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Did you know unemployment disproportionately effects young people? The youth unemployment rate for 2020 was 12.5% and has continued to rise. This compares to 4.9% for over 25s. On World Youth Skills Day we just want to celebrate our #YouCan employability service and all it aims to achieve for our young people.Read more +
By the end of this week it is hoped that the COVID-19 vaccine will be available to all adults nationwide but prior to this it has been available to certain groups of vulnerable people across the nation, including homeless young people aged under 25, but nationally take up has been low.
Groundswell are a charity that work to enable people who have experience of homelessness to create the solutions to homelessness and benefit wider society. They heard about our national Youth Voice project which has a similar aim, working with young homeless people, and asked to do a joint campaign to give young people all the facts about the vaccine and encourage them to take up the offer.Read more +
Our Bromsgrove Foyer team would like to say a HUGE thank you to a local couple for their extremely generous donation of a HUGE amount of long-life food.Read more +
At the request of some of our supporters we have created this ‘wishlist’ of the items we are currently most in need of. It is updated the first week of each new month, if anything else is required.Read more +
Huge thanks and kudos to two employees, Oliver Dolman and Ben Sharp of Keon Homes who took on their own challenge to run 5K every day in April to raise over £5000 for St BasilsRead more +
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Other than the workshops what’s particularly helped me at St Basils is the support of the staff, particularly Employability Coach Vicky and Partnership and Progressions Officer Kash. I think they’re just really dedicated to what they’re doing


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A Nairobi Anti-Corruption Court has frozen accounts of former Machakos CEC Urbanus Wambua Musyoka totaling Ksh 11 million pending further investigations.
The orders follow investigations into the former County boss’s wealth that could not be accounted for between the years 2014 and 2021 as revealed before the court.
According to the prosecution team, the former CEC had traded with the County through businesses that he manages and had also failed to remit taxes totaling over Ksh 100 million during the period under investigation.
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The court was also informed that Mr. Urbanus Wambua Musyoka was awarded tenders worth Ksh 531 million and also bought properties and lands valued at over Ksh 100 million in the same period.
Among the assets include a twp of his cars and a bank account under his name at Equity bank. The items are said to value over Ksh 11 million and are in sharp contrast to the income he had.
The case will be heard again next week on Thursday pending further direction from the court.

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Bhubaneswar: As many as six migrant workers from Odisha were charred to death in neighbouring State Andhra Pradesh. Police recovered the bodies today.
All six persons were working as the guards at a prawn breeding pond located at Lankavani Dibba village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
According to media reports, they were electrocuted accidentally while residing in a shed on the bank of the shrimp pond on Thursday night.
Reports said that the incident took place after the power cables snapped off and fell on the shed.
The local police identified the deceased persons as Ram Murthy, Kiran, Manoj, Panda, Naveen and Mahendra.
The deceased persons have been shifted to a hospital for post-mortem. The cause of death is yet to be ascertained, informed a police personnel.
Although, the six migrant labourers were reported to have died due to electrocution, the power department however denied short circuit as the reason for the incident.


GX160 Honda. Practiced/raced a couple of times at Flamboro (Waterloo Regional Kart Club). My son was fine practicing, but doesn’t want to race. Very affordable form of racing.
Used BirelArt AM29-Y Multi-Adjustable frame. Kart grows with your racer.
Wheel base adjustment position 1020 – 1030 – 1040mm. This allows for versatility of this kart, and better adaptability to different categories, especially to the ones with very low power and medium – hard tires.
Noonan adjustable carbon foot box
Adjustable race spindles
New gas tank
New nose cone
Modern style 3pc rear bumper
3 race motors
Cadet restrictor plate
New brake re-build
6 parts motors
2 extra pull cord recoils
3 sets of scuffed in Vega blue tires
1 set of used rain tires
Extra set of rims
Extra frame (Gold kart 28)
Lightweight 5ftx8ft kart trailer holds one kart inside, can hold second kart on the roof (Sm car can tow it no problem)
Misc extra parts (clutch/gears/seats/nuts and bolts, chest protector, sm helmet, 360 neck device)
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We have our first look at Peter Jackson's next film 'The Lovely Bones'. I am really looking forward to this movie it is such a great story, but has a very heavy subject matter. The movie is about a young 14 year old girl Susie who is raped and murdered by her neighbor. While she is in heaven, Susie watches her family deal with her death, and the guy who murdered her try to hide the evidence from everyone. The photo above is of Stanley Tucci as George Harvey, who is the murderer. It is such an intense story. I read the book last year and it blew me away. I was wondering how Jackson would end up visualizing heaven in conjunction with the living world, because the way they interconnect with each other in the book is really interesting. I love the photo below. It looks like something that may end up on the poster. Peter Jackson Says:
“It’s God-less in the sense that when Susie dies, she finds herself caught in a place between Earth and heaven — she is in an ‘In-Between,’ as Alice Sebold calls it.”
The movie stars Mark Wahlberg as Susie's father, Rachel Weisz her mother, Stanley Tucci the neighbour and Susan Sarandon the family's grandmother. The book was written by Alice Sebold and adapted by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. Peter Jackson is directing.
Source: Empire , USA Today

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Never had I felt so good in the lead up to an Ironman. I was lean and rested. Maxifuel recovery products and vitamins had meant I was strong and at a very lean race weight. It was to be my race.
When I got in to the water I felt light and strong. The Maxifuel gel topped up my reserves just before I hit the water. I was on for a good time until I took a full fist blow to the eye socket. Pulling out of the slim stream I re-adjusted my goggles and checked the fist hadn’t busted the skin on my face.
Feeling the rain drops on my back while swimming I made the decision to take the time in T1 and put on my arm warmers and rain cape. Three hours later on the side of the road changing a slow flat I was pleased with my decision. It hadn’t stopped pelting down and now I was struggling to get my sodden tire off covered in grit. It wasn’t to be the only slow flat I would get of the day, resulting in riding the last 15 kilometres on my rim hoping that my flat tire wouldn’t roll off taking me with it.
Race goal time was out the window. I needed to route deep to find mini goals within the goals. Headsweats visor on, I attacked the run. Having half a Maxifuel gel every 20 minutes not only broke the marathon into 20 minute treats but kept my nutrition even throughout. I spent the first lap of four running between the third and fourth professional woman. This is the reason why we do this sport, to be in the mix with our heros. This spurred me on to keep racing hard despite the disaster on the bike. I was super pleased with how smooth and loose I felt on the run. Crossing the finish line was a huge accomplishment. It wasn’t just about the distance but the mental games I had to play to trick myself to the finish.
I jumped straight in to the ice bucket baths with a Recovermax in hand. The following day I could walk with ease. I put the lessons of the day down in my diary and started to plan out my pursuit to the Berlin Marathon in September.

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Geely is launching their own version of the London black cab at the Beijing Auto Show this year.
The car, dubbed the Geely Englon TXN concept, is meant to be a modern recreation of the LTI Vehicles TX4 cab. This may have been sparked by Geely’s recent joint venture with Manganese Bronze, the company which owns LTI Vehicles, as well as their intentions to take a controlling stake in the company. The joint venture allowed production to be shifted from Coventry to China, resulting in 60 job losses, and if other Chinese cars are anything to go by, potentially lower quality.
More details will be revealed at the Beijing Auto Show (And hopefully higher quality pictures), but one thing’s for sure: it’s ghastly!


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Melville J. Herskovits
|Died||February 25, 1963 (aged 67)|
|Alma mater||University of Chicago|
|Known for||African-American studies African studies|
|Doctoral advisor||Franz Boas|
|Doctoral students||William Bascom, Erika Eichhorn Bourguignon|
|Influences||Thorstein Veblen, Franz Boas|
|Influenced||Katherine Dunham, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Elsie Clews Parsons, Saul Bellow|
Melville Jean Herskovits (September 10, 1895 - February 25, 1963) was an American anthropologist who helped establish African and African-American studies in American academia. He is known for exploring the cultural continuity from African cultures as expressed in African-American communities. He worked with his wife Frances (Shapiro) Herskovits, also an anthropologist, in the field in South America, the Caribbean and Africa. They jointly wrote several books and monographs.
Afterward, he went to college, earning a Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1923. He went to New York City for graduate work, earning his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University under the guidance of the German-born American anthropologist Franz Boas. This subject was in its early decades of being developed as a formal field of study. His dissertation, titled The Cattle Complex in East Africa, investigated theories of power and authority in Africa as expressed in the ownership and raising of cattle. He studied how some aspects of African culture and traditions were expressed in African American culture in the 1900s.
Among his fellow students were future anthropologists Katherine Dunham, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Elsie Clews Parsons, and Frances Shapiro. He and Shapiro married in Paris in 1924. They later had a daughter, Jean Herskovits, who became a historian.
In 1927, Herskovits moved to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois as a full-time anthropologist. In 1928 and 1929 he and his wife Frances Herskovits did field work in Suriname, among the Saramaka (then called Bush Negroes) and jointly wrote a book about the people.
In 1934, Herskovits and his wife Frances spent more than three months in the Haitian village of Mirebalais, the findings of which research he published in his 1937 book Life in a Haitian Valley. In its time, this work was considered one of the most accurate depictions of the Haitian practice of Vodou. They meticulously detailed the lives and Vodou practices of Mirebalais residents during their three-month stay. They conducted field work in Benin, Brazil, Haiti, Ghana, Nigeria and Trinidad. In 1938 Herskovits established the new Department of Anthropology at Northwestern.
In the early 1940s, Herkovits and his wife Frances met Barbara Hadley Stein, who was in Brazil to do research on abolition of slavery there. She introduced to them Stanley J. Stein, a graduate student in Latin American history at Harvard. With advice from Herkovits, Stein and Stein recorded black songs called jongos[what language is this?], which have recently[when?]received considerable scholarly attention. Herskovits also influenced Alan Lomax, who collected African American songs.
In 1948, Herskovits founded the first major interdisciplinary American program in African studies at Northwestern University with aid of a three-year, $30,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation, followed by a five-year $100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation in 1951. The Program of African Studies was the first of its kind at a United States academic institution. The goals of the program were to "produce scholars of competence in their respective subjects, who will focus the resources of their special fields on the study of aspects of African life relevant to their disciplines."
The Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University, established in 1954, is the largest separate Africana collection in the world. To date, it contains more than 260,000 bound volumes, including 5,000 rare books, more than 3,000 periodicals, journals and newspapers, archival and manuscript collections, 15,000 books in 300 different African languages, extensive collections of maps, posters, videos and photographs, as well as electronic resources. In 1957, Herskovits founded the African Studies Association and was the organization's first president.
Herskovits's book The Myth of the Negro Past is about African cultural influences on African Americans; it rejects the notion that African Americans lost all traces of their past when they were taken from Africa and enslaved in America. He traced numerous elements expressed in the contemporary African-American culture that could be traced to African cultures. Herskovits emphasized race as a sociological concept, not a biological one. He also helped forge the concept of cultural relativism, particularly in his book Man and His Works. This book examines in depth the effects of westernization on Africans of diverse cultures who were brought during slavery to the Americas, and who then developed a distinctly different African-American culture as a product of this displacement. As LeRoi Jones has commented on this text, some believe that the introduction of these Africans to Christianity is what propelled such westernization. Christian concepts shifted slave narratives from an emphasis on travelling home to their African countries of origin to traveling home to see their Lord, in Heaven. The development of African-American Christian churches, which served as one of the only places to provide these peoples with access to social mobility, further established a distinctly western culture among Africans in America. Along with these churches came Negro spirituals, which are cited as likely the first kind of music native to America made by Africans. Nonetheless, the development of such spirituals included direct influence from the African roots. This became apparent in a number of aspects of the spirituals, from the inclusion of call and response lines and alternate scales to the varied timbres and rhythms. All of this goes to show that Herskovits's claims in this book carry much truth and accuracy in regards to the establishment of the African American identity as descendant of that of the African, and how music played into such shifts.
Herskovits debated with sociologist Franklin Frazier on the nature of cultural contact in the Western Hemisphere, specifically with reference to Africans, Europeans, and their descendants. Frazier emphasized how Africans had adapted to their new environment in the Americas. Herskovits was interested in showing elements of continuity from African cultures into the present community.
After World War II, Herskovits publicly advocated independence of African nations from the colonial powers. He strongly criticized American politicians for viewing African nations as objects of Cold War strategy. Frequently called on as an adviser to government, Herskovits served on the Mayor's Committee on Race Relations in Chicago (1945) and the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1959-60).
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text: I love Quinoa. Its a wonderful grain and so healthy for you. You could use the light coloured Quinoa in this recipe if you don't have the red. For this recipe I bought a box of Quinoa and it was already cleaned, but if you buy Quinoa in bulk make sure you rinse it at least 4 times in cool water before cooking it. To save time, I put the Quinoa in the tall plastic cup of my hand blender and whiz it around until it released the soapy outer coating that is on the grain. I would rinse it again in cool water to make sure it was clean. It is essential this be done because it will taste bitter. Follow the directions on the box as to how to cook your Quinoa. If you buy it in bulk, then just put your Quinoa in two cups of water and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer for about 15 minutes. You can substitute the water with veggie or chicken broth also. It will give the grain a hardier flavor. I won't include the time to cook the Quinoa in my cooking time below. I think next time I make this I will add an egg or a package of vegan gelatin as I found this a bit crumbly.

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Greenville poised to annex Lake Conestee Nature Park into the city
The Lake Conestee Nature Park represents one of the largest forested areas along the Reedy River, and now the city of Greenville wants to bring the park into its fold.
The proposed annexation would bring the 400-acre park into the city, essentially doubling the city's greenspace and offering opportunities for the city to expand to other redevelopment opportunities, City Councilwoman Amy Ryberg Doyle said.
"When looking at how the city grows, we have to be thoughtful about also growing green space and vigilant about protecting one of Greenville's largest assets — the Reedy River," Doyle said.
The annexation wouldn't burden the city with the ongoing cost of restoration of the park, which has been dramatic over the past decade.
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The park's not-for-profit foundation would continue to raise funds for necessary improvements to the former Brownfields site, such as the dam, which at more than a century old is showing its age with structural concerns, said Dave Hargett, the park foundation's executive director.
"This is a logical progression and partnership that we saw 20 years ago," Hargett said. "It's not a done deal. We're excited about the possibility."
The park, six miles south of downtown Greenville, opened in 2007 after seven years of work to transform it from a polluted wasteland where wildlife had been virtually non-existent.
The first phase involved putting a section of trails through the wetlands, and later a 4-mile section dubbed as an extension of the Swamp Rabbit Trail was opened.
The extension doesn't connect, however, to the main trail that ends at Greenville Tech, with a one-mile stretch the city has struggled to link without the participation of the Greenville Country Club.
Annexation could help with option to connect, as well as facilitate turning the former city landfill into a passive green space, Doyle said.
Greenville is trying to keep pace with efforts to create in-city nature centers such as the one in Charlotte, she said.
"In order to remain competitive, we need to be thoughtful about about green space," she said.
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The house must be a startling sight to passersby in this busy residential Tokyo neighborhood. On streets where houses typically are shrouded in curtains and awnings for privacy and relief from noise, there suddenly appears a home where the windows are not only uncovered, some also are lush with greenery.
It’s an unusual sight because, as much as the Japanese love their gardens, there is little room for them in this crowded city of 13 million people. Houses are often built to the limits of the lot, eliminating any opportunity to provide outdoor space for growing things. One Tokyo architecture firm solved that problem by bringing gardens inside.
K2YT Architects created a two-family house with five interior garden rooms that provide a view of trees and shrubs from inside the house as well as natural light and insulation from the urban cacophony of a big city. The building sits on a corner property that presented a number of challenges, including traffic noise from frontages on two busy streets and a location adjacent to an elevated commuter railroad. The architects wanted to minimize the sounds of the cars and trains inside the house as well as increase the privacy of the residents.
Photographs by Satoshi Asakawa courtesy of K2YT Architects.
Above: The stark gray exterior of the house is dotted with an asymmetrical arrangement of three sizes of square openings for windows and gardens. The front door to the house is next to the entrance to an underground garage.
Above: By bringing terraces filled with greenery within the walls of the house, the architects have created a special environment. Even though they are in a congested urban setting, the residents of House K can see gardens from every room of their home and feel that they are in the midst of nature.
For another house that relates to the outdoors in an unusual way, check out our post on An Indoor Outdoor House in Australia.


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Time flies, it seems like only yesterday that Radiohead’s groundbreaking In Rainbows was released. My intention with this essay/review is to get ahead of the landslide of Radiohead “In Rainbows” 10th anniversary reviews coming next year. For this extraordinary album nine years has provided some perspective on what I consider one of the best albums ever released.
In Rainbows was Radiohead’s seventh album and follow up to their 2003’s recording Hail to the Thief. “In Rainbows” became a sensation in the music business for the tremors it caused when the band deciding to self release the album in an honesty box download format. No band of their renown had attempted to use a “pay what you want” concept prior to their release of “In Rainbows”. Unfortunately what often gets forgotten in the hype following that decision is the breathtaking music that was on offer. In some ways the hoopla of the way it was released obscured the concentrated brilliance of the work. The album would come to signify many things, but it also marked the end of a lengthy hiatus for the band and raised questions for the band about their post record label existence.
The beginning of “In Rainbows” recording would find the band struggling through an extended period of soul searching about what was next for Radiohead after leaving record label support. The band worked on writing and recording “In Rainbows” from February of 2005 until June of 2007. The album’s beginning was a start and stop process that seem to quickly spin out of control. Radiohead had decided that along with not re-signing with a major music label that they would intentionally shake things up by not utilizing their long time collaborator and producer Nigel Godrich. At first the band thought of self producing the recording, but eventually decided to bring in producer Spike Stent of Bjork and U2 fame in an attempt to venture off in a new direction. The time in the studio with Stent proved to be frustrating and fruitless. As Thom Yorke stated of that time, ‘We spent a long time in the studio just not going anywhere, wasting our time and that was really frustrating.” Their new songs kept tantalizing them that there was something there and a breakthrough was just around the next corner, but that gestalt moment did not seem to materialize. Stent upon listening to versions of the songs said they weren’t good enough. The band began to wonder if the time for a break up had arrived. Stent and the band agreed to end their collaboration in 2006. In hindsight the members of the band have attributed their slow progress to not having the pressure of a label to focus them. Additional Yorke has fessed up that without Nigel Godrich there to crack the whip he had completion issues.
Another factor that led to the band questioning if the end of Radiohead had arrived was the success of the sideline projects that both Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke had created. Jonny had successfully branched out with his orchestral and movie sound track work and Thom Yorke’s solo album The Eraser had been well received. Looking back now it is clear to see that these projects actually strengthened the band because it allowed each of the members, if they elected, to scratch itches in other musical genres and formats. This would free them up to better concentrate when operating within the band’s orbit. However in the early struggling days of working on “In Rainbows” that fact was not so apparent, adding to the misgivings band members had about the future of the band.
Radiohead attempted to get the creative ball rolling by toured Europe and the US with embryonic forms of many of the songs that would appear on “In Rainbows”. The touring allowed the band to re build their shattered confidence in the direction they were heading and modify and edit the songs. The sink or swim approach to the songs on tour helped the band get a grip on what they wanted to accomplish, clarifying their vision. Touring which was often in the past viewed as a nightmare for the band helped the creative process gel. The re-entrance of Nigel Godrich was the other catalyst that brought things back on track. As Yorke has stated, “Nigel gave the band a walloping kick up the arse.” Instead of questioning their need for Nigel’s presence, the band gave into the realization he was an important player in nursing their creative spark.
In October 0f 2006 the band headed to a location discovered by Godrich, Tottenham House, Marlborough, Wiltshire. Godrich and the band worked for three weeks in this wreck of a house while living in RV’s. The caravan camp out feel and strange vibes from the house led to highly productive sessions. The band would come out of the three weeks with the songs Jigsaw and Bodysnatchers completed and feel like they were finally getting somewhere. The recording sessions then moved to Halswell House, Taunton and The Hospital, Godrich’s studio in Covent Garden. These sessions produced Videotape and captured on tape the elusive white whale Nude. The beginning of 2007 saw the band return to their home studio, Canned Applause in Oxfordshire. During this period the band would release photos, lyrics and snippets of songs on their website, Dead Air Space. Radiohead would plug along and recording would finish in June of 2007. The sessions produced a total of 16 songs not counting the prior recording of “Last Flowers; which had initially been intended for Yorke’s “The Eraser” solo release. Desiring a tighter play list than that of “Hail to the Thief” the band was now faced with having to winnow down the number of songs that would be selected for the playlist. They were looking to avoid the mistakes they believed were made on “Hail to the Thief” which they felt suffered from too many and too diversely styled songs. They would cut down the album playlist to 10 songs with an approximate run time of 45 minute. They retained the remaining songs for release on the limited edition box set.
The gorilla in the room still remained. How would Radiohead release the album with out a record label? In a period that spanned over a year, management and the band played with the idea of how to accomplish this task. The band was dedicated to releasing the album in a way that would let it be digested by the music listening public first; rather than the music publications and reviewers weighing in and telling people what to think about the album. That desire indicted the album would need to be self released. Re-signing to a label became a less viable option the closer the band got to the completion of the album. Justifying their desire to remain unsigned was the fact that Radiohead band members were turned off when their old label EMI was taken over by the Terra Firma Corporation. The band felt that the company taking over was not interested solely in the music business and would not promote them they way they wanted. So they remained unsigned.
These events would lead to the band and management coming up with a cunning plan. They would allow the completed album to be downloaded for whatever the listener wanted to pay and release the hard copy thorough a small independent label, in this case XL recordings. This announcement would send shockwaves through the music world. The band members would look at this decision with mixture of concern and glee as it appealed to their political and social convictions but was financially pretty risky. What tipped the scale in favor of this plan was that their music came out from under the control of record label executives and directly to the ears of listeners with the least amount of filters. To this day the overall success of this decision is still debate by many in the music business, but the album itself was a huge success commercially and critically. The band themselves would decide to not replicated the “Honesty Box” idea in future releases but they have stuck by the initial decision saying it was the solution for the band at the time. Radiohead would promote the album with a number of webcasts including Scotch Mist which was a New Years Eve 2007 webcast where they performed the album in it’s entirety at their Canned Applause studio.
When examining In Rainbows reception by critics and listeners, it is clear Radiohead had another winner on its hands. “In Rainbows” was universally acclaimed. It sold 1.2 million digital copies, and over 3 million hard copies. It became the 10th indie distributed album to reach #1 on the Billboard 200. Thom Yorke with his famous “Tail twisting” sense of humor also enjoyed the story that Clive Davis went into spasms when “In Rainbows” upon its hard release beat out Alicia Key’s album “As I Am” and Mary J Bliges’ “Growing Pains” in the first week of January 2008. This sales victory happened even after the “Pay What You Want” offering. This fact still sends Yorke into fits of laughter years later. “In Rainbows” would be short listed for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize. It would garner Grammy nominations for Producer of the Year for Godrich, Album of the Year, Best Rock Performance by Duo or Group with Vocal, Best Rock Song for House of Cards, Best Short Form Video again for House of Cards, and win Grammys for Best Alternative Music Album, and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Packaging. In Addition the album won the Brit Awards Album of the Year. All of these accolades displayed what a spectacular album the band had created.
Musically and thematically the album would be a volte face from Radiohead’s more recent works. These songs shook off the isolation and overt political commentary of their prior work; opting instead for something remarkably emotional and close to home for the band. Yorke described the tracks as his vision of “seduction songs”. The feeling was different from Hail to the Thief” but was also the culmination of what had been attempted on “Hail to the Thief”. The goal being a spectacular marriage of everything on offer in the studio and also the warm feeling of a band playing together live. When examining the discography of the band up until that point, “Hail to the Thief” becomes an ersatz John the Baptist to the perfection that is “In Rainbows”. Everything is utilized on the album but it is so perfectly balanced and formatted that it never feels like a swirling mess in the kitchen sink. Unlike “Hail to the Thief” where Yorke tried to mute his political opinions but thankfully failed miserably,” In Rainbows” has little overt political overtones with the possible exception of Faust Arp. Yorke has stated that the lyrics for “In Rainbows” were inspired by “The feeling of anonymous fear thing, sitting in traffic thinking there is something I should be doing that is really important… it is similar to OK Computer, but much scarier.” Yorke was also inspired by his fears about death and aging, stating” it (In Rainbows) is about the panic of realizing you’re going to die”. The album is a heroic effort to undercut much of the emotional isolation of their prior works. It is charming and clever like its creators. “In Rainbows” offers up a vulnerable cynicism that shape-shifts both in mood and technique from start to finish.
As in every work by Radiohead the first song announces the intent of the album. Here with 15 Step we get a song that examines middle age and how we all get blown off course from our original intentions. It notes we all start off with the piss and vinegar of our convictions and along the way we settling for so much less than what we dreamed. History repeating itself is encapsulated in the repeating refrain, “How come I end up where I started? How come I end up where I went wrong? The song also confronts death, “One by one it comes to us all, it’s as soft as your pillow … fifteen steps then a sheer drop.” The song accompaniment is a thing of beauty with the stutter step polyrhythmic percussion married to a spectacular guitar riff and Colin Greenwood’s unforgettable bass pass. The song becomes a swirling dervish of hypnotic beauty as the sum is greater than its parts and what should not go together becomes something just a little short of alchemy. Yorke is a master of his vocals conveying all the cynical wonder he has at life’s contradictions. The song is a hell of a way to start off the album and indicates all the mastery that will transpire on the release. The band powers on with Bodysnatchers. There are a few back stories to the song. The theme was inspired by Victorian Ghost Stories meeting the Stepford Wives, with all their valium disassociation. Also informing some of the anger found in the song is Yorke’s mental state which was full on hyperactive mania, which he suffers from when he is about to enter a period of physical illness. The song captures a number of vivid images. The frustrating limitations of our physical bodies, and threats of mental illness, “I am trapped in this body and can’t get out”, and the losing fight we have against old age. The song also examines the distance between people and not being able to understand where a person is coming from in their mental processes, “I have no idea what you are talking about”. The song moves on to the closing down of opposing opinion and dismissal of dissent. The accompaniment perfectly serves these thoughts. The aggressive guitar work sets the stage for the angry incredulity of the lyrics. The song is an inspired blending of each member’s skilled musicianship producing another mini master piece that underlines the frustration of attempting to not going quietly into that goodnight.
Nude is a song that is a legendary white whale for many long time Radiohead fans. The song first started to appear in live sets as far back as Ok Computer tour. “Nude” has gone through numerous permutations in musical accompaniment through the years. It is finally captured on “In Rainbows” in its most alluring version. The track was initially about not getting too big for your britches; in this rendition it turns into a hymn on the human condition and is the antithesis of a self help tape. It doesn’t get any more non inspirational than the lyric, ”don’t get any big ideas, they’re not going to happen.” The reassurance of Yorke’s soothing delivery undercuts the heart rendering sad realizations of the lyric. Debated is the pain that comes from baring one’s soul, the nude of the title, and the pain and rejection that too often follows. The song is a lovely contrast to the manic feeling of Bodysnatchers with its lush strings and deep bass that again make for a mesmerizing selection.
From the calm of “Nude” the album moves onto Weird Fishes/Arpeggi. This is one of my favorite tracks and has always been one of the figurative tent polls to drape the album over. The lyrics can be interpreted a number of ways. They seem to deal with relationship issues, the good and bad of commitments along with depression, suicide and the ideas of escape. The idea of escape is best expressed in the lyric; I’ll hit the bottom, hit the bottom and escape.” Escape what? The listener needs to fill in the blank. Musically the song is sonic perfection and was an exercise where Jonny and Thom tried to see how many chords they could jam into one song. The shimmering guitars hypnotize and Colin is a magician on the bass. Topping the song off with Yorke’s delivery provides another masterpiece that also shows off Godrich’s production brilliance. I find I never want this song to end. But wait the album just keeps getting better, the farther in the better it keeps getting. The band raises the stakes with each song and comes out a winner.
All I Need is simply uncomplicated beauty. The title gives the impression it is going to be a love song and it is, but only in the way Radiohead can do it. The track looks at love and commitment from the side and not head on. The song describes someone who is hanging on through the push me/ pull me of a relationship. The person is willing to accept that little piece of the other person that is available to be shared, and makes the most of it because they are entrapped in their love for the person. There are heart breaking images of that irresistible draw, and the idea of being so taken for granted that the devotee is like a piece of furniture over looked. “I’m the animal trapped in your hot car… I am all the days that you choose to ignore. You are all I need; I’m in the middle of your picture lying in the reeds… I’m the moth who just wants to share your light.” Yorke at the end finally states the situation is all wrong and should not be that way but uncannily indicates it is alright as long as the person can stand it, “It’s all wrong, it’s all right.” The mournful strings provide an elegiac feel as the song builds to the crescendo with the piano and xylophone adding pathos. The spectacular drum explosion also relays the emotions that are shooting all over the place adding again to the drama of the piece.
Faust Arp is the one glimpse of politics that leaks through. Taking a page from Goethe’s Faust, Yorke portrays our society as offering our souls for immediate gratification, unthinking what that gratification costs future generations and the environment. “An elephant that’s in the room…in duplicate and triplicate and plastic bags.” It also attacks many peoples’ lack of the ability to reason and our rationalization of bad ideas, the pointlessness of so many things and the information age that overwhelms us, “Dead from the neck up I guess I’m stuffed”. This whole head shaking disappointment with civilization is accompanied by a sweet acoustic accompaniment that is made fecund with strings which soften the venom in Yorke’s lyrics. It is another stunning song and a perfect set up for Reckoner.
The original song called Reckoner was reworked from a 2001 rendition and then abandoned. On “In Rainbows” the released song retained the song’s name and adds in the title of the album. The original “Reckoner” eventually became the song Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses released as a solo work by Yorke in 2009. The song that became “Reckoner” on “In Rainbows” is a thing of transcendent beauty. Again the lyric ruminates on a dark topic, the finality of life and the grim reaper as the Reckoner. The track attempts to square the fact that we know we all die yet do not hesitate to run in the rat race and allow distractions to draw us from that final truth, “You are not to blame for bittersweet distractors, dare not speak its name… dedicated to all human beings”. The song reaches the pinnacle of emotions discussing the thing we all fear when alone in the dark. Yet the lyrics admire how human beings rather than becoming paralyze by this overwhelming fear persevere. As humans we each knowing we die and die alone which leads to the penultimate lyric, Reckoner, take me with you”. Yorke is all over the emotions needed for the delivery and channels them to perfection. A hat tip to Phil Selway’s spectacular Indian influenced cymbal work which is as evocative as Yorke’s delivery. The song is sublime perfection.
I can never get thought listening to the next track House of Cards without thinking of the movie” The Ice Storm”. I think it is the lyric, “Throw your keys in the bowl kiss your husband good night” that evokes that strong imagery. “House of Cards” is a song of seduction and betrayal that is started off with another killer lyric, “I don’t want to be your friend, I just want to be your lover” wow! The lyrics convey the animal instinct of human relations and the fragility of human relationships which are as delicate as a house of cards. There is the denial that betrayal can happen, denial in taking part or participating in betrayal and denial of blame. The accompaniment is almost plodding and pedestrian at first but then the impact is delivered through the paralleled strength of the music and the lyrics landing their punches. The crunchy guitar is almost like drops of acid falling on the fabric of conventionality as it gives way and unravels. The song is breathtaking in its clarity.
Jigsaw Falling into Place was inspired by Yorke’s witnessing the weekend party chaos in his university home town of Oxford. He captures the images of false elation caused by the boozing that is used to cover the ever present abyss that awaits us emotionally. “As your bad day disappears no longer wound up like a spring before you had too much come back in focus again… before you’re comatose.” The cynicism in Yorke’s vocal is palpable. The accompaniment starts acoustically then breaks out running full and away escalating and going around and around finally breaking out into a cacophony of splendid sonics, like a pub crawling bender at its apex. “Jigsaw” is the distraction before the reveal in the truth shell game where the last track will sweep way all the game playing and get down to the true enigma of human existence.
The last round is served and we are brought to the end of the release, the luminous Videotape. The song was an agony for the band to record and was subjected to numerous permutations till one day Godrich and Jonny Greenwood stripped the song to a minimal ballad. This is the version that appeared on the album. The impact of this song is like a concrete block being chucked at your soul. It is obviously about death, fear and the bittersweet acceptance that the life we each lead will end. The realization hurts like hell but is even more sorrowful when we think of those we leave behind. We are presented with the image of arriving at the pearly gates with a review of the tape of our lives; meanwhile Mephistopheles is looking to claim another soul.
The tape reveals its good days and bad, whilst acknowledging the person who saves you from your worst self, “You are my center when I spin away”. The lyrics then switch up to the videotape that many make to convey their last thoughts to loved ones in the only way they know how, “This is my way of saying goodbye because I can’t do it face to face so I’m talking to you before it is too late,” The last stanza is killer “No matter what happens now I shouldn’t be afraid because I know today has been the most perfect day I’ve ever seen.” You cannot hear this track and not be moved by its raw evocative emotion. The selection is solemn without getting morbid. The elegiac piano combined with the twarping tape sound effect as the movie reel running out is totally bittersweet. What could have been maudlin ends up transcendently glorious. It is a magnificent ending to an album that attempted to look at the human condition as honestly as could be endured. The album ends with the gentle hum of a cricket in the background.
Radiohead has an embarrassment of riches in their discography. Few would argue that OK Computer, and Kid A are masterworks. I posit that In Rainbows is their ultimate masterpiece. This is Radiohead at the absolute peak of all their illustrious powers. The album is filled with skillful mastery in instrumentation and lyrical composition. “In Rainbows” takes on many topics close to the heart and explores them with earnest insight. The band opened another chapter in their epic career with “In Rainbows” entering their second decade with a marvel of musical brilliance. The band has gone on releasing two more arresting albums, their latest A Moon Shaped Pool is another spellbinding addition to their collection and the oh so rewarding textured beauty The King of Limbs. Along the way members have continued to shed light on more obscure genres and investigated satisfying solo projects. There can be no doubt that when the members of the band convene in a studio, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway creates some otherworldly magic. In Rainbows provides the Q.E.D. that Radiohead is a band for the ages to be cherished and enjoyed.


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Buster talks! Seeing this 1931 talkie was somewhat of a shock. Sure, Buster stuck around long enough to make plenty of great sound films, but this one is early enough to still have the ambiance of a silent comedy, which it occasionally lapses into. Hearing Buster talk here was almost an unexpected surprise. The film does start off slow with too much time devoted to setting up the plot. However, once the characters arrive in the hotel, the comic action is non-stop. Buster is great, as always, but Charlotte Greenwood almost steals the show as Polly. A great early comedienne, unjustly forgotten and underrated. This film is actually a re-make of an earlier silent, which I would love to track down for comparison.
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Calls for AusVeg chair to step down
Vegetable growers are calling on the chairman of the industry's peak body, Ausveg, to step down after a company he owned went bust, owing farmers millions.
Source: ABC Rural | Duration: 4min 20sec
Groundwater allocations have been cut in Queensland to combat salinity, growers say the strategy is extreme.
Two purebred Riverine buffalo, part of the NT's only dairy herd, have been shot and killed in their paddock.
Farm profitability report finds being an all-rounder is important in the dairy industry.
Six young Australian farmers reflect on drought, their future and why they choose to stay on the farm.

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The Morgan Creek Trail is in the engineering and planning stages, with the exception of the trail within Morgan Creek Park which is completed. It will extend from 42nd Street near Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids through the Rock Island Preserve to the Cedar River. This project will connect to the City of Cedar Rapids trail system.
The trail is slated to follow the Highway 100 right-of-way connecting Northeast Cedar Rapids to Northwest Cedar Rapids. The trail will provide a connection with a large population base - Xavier High School will eventually extend to Morgan Creek Park. At Morgan Creek Park, the Morgan Creek Trail connects to the Cherokee Trail and continue to Cherry Hill Park and into Cedar Rapids.


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Animoca Brands and Play Magnus Group (PMG) announced a partnership to bring PMG’s Meltwater Champions Chess Tour into the metaverse. As part of the partnership, Lympo, a sports NFT ecosystem and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, will create an NFT collection, social tokens, and a blockchain-based chess-inspired game for PMG’s Champions Chess Tour; PMG will build Champions Chess Tour experiences in The Sandbox, a leading decentralized gaming virtual world and another subsidiary of Animoca Brands.
Lympo will spearhead the development and launch of a Champions Chess Tour NFT collection over the next five years. Lympo will also create custom-designed and animated NFT collections depicting top chess players such as World Champion Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri, and Hans Niemann.
Lympo will create individualized NFT digital collectible cards of varying rarity and supply for each eligible professional chess player. The Champions Chess Tour NFTs will be integrated into the existing Lympo NFT ecosystem and will offer utility in upcoming games produced by Lympo.
In addition, Lympo will launch a social token for the Champions Chess Tour, which will allow fans to engage and interact with their favorite Tour players. Champions Chess Tour NFT holders will have the opportunity to acquire the social tokens and use them to participate in voting sessions, lotteries, questionnaires, and polls.
Together with PMG, Lympo is also developing a blockchain chess-inspired game centered around PMG’s Champions Chess Tour. At the same time, Play Magnus Group will be entering The Sandbox to forge a virtual experience for fans and chess enthusiasts within the open metaverse.
“Chess has emerged as one of the fastest-growing esports. By partnering with Play Magnus Group and its Champions Chess Tour, we will create unparalleled experiences for chess players, casual gamers, and fans,” said Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands.
“We strongly believe in the metaverse and the opportunities it brings for immersive fan engagement. Animoca Brands is a global leader pushing the advancement of the open metaverse and we are excited to grow chess together in this bold new space,” said Andreas Thome, CEO of Play Magnus Group.
“By utilizing NFTs and virtual worlds we are opening a whole new communication channel for chess and fans of the Champions Chess Tour. Working with Animoca Brands and the partners in our network, we are creating something more immersive than anything that has come before,” commented Ada Jonuse, CEO of Lympo.

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Scientists have witnessed a “promising” recovery in the coral reefs around the Maldives, a recent survey has revealed.
The results show that some reefs now have more live coral cover than before the catastrophic El Niño bleaching event in 1998, which killed 95 percent of the country’s reefs – a key attraction for foreign tourists.
The project was set up by international conservation non-profit organisation Biosphere Expeditions. Scientists from the UK-based Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and the Maldives Marine Research Centre (MRC) surveyed areas known to have suffered from heavy bleaching.
The reef check conducted in September showed that many badly damaged reefs have recovered to populations in excess of 60 percent live coral. On one site, the survey team found there was more coral cover now than there was in 1997.
The latest findings follow a severe case of coral bleaching in 2010, when the MRC reported a resurgence of coral bleaching following a prolonged sea temperature rise.
The project found that the isolated, offshore and cleaner waters of the Maldives appeared to offer better conditions for coral recovery – contrasting findings published from the Great Barrier Reef, which noted that coral cover had reduced by more than 50 percent in the last 27 years.
Lead scientist for the project, MCS Biodiversity Officer Dr Jean-Luc Solandt, said: “Although our surveys aren’t as comprehensive in scale and number as those from the Great Barrier Reef, we have witnessed a promising recovery in the reefs we’ve visited.
“The number of chronic impacts to the reefs of the Maldives are fewer than those to the Great Barrier Reef, and that has probably resulted in this more positive response to the initial bleaching event die-off in the sites we visited in Ari Atoll.”
The focus of this year’s project was to undertake reef check surveys in areas first surveyed before and during the El Niño bleaching in 1998.
Meaning ‘little boy’ in Spanish, El Niño is a phenomenon which damaged more than 95 per cent of the Maldives’ reefs following three months of unusually high seawater temperatures that year.
Even the slightest rise in water temperature can put stress on the coral, causing it to lose its colour and turn white, before eventually dying.
Coral bleaching was named as one of the three main causes of coral death, along with outbreaks of coral-eating starfish and damage from major storms.
Despite the findings, Dr Solandt warned conservationists and stakeholders in the Maldives that they cannot afford to be complacent.
“There is over-fishing of large predatory fish and further ocean warming events on the horizon, and some of the reefs nearer to Male’ appear not to have recovered as extensively as those further afield,” he added.
Founder and Executive Director of Biosphere Expeditions Dr Matthias Hammer said that whatever the current state of the Maldive’s reefs, the future outlook was important.
“Even though the Maldive’s reefs are generally in waters of excellent purity from man-made pollutants and are seldom hit by coral-damaging storms or attacks by coral eating starfish, the consistently high sea temperatures, averaging 29 degrees Celsius, around the Maldives could lead to bleaching once again if temperatures reach over 30 degrees for any length of time,” he noted.
Environment Minister Dr Mariyam Shakeela was not responding at time of press.


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She's no Bartleby at moviemaking:
An Interview with Catherine di Napoli
July 5, 2002
by Dan Lybarger
Originally appeared in the Kansas City Star.
Growing up in Independence, Mo., Catherine Naples already knew what the future held for her.
"I've wanted to make movies since I was 12 or 13," she said in a phone conversation from her office in San Francisco. "When my family first got a video camera, I started making little films and music videos. That's what I've always wanted to do."
"Bartleby," her latest effort as a producer, opens today at the Tivoli Manor Square. It's a modernized version of the Herman Melville tale about an office clerk who gradually withdraws, rejecting all work with the comment, "I would prefer not to."
After graduating from Fort Osage High School in 1994, Naples attended Loyola Marymount University and changed her surname to di Napoli. Her short student film "Lorelei" won the Silver Bear at the German National Film Festival. She received similar acclaim locally when the film won a major award at the 1998 Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee.
"I was kind of inspired by (Italian director Michelangelo) Antonioni at the time," she said. "It was my first real film project. `Lorelei' was about a girl growing up during the plague. She dies, and her soul watches her own funeral as her ashes are scattered in the ocean. A lot of people thought it was about twins, so maybe it wasn't so obvious that it was set during the plague."
For "Bartleby" di Napoli served as co-producer and collaborated on the script with the movie's producer/director, Jonathan Parker.
"Jonathan realized that he had worked in that office, basically," she said. "Melville's story was almost autobiographical for him. He (Parker) hired me to help write the project.
"Jonathan had recently gone to the local city planning department, and he saw that the old furniture was from the '70s, so we borrowed some of the equipment for the film set. We figured that office wouldn't have changed in a long time. That's the reason for the retro look that's almost coming back into style."
While Parker's experiences are evident in "Bartleby," so are di Napoli's.
"I read the story in high school; re-reading it I found it really humorous. I had met a lot of Bartlebys before, people who reminded me of the character. They chose not to participate. I had a friend like that who was diagnosed as schizophrenic."
Di Napoli and Parker were both careful to follow Melville's example and avoid revealing the reason for Bartleby's extreme form of passive resistance.
"People have been speculating for years, which is why I believe this story has stood the test of time. I don't think there's any definitive answer, and it would have been presumptuous for us to try to explain it."
In fact, the story and the film are less about Bartleby than about the reaction of his boss, played in the movie by David Paymer.
"I think maybe that's part of the reason some viewers did not get the film -- they were looking for an explanation. I know that some people who saw it a second time and weren't looking for an explanation enjoyed the film much more."
Parker and di Napoli are teaming up again for a project they've dubbed "The Californians" -- a loose reworking of Henry James' The Bostonians. She's also working on her own project, "Love and the Mortuary," that will be in the same quirky vein as "Bartleby."
"I'd met these two morticians at a local bar. They just seemed like really hip people and had such great stories. They actually lived in the mortuary. I shot a bunch of embalmings, and I was going to make a documentary about it, then decided it could be more interesting as a feature film."
When asked to describe how she writes for these unusual projects, di Napoli coyly replied: "I would prefer not to."
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Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Author: John Boyne
Date of Publication: 5 January 2006
Genre: historical fiction
Synopsis: In Berlin, 1942, Bruno is 9 years old and is totally unaware of the meaning of the holocaust and the dreadful cruelties that his country is inflicting on the European peoples. All he knows is that his father has been promoted in his work and that he has moved to live in a comfortable house on the outskirts of Berlin. This place is very isolated from society, so there is not much to do or to play with. But everything changes one day when he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives strangely on the other side of a wire that you cannot pass through and who, like everyone who lives there, wears a very unique uniform resembling striped pyjamas.
Major themes : The theme of the Nazi holocaust in the concentration camps,represented in the figure of the military , and of the Jews
This theme leads to other issues such as his airs and graces of superiority and his way of putting the interests of Nazism before those of his own family, among others.
- Bruno. He's the main character, he's nine years old.
- Ralf. He's Bruno's father and from what the novel tells us he's a powerful, unloving man..
- Shmuel. This is Bruno's friend, the boy who is on the other side of the wire in the concentration camp.
- Lieutenant Kotler. He is one of the lieutenants in the concentration camp.
- Furias-That's what they call Hitler,
Adaptations (on cinema, TV, theatre, literature): There is a film.
Hot points / Weaknesses: Any part of the middle to the end of the book, or the movie, is pretty hard and maybe you cry.
Veredict / Peronal opinion: It's one of my favorite books and I've seen the movie too and I love it. It's a story that leaves a mark, I recommend it to everyone.


Q. Do you have materials available for the blind?
Large print books and audio books (books on CD) are available at all fifteen library branches. Audio books and ebooks with adjustable text can also be downloaded through the GCPL website. All 15 branches also have accessibility tools and kits and customers have access to the following:
- high visibility keyboard
- a trackball mouse
- a Quicktionary Pen
- a Roberts book holder
- magnifying glasses with 2.2x magnification
- a jumbo 12 digit desktop calculator
- large print 12 inch ruler with tactile Braille numbers
- magnifying sheet with Fresnel lens for reading small type
- pen and pencil grips
- 5 handwriting guides
- high contrast note paper
Customers with visual, physical or reading disabilities may be eligible to receive audio or Braille material mailed to their home by the National Library Service via the Northeast Georgia Talking Books Center.
The Gwinnett County Public Library also provides a Mailbox Books service for individuals who are not able to come to the library to pick out materials. You can find out more about this service here - Accessibility
You can also find available resources by going to the website for GLASS - Georgia Libraries for Accessible State Services. They recently added a resource list called GLASS RSVP which is a list of organizations that provide services to people with visual and print impairment both in Georgia and nationwide.


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Spallumcheen’s chief administrative officer has officially been terminated.
Lynda Shykora was, in her words, suspended without cause the week of Oct. 1 after she had worked at the township’s first regular council meeting of the month.
Monday night, council voted in favour of her dismissal.
“Council has resolved, after holding the required procedural hearing, to terminate the employment of the Township of Spallumcheen’s chief administrative officer, Lynda Shykora,” said Mayor Janice Brown Tuesday morning.
“Further information will be available after Oct. 26 (Friday).”
No official reason has been given for her suspension and subsequent dismissal.
The matter has been dealt with in-camera, meaning it can’t be discussed in public.
Shykora had been with the township for eight years.
She declined to comment on the termination when contacted Tuesday afternoon.
Chief financial officer Brian Freeman-Marsh has been serving as acting administrator.


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Sara Shostak is a medical sociologist committed to understanding the social production of health and illness across diverse contexts. Her research focuses especially on how a wide variety of actors – scientists and farmers, health policy makers and city planners, people living with illness and people working to help their communities heal from trauma – perceive and experience the material conditions that shape health inequities in the United States.
Using qualitative and community engaged research methods — sometimes in collaboration with students — Professor Shostak’s current research projects ask questions about food, health, and community in New England’s cities. Her most recent book, "Back to the Roots: Memory, Inequality, and Urban Agriculture" was published in Spring 2021.
Professor Shostak's previous book, "Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health" received the Robert K. Merton Book Award from the ASA's Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology and the Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award from the Medical Sociology Section. She has an extensive record of publications on whether and how genetic information shapes people’s lives and life chances.
A dedicated teacher and mentor, Professor Shostak is core faculty in both the Department of Sociology and the Health: Science, Society and Policy (HSSP) program. Her classes include Sociology of the Body & Health, Food, Justice, and Health, and Observing the Social World: Doing Qualitative Sociology. In 2013, she was honored to receive the Michael L. Walzer ’56 Award for Teaching.
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It’s been almost one year since Google officially unveiled its current version of Android, called Lollipop, which means it’s just about time to see what the next major update will bring.
Google is holding its annual developer conference next week, which is where it usually spills some details on the next version of Android. We probably won’t see the final product — usually Google just gives developers a taste of what’s to come — but we’ll likely get a good idea of what the most important new features coming to Android will be.
Last year, Google gave Android a huge makeover with its new Material Design interface, which makes the software look more colourful and a bit smoother to use.
Here’s what we think may be coming in the next version of Android, based on various rumours, reports, and leaks.
It will probably be called Android M… for now.
Google usually picks a treat-themed name for its new versions of Android, and there’s an alphabetical trend to each name. For example, Android 4.0 was called Ice Cream Sandwich, while Android 4.2-4.3 was called Jellybean, Android 4.4 was named KitKat, and the current version, 5.0, is called Lollipop.
This means the next version will start with an M, although we don’t know exactly what type of dessert Google will choose. They will probably just refer to it as M for the time being.
Google accidentally confirmed this in a description for an “Android for Work Update” event at Google I/O, writing: “Android M is bringing the power of Android to all kinds of workplaces.” Google has removed the listing since.
It may let you login to apps without typing in a password.
The next version of Android, which we’ll call Android M for now, will reportedly come with a feature that lets you login to certain apps with your fingerprint without typing in a password, according to BuzzFeed News’ Joseph Bernstein. Google is expected to announce the new feature at its event next week.
This feature probably wouldn’t work on all Android phones though — it’s worth noting that only a few devices actually have fingerprint sensors. These include the Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge, Galaxy S5, and HTC One Max among others. If this feature does come to the next version of Android, it seems like a clear indication that many more Android phones, including Google’s own Nexus phones, will come with fingerprint sensors too.
The next version of Android will likely focus on smart home features, too.
Google is reportedly working on new software that could power the next wave of “smart” refrigerators and light bulbs, according to a recent report from The Information. It will probably be part of the Android brand, the report says, which makes it sound like Google is developing a new type of Android specifically for the connected home, kind of like how Android Wear is a version of Android optimised just for wearables.
If this turns out to be true, there’s a chance we’ll see some new features that tie your phone closer to the appliances in your home within the next version of Android. For example, Google showed off a new feature in Android Lollipop that automatically unlocks your phone if you’re wearing an Android Wear smartwatch. It wouldn’t be surprising to see some small features such as these related to the smart home appear in Android M.
There will probably be more integration with Android Auto.
Google is reportedly planning to make some big announcements around its connected car platform that will coincide with Android M’s unveil, as Reuters reported in December. This hints that we’ll see more functionality in the operating system that’s optimised to work with Android Auto, which Google announced last year. Currently, Android Auto runs on your phone and then communicates with your car’s infotainment system. That could change if Google decides to build an entire platform for cars.
Notifications will become more intelligent.
Google may be working on a new notification system that would unify alerts across all platforms, blog Android Pit reports. If you see a notification on your desktop or laptop, for example, it will automatically disappear from your phone so that you’re not looking at old information. It’s a small change, but one that could be really useful.


POLICE are hunting an amateur footballer accused of killing a referee by headbutting him after he was red-carded.
Fans thought the official had fainted after being knocked unconscious in the assault.
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But Red Cross workers were unable to revive him after racing to his aid and discovering he had no pulse.
The AWOL player, who reportedly fled the scene in a pick-up truck amid chaotic scenes as the ref was receiving medical attention, was named locally as Ruben Rivera Vazquez.
The Mexican official, whose body was covered with a small blue tarpaulin which left his feet and part of his right leg exposed until a judge arrived and let undertakers remove him, was named as Victor Trejo.
The shocking incident occurred on Sunday morning at around 10.30am local time at a pitch called “Amigos del Balon” – Spanish for “Friends of the Ball” in Tulancingo in the Mexican state of Hidalgo.
SCOUTING FOR TALENTChelsea boss Antonio Conte to send scout to watch Inter Milan star Ivan Perisic this weekend
SPUR OF THE MOMENTTottenham incredibly almost signed Diego Maradona - but pulled out because of his 'baggage'
SIGH OF RELIEFJohn Stones 'thrilled to bits' to make amends by scoring in City's goalfest after defensive howler
HUNG OUT TO PIECelebs lead fans demanding Sutton keeper Wayne Shaw get his job back as he's SACKED by club for eating a pie in the dugout thanks to OTT novelty bet probe after club's Arsenal heroics
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LOTHAR’S LOWDOWNSevilla are good enough to beat anyone on their day and I’m afraid they will be too good for Leicester
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The player blamed for the ref’s death was representing a Sunday league side called Canarios-Roja Gomez.
He reportedly lost his temper after being red-carded for protesting a foul.
He was still believed to be on the run today.
Over the weekend a Brazilian footballer had to be held back by seven teammates after being red carded and pushing the ref to the ground.
Police with riot shields had to protect the official as Guarani full-back Antonio Ferreira tried to assault him again following his sending off.


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Madrinas Coffee Thanks Schnucks and STL Customers for Successful Event
We’d like to extend a ‘thank you’ to the leadership and staff at the Schnucks in Brentwood, Missouri for their hand in another successful event. Madrinas Coffee held an event Sunday, November 22, 2015 outside the grocer to show appreciation to both Schnucks and local customers. Check out pictures from the event below. We handed out free coffee and and over 300 Schnucks donuts under our #coffee4fuel tent while local musician, Casey Bazzell, played live music all day. We appreciate Casey for hanging out and were more than happy to fuel her jam session with her favorite Madrinas Iced Coffee flavor, 2X Dark Roast. We can’t get enough of Casey and highly recommend heading over to her website to give her a listen.
While we rocked out to Casey’s tunes, we had the chance to experience another art form with the community. Street artists, Dan Ferrari and Will Braddum, supplied with Montana Chalk Spray from ArtMart displayed their skill with chalk art featuring Madrinas Coffee and Schnucks. Dan and Will are just part of the great art talent hailing out of St. Louis. Follow them on Instagram – we promise you won’t regret it!
As we spread the thanks, a local Corporal from the Marine Corps surprised with a warm lunch as we braved the chilly weather. Thank you Corporal for all your you’ve done serving our nation and buying our lunch to get us through the day!
We had a blast hanging out with the community, promoting good vibes, and fueling STL the all natural way. Thanks to Schnucks for giving Madrinas Coffee our start in the grocery market, and thanks to St. Louis for drinking up! Head to Schnucks next time you need to fuel up.
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This week’s Cotton Newsline is 3 cuts. All cuts are Darron Hudson, Director of the Cotton Economics Research Institute at Texas University.
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There was some concern about the loss of access by U.S. mills to competitively priced cotton when the step two program was ruled in violation of our commitments and removed from the farm bill. Darron Hudson, Director of the Cotton Economics Research Institute at Texas Tech University says The Textile Economic Adjustment Assistance Program or T.E.A.A. program was developed to help U.S. Textile mills by providing a four cents per pound subsidy on all cotton consumed in the U.S.
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Narrator: This is Science Today. Carbon has several forms, including diamond and graphite, and now researchers at the University of California , Riverside are looking into using another form, an extremely strong cylindrical molecule called the carbon nanotube, as a scaffold to help heal broken bones. Chemistry professor, Robert Haddon describes the process.
Haddon: Our approach is based on the idea of working with nature to try to replicate what nature does but while using artificial materials. The idea is that, in order to regrow the bone, some structural direction or some sort of placement inside the body might be necessary.
Narrator: The size and strength of carbon nanotubes makes them ideal for regrowing bone.
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What happens if you don’t ride the scooter battery for a long time？
What is weak voltage protection?
In daily life, you don’t need to ride an electric scooter every day. If you don’t ride a scooter for a long time, there is a high probability that the scooter’s battery will have problems, such as a drop in battery power, a drop in voltage, and a shorter riding mileage. The drawbacks of the entire battery are revealed.
All of this is related to the design of the battery. When designing a battery professionally, engineers will design a way to protect the battery from voltage. Once the battery is not used for a long time, the entire battery will enter a sleep state. At this time, the entire battery will be found Its performance is very poor and will make you feel that the battery is broken.
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When riding, install the scooter for routine maintenance. For details, please refer to:How to extend battery life of electric scoote？
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Acapulco Gold Cultivar Review: Total Score: 94
For our 2021 New Year Review of 2020 (gone, but not lamented!), I just had to publish this because this cultivar is so good. And it’s a landrace cultivar too!!! If you can find it, get some. But leave a bit for me!
I’m just back in Taos from a short trip to Telluride. If you’ve never been there, go if you can. It’s set in a stunning narrow valley surrounded by 14s (14,000-foot mountains). Telluride a marvelous place to chill for working and hiking. For a town this size, there are a lot of dispensaries. Some are chains while others are locally owned and operated. I like locally-owned dispensaries best and visited a few. This Acapulco Gold cultivar review is the first of several reviews from this trip to Telluride.
One of the dispensaries I visited was The Green Room. It was my second visit and both times I was warmly greeted. This time they showed me some new strains. One was labeled “Landrace” Acapulco Gold. I remember Acapulco Gold from the 70s. It was always hard to find, but as I recall, the rewards were well worth the search. Is this really Acapulco Gold? Would it be as good as I remember? Check out this Acapulco Gold cultivar review for the answer.
What is Acapulco Gold Cannabis?
Acapulco Gold is a legendary landrace strain since the 1960s. Nowadays it’s almost impossible to find. This cultivar has the reputed effect of great happiness and energy. It’s an original Sativa. The effect is purported to be uplifting and intensely mind-bending. Let’s see if the new product lives up to its legend.
Acapulco Gold: Appearance
I bought an eighth. Included in the 8th was a huge bud (seen here) and several smaller buds. They were fairly loose-knit and not overly compact. That tells me there were no Plant Growth Regulators (PGRs) used in the fertilizer or anywhere else during the growing process. The buds weren’t gold, but rather more celadon green with some, but not an overabundance of pale orange pistils. This is good, as pistils do nothing for the buzz (contrary to some opinions) and while they look pretty, an overabundance of them is one sure sign that PGRs were used in the growing operation. There were seed-like pods, but no seeds. I really liked the completely natural look of this Acapulco Gold cannabis. Some might not like it, but beauty is in the eye.
Appearance Score 17/20
Acapulco Gold: Aroma
The aroma was a blast of something from the past. I’ve been learning to identify the kinds of terpenes in the blend of a particular cultivar and this one was loaded with myrcene. It was earthy, musky and a slight fruity note not unlike grapes. There was a hint of pine and a citrusy scent. It was all put together well and had a very harmonious aroma. The aroma as it also brought back memories of the 70s. There’s not enough I can say about that. It smelled heavenly.
Aroma Score 19/20
Acapulco Gold: Taste
This Acapulco Gold was really well cured with a smooth, rich and mellow taste – a very good taste. The aromas followed directly into the taste. Not all that common these days. It’s all good. This bud tasted a lot like the musky terpene (myrcene) along with undertones of orange and perhaps a bit of pine. I really liked the way my bowl smoked. And I wanted to smoke it all up, so I did.
Taste Score 18/20
Acapulco Gold: Effect
Very focused. Cerebral. Uplifting and euphoric. What more is there to say? Acapulco Gold has a terrific effect. After the first puff, I knew something special was going within 3-4 minutes. After that, I kept getting happier, and happier, and happier. The overall effect kept getting better and better. My thinking became more focused at the same time as the euphoria stepped up its game. While it might not be the most potent cannabis I’ve ever consumed, it has a terrific buzz. I wish I had bought a quarter or a half after my taste and effect test!
Effect Sore 20/20
Acapulco Gold Cultivar Review: Summary
Holy smoke. This is the most highly rated strain review we’ve done. Some people might not like this strain because the THC is only listed at 16.8%, which is plenty for me. Landrace (original) strains are difficult to find in the marketplace because of all the hybridization cultivators are doing these days. But when you can find a landrace like Acapulco Gold or Panama Red or Thai, grab it as fast as you can because if you don’t, it’ll be gone. This example of Acapulco Gold was close to stellar and the score shows it. Terrific strain and I’d bet you could find it in a bunch of dispensaries in Colorado. Now I need to find someone who’s growing it in Michigan!


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