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(Washington, DC) – Maine Senator Susan Collins joined 45 other Senators, including Senator Angus King, in co-sponsoring the International Climate Accountability Act, which would prevent the federal government from using any taxpayer resources to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.
The Senate bill follows the passage of the House companion bill H.R. 9 earlier this year, the Climate Action Now Act, which Maine’s Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden both co-sponsored.
“We applaud Senator Susan Collins in joining the rest of Maine’s Congressional delegation to re-affirm the United States’ commitment to international climate action,” said Kristin Jackson, federal outreach coordinator at the Natural Resources Council of Maine. “Climate change is a challenge that requires global solutions, and we’re proud Maine’s Congressional delegation is standing up to say the U.S. has a responsibility to address this crisis.”


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Growing Kiwifruit in Your Home Garden You may know kiwifruit by what you see in.
} You can start pruning apple trees anytime after the New Year, up until the flower buds start swelling. I like to wait until March when the days are longer, sun is stronger, and temperatures are.
The dormant season, late fall or winter, is the best time to prune although dead branches can be removed at any time.
This type of pruning should, if possible be carried out before a tree reaches maturity in order to avoid large wounds.
Pruning during the dormant season minimizes sap loss and subsequent stress to the tree. It also minimizes the risk of fungus infection or insect infestation, as both are likely to be in dormancy at the same time as the bushleaning.clubted Reading Time: 5 mins.
Mar 16, Apple trees benefit from proper pruning, spring and summer. CORVALLIS, Ore. - You can prune an apple tree any time of the year without hurting it, but late winter, just before spring, is probably best. The worst of the cold weather is past, so you won't be subjecting the fresh cuts to severe icing, but you'll still be able to influence the tree's spring bushleaning.clubted Reading Time: 4 mins.
Dec 16, When to Prune Late winter or early spring while the tree is still dormant and before active growth begins for the season is the best time to prune apple trees.
Buds are easier to see and work around and cut wounds have a chance to dry up before insects come out in the spring. You will see less effect on winter hardiness and overall tree bushleaning.clubted Reading Time: 9 mins. Oct 07, The best time to prune apple trees is either late in the winter or early in the spring because that’s the time when the tree is entering a dormant state after shedding its leaves and before new buds appear.
It’s best to complete the pruning just before the growth starts in the spring, so the cuts have time to heal bushleaning.clubg: Westport CT. Mar 05, When to Prune Apple Trees Apple trees can be pruned anytime after the leaves have fallen, but it’s best to wait until the extreme cold days of winter have passed but before any new growth has started.
Sub-zero temperatures can cause the cuts not to close correctly, which can lead to black bushleaning.clubg: Westport CT. Aug 20, If there isn’t an absolute reason to do prune trees in the fall, then don’t. Save your tree care pruning when the tree is actively growing in the early spring or completely dormant in the winter months. She does stress that qualified tree care specialists are pruning trees every day year-round without a lot of detrimental bushleaning.clubg: Westport Pruning apple trees extension, Globe AZ


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The “Future Cities” series – organised by Trinity Development & Alumni – ended on a high with a riveting talk from Dr Jonathan Reichental, who painted an idealistic vision of the trajectory of technology, from lanes of drones in the sky to autonomous cars reducing the hazards of driving.
The talk – moderated by Prof Anna Davies, an expert of geography, environment and society in Trinity – began with Reichental, the CEO of Human Future, speaking about how he fell in love with cities and worked for the government as head of technology in Palo Alto. He has gone on since to advise governments across the world on how to run cities.
“If we’re going to have a great history, then it’s going to start with cities”, he told viewers. He is not wrong. As he pointed out, we have become an urban planet with more people now living in cities than rural areas, and two to three million people moving into cities every week worldwide.
Throughout the talk Reichental discussed the idea that 21st-century problems – of which there are many in cities – require 21st-century solutions.
And it is clear that Reichental is an early adopter – at least by Irish standards – of new technologies.
Replacing paperwork in town halls with digital alternatives, and thinking of new ways of delivering this data and information that is impossible in analogue form, is one example of technology impacting cities.
This, as one of the viewers pointed out, comes with other concerns about privacy. The bottom line, Reichental said is that “we’ve got to prioritise cyber security in the public sector”. Digitisation is here to stay, so it is now about coming up with smart regulations to improve the transition.
Perhaps the most vivid image of the future that Reichental painted was that of lanes of drones flying through the city skies.
The rise of drones, Reichental said, will be similar to the rise of smartphones. “Today when you look up in the sky on a main street, you’re not going to see a drone”, he mused. “I think we’re going to wake up one day and there’s going to be lanes and lanes of drones backwards and forwards over our heads.”
Reichental said that he believes we are also nearing the end of driving as we know it. Eventually cars will be like horses – you can ride them around fields, but driving down the motorway will be a thing of the past.
This will make things safer for people and allow governments to build cities around people rather than cars. The 1.4 million people who die from car accidents every year could drip dramatically.
“If self-driving cars even half that number, and the projections are that it’ll be much, much better than that, that’s a big deal” he said.
However, Reichental was keen to stress the importance of the community being involved in how cities develop and how technology should be used.
“As we look out about tomorrow and the next week and months, what we’re faced with are actual choices. We don’t get to be bystanders”, he said.
Instead, people have to interact with their local government and communities have to be listened to. This, he said, is where bold ideas come from.
Reichental finished the “Future Cities” series on a hopeful note. Trust, he said, should be a priority for policy makers looking to make cities “smart”.
He said that governments need to “over communicate”. At the moment trust is low between city hall and the community. However, the trust issue, Reichental said, can be solved quickly.

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Read more about the challenge here. My first real concert was actually the concert to end all concerts of the mid 90s: Hanson and Backstreet Boys. I went with my mom and my sister. My first real concert that I really wanted to go to was Korn in 2000. I was in 8th grade and it was at the Allstate Arena. It was a stadium show. I've got a few blurry photos from that day, which I included in this post.
Mindless Self Indulgence opened. At the time they were a no-name band. And they were TERRIBLE. The audience was doing whatever they could to boo them off the sage (me included). To the band's credit, the went on playing and told us they didn't care if we thought they sucked. Here's a song from Frankenstein Girls, the album they were promoting at the time, released just a month earlier.


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THE so-called “painless” layoffs at CNN have been anything but.
Stunned employees from New York to Los Angeles are being yanked into personnel offices all this week and told to pack their things and get out the same afternoon. Before leaving, the shell-shocked firees are being forced to sign papers agreeing to their release and severance pay. Security card-keys and IDs are confiscated.
When they return to their desks, they learn that technicians have already rendered their computers inaccessible, preventing them from retrieving personal files such as an electronic Rolodex.
Uniformed security guards stand watch as the dismissed – some crying – clean out their desks. The guards then escort them like common criminals to the exits.
The bloodbath – which started Monday and is expected to continue through Friday – has so far made a mockery of statements last week from Eason Jordan, head of CNN newsgathering and self-proclaimed “architect” of the streamlining, in an e-mail message designed to reassure employees.
“Everything possible will be done to minimize the pain for everyone directly or indirectly involved in this process,” Jordan wrote in the company-wide memo sent out last Wednesday. Among other things, the memo promised that each laid-off employee would have “continued access to their CNN e-mail account/address.”
This week, however, some laid-off employees are finding themselves cut off from their e-mail. Some are returning to their desks to find their telephones disconnected.
Insiders say the company e-mail is flooded with farewell messages dashed off by some of the dismissed before they were denied access to their computers.
The insiders describe a company in turmoil, with staffers watching as their shattered colleagues return from the Human Resources Department in tears – and then nervously wondering if they’re next.
CNN is in the process of eliminating 400 jobs, reducing its total staff count from 4,350 to 3,950. Those affected have included a number of on-air personnel as well as producers.
Jordan’s memo explained the cuts are necessary for creating a new, leaner CNN, one that will be better equipped to compete with surging rivals MSNBC (owned by NBC) and Fox News Channel (owned by News Corporation, which also owns The Post).
But insiders worry that the layoffs will leave the network with too few seasoned veterans, many of whom have been among the first to go.
“Clearly, there’s tears throughout the network,” said one eyewitness to the carnage who requested anonymity. “It’s a sad time for everybody, and it seems like CNN wants to go into somewhat of a different direction, and that direction doesn’t seem to involve quite as many reporters.”
The Los Angeles bureau was especially hard hit, sources say, when four of the six correspondents were let go on Monday. One source said seven security guards were on hand to supervise the packing.
Among the laid-off were Greg LaMotte, who was captured by Iraqi soldiers at the end of the Gulf War and held in captivity for a week, and Jim Hill, who is said to have swum across a river to escape capture in that same war zone.
“These are guys who put it on the line,” a colleague said of them. “They went as far as they could go for journalism and for CNN and boom, they’re outta there.”

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Hip-hop superstar Kanye West has been known to have a comedic side. The mercurial rapper has featured Chris Rock on his My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album and comedian DeRay Davis provided his best Bernie Mac impersonation for the intros on West’s College Dropout and Late Registration albums. Now, it looks Yeezy is teaming up with Will Ferrell in the highly-anticipated comedy sequel Anchorman: The Legend Continues.
Hollywood.com reports that West was photographed filming a scene this week on the rooftop of a building in downtown Atlanta. The film has already landed some impressive cameos from superstars like Jim Carrey and Liam Neeson, and it looks like West has been added to the list. According to reports, he was shooting what appeared to be a fight scene with stars Paul Rudd and Christina Applegate.
The original Anchorman, released in 2004, was a tremendous success and the protagonist, pompous news anchor Ron Burgundy proved to be one of Ferrell’s most beloved characters. Incidentally, Kanye and Jay-Z famously used a snippet from Ferrell’s hit 2006 comedy Blades of Glory on their Grammy-winning hit “N—as In Paris” from 2011s Watch the Throne album.
Anchorman: The Legend Continues is set to be released on December 20th.
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Is There a Connection Between College Football and Rape?
Researchers have determined that there’s a relationship between college football games and incidences of reported rape. The study was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research late last year, but has broken into the news recently, as the conversations around college sexual assault and the violence of football have continued into the new year.
The researchers, led by Professor Jason Lindo at Texas A&M University, discovered that:
Home football games increase reports of rape by 41 percent on the day of the game while away games increase reports by 15 percent. They estimate that Division 1A football games cause between 253 and 770 additional rapes of college-aged victims per year across 128 universities.
The researchers don’t claim this is a direct link–rather they were attempting to look at the connection between events that sparked heavy drinking and partying, and reports of sexual assault. Understandably, then, they found higher reports of rape when something worth “celebrating” happened during a football game–for example, underdog teams upsetting better-ranked rivals. Additionally, game days saw a spike in other crimes–such as disorderly conduct, DUIs, and public intoxication. Given that big college football games usually happen on Saturdays and Sundays–busy party days for college students–the researchers attempted to control for that. According to NPR’s Social Science Correspondent Shankar Vedantam:
Lindo and his colleagues actually tried a control for this by comparing reports of rape on a days the college team was playing to reports of rape on other Saturdays of the year when the team was not playing. So this analysis is focused on the additional rapes being reported to college police and local law enforcement on days the college team is playing compared to what’s reported on a typical Saturday.
In order to conduct the study, the researchers looked at 22 years of FBI data on rape. Given that those statistics have received criticism for being undercounts of sexual assaults, the numbers could be even higher. Additionally, the statistics can’t provide a full picture of all big college football schools, as only 96 of the 128 schools with Division I teams voluntarily reported enough data to be included in the study. However, as they stand, the statistics are certainly worrisome, and worth a look as the fight to prevent sexual assault on college campuses continues.

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“Kanarejka” (Canary) system, mounted below the AKS-74U assault rifle. Now this is a real assault rifle. An “assault weapon” is a political term.
“Assault weapons bans” go back a quarter century with California implementing the first such restrictions in 1989. The the California Department of Justice’s assault weapon list has some registered 145,253 firearms as of last year when I did an in-depth report on them. However, the AWB, although tweaked continually, focuses on named models and arbitrary cosmetic features such as hand grips, barrel shrouds, and threaded muzzles, deeming such guns “assaulty” while they accidentally wind up making such innocent models as the Marlin Model 60, a tubular magazine .22LR popgun, illegal in some states.
Such bans aren’t very efficient, nor do they reduce crime, as witnesses a decade after in a postmortem on the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, which sunsetted in 2004.
Even the sometimes left-leaning New York Times noted that, “The continuing focus on assault weapons stems from the media’s obsessive focus on mass shootings, which disproportionately involve weapons like the AR-15, a civilian version of the military M16 rifle.”
Further, manufacturers can just rename their guns and delete cosmetic features, selling state-compliant models. As such, you can still very much buy modified AR-15-ish rifles in California legally over the counter. Sure, they have bullet buttons and look funny, but at their heart they are still ARs.
A state-compliant AR. Even these abominations are banned in Massachusetts, at least for now.
However, Massachusetts Atty. Gen. Maura Healey last week flipped the script and decided to re-interpret the state’s 1998 ban to include an interchangeability test on the gun’s action, as ruling whether it is banned under state law. For instance, if Mass-compliant 5.56mm semi-auto rifle accepts the same bolt carrier group and magazine of the banned AR-15, it is banned as well.
So now components, such as the bolt carrier group and charging handle, define what make up an “assault rifle” under Healy’s interpretation of Mass law….not the gun itself.
Gun grabbing genius this is. Because of the extremely broad strokes used to issue her office’s new guidance, most semi-auto centerfire rifles with the exception of a few (Ruger Mini-14, Remington 7400, Winchester 1910, etc), can be outlawed.
The thing is, Healy may have overstepped her authority and there has been a run on stores by gun owners fearing it will stick and some are promising legislation and litigation to short circuit her effort.
Either way, you can bet it is a blueprint for future moves by lawmakers to place a much more restrictive gun prohibition in the works.


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Mr Vio: Facts About Digestive Enzymes.
Scientific research has proven that there is a connection between your brain and your gut. Via chemical signals, they talk and work with each another to regulate your digestive system, immune system, and your central nervous system. Digestion enzymes help with the absorption of food and help with tummy ache including more serious conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (IMS).
So what are digestive enzymes? A digestive enzyme is a complex protein that’s made that your body makes to help break down food into small molecules so they can be absorbed into your body. Most digestive enzymes are made by your pancreas, although some are made by your mouth, stomach, and small intestine. Digestive enzymes help to break down carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Once your meal gets broken down, nutrients are absorbed into your body through the wall of the small intestine and distributed through the bloodstream.
Naturally occurring digestive enzymes are a vital part of your digestive system. Without them, your body can’t break foods down so that nutrients can be fully absorbed. Some health conditions can holt or interfere with the body’s production of digestion enzymes so you may need to buy them in supplement form to combat this problem. You can buy these online or on your high street from Holland and Barrett.
There are several types of digestion enzymes but the 3 most important ones are:
- Amylase: Breaks down carbohydrates, or starches, into sugar molecules. Insufficient amylase can cause diarrhea.
- Lipase: Works with liver bile to break down fats. If you don’t have enough lipase, you’ll be lacking in fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, E, and K.
- Protease: Breaks down proteins into amino acids. It also helps keep bacteria, yeast, and protozoa out of the intestines. protease shortage can lead to allergies or toxicity in the intestines.
You may be please to find all three of these digestion enzymes in Medi-Evil Nutrition’s Whey Fury and their mass gainer Colossus. The aptly named blend of digestion enzymes is called Trigestize. This is of course unique to Medi-Evil Nutrition and would be found in any other brands of proteins.
You may need digestive enzymes if you have Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency (EPI). Some of these conditions listed below can leave you short on digestive enzymes:
- pancreatic cancer
- chronic pancreatitis
- blockage or narrowing of the pancreatic/biliary duct
- pancreatic cysts or benign tumors
- cystic fibrosis
- pancreatic surgery
If you have EPI, digestion can be slow and uncomfortable. It can also leave you malnourished. Symptoms may include:
- excessive gas
- cramping after meals
- foul-smelling stools
- weight loss even if you’re eating well
- yellow, greasy stools that float
Even if you don’t have EPI, you can have trouble with many foods. Lactose intolerance is a good example of this. A lactase supplement can help you digest foods that contain lactose, 0r if you have trouble digesting beans and other pulses, you may benefit from an alpha-galactosidase supplement.
I hope you have enjoyed my article, my next one will be on reflexology. The owner of Medi-Evil Nutrition and my dearest friend Lee Paterson is undergoing treatment at my Magic Hands clinic near Romford after The NHS has failed to help him. Lee may wish to add a few lines outlining his treatment and progress over the next 12 weeks.

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Burfict's five-game suspension for leveling Kansas City Chiefs running back Anthony Sherman was reduced -- on appeal by Burfict -- to three games on Wednesday.
The gum-flapping on "hot take" sports TV has been nonstop since Sunday night when the suspension followed the latest in a long line of transgressions by Burfict.
He was caught on tape (and is there ever a good time for anyone to be caught on tape doing anything, let alone playing football?) delivering a hit to what seemed to be a defenseless receiver. The immediate reaction was expected. Burfict's laundry list of personal fouls and suspensions -- which had already cost the Bengals linebacker $800,000 in his career -- were resurrected like Lazarus.
One talking head called him the dirtiest player in the NFL. Another said the only way to reel in Burfict was to suspend him for the entire season.
If you study the play, rewind it until your DVR falls off, it's apparent Sherman had no idea Burfict was going to unload on him. Yes, the ball is heading in Sherman's direction, but it's also sailing way above his head and he was clearly not the intended target.
WATCH Burfict (55) hit Chiefs FB Anthony Sherman in the lower right corner:
You can argue all day whether or not Sherman was five yards down the field, whether or not the ball was out of Chiefs' quarterback Alex Smith's hand, whether or not there was intent to harm on Burfict's part (I don't think there was, to be honest with you). What you can't argue about is this: the NFL has found religion on these kinds of plays.
There is a new rule in effect that deems all receivers and running backs not with a football as "defenseless players." The NFL was lying in the proverbial weeds waiting for a chance to make someone an example. Burfict played the role of the foil ... again.
Look, the NFL just tried to settle a lawsuit with former players who had sued them over mid-life concussion-related illnesses. You've heard of CTE, right? Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, the doctors call it. It comes from repeated blows to the head.
No, Burfict didn't hit Sherman in the head, but watch Sherman's head after Burfict hits him. It begins to rival Linda Blair's head in the movie "The Exorcist."
But there's a larger issue here.
Burfict's past behavior on the field was a mitigating factor. It already has been. Think about it, if Ezekiel Elliott got a six-game suspension for domestic violence -- by any reasonable person a much more egregious offense than what Burfict did -- what does that say about how the NFL now views Burfict?
In a court of law, a defendant is judged solely on the merits of the case. But if convicted, prior offenses usually determine the severity of the sentence. Burfict is building a laundry list when it comes to that.
Was it intentional? Did Burfict intentionally try to break the new rule? Who knows? What's inside a man's head is difficult enough to determine. Try figuring out what's inside his heart.
It's all speculation, on both sides of the argument. But I don't think he was intentionally trying to injure Sherman on that play. That may lead to the biggest issue -- can Vontaze Burfict change his approach to football, adhere to the new rules and still be an elite NFL linebacker? I think he can, but when asked this week if he'll change his style of play in light of this latest suspension, Burfict's one-word answer was "nope."
There is a fine line between playing outside of the rules and within them. For the moment, that line appears to be something that Vontaze Burfict has trouble defining.
If you need further proof that the NFL needs to reduce the number of preseason games, aside from the injuries occurred by a number of teams this month, tune in tonight to watch the Bengals take on the Colts. Where else can you find grown men dressed up like football players who'll be working in the insurance industry next Tuesday?...
I think Bob Castellini needs to do something dramatic in this upcoming off-season with regard to his team's roster. Castellini needs an attention-grabbing player move. Right now, the Reds are caught somewhere between discouraged and apathetic in the fan base. Did you happen to catch any of the crowd shots from their games this week against the Mets? Most of the fans came disguised as empty seats.
Joey Votto remains one of the best players in the game. He's the best hitter in Reds history. The Reds have serviceable to good players in left field, third base, second base and catcher. Their everyday eight is good enough to be competitive within their division. But their starting pitching stinks and it's been odorous for the past three seasons.
Bryan Price said earlier this month that the Reds need to sign a veteran pitcher to center the young pitching staff. It's got to be better than that. The Reds need to sign a veteran pitcher who can win games, not just a middling, break-even pitcher (sorry Scott Feldman). More importantly, the Reds need to determine before next Opening Day which of these young pitchers are any good. Other than Luis Castillo, I don't think they have.
But Castellini needs to do something dramatic or he'll risk losing the attention of his fringe fan base. Possibly to something like FC Cincinnati again...
Don't judge Luke Fickell on what the Cincinnati Bearcats do this season. I don't think they'll be very good. But a lot of what Fickell is dealing with this season will be players left over from the Tommy Tuberville era. The atrophy from that will linger through 2017...
Little known fact, but singer and songwriter Bob Welch was once a member of Fleetwood Mac. The group went through a number of musicians before settling on its classic lineup. Welch split from the band in 1974 and found some success as a solo act. His big song was "Sentimental Lady," but I always like this Welch song a little better.
Written by Welch, it peaked at number 14 back in 1977. It was on his album "French Kiss."
While he commissioned his former band mates, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham to play on certain album cuts, this live performance features Stevie Nicks on background vocals. On the original recording, it's Juice Newton who takes care of that.
Estranged from the core of the group for many years, Welch finally made peace with them, after he was not included in Fleetwood Mac's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction.
Bob Welch died on June 7, 2012 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound ruled a suicide.


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I melted in his embrace, my knees feeling wobbly and my legs like jello. But then as quickly as it happened, he pulled away. I could feel the twigs poking my head and knew that there must be leaves all over. Bo's eyes widened as he heard rustling, he held a finger up to his lips and gave a slight smile, he squeezed into the small space between one shoulder and the branches. I tried to push my other shoulder keeping into the other side of bushes.
We heard a titter of voices and and Bo's hand quickly shot up and smoothed down some of my hair, and then his own. I bit my lip as the chatter of the girls started to vanish as they walked away. We waited an extra second before moving.
"I think I'm ready to start training." I said solemnly. Bo grinned and it made my heart feel warm and forget my sudden bout of seriousness. "What are we going to start off doing, your royal highness?" I asked goofily, also smiling. Bo held out his hand and took mine in his, pulling us out of the maze he called back "Running!"
"I hate running."
"So do I," Said Bo "But yet I still do it."
"I am morally denied even the thought of running." I said, hoping it made sense and that it was...the right words. I flinched as he turned her head back to face me.
"How are you about hikes?"
"I love hikes." I said, remembering the one I had gone on when I was 8....9 years ago.
"Do you?" Asked Bo, smiling at me. I nodded,
"From what I remember..." I Said under my breath, hoping he didn't hear me.
"Maybe we can all go on a hike, " He stated, thinking out loud "Up the hill, to the stream, that about....5 miles, and we can pack a lunch, and be back.... I HAVE TO GO TELL THE OTHERS!" HE suddenly shouted, I flinched as he yelled "Follow me!" And then began sprinting. Sighing, I tried to follow, trying to look ahead and watch where I was going at the same time, made me run into some walls, made me trip a few times and nearly run into people. So many people.
"Bo!" I shouted, complaining, "Where have you gone?"
"This way!" He yelled and before I could yell 'Where' a shoe flew through a grand doorway and I went that way and saw Bo furiously talking to his brothers and Finn, whose feet were propped up on a table, one foot was shoed and the other was not, and instead a ratty sock was being worn. He grimaced. A quick smile fleeted across my face at the vivacity Bo had, compared to the rest of the Kings. I noticed that Silas, for once, was out of focus, his eyes never staying in one place for longer than a few seconds, then his eyes seemed to see something and his face softened slightly. I looked back to see a guard, standing still, face like stone, in the corner of what appeared to be...the library, where the day before I had toppled off Bo's shoulders and the table...was the alcove. "What do you think, Si?" Bo asked King Silas. He responded gruffly,
"Good idea. We shall tell the...girls." He hesitated, "Someone go get sandwiches and whatever else we need, someone else go get the girls and tell them, everyone else go get prepared," He sighed. "We are going on a hike." Bo grinned and all the Kings stood up, going to move places, I moved closer to Bo, my fingers barely touching his shirt.
"Come on, Liv." He said, intertwining our fingers. and then pulling me behind him to..to...to... his room. He shut the door behind me, scrambling around, looking, he was then, suddenly on the ground, looking under his bed. "Aha!" He shouted half his body under the bed and he came out holding a pair of muddy...hiking boots. He grinned and stood, holding them, "Found them." I smiled a bit, wondering how so much had happened in such little time, but then I decided to ditch the thought and I looked around the room at all the poems.
"These are beautiful." I say, turning around to see Bo...shirtless. I quickly turn back around again, my face flushing.
"Thank you." Bo said, "Don't turn around right now." He said. I obliged and read another poem. About the moon and birds and it was...stunning.

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Rooney is very loving and affectionate. He loves to cuddle and sleep in bed with you. In his previous foster home, he got along great with other cats, kittens, and dogs.He is described as a very outgoing cat!

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This project, called Trees to Offset Stormwater, is a study of the City of Charleston’s forest canopy and the role that trees play in up taking, storing and releasing water. This study was undertaken to assist the City of Charleston in evaluating how to better integrate trees into their stormwater management programs. More specifically, the study covers the role that trees play in stormwater management and shows ways in which the city can benefit from tree conservation and replanting. It also evaluated ways for the city to improve forest management as the city develops.
This report includes those findings and recommendations that are based on tree canopy cover mapping and analysis, the modeling of stormwater uptake by trees, a review of relevant city codes and ordinances, and citizen input and recommendations for the future of the City of Charleston’s urban forest. More specifically, the following deliverables were included in the pilot study:
• Analysis of the current extent of the urban forest through high resolution tree canopy mapping,
• Possible Planting Area analysis to determine where additional trees could be planted,
• A method to calculate stormwater uptake by the city’s tree canopy,
• A review of existing codes, ordinances, guidance documents, programs and staff capabilities related to trees and stormwater management, and recommendations for improvement,
• Two community forums to provide outreach and education,
• Presentation of the results of the pilot studies as a case study at the National Partners in Community Forestry Conference.
This is one of 12 case study reports produced by GIC for the Trees to Offset Stormwater Project.
You can view the Summary Report here.
Learn more on our Trees and Stormwater project page.


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The Sunflower, v.75, no.25 (December 4, 1970)
The Sunflower: Official student newspaper, v.75 no.25. Wichita, Kansas, December 4, 1970. - 12 pages
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Article(s): National donations climbing to $50,000 / Michael Betz -- Chicago journalist says news should be put into context / Michael Betz -- SGA vote defeats violence resolution / Steven Koski -- Mysticism on the rise -- Mac Davis tagged as 'song painter' / Linda Wong -- Grad student supervises course in aircraft engine maintenance / S.K. Bartley -- SGA shirks obligation to students -- View from Hill’s side / Richard Hill -- Letters to the editor -- Sisters and brothers / Sydney Martin -- Performers make 'WSU Night of Stars' a benefit success -- Students receiving graduate degrees increases 60 percent -- Coaches vote Cards as team to beat Wichita St. picked fourth / David Jimenez -- Hartman now at KSU -- Shocks end season with loss, Seaman happy with team play / David Jimenez
Photograph(s): Henry Levitt Arena was subject to change this past weekend when personnel and equipment from California and a mobile camper unit from Dallas, Texas donated their time in order to make the "WSU Night of Stars" a success. p. 1 -- Bill Cosby; Mac Davis; Kate Smith, Monty Hall, The Young Americans. p. 6 -- More than 7,500 persons attended the "Night of Stars" national Benefit this past Saturday. Humor was the topic, and laughter was the response. Every performer was well received by the audience. p. 6 -- Lou Rawls; George Gobel; Marilyn Maye; Leif Erickson; Minnie Pearl; Phil Ford and Mimi Hines; Humble Pie. p. 7 -- Hundreds of feet of electric cord were needed to connect electronic equipment for sound and lighting at the "WSU Night of Stars" Saturday evening. All equipment was donated by the contributing production agencies in Dallas and Los Angeles. p. 7 -- Football game photographs by John Lee and David Henry. p. 10

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Through the seasons, Château Kirwan invites you to enjoy a full immersion inside the vineyard. That way, you will truly feel like a winemaker.
You will experience the pruning of the wines in wintertime, the leaf-thinning and lifting in the summer and obviously the harvest and the vinifications in September/October.
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text: Chest of drawers with sticks and scraps of flowers in satin and amaranth wood, with an eventful shape on the front and sides, opening with three drawers, top in Breche d'Aleppo marble resting on curved uprights with arched feet; beautiful ornamentation of gilded bronzes marked with the crowned c (1745-1749); (the bottom of the piece of furniture replaced at a later date). By Charles Cressent (1685-1768). Louis XV period, circa 1730.H: 89 cm, W: 129 cm, D: 66.5 cm Bibliography:A. Pradère, Charles Cressent, Dijon, 2003, cat. no. 140, p. 284 (ill.). Provenance:Ancienne galerie Fabre, Paris.In the very precise nomenclature established by the cabinetmaker's monograph, Alexandre Pradère describes this model as a chest of drawers with sticks and falling flowers. It corresponds to a variant of the famous palm chest of drawers. The prototype of this chest of drawers and the oldest example seems to be the chest of drawers of the old Machault d'Arnouville collection (château de Thoiry). Our chest of drawers belongs to this series dating from the 1730s (Pradère, op. cit., p. 165) and whose corners are decorated with mosaic scraps. The crossbow handles of the upper drawer are, like the Machault chest of drawers and all the furniture in this group (notably those from the former Eugène Kraemer collection sold in 1913 and then sold at Christie's in London on 4 December 2014, lot 131, see illustration), treated independently of the crozier, unlike the later examples in the second group for which they are an extension of the crosier. The presence of the crowned C must obviously be explained by a marketing between 1745 and 1749.


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A State of Mind!
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I realise that I haven’t updated this blog for quite a number of weeks, a failure that is completely related to my present state of mind. Since the beginning of the year I have lost every iota of enthusiasm to do anything; requiring enormous amounts of effort even to do the simplest of things.
If it is essential it gets done but then all I want to do is remain in bed and not get out of it to be obliged to face the world and recognise that my life was deteriorating slowly into non-existance. I am well aware that this is a symptom of depression but have refused to accept that as a diagnosis being well aware of what I should be doing with my life and how to regain the pleasure it used to provide.
Two months into giving up smoking; two minor surgeries for possible life endangering symptoms; then add two months of the most awful weather I have experienced here in the South of France. All these add up to acceptable reasons for retreating to my bed; I call it my “hibernation treatment”.
So here I am, not quite blossoming in the same way as the cherry trees but life is slowly putting on a smile once again.
My doctor, quite worried about my possible state of health and subsequently prescribing me a battery of new test, is finally convinced that my life is unliveable unless I am smoking. She advised me today that my nicotine addiction is much less a danger than the damage smoking is doing to my lungs, legs and arteries. So I am allowed electronic cigarettes with a high dose nicotine liquid, plus skin patches to ensure that I don’t fail in my attempt this time. When your doctor understands you and supports you as firmly as mine does it is a great factor in that desire to succeed.
Of course when she says she doubts I will live 2 more years if I carry on smoking that is a great influence as well.
So here I am encircled by health problems still having to push myself to cook, eat or even work yet really feeling as if spring has finally arrived

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Jamar and Baker named league MVP
With the college basketball regular season officially over its time for awards to be handed out.
Montana's Kareem Jamar was selected as the final Big Sky Conference men's basketball player of the week for the 2012-2013 season.
Jamar led Montana to three wins as the Grizzlies clinched their second straight regular-season conference title.During those 3 games Jamar averaged 16 points, 4 assists, and 3 rebounds per game.
Jamar guided a Montana team that was without senior Mathias Ward for all three games, and without all-conference guard Will Cherry for two of the three games. This is Jamar's third player of the week honor this season, and its not the only award Jamar received, he was also named the Big Sky Conference Most Valuable Player. Since the big Sky began recognizing an MVP in the 1978-79 season, Jamar is just the fifth UM player to win the honor.
Jamar was not the only Montana player to win league MVP honors, Lady Griz senior Katie Baker who led Montana to the 2013 Big Sky Conference regular-season Championship, was named the league MVP today...
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One of the signal features of our era is the re-emergence of the 'sacred' in all its different guises, from New Age paganism to the emerging religious sensitivity within cultural and political theory.
Verso has published for many years a range of critical accounts of Christianity and the broader issues of religion, belief and faith. Here, in conjunction with the publication of Pier Paolo Pasolini's St Paul, Verso presents a Radical Christianity reading list.
Berfrois interviews Simon Critchley, discussing the themes of political pessimism, inhibition, shame, love and psychoanalysis, examined in his and Jamieson Webster’s book The Hamlet Doctrine. Continue reading for a short extract of the interview and a link to an excerpt from the book, published on the Berfrois website, as well as a link to the full interview.
With the passing of Philip Seymour Hoffman, the world of cinema has lost a giant, an Oscar-winning actor who could basically fit in every role, from a maverick CIA agent to a Catholic priest, from Arthur Miller’s Willy Loman to Truman Capote.
Just over a year ago philosopher Simon Critchley met with Philip Seymour Hoffman for the final in a series of on-stage conversations called Happy Talk. During a very lively discussion, the actor wrestles with the concepts of happiness, love, and death with the same courage and compelling insight that he brought to his roles.


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The Secret Pleasures of Menopause is a groundbreaking book that is long overdue!
Dr. Northrup believes that it's about time menopausal women came out of the closet and learned to enjoy the best years of their lives! Even though studies show that menopause does not decrease libido, ease of reaching orgasm, or sexual satisfaction, the majority of menopausal women are not experiencing the pleasure and sexual satisfaction that is their birthright.
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Yesterday, former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen were indicted for soliciting and accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans and gifts from the chief executive officer of the Star Scientific dietary-supplement company, in return for having McDonnell promote Star's products. According to the indictment and various other news sources (primarily the Washington Post):
- Gov. McDonnell set up meetings with state officials for Star Scientific CEO Jonnie R. Williams to promote his products.
- Gov. McDonnell personally promoted Star Scientific's Anatabloc, a purported anti-inflammatory supplement, with state officials during meetings to discuss the state employee health plan (under which Star wanted Anatabloc and other products listed as covered medications).
- Gov. McDonnell tried to persuade state university researchers to design studies into the health benefits of Star's products, and sought to have those studies paid for by the State Tobacco Commission. (Anatabloc uses an alkaloid found in tobacco.)
- At Star Scientific's expense, Mrs. McDonnell flew to a Florida seminar for scientists and investors where she promoted Anatabloc and specifically touted its potential to lower health-care costs in Virginia. (The McDonnells' public support for Anatabloc would be cited by financial analysts boosting Star Scientific stock.)
- Mrs. McDonnell hosted the launch party for Anatabloc at an Executive Mansion luncheon where Star gave out start-up research grants to two state universities. A Star Scientific press release promoting the Anatabloc launch specifically cited interest by Virginia state medical institutions in researching the product's potentials. It was at the Florida seminar where Mrs. McDonnell first offered, publicly, to host the luncheon at the mansion; that same day, she bought $30,000 in Star Scientific stock—from $50,000 Williams had given her a week earlier.
- The McDonnells endeavored to hide the extent of the gifts and loans by channeling them through family members or shell corporations to avoid state disclosure requirements.
- The McDonnells omitted mention of Williams' private loans on applications with two separate lending institutions.
- Mrs. McDonnell lied to government investigators who questioned her about their relationship with Williams.
- The gifts (or loans) included: a total of $135,000 in cash, $7,500 in golf rounds for the McDonnell family and staff, a $6,500 silver Rolex watch specially engraved for the governor (which Mrs. McDonnell specifically asked Williams to buy for him), a $20,000 New York City shopping spree at such tony outfits as Bergdorf Goodman and Louis Vuitton, and $15,000 in catering for daughter Cailin McDonnell's wedding reception.
- Last summer, McDonnell said he was returning all "tangible" gifts and repaying the loans, although the indictment lists property for potential forfeiture that suggests otherwise. (Can't return the rounds of golf or the catering, though.)
Pat Robertson and Bob McDonnell go back at least 15 years, when McDonnell began serving on the Board of Trustees of Robertson's Regent University; and really, almost 30 years, when McDonnell enrolled in the inaugural class of Regent's School of Law in 1986 after matriculating at the university's Robertson School of Government in the previous year. (According to the Washington Post, McDonnell claims that "he and Robertson did not become well acquainted until years after he was first elected to office" in 1991.)
So what does Pat have to say about his friend's indictment?
Well, Pat wasn't on the air today, and hasn't been for two weeks. The 700 Club is currently running one of its periodic telethons, and I guess Pat's too old now to take part in that, or something. (Today's broadcast of The 700 Club omitted any mention of the McDonnells' indictment in the five minutes it devoted to news at the top of the program. Online, CBN News' coverage of the McDonnell indictment spends more time quoting McDonnell's side than it does on the indictment itself.)
“Bob McDonnell's been one of the best governors Virginia's had in recent memory. He's been a superb governor, he's been scrupulously honest—he has, in my opinion, done absolutely nothing wrong. He has a wife who is trying to promote a vitamin company that makes vitamins in Virginia. So the vitamin company owner was very generous with her, but…they really haven't found any evidence that he did anything wrong, that Bob McDonnell, the governor, did anything wrong.
“But you know they say you can indict a ham sandwich if you wanted to… We are litigation-happy, we are indictment-happy, we've got a culture where if you don't like somebody, well, get 'em indicted… I don't think the U.S. Attorney is going to try to push this… I think without question, Bob McDonnell would win, but what an awful expensive thing it would cost, at least a million dollars or more to defend it…
“This thing came up because his wife just really doesn't understand certain of the niceties that go along with that high office, and what you can do in terms of your friends, and people tried to take advantage of her.”
See? Bob McDonnell didn't do anything wrong! He's only in trouble because his silly little wife didn't know she couldn't accept gifts—and you know how women are. Their tiny little minds don't understand politics. They should just stick to the housework. And not have the vote.
After co-host Terry Meeuwsen claims McDonnell's a victim of his political enemies looking for things that could be "exploded in the media," Pat goes on:
“The law is, [if] somebody gives you money and then you give them a state benefit in exchange for it. As far as it can be determined, there was no benefit given to anybody for anything. He got some gifts, his wife did, and daughter. But as far as we can tell, he didn't do anything for the state. They had a reception in the mansion, but that was a private affair paid for by somebody else…”
Keep in mind that most of the facts surrounding the indictment had been disclosed and documented for months before Robertson made these comments. (See, for example, this Washington Post article from March, or this one from July.) Pitching your benefactor's products, providing privileged access to state officials, pushing for state funding for promotional studies, using your office to pump up your benefactor's stock (in which you own shares), lying about it all to investigators—none of that is "wrong"? That's some morality you're preaching there, Pat. "No benefit given"? Access is a benefit. Influence is a benefit. True, Star Scientific might not have ultimately gotten tangible results from the McDonnells' efforts—its products were never covered by the state employee health plan, no studies seem to have been funded, its stock price never made any long-term gains—but that doesn't change the fact that the McDonnells made those efforts in the first place. They tried, and they were paid handsomely for it.
And those million-dollar legal bills Pat was insinuating? He failed to mention the legal defense fund McDonnell's supporters set up back in July, five months before this aired. The attorney who chairs the fund, Stanley Baldwin, is the Executive Vice President of Amerigroup, a health insurance company whose headquarters in Virginia Beach is the anchor tenant of a CBN-owned office park literally across the street from Pat Robertson's CBN headquarters where The 700 Club is produced. One of the fund's other two board members is Tom Knox, former vice president of marketing for CBN. Given these associations and Robertson's historical involvement in Virginia politics—including $738,000 in Republican party and campaign contributions over the last 20 years—it's impossible to believe that Robertson wasn't familiar with McDonnell's legal defense fund when he pitched McConnell's tale of woe. Hell, it's hard to believe that Robertson hasn't contributed, or even been approached to do so. (The fund has yet to release the names of any donors, despite Baldwin's promise to make such disclosures "on a regular basis" when it was launched.)
In 1985, McDonnell enrolled at the Robertson School of Government at what was then called Christian Broadcasting Network University (now Regent University, because "Christian Broadcasting Network University" was always a dumb name); the following year, he enrolled in CBN U.'s then-unaccredited law school, and graduated in 1989 with both an M.A. in Public Policy and a J.D. in Law. McDonnell would go on to serve on Regent's Board of Trustees from 1998 through 2005, and delivered the commencement speech at the School of Law's graduation ceremonies in 2008. In 2010, four months after being elected governor, Regent named McDonnell its "Alumnus of the Year."
In May 2006, four months into his term as Attorney General of Virginia, Pat Robertson interviewed McDonnell on The 700 Club, where Pat called him his "dear friend" as they talked about keeping marriage from the gays, and also his time at Regent University:
Last fall, in the waning months of McDonnell's term as governor, speculation arose that he might be named the new president of Regent University. As Regent and McDonnell denied the rumor, a former Regent professor told Virginia's WAVY-TV, "Pat Robertson and Bob McDonnell have a long-standing and trusting relationship."


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We watched Big Fish last night ... again ... one of my favorite movies. Wonderful, magical characters and wonderful actors ... Albert Finney, Jessica Lange, Ewan MacGregor, Billy Crudup, Helena Bonham Carter, and that beautiful French woman who won an Oscar this year for playing Edith Piaf.
So I remembered another book by Daniel Wallace that I read last year ... The Watermelon King. Susan Shreve called it "a marvelous combination of Chaucer and Roald Dahl." Such humor and humanity in this story of a young man in search of his identity. His genius has produced a tale both outrageous and heartbreaking. I hope to find more of his mystery and magic.

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Some news updates from the real 9-ball pool world.
Yesterday, the European pool team for the 2007 Mosconi Cup defeated the American team. The final result was 11-8 to Europe, thanks to Ralph Souquet win over his American contestant at the last single match.
Mosconi Cup is one of the most important 9-ball events in the pool world. Named after pocket billiards legend, Willie Mosconi, the tournament runs for the last 14 years. This year, the event took place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and it was only the third victory for the European team.
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Sleep during adolescence – 13 years and over
We all do it – but how much do you know about what happens when we sleep?
Why is sleep important?
Getting the right amount of sleep at night is important for all sorts of reasons. But don’t just take our word for it, the crucial factor in developing a positive sleep routine is that you feel motivated and see a personal benefit to doing so. Below are some of the key positive impacts of getting a good night’s sleep to help kick start your motivation:
- Improved Memory: A process called consolidation, which occurs whilst you’re asleep, helps to strengthen memories and consolidate skills learned while you were awake. Whether you’re learning a new language, sport or subject in school, sleep plays a vital part in speeding up that learning process.
- Boost Creativity: As well as consolidating and strengthening memories, a good night’s sleep can allow your brain to re-structure and essentially make sense of ideas, problems and new concepts you might have learned during the day. This can help us to wake up feeling more creative and better able to take on anything that might have been causing us confusion the day before.
- Improve Athletic Ability: Studies have found that a variety of sports people can improve their athletic performance and increase stamina by getting a good night’s sleep every night.
- Improved Attention: Some studies have shown that young people who don’t get enough sleep at night on a recurring basis may not do as well at school and find it harder to concentrate and learn in school/college. On the plus side, those who have a positive sleeping pattern should experience improved attention and ability to learn new information.
- Reduced Stress: Sleep and stress levels are really closely linked, and whilst a lack of sleep can cause increased stress levels the good news is that the equation works the other way – therefore the more sleep you get (preferably between 8-10 hours a night) the lower your stress levels could become. Sleep also helps to improve emotional stability which can in turn help to reduce the risks of depression.
- Better Skin: Not only does a reduction of the hormone cortisol help to improve our stress levels, it can also have the knock-on effect of improving our skin health and such conditions as acne, psoriasis and eczema.
- Stronger Immune System: Getting a good night’s sleep won’t prevent you from ever getting ill, but it will certainly help. Regularly lacking in sleep can cause your immune system to be less effective, which makes you more likely to catch infections such as colds and flu.
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