongings and is much ruined and damp.”
Obsessive hoarder, 87, found dead and her daughter discovered collapsed in their home in Wales https://t.co/J5mhF0hXeD
— Yahoo UK News (@YahooNewsUK) March 21, 2018
— pops (@pops131) March 21, 2018
— Louise Stainton (@LouiseStaintonU) March 21, 2018

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The Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) online encyclopedia contains vast amounts of molecular mechanisms through which chemicals can affect human health. It is available to the public and is especially valuable to researchers who require more in-depth scientific knowledge in this area.
The AOP was jointly created by the European Commission’s DG Joint Research Centre (JRC), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in order to provide a framework for toxicological strategies. The framework aims at constructing this knowledge base for scientists and regulators for predicting adverse effects of chemicals without using animal testing in the laboratory. It is remarkable that academic partners and companies share their knowledge and make it publicly available. With an increase in collaborative efforts of this kind and the sharing of information, the future bodes well for progressive scientific research.
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Zee TV’s Kaala Teeka (DJ’s – A Creative Unit) is finally on track after all the controversies related to Mita Vashisht and Bhupinder Singh.
Well, the new drama being played out now is with regards to a poisonous ‘scorpion’!!
Yes, Kalyani (Mona Ambegaonkar), the new antagonist in the show will bring a very dangerous scorpion from the jungle and let it loose in the house. Her idea will be to get the scorpion to attack Gauri (Adaa Narang).
However, even before the scorpion would attack, Gauri will scream and fall unconscious. This will lead to major chaos in the house.
As per sources, “Kalyani’s plan will be to frame Kaali (Sargam Khurana) and Manjiri (Daljiet Kaur) of being the master minds behind bringing the scorpion home. So she will let out a hue and cry and will start to inquire with everyone in the house as to who brought the dangerous creature home.”
Meanwhile, Kaali will also doubt Manjiri of the wrong doing, as she would have seen Manjiri coming out of Gauri’s room just before the attack could happen. So Kaali will think that Manjiri is responsible for the creature coming home.
Hence, in order to save Manjiri, Kaali will take the blame on herself.
Alas!! So what will happen to Kaali post this?
Well, with the police coming in to carry out their investigation, the doctor will reveal the scorpion being quite dangerous to kill someone. Considering the seriousness of the attack, the police will arrest Kaali….
Are you sad for Kaali? Who will save Kaali now?
We tried calling Daljiet, but did not get through to her.
For more updates keep visiting this space.


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by Tom Clavin
78 years ago Joe Moser was shot down during his 44th mission. Joe is the main character in my most recent solo book, Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival. It was published in hardcover by St. Martin’s Press in November 2021, and the paperback edition hits shelves today (9/20/22).
The question that has been most frequently asked of me since the book’s publication is: How did I find this story? It would be satisfying to claim that I used all my investigative skills to ferret it out, and I was so on top of my game as an experienced journalist . . .but the truth is, I stumbled across it.
In early December 2015, I was doing some last-minute fact-checking for Lucky 666, a book written with Bob Drury about a heroic B-17 crew in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A random keystroke caused the appearance on my screen of an obituary just published in The Bellingham Herald, a daily newspaper in Washington State. The headline was “Ferndale WWII Hero Joe Moser Dies at 94.” Like most writers, I have a healthy dose of curiosity and could not help taking a glance. What jumped out at me was a mention that Moser was one of 168 Allied flyers imprisoned at the Buchenwald concentration camp during the war.
To many of you—and this would be especially true of members of the “Greatest Generation” who are still with us—this information had to be a mistake. The official position of the U.S. military for decades had been no Americans were held in Nazi concentration camps. Maybe there was a mix-up. Thankfully, this “error” kept bothering me. I was able to find other articles about Joe Moser in The Bellingham Herald and I called one of the daily’s staffers who had met him. I contacted members of Moser’s family and was the beneficiary of their courtesy as well as that of Gerald Baron, a friend of Moser’s who had collaborated with him on a locally published memoir of his experiences.
I realized that there was much more to be explored and written about, not just Joe Moser’s story but that of all 168 Allied flyers, most of whom had survived hell on earth and suffered in silence for decades afterward. Fortunately, there were a few other written accounts, which I cite in the Bibliography, as well as the Gerald Baron and Michael Dorsey documentary, Lost Airmen of Buchenwald, which had originated as an investigation the latter did into his grandfather’s experiences as one of those prisoners.
In other words, I got lucky—happening upon an obituary published 3000 miles away and then the tumblers fell into place.
When I have given talks about Lightning Down, another question always asked is, “What surprised you the most about this story?” I must beg your indulgence here because at any given moment the answer is different. Certainly, one response is that any of these Allied airmen survived, let alone most of them. And not just the nightmare of Buchenwald—the story includes a “death march” in the most brutal winter conditions, facing starvation in the POW camp as the war waned and the Nazi guards hoarded food for themselves, and other daunting, death-defying challenges.
What also surprised me was the significant roles played by two colonels, Phillip Lamason and Hannes Trautloft. The former was a fearless New Zealand pilot who insisted that discipline and brotherhood would keep his command alive, and he was right. Colonel Trautloft was a Luftwaffe hero who valued honor and could not abide other airmen, whatever uniform they wore, being brutalized and starved, or worse. Joe Moser is clearly the main character in Lightning Down but the story is much enriched by their powerful presence of these two officers.
One other surprise—that Moser survived after the war. Yes, we’ve all heard about how the soldiers of World War II came home, found jobs, got married, and got on with it. Joe was no different in that respect. But think about the extra burdens he carried, especially having endured the sadistic cruelty of a Nazi concentration camp and then to be unable to share those excruciating memories with anyone, including his wife and children. No wonder the former pilot had nightmares. Yet as the last pages of Lightning Down report, Joe and his wife, Jean, raised their children, were active in the community, attended church services, and he had a seemingly satisfying career as an oil burner repairman. The resiliency of such a man is astonishing.
Another question often asked: “Was this book hard to write?” Yes and no. Yes, because during the time I was working on Lightning Down—from encountering that obituary in December 2015 to publication in November 2021—the story was filled with terrible events and terrible people. Spend years researching and writing about Nazi depravities and see how cheerful your world view is. I thought of the line by the poet John Donne, “Any man’s death diminishes me,” and here I was immersed in a story in which millions die. So, in that respect, Lightning Down was hard labor.
However, it may have been the easiest of the solo projects I have written because it is—to me, at least—very uplifting. The book is more about peace than about war. Joe Moser and other soldiers are doing their duty not to earn bragging rights or because they like violence but to end the war with tyranny having been defeated. It is no coincidence that the very last word in Lightning Down is “peace.”
And the book is about home. Throughout this story, Joe Moser yearns to have done his best and then return to his mother and siblings. Of all the scenes in the book that had tears plopping on my keyboard, taking the cake is the one where Joe is at the train station and his mother arrives to pick him up. Now he knew for sure he was home. It was at that moment the young man who had endured and witnessed the worst of human behavior finally broke down: Joe “cried in her arms like a baby,” as he put it.
Ultimately, Lightning Down is about love. Voltaire’s Candide was an inspiration to me when writing this book. It is about a gentle young man who travels far and wide, experiencing one travail after another, and comes to realize that home is the place for him. In case the connection is not clear enough, I give it way with the Epilogue’s opening epigram from Candide: “It is love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.”
Okay, forget Voltaire, maybe Joe Moser said it best, reflecting on his return to Buchenwald 55 years after he left the camp of nightmares: “Life is worth living. I’m glad I went through all this, but I wouldn’t wish it on anyone else.”
If you have not read Lightning Down already, please keep an eye out for the paperback edition wherever you like to buy books.
Originally published on Tom Clavin’s The Overlook.
Tom Clavin is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include the bestselling Frontier Lawmen trilogy—Wild Bill, Dodge City, and Tombstone—and Blood and Treasure with Bob Drury. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY.


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After Hurricane Ian passed through Florida and caused significant damage, Tom Brady is doing all in his power to assist the locals.
The quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers said on Thursday that he will contribute to the Florida Disaster Fund in order to aid the state's citizens in rebuilding their lives.
I'll be making a gift to the Florida Disaster Fund to get things started, and I'm hopeful the rest of the NFL family in our state will follow suit, Brady wrote.
"Happily we're able to travel home for Sunday night, but so many folks in Florida won't be able to do the same," Brady said.
Brady is acting really classy considering how destructive the hurricane was to the state. Apartments, condominiums, residences, and a great deal more have all suffered damage
After what transpired this week, Sunday Night Football between Brady's Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs at Raymond James Stadium is expected to be an emotional contest.


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Cheboygan volleyball team opens Straits Area season with 3-0 win over Rudyard
By JARED GREENLEAF
CHEBOYGAN — Playing in its first Straits Area Conference matchup of the season, the Cheboygan varsity volleyball team trailed in each of the three sets against the Rudyard Bulldogs.
However, it didn’t seem to rattle the Chiefs, who have dominated SAC opponents in recent years.
Instead, they showed plenty of resiliency, battling back to win each set in a 3-0 victory over the Bulldogs (25-21, 25-21, 25-16) during a competitive conference match in Cheboygan on Tuesday.
In the match, the Chiefs (14-6-2) impressively overcame a four-point deficit in set one, a six-point deficit in set two, and a three-point deficit in the final set to win the match.
“That’s really important, to be able to come back from being down,” said Cheboygan volleyball coach Laura Urlaub. “In the last set the girls were like, ‘Ok, let’s start out on top for a change,’ and they wanted to quit having to push from behind.
“Mentally, I think we’re getting much better with each game we play.”
After struggling to begin the game, the Chiefs fought off a 14-13 deficit with a 6-1 run and took a 19-15 lead. Sophomore outside hitter Taryn Jewell delivered a kill to give the Chiefs a win in the opening set.
Cheboygan’s most impressive comeback didn’t come until the middle set, when it trailed by a 13-7 margin. Despite the deficit, the Chiefs worked their way back, eventually tying it at 18 off another kill from Jewell. With the set in a 21-21 deadlock, senior middle hitter Katie Swiderek converted an important kill that ended up as the first of four consecutive Cheboygan points in the second set victory.
After falling behind early in the final set, the Chiefs once again rebounded to tie the set at 11. From there, the Chiefs rattled off 11 of the next 13 points to take a 22-13 advantage. Jewell delivered the last of her seven kills on the evening on match point to give the Chiefs the victory.
“Even at the weekend tournament (Charlevoix), she’s (Jewell) been hitting and getting more kills,” Urlaub added. “She was getting some kills in the Roscommon game by hitting in the left back position. She’s young, but she’s doing a really nice job in stepping up and adding to the Katie (Swiderek), Brooke (Beaubien), Allie (Porteous) strong hitters we have going on.”
On the other side, the Bulldogs certainly gave the Chiefs all they could handle for most of the match. However, it just wasn’t enough for a young Rudyard team that committed too many errors during the latter parts of sets, which proved costly.
“We’re a really young team, we have five sophomores on our varsity, but I was really proud of the way they battled out there,” said Rudyard volleyball coach Ellen Perry. “We have not played in a tournament yet, and a lot of teams have already had a little bit of a seasoned experience, so all of our tournaments are in October. We’re hoping that this is a good match for us to experience, for our girls to see that pace.
“(Cheboygan) just really scrappy, they never give up on a ball, their setter (Aleah Holmes) is very deceptive in where she is setting the ball, and we have very young players who just aren’t quite at that level yet, where we don’t want them to know where the ball is going.
“We’ll get there. This team is dedicated and pretty hard working.”
For Cheboygan, Beaubien had a team-high 12 kills, while Swiderek added 10 and Porteous tallied five. Holmes finished with 26 assists to round out the Chiefs.
“To be able to finish strong is great, because we haven’t seen Rudyard all year and didn’t know what to expect out of them,” Urlaub said. “Defensively, I thought we played a really good game, and we’re really picking up a lot of our hard hits.
“I do respect Ellen (Perry), she does have a young team right now, and they gave us a run for their money at times.”
Sierra Dugan led the Bulldogs with nine kills and 17 digs on the night, while Hannah Beelan added seven kills, and Jorgy Trotter tallied 21 digs.
In junior varsity action, Cheboygan won all three of its sets in a victory over Rudyard on Tuesday.
Cheboygan’s varsity team will compete at the St. Ignace Invitational on Saturday.


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Never really read much by Ian Banks. I mean, he was an Edinburgh man after all. The Wasp Factory was published in 1984. My heroes around then were Blair and Mandela. Not the Labour Blair of course, but Homage to Catalonia Eric Blair and of course Nelson Mandela. A man who was later awarded the freedom of the city of Glasgow and Aberdeen. My son met him briefly outside Glasgow City Chambers, just after the ceremony in 1993, but was then too young to recall the smiling eyes of the man and the air of peace and gentle power he generated.
Before his presidency, Mandela was of course an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress and its armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe, translated “Spear of the Nation.”
Following his 27 years in prison on convictions for various crimes, including sabotage but not murder, his switch to a policy of reconciliation and negotiation helped lead the transition to a multi-racial democracy in South Africa. Since the end of apartheid he has been widely praised, even by former opponents. Another case of yesterdays terrorist becoming today’s politician I suppose. Somewhat like Ian Banks however, Mandela may soon be out of this earthly place except of course in our collective memories.
It was moving indeed to view the tributes to Ian Bank’s passing. In particular I personally was struck by the fact that both Sky News and the BBC carried lengthy interviews with his writing and drinking pals. At the outset of his illness he famously told an interviewer that he had been very surprised at the media interest in his future life prospects and commented that the day of his announcement must have been a slow news day indeed. The day of his demise was flanked by news reports of Nelson Mandela’s illness and the news that the Duke of Edinburgh was back in hospital so it seems that Ian was up there on our screens and newspapers with the best of them.
The outpouring of dismay and affection by his readers on the announcement by Ian regarding his imminent demise spoke volumes about the impact the man made. Comments such as “Ian Banks was a very sad loss as for Mandela who can say anything but a working class hero” from Ruby Finnie and Helena Petre’s “I’m sorry to hear about Ian Banks, loved his book about Whisky and the TV dramatisations of his novels, though I did not read any of them” say it all. I may just buy the Wasp Factory on the strength of it.
Then of course there are the detractors. As far as I am aware, the British National Party have no burning issues to do with Scottish fiction writers but it seems that, in their world view, Nelson Mandela is a completely different matter.
The BNP leader, Nick Griffin, has this week sparked some outrage with a series of tweets branding Nelson Mandela a “murdering old terrorist”. Mr Griffin, who has been often been called a far-right politician and who is of course NOT an MP has seemingly mocked the 94-year-old former South African president’s lung condition by apparently writing on Twitter that “nelson Mandela on last legs it seems. Make sure to avoid BBC when the murdering old terrorist croaks. It’ll be nauseating” and “‘Statesmen must be judged on results not rhetoric. Before Mandela, South Africa was a safe economic powerhouse. Now crime ridden basket case.” He seemingly also wrote “No surprise Mandela’s lungs are shot – all those burning tyres. Smoking necklaces very bad for the health.”
Love them or hate them the BNP are seemingly here to stay. Nick Griffin is currently holidaying in Syria on a fact finding mission. He will shortly be meeting President Bashar Assad in Damascus.
Mr Griffin’s comments have been followed by an explanation from BNP spokesperson Mr Simon Darby as to why the party leader is in Syria meeting a man who has allowed his country to descend into a bloody and protracted civil war. According to Mr Darby the mission is an attempt to see just how many British citizens are fighting out there for the Free Syrian Army and other elements opposed to Assad.
We are “sick and tired of seeing lads from Manchester and Liverpool coming back in body bags or with arms and legs missing because the Government got them involved in business that isn’t any concern of ours” Said Darby.
What can the BNP spokesman mean? Body bags, arms and legs missing? Surely that is President Bashar Assad’s mission in life. In any case if the BNP wanted to count the numbers of British citizens fighting on the rebel side they had best contact the National Alliance for Syria who are more likely to have useful figures.
On the whole though, the majority of comments regarding both the life and death of Ian Banks and the life and current ill health of Nelson Mandela have been positive and informative.
As for the BNP, they have yet again messed up their own nest and proved to many in the UK and abroad, that they have no place in UK politics. That is unless Nick Griffin has a Road to Damascus experience during his holiday.


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APT Therapeutics has applied proprietary protein engineering strategies to produce APT102, an innovative human apyrase
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SmATPDasel, but not SmATPDase2, hydrolyses exogenous ATP and ADR Purinergic Signal.
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Construction of an Amperometric Immunosensor using Solanum tuberosum potato Apyrase
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Was the Iraq/Iran 7.3 earthquake an ‘ionospheric array attack’?
Was the pinpoint accuracy of the weapon a warning to Iran and Iraq not to form a mutual defense pact against Saudi Arabia and Israel
“High Probability Iraq/Iran Earthquake was Ionospheric Array Attack”
— Armchair Intelligence Analyst
What follows is an MSM news report on this deadly and destructive earthquake.
The Millennium Report
November 13, 2017