Frustration immediately swept across the room.
“All of us are victims,” Frank Cheyney told other Catholics last week during a gathering at St. Aloysius’ O’Malley Hall. “A horrific violation of trust has taken place.”
A lifelong Catholic and chairman of St. Paschal’s finance council, Cheyney spoke of the sorrow he felt for victims of clergy sexual abuse. He also expressed disappointment with the bankruptcy proceedings that continue to embroil the Diocese of Spokane.
“We do not resolve these issues with attorneys,” he said. “We do it through community.”
While most parishioners continue to support the diocese, a growing number – including the more than 100 who recently gathered at St. Al’s – have started to challenge its decision to file for bankruptcy.
Many who came to St. Al’s Wednesday night were upset – with the lawyers, the hierarchy, the entire situation that’s now tied up in court. They were outraged by what they perceive as the “re-victimization” of clergy sex abuse victims. They also were troubled by the skyrocketing attorneys’ fees – millions of dollars that they say could have gone toward settlements.
While Cheyney continues to contribute to his parish, the campaign to build a new seminary and the Annual Catholic Appeal, others have become so disillusioned with the bankruptcy that they’ve stopped giving at all.
This year’s Catholic Appeal has one month left to meet its goal of $2 million. So far, the diocese has received less than $1.5 million in pledges – about $400,000 less compared to last year.
“The only way we can influence change is with our pocketbooks,” said Dermot Ryan, who attends Mass every Sunday but has chosen to cut back on donations to the diocese. “I don’t want to give money to lawyers.”
Many who came to St. Al’s for the “listening session” – an opportunity for both parishioners and victims of abuse to share their feelings during this confusing time – admitted that there was little else they could do.
They have no control, many said.
“This is an evening of lamentation, an evening of broken hearts,” said Kent Hoffman, a local psychotherapist who facilitated the gathering. “We don’t know what will happen. There is no solution in sight.”
But there is a grace that happens, he said, when people gather to listen to each other so that no one feels alone. “Somehow, this is church,” Hoffman said.
For more than two hours, parishioners from throughout the diocese gathered in groups of five or more at tables inside O’Malley Hall, taking turns to describe their experiences. Those who were molested as children spoke of their vulnerability, the betrayal they experienced at the hands of clergy and the pain that pervaded their lives. Parishioners also described their own struggles, especially as they came to grips with the extent of the clergy sexual abuse crisis.
There were tears, moments of rage, an outpouring of compassion.
“The victims of clergy sexual abuse are not the enemies of the church,” said Molly Harding, one of the co-founders of the local Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. They are the people who once attended Catholic schools, the children of faithful Catholics, she said. Now, they are wounded adults, survivors who struggled with alcoholism, drugs, failed marriages and trauma.
Many of them never intended to file lawsuits, said Harding, but the church didn’t offer the healing they needed. “It wasn’t the decision of the victims to declare bankruptcy,” she said.
Parishioners who attended the gathering this past week said they were overwhelmed with helplessness. Despite their desire to make it all better, they can do nothing to ease the pain and to resolve the crisis that’s now “locked in lawyer hell” – in the words of one of the participants.
“There’s not a great spirit of joy in the church, and it deflates our ability to move forward and be the body of Christ,” said Rick Fairbanks, a social worker and parishioner at St. Al’s. “We’re not doing the work that the church is supposed to be doing.”
Many Catholics can’t bear to accept the reality of the abuse crisis and the bankruptcy, said Shirley Ryan, who attended the listening session with her husband, Dermot. “Where is the anger? Where is the outrage?” asked Ryan, who sent her three children to St. Thomas More Catholic School in the ‘70s and ‘80s. “We have to get the laity to admit there is a problem.”
Despite their frustration with the bankruptcy, Cheyney and others say they have no intention of ever leaving the Catholic Church. He loves his church, said Cheyney, but he believes the bishop is getting bad advice. He plans to keep giving money to the diocese while simultaneously questioning the hierarchy’s decisions.
“Don’t put your faith in humans,” a priest once told him. “Place your trust in God.” The advice, given years ago, empowered him to attend the listening session this past week. It also gave him the courage to speak – to vent his frustration with the bankruptcy and stand up for victims of clergy abuse.
“My faith is strong – I will remain Catholic until the day I die,” Cheyney said. “But I disagree with the bishop’s decision. We need to throw the attorneys out and take a Christian approach.”


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Eight months into his presidency, Donald Trump faces his first major natural disaster this weekend. Harvey has intensified into a hurricane and forecasters have predicted landfall along the Gulf Coast of Texas late today or early Saturday.
Forecasters labeled it a “life-threatening storm” that posed a “grave risk,” and the fiercest hurricane to hit the United States in a dozen years. Millions of people braced for a prolonged battering that could swamp dozens of counties more than 100 miles inland.
On his blog, Jamie Dupree of WSB Radio fame notes that nothing on Trump’s schedule today indicates interaction with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, although late Friday the president Tweeted out a video of a recent visit to FEMA headquarters.
Trump will ride the storm out from Camp David, his second visit to the retreat. Notes Dupree:
You want some political controversy? Then just imagine where we are in early September if Harvey turns into a giant storm that brings major damage in coastal areas of Texas, with a recovery price tag running into the tens of billions of dollars.
Turn back the clock to 2013, in the time after Hurricane Sandy, and you’ll see the furor on Capitol Hill after some GOP lawmakers tried to force offsetting budget cuts to pay for an initial round of money for the federal flood insurance program…
The flood program is already $23 billion in the red – without counting this weekend’s damage.
You can count Marshall Shepherd, UGA’s professor of meteorology among those warning of a dire situation. Via Twitter: “If you are in coastal TX this is not the time for cliche ‘meteorologist overhyping this’ or ‘I was ok last time’..#Harvey is historic threat.”
This morning’s Tweets from the White House:
— “If Senate Republicans don’t get rid of the Filibuster Rule and go to a 51% majority, few bills will be passed. 8 Dems control the Senate!”
–“General John Kelly is doing a fantastic job as Chief of Staff. There is tremendous spirit and talent in the W.H. Don’t believe the Fake News”
–“Few, if any, Administrations have done more in just 7 months than the Trump A. Bills passed, regulations killed, border, military, ISIS, SC!”
—“Nick Adams, “Retaking America” ‘Best things of this presidency aren’t reported about. Convinced this will be perhaps best presidency ever.'”
It’s the final day of qualifying for Atlanta’s mayor race, and as far as we can tell all the major candidates have signed their paperwork. That includes former Atlanta official Peter Aman; former Fulton County Commission chair John Eaves; City Council President Ceasar Mitchell; state Sen. Vincent Fort; City Councilmembers Keisha Lance Bottoms, Kwanza Hall and Mary Norwood; and former City Council president Cathy Woolard.
Michael Sterling, former director of the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency, said he’s headed to City Hall at noon to qualify.
A Thursday rally called by the Augusta NAACP to remove a Confederate monument on the city’s main thoroughfare drew 200 people but resulted in no arrest or injuries. At least one group was denied a permit to hold a separate rally, according to the Augusta Chronicle: the Nationalist Liberation Union, a white nationalist group.
The Demosthenian Literary Society at the University of Georgia voted to take down a portrait of Robert E. Lee from the walls of its North Campus building. A video posted on Twitter shows members erupting into applause as the faded painting is trucked out of the room. The necessary context: Just a few decades ago, Demosthenians were the most conservative group on the UGA campus and considered themselves a cultural adjunct of the Confederacy.
Axios is theorizing that there’s more to the flurry of public appearances by Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, and and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, than meets the eye. The news website says the pair are exploring a joint independent bid for president in 2020. Kasich, who would top the ticket, will be on NBC’s “Meet The Press” on Sunday.
President Trump’s former campaign adviser Roger Stone, who was just in Georgia to endorse Republican state Sen. Michael Williams in the race for governor, says that any politician who votes to impeach Trump “would be endangering their own life.” From a TMZ video: “Try to impeach him. Just try it. You will have a spasm of violence, an insurrection in this country like you have never seen before. Both sides are heavily armed, my friend.” Watch here:
Louise Linton and her husband, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, drew accusations of elitism this week for an Instagram glamour shot of her stepping off a government jet. But the Washington Post says there’s more to the story. The couple was returning from a trip to Kentucky, where they viewed the total eclipse of the sun from the rooftop of Fort Knox, “atop nearly $200 billion in gold.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was there, too.
The EPA this week announced that Trey Glenn, a lobbyist and former director of the Alabama environmental agency, would run the agency’s regional office in Atlanta. But it turns out U.S. Sen. David Perdue had other ideas. The Georgia Republican sent a Feb. 8 letter to the federal agency pitching state Sen. Rick Jeffares, R-McDonough, for the gig, according to E&E News. Jeffares took himself out of the running in May to launch a campaign for lieutenant governor.
Sometimes you just have to sit back and marvel at how politics has changed in Georgia: Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a socially conservative Republican running for governor, is holding a meet-and-greet this afternoon in a Dalton distillery.

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Industrial Crops and Products
Herein we disclose a novel formulation of two components water-based adhesive from a natural source, which is designed to glue lignocellulosic surfaces, mainly cork and wood. It is based on the aqueous extraction of liquefied cork, which results from the polyhydric alcohol acid-catalyzed liquefaction of cork dust or granules. The vacuum concentration of the referred extract leads to the first adhesive component, which is then mixed and homogenized with the second one, a curing aliphatic compound. The addition of "cork powder" to the adhesive formulation creates a stable adhesive with good shear strength values. Thus, a methodology for the valorization of cork dust, a hazardous waste, is here outlined. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
Year of publication: 2016


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Still in the pinwheel category is this next block .
Here are all six blocks together on my old fence door .
A last minute addition is this block which I will make into a mug rug , just perfect for the hot days of summer , anyone for a glass of lemonade or perhaps a glass of ice tea ? You can find the pattern here by Cynthia.
Now no Blog Hop would be complete without a giveaway so I took some time on Saturday to make this market tote , being summer and all and the number of farmers markets around I thought a tote just might be handy . If you would like to win please leave a comment and tell me your favorite part of summer .I will draw a name on July 17th giving everyone time to visit all the blogs in the hop so be sure you leave an email address I can contact you with if you are a no reply blogger.
Jane has placed an icon on her sidebar , have fun :-)

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DUMA GQUBULE: Wage bill not the main cause of Eskom’s financial woes
Primary energy costs, net finance costs and depreciation and amortisation costs to blame
Let me try this again. There are two major reasons why Eskom has failed. First, as energy expert Mike Roussouw said recently in an interview with television station eNCA, the government refused to allow Eskom to build new power stations in 1998 because it had decided to bring in independent power producers. But it failed to do so.
So, there was a period of more than five years when there was no build. When demand started exceeding supply, as the economy grew faster from 2004, the government turned to Eskom in a rush.
“Eskom was under pressure to bring these projects into operation as soon as possible. But such projects need five to seven years of upfront work before putting contracts in place. As a result, there was insufficient design work done before construction started. This created an ongoing problem with contracts that were not sufficiently specified,” he said.
In December 2005, Eskom’s board decided to build the Medupi power station. Construction started in May 2007, only 17 months after the decision. Construction at Kusile power station started in April 2008. If there had been a six-year planning period after the board’s decision, construction of both power stations should have started during 2011/2012.
Second, Eskom had an inadequately capitalised balance sheet, which could not support its capacity expansion. In the 2009 annual report, former Eskom chair Bobby Godsell said: “It is not possible to fund the first major expansion of our electricity grid for several decades through revenue generated from tariffs alone.
“The growth of a business is normally funded by a sensible balance between the owner’s equity, accumulated reserves and debt. We need to mobilise greater equity resources to fund the build programme. We need to find other sources of expansion funding, perhaps in the form of a development bond that will enable South Africans to invest in the expansion of our country’s energy system.”
Between 2007 and 2019 Eskom spent R614bn on its capital expenditure programme. This was equivalent to 40.6% of its average revenues during this period. In 2009 capital spending was equivalent to a 82.4% of revenues. In 2010, the figure was 69.8%. Therefore, Eskom had no reserves.
The capital spend on Kusile and Medupi was R244.3bn or 39.8% of the total. The Treasury’s 2010 budget review said it would cost R266.4bn to build the two power stations. The cost overruns are not excessive, especially if one takes into account that the rand-dollar exchange rate was at about R7 in 2007.
It certainly does not account for the major portion of the huge increase in Eskom’s debt. Also, cost and time overruns are normal in such mega projects. Examples are Sasol’s Lake Charles project, Anglo American’s Minas Rio mine in Brazil and Goldfields’ South Deep mine. Even Tottenham Hotspurs supporters had to wait for ages for chair Daniel Levy to deliver their new stadium, a small project that was way over budget.
The government contributed equity of R83bn over the past decade. This was not enough. Between 2007 and 2019 Eskom’s revenues increased 4.5 times to R179.9bn, from R401.1bn, as the average price of electricity increased five times to 90.01c per kWh from 18.06c per kWh. Electricity sales declined 4.5%.
Primary energy costs increased 7.6 times to 55.3% of revenues from 32.5%. Net finance costs increased 17.8 times to 15.3% of revenues from 3.9% as debt increased to R441bn from R33.1bn. Depreciation and amortisation costs increased to 16.5% of revenues from 11.8%. But employee benefit costs declined to 18.5% of revenues from 23.6%. They are not the major reason for the increase in Eskom’s debt.
In 2019, these four cost items alone accounted for 105.6% of revenues, compared with 71.8% in 2007 when the company reported a R7bn profit.
In a recent report, equity research firm Primaresearch said the government should have funded the investment programme upfront. Targeting a debt to equity ratio of one would have required R220bn.
About 12 years later, Eskom’s management says the government must find a way to take a similar amount off its balance sheet. This is a political decision that no Eskom board or CEO can make.
• Gqubule is founding director at the Centre for Economic Development and Transformation.
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22in x 15 1/2in (560mm x 395mm). This large original antique map of Egypt - by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville - was engraved in 1765 - dated - and was published in D Anville's large elephant folio Atlas Generale. Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable Paper color : - off white Age of map color: - Colors used: - General color appearance: - Paper size: - 22in x 15 1/2in (560mm x 395mm) Plate size: - 20in x 13in (510mm x 330mm) Margins: - Min 1in (25mm). Margins: - Soiling Plate area: - Soiling Verso: - Soiling.
Background: The first separately printed map of Africa (as with the other known continents) appeared in Munster's Geographia from 1540 onwards and the first atlas devoted to Africa only was published in 1588 in Venice by Livio Sanuto, but the finest individual map of the century was that engraved on 8 sheets by Gastaldi, published in Venice in 1564. Apart from maps in sixteenth-century atlases generally there were also magnificent marine maps of 1596 by Jan van Linschoten (engraved by van Langrens) of the southern half of the continent with highly imaginative and decorative detail in the interior. In the next century there were many attractive maps including those of Mercator/Hondius (1606), Speed (1627), Blaeu (1 630), Visscher (1636), de Wit c. 1670, all embellished with vignettes of harbours and principal towns and bordered with elaborate and colourful figures of their inhabitants, but the interior remained uncharted with the exception of that part of the continent known as Ethiopia, the name which was applied to a wide area including present-day Abyssinia. Here the legends of Prester John lingered on and, as so often happened in other remote parts of the world, the only certain knowledge of the region was provided by Jesuit missionaries.Despite the formidable problems which faced them, the French cartographers G. D'Anville (1727-49) and N. Bellin (1754) greatly improved the standards of mapping of the continent, improvements which were usually, although not always, maintained by Homann, Seutter, de Ia Rochette, Bowen, Faden and many others in the later years of the century. He is said to have designed his first map at the age of fifteen and in a long and active life he produced a great number of elegantly engraved maps, noted for their scholarship and accuracy.
If anything, he was even more critical of the work of his predecessors than Delisle and his exacting standards soon brought him international recognition as the finest cartographer of his time. In fact, during his whole life he never travelled outside Paris but he built up a vast collection of cartographic material which eventually was passed to the Bibliotheque Nationale.
He was specially interested in the geography of the East and he designed maps for a Description geographique de Ia Chine by Pere J. Du Halde (1735), a notable work of the day based on surveys and reports of Jesuit missionaries. These maps were also issued in Nouvel Atlas de Ia Chine in 1737 and were the first to give a reasonably accurate picture of that remote land. From about 1740 onwards he published collections of maps under the title Atlas Generate which went through numerous expanding editions in various languages; English editions were printed by Robert Sayer, Laurie and Whittle, and others into the next century.Please note all items auctioned are genuine, we do not sell reproductions. A Certificate of Authenticity (COA) can be issued on request. What is an Antique Map.
The word Antique in the traditional sense refers to an item that is more than a hundred years old. The majority of antique maps for sale today come from books or atlases and have survived due to the protection offered by the hardback covers. The first thing to determine when staring a collection or purchasing an item, is what is important to you. Most collectors prefer to build their collections around a theme. You may decide to collect maps from one region or country, charting its development through time.Similarly you could collect maps of one particular period in time, by type i. Sea or celestial charts or by cartographer. The collector might also want to consider the theme of cartographical misconceptions such as California as an island or Australia as Terra Australis or the Great Southern Land. The subject is so wide that any would-be-collector has almost endless possibilities to find his own little niche within the field, and thereby build a rewarding collection. Starting a collection & pricing.
Pricing is based on a number of different factors, the most important of which is regional. In any series of maps the most valuable are usually the World Map and the America/North America. The World because it is usually the most decorative and America because it has the strongest regional market. Other factors that come into play re: price is rarity, age, size, historical importance, decorative value (colour) and overall condition and quality of paper it is printed on. As specialised dealers, we frequently work with first time map buyers who are just starting their collection.
Classical Images was founded 1998 and has built an excellent reputation for supplying high quality original antiquarian maps, historical atlases, antique books and prints. We carry an extensive inventory of antiquarian collectibles from the 15th to 19th century. Our collection typically includes rare books and decorative antique maps and prints by renowned cartographers, authors and engravers.
Specific items not listed may be sourced on request. Classical Images adheres to the Codes of Ethics outlined by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA). We are a primarily an online based enterprise, however our inventory may be viewed by appointment. This item is in the category "Antiques\Maps, Atlases & Globes\Africa Maps". The seller is "searching01" and is located in this country: AU.
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Drake's new album Nothing Was the Same was released yesterday, and you don't have to hit the record store to have a listen, because really, who does that anymore? You can listen to the whole thing right here, right now.
Drake's song "Started from the Bottom" was my favorite song of the first half of 2013, and his new single "Hold On, We're Going Home" is already my favorite for the second half of the year. You're all I need to get by, Drake. Listen to the new album and see if it's time to take the two singles off repeat.


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The 16th Spanish Congress of Sociology took place from June 29 to July 2 2022 in the city of Murcia under the theme “Inequalities, borders and resilience. Sociology for global crises”. It was organized by the Spanish Federation of Sociology and the Department of Sociology of the University of Murcia.
Notus has participated presenting a paper based on the results from the Spanish fieldwork on the Involve project. On Friday July 1st, Pablo Sanz presented the paper, written together with Joan Antoni Serra, ‘Participation of social partners in the governance of the dual vocational training system: comparative analysis of Catalonia, Basque Country and Andalusia’.
The paper analyses and compares the evolution of the participation of social partners at different levels of governance of the dual vocational training system in three Autonomous Communities from Spain (Catalonia, the Basque Country and Andalusia). At the methodological level, a qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews with representatives of trade unions, business organisations, companies and political managers is used. The results reveal the existence of different governance models with important implications for the participation of social partners and, to a lesser extent, the distribution of roles between trade unions and business organisations.
The paper is available at the following link.

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Long time gone : sixties America then and now / edited by Alexander Bloom.
This study examines the gulf between the history and mythology that has grown up around different aspects of the 1960s, ranging from the counterculture to gay rights, to the student and women's movements, and to the Johnson presidency.
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
|Series:||Viewpoints on American culture.

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DISTACLOR Capsules (2018)
Pharmacotherapeutic group: Second-generation cephalosporins antibiotics
ATC code: J01DC04
Mechanism of action
Cefaclor is active against the following organisms in vitro:
Alpha- and beta-haemolytic streptococci
Staphylococci; including coagulase-positive, coagulase-negative and penicillinase-producing strains
Streptococcus pyogenes (group A beta-haemolytic streptococci)
Haemophilus influenzae, including ampicillin-resistant strains
Cefaclor has no activity against Pseudomonas species or Acinetobacter species. Methicillin-resistant staphylococci and most strains of enterococci (eg, Str. faecalis) are resistant to cefaclor. Cefaclor is not active against most strains of Enterobacter spp, Serratia spp, Morganella morganii, Proteus vulgaris and Providencia rettgeri.
Cefaclor is well absorbed after oral administration to fasting subjects. Total absorption is the same whether the drug is given with or without food; however, when it is taken with food, the peak concentration achieved is 50-75% of that observed when the drug is administered to fasting subjects and generally appears from ¾ to one hour later.
Following administration of 250mg, 500mg and 1G doses to fasting subjects, average peak serum levels of approximately 7, 13 and 23 mg/L respectively were obtained within 30-60 minutes.
Biotransformation and Elimination
Approximately 60-85% of the drug is excreted unchanged in the urine within eight hours, the greater portion being excreted within the first two hours. During the eight hour period, peak urine concentrations following the 250mg, 500mg and 1G doses were approximately 600, 900 and 1,900 mg/L respectively. The serum half-life in normal subjects is 0.6-0.9 hours. In patients with reduced renal function, the serum half-life of cefaclor is slightly prolonged. In those with complete absence of renal function, the plasma half-life of the intact molecule is 2.3-2.8 hours. Excretion pathways in patients with markedly impaired renal function have not been determined. Haemodialysis shortens the half-life by 25-30%.
Preclinical safety data
Non-clinical data reveal no special hazard for humans based on conventional studies of safety pharmacology, repeated dose toxicity, genotoxicity, carcinogenic potential, toxicity to reproduction and development.

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The Hell’s Kitchen Project (HKP) area is comprised of approximately 1,550 acres located along the southeastern shore of the Salton Sea (sea) near the city of Niland, Imperial County, California (Lat33.234664°, Long -115.589108°). The HKP area is located within the Salton Sea Known Geothermal Resource Area (SSKGRA), which currently encompasses the second largest geothermal field in the United States. This area has the potential to be the largest when fully developed. There are currently 11 existing plants within this area producing geothermal energy.
The sea has been receding for decades. Interstate legal actions and agreements related to water rights have reduced hydrologic inputs into the sea, substantially hastening the rate of its shoreline recession. The result in many locations, including the HKP area, is that lands formerly under water have transitioned to exposed lakebed that support the development of freshwater wetlands. Most of the agricultural drains that used to flow directly into the sea now terminate on the exposed lakebed and provide sufficient freshwater hydrology to support these wetlands. The HKP area is therefore largely comprised of wetlands.
Since 2017, Regulatory has been engaged with Controlled Thermal Resources Limited (CTR), a public, unlisted company headquartered in Imperial Valley, CA and Brisbane, Australia, on several actions related to the development of joint geothermal/lithium recovery facilities within the SSKGRA.
Specifically, CTR intends to develop test wells and a production facility that would produce geothermal energy and battery grade lithium, the first of its kind in the area.
(1) Permit Applications: (a) In June 2018, the Corps verified applicability of nationwide permit 51 associated with an exploratory test well (Well Pad 1). (b) The Corps received a permit application for the proposed Well Pad 4 Exploratory Well and S Berm Project in August 2018. The Well Pad 4 project involves the construction of an exploratory well pad and associated access road improvements and would result in the permanent loss of approximately eight acres of potentially jurisdictional wetlands. The Corps withdrew the initial permit application on 18 November 2019, due to a lack of response from the applicant after the Corps requested additional information. CTR resubmitted a permit application on 23 August 2021, which was withdrawn on 21 October 2021, due to a lack of response from the applicant after the Corps requested additional information. CTR
submitted its most recent permit application on 15 February 2022. The Corps withdrew that permit application on 4 November 2022, due to a lack of response from the applicant after requesting additional information. CTR would be required to offset any unavoidable adverse impacts to waters of the United States which remain after all appropriate and practicable avoidance and minimization has been achieved. (c) In fall 2022, the Corps received two preconstruction notifications (PCNs) for nationwide permit 6 for discharges of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States associated with geotechnical borings in the Well Pad 4 project area and Stage 1 production facility area. The Corps has completed the review process and once confirmation of the issuance of a 401 water quality certification is received the verifications can be issued. (d) The Corps received a
permit application for the proposed Stage 1 Production Facility Project on 01 December 2022. The Stage 1 Production Facility Project involves the construction of a joint geothermal power plant and lithium extraction facility along the southeastern shore of the Salton Sea. The project intends to produce 49.9 MW of geothermal power that would supply power to the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) and extract and produce lithium-based products for commercial sale. The proposed project would result in the permanent loss of approximately 40 acres of potential jurisdictional waters. The Corps withdrew the permit application on 20 January 2023, due to the lack of response from the applicant after the Corps requested additional information. CTR would be required to offset any unavoidable adverse impacts to waters of the United States which remain after all appropriate and
practicable avoidance and minimization has been achieved.
(2) Approved Jurisdictional Determination (AJD) Request: In November 2021, CTR provided the Corps with a delineation of aquatic resources along with their AJD request, which was subsequently revised in January 2022, indicating that of the 1,550 total acres which comprise the HKP area, 1,281acres are wetlands, and 55 acres are non-wetland waters. However, CTR’s AJD request contended the wetlands within the HKP area are not subject to jurisdiction as waters of the United States under the current regulatory regime. On 24 October 2022, CTR notified the Corps to hold in abeyance its AJD request and presume the Corps has jurisdiction over the HKP area. Per CTR’s change of course, the Corps withdrew the AJD request.
(3) Unauthorized Activity (UA): The Corps has completed an investigation of unauthorized activities, specifically the unauthorized discharge of dredged and/or fill material by CTR into waters of the United States in the HKP area. These activities appear to have been conducted in the same areas in which the Corps was reviewing CTR’s Well Pad 4 application and CTR’s request for an AJD for the larger geothermal/ lithium production facility. The Corps, along with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 staff, completed a site visit on 16 September 2022. On 01 December 2022, the Corps received an after-the-fact (ATF) permit application for discharges associated with the potential UA. The Corps is undertaking its final review of a Notice of Violation/ Order for Initial Corrective Measures that will outline the requirements that must be fulfilled to resolve the matter
through an ATF permit application. Specifically, the Corps will require a signed tolling agreement and initial corrective measures to alleviate adverse effects to aquatic resources resulted from the UA, including the ongoing diversion of surficial and groundwater hydrology from existing wetlands.
POINTS OF CONTACT
David Castanon, Chief, Regulatory Division, email@example.com
Cori Farrar, Chief, South Coast Branch, Regulatory Division, firstname.lastname@example.org
Kyle Dahl, Chief, San Diego & Imperial Counties Section, South Coast Branch, Regulatory,
Congressional Interest: Senators Butler and Padilla, Representatives Ruiz (CA-25), Calvert (CA-41), Issa (CA-48)


More Motorola Android Phone details, cheaper than T-Mobile G1
We have already mentioned a few times about the all new upcoming Motorola Android platform phone and now we have more details for you.
The all new Android based mobile phone from Motorola which will be released beginning of 2009 is hot news at the moment and everybody wants to know about it, this handset will go up against the awesome T-Mobile G1 Android phone, the new Motorola handset will feature the likes of slide-out QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen and will also undercut the G1 Phone by $30.
Other that what we already know, like the phone being Android-based the MOTO phone will also have access to social networking services, well now we learn that this new handset will be pretty much similar in design to that of the Motorola Krave ZN4.
The Motorola Android handset will have a much better look to it than the HTC G1, in fact it is said that it will have a higher-end look to it. The G1 has we all know by know goes on sale tomorrow (October 22) in the U.S and on October 31 in the UK, the Motorola will be release beginning of 2009 for only $150 or around that mark.
We are still wondering what sort of technology the Motorola Android phone will use, we know that the G1 uses the GSM system and is of course compatible with networks worldwide, so it would be in Motorola’s interest to do the same. Second quarter of 2009 is when the new Motorola Android phone will be released.


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Document Type : Reasearch Paper
Nanoscience Research Lab, Department of Physics, VHNSN College (Autonomous), Virudhunagar, 626 001, India.
Porous Silicon (PS) samples have been prepared by electrochemical anodization of p-type silicon wafer by varying HF concentrations in the electrolytic solution. The structural, surface morphological, optical and surface composition analysis of the prepared samples were done by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Photoluminescence (PL) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy studies respectively. The grain sizes of PS were determined by XRD study. The porosity of PS samples was estimated by using the parameters obtained from the SEM images by the geometrical method. The porosity of the samples was found to vary between 11% and 84% due to the variation in HF concentration in the electrolytic solution. The refractive index and dielectric constant values of PS as a function of porosity were determined by Effective Medium Approximation methods. Strong visible emission peak at 498 nm, with no apparent shift with respect to variation in etching parameter, is observed in Photoluminescence study. The surface bonding and their vibration modes of the PS were determined by transmission FTIR spectroscopy.

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Heterozygosity for a coding SNP in COL1A2 confers a lower BMD and an increased stroke risk
2009 (English)In: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - BBRC, ISSN 0006-291X, E-ISSN 1090-2104, Vol. 384, no 4, 501-505 p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Genetic variation plays an important role in osteoporosis and a prime candidate gene is Collagen alpha2(I) (COL1A2). A coding polymorphism (rs42524) in COL1A2 has previously been associated with intracranial aneurysms. Here the effects of this polymorphism have been studied in relation to bone mineral density (BMD) and prevalences of stroke and myocardial infarction (MI). rs42524 was genotyped in elderly men (n = 2004) from the Swedish MrOS cohort. Genotypes were analysed for association to BMD and certain health parameters. Significant associations (overall P < 0.05), were observed between rs42524 genotype and BMD at several skeletal sites. Surprisingly, the heterozygote genotype class exhibited lower BMD than either homozygote group. When subjects were classified as heterozygotes or homozygotes, the heterozygous genotype was found to confer a lower BMD at total hip, femoral neck and trochanter Furthermore, the heterozygote genotype had an increased risk of stroke and MI, with population Attributable Risks being 0.12 and 0.08, respectively.
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2009. Vol. 384, no 4, 501-505 p.
Research subject Orthopaedics
IdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-111772DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.05.006ISI: 000266689300020PubMedID: 19426706OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-111772DiVA: diva2:282707

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A Virginia police officer assigned to a high school is involved in onboarding new members for a white nationalist group, leaked chat logs reveal.
Daniel Morley, 31, is a police officer at L.C. Bird High School in Chesterfield, Virginia. He’s also an organizer for Identity Evropa, a white nationalist group. In the group’s leaked chat messages, first highlighted by Virginia anti-fascists on Monday, Morley discussed ways to downplay appearances of racism, while still promoting white nationalism.
Morley is suspended while Chesterfield County Police Department investigates the allegations, the department announced Monday.
“The Chesterfield County Police Department is aware of the alleged affiliation and activities of one of our officers, and our Office of Professional Standards continues to actively investigate these claims,” the department said in a statement. “At this point, the officer in question has been removed from his position as a School Resource Officer and has been administratively suspended from the police department pending a recommendation from Col. Jeffrey Katz for termination.”
A phone number believed to be Morley’s did not return a request for comment on Monday.
Morley used the screen name “Danimal876” to post in chat rooms Identity Evropa maintained on chat platforms Slack and Discord. Those chat logs were made public by the media collective Unicorn Riot earlier this month. But despite the pseudonym, Morley posted personally identifying information, Richmond-area Twitter users “Antifa Seven Hills” and “The Queer Crimer” first noted.
In November, Morley identified his voting district. “VA 7 is my precinct,” he wrote in Identity Evropa’s Discord, “hoping [Rep. Dave] Brat can bring it home.”
Chesterfield is located in Virginia’s 7th congressional district, where Brat lost his reelection bid in November. During a January conversation about race and schools, he indicated he worked in a public school.
“I was talking to a high school principal the other day who was going through the school with a higher-up,” he wrote. “The majority of the classes they went to had no instruction going on whatsoever, even though they saw these two people come in. Blew my mind.”
Many of Morley’s posts in the Identity Evropa Discord are directed at new members, a function of his position as a coordinator for new recruits.
“Good afternoon newcomers to IE! I'm the new pledge coordinator,” he wrote in September. “My job is to help guide people through the process of applying to IE and becoming full members of this great organization. If you have any questions about what you need to do next, DM me and I'll get back to you.”
Though he was an infrequent poster until 2018, Morley was a member of the Discord server since at least November 2017, months after Identity Evropa’s then-members were involved in coordinating the deadly Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The group’s then-leader Nathan Damigo was convicted for his role in the riot.
Morley also used the name Danimal876 on other forums where he expressed racist views and shared personally identifying information. A YouTube user of the same name has liked seven videos, all of which discuss white supremacist talking points. One liked video is by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The channel also subscribes to a prominent figure in Asatru, a pagan religion Morley apparently practices.
On Reddit, Danimal876 also shared at least one David Duke video, posted about Asatru, and spent years pushing racist talking points. In one post, he described himself as having gone to a “military college.” A 2009 yearbook reveals Morley went to Virginia Military Institute.
He also identified as a cop from Virginia, posting about enforcing obscure Virginia laws. In a post on in the far-right subreddit TheRedPill, he suggested an interest in violence. “Doesn’t get more real than cruising around, listening to music, and kicking ass,” he wrote three years ago. “Maybe one day I’ll work in an office. Not yet though.”
Morley has been involved in white nationalist movements since he was a teenager, his social media trail suggests. Beginning in 2006, he used the Danimal876 name to post on white supremacist forum Stormfront. He identified as a 19-year-old from Chesterfield. In his first post, he responded to a person looking for more “national socialists” in the area. Later, in an unrelated post chided a woman for not “know[ing] that a National Socialist and a Nazi were the same thing.”
“I consider myself a White Nationalist,” he wrote in 2009.
His views, as he expressed them late 2018 and early 2019 in Identity Evropa chat rooms, do not appear to have significantly changed. From his Stormfront days until present, he counseled fellow white nationalists to steer away from appearances of overt racism, while still furthering racist aims.
“A good strategy would be to steer the definition of ‘racism’ towards ‘racial hatred.’ We don’t hate other races, so we're not racists,” he advised an Identity Evropa member in October. “After all, the word isn’t going away. May as well control it.”
Since the violence of Unite the Right, Identity Evropa has attempted to rebrand with a more public-friendly image. The makeover, as a whites-only, non-Jewish political club, is a flimsy cover for its neo-fascist policies and its members’ racism in closed chat rooms. After Identity Evropa’s chat logs leaked this month, members were identified as active-duty military members and campaigners for Republican political candidates.
Shortly after the leaks, the group renamed itself the “American Identity Movement” and held a rally to promote its latest rebrand.
In the group’s pictures of the event, Morley is seen holding a flag behind the group’s banner. He is wearing the same shirt as he wears in a recent picture from his local Asatru group. That group’s website stresses its ties to “our heathen Anglo-Saxon forebears.” While Asatru is an old religion and not inherently racist, some groups’ emphasis on European heritage have made the faith a magnet for white supremacists.
Morley appears to have been involved with Identity Evropa longer than he was a school resource officer. In August, a fellow officer uploaded a video of Morley, and described him as newly assigned to L.C. Bird High School.
“I want to ensure that the children of this county get to have the same safe childhood that I did growing up,” Morley said in the video.


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Researchers at Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies have released their annual analysis of global temperatures
Researchers at Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) have released their annual analysis of global temperatures, noting that Earth’s land and ocean surfaces continue to experience higher temperatures than several decades ago. Nine of the top 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. Last year was another one of them, coming in at 9th warmest since 1880. The map above shows temperature anomalies, or changes, by region in 2011
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Activist investor Carl Icahn increased his stake in Hertz Global Holdings HTZ, +1.86% from 38.8 million shares to 49.3 million, according to a 13D filing on Tuesday with the Securities and Exchanges Commission. The nearly 25% increase comes after the company appointed John Tague as chief executive officer, the move Icahn welcomed in a tweet, saying "the company hired an excellent CEO." Hertz last week announced that it will revise financial statements from 2011 through 2013 and continue a review that has found more than $80 million of errors, so far. Hertz shares jumped 3.7% on Tuesday, but remain well below their peak of $31.56 reached in August.
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SHE has only been in power for just two weeks but Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor is already protecting her prized patch of turf, the CBD parklands, from “commercial development”.
She is deeply concerned a proposed 128-room boutique hotel at Adelaide Oval would set a precedent for other projects to lay claim over the parklands.
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“I will not be a tourist in my homeland”, Olivér Boldoghy said in a bitter interview in November, 2011. He had good reasons for the resentment. The Slovak-born Hungarian entrepreneur lost his Slovak citizenship after taking up Hungarian citizenship.
The Slovak authorities informed him that his citizenship had been withdrawn, which entails that his permanent residency has also been canceled,and so from now he is not covered by the public health insurance plan. The Ministry of Interior Affairs also noted that his driving license, ID card and passport would soon also been revoked. Boldoghy has become a de jure tourist in his homeland. Though he could easily acquire a residence permit, he is not willing to do so, since this would amount to “acknowledgment of my being a foreigner in my homeland”, as he puts it. He wonders whether Slovakia will expulse him after staying more than three months in the country. This is a rather unlikely possibility though, since according to EU law, his expulsion would only be possible in case Slovakia considered his presence (without a sufficient income) an unreasonable burden on the social assistance system, or a threat to public order.
The Hungarian government claims that the revocation of Boldoghy’s citizenship violates basic principles of international law and also the Slovak constitution, which states that no one can be deprived of his Slovak citizenship without the subject’s will. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán added that Hungarian state must stand up for the rights of Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin, and that Hungary “cannot tolerate that Hungarians be deprived of their citizenship by a country that they are the residents of”. The Slovak authorities replied by pointing out that the Slovak ban on dual citizenship is fully in-line with European citizenship norms, and noted that Hungary should not offer citizenship for non-resident Hungarians.
How could such an unusually awkward and tense debate erupt between two EU member states? How come that dual citizenship is welcome by scholars as the most liberal tool for promoting transnational political affiliation stirs such a heated debate in the developed world? In order to answer this question, one must briefly overview the Slovak-Hungarian citizenship struggles of the past years.
Fidesz and “National reunification”
The center-right Fidesz has for long tried to promote the interest of the Hungarian diaspora, and most importantly, the ethnic Hungarians living in the neighboring countries on the territories taken from Greater Hungary as part of the 1920 Paris Peace Treaties. In 2004, when still in opposition, Fidesz supported a referendum that proposed the abolition of residency requirement for access to citizenship for Hungarians living abroad. Because of the low turnout the referendum failed. Though less than 20 percent of the electorate supported the proposal, Fidesz still considered the result as a sign of Hungary’s willingness to offer citizenship for Hungarians living in the neighboring countries. Since then, Fidesz has kept the issue of “national reunification” on the agenda.
In October 2009 Fidesz submitted a proposal to the Parliament recommending the abolition of residency requirement for Hungarians applying for citizenship. Having made the point (and secured part of the electorate sympathetic to the plan), Fidesz withdrew the proposal before its parliamentary discussion could have started in order to avoid debates about the political, economic and social consequences of the initiative.
After the landslide victory in the April 2010 parliamentary elections, right after the new government took office, Fidesz sent out a strong symbolic message as part of its “national reunification” politics. It proposed a new citizenship policy that offered citizenship for Hungarians living abroad without residence requirement, and the commemoration of the tragic consequences of the 1920 Trianon peace treaty on the same day. Laws were voted by the Parliament on August 20, the anniversary of Hungarian statehood.
Old policy, new problems
Though Fidesz had originally been reluctant to offer political rights for non-resident citizens, later it decided to support the reform of the electoral rules and abolish the residency requirement. “The current Constitution ties voting rights to permanent residence in Hungary. We do not want to uphold this provision”, Fidesz MP Gergely Gulyás, deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee drafting the new constitution said in an interview in October 2010. The enfranchisement of the non-resident electorate is highly problematic for several reasons. The inclusion of non-resident Hungarians clearly fosters a re-ethnicising conception of citizenship. The political enfranchisement of ethnic Hungarians regardless of their residence suggest that Hungary as a nation is defined in ethnic terms.
Another concern is related to electoral proportions. As István Mikola, former Minister of Health of the Orbán government, noted before the 2006 elections, the centre right Fidesz could stay in power for twenty years by granting citizenship and voting rights for the five million Hungarians in the diaspora. More recently, current Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén also hinted that the government assumes that the majority of the votes from the new non-resident ethnic Hungarians would strengthen the governing parties. The enfranchisement of the non-resident constituency thus may be interpreted as gerrymandering by other means.
It is also highly questionable if the inclusion of the non-resident Hungarians will strengthen “national reunification” in any sense. If ethnic Hungarians in the neighboring countries are entitled to vote, the parties competing for power within Hungary will certainly try to get their support – by making promises that would be financed from public revenues paid by Hungarian resident citizens. In return, the political parties that would be helped into power by external voters, as happened in Croatian and Romanian elections, may introduce policies for the domestic, resident citizenry that would in no way affect non-resident voters. Such conflicts of interest in the long run could easily create tensions between the resident and the external citizenry.
More importantly, non-resident dual citizenship raise important interstate dilemmas. Critics have also noted that the initiative would disrupt diplomatic relations with Hungary’s neighbors. Hungary’s relationship has already deteriorated with Slovakia, where the Hungarian proposal plays into the hands of the nationalist, anti-Hungarian parties. The worries were confirmed when Prime Minister Robert Fico retaliated with introducing a new law banning dual citizenship so that Slovak citizens acquiring Hungarian dual citizenship could be deprived of their Slovak citizenship. Though since the Slovak elections the diplomatic relations between Hungary and Slovakia seemed to have improved, the new Slovak government has not succeeded in abolishing the ban on dual citizenship. The Hungarian government, nonetheless, encouraged ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia to apply for Hungarian citizenship by assuring them that the Hungarian state will not share the list of naturalized non-resident citizens with foreign authorities, implying that Slovak citizens can keep their Hungarian naturalization in secret. To make things even more problematic, the new Hungarian Constitution (effective of January 1, 2012) states that Hungary bears responsibility for the fate of Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin.
An attack on sovereignty?
The nature of the Slovak-Hungarian debate resembles to the disputes over dual citizens in the 19th century, when dual citizens were considered a major threat to state sovereignty and also the cause of interstate armed conflicts. One may ask whether the awkward dispute could not be resolved by the application of international norms of citizenship legislation. Unfortunately, there is no reason to assume so.
According to various international treaties, sovereign states should have the right to formulate their citizenship legislation. Even within the European Union, every member state may determine the requirements for naturalization. Although ethnic selectivity is not allowed, EU member states may offer preferential treatment for individuals with cultural affinity. Among others, any state may have special naturalization requirements for residents of former colonies, descendants of former citizens and individuals who speak the national language. As for the Hungarian non-resident citizenship act, citizenship is offered upon individual request to Hungarian speaking, non-resident descendants of former Hungarian citizens, or of ancestors with origins in Hungary. Though the wording makes sure that no ethnic selectivity is involved, there is little doubt that in effect only ethnic Hungarians will have access to non-resident citizenship. Nevertheless, the Hungarian legislation is fully in-line with the international formal norms of citizenship policies. Interestingly, Hungarian government politicians defending the inclusion of non-resident Hungarians often claim that the new legislation not only meets the international expectations, but also fits well into the most progressive and transnational trends in citizenship policy, which is the growing toleration of dual citizenship.
Slovakia, on the other hand, also refers to the principle of state sovereignty in relation to citizenship policies. As Hungary has the right to determine whom to offer membership, Slovakia is also free to ban dual citizenship. Despite the proliferation of multiple citizenship, no international treaties require that states allow dual citizenship for those who voluntarily take up citizenship in another country. If neither statelessness, nor the loss of EU citizenship is involved, EU member states may deprive their citizens of their membership if they decide to naturalize in another country.
As for the practical consequences, the case of O.Boldoghy shows that the Slovak-Hungarian citizenship disputes serve the nationalists on both sides. The introduction of non-resident citizenship for ethnic Hungarians fit well into the nationalizing rhetoric (borrowing a lot from the vocabulary of irredentist politics) of the Hungarian right-wing government, while the Slovak ban on dual citizenship effectively mobilizes the Slovak public along the xenophobic and anti-Hungarian sentiments. Dual citizenship politics in this context should be interpreted as the continuation of the old nationalist politics by other means.
If and how O.Boldoghy’s case will be resolved is absolutely unclear. At this point, neither government can easily retreat and reverse their citizenship policies without losing their nationalist face. Such a retreat would most probably risk the loss of the support and sympathy of nationalist voters in both countries, which would provide an opportunity for radical right-wing parties.
Though it is not likely that more serious interstate clashes will follow the diplomatic conflict, one may wonder what happens if large numbers of Hungarians inhabiting the transborder region in Slovakia will naturalize in Hungary, and will consequently be deprived of the Slovak citizenship. According to international treaties, they will have the right to turn to Hungary requesting diplomatic protection if they think their rights are being violated by Slovakia. How would Hungary react? What would Hungary’s responsibility towards its non-resident citizenry entail? Would such a conflict strengthen radical nationalists in Hungary, who in the past suggested that Hungary should reclaim the territories belonging to the pre-1920 Greater Hungary by creating a buffer zone of Hungarian citizens in the transborder region? One can only hope that such questions will not become actual political dilemmas.
 Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right ofcitizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States.
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* Professor, Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest, and at the Department of Philosophy, ELTE, University of Budapest.

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Lil Wayne has long said that when he was 12 years old and shot himself in the chest that it was an accident. But now on his a new track, “Let It All Work Out,” Weezy revealed that it was actually a suicide attempt.
On the track, which is featured on his latest album Tha Carter V, Weezy raps: “I found my momma’s pistol where she always hide it/I cry, put it to my head and thought about it/Nobody was home to stop me, so I called my auntie/Hung up, then put the gun up to my heart and pondered.”
The rapper told ESPN’s Josina Anderson in a joint interview with fellow Louisiana native Odell Beckham Jr. why he was finally ready to share more about his suicide attempt.
“The thought process doing that verse is…What made me do it was just, [I] was ready to get it off my chest,” he said.
It’s not the first time Lil Wayne has spoken about his brush with suicide on wax.
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Anderson also asked Wayne if the high profile deaths of celebrities like Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade influenced his decision to publicly speak about surviving a suicide attempt. He revealed that the final track on his album was actually recorded years prior to its release.
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This is a very sound and original LHD US import with matching numbers and some interesting competition features:-The top of the bonnet has two rows of louvres as can be seen on the photos. The car has a large bore exhaust
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Brake cylinders and shoes.
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Archive for July 14, 2010
This is an excellent supplement on Palestine published by As-Safir and devoted to 1948 Palestine.
Comrade Khalid on the death of Egypt.
Zionism: only generalizations and racist stereotypes about Arabs, Muslims and Africans allowed and encouraged
“The haredi community is being portrayed as a collective that does not study the right subjects, is not enlightened enough (yet those who hate it are very much enlightened,) does not work, and lives at the governmentÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s expense, of course.” Zionism i…
“The Knesset approved on Wednesday an initial reading of a bill calling for heavy fines to be imposed on Israeli citizens who initiate or incite boycotts against Israel. If approved into law, the fines would apply to anyone boycotting Israeli individua…
During the years following the Hariri assassination, Prince Saud Al-Faysal directed and managed Saudi policies in Lebanon, and its policies toward Iran–despite his illness.
Prince Muqrin’s influence within the ruling circle of King `Abdullah has declined over the last few months.
This is in preparation of Hariri visit to Damascus this Sunday: “A Syrian opposition activist granted refugee status by the United Nations said Tuesday that Lebanese authorities had ordered him to leave.” (thanks Olivia)
Comrade Fawwaz provides a succinct, critical review of the debate on the Palestinians and their rights in Lebanon.
“”Our position is clear: When Israel returns the entire Golan Heights, of course we will sign a peace agreement with it …. What’s the point of peace if the embassy is surrounded by security, if there is no trade and tourism between the two countries?…


Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow encounters “misadventures” in electric vehicle charging on a near-weekly basis.
McMorrow, a first-term lawmaker who represents metro Detroit, purchased a Chevrolet Bolt last January but regularly finds herself in a bind when needing a charge.
This unreliable infrastructure is helping drive McMorrow’s latest efforts in the Legislature to promote and incentivize electric vehicle charging stations.
McMorrow, a Democrat, is leading a bipartisan four-bill package in the Senate and House that would promote electric vehicle charging station leasing at state parks and carpool sites, give tax credits to small businesses and owners of multi-unit dwellings who install stations, and create an electric vehicle infrastructure council to guide the process. The bills were introduced in late June.
McMorrow works closely with the auto industry as a co-chair of the state Legislative Automotive Caucus. She previously worked in the auto industry as a designer and creative director.
In a Q&A with the Energy News Network, McMorrow said preparing for the transition to electric vehicles is not only a climate issue, but also one that can keep Michigan economically competitive.
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Showcasing excellence in converting at Ipack-Ima and Print4All
Both events will take place from 3-6 May in the Milan Rho trade fair centre. ROTOMAC and LAEM IMS will be among the exhibitors of Ipack-Ima at Hall 7 Booth C18.
Packaging and food wrappingROTOMAC is the global leader in the production of rewinding as well as packaging and accessory machinery for food wrapping, boasting more than 1500 machines installed all over the world. It designs, develops, and manufactures customised machines and complete turn-key plants that convert aluminium foil, plastic film, and baking paper from mother rolls into consumer-sized rolls for household, catering and professional use markets. At Ipack-Ima it will showcase its production line for micro-embossed foil rolls, consisting of one automatic rewinding machine from the new “ICEBREAKER” series – model 165 SG – and a cartoning machine, model 505. Visitors can learn about the enhanced performance and the new design of these machines, that are reported to offer unparalleled embossing technology quality.
Slitting and winding know-howLAEM IMS will bring to Milan its know-how in slitting and winding machinery for the converting and flexible packaging industries. With its portfolio featuring twin-shaft, turret and compact slitter rewinders as well as technologically advanced end-of-line full automation, it wants to demonstrate that converting can be easy, efficient but also very powerful. Furthermore, the Group will present MAIA – Machine Artificial Intelligence Application – IMS TECHNOLOGIES’ innovative industrial IoT platform developed to meet the customers’ needs in the Industry 4.0 era. MAIA will also be among the highlights of Ipack-Ima Digital, a thematic path with live demos and events promoted by MindSphere World.
IMS TECHNOLOGIES will be present at the Print4All trade fair as well. At booth E06-E08 in Hall 9 visitors will have the opportunity to discover why the machines of the Group are claimed to represent excellence in converting: thanks to its 170 years long history and a deep expertise in technologies and processes, solutions for the widest range of materials are engineered and manufactured.


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The textures and colour palettes of illustrator and designer Stephanie Scholz’s work are redolent of early 20th Century poster designs, with rich tones but a quiet stillness that captures moments in time.
Taking modernist and often architectural starting points, Stephanie’s work features sports imagery but with notable absences of people: we see an empty umpire’s chair, lone ping pong table and diving boards standing tall, but without their divers.
Elsewhere in her portfolio are some lovely Matisse-esque groups of brightly coloured female forms, their dances distilled into a powerful still image. Stephanie, who is now based in Berlin, has seen her work commissioned by clients including Nils Frahm, Efterklang, Wikimedia and Universal Music.
- Caterina Bianchini on her three processes when designing posters
- Friday Mixtape: illustrator pals Jan Buchczik and Timo Lenzen on their studio tunes
- B.A.M's new identity for White Cube is an “evolution rather than a revolution”
- Mosh Pit Simulator, perhaps the craziest VR game yet, launches later this month
- Fantastic Man releases What Men Wear, an anthology of male dressing in the 21st Century
- Interior Lives documents the unassimilated lives of the largest Chinese population outside of Asia
- An egg beats Kylie Jenner to become the most liked Instagram photo... ever
- Mastercard reveals new nameless logo courtesy of Michael Bierut
- Sam Youkilis uses scale, form and colour to challenge the tropes of travel photography
- Betina Du Toit's naturally-beautiful images are “stripped back from the non-essential”
- Giacomo Gambineri on shifting his creative career from graphic designer to illustrator
- Hiroki Nishiyama draws on traditional graphic design techniques in his illustration practice


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Through the years there have been families from Dorchester that have garnered a reputation for their will to fight. Whether it’s for a friend or a just cause, we have no shortage of folks that will raise a pen, voice or fist for the greater good.
The Kelly family is one of those standout clans.
Through generations they have battled fires for the City of Boston to save lives. They have gone off to war to fight for their country against terrorists. And they have fought for a living wage for firefighters all over Massachusetts.
Today one of the youngest members of their clan will begin his own fight with the same tenacity that has become the hallmark of his family and Dot Rats everywhere.
Four year old Tommy Kelly will fight and beat cancer!
Tommy’s pals, neighbors and the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, will be saying the rosary tonight for Tommy, in a vigil at St. Ann’s at 7pm (6/10/14). All are welcome.
A Facebook page has been set up for those wanting to send encouragement to Tommy and his family.


The hollow lower pulley wheel is integrated into the derailleur cage structure, instead of being bolted in the center.
- AbsoluteBLACK engineers know all about transmission customization
- The company is a world leader in oval shaped trays
- But its latest product innovation is a futuristic rear derailleur cage, which whispers smoothly.
AbsoluteBLACK is a components company obsessed with the smallest of gains.
Although based in England, the brand’s roots are Polish, where the founder, Marcin Golec comes from.
Comprehensive data analysis and computer aided design is what AbsoluteBLACK does best. Although primarily known for its oval chainrings, AbsoluteBLACK has spread to ridiculously expensive low friction chain lubricants.
For AbsoluteBLACK, everything is done to reduce friction and optimize power transfer. The latest product that promises to help you lose fewer watts of pedaling effort is the HollowCage.
The HollowCage works with Shimano Dura-Ace R9100 / R9150 and Ultegra R8000 / R8050 components (Photo: AbsoluteBLACK)
Make your transmission more aerodynamic
It might sound a bit too big, but that’s the secret. Engineers understood that oversized pulley wheels can turn more efficiently, reducing chain slack in a bicycle drivetrain.
AbsoluteBLACK has taken this concept to the extreme with its HollowCage design. It features a monocoque structure and a massive lower pulley, with a remarkable hollow center (hence its name).
What is the idea behind this? Lightness. To begin. The HollowCage weighs just 71g which is much lighter than a conventional road bike rear derailleur from SRAM, Shimano or Campagnolo.
In addition to saving weight, it also features a dimpled finish, similar to that of a golf ball. The reason? Aerodynamic. Honeycomb surfaces, in a specific shape, create less aerodynamic drag than a perfectly flat surface and the industrial designers at AbsoluteBlack have incorporated this idea, with the HollowCage.
The HollowCage design is a study of functional minimalism (Photo: AbsoluteBLACK)
So calm, the other runners won’t hear you coming
Unlike traditional derailleur cages, which have a double-spar structure, the HollowCage is single-sided.
How much better is its efficiency than a conventional high-end rear derailleur cage? AbsoluteBLACK does not put an exact value for this, in watts. What they will confirm is that the HollowCage derailleur cage and pulley wheels operate two decibels quieter than any competing component.
Less noise equals less mechanical drag. But the cost is extreme, for this new piece of AbsoluteBLACK magic. The HollowCage derailleur cage is priced at R10,000.


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The Thunder has finally dodged an injury bullet.
After what initially looked to be a potentially serious knee injury on Friday night in Toronto, Russell Westbrook walked out of the arena fine, without a brace and telling The Oklahoman that he didn’t expect to miss any time.
And on Saturday, after an MRI and clinical exam with team doctors, that fortunate diagnosis was confirmed. No areas of concerned surfaced as a result of Westbrook’s knee-to-knee contact with Raptors guard Kyle Lowry (you can see the play here).
The team is calling it a knee sprain. He isn’t expected to miss any additional time.
But moving forward, the Thunder will continue to monitor Westbrook’s minutes and rest him on one game of its upcoming back-to-backs. It’s a plan OKC hatched and publicized upon Westbrook’s latest return. And it’s one the Thunder has stuck with. His latest scare will likely only solidify that stance.
OKC plays Denver at home on Monday and the Mavericks in Dallas on Tuesday. Westbrook is expected to play in one of those games. If the Thunder follows its recent theme, choosing to use Westbrook in the tougher game, he’ll likely be in uniform against the Mavericks on Tuesday. Dallas blasted the Thunder in OKC without Westbrook last week.
There are 13 games remaining in the regular-season and four back-to-backs. The playoffs are scheduled to begin on April 19.


New 2022 Honda FourTrax Rancher 4x4
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The psychology of relationships: strokes
The stroke economy
The stroke economy is a concept which was created by Claude Steiner, a transactional analyst psychotherapist, in the 1960s. To understand this section, you will need to have read the section on strokes.
The stroke economy is a concept which helps to clarify why we end up with so little warmth in our interactions and what we can do to change this.
Imagine this is the sixties. There are a lot of ideas floating about regarding power and economy, feminism, sexuality and lots of other socio-political ideas: the concept of stroke economy fits very well into this era.
Let’s start off with a stroke. A stroke is a unit of recognition. If it’s a positive stroke you could see it as a little parcel of love given by one person and received by another.
We all need strokes and a lot of us go to great lengths to earn them (like working too much, or being overly-nice to people, more than you really want to be).
However, strokes are free, they are easy to give, so why aren’t we all giving and receiving strokes all the time, which would make us all feel a lot better?
Claude Steiner said it’s because of the stroke economy, which he suggested works just like an economy based on money.
Once you make money scarce, people will work very hard to earn some so they can get their basic needs met. Indeed, one can control people by making money scarce. It’s the same with strokes, at least according to Steiner.
He suggested that we are all indoctrinated by our parents with five very restrictive rules about stroking.
This means that strokes end up being in short supply, which means that as children we would work harder to earn each one of them.
Although this is quite a simplified way of looking at it, it’s also a good metaphor for why we end up being so reticent about giving and receiving strokes when we don’t really need to be so tight about it: in reality, there is always a limitless amount we could give.
Here are the five stroking rules, which we tend to learn, which means we limit the feel good factor in our relationships drastically:
1 Don’t give strokes when you have to give them to give
Wouldn’t it be great to give all the strokes we want to give to people!
However, we often tend to hold back and not say the nice things we think about people. Then the moment passes and we never say it. What a shame!
2 Don’t ask for strokes when you need them
For a lot of people it’s a really radical concept that it would be ok for them to ask for what they want instead of having to wait passively until somebody happens to give them the right thing.
It’s ok to ask for the right words and that doesn’t mean the person who is giving the compliment doesn’t mean them!
3 Don’t accept strokes if you want them
A lot of people really struggle to take in strokes. They feel exposed or embarrassed and deflect the nice comments about themselves.
Again, what a waste!
A stroke is a gift meant for you, so take it, feel it, and remember it so that when times are less good you can take it out again and warm yourself with it!
4 Don’t reject strokes when you don’t want them
Ever thought about not taking on destructive comments from others and just ignoring them? You really don’t have to take them to heart, you can remember some good things people said to you instead.
5 Don’t give yourself strokes
Also a very radical concept! Why not be nice to yourself, say nice things to yourself and believe them?
And “stroking yourself” can also be a literal thing.
Biologically, any sort of grooming behavior raises our endorphins and we feel better. And, as this is a website about sex you might as well take it that way too!
So, let’s have a revolution! We can turn the old stroking rules upside down and arrive at ones that are much better for us:
1 Give strokes that you want to give
2 Ask for the strokes you want or need
3 Accept the strokes you get
4 Don’t accept the strokes you don’t want
5 Stroke yourself (a lot)
The new rules should help you increase your sense of warmth and your feeling of being loved and belonging. Remember to give only strokes to people which you really mean.
Fake ones hurt. (But you could give someone you don’t like a stroke on how much you like their new shoes, for example.)
Also, once you start to take in the strokes people give you and you are giving out more strokes, you are really encouraging other people to be more open and forthcoming too.
You may have to practice for a while until giving and receiving strokes becomes natural, but it’s great when you get there! And the people round you will appreciate it.

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