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First Daughter Ivanka Trump is not happy with being investigated and forced to be on the other end of a deposition. She kvetched about having to answer charges related to misappropriation of funds for President Trump’s inauguration in January, 2017. Meanwhile little Ivanka is pushing her so called political successes while shamelessly sharing pictures of herself and family in fancy, expensive designer fashions.
The deposition was held as part of an investigation stemming from charges made in January by the Washington, D.C., attorney general’s office claiming that in 2017 the Presidential Inauguration Committee (PIC) misused more than $1 million of its funding. A civil suit brought by local authorities over the matter centers on claims that the committee willfully paid exorbitant fees to the President’s own Trump International Hotel.
On that deposition Ivanka Trump angrily tweeted, “This week I spent 5+ hours in a deposition with the Democrat D.C. AG’s office where they questioned the rates charged by the Trump Hotel at the inauguration. I shared with them an email from 4 years ago where I sent instructions to the hotel to charge “a fair market rate” (see below) which the hotel then did,” she wrote in the statement. This ‘inquiry’ is another politically motivated demonstration of vindictiveness & waste of taxpayer dollars.”
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“The Trump admin. and…the Trump family, has sought to profit from the White House,” says the District of Columbia’s AG. “…We have developed compelling evidence that shows that the presidential inauguration committee was used as a piggy bank to deliver money to the Trump Hotel.” pic.twitter.com/CuahDpLnsr
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Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine responded in an interview on MSNBC saying, “With all due respect to Ivanka Trump, what she put out today was highly misleading, and at best, part of the story.”
And on CNN he said, “The Trump admin. and…the Trump family, has sought to profit from the White House. We have developed compelling evidence that shows that the presidential inauguration committee was used as a piggy bank to deliver money to the Trump Hotel.”
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Speculation mounts as to Ivanka Trump’s own future political ambitions. She keeps on placing herself at the center of political achievements while tweeting.
She had nothing to do with the Abraham Accords but Tweeted, “Nice mention of @realDonaldTrump’s Abraham Accords and UN Resolution 1325 – Women, Peace and Security, #WPS which the U.S. was the 1st country in the world to adopt and sign into law under President Trump!”
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Ivanka takes credit for giving people free fruit too:
“I’m incredibly proud to have worked w/ @SecretarySonny to ensure ALL Americans have access to nutritious, fresh food grown on small farms.”
“Grateful for the incredible work our American Workforce Policy Advisory Board has done bringing hardworking Americans off the sidelines and into the workforce.Flag of United States”
“Our programs, FarmerstoFamilies Woman farmer and “digital wallet” for SNAP recipients at farmers markets, have been a huge success. These initiatives dramatically increased the amt of fresh produce going from Flag of United States small farms into the hands of low income Americans.”
So will we see an Ivanka Trump for President campaign someday?


I am no rock music fan and that showed up in my poor rock portfolio until I photographed the Copenhell festival in Copenhagen in 2015. It changed the way I looked at a rock concert. If I have to pick one absolute favourite music photo from all these years, I'd pick the cover shot of this album. It was one of those satisfactory moments where you stand at the same view point as many but still manage to see something different. Inspiration is a beautiful feeling.


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Around the country, attitudes about retirement are shifting.
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Selling milk as a business can be very profitable. The process of selling dairy milk is very simple. Milk can be distributed using milk routes for sale. Once you (or your employees) milk the cows, the dairy is transported to chilled trailers or on-site cooling storage tanks and stored appropriately. Further, trucks are used to transport the milk to the processing facility.
Selling Organic Milk:
The dairy farming business such as organic milk selling can be highly profitable if the costs are managed effectively. The major running cost in the dairy farming business is the cost of cattle feed. Farmers can choose to cultivate fodder for the cattle on one part of their land. Organic milk is produced by raising the animals on organic feed in which no fertilizers or pesticides are used. Organic milk can be a valuable commodity to patrons of the health food industry because beneficial bacteria in the milk are not destroyed through processing.
Selling Regular Milk:
Well, whole milk categorically refers to cow’s milk that has not undergone any sort of nutritional alteration. Nutritionally, the milk is taken from the cow as is and processed for food safety. Regular milk has higher levels of drug residues, including antibiotics and growth hormones than organic milk. Organic milk has a longer shelf life due to the pasteurization processes it undergoes. Selling regular milk can be a profitable business as its customers are more and more sales are generated as compared to organic milk.
Organic VS Regular Milk:
The main difference between organic and regular milk is in the way that milk is produced. Both organic milk and conventional milk are nutritious, provide similar nutritional qualities, and can be part of a healthy meal pattern. Whether you choose organic milk or conventional milk is a personal preference. By choosing organic milk, you can get the nutritional benefits of milk without exposing your family to chemical contaminants. Numerous studies have found that organic milk has a higher nutritional content, even more, healthy omega-3 fatty acids, and more disease-fighting antioxidants than non-organic milk. The demand for organic food has increased over the years. More people choose organic food, such as organic milk, for various reasons, including health, the environment, and animal welfare. Keeping in view the business point, organic milk is sold more as compared to whole milk. So selling organic milk would be a more profitable business compared to regular milk.
Even though the profit on certified organic milk is larger than for regular milk, unless you have ample financial funding, it’s good to start your business on a small scale, such as 50 to 75 cows. You will need enough pasture for grazing, as grass-fed raw milk can be more desirable to your customers. You may purchase land or rent it from others. So if you have land or some area then it’s a great option to start selling milk by using milk routes for sale.
Milk routes are a trending business due to the fact of getting customers, once you established a good customer base finding ways to sell your business quickly shouldn’t be an issue!

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Going for a curry is one of Britain's favourite pastimes.
Whether it's a Chicken Tikka Masala, a Lamb Bhuna, Prawn Dopiaza or just a few pints of Cobra you want, there are always plenty of places to get your curry fix.
As we move out of lockdown and hospitality has now reopened indoors, many of us are excited to head out for a long awaited curry night.
But where are the best curry houses in Cheshire?
Here we have put together a list of the top ten Indian restaurants and takeaways across the county according to TripAdvisor.
K2H Creative Indian Kitchen, Sandbach
Taking out the top spot is K2H Creative Indian Kitchen on George's Walk in Sandbach.
It has an average rating of 4.5 stars on TripAdvisor out of 366 reviews.
It offers authentic North Indian cuisine with a modern twist.
One satisfied customer, who recently dined there said: "This restaurant offers Indian food that is not the regular style found on the high street- it has a modern twist, is fresh and exciting.
"Nagendra (host) explained how he sourced ingredients locally and knows his suppliers.
"We had a lovely evening and would love to return soon."
Chai Station - Vegetarian India, Chester
The runner-up spot goes Chai Station-Vegetarian India found on Brook Street in Chester.
It is the only exclusively Vegetarian Indian Restaurant in Chester.
It offers Authentic Vegetarian and Vegan Indian Food that is an amalgamation of various regional dishes that are very popular in different parts of India.
It also has a 4.5 star TripAdvisor rating after more than 700 reviews.
Spice Heaven, Whitchurch
The bronze medal position goes to Spice Heaven on Station Road in Whitchurch.
They also have a 4.5 star TripAdvisor rating out of more than 350 reviews.
According to their website, they have a "vast selection of dishes from India and its neighbouring countries to tantalise your taste buds."
"Our master chefs are dedicated to bringing you authentic Indian dishes to give you an evening of culinary delight"
They also specialise in banqueting with one satisfied customer saying: "Great service and food. Needed a quick turnaround on a curry for 30 people. managed it perfectly, great value and food.
"Also threw in some extras which was kind and shows why they're a key part of the community."
Bengal Tiger Lily, Nether Alderley
The Bengal Tiger Lily is located on the A34 just south of Alderley Edge.
The restaurant says you can "Indulge your taste buds with our Chef’s speciality dishes, combining the very best of flavoursome Indian cooking, with exotic spices and specially sourced ingredients."
Another 4.5 star TripAdvisor rating out of more than 400 reviews.
Its location near the crossroad with the A537 makes it conveniently placed between Alderley Edge, Macclesfield, Knutsford and Congleton.
Bombay 8 is found next to the Travelodge on Gemini Europa Boulevard in Warrington in the Gemini Retail Park.
Another 4.5 star rating on TripAdvisor out of nearly 1000 reviews.
Bombay 8 describes itself as a modern and contemporary Indian restaurant and one happy customer described it as the "best curry house in Warrington".
They said: "Excellent food and service 10/10 will definitely return! The restaurant is very clean and there is plenty of parking.
"Staff are all wearing decent masks, sanitisers and masks are given at door."
Holdi Spice Lounge, Ellesmere Port
Holdi Spice Lounge is located in the Little Sutton area of Ellesmere Port and holds the number one TripAdvisor rating for Indian restaurants in the area.
It has another 4.5 star rating and 263 reviews have given them five stars.
They offer all the dishes you would expect plus a number of chef specialities.
One reviewer said: "First time back since lockdown, and it certainly didn’t disappoint.
"The food was delicious and the service as always was excellent. So glad to be back. Looking forward to going back again."
Has your favourite curry house made it to this list? Let us know
Eastern Revive, Wilmslow
Eastern Revive located on Wilmslow Green offers many original dishes alongside authentic traditional favourites.
It offers a range of balti specialities and according to reviews, the Fish Narial is a particular hit.
It also has a five-star hygiene rating.
The Wilmslow restaurant is part of a chain, also found in Knutsford, Stockton Heath and Hale.
4.5 stars again from TripAdvisor out of nearly 500 reviews.
Forts of India, Malpas
The Forts of India, located on the A41 in Malpas is the number one rated curry house in the area.
The menu consists of some traditional Eastern dishes, infused with Western influence, to create a new and exciting fusion of flavours.
The restaurant says they are dedicated to providing a quality service to complement our outstanding and exquisitely prepared food.
Their 4.5 star TripAdvisor rating comes from nearly 300 reviews.
Despite being on a busy road, customers say they can barely hear the traffic noise and enjoy their meal in peaceful surroundings.
Lalkilla is located on Orford Lane in the Warrington suburb or Orford.
It offers all the traditional favourites as well as a five-course meal from Sunday to Friday for only £9.95.
The vast majority of its 264 reviews are five stars with plenty of people glad to be back there after lockdown.
One satisfied customer said: "Excellent as always! This is our first choice post lockdown meal and have really missed the curry at lalkilla. Lots more visits to come."
Relish Tandoori, Northwich
Rounding out the top ten is Relish Tandoori on Castle Street in Northwich.
They offer a number of Balti and Bangladeshi specialities and call themselves the "finest Indian restaurant in Northwich".
Signature dishes include Chicken Lava, Akbari Cham Cham and Gosht Achari.
They have overwhelmingly positive reviews with the most recent reviewer saying "Superb all-round.
First dine-in meal since December. Great service, lovely fresh tasty food. Will be back soon."
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Are you wanting more for yourself or maybe wonder why you make the choices that you do? Are you ready to try a different approach and make some powerful, yet simple changes to improve your life?
Whether you’re dating, in a relationship, or are simply interested in personal development to become a better version of yourself, these easy-to-read chapters have some wisdom for you.
In this part memoir, part self-help book, life coach and yoga teacher Jen Legaspi vulnerably shares how the pain and confusion of divorce sparked an intuitive, insightful journey back home to herself with more courage, love, and compassion.
Along the way, she discovered her Brave Wise Woman. You can too.
Through her relatable, personal stories, you’ll:
- Explore why the past holds the clues for decision-making in your romantic life
- Discover how your inner resources can powerfully guide you to take ownership of your emotional experience, in and out of a relationship
- Kickstart your journey toward healing your heart, and meeting your Brave Wise Woman and more authentic version of self
- Experience more ease in your relationships, especially with the one with yourself
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Each lesson in this book contains insights that will inspire you to take ownership for stepping into your power. Even if you applied only one practical tip from this book to your life, you’ll begin to shift the relationship with yourself.
Brave Wise Woman is a remarkable book written by the excellent author Jen Legaspi and is a book that should not be missed if you are looking to improve your life and either work on your relationship or yourself! Brave Wise Woman is a sensational book that is full of incredible wisdom that will help many readers succeed at transforming their lives for the better and overcoming hardships and so much more! If you are a reader who is struggling and need some guidance and well-earned wisdom to help transform your life and create a better version of yourself, then the flawless Brave Wise Woman is the perfect read for you, and so this incredible book should not be missed!
Brave Wise Woman is written by the talented author, Jen Legaspi, an incredible woman who will get you results with her outstanding book! Legaspi is an exceptional woman because in her book, she will provide readers with the tools necessary to better themselves! Legaspi in her book Brave Wise Woman shares her personal stories and years of experience as a life coach and yoga teacher to help guide you on your journey to happiness. Legaspi shares her hardships and all that she has learned along the way so that it can kickstart your journey towards healing yourself. In her book, you will learn how to analyze your past and look for clues to guide you on your journey, how to feel comfortable within your self and relationships, and how to improve your life by making simple and easy-to-implement changes as well as so much more, and this book lovers is the short premise of the wonderful Brave Wise Woman!
The wisdom courtesy of Jen Legaspi laced throughout Brave Wise Woman is sensational and actually awe-worthy. As I read Legaspi’s book, I was engrossed and wanted to know more, whenever a question would pop up in my mind while reading this book Legaspi eventually answered it, and so it truly is a beautiful reading experience!
The information and knowledge laced throughout Brave Wise Woman is impeccable, and I am impressed by just how much knowledge there is! Although Brave Wise Woman is full of a wealth of information about healing and improving your life, all the information is useful as well as relevant to the topics explored so do not worry readers that you will be bombarded with information as this does not happen in this book!
As Brave Wise Woman is a book laced with incredible wisdom, it is also laced with phenomenal literature courtesy of the wonderful author Jen Legaspi; Legaspi’s words are incredible, and they will flow flawlessly from beginning to end! As Brave Wise Woman is a perfect, inspirational, and helpful self-help guide mixed with memoir themes, I have no choice but to award this brilliant book five stars! Be sure to have a read of the preview below book lovers; you will not regret it!
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CDC Working With National Governments To Eliminate Measles, Rubella Worldwide
CDC’s “Our Global Voices”: Looking Ahead to a Measles and Rubella Free World
Robert Linkins, chair of the Measles & Rubella Initiative, and chief of the Accelerated Disease Control and Surveillance Branch at the CDC Global Immunization Division, discusses efforts to eliminate measles, rubella, and the associated congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), which can cause birth defects. Linkins writes, “[N]ot only CAN we eliminate measles and rubella, but we have done so — ridding 68 countries of measles and 59 countries of rubella — all with a $2 vaccine! … Together with national governments, we’re working to strengthen health systems, provide other health-promoting and life-saving interventions, and build strong surveillance and outbreak response systems…” (10/6).
The KFF Daily Global Health Policy Report summarized news and information on global health policy from hundreds of sources, from May 2009 through December 2020. All summaries are archived and available via search.

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CAPTURING YOUR FOREVER MOMENTS
Hello and thank you for considering me to be a part of your big moments! My name is Ron and I have always loved photography and videography. It's a way to freeze time and capture those important moments in your life. Most importantly, it allows us to remember moments with the people that mean the most to us.
Capturing weddings and family portraits has been a great honor. Helping people has always been a passion. I have served with many non profits, overseas in the military, and currently in the medical industry. Please let me know how I can serve you!

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The first "Halo" game built from the ground up for Microsoft's newest game console, the Xbox One, is finally here.
Well, almost here: It launches on Tuesday.
The game's called "Halo 5: Guardians," and it's absolutely gorgeous. Just look at this madness:
And that's just a shot of the amount of detail in a random multiplayer match! Allow us to take you on a tour of the lavish vistas, verdant battlefields, and quiet space locales created by Microsoft's dedicated "Halo" team at 343 Industries.
Check out our full review right here, and take a look at the game's launch trailer if you're looking for even more stunning visuals:
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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Here are some details about the six women on the jury in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial, as they shared during two weeks of jury selection in June. Their names will be released sometime after the trial. Judge Debra Nelson has said she'll decide the timeline after a verdict. They began deliberations Friday afternoon.
While the court did not release the racial and ethnic makeup of the jury, the panel appeared to reporters covering jury selection to be made up of five white women and a sixth who may be Hispanic.
B-51 is retired, not married and doesn't have kids. She has lived in Seminole County for nine years. She has worked in real estate and run a call center where she said she had experience resolving conflicts. When asked if Zimmerman did something wrong by following Martin instead of waiting for police, she said: "Yeah, I guess he did do something wrong."
B-29 recently moved to central Florida from Chicago. She enjoys watching the "Real Housewives" on television and works as a nurse on an Alzheimer's section of a nursing home. She said she hadn't paid much attention to the shooting. She said she has been arrested, but her case was disposed of. It's not clear why she was arrested or exactly what happened to her case, though she said she was treated fairly. She is married and has several children. A prosecutor described her as "black or Hispanic" during jury selection.
B-76 is a white woman who has lived in central Florida for 18 years. She manages rental properties with her husband of 30 years. She has two adult children, including one who is an attorney. She is involved with rescuing animals in her free time. During jury selection, she said she had been the victim of a nonviolent crime. "Everyone deserves a fair trial," she said.
B-37 is a white woman who volunteers rescuing animals. She is married to an attorney and has two adult children. She said she and her husband used to have concealed weapons permits. During the last round of questioning, she said she had an issue with the type of weapons people are allowed to carry. She also thought weapons' training was inadequate for people seeking permits. "It should become harder," she said.
E-6 is a white woman who is married and has two children. She has worked in financial services and has lived in Seminole County for two years. She is active in her church and involved with her children's school. During jury selection, she said she didn't know the facts of the case well.
E-40 is a white woman who works as a safety officer and recently moved to Seminole County from Iowa. She describes herself as a football fan. During jury selection, she said she had been the victim of a nonviolent crime.
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Have you been feeling more dehydrated recently?
This post will show you 5 effects that not drinking enough water can have on your body. The '8 glasses per day' theory is so well-known that it's become a cliche, never mind the raft of contradicting information out there about just exactly how much water you need to be drinking - which, by the way, is at least 2 litres a day!
As part of our commitment to making healthier drinking water more accessible for everyone, we are equally keen to make sure you know about the consequences of not drinking enough. You'd be amazed how many little irritations you experience in your day-to-day life can be linked to lack of hydration.
Here are 5 of the most common effects of not drinking enough water:
1. Reduction of Cognitive Brain Function
Often referred to as 'dry brain', even slight levels of dehydration can cause dips in mental focus and cognitive function. A 2015 Loughborough University study testing the driving ability of dehydrated volunteers showed that the drivers in the dehydrated group committed a significantly greater number of lane drifting, late-braking and crossing the rumble strip errors than the adequately hydrated group.
Surprisingly, the dehydrated group provided equally as bad results as volunteers who completed similar tests at the legal limit for blood alcohol content.
These findings are an alarming warning of the cognitive dangers associated with dehydration.
2. Drop in Physical Performance
That's right if you're an athlete of any sort - amateur or professional - not drinking enough water can have a severe impact on your physical performance. Multiple scientific studies have found links between decreased physical performance and dehydration.
The average adult body contains about 60% water. For athletes, this proportion can often increase by up to 10%. Depending on your level of perspiration and pre-exercise hydration levels, it can be difficult to maintain the levels required for peak performance.
A Hydration and Physical Performance study in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition in 2007 found that losing even 2% of your body's water content can 'significantly impair physical performance'.
3. Lack of Concentration and Mood Changes
Another study from the Journal of Nutrition measured mood and concentration in young women. One group, who were provided with adequate water intake, were compared with a group given diuretics and exercises to induce dehydration. The study found that at just 1% lower than the optimal hydration level, participants in the dehydrated group reported headaches, lack of focus and increased irritability.
Harris Lieberman, co-author of the study stated:
"Dehydration affects all people, and staying properly hydrated is just as important for those who work all day at a computer, as it is for marathon runners".
This highlights how susceptible we all are to dips in hydration levels that have knock-on effects throughout the day.
4. Increased Chance of Constipation
It's not glamorous but one of the major causes of chronic constipation is simply lack of adequate hydration. If you are dehydrated, your large intestines take the fluid from the food that you've eaten, causing stools to form in a harder nature making it more difficult to pass through your bowels.
A publication in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition found a significant relationship between liquid deprivation and constipation in elderly people. In children, low fluid intake was not as significant a factor unless there were cases where voluntary intake was substantially lower than normal.
5. Dry Skin
Dehydration can also be a factor in skin dryness. Of course, there are varying degrees of dry skin and a range of factors which can contribute towards it, however dietary habits including lack of water and high consumption of alcohol and caffeine are considered to be detrimental to skin health.
A 2007 study in the International Journal of Cosmetic Science found that skin health significantly improved in a group of participants who drank 2.25L of mineral water each day for 4 weeks, having previously drunk very little. This shows that the participants' skin health was worse in the period without sustained consumption of water, meaning if you're not drinking enough water you may be putting your skin under unnecessary stress.
Therefore, the next time you're experiencing one of these uncomfortable occurrences and are left scratching your head, don't forget about the power of drinking plenty of water. It may just make your irritations disappear.
Indicators That You Are Not Drinking Enough Water
The easiest indicator that tells you if you are drinking enough water is your urine colour. Check out the chart below as a guide, and the next time you feel dehydrated use it as a gauge.

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text: This Madd Maxx features a hand rub satin finished dagger blade with flipper and false top edge. The handle has a satin finished titanium frame with carbon fiber inlay, expired trit vials, tip up or down reversible stainless steel clip. The edges of the handle are carved and contoured to allow for a superior grip. The powerful assisted opening system allows you to open the knife quickly and easily. Comes with zipper case. Excellent condition.

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In the context of the on-going competition on globalized markets and of the transition from industrial-type economies to those economies specific to knowledge-based societies, a competition between organizations that takes place more likely on the field of employees’ knowledge, the vision about the working person changes radically: high-skilled employees become the main resource of company development, in particular, and of society development, in general. This change requires organizations to practice a new type of management which values the person with all its dimensions (not just the physical one, as in Taylorism, but also the intellectual, moral and social dimension). The individual has to represent the supreme goal of the organization’s activity, and not just a means used by the organization; in general, the organization has to take into consideration employee’s needs and aspirations.
A knowledge worker is innovative, creative, understands and adopts organizational culture, has the capacity to cooperate and share knowledge, is eager to learn and implement new methodologies, is accustomed to adapting to uncertain situations, has self-discipline, has clear understanding of the issue he is involved in and adapts his personal and professional development to the company’s vision. An adequate manager for this type of employees is not the traditional one (action-oriented, spending his time watching over his employees, delegating tasks, controlling and ensuring that procedure is respected), but the “intelligent manager”, who is learning-oriented, focusing on organizational knowledge, and who acts as professor and not as supervisor to his employees. The role of the latter is to maintain employee motivation, manage cooperation and coordinate competitive activities among the employees, to create, share and use knowledge in day-to-day activities, to recruit “brilliant” employees, eager to work with knowledge etc.
In order to keep these employees within the organization, financial stimulation is not enough; the manager has to tackle aspects such as work-life balance and to provide interesting and adequate projects to experts-employees etc., which would motivate them and highlight their strengths.

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Hey all! It's time for the Showcase Weekend. This is a new thing we're trying for WJ5, to encourage people to give each other more feedback after the jam. If you're streaming the games on Twitch this weekend, feel free to promote your channel and streaming schedule in this thread.
That's right! The classic paper & pencil RPG is coming back as a video game! So this isn't technically an episode title, but Jake talks about Classic Dogs & Demons on Important If True: Here! You play as 500 dogs and must destroy towering city-sized demons. It's going to be a grid-based puzzle game sorta like Adventures of Lolo or Stephen's Sausage Roll. The current priorities are getting the dogs to: Bark randomly Pee Fetch Cast dark rituals to banish demons I've got help with the game this time (I'm mainly tackling the art side of things). Hopefully my cohort will come on here and comment too! I'm super into Wizard Jam (yet again) and thanks to the Thumbs and all here making cool games! Stay Spicy! Release: Here's The Itch.io!! More info below...

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This recital was presented in accordance with the University of Northern Iowa’s requirements for the Masters of Music degree in performance. It was held in Davis Hall on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa on February 25, 2016. Jordan Boehm, trumpet, performed with collaborators Daniel Meier, Dr. Polina Khatsko, Dr. Anthony Williams, Dr. Tina Su, and Dr. Jesse Orth. The requirements stipulate that a full-length recital (approximately sixty minutes in total duration) must be presented by the student to demonstrate ability on his instrument as well as knowledge and understanding of repertoire. To meet with expectations, the pieces discussed herein have been carefully chosen. Each composition allows the performer to showcase an understanding of multiple styles and eras, and diverse origins often times removed from the mainstream repertoire. Below, these works are presented in performance order.
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United States Patent H91 Illing [451 March 6, 1973 PERMANENT INFORMATION STORE  References Cited  Inventor: David Anthony Illing, Stoke-on- UNITED STATES PATENTS Trent England 3,404,382 10/1968 Rosenheck et al. ..235/6l.ll H  Assignee: International Computers Limited, 2,373,540 4/1945 Carver ..235/61.i2 N
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March 26, 197l Great Britain ..s,234/71  ABSTRACT A permanent information storage device has a hidden  '235/61'l2 340/ 149 235/61" 1 conductive pattern of first areas selectively connected  Int Cl to a second area. Reading is by energizing capacitive  Fie'ld 340/149 A couplings to the first areas and detecting for response in the second area.
5 Claims, 2 Drawing Figures PERMANENT INFORMATION STORE BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The invention relates to permanent information storage.
Typical of small permanent storage devices are pocket-sized badges" which bear information for identification purposes.
Badges are normally used in conjunction with a reader for providing signals representative of the information stored by a badge, and means responsive to certain predetermined information, say for enabling associated apparatus, such as a processor terminal, for use. This limits such use to the processor of an appropriate badge. A badge can also be used to identify a certain class or type of input information or function required.
Punched cards have been used as badges, but are easy to copy and so are not wholly satisfactory where high security is required against unauthorized use.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to one aspect of the invention there is provided a permanent storage device having under a non-conductive layer a conductive arrangement modifiably by removal of at least one part thereof to have a desired capacitive intercoupling action with respect to signals applied to an interrogating conductive arrangement when the latter is adjacent the layer.
Preferably, said part serves to interconnect a first conductive areas with a second conductive area, each for capacitively coupling with different areas of said interrogating arrangement of which only that coupled to saidfirst area receives said signals. In use with a said interrogating conductive arrangement, a first capactive coupling to which said signals are applied and said second area is included in a second capacitive coupling, so replicas of said signal will be returned via the second coupling only if the part interconnecting said first and second areas is intact.
Said first area may be one of a set of discrete areas each having a distinct said part extending therefrom. This permits a digital output to be obtained if those parts of the interrogating arrangement corresponding to the areas of the set are separately energized by said signals. Said second conductive area may be common to each said part.
According to another aspect of the invention there is provided a permanent storage device having under a non-conductive layer a conductive arrangement including a plurality of conductive areas each for cooperating with a distinct area of an interrogating conductive arrangement to form a capacitor when the latter arrangement is adjacent the layer, one of said plurality of conductive areas being connected by distinct conductive parts to all but predetermined ones of the other areas of said plurality.
The conductive arrangements of devices embodying the invention are well suited to printed circuit realization. A covering layer of suitable plastics material can hide the conductive arrangement from sight. The par ticular conductive configuration will not be apparent and the cards will not be readily available so security is high. Some precoding can be included in manufacture of the printed circuit.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS One embodiment of the invention will now be described by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which,
FIG. 1 is a section through a badge;
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the conductive arrangement of the badge of FIG. 1.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The badge shown in FIG. 1 comprises a flexible printed circuit board 10 sandwiched between two opaque layers 11 and 12 of plastics material that are joined together at their edges, for example by seam welding or glueing. The upper layer 11 may differ by having desired dielectric properties.
The board 10 carries, on one surface, a conductive arrangement as shown in FIG. 2. The arrangement has a plurality of small conductive areas 13. Each of these areas 13 has a conductive connecting part 14 extending therefrom. The connecting parts 14 all extend to a large central conductive area 15.
Information is entered on the badge by breaking selected ones of the connecting parts 14. This may be done in any convenient way, for example punching through the sandwich 10, 11, 12, or punching through only the printed circuit board 10, or removing some of a part 14 perhaps by scraping.
A reader for such a badge includes an interrogating printed circuit pattern of conductive areas in a mirror image of the areas 13 and 15 shown in FIG. 2. However these areas are not interconnected, i.e. there are no parts corresponding to the connecting parts 14 of FIG. 2. Instead, the areas of the interrogating pattern are separately connected to different terminals.
In operation, those terminals connected to small areas corresponding to the areas 13 are energized in predetermined order for successive intervals of time by a periodic signal. Individual logically controlled driver circuits may be used to apply a suitable signal such as a high frequency square-wave.
The reader will have a badge receiving position for locating a badge to be read in juxtaposition with the interrogating pattern. In this position, capacitances for the small areas of a few picofarads have been found adequate in conjunction with a square-wave of about 15 volts amplitude.
The large central area of the interrogating pattern is connected to a receiver and detector circuit. For preferred digital operation the detector output will have one of two'values depending on whether or not a signal is received.
It is preferred for at least one small area, e.g. that designated 13' in FIG. 2, to be used for verifying whether a badge is correctly located in the reader. The connecting part 14 of such an area will always be left intact. The sequence of energization of the areas coupling with the small area 13 begins only if that coupled to the small area 13' causes return of the signal.
The illustrated badge has a twenty-one bit information capacity. One way of handling these bits at the receiver is to consider it as three successive sets of seven bits and to generate a parity bit for each set. Then a data stream of three words of eight bits is availahle if required. The parity bits only may be used for enabling terminal use, with the value of each seven bit word having a particular significance, each word relating to a different type ofinformation.
It is not necessary to divide into three words. Any other or no, division is possible. At least a part of the badge printed circuit may be precoded during manufacture by omission of one or more of the connecting parts 14. The corresponding bits might represent a location, grade of user, or type of use or information. Different sets of resulting badges could still have a part reserved for entering further information, for example, by punching.
1. An interrogatory capacitance arrangement for use with an information storage system, the interrogatory capacitance arrangement including;
an irreversibly alterable information storage member including, a support member carrying a first conductive array comprising at least one conductive first pattern of predetermined configuration, at least one associated conductive first area, a connecting element interconnecting the first pattern and the associated first area and means totally encapsulating the first conductive array in non-conductive material, information being irreversibly recorded in the storage member by interrupting the connecting element between selected first areas and the associated first pattern;
a reference member including, means carrying a discontinuous second array comprising at least one conductive second pattern similar to the conductive first pattern of the storage member and at least one associated conductive second area similar to the conductive first area of the storage member, the relative positions of the first and second arrays being such that on presenting the storage member to the reference member and applying electrical signals to the second areas of the reference member the interrogative capacitance action is obtained by capacitive inter-coupling action between a first area connected to a first pattern and the respective second area associated with that first area.
2. An interrogatory capacitance arrangement as claimed in claim 1, in which the first pattern comprises a relatively large conductive area central of its support member with connecting elements selectively extending to a plurality of small conductive areas each constituting a said first area.
3. An interrogatory capacitance arrangement as claimed in claim 2 in which one small conductive area is always connected to the larger central conductive area of the alterable storage member regardless of stored information and the corresponding small area of the reference member will be in juxtaposition therewith when the alterable storage member is correctly located relative to the reference member.
4. An interrogatory capacitance arrangement as claimed in claim 1, in which the alterable storage member is precoded by omitting from the first conductive array of at least one predetermined said connecting element.
5. An interrogatory capacitive arrangement as claimed in claim 1, in which the first conductive array has that surface to be presented to the reference member encapsulated by a non-conductive material of a desired dielectric property.


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Looking for anyone that can check their Kurt Mehner Series called
DIE GEHEIMEN TAGESBERICHTE DER DEUTSCHEN WEHRMACHTFUHRUNG IM ZWEITEN WELTKRIEG 1939-1945
(THE SECRET DAY REPORTS OF THE GERMAN WEHRMACHTFUHRUNG IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945)
and let me know if there are updates to the "Kriegsspitzengliederung Oberkommando der Wehrmacht" that is originally shown in the "KTB des OKW" series published earlier by Percy Schrammin vol 2 pages 877-946 of the paperback edition.
I have seen descriptions here and other sites that Mehner's series is additional material that was not included in the original KTB des OKW publication. Since I'm sure there were numerous changes to the OKW over the war years I was wondering if those are reflected in Mehner's work anywhere.
Any sites that show table of contents of the various volumes of Mehner's works???
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The election of 1856 once more restored the Democratic party to full political control in national affairs. James Buchanan was elected President to succeed Pierce; the Senate continued, as before, to have a decided Democratic majority; and a clear Democratic majority of twenty-five was chosen to the House of Representatives to succeed the heavy opposition majority of the previous Congress. Though the new House did not organize till a year after it was elected, the certainty of its coming action was sufficient not only to restore, but greatly to accelerate the pro-slavery reaction begun by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. This impending drift of national policy now received a powerful impetus by an act of the third coordinate branch, the judicial department of the government. Very unexpectedly to the public at large, the Supreme Court of the United States, a few days after Buchanan's inauguration, announced its judgment in what quickly became famous as the Dred Scott decision. Dred Scott, a negro slave in Missouri, sued for his freedom on the ground that his master had taken  him to reside in the State of Illinois and the Territory of Wisconsin, where slavery was prohibited by law. The question had been twice decided by Missouri courts, once for and then against Dred Scott's claim; and now the Supreme Court of the United States, after hearing the case twice elaborately argued by eminent counsel, finally decided that Dred Scott, being a negro, could not become a citizen, and therefore was not entitled to bring suit. This branch, under ordinary precedent, simply threw the case out of court; but in addition, the decision, proceeding with what lawyers call obiter dictum, went on to declare that under the Constitution of the United States neither Congress nor a territorial legislature possessed power to prohibit slavery in Federal Territories. The whole country immediately flared up with the agitation of the slavery question in this new form. The South defended the decision with heat, the North protested against it with indignation, and the controversy was greatly intensified by a phrase in the opinion of Chief Justice Taney, that at the time of the Declaration of Independence negroes were considered by general public opinion to be so far inferior “that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” This decision of the Supreme Court placed Senator Douglas in a curious dilemma. While it served to indorse and fortify his course in repealing the Missouri Compromise, it, on the other hand, totally negatived his theory by which he had sought to make the repeal palatable, that the people of a Territory, by the exercise of his great principle of popular sovereignty, could decide the slavery question for themselves. But, being a subtle sophist, he sought to maintain a show of consistency by an ingenious evasion. In the month of June following the decision, he made a speech at  Springfield, Illinois, in which he tentatively announced what in the next year became widely celebrated as his Freeport doctrine, and was immediately denounced by his political confreres of the South as serious party heterodoxy. First lauding the Supreme Court as “the highest judicial tribunal on earth,” and declaring that violent resistance to its decrees must be put down by the strong arm of the government, he went on thus to define a master's right to his slave in Kansas:
While the right continues in full force under the guarantees of the Constitution, and cannot be divested or alienated by an act of Congress, it necessarily remains a barren and a worthless right unless sustained, protected, and enforced by appropriate police regulations and local legislation prescribing adequate remedies for its violation. These regulations and remedies must necessarily depend entirely upon the will and wishes of the people of the Territory, as they can only be prescribed by the local legislatures. Hence, the great principle of popular sovereignty and self-government is sustained and firmly established by the authority of this decision.Both the legal and political aspects of the new question immediately engaged the earnest attention of Mr. Lincoln; and his splendid power of analysis set its ominous portent in a strong light. He made a speech in reply to Douglas about two weeks after, subjecting the Dred Scott decision to a searching and eloquent criticism. He said:
That decision declares two propositions-first, that a negro cannot sue in the United States courts; and secondly, that Congress cannot prohibit slavery in the Territories. It was made by a divided court-dividing differently on the different points. Judge Douglas does not discuss the merits of the decision,  and in that respect I shall follow his example, believing I could no more improve on McLean and Curtis than he could on Taney. ... We think the Dred Scott decision was erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it ... If this important decision had been made by the unanimous concurrence of the judges, and without any apparent partizan bias, and in accordance with legal public expectation and with the steady practice of the departments throughout our history, and had been in no part based on assumed historical facts which are not really true; or if, wanting in some of these, it had been before the court more than once, and had there been affirmed, and reaffirmed through a course of years, it then might be, perhaps would be, factious, nay, even revolutionary, not to acquiesce in it as a precedent. But when, as is true, we find it wanting in all these claims to the public confidence, it is not resistance, it is not factious, it is not even disrespectful, to treat it as not having yet quite established a settled doctrine for the country. The Chief Justice does not directly assert, but plainly assumes, as a fact, that the public estimate of the black man is more favorable now than it was in the days of the Revolution. This assumption is a mistake. In some trifling particulars the condition of that race has been ameliorated; but as a whole, in this country, the change between then and now is decidedly the other way; and their ultimate destiny has never appeared so hopeless as in the last three or four years. In two of the five States-New Jersey and North Carolina--that then gave the free negro the right of voting, the right has since been taken away; and in the third- New York--it has been greatly abridged; while it has  not been extended, so far as I know, to a single additional State, though the number of the States has more than doubled. In those days, as I understand, masters could, at their own pleasure, emancipate their slaves; but since then such legal restraints have been made upon emancipation as to amount almost to prohibition. In those days, legislatures held the unquestioned power to abolish slavery in their respective States, but now it is becoming quite fashionable for State constitutions to withhold that power from the legislatures. In those days, by common consent, the spread of the black man's bondage to the new countries was prohibited, but now Congress decides that it will not continue the prohibition, and the Supreme Court decides that it could not if it would. In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed and sneered at and construed, and hawked at and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it. All the powers of earth seem rapidly combining against him. Mammon is after him, ambition follows, philosophy follows, and the theology of the day is fast joining the cry. They have him in his prison-house; they have searched his person, and left no prying instrument with him. One after another, they have closed the heavy iron doors upon him; and now they have him, as it were, bolted in with a lock of a hundred keys, which can never be unlocked without the concurrence of every key — the keys in the hands of a hundred different men, and they scattered to a hundred different and distant places; and they stand musing as to what invention, in all the dominions of mind and matter, can be produced to make the impossibility of his escape more complete than it is. There is not room to quote the many other equally forcible points in Mr. Lincoln's speech. Our narrative must proceed to other significant events in the great pro-slavery reaction. Thus far the Kansas experiment had produced nothing but agitation, strife, and bloodshed. First the storm in Congress over repeal; then a mad rush of emigration to occupy the Territory. This was followed by the Border Ruffian invasions, in which Missouri voters elected a bogus territorial legislature, and the bogus legislature enacted a code of bogus laws. In turn, the more rapid emigration from free States filled the Territory with a majority of free-State voters, who quickly organized a compact free-State party, which sent a free-State constitution, known as the Topeka Constitution, to Congress, and applied for admission. This movement proved barren, because the two houses of Congress were divided in sentiment. Meanwhile, President Pierce recognized the bogus laws, and issued proclamations declaring the free-State movement illegal and insurrectionary; and the free-State party had in its turn baffled the enforcement of the bogus laws, partly by concerted action of nonconformity and neglect, partly by open defiance. The whole finally culminated in a chronic border war between Missouri raiders on one hand, and free- State guerrillas on the other; and it became necessary to send Federal troops to check the disorder. These were instructed by Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War, that “rebellion must be crushed.” The future Confederate President little suspected the tremendous prophetic import of his order. The most significant illustration of the underlying spirit of the struggle was that President Pierce had successively appointed three Democratic governors for the Territory, who, starting with pro-slavery bias, all became free-State  partizans, and were successively insulted and driven from the Territory by the pro-slavery faction when in manly protest they refused to carry out the behests of the Missouri conspiracy. After a three years struggle neither faction had been successful, neither party was satisfied; and the administration of Pierce bequeathed to its successor the same old question embittered by rancor and defeat. President Buchanan began his administration with a boldly announced pro-slavery policy. In his inaugural address he invoked the popular acceptance of the Dred Scott decision, which he already knew was coming; and a few months later declared in a public letter that slavery “exists in Kansas under the Constitution of the United States. . . . How it ever could have been seriously doubted is a mystery.” He chose for the governorship of Kansas, Robert J. Walker, a citizen of Mississippi of national fame and of pronounced proslavery views, who accepted his dangerous mission only upon condition that a new constitution, to be formed for that State, must be honestly submitted to the real voters of Kansas for adoption or rejection. President Buchanan and his advisers, as well as Senator Douglas, accepted this condition repeatedly and emphatically. But when the new governor went to the Territory, he soon became convinced, and reported to his chief, that to make a slave State of Kansas was a delusive hope. “Indeed,” he wrote, “it is universally admitted here that the only real question is this: whether Kansas shall be a conservative, constitutional, Democratic, and ultimately free State, or whether it shall be a Republican and abolition State.” As a compensation for the disappointment, however, he wrote later direct to the President:
But we must have a slave State out of the southwestern  Indian Territory, and then a calm will follow; Cuba be acquired with the acquiescence of the North; and your administration, having in reality settled the slavery question, be regarded in all time to come as a re-signing and re-sealing of the Constitution . . I shall be pleased soon to hear from you. Cuba! Cuba! (and Porto Rico, if possible) should be the countersign of your administration, and it will close in a blaze of glory.And the governor was doubtless much gratified to receive the President's unqualified indorsement in reply: “On the question of submitting the constitution to the bona fide resident settlers of Kansas, I am willing to stand or fall.” The sequel to this heroic posturing of the chief magistrate is one of the most humiliating chapters in American politics. Attendant circumstances leave little doubt that a portion of Mr. Buchanan's cabinet, in secret league and correspondence with the pro-slavery Missouri-Kansas cabal, aided and abetted the framing and adoption of what is known to history as the Lecompton Constitution, an organic instrument of a radical pro-slavery type; that its pretended submission to popular vote was under phraseology, and in combination with such gigantic electoral frauds and dictatorial procedure, as to render the whole transaction a mockery of popular government; still worse, that President Buchanan himself, proving too weak in insight and will to detect the intrigue or resist the influence of his malign counselors, abandoned his solemn pledges to Governor Walker, adopted the Lecompton Constitution as an administration measure, and recommended it to Congress in a special message, announcing dogmatically: “Kansas is therefore at this moment as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina.”  The radical pro-slavery attitude thus assumed by President Buchanan and Southern leaders threw the Democratic party of the free States into serious disarray, while upon Senator Douglas the blow fell with the force of party treachery-almost of personal indignity. The Dred Scott decision had rudely brushed aside his theory of popular sovereignty, and now the Lecompton Constitution proceedings brutally trampled it down in practice. The disaster overtook him, too, at a critical moment. His senatorial term was about to expire; the next Illinois legislature would elect his successor. The prospect was none too bright for him, for at the late presidential election Illinois had chosen Republican State officers. He was compelled either to break his pledges to the Democratic voters of Illinois, or to lead a revolt against President Buchanan and the Democratic leaders in Congress. Party disgrace at Washington, or popular disgrace in Illinois, were the alternatives before him. To lose his reelection to the Senate would almost certainly end his public career. When, therefore, Congress met in December, 1857, Douglas boldly attacked and denounced the Lecompton Constitution, even before the President had recommended it in his special message. “Stand by the doctrine,” he said, “that leaves the people perfectly free to form and regulate their institutions for themselves, in their own way, and your party will be united and irresistible in power .. If Kansas wants a slave-State constitution, she has a right to it; if she wants a free-State constitution, she has a right to it. It is none of my business which way the slavery clause is decided. I care not whether it is voted down or voted up. Do you suppose, after the pledges of my honor that I would go for that principle and leave the people to vote as they choose, that I  would now degrade myself by voting one way if the slavery clause be voted down, and another way if it be voted up? I care not how that vote may stand. . . . Ignore Lecompton; ignore Topeka; treat both those party movements as irregular and void; pass a fair bill — the one that we framed ourselves when we were acting as a unit; have a fair election-and you will have peace in the Democratic party, and peace throughout the country, in ninety days. The people want a fair vote. They will never be satisfied without it . . . But if this constitution is to be forced down our throats in violation of the fundamental principle of free government, under a mode of submission that is a mockery and insult, I will resist it to the last:” Walker, the fourth Democratic governor who had now been sacrificed to the interests of the Kansas proslavery cabal, also wrote a sharp letter of resignation denouncing the Lecompton fraud and policy; and such was the indignation aroused in the free States, that although the Senate passed the Lecompton Bill, twenty-two Northern Democrats joining their vote to that of the Republicans, the measure was defeated in the House of Representatives. The President and his Southern partizans bitterly resented this defeat; and the schism between them, on the one hand, and Douglas and his adherents, on the other, became permanent and irreconcilable.


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One of the factors that affected the lives of the civilian population was the fact that many cities were attacked and demolished. An example of this is the Battle of Verdun. Verdun is a key city in France, which is the gate for supplies to reach soldiers out on the front. During this battle, over 700,000 people died altogether. Some of them were soldiers, some of them were civilians. The Axis also sieged the city and turned it into a big area of rubble. This no doubt affected the lives of the people who were living in or near Verdun. This played a big factor because many other cities were also destroyed by Axis and Allies alike, which really affected the lives of civilians.
Another factor is the unrestricted submarine attacks against sea trade. The German submarines were sinking every ship that was traveling from The Americas to Europe, which means they were sinking the ships of neutral countries, and cutting off the provision supply to Europe.
This was what eventually caused U.S. to join the Allies, but it also resulted in hunger throughout all Europe. Germany didn't have enough food, and nor did Britain. And since it was war time, most of the food was for the men fighting on the front, which left very little for civilians to eat. Many civilians died of hunger because of this. I think this is the most important factor, since it affected the biggest number of people and countries.
Yet another factor is the diseases that spread throughout the battlefield. An example is the trenches and "no man's land". Many soldiers were dying in No man's land, which meant they can't be retrieved, so they were just left there to rot. This resulted in many diseases spreading not only to the...


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Dutch Towns Will Heat Bike Paths So Cyclists Can Ride All Year Long
For bike-friendly communities that have harsh winters, passive temperature regulators could be embedded under the surface to keep routes clear.
For bike-friendly communities that have harsh winters, riding bikes becomes nearly impossible in winter months because the paths freeze over. De Telegraaf reports that the Dutch province of Utrecht and the town of Zutphen are both considering heated bike paths so they won’t need to be cleared of snow and ice.
According to DVICE, the lanes will feature asphalt collectors 150ft beneath the surface. This form of passive temperature regulation not only warms the paths in the winter but also cools them in the summer. The high cost of embedding these collectors is $40,000-$70,000 per mile. However, there would then be no need to plow or salt the paths. If the heated bike lines are a success, they could spread across the country.
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Mount Harmony Elementary School in Calvert County has been named a Blue Ribbon School by the US Department of Education. Congressman Steny H. Hoyer congratulated Mount Harmony ES and St. Joseph Regional Catholic School in Prince George’s County, also in Hoyer’s 5th District, for being selected for this high honor.
The schools in the Fifth District were two of the 362 public and private schools throughout the nation to be recognized this year.
“I congratulate both Mount Harmony Elementary School and Saint Joseph Regional Catholic School for receiving this important recognition,” Congressman Hoyer (D-Md., 5th) said. “Both of these schools have demonstrated exemplary academic achievement, and I commend the teachers, students, parents, and administrators at each of these schools. The hard work and dedication of the educators is apparent, and I congratulate them on this honor.”
Now in its 37th year, the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program was founded in 1982 to recognize our nation’s top schools based on their overall academic excellence or their progress in closing achievement gaps. Representatives from each of the 362 schools will be recognized at a ceremony in Washington, DC, in November.
The more than 8,500 recognized public and non-public National Blue Ribbon Schools represent US states, the District of Columbia, Native tribes, territories, and military bases. Together they feature effective teaching and learning at all grade levels, in all geographic settings, and with all students. Learn more on its website here.
Follow Congressman Hoyer on Facebook and Twitter.
For more information about House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, visit his Leader member page.


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With both cars scheduled for an update next year that’s about to change, with the addition of ‘718’ as a prefix for both vehicles.
The 718 name is pulled from Porsche's past where is was applied to a racecar between 1957 and 1962. That vehicle featured a mid-mounted four-cylinder engine, and in the case of the new Boxster and Cayman, that detail is crucial.
Along with a new name, Porsche’s entry level sportsters will debut a new turbocharged horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine, and according to Porsche the 718 Boxster and 718 Cayman will be more alike than they have been previously, both visually and technically.
Porsche also promises to reposition the two, with the 718 Boxster sitting above its 718 Cayman equivalent on the price scale, similar to the price premium a 911 cabriolet wears over a 911 Coupe.
That also indicates that the slight power advantage the Cayman previously held over the Boxster will be eroded, with the two offering matching power and torque outputs when they’re rebranded as 718 models.
Porsche’s last mid-engine four-cylinder offering, the 714, wrapped up production in 1976 with its most powerful variant producing a fairly uninspiring 74kW.
Expect the 718 twins to come close to the 195kW currently on offer in the entry level Boxster, with around 180kW. The big advantage with the move to a turbo four will be torque, which will move from the current Boxster’s 280Nm up to a more solid 350Nm.
When the 718 arrives in showrooms in 2016 it will mark a refreshed naming convention for Porsche’s sports car range, joining the 911 and the now discontinued 918 with a numeric tag, while the Panamera sedan and Cayenne and Macan SUVs will do without a number ahead of their name, to help distance the two vehicle lines.
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On Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee's Task Force on Financial Technology is set to hold a hearing on how to better deliver stimulus money during emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic — and one can expect the idea of a digital dollar to be a major discussion topic.
The title of the House task force hearing is "Inclusive Banking During a Pandemic: Using FedAccounts and Digital Tools to Improve Delivery of Stimulus Payments."
Headlining the witness list is J. Christopher Giancarlo, the former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair whose term ended in April 2019. Giancarlo's most public role since he left the CFTC has been head of the Digital Dollar Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy group. The Foundation has partnered with the consulting firm Accenture to launch the Digital Dollar Project, which aims to "advance exploration" of a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC).
Last week, the Digital Dollar Project published its first white paper, which made the case that the U.S. urgently needs to begin considering how it might design a digital dollar. Besides Facebook's Libra and China's digital currency project, an additional source of urgency is COVID-19, the paper argued.
Giancarlo said in an interview with The Block that the pandemic is advancing key questions about how to deliver public benefits more effectively. "How do we get them relief in a crisis immediately and adequately?"
FedAccounts is another approach to creating a kind of digital dollar, which essentially amounts to letting retail customers — not just commercial banks — open bank accounts at Federal Reserve system institutions.
A proposal based on the idea recently surfaced in a draft bill from House Democrats. Morgan Ricks, a professor at Vanderbilt Law school who co-authored the academic paper that coined the term FedAccounts, is also scheduled to testify on Thursday.
Ricks and Giancarlo will be joined by Jodie Kelly, CEO of the Electronics Association and Mehrsa Baradaran, a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine. The hearing, scheduled for 12 p.m. EST on Thursday, will be live-streamed to the public.


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I thought these would be just as easy to apply as the normal water decals but later realised, you need a little more skill and patience.
I was worried the size was too big for my nails but they fit pretty well! You use them the same way as the small stickers. Here are the instructions:
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Apply base coat, cut out the design, soak, peel and apply! So what went wrong? Well, when I was removing the excess I ended up being hasty and not letting it dry well! Because of which it tore in various places. :(
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So, wherever I had issues with the decal tearing, I used the gold sequins I used in this post.
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At its July 16 meeting, the Manitowoc County Board failed to override County Executive Ziegelbauer’s veto of a resolution that was seeking the State Attorney General’s opinion as to how a County Sales Tax could be used.
Huh? If you are confused by what was just written, you are not the only one. It’s really hard to keep track of all of the back and forth about this issue. The purpose of this article is to explain what is really going on, how we got here, and where we see things going in the near future. Here goes.
Since 2017, the County Board has been discussing whether Manitowoc County should levy a 0.5% (one-half of one percent) sales tax. By Wisconsin law, individual counties have the authority to levy up to a 0.5% county sales tax. This would be in addition to the 5.0% that the state collects by way of its sales tax. Manitowoc County is one of only 6 counties in Wisconsin that does not have a county sales tax.
Much of the discussion has centered around how the sales tax revenue could be used, and who would receive the proceeds. An ad hoc committee was formed, and they came back with a recommendation (around April 30) to use the money for infrastructure improvements, and to adopt a financing model wherein 70% of the sales tax revenue would go to the County, while the remaining 30% would be divided up by cities, villages, and towns proportionately. A 0.5% sales tax would generate approximately $5.3 million per year.
This recommendation was felt by some to be faulty. To start, it is commonly understood that the County cannot mandate that the new revenue be spent on infrastructure. So, they can say that it should be spent on infrastructure, and their intentions may be to do just that, but they can’t require it to be spent in that fashion. Second, there is an opinion from County Corporation Counsel Peter Conrad stating that the sales tax revenue would have to be shared with the school districts in the county–not just the municipalities. If this is true, it would greatly diminish the amounts going to the municipalities. The Wisconsin Legislative Council issued a similar opinion.
The County Board then voted to get the State Attorney General’s (Josh Kaul) opinion on how the money could be spent. That measure passed 15 – 8 at their June 18 meeting. On June 24, County Executive Ziegelbauer announced his veto of that resolution, saying that we already have two legal opinions, and that the tax is not needed anyway. At the July 16 County Board, the Board attempted to override the County Executive’s veto, which would have required 17 votes, or 2/3 of the Board’s 25 members. The override measure failed. It got 15 votes, but fell short of the required 17 (9 voted against it). Meaning, the County Board will not ask the Wisconsin Attorney General for an opinion on how the sales tax revenue can be spent. Note that this vote and subsequent veto were not for the sales tax itself—that has yet to be voted on.
So where do we go from here? Is the whole sales tax issue dead or not? I doubt it. County Board Chair Jim Brey indicated that he didn’t think we would get a county sales tax until we have a different County Executive. I think that might be correct—Certainly, there is no way that Executive Ziegelbauer will ever support one. In fact, I suspect that the vote totals on the veto override would closely mirror the vote on the actual sales tax. I think that the 9 who voted to uphold the veto did so because they are against the tax, and it doesn’t matter to them if the State Attorney General would have come back one way or another with an opinion. It would just draw out the process, and it would not make them support the tax.
If my analysis is accurate, then the County Executive has a precariously narrow veto-supporting minority of County Board members—for now. There is no doubt in my mind that supporters of this tax are not going away quietly. My guess is that they are trying to find a way to get the County Board to vote on the actual tax, but if that doesn’t work, they will then try to pick off the County Executive and/or the handful of County Board members that vote with him. Readers who oppose this tax need to be aware of this, and also need to be proactive—Why not help to reelect Executive Ziegelbauer and try to oust some of the Board members who support the tax?
The Scope continues to oppose this tax. The municipalities continue to cry poor when it comes to road maintenance, but a recent Scope article pointed out that municipalities aren’t always spending all of the money that they could on roads. And—as pointed out earlier–there would be nothing forcing these municipalities to spend their sales tax revenues on roads, even if they had it. Now, I have no doubt that some municipalities are indeed strapped for cash, but even then, they have the option of holding a referendum to raise their tax levy limit. To me, that would be the more honest and direct approach. If Village X and Town Y feel that they don’t have enough money coming in, they can make their case directly to X and Y voters. Why should everyone who shops anywhere in the County be taxed more to subsidize municipalities that could and should be getting the money directly from their own residents?
Additionally, many of the taxers are really upset that the County is borrowing (bonding) to pay for some of the larger infrastructure projects. They would rather raise the tax than pay interest on a loan. Bonding is how municipalities everywhere pay for large expenditures—They spread out the payments over the life cycle of the object, with payments that they can afford in their current budget. Most of us do this exact same thing with houses and cars. Yes, it’s true—We pay interest—That is the cost of using someone else’s money. The money that the County borrowed to fund 2019 road projects will involve paying in the neighborhood of $3 million in loan interest by the time the bonds are repaid. This really, really bothers the tax proponents. They think it’s a waste of money. But don’t you find it ironic that these same people have no qualms taking $5.3 million per year out of people’s pockets in the form of a sales tax? The County’s overall debt is exceptionally low. Don’t let the debt argument sway you.
Finally, many tax proponents are saying that most of us wouldn’t even notice half a percent, so why not just implement the tax? It’s true–most individuals wouldn’t notice an extra nickel on their lunch bill at their favorite restaurant. Many businesses would notice this extra tax though. It would also hurt lower income people most. Most of all, please look at it from the other side. We will be turning another $5.3 million each year over to the government, and they haven’t illustrated a need for the money. It’s lunacy to turn it over to them.


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A Taste of OLLI
Wednesday, May 15 @ 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Curious seniors are invited to sample the educational adventures offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) through Yavapai College. Join us for a free and fun event that features four OLLI mini-classes (Asian Religions, Women of the Civil War, Today’s Tech and Thinking Outside the Box) as well as snacks and information on OLLI membership and future programs. Look for us in the Prescott Campus Community Room (adjacent to the library).


Actor Terry Crews is suing the Hollywood agent he says groped him — claiming he was psychologically harmed from the experience, according to a report.
Crews, 49, of TV’s “Everybody Hates Chris” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” says in his suit that William Morris Endeavor agent Adam Venit stared at him “like a rabid dog, sticking his tongue in and out of his mouth provocatively” at a Tinseltown party last year — then grabbed his genitals, TMZ said.
Crews, who already filed a police report on the incident, said he shouted to nearby comedian Adam Sandler, one of Venit’s clients, “Adam, come get your boy! He’s grabbing my nuts!” the report said.
Sandler later called Crews and asked him if he was OK, Crews said.
Crews’ agent works at the same agency as Venit. The actor said Venit eventually called him to apologize.
Venit was put on leave after Crews came forward with his story this fall amid the slew of sex-harassment allegations sweeping Hollywood and beyond. Venit has since returned to work.
Source: Page Six


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