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Maybe the best measure of the deteriorating prospects for fundamental immigration reform after the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon came at a congressional hearing on, of all things, airport security. Amid the debate over arming pilots, deploying sky marshals on commercial flights, or turning over airport security to the federal government, Republican Congressman Harold Rogers of Kentucky had another concern. Why, he wondered, was there no requirement that the men and women who monitor the checkpoints screening passengers hold American citizenship?
How remarkable is that thought? Today even the U.S. military doesn't require soldiers to be citizens. It accepts immigrants who are permanent legal residents--that is, those who have obtained a green card and are allowed to remain in the United States indefinitely. But to Rogers, that didn't seem a tight enough standard for luggage screeners.
Rogers's question captured the sudden, lurching, shift in Washington's attitude toward immigrants and immigration reform. Until the September 11 attacks, the forces appeared to be aligning for a grand bargain between business and labor, Democrats and Republicans, that would allow undocumented immigrants to work legally in the United States and guestworkers to migrate freely and openly into America. Now, open borders appear about as attractive as open cockpits. Across party lines, Washington's principal immigration concern has understandably become preventing terrorists from slipping into the country. Indeed, Rogers's question suggested a new level of suspicion aimed even at immigrants who are here legally but have not yet gone through the process to become full-fledged citizens--a group also targeted by some of the administration's post-attack proposals to allow indefinite detention of suspected terrorists. That's hardly the political climate in which to discuss legalizing large numbers of people who entered the United States illegally. "The option is just completely out of the room right now," says one Senate Democratic leadership aide. "Progressive immigration policy is just another casualty of the attacks of September 11."
In the short run, that's undeniable. Adding to the burden created by the attacks, reform advocates have been hurt by the slowdown in the economy. That's sapped the principal political engine for a new approach to immigration: the fears of a labor shortage among American service industries like hotels and restaurants. "Short-term, the pressure has disappeared for the most part," says John Gay, co-chairman of the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, a business group that supports reform. "When you are talking about laying people off, there is no worker shortage."
Yet for all of these immediate obstacles, the long-term dynamics encouraging a new approach to immigration remain in place. Once the economy revives, business's demand for new workers will also recover--and with it the demand for some sort of guestworker program. "The long-term demographics haven't changed--the aging of the workforce, the need for more people to come in," says Gay. That hunger for new workers has made business groups like Gay's more willing to consider favorably the basic labor protections that Democrats and the unions would demand in any guestworker program. Led by service-sector unions like the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International, organized labor remains committed to legalization because it has come to see new immigrants less as a threat to American jobs than as a current and potential source of new members. The rapidly growing number of Hispanic migrants in the pews ensures that the Catholic Church will continue to push for legalization. And the enormous increase in the Hispanic population means that politicians in both parties--starting with President Bush--will continue to search for initiatives that can appeal to that community. Indeed, on several occasions since the attacks, administration officials have insisted that Bush still wants to advance sweeping immigration reform. "The president is still committed to honoring his promise to work with . . . [Mexican President Vicente] Fox on immigration changes," White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer told reporters several days after the September calamity. Other officials say staff-level negotiations over a reform plan continue with Mexico.
But it's clear that if immigration reform happens at all, it will occur later than it would have without the attacks. And it's likely to be more narrowly targeted and more focused on security. Above all, it's virtually certain to be more heavily shaped by Bush's preferences than it would have been without the tragedy. "Bush has to be the guy who leads us there," says Angela Kelley, deputy director of the National Immigration Forum, an immigrant-advocacy group. "Because it can't be the advocacy community saying, 'Forget what happened in New York.'"
Seen through the dust and debris, the shock and horror, of September 11, Fox's recent visit to the United States now seems as if it occurred in another lifetime. But in fact, Fox left Washington less than a week before the hijackers struck. And when he addressed Congress in a joint session, he had been received almost as enthusiastically as Bush was in his congressional address nine days after the attacks.
Fox's visit provided a badly needed burst of momentum to the immigration-reform movement. The immigration debate had been jump-started this summer, when participants in negotiations between the United States and Mexico had leaked reports that the two nations were considering the most ambitious changes in U.S. immigration laws since the amnesty signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. According to the initial accounts, the two sides were weighing a grand bargain that would create a guestworker program to import new employees for American businesses, along with a system that would allow millions of Mexicans already working in the United States illegally to move toward legal status over a period of years--a process known as "earned legalization."
Almost immediately, though, the administration began to backpedal. Under fire from conservatives who considered any legalization plan a "reward for lawbreakers," administration officials began to suggest that reform might take years. In his public comments, Bush consistently downplayed the portion of the discussions focused on illegal workers already in the United States while stressing his desire for a new guestworker program: the portion of the package most attractive to Republicans and the business community. "When we find willing employer and willing employee, we ought to match the two," Bush said. "We ought to make it easier for people who want to employ somebody, who are looking for workers, to be able to hire people who want to work."
In terms of timing as well as scope, Fox's visit appeared to put the reform effort back on track. Fox surprised Bush by publicly calling on the United States to reach an agreement with Mexico on migration by year's end; Bush never committed entirely to that goal, but he was forced to say that he would work as quickly as he could. And the final communiqué the two sides released after the visit made clear that the talks would cover not only a plan for future guestworkers but also "the status of undocumented Mexicans in the United States." Indeed, answering questions from reporters with Fox at his side, Bush said for the first time that he was "willing to consider ways for a guestworker to earn green-card status."
Bush's comments acknowledged the underlying political reality of the immigration debate. Since Congress is so closely divided, neither the business community nor organized labor can pass its top immigration priority without concession to the other side. The Democratic Senate, backed by the unions, would surely block any effort simply to create a new guestworker program while denying worker protections to those laborers. The Republican House, backed by business, would just as surely derail any plan focused solely on legalizing illegal immigrants already here. Only a bill that combined both ideas had even a chance of building a coalition broad enough to pass. One senior White House adviser acknowledged as much on the last day of Fox's visit. "There has to be a nexus between temporary workers and a route to a green card," the aide told me. "Otherwise, the temporary-worker program is a dead letter."
But the attacks scrambled the political equation by adding an entirely new concern: domestic security. Investigators have reported that several of the 19 hijackers had overstayed the visas allowing them to enter the United States. Attorney General John Ashcroft later reported that 98 of the first 352 suspects apprehended in the investigation were detained on visa violations. And around the country, airports began to round up dozens of employees with improper immigration papers.
Almost inevitably, the immigration discussion in Washington shifted away from legalizing illegal migrants toward cracking down on them. Although the exact parameters remain under debate, the Justice Department appears certain to receive expanded power to detain even legal immigrants who are suspected of terrorist links. And legislation is pending that would require the federal government and other institutions--particularly colleges and universities--to keep better tabs on temporary residents who overstay their visas. Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California thinks that the system for tracking student visas is so fundamentally broken that she's proposed a six-month moratorium on issuing any more.
All of this is casting a huge shadow over the legalization debate. The most common image of an illegal immigrant is someone who crosses the desert from Mexico. But of the roughly eight million undocumented immigrants in the United States, the best estimates suggest that around 40 percent are people who have simply overstayed their visas and never left. With the terrorist strikes, it became instantly implausible that Congress, or for that matter the country, would accept an amnesty plan that allowed many if not most of those visa violators to become legal residents. A national poll conducted after September 11 by John Zogby for the anti-immigration Center for Immigration Studies captured the changing environment: Three-fourths of Americans said the government wasn't doing enough to control the border, and nearly as many said it should greatly increase the resources it devotes to enforcing immigration laws.
In this climate of increased vigilance and fear, if any immigration reform can be salvaged it's likely to look very different from what it would have otherwise. The most certain outcome is that any future plan will require much more intensive background checks and security clearances for future guestworkers and for illegal immigrants who might be allowed to move toward permanent status. Even with greater security safeguards, many participants privately question whether any plan that would legalize large numbers of illegal immigrants from Arab countries could win majority support any time soon. At the same time, it's hard to imagine Congress approving a plan that excludes only Arab countries from legalization. So the debate might lead back to where Bush preferred it in the first place: a legalization plan initially aimed solely at undocumented migrants from Mexico.
Ever since the administration first began discussing legalization, Democrats have demanded that it be accorded to "all immigrants regardless of country of origin," as the party's congressional leadership wrote in a letter to Bush this summer. Bush seemed to bend to those demands when he said he would consider including "all folks here" in any legalization. But the administration has always seemed most interested in Mexican immigrants, and the attacks by foreign agents from the Middle East might provide a powerful political rationale for reverting to that approach. Some reform advocates now quietly acknowledge that limiting the plan to Mexico would significantly reduce security concerns, whether they center on bringing in new guestworkers or legitimizing the illegal migrants who are already here. Angela Kelley notes that such an arrangement could even be structured as a "North American perimeter agreement" that would enlist greater cooperation from Mexico and Canada in screening for potential terrorists at their borders.
Even a narrower approach won't be easy to move through Congress any time soon. Representatives
of other ethnic groups would surely object. A Mexico-only plan would still face the huge barrier of rising unemployment in this country. And a plan targeted solely toward Mexico would still draw fire as a security risk from those who are skeptical of legalization regardless of any limitations that might apply. Facing all of these new hurdles, even some of reform's staunchest advocates are resigned to waiting longer for action and deferring more to Bush on when and how to proceed. The president still has his own reasons to move forward: a desire to bolster Fox and a need to improve his own strength among Hispanic voters. But it looks as though the terrain of the immigration debate will be utterly reshaped by September's attacks. "You have nine million people here illegally who are contributing to the United States of America and a few hundred here illegally who want to destroy it," says John Gay. "That's a terrible problem to have to figure out a solution to."


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Supply chain challenges continue to pummel automakers’ ability to produce complete cars, leaving acres of almost complete vehicles parked, waiting for parts. The latest issue to hit the already besieged and parts-starved Ford is a lack of its own blue oval badges.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the shortage of badges is affecting Ford F-series trucks the most. It’s worth noting that the trucks have the largest variants of the blue oval badge, especially the Super Duty trucks. They are also Ford’s best-selling product.
This isn’t anything new for Ford. Trucks awaiting parts after semi-completing production have been a chronicle for months now. We’ve seen the mass of parked trucks become so large that they can be seen from space in multiple locations, multiple times. Production ebbs and flows as parts arrive in batches, which is normally supposed to operate as a just-in-time production system. When the parts are even slightly late, the line gets interrupted in a serious way.
Semiconductor shortages have been the headline issue, but nearly all parts supplies are affected. Ford is exploring ways to circumvent the issue of the blue oval badges and expediting deliveries to dealers, with suggestions that 3D printing the badges was considered but Ford declined to comment. For now, Ford is shipping trucks with badges to dealers while other trucks await badges.
The unfinished vehicle problem is only growing for the company. It said on Monday that it expects to have approximately 45,000 vehicles in inventory awaiting parts by the end of the third quarter. According to Ford, these are mostly trucks and SUVs that are primarily missing parts not related to semiconductors.
Ford expects the vehicles to be completed and shipped in the fourth quarter, with an expected impact of $1 billion in higher payments to suppliers thanks to inflation.
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Recipe: Condensed Milk “Truffles”
I’ve always wondered what you could do with condensed milk. In an on-line search I discovered this recipe from the Brown Eyed Baker.com. These were very popular on MAD in March, 2017.
These are sweet, so small is good (you can always have a second one). Amounts are approximative and very forgiving. Use what you have, adding more condensed milk if the mixture is too dry to form a ball. Consider adding some dried tart cherries or chopped dark chocolate to play off the sweetness of the dates and condensed milk.
Number of ingredients: 5
Time: about 30 minutes start-to-finish
Yield: plenty, around 60
1 1/2 c. pecan pieces or chopped walnuts
1 c. graham cracker crumbs (or try substituting rolled oats?)
1 c. + shredded unsweetened coconut
1 c. chopped dried dates
1 can sweetened condensed milk
Optional: dried tart cherries or dark chocolate for a sweet/tart combination
- Mix dry ingredients in a bowl. Add about 3/4 cup of condensed milk and stir. The mixture will be stiff. Add more condensed milk as needed to get a consistency that will hold a shape.
- Using a generous teaspoon of mixture, roll in to balls about 3/4″ in diameter with your hands.
- Roll in extra shredded coconut to coat.
- Place on waxed paper. Store in an airtight container.

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HIV researchers have announced that a vaginal ring containing an antiretroviral (ARV) drug called dapivirine, helped protect against HIV in a large-scale trial involving more than 2,600 women in Africa.
The results, announced on Monday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston, US, revealed that the vaginal ring prevented about a third of HIV infections among the women who used it in the research. But for those older than 25 years, there was 61% reduction in HIV acquisition risk.
"About 1 in 3 women who would have acquired HIV did not," said Dr. Jared Baeten of the Microbicide Trials Network (MTN) and University of Washington. He was accompanied by Dr. Annalene Nel of the International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM).
The study asked volunteers to insert a ring that slowly releases dapivirine into the vagina and its walls to prevent HIV in case of unprotected sex with a man who is HIV positive. The dapivirine ring reduced the risk of HIV infection by 27% overall.
But women who were older than 25 years old received a 61% risk reduction. Intrigued by this significant age-related protection difference, researchers conducted additional analyses which revealed that women older than 25 were 56% better protected than those between the age of 18 and 21.
The study (ASPIRE comes from A Study to Prevent Infection with a Ring for Extended Use) was carried out in Uganda, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe. 253 Ugandans volunteered at Makerere University-Johns Hopkins (MU-JHU) Research Collaboration in Mulago, Kampala, as part of the total 2,629 HIV-negative women, aged 18 to 45, in the four countries. The study, which began in August 2012 till June 2015, was funded by the US National Institutes of Health.
The results were published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Flavia Matovu Kiweewa, who was the principal investigations officer at the study hosted by Makerere University - Johns Hopkins University Research Collaboration in Mulago, called it a very big achievement.
"To understand the impact, consider that about 400 people get HIV daily in Uganda. Over 50% of these are women. If all the 200 women used the ring, at a protection of one in every three women, we would save about 66 women per day. In a year, these are over 24,000 women! And if the women are above 25 years of age, at 61%, we would save 122 women per day, which makes it 44,530 women a year! That is a recommendable product!" she said.
Matovu also said the ring was well accepted. The women who participated in the study found it easy to use.
"Many told us they forgot it was even there and their partners did not feel it during sexual intercourse," she said.
A similar study, known as The Ring Study, is going on in Uganda and South Africa by IPM. 197 HIV negative women are volunteering in Masaka, under Dr Anatoli Kamaali, who is the principal investigator. Preliminary analysis so far show a reduction of HIV infection risk of 31% overall, and 37% among participants older than 21.
The study, which began in April 2012 with 1,959 HIV-negative women, is expected to close in December 2016. However, following the positive results in ASPIRE, South Africa regulatory authority, IPM has decided to close the Ring Study and provide all women enrolled with the dapivirine ring for the remainder of their participation. IPM is seeking similar approval in Uganda.
Matovu said ASPIRE and The Ring study have made important strides in the fight against HIV in women and opened the door to developing next-generation products as well. The ring's development demonstrates how investments in scientific innovation and public-private partnerships can advance global health.
"Because women are often not empowered to have sex on their own terms, especially demanding for condom use, this will become the only tool so far that a woman can use without needing permission to protect herself from HIV infection. She only needs to replace the ring once a month, as a discreet and easy-to-use new method of protection," said Dr Clemensia Nakabiito, a consultant gynecologist with MU-JHU Research Collaboration, who is also the co-investigator for the ASPIRE study.
With these results, IPM also announced that it will submit an application for the licensure of the product.
"We hope that the ring will be available on the market very soon," said Nel. "IPM will use all efforts to fast track the process including getting World Health Organisation to prequalify it especially in countries where the studies were done," she said.
Women are at higher risk for HIV infection than men. More than half of the more than 36.9 million people living with HIV, are women. They account for nearly 60% of adults with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Girls 15-24 are especially vulnerable, twice as likely as boys to have HIV.
Experts and activists still advise that abstinence, monogamy and the use of male condoms are the best interventions. However, they have neither done enough to stop the HIV epidemic nor are they realistic methods in many settings. Women still lack practical and discreet tools they can use to protect themselves from HIV infection.
Vaginal rings are flexible products that fit comfortably high inside the vagina and provide sustained delivery of drugs over a period of time. Women in many countries already use vaginal rings designed to deliver contraceptive hormones.
The dapivirine ring, which women insert and leave in place for one month, is the first long-acting ARV-based product to be tested for efficacy.


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The rumours about the song changing from it’s original version are finally cleared up. Eneda Tarifa and her team will soon reveal Fairytale love, which replaces Përallë as the title of the Albanian song competing in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest.
It has been over a month since the 54th edition of Festivali i Këngës, and the title of the revamped version of Përallë is finally revealed. After her triumph, Eneda Tarifa expressed her interest in singing in English in Stockholm in an interview given to Eurovision.tv. Përallë is now a thing of the past and we are waiting to listen its revamped version, which is said to be entirely in English. The revamped version along with its music video will come out on March 15 and will be presented by RTSH’s night news edition at 20:00 CET.
RTSH used the same method last year by revealing Elhaida Dani’s I’m alive through its news edition at the same time and date.
Albania will compete in the 2nd half of the 2nd Semi Final on the 12th of May in Stockholm’s Globe Arena. Eneda Tarifa will sing Fairytale Love, which is written by Olsa Toqi. Below you can watch her perfomance of Përallë in Festivali i Këngës.

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Beaches of Salobreña - Facilities, Parking and Places to Eat
Almost all the charming beaches of Salobreña are unspoiled by built-up areas. Its 6 km of coastline offer beautiful, quiet coves and some larger beaches with very good facilities.
The chiringuitos (beach bars) on the seafront prepare delicious sardines, octopus and grilled squid.
A good way to get to know Granada and its history is by taking a tour. There are several interesting free and private tours offered by Civitatis:
Free Tour of Granada: What better way to get to know the hisotric centre of Granada than on a free walking tour with a local expert guide?!
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Opposite the promenade, on the beach of La Guardia, there is a protected area that has managed to regenerate the seabed and make these waters home again to their traditional marine species.
Salobreña has 5 beaches:
• La Guardia Beach and Salomar beaches are for people who are looking for a place with all the facilities and places to eat.
- La Guardia Beach - long and wide beach, has all the facilities and services.
- La Charca/Salomar Beach - long beach with many services, plenty of places where to eat.
- Punta del Río - another long beach with easy access but has no facilities.
- Caletón Beach - is a cave with easy access on foot with no facilities.
- Cambrón Beach - another cave with no facilities, long 2km walk to reach it.
• Punta del Río beach are for those who want to practise water sports.
• El Caletón Beach is a cove with easy access not far from la Guardia Beach (where you can take a shower and eat).
• Cambrón Beach is a rocky cove with difficult access. Its for for people who like snorkeling. No facilities or restaurants.
• There is also very small Pargo Cave with very difficult access.
Below you will find all the information about these Salobreña beaches: attractions, activities, where to eat and were to park, cleanliness, services and facilities available.
Guardia Beach in SalobreñaSurrounded by agricultural crops and sugar cane fields, with the Rock at one end and apartments on the other, it is over 1 km long and 25 m wide.
The waves here are usually moderate, especially near the Rock, from which young local people perform a very dangerous practice: diving.
This beach is formed of pebbles and dark sand. It usually gets quite crowded.
Where to Eat Near La Guardia BeachThere are several chiringuitos where you can eat, suchas La Bahía and El Peñón, and some other traditional family-run restaurants near the residential areas. There are showers near the Rock and at the other end of the beach.
Where to Park Near La Guardia BeachThere are two parking areas:
If you enter the beach from the National Road N-340 following the sign for La Guardia, look for parking through the streets of the residential areas before reaching the beach.
If you access from the seafront, coming from La Charca, there is a public car park just behind the La Bahía Restaurant.
It is recommended to arrive early to secure a parking space.
La Guardia Beach Services and Facilities
- There are showers near the Rock, neither at the other end.
- Rental of umbrellas and sunbeds available.
- Rental of catamarans or small floating beach slides.
- Food shops selling items for the beach, drinks, etc.
- Restaurants, tapas bars, 'chiringuitos' and ice cream shops.
- Free (fills up soon) and paid parking.
La Charca/Salomar Beach in SalobreñaLa Charca/Salomar beach begins on the other side of the Rock, and is wider than La Guardia beach, almost 2 km long and about 64 m wide.
It is more comfortable for playing ball sports as it is made up of fine sand, but as you get closer to the shoreline its composition changes to pebbles.
The long promenade reaches the residential areas of Salomar.
The beach is usually quite busy during the summer months and waves tend to be moderate.
Where to Eat Near Salomar BeachThe bars and restaurants on the promenade are magnets for most tourists, especially in the Peñón area (La Bahía and El Peñón restaurants).
Close to Salomar residential area there are some more traditional family-run restaurants and pizzerias.
Directly on the beach, there are several chiringuitos (beach bars) for snacks, cool drinks and also for lunch.
Chiringuito Casa Emilio is a good option. At Pizzeria Olimpia you will find good pizzas for all tastes.
Salomar Beach Services and FacilitiesThere are some parking spaces along the seafront and in the streets around the residential areas.
If you go to the Peñón area, there is a car park behind La Bahía but it is usually full.
- Rental service for sunbeds and umbrellas.
- Showers and toilets.
- Disabled access and Red Cross post.
- Boat rentals and nautical activities.
- Restaurants, beach bars and ice cream shops. Food shops and small supermatkets.
A good way to get to know the Alhambra, its history, palaces and gardens is by taking a tour. There are several interesting free and private tours offered by Civitatis:
Alhambra Guided Tour: Discover the incredible history and architecture of the impressive Alhambra, the Generalife and Nasrid Palaces with a passionate and experienced guide.
Alhambra Open Air Tour: See the Alhambra from a new perspective, visiting the surroundings of the beautiful Alhambra, free areas and gardens, the Palace of Charles V...
Punta del Río or La Cagadilla Beach in SalobreñaPunta del Río or La Cagadilla beach extends all the way to Motril. It is 1.2 km long, and 30 m wide.
The beach is composed of sand and gravel, like the other beaches of Salobreña.
It is an unspoilt beach which is accessible only on foot but you can park on Avda de Andalucia street, about 500 m away.
It receives few visits as it is in an agricultural area and does not have any facilities like the Guardia and Salomar beaches (such as showers, restaurants, etc.).
This is the beach into which the river Guadalfeo flows and it features wetlands for migratory seabirds. Waves are usually moderate.
Punta del Río Beach Services and Facilities
- This beach has no restaurants, bars or other services.
- There is no sun lounger or umbrella rental service, noither showers.
- 18 Knots Surf Club - International Center for Nautical and Cultural Activities.
- Nautical activities: kitesurfing courses, paddle surfing, kayak rentals and summer camps.
El Caletón Beach in SalobreñaEl Caletón beach is a small pebbly cove of 30 m long and 10 m wide.
It has very calm waters and a nice seabed, so it is a good place for diving and snorkling.
There are usually not many people there so it is quieter. It is located in a semi-urban area, has disabled access, but it has no promenade.
It is accessed by a foot path that starts at La Caleta beach (la Guardia) and goes through the cliffs.
This beach has no places to eat, no services, no hammock rental or showers.
El Cambrón Beach in SalobreñaEl Cambrón beach is located near the urbanized area of Torre del Cambrón.
It is quite difficult to access and this, together with the fact that it does not have any services, makes it an uncrowded beach.
It is a small beach, about 86 m long and 21 m wide.
Accessible only on foot from the urbanization Torre del Cambrón (about 2 kilometers away) through a small foot path.
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In spite of narrative problems... the film's chief appeal is its central conceit -- that giant monsters... can be transformed into [ceatures] who like to play with children.
Parents seeking innocent kiddie entertainment should know that the dinosaurs are drugged, the children are briefly transformed into monkeys and the Professor is eventually devoured by crows.
It's shallow and kind of dumb, and the animation is routine, and the story isn't much, and the stakes are a lot higher these days in the featurelength animation game.
We're Back is an exercise in endurance -- not only is it dull, but it has such an overwhelming sense of sweetness that it threatens to become nauseating.
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I understand and yet at the same time i cant even fathom why nearly all of the film critics universally disliked this film. I might be slightly impartial to the film since its one of those early childhood favorites that inspire those great childhood feelings that rush back to you when your re-watching a old classic that you haven't seen in a while, or completely forgot about for several years. Still, seeing it again for the first time in about 3 or 4 years opened my eyes once again to the unique and wonderfully told story, albeit slightly darker then children's films of today. Along with the wonderfully talented voice cast, this movie is a forever childhood favorite.
Some kids may be put off by the story and the characters. The movie is too evil, I know it's trying to be a fun kids movie but it's worse than All Dogs Go To Heaven. Cecelia is a little girl who's neglected by her parents and kisses Louie on the lips and Louie goes off on his own, not caring about his parents. I'm guessing that they're around 11 since Louie wouldn't be stupid enough to run away. The dinosaurs have somehow warped themselves forward in time, and then sing a little song about being forward in time. And Professor Screw-eyes is almost too scary for little children, he treats the children horribly, even turning them into monkeys which they have been changed from after a while. Then, they got the generic circus thing. It's better to leave this one for the little ones. It's a forgettable movie.
Another fun animated Dinosaur movie for kids that I liked when I was young. It's really good, it's based on a kids book if I remember correctly. And it's just a fun movie.
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While speculations have already begun on Apple introducing new iPhone X models in September, one analyst begs to differ saying that the Cupertino based tech giant will likely kill its priciest model this year. “The iPhone X is dead,” analyst Neil Campling of Mirabaud Securities said in a research note to clients reported CNBC. Campling bases his argument on the fact that TSMC one of the suppliers to Apple has lowered its full-year revenue target as Apple isn’t buying enough iPhone X components. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing or TSMC has an oversupply of chips as per the analyst who says that this "has never been higher”. His firm Mirabaud has tracked the inventory data at TSMC for more than a decade.
In a subsequent interview with CNBC, Camping further added: “The simple problem with X is that it is too expensive. Consumers are turning their backs on high-priced smartphones.” However, he clarified that old inventory of iPhone X will still be on sale, but no new iPhone X models will be produced.
Campling further adds that Apple is expected bring out a number of new iPhones for its 2018 lineup. While one could be a cheaper model priced around $500, the company is also planning an iPhone model with two SIM cards which is a popular choice in Asian markets. Moreover, an iPhone which will keep the iPhone X form factor but will come with a cheaper price tag is also on the cards as per the analyst.
Meanwhile, KGI Securities analyst Ming Chi Kuo speculates that Apple may launch an iPhone X-inspired entry-level model at $550. This is because the new iPhone X will feature LCD screen instead of the more expensive OLED displays. The new model will essentially carry the same core design as iPhone X, but the screen size will be increased to 6.1-inches and feature Face ID facial recognition technology.
Kuo also estimates that there will be two iPhone X-design based models, one dual SIM and one single SIM. While the single SIM could be priced from $550 to $650, with the dual-SIM will start cost up to $100 more.
Other rumours indicate that Apple’s iPhone 2018 lineup might include an iPhone X Plus model with an enormous 6.5-inch display model. Apple, however, hasn’t released any information on its 2018 models. It’s all speculation until Apple finally unveils their iPhone lineup on stage in September.


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Need a new pet tag for your animal companion? Don’t have a pet tag for your animal companion? Then stop by to see us on Saturday! Our quality, aluminum pet id tags are only $5.00 each and we can make them on the spot for you!
We will be at Hotwire Online Coffeehouse before, during and after the Hi-Yu Parade, from 10 am – 2 pm; 4410 California Ave SW; https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/389323067787439/
And at Big Al’s Brewing, from 3 pm – 6 pm, in their courtyard. Children are welcome at Big Al’s. So are dogs. And you can bring your lunch or dinner with you! 9832 14th Ave SW.
Remember, It’s Hip To Be Snipped!July 21, 2012 at 2:50 am #764475
Well, I don’t like to brag, but I happen to have a bit of knowledge regarding this “Tag Your Pet” thingy.
Of course, this is just off the top of my head….
What is ‘Tag Your Pet…It Ain’t Graffiti? Glad you asked…it’s F3’s new pet retention program:
Did you know that only 2 -3 % of unidentified, lost cats are reunited with their people? That the unidentified, lost dog reunite rate is only 13% – 15 %? That 80% of pet owners believe it is important for their pets to wear pet ID, but only 33% actually have their pets wear tags?
An Affordable Solution
‘These are frightening, and often heartbreaking numbers for people that have pets’, says Teri Ensley of Furry Faces Foundation, (F3), ‘and this is where F3 can provide an inexpensive method for people to increase the likelihood of reuniting with their pets! ‘Tag Your Pet…It Ain’t Graffiti’ is our newest pet retention program. It’s simple. It’s affordable. It’s a pet tag made for you on the spot!’
‘A brand new IMARC pet tag engraver has been donated to our group. Our goal is to let pet owned folks know that an ID tag and collar are the #1 way missing pets are reunited with their owners and provide pet tags at just $5.00 – $8.00 each’, explains Tammy Lyle, F3 Vice President, ‘Funds we raise from pet tag sales will be rolled back into ‘Tag Your Pet…It Ain’t Graffiti’ so we can provide free pet tags and collars to our clients who are financially restricted. All animals want to be reunited with their people and we want to help increase their odds of success’.
The Experts Chime In With Study Results
‘Simply said, a collar & ID tag is the most direct method to reunite pets with their people’, Dr. Weiss of ASPCA. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/the-importance-of-pet-tags
“The return-to-owner rate is abysmal for cats. If we could get cat owners to try using a collar with identification, it would be a big deal.” Dr. Linda Lord, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Preventative Medicine, Ohio State University. http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/catcollar.htm
Convinced it’s time to tag your pet?
MikeAugust 6, 2012 at 6:25 pm #764476
MIWS…you rock! Sorry we missed your fabulous post the first time around. The Experts have conducted the studies, and the results are in: An ID tag and collar are the #1 way animals are reunited with their owners. And they highly recommend a microchip as a back up to the collar/id.
We have two West Seattle based ‘Tag Your Pet…It Ain’t Graffiti’ events this month!
Saturday, August 18th, 6 pm – until it gets dark
Hotwire Online Coffeehouse, 4410 Calif. Ave SW
Outdoor Movie: Yellow Submarine
Sunday, August 19th, 1 – 4 pm
West Seattle Nursery
Dog Days or August Beerfest & Adoption Option
More details to come about both of these fun events.
Cheers, The F3 Gang
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The precious metals market continues to be tumultuous. Gold closed today at 893.70 while silver closed at 17.34. Copper closed at 3.8262. Thought this isn’t as bad as it has been over the past few months, the high prices affect jewelry supplies. I went to one bead store, and they aren’t even stocking sterling silver wire because of the high price of metals.
In the Etsy forums yesterday, there was a good thread about the best outlets for sterling silver wire.

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Dehradun, 19 Nov: A Mini Marathon was organised at Garhi Cantonment here, today, under the aegis of Headquarters Uttarakhand Sub Area to commemorate the Golden Jubilee celebration of the Indo-Pak War 1971 victory.
In 1971, the Indian Army under Field Marshal SHFJ Manekshaw (then COAS) defeated Pakistan which led to the creation of Bangladesh. The resounding victory was the direct result of unparalleled valour and gallantry displayed by the brave soldiers of the Indian Army. The entire Nation is celebrating the year 2021 as “Swarnim Vijay Varsh” to mark the Golden Jubilee of the victory.
The event witnessed participation in large numbers by veterans, service personnel, women and children.
The Chief Guest at the event, Brigadier MS Bisht, Commandant, Military Hospital, Dehradun, addressed the gathering and highlighted the supreme sacrifice made by the brave soldiers of the Indian Army while achieving a comprehensive victory. He assured that Indian Army would continue to guard the borders as always and “Strive for Excellence”. Major General Shammi Sabharwal (Retd), Air Vice Marshal Deepak Gaur (Retd), Cdr Lalit Mohan Kala (Retd) and other dignitaries were also present.
The event culminated with prize distribution to the top three winners in each category.

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2023 came with great news for fans of the novel “Rebel” and the musical band made up of its protagonists, RBD And it is that that generation of adolescents that marked their peers between 2004 and 2006 announced a return tour to the stage. Of course, time passed, almost 20 years after the premiere of “Rebel” and the rise of RBDmany things changed.
Because the teenagers in the band and in the novel grew up, they continued with their private lives and their own stories; in the same way that the fans of “Rebel” and RBD They walked their own paths. And many of those characters who were already older in 2004, when the novel was released, even died.
6 protagonists of “Rebelde” who died and will not be able to enjoy the reunion of RBD
Chronologically speaking, the first actress of “Rebel” who went on to immortality was Jacqueline Voltaire. The actress played Florencia Millán, mother of Victoria Paz Millán, in the youth strip. Just two years after the end of “Rebelde”, the actress died at the age of 59 in 2008 and as a result of an unforgiving skin cancer.
Lourdes Canale, who gave life in “Rebel” Professor Hilda Acosta died in 2012. She was 78 years old.
Pedro Weber “Chatanuga”
The third of the actors “Rebel” to leave this world was Pedro Manuel Weber Chávez, popularly known as “Chatanuga”. In the novel he played Peter, Mía Colucci’s perfect butler and accomplice. He died at the age of 82, in 2016, as a result of heart and lung failure.
Abraham Stavans passed away in March 2019, at the age of 86. In “Rebel”the iconic actor and theater director gave life to Joel Huber, the rigorous father of Nico Huber.
Cosme Mendez was the father of Giovanni Mendez in “Rebel”. Played by Roberto Miranda, he was part of the 3 seasons of the youth strip. He died in 2020.
Enrique Rocha has been the last of the actors of “Rebel” to pass to immortality. In the novel he played León Bustamante, politician and father of Diego Bustamante.
But his career is extensive, since he always gave life to villains in different novels. He died at the age of 81, in November 2021.


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Milton, the rural depression experience
The Great Depression of the 1930's has been seen by historians as essentially a national phenomenon which, unlike the Depression of the 1880's, was a relatively even experience geographically speaking, with no significant amount of regional variation. This assumption has never been vigorously tested. Ashton-Peach has studied Auckland in some detail, while Robertson has focussed on Dunedin, but the scope of each study was necessarily limited and neither has concerned itself with either the small town or the rural experience. This dissertation then attempts to examine both the regional and small town dimension of the Depression, for as Oliver succinctly comments, "The region is a building block; the ultimate interest in the building itself". Milton is an ideal building block. Population of the town during the Depression was small. The 1936 Census records 1,423 residents in total. The town was also reasonably isolated and therefore largely unaffected by events in Dunedin. Fortunately for this study, the population has also remained fairly static over the past forty years, which means that apart from written documents, there is a wealth of oral material for the social historian. This dissertation relies in part on a series of interviews, undertaken in Milton this year, with twelve different families who lived and worked within the town during the Depression and still reside there today. The study attempts in Chapter One to explain the effects of economic depression on the town as a whole. Chapters Two and Three deal with unemployment; first, what it was like to be unemployed, and second, how the town's administrative machinery coped with the problem. Chapters Four and Five deal more specifically with families which were hard pressed by the Depression. Particular emphasis is placed on the types of relief open to them, and the attitudes towards this relief, inherent within the community. Lastly, Chapter Six takes a brief look at general life within the community at this time. The Milton Depression experience was different from that of the cities. It may be that the Milton experience was unique, or that it had much in common with other small, rural centres in New Zealand. Whatever the future verdict, this study attempts to add another piece to the jigsaw puzzle that is New Zealand history.
Degree Name: Bachelor of Arts with Honours
Degree Discipline: History
Publisher: University of Otago
Research Type: Dissertation
Description: iv, 65 leaves : photo (fold.) ; 30 cm. Notes: Tapes of the interviews accompany this thesis. Not to be quoted without the author's permission. Bibliography: leaves 61-65.

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Stardust: The New Single From Psychedelic Indie-Rock Band The Kobras
The band makes their highly anticipated comeback.
London-based three-piece The Kobras make their highly anticipated return with new single ‘Stardust’, out everywhere now.
The band also share a captivating new music video directed and edited by Kat Terek, styling by lead singer Dessy Baeva and shot at Cold Feet studios. “We also had a little adventure outside on the beach in Kent. It was freezing cold and we had to go with hands and feet in the mud. We really wanted to capture the feeling of coming from an alien planet to the Earth for the first time and being confused, but also relying on each other to make it through.”
Naming artists like White Stripes, Gill Scott Heron, Santana, FKA Twigs and Khruangbin as their main inspirations, The Kobras combine elements of indie, punk, pop and rock to form their own brand of glistening psychedelic indie-rock.
The Kobras were formed by Dessy Baeva (vocals) and Harry Thacker (guitar) in London in 2020, with Chloe Tayali later joining on bass. Combining Bulgarian eastern mysticism and British stiff upper lip cynicism with a psychedelic induced faith in love and oneness, their music brings an authentic rock sound powerful enough to break down the warped mirrors of one's ego and get you grooving at the same time.
Speaking of the track, the band say, “We don't remember exactly how the track came to be. It was one of those songs that just emerges out of you without you having to do too much thinking.”
Harry continues, “Lyrically, what inspired me to write the opening lines in the verses was the idea that everything in the Universe is created from the same elements. Meaning, if you go back far enough and abstractly enough we are all intrinsically entwined with one another as well as everything else in the Universe.
The second line is more of a look at how we are thrust into a world we had no part in shaping but have to deal with millenia worth of human history alone, which I believe can never truly be understood. All you can know is that it was messy and hateful but equally beautiful and full of love. So ultimately, the idea is that we are all the same and have no control over anything other than ourselves. I believe if you accept those truths all you can do is love all that you see.
The song is a mantra for unity: ‘All we can do is - hold on to one another!’. We love some good repetitive lyrics to put you straight in that trans state where you can follow the groove, sync it with the rhythm of your heart and lose yourself in the sexy roar of the guitar. We want this track to be a reminder that regardless of our differences we are all made of the same cosmic components and all we really have is each other.”
Lead singer Dessy grew up in a tiny town in the mountains in Bulgaria where she played piano and sang at weddings and school performances as a child. She picked up singing again in her mid-twenties and decided to form The Kobras as a fun experiment.
Bass player Chloe grew up in Leicestershire, London and India. She played the piano as a child, then bought every instrument during the pandemic and quickly settled into bass. Finally, Harry grew up on the outskirts of south east London, his parents are great admirers of music which gave him great exposure to music.
Celebrating the feminine, masculine and everything in between, musically, their message is about connection, togetherness and their place in the Universe. With Stardust being the first of a string of releases for The Kobras this year, 2023 shows no signs of slowing down this multifaceted band. Watch this space.


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Trying Something New
Oh the things this world wide web brings into our crafting space. The other day ,somehow I got a youtube video of a very talented person doing the craziest thing. She was making paper wrought iron. Well now…this looked very interesting. Could I?
After copying the design and printing it out I took off. Well first I had to cut all those tiny strips of back paper. You know…the kind used in Quilling. Only these were 1/8″ instead of 1/16″. Let me tell you …It is harder than it looks , but I will keep on until I get this worked out.
Needless to say I didn’t get the” big picture”. But what was fashioned into a card managed to cover the really rough spots.
Goodness..it does look better in person. My photo skills are lacking …maybe it is the light or lack of it on this rain day. Any way It is fun to try new things and I will continue to give it a go. Isn’t there a saying about learning something new every day?
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Swarm of bees force closure of Broken Hill park
A playground in the middle of Broken Hill has been reopened after a swarm of bees forced its closure over the long weekend.
A fenced area in Sturt Park was locked by council staff on Sunday after a report of a large amount of bees in the area.
Broken Hill City Council infrastructure manager Paul DeLisio says the area is now back in use after the insects moved to nearby Sulphide Street.
He says the bees may have been looking for a new place to live.
"My understanding with the behaviour of the bees is that the queen bee will just move to try and find a suitable location for a new nest or a new hive," he said.
"And that in the process of doing that they may temporarily swarm at particular locations so that's not necessarily where there final nest will be."
He says it was a shame to close the park over the long weekend.
"The timing wasn't the best," he said.
"But council always places the highest priority on the safety of all members of the community.
"And in this instance it was determined that the safest course of action to take was to close the playground until the swarm moved on or could otherwise be relocated."


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EPFO directs exempted establishments to file monthly returns online under new software by 25th July, 2017
The Employees Provident Fund Organization (“EPFO”), by way of a notification dated 19th July, 2017, directed the exempted establishments to file monthly returnby 25th July, 2017.
As you may be aware, the EPFO had earlier launched a new software to streamline the monitoring and supervision of the performance of the exempted establishments and trusts under the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (“EPF Act”). By way of a circular dated 29th May, 2017 (reported below) the EPFO had directed all exempted trusts and establishments to submit online returns from October, 2016 till the present date.
However, the EPFO has observed that all the exempted establishments have not filed the prescribed returns till date. Thus, the EPFO has directed all the Regional Provident Fund Commissioners/ Officers-In charge of the field offices to ensure that all the exempted establishments file the prescribed returns by 25th July, 2017.
It is further informed that non-filing of prescribed returns under the new software within 25th July, 2017 would lead to inspection and subsequent action for cancellation of exemption of such establishments after giving them an opportunity for hearing.
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I recently bought a EtherWave Mac/PB Adapter and would like to connect my old school Mac’s to the Internet. I have seen some posting that these devices support TCP/IP. Is there someone out there who has a manual? Or an idea how to do this?
I got it working for LocalTalk. Not easy because I first had to solder a cap out and change it!
This is the device:
Now that is an interesting question.
I am not sure myself. However, if you have a Mac that can boot OS X 10.2, and another than runs 10.3 or 10.4, you can find out pretty easily if they do. Either that adapter will work just like a regular AFP bridge or it will function like a FastPath 5 TCP/IP router, which I doubt but until I get reports that it does in fact then I’ll remain skeptical.
You’ll also need a driver for it. I’m not sure if it will work with OT systems — you’ll have to find out if that is the case.
Check out this link for the drivers:
I’ve found that the Farallon EN install works for the majority of that era Farallon network hardware, including the etherwave. I’ve managed to get TCP/IP working on 7.1.1 and 7.5.3 – but it seems dependent on working PRAM. The driver will install an “Alternate Ethernet” adapter, use that for IP networking.
Hope it works!
I use an Asante EN/SC adaptor myself but I’m sure this advice will work for the EtherWave
You first want to get a netgear 10mbps switch. This will take the information from your modern 100 mbps router and make it more compatible with the classic mac. So you would run ethernet cable from your modern router, to the netgear switch and then to the EtherWave.
After installing the drivers, you’ll want to use MacTCP which you should have installed on the mac to then select Ethernet Built in, then manually set up the gateway settings for dhcp.
I’ve had good luck with MacTCP but you can also use Open Transport to just set TCP/IP settings to automatic.
Have you been able to get it working? I’ve added references to this type of adapter in the Guide (it’ll show up next minor update) but there doesn’t seem to be many similar models on eBay, other than AAUI adapters *yawn*.
EDIT: I’d love to have one of those things around. Probably much, much better than a regular AFP bridge. Also: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1428
appears to be the older version, although I cannot verify. (PN801)
HIs version is a PN840ADB
Farallon uses external clocking in its EtherMac and EtherWave PowerBook adapters to push data through the serial port roughly three times faster than usual. This makes an excellent way to add an older PowerBook to an ethernet network. (BTW, these adapters do not support Open Transport.) Source
I was looking for an article/post/blog/something that mentioned the difference between the Modem and Printer ports, saying something technical about one versus the other. I can’t remember where it was and it’s not in my bookmarks or history. Something to do about xfering data without as much interference from the CPU or thereabouts. Maybe it was a reference to something described in Inside Macintosh…dunno.
A possibly relevant thread on modem vs printer ports
I downloaded the driver, but it is in a image format I cannot open. Could anyone change it to a format I can open on an Old Mac. I have Disk Copy 6.3 and it is not able to mount this image what is inside the zip…
Thanks for your help!
See attachment (zip file):
You may have seen this post: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=21226
Also this IIgs technote mentions the interrupt A as being special: http://www.umich.edu… … N.IIGS.018
In practice, there is no difference, just two serial ports hanging off of the Zilog SCC. Apple just switches the communication mode to SDLC to whatever port Localtalk is being used on. The Etherwave likely uses the same transfer mode that Localtalk networking uses (230kbps) to achieve that breakneck speed. Out of the box the SCC is capable of 115kbps with standard RS-232 signaling, the real question is if the host machine can handle it as most aren’t fast enough.
It really doesn’t matter which port you use. Apple’s software gives you the option to use either the printer port or the modem port for Localtalk. The same port flexibility exists on the slower Apple IIgs too.
Ok I found EN Card Installer 2.3. Installed it on a 7.5 System. ( Booted with extentions off).
Still no luck…
This is what I see when I run the diagnostic tool. It somehow sees the Etherwave Adapter ( I guess…)
I see also two green lights and orange blinking.
It doesn’t show up in Network Control Panel and not in MacTCP….. What to try next?
I put together a disk image with the latest version of the files you should need to run an Ethernet adapter on a PB 100 for System 7.1.x (with the exception of the actual Ethernet adapter drivers, since those are specific to the Ethernet adapter in question). I’ve tested all the enclosed files on 7.1.x personally and I know they absolutely work. You can either write the image to disk or mount it using Disk Copy. Either way should work. Hopefully you’ll find it useful.
On advice from one of our members I used Shrinkwrap to mount the disk. Then, with Extentions off, I installed the drivers with success.
Now the PB Adapter can have a own IP adres from the normal Ethernet range I use in my house. So no macIPgw….
My PowerBook will be online tonight on:
Comming week I will make some screen shots to show how it works.
To round it up.
I bought the EtherWave adapter in June 2013. I didn’t work. A red light was burning. When I opened it up I found out that one of the capacitors was getting much to warm. I replaced it and I had green lights all over!
When I connected it without any driver it worked like a normal hardware LocalBridge. You see the AppleTalk network, but cannot use it as an Alternative Ethernet card or switch to it in network or MacTCP control panel.
Thanks to all our community I got the drivers. Many thanks for that again. I will attach the image I used for this on this post.
The rest is simple. Just mount this disk and install the drivers on 7.1 or 7.5. Startup with Extentions Off (hold shift when booting).
You see two images how the network control panel looks and the MacTCP control panel.
This is the image for the version 2.2.2.
http://files.max1zzz… … .image.sit
No… the problem was that I copied the Installer files to a floppy. That didn’t work…. Even with the correct floppy name.
I had to mount the disk image and install it from there.
And yes…then a successful installation is also only possible with extensions off.
The adapter is working fine now for several days. I noticed that the PowerBook and adapter work better under System 7.5 than under 7.1.
My web server responds even when screen is almost off and HD is off. It wakes up and serves a page…
You’ll want to grab this version of MacTCP, 2.0.6, the very last version of MacTCP:
All you need is the 2.0.6 control panel from that SIT file, nothing else.


Just back from the annual Varmint Hunters Association 3C's hunt in Millen, GA where we had a very successful hunt this year. The hunters took 4 coyotes and if I had done my part when the coyote came in to my call It would have been 5 but oh well! A young lady of 16 killed her first coyote with a 17 Rem that another VHA member and gunsmith gave her as a first gun gift. She took the coyote at 200 yards. A very impressive shot with a 17 Rem and a new young shooter.
As for me I shot in the night match where we were shooting at a moving coyote target illuminated with a hand held spotlight. We had 15 seconds to fire 5 rounds at the target. I made it to the 4th round of sudden death shoot off where I and two other shooters missed the one shot at the target where we had to hit a 1 inch spot on the target to continue. It was the first time I tried anything like that and I managed to make it to the final 5 out of 50 shooters. You don't have to win to enjoy making it that far in that type of match. I used a Savage 93R17 17 HMR in the match at the moving target at 100 yards and I was impressed with the accuracy of the little rifle and round.
The next day was the day match and I didn't do so well using my Winchester Model 70 Varminter in 22-250 but we had a great turn out of shooters. No win but I held my own and had a ball shooting in the match.
The youngsters had a match of their own shooting at varmint targets starting close and ending at 100 yards. The young man that won took home a new Savage 22 LR for his good shooting.
Of course the food was it's usual best. One night we had a bar-b-q'ed hog and another night we had stuffed pork loin. We always manage to eat good at the 3C's hunt to include all the fixins' and sweets that the ladies bring to the feast.
I recommend any of the VHA matches and hunts. All are run safely and fun is the primary purpose of the events. Of course you have the opportunity to take home the goodies if you win.


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Take a trip around the world with this calendar of vintage postcards! Featuring a stunning selection of famous sights from around the globe, these postcards will really make you wish you were there, and imagine the stories of those who were. The calendar datepad features previous and next month’s views. Flame Tree: The Art of Fine Gifts. Flame Tree Publishing has produced calendars and diaries for over twenty years. Now the UK’s premier art calendar producer, we work in the global market online and in retail. Each year we spend many hours creating new designs with artists, photographers, licensors, museums and galleries to bring beautiful art into the homes and offices of our customers around the world.
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Scott Hensley edits stories about health, biomedical research and pharmaceuticals for NPR's Science desk. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has led the desk's reporting on the development of vaccines against the coronavirus.
Hensley has worked on award-winning investigations in collaboration with journalistic partners.
He was the lead NPR editor on an investigation with the Center for Public Integrity in 2018 that exposed drug industry influence on the choices of preferred medicines by Medicaid programs. The work won the 2019 Gerald Loeb Award for audio reporting.
In 2017, Hensley was the lead NPR editor on an investigation with Kaiser Health News that showed how the pharmaceutical industry exploits government incentives intended to encourage the development of treatments for rare diseases. The stories won the 2019 digital award from the National Institute for Health Care Management.
Hensley has been editing in his current role since 2019. He joined NPR in 2009 to launch Shots, a blog that expanded to become a digital destination for NPR health coverage.
Before NPR, Hensley was a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal. He was the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal Health Blog, which focused on the intersection of health and business. As a reporter, he covered the drug industry and the Human Genome Project.
Hensley served on the board of the Association of Health Care Journalists from 2012 to 2020.
He has a bachelor's degree in natural sciences from Johns Hopkins University and a master's in journalism from Columbia University.
Before becoming a journalist, Hensley worked in the medical device industry. He remains, now and forever, a lover of Dobermans, lacrosse and Callinectes sapidus.
A committee of experts voted unanimously to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration authorize COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech for children as young as 6-months-old.
"We believe additional information regarding the ongoing evaluation of a third dose should be considered as part of our decision-making for potential authorization," FDA officials said in a statement.
The medicine, called molnupiravir, is taken twice a day for five days and works by preventing the virus from replicating. Merck says it will have 10 million packs available by the end of the month.
The new at-home COVID treatment is currently available in limited quantities to states and territories. Some states will get as few as 120 courses of treatment at first.
The research finds that the medicine, called Paxlovid, was effective in preventing hospitalization and death when taken by people with mild to moderate illness within a few days of symptoms.
A panel of vaccine advisors voted unanimously to expand authorization of boosters for anyone 18 and older. Just hours later CDC director Rochelle Walensky endorsed the recommendation.
Moderna says a study in kids 6 to 11 found two doses of the company's COVID-19 vaccine given 28 days apart produced a strong antibody response.
The companies studied a 10 microgram vaccine dose in children 5 to 11, a third of the dose used for adults, to minimize side effects and because it still prompts a strong immune response.
A panel of experts voted to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration authorize a booster dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine at least two months after the first shot.
The recommendation applies to people 65 years and older, those 18 to 64 who are at high risk of severe COVID and those whose work or institutional exposure puts them at high COVID risk.


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Crazy Heart20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man's crazy heart.
Just a wonderful film. Bridges is always so brilliant and his performance here is just another in a long line of great performances. And Maggie is in top form. I love the intimate look at a struggling star of yesteryear in his downward spiral of alcohol and depression. I’m sure this story can relate to so many stars of yesteryear who still have the talent but lost the flame. A powerful drama with great performances from all.
Fox serves up a great looking transfer. The film’s palette is pretty simple and doesn’t try to be more than it needs to be. Contrast is solid with plenty of shadow detail and dimensionality is strong. The soundtrack is the real highlight with great music (actually sung by the actors!) and ambiance.
Extras include a brief interview with the stars and some deleted scenes. You also get a digital copy of the film for your portable device.


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Using a furnace focused 8 microwave beams of 16 kW at 2.45 GHz to the center of applicator, 9149 g of molten pig iron was produced from 14049 g of the mixed powdery resources of Romeral iron ore and graphite during 780 min under N2 gas. The yield of pig iron was 99.3%. The resources was intermittently supplied with the rate of 35 g/min for 20 min. By each supply of resources of 700 g, temperature rapidly decreased and increased to near 1300°C and molten pig iron poured out from a reaction chamber with generating white light emission.

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Tressa L. Woomer, age 57, passed away July 19, 2008, in Bedford, Pa.
An informal graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at Taylor Cemetery in Alder, the Rev. Vern Grotzke officiating.
K&L Mortuaries & Crematory of Sheridan is in charge of arrangements.
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This is book number 7 in the Full-Color Travel Guide series.
Written by locals, Fodor's Kauai travel guidebook offers expert advice and insider tips for all tastes and budgets to help you make the most out of your visit to Kauai. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this travel guide will help you plan your trip with ease. Join Fodor's in exploring one of the most exciting islands in Hawaii.
Hawaii's "Garden Isle" is green and lush, with famous sights from the steeply folded sea cliffs of the Napali Coast to the stunning sweep of Waimea Canyon. The island also has more beaches per mile of coastline than any other island in the state. A favorite of honeymooners and bird-watchers, Kauai is on many bucket lists.
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IBM is making changes to its employee benefits that may cause other large corporations to follow suit. The technology company will begin making contributions to employees’ 401(k) accounts in lump-sum annual payments, rather than at the time of each paycheck. It’s a move that will help the company cut retirement plan expenses.
Employees were notified this week that matching contributions will be made just once annually, on Dec. 31, beginning next year. “This change reflects our continuing commitment to invest in our employee 401(k) plans while maintaining business competitiveness in a challenging economic environment,” IBM spokesman Doug Shelton said.
The end-of-the-year 401(k) match won’t be unique to IBM, but experts say the company’s move could lead other major employers to consider making less frequent contributions.
“IBM is one of the world’s most influential plan sponsors,” said Mike Alfred, CEO of BrightScope, which rates corporate 401(k) plans. It places IBM’s among the top 30 plans at large employers. “Everyone in the benefits industry will pay close attention to whatever IBM does.”
Across the country, some 60 million workers participate in 401(k)s, which have become a key source of retirement savings. Most companies match from 3 percent to 6 percent of the amount the employee contributes to the account. Contributions are exempt from income tax, and investment earnings grow tax-free until withdrawal.
Although the amount employees will receive won’t change, those who leave IBM prior to Dec. 15 won’t receive that year’s 401(k) matching contribution, unless they’re retiring. That’s a disincentive for those considering jobs outside IBM.
IBM matches an employee’s 401(k) contribution dollar-for-dollar up to 6 percent of eligible pay, for those hired before 2005. Those hired later are eligible to receive up to 5 percent of pay. IBM also makes automatic contributions, ranging from 1 to 4 percent of pay, even if the employee doesn’t contribute to the account on their own behalf.
IBM paid $875 million last year in matching and automatic contributions to the more than 200,000 eligible employees. The company, based in Armonk, N.Y., had some 433,000 employees globally at the end of last year, when it reported nearly $107 billion in revenue.
IBM’s switch to an annual lump-sum matching contribution puts it among a relatively small number of employers taking that approach. About 7 percent of employers offering 401(k)s make contributions once a year, benefits consultant Mercer estimates. About 88 percent make contributions each pay period, with a smaller number using monthly or quarterly distribution schedules.
Companies switching to end-of-the-year matches typically save money because they don’t provide matching contributions for employees who leave during the year, other than those retiring. “The amount of the cost that is saved would vary significantly depending on the turnover within the organization,” said Alison Borland, a vice president with consulting firm Aon Hewitt.
Also, with annual contributions, Borland noted that a company has more freedom to allocate cash reserves as it sees fit during the course of a year, rather than regularly having to dip into accounts for biweekly matching contributions. Ultimately, however, the contribution must be made, in lump-sum at the end of the year.
Although annual contributions could help the company better manage its finances and cut costs, Alfred, of BrightScope, said IBM’s shift away from biweekly matches isn’t a positive for employees on the whole. Employees could miss out on some investment gains depending on how the financial markets perform during a given year. That’s because the company will have the cash available until year-end, rather than putting it in employee accounts where it would be invested throughout the year. However, that could be a plus for employees if markets decline.
For long-term employees, any savings differences resulting from an annual match rather than biweekly contribution could be marginal by the time a worker reaches retirement, given the ebb and flow of the markets.
A company’s policy of making matches annually rather than biweekly may not be a decisive factor for an employee considering leaving, or for a potential hire who might join, Borland said. The amount of matching contributions is what employees focus on, rather than the timing.
But the potential hit to retirement savings for an employee leaving could be significant.
Take this example of an employee who earns $45,000 a year, and receives a matching contribution capped at 4 percent. That employee would get an $1,800 match from the company. But if the worker leaves at the end of September under a policy like IBM’s new one, he or she would give up an accrued value of about $1,405, compared with what the worker could have received in biweekly matches. That example assumes a monthly average investment return of 0.4 percent.
Whatever a company’s matching policy, employees need to be saving more for their retirements, Borland said.
Aon Hewitt estimates that employees will typically need a retirement fund worth 11 times their annual end-of-career pay, beyond Social Security, to cover their needs when they stop working. Currently though, Americans are on track to accumulate funds worth only 8.8 times their final salaries, according to the consulting firm’s most recent research.