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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Video-sharing website BitChute is raising $10 million in Series A funding at a valuation of $750 million to $1 billion, according to one of its investors and a presentation seen by Reuters, as it seeks to add new features that allow live-streaming and the payment of content creators by users.
BitChute, which bills itself as a free-speech alternative to Alphabet (NASDAQ:) Inc-owned YouTube and other platforms, has had “negligible” revenue to date, shareholder Jeffrey Wernick, told Reuters, even though it has attracted a significant user base, particularly among young men.
“I’m not really raising the money just because we need the money,” Wernick said in an interview. “I want to raise the money because I want to get allies in this business. I want people who are committed to a path of decentralization and censorship resistance and privacy and data sovereignty.”
An August 2022 Reuters Special report found that BitChute’s users post racist videos and comments inciting violence.
BitChute said in response at the time that it complies with the law and has rules banning racist content or incitement of violence.
Wernick, when asked for comment, said: “Bitchute is proud to be a free speech platform acknowledging the First Amendment and all that applies.”
“The way to deal with offensive speech is engage or ignore. We also welcome and challenge all of those who want to build a better internet to join BitChute by contributing to the ecosystem we will build of competitive content moderation so we collectively can empower users and not authoritarians,” he said. “We also respect the laws of all jurisdictions we operate in.”
BitChute’s fundraising will test investors’ appetite for alternative social media platforms, an area that has seen several new entrants that have struggled to raise funding.
Wernick said BitChute was pursuing a combination of high net-worth individuals and venture capital funds. He declined to provide specific names.
He has an equity stake in BitChute and is also an investor in Parler, Gab, Airbnb and Uber (NYSE:).
Wernick said that together with fellow bitcoin enthusiasts Patrick Dai and Matthew Branton, they control 60% of BitChute after investing a “nontrivial” amount in the company. The remaining 40% is controlled by cofounders Ray Vahey and Rich Jones, Wernick said.
It is not clear if BitChute can reach the valuation it is seeking. Its investor presentation said BitChute had 218 million unique visitors in 2022, down 15.8% from 2021, with a projection of 247 million unique visitors this year.
By November 2024, aided by the new funding, it is projecting more than two billion visits – defined as a single session on the site with one or more page views.
Executives’ immediate goal is to upgrade features so that content creators can get paid by users, and later to enable live-streaming on the site.
Their longer-term goal is to “decentralize” BitChute, so that it is blockchain-based and users can decide whether to have content moderation.


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The Port of Olympia recently made a significant cash investment in some of Thurston County’s smallest cities as part of its Small Cities Program.
At its March 25 meeting, the port’s commissioners awarded $10,000 each to the cities of Bucoda, Rainier, Tenino, and Yelm. The money is for community and economic development investments.
The Small Cities Program was launched in 2010 and provides gap funding for community and economic development initiatives in incorporated Thurston County cities with fewer than 15,000 residents, according to a statement from the port. The cities will use the money to fund the following projects:
- Bucoda will purchase event equipment to expand its annual haunted house, as well as to expand an outdoor event space.
- Rainier will continue to renovate and preserve its historic Rainier School and Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church for event and activity space rentals.
- Tenino will continue construction of a shaded pavilion for bicyclists. The pavilion will include water-bottle filling stations, seating, bicycle racks, and repair facilities.
- Yelm will purchase emergency notification message boards to alert residents and passing motorists of emergencies or planned events impacting the community.
This is the ninth year the port has awarded funding through the Small Cities Program. To be eligible for funding, cities must submit applications detailing the proposed projects, which are then reviewed by the Board of Directors of the Port Economic Development and port staff, and are then forwarded to the commission for review and approval.
In the past, money from the port has been used to help pay for the development of a community center in Yelm, installation of visitor signs in Tenino, enhancements to sidewalks in Rainier, and renovation of the Oddfellows building in Bucoda.


Indonesia's election supervisory agency Bawaslu has rejected - on grounds of weak evidence - complaints filed by supporters of presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto that last month's election was plagued by cheating, saying that the petitioners submitted only online news links.
Bawaslu also said the alleged cases of electoral fraud did not meet the criteria that the fraud must be structural in nature, or involving rogue government or election officials; systematic, or with proof of a plan or a meeting discussing a plan to carry out fraud; and massive, or affecting at least 50 per cent of Indonesia's 34 provinces.
"Evidence in the form of online news links cannot stand alone. They must be supported by other means, such as documents, letters or videos," said Mr Fritz Edward Siregar, a Bawaslu commissioner, during a public hearing yesterday.
Two complaints of election fraud were filed by senior campaign managers Djoko Santoso and Hanafi Rais, and by journalist Dian Islamiati Fatwa. Both cases used online news links as evidence and were based on occurrences in two provinces - East Java and Central Java.
Bawaslu's rulings were made in the preliminary stage of its examination process, during which it could accept a complaint and conduct further examination, or reject it outright.
Mr Prabowo, who ran against incumbent Joko Widodo, is expected to lose the April 17 presidential race by 11 percentage points, based on the latest tally of more than 90 per cent of the votes by the General Elections Commission (KPU) yesterday.
Mr Prabowo has claimed that he and his running mate, businessman-turned-politician Sandiaga Uno, lost votes due to the millions of fictitious names that were added to voter rolls, exploitation of the state apparatus, money politics, precast ballots and data entry errors by the KPU.
Evidence in the form of online news links cannot stand alone. They must be supported by other means, such as documents, letters or videos.
MR FRITZ EDWARD SIREGAR, a Bawaslu commissioner, on petitioners submitting only online news links in their complaints.
The former general has been adamant that he will not accept the results. He has made repeated allegations of fraud, fanning anger among supporters, including conservative Muslims, who plan to take to the streets starting today to protest against the impending release of the results, which the KPU will announce by tomorrow.
In the complaints to Bawaslu, the petitioners requested the agency to disqualify Mr Joko and his running mate, senior cleric Ma'ruf Amin, for allegedly promising monetary and other benefits to win votes.
Bawaslu chief commissioner Abhan said none of the more than 70 items of evidence showed there was a plan or a meeting initiated by anyone linked to those accused of fraud, which is required in order for the case to be deemed systematic.
"To be called massive, it must cover at least 50 per cent of the country's provinces," added Mr Abhan, who goes by a one-word name.
One of the petitioners, Ms Dian, called the rulings unfair because they were made before the witnesses she claimed she had lined up were given a chance to testify.
"We have gathered all the witnesses and readied documents to show to Bawaslu. We just didn't have time to do this before we filed petitions," Ms Dian said.
Meanwhile, the police and the Indonesian armed forces (TNI) held a coordination meeting yesterday, as more than 32,000 troops, including hundreds from other provinces, have been mobilised to secure Jakarta.
The police spokesman, Brigadier-General Dedi Prasetyo, said: "TNI has readied reserve troops in case the situation gets out of hand, but we hope it remains under control and peaceful."


Why does Donald Trump seem so desperate to stay in a job he clearly has no interest in doing?
- January 15, 2021
Biden’s plan is far larger than a way to address our current crisis. It outlines a vision for America that reaches back to an older time, when both parties shared the idea that the government had a role to play in the economy, regulating business, providing a basic social safety net, and promoting infrastructure.
- January 12, 2021
The tide is running strongly now against Trump and those who have supported him in his attack on our democracy. What had been shock on Wednesday is hardening into fury.
- January 7, 2021
January 6, 2020 This morning, results from the Georgia Senatorial runoff elections showed that Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff had beaten their Republican opponents—both incumbents—by more than the threshold that would require a recount. The Senate is now split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, so the position of majority leader goes to a Democrat. Mitch McConnell, who has bent the government to his will since he took over the position of majority leader in 2007, ...


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The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making "illegal streaming" of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.
In a 20-page white paper, the Obama administration called on the U.S. Congress to fix "deficiencies that could hinder enforcement" of intellectual property laws.
White House Calls For Stricter Copyright Laws, Greater Enforcement Authority
The Obama Administration is calling for greater law enforcement authority and tougher penalties, including prison in some cases, for people convicted of copyright infringement.
The White House's Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Victoria Espinel, submitted 20 recommendations to Congress on Tuesday aimed at cracking down on copyright infringement on items ranging from drugs to music and military equipment.

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Wall Street’s main indexes were set for their worst day in more than three months on Monday, as President Donald Trump’s orders to curb travel and immigration from some countries sparked uncertainty.
Trump on Friday signed executive orders to suspend travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries on grounds of national security, while also banning refugees from Syria.
Thousands of people rallied in major U.S. cities and at airports in protest. Nike and Starbucks were among the companies that did not support the ban.
“The market is reacting negatively right now because of the uncertainty that it creates,” said Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at Boston Private Wealth.
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"Stuck at “critical software update is required” screen during startup" için yanıtMy 2017 MacBook Pro 15” is literally destroyed after updating to Catalina. The Touch Bar issue made the computer get stuck in the critical software update loop. After bringing my laptop to a local repairman, they tried everything and suggested replacing the logic board. 1.5 years ago this computer was worth $3k now it’s complete trash. Can Apple be held responsible? Anything else I can do to fix it?


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The former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont was welcomed to the Danish Parliament today by Faroese lawmaker Magni Arge who had invited him for an unofficial meeting with Danish politicians.
However, an overwhelming majority of the Danish lawmakers declined the invitation to meet with Puigdemont.
This did not please Magni Arge, a member of the left-wing Republican Party from the Faroe Islands (Tjóðveldi). He criticized the Danish government and opposition lawmakers for rejecting invitations to meet Puigdemont.
– One can start to understand each other by talking together, not by ignoring each other, he said, according to the New York Times.
Puigdemont told the Danish lawmakers that his return to Barcelona ”will not be only good news for Catalan people who support our cause but also for Spanish people and for Spanish democracy”.
– It is my goal. I’m working for that. I’m working for that. I’m working to be there, he added, according to the New York Times.
Puigdemont stated that he is working to return home to be re-elected as the regional president, but stopped short of saying when and how.


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Ley has been named the new Environment Minister, ending Melissa Price’s controversial short and largely absent time in the role. Price moves to the outer ministry, taking on the role of Defence Industry Minister.
Payne takes on the role of Minster for Women, replacing Kelly O’Dwyer , who made a shock decision to leave politics earlier this year. On her new appointment, Payne said she is looking forward to building on the work of her predecessor.
“Securing economic opportunities for women, focussing on their safety and achieving genuine gender equality are just some of the areas on which I will direct my attention,” she said.
“The intersection of my two portfolios also presents extraordinary opportunities to make gains for women and girls both at home and abroad.”
Linda Reynolds will be the new Defence Minister, while Bridget McKenzie, Deputy Leader of the Nationals, has been named Agriculture Minister. McKenzie is the the first female to ever take on the agriculture portfolio.
Michaelia Cash stays in Cabinet, now responsible for the employment portfolio as well as skills, small and family business.
Karen Andrews is the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology.
Senator Anne Rushton will serve as Minister for Families and Social Services.
In the outer ministry, Nola Marino will be the Assistant Minister for Regional Development and Territories,
Jane Hume will be the Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology.
And Michelle Landry stays on as Assistant Minister for Children and Families.
Morrison said that Price’s shift to the outer ministry comes after she was asked “to be given a new challenge and I was happy to give her one”.
During Price’s time as Environment Ministry she was largely criticised for being absent and dodging the media.
Ley’s return to Cabinet comes after she was forced to stand down from the health portfolio due to revelations in 2017 that she had purchased an apartment while on a work trip.
The seven women given top jobs is a record for a Liberal Government.
Senator Hume told The Australian on her promotion, ““Make no mistake, I’m not here for my skirt, I’m here for my experience, and the contribution I can make to a sector that is critical to the Australian economy.”


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Judge shocks court with harsh rebuke of Flynn; sentencing delayed18:37
Rachel Maddow reads highlights from the surprising sentencing hearing for disgraced Trump NSA Mike Flynn which did not actually end in a sentencing when Judge Emmet Sullivan seemed particularly upset with Flynn's offenses.
Buzzfeed stands by Cohen story in face of Mueller objections15:52
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The VCU Rams (15-5, 7-1 A-10) will look to continue a five-game win streak when they host the George Mason Patriots (12-8, 4-4 A-10) on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at Stuart C. Siegel Center. The game airs at 7:00 PM ET. In this preview, we take a look at the VCU vs. George Mason odds and lines ahead of this matchup.
The Rams enter their matchup against the Patriots as an 8-point favorite. The game’s point total is set at 137.5.
VCU has compiled a 10-10-0 record against the spread this season, while George Mason is 11-9-0. A total of 10 out of the Rams’ games this season have hit the over, and nine of the Patriots’ games have gone over. The teams combine to score 143 points per game, 5.5 more points than this matchup’s total. VCU has an 8-2 record against the spread while going 9-1 overall in the past 10 contests. George Mason has gone 7-3 against the spread and 6-4 overall in its last 10 games.
Ahead of watching this matchup, here’s everything you need to know about Wednesday’s college basketball action.
How to watch VCU vs. George Mason
- Game Day: Wednesday, January 25, 2023
- Game Time: 7:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: CBS
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George Mason at VCU odds, spread and lines
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- Spread: VCU -8
- Total: 137.5
- Moneyline: VCU -372, George Mason +293
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VCU vs. George Mason prediction
VCU 73, George Mason 65
- VCU has won 86.7% of its games this season when favored on the moneyline (13-2).
- The Rams have not played a game this season with moneyline odds of -372 or shorter.
- The implied moneyline probability in this matchup gives VCU a 78.8% chance to win.
- This season, George Mason has won two out of the six games in which it has been the underdog.
- The Patriots have not entered a game this season as a bigger underdog on the moneyline than the +293 odds on them winning this game.
- The implied probability of a win by George Mason based on the moneyline is 25.4%.
Against the spread
- VCU is 10-10-0 ATS this season.
- George Mason has covered 11 times in 20 games with a spread this year.
- The 71.5 points per game the Rams record are just 3.8 more points than the Patriots give up (67.7).
- When VCU totals more than 67.7 points, it is 9-6 against the spread and 13-2 overall.
- George Mason has a 6-6 record against the spread and an 8-4 record overall when giving up fewer than 71.5 points.
- The Patriots’ 71.5 points per game are 7.4 more points than the 64.1 the Rams give up to opponents.
- When it scores more than 64.1 points, George Mason is 8-6 against the spread and 10-4 overall.
- VCU’s record is 9-7 against the spread and 14-2 overall when it allows fewer than 71.5 points.
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- The average implied total for the Rams this season is 71.8 points, 1.2 fewer points than their implied total of 73 points in Wednesday’s game.
- So far this season, VCU has put up more than 73 points nine times.
- The Patriots’ average implied point total on the season (72.3 points) is 7.3 points higher than their implied total in this matchup (65 points).
- On the season, George Mason has put up more than 65 points 14 times.
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Welcome to another post of October’s Guide to Reading!
On Monday we have talked about spooky music. I have given that task to Klejda, since she is so addicted to music. Now we are talking about horror books, so it is my turn to write. If you haven’t noticed until now, I love horror books. I think that October should be the horror month (hence the Halloween). Who said that Halloween should last only one day? I celebrate Halloween everyday actually, but let’s just tone it down to a month.
Last year I have posted a list of my favorite horror books. The list is still valid even for 2014, so here is the link.
This fall I am loving antique books. Since I am so into old books lately, I will go with those bone -chilling classics this Halloween.
Need to say more? I am Dracula’s number one fan! I absolutely love Bram Stoker. The book is a piece of art. I don’t have words to describe it. The most special thing about “Dracula” is it’s writing style. This book is written in epistolary format. You are reading a diary. It is like you have been there. It feels like that diary exists, like those characters are as real as you. The problem with “Dracula” is that people have watched the movies, and now they refuse to read it. The movies don’t really have a plot. They focus more on the effects, and the disgusting part. How can you compare an actress in Lucy’s character with that sassy vampire, whose description makes you feel fear, and admiration in the same time? Give Dracula a chance!
Good ol’ Frankenstein. Before I continue any further, please people bear this in mind: “Frankenstein isn’t the monster, Frankenstein is the scientist, Victor Frankenstein to be exact.” In the novel the creature has no name! That’s why I will call him Frankenstein’s monster. Hands down, this monster is the only one, who makes me feel sorry for his (second) death. He is innocent, and sensitive. He only wants love. This monster cannot stand looking at his reflection. I mean, can we get a round of applause for all these human feelings, that he possesses? Doesn’t this sound familiar to you? Isn’t this monster a little part of us, at the end?

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Ever since the verdict came out of that trial on August 24th it's been certain that Samsung would appeal such a decision. The days after the trial finished and the Jury – particularly Velvin Hogan who became foreman – began to talk to the media it started to look like Samsung were having their case for appeal built for them. Indeed, Mr Hogan was only too kind to speak to media outlets a couple of times and the first time he spoke to Bloomberg he gave the Internet the quote that has Samsung's lawyers pretty confident about right now:
"Some were not sure of how prior art could either render a patent acceptable or whether it could invalidate it. What we did is we started talking about one… (I) laid it out for them."
The above quote doesn't sound like much at all, does it? Yet it's something I'm sure a lot of you have read a lot over the last month or so. What makes this quote troubling is that when looking at Judge Koh's instructions to the Jury it clearly states that jurors should "decide the case solely on the evidence before you," which is certainly want Mr Hogan didn't do. Hogan essentially injected new evidence into the case after evidence had already been presented by both Apple and Samsung – something that wasn't in the instructions and basically invalidates the Jury's verdict. It gets worse however as just one day after the verdict another juror – Manuel Llegan spoke to CNet and had this to say of Hogan:
"Hogan was jury foreman, he had experience. He owned patents himself…so he took us through his experience. After that it was easier."
I'm sure the jury appreciated this as it will have cut the deliberation time, I'm sure however, this was not Hogan's place and will have artificially altered some of the jurors' reasoning, thus creating a false verdict. Samsung have now demanded that the verdict be thrown out thanks to the latest in Hogan's mistakes – failing to disclose litigation between himself and Seagate who were his previous employer. It was this litigation that led to Hogan filing for bankruptcy in 1993. Samsung are a huge investor of Seagate and in the motion they filed they had this to say:
"Samsung has a substantial strategic relationship with Seagate, which culminated last year in the publicized sale of a division to Seagate in a deal worth $1.375 billion, making Samsung the single largest direct shareholder of Seagate."
When approached for Jury duty Hogan was asked of previous involvements in court cases and should disclosed such information however, it's said that he didn't. For somebody who seemed to be somewhat educated when it comes to technology, Hogan seems to have made a number of mistakes and whilst we all do and few enjoy jury duty, for such a high-profile case you'd tread carefully. Especially with such huge sums of money involved.

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Ploughshares, Philip Levine, Fall 2007
Philip Levine recommends Space Walk, poems by Tom Sleigh: "Sleigh's reviewers use words such as 'adept,' 'elegant,' and 'classical.' Reading his new book, I find all those terms beside the point, even though not one is inaccurate. I am struck by the human dramas that are enacted in these poems, the deep encounters that often shatter the participants and occasionally restore them. What delights me most is seeing a poet of his accomplishments and his large and well-earned reputation suddenly veer into a new arena of both our daily and our mythical lives. For the writer, such daring may be its own reward; for the reader, it is thrilling to overhear a writer pushing into greatness." (Houghton Mifflin)
The Hopkins Review, Douglas Basford, January 2008
“Sleigh’s [work] is among the most full-bodied, expansive verse being written in America today... Sleigh’s latest collection, Space Walk, is a continuation of the important work in his book just previous, Far Side of the Earth... The arc of memory and the haunting of the deparated are indelible marks. I trust only a handful of poets to write about ghosts—heaney, Merrill, Sleigh...top my list. Sleigh’s hard-earned knowledge of the “nekuia—“Where is the zone,//Imperishable, I must enter?” shows through in the almost-gossamer strangness of his vision. In “Oracle,” perhaps the strongest elegy for a parent I’ve read in recent years, he resurrects his father, a government scientist, on the day of a major test of a Titan rocket...Sleigh has a finely tuned Pop sensibility, as he would put it himself, having quoted Arthur C. Danto on this point in a Bread Loaf lecture that now appears in Interview with a Ghost: “an unembarrassed conviction that life’s shadowy meanings or non meanings lie in its ordinary terrors and troubles, objects and appetites...”
Bookslut, Jason Jones, September 2007
“Tom Sleigh wrote a very fine essay in the Winter 2006 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review. On "Self as Self-Impersonation in American Poetry," Sleigh protests both the merciless exposure of subjectivity of some contemporary poets and theorists and the naively pretheoretical stance of others (he calls this latter view an "almost preliterate hostility") in defending the poetic self. He points out, perfectly reasonably, that an ambivalence about the self -- or, rather, an interest in the possibilities of a contested self -- is a consistent strain in American poetry from Anne Bradstreet to the present. Ultimately, he values "[d]issonance of feeling, the disrelation of 'I' to any settled viewpoint, which is a way of being that seems foreclosed to the 'mind at rest'" in poems, and he wants to find an urgent commitment to these problems whenever he reads...the essay is a valuable jumping-off point for the selves of Space Walk, Sleigh's seventh book of poems....
September 11 , the war in Iraq, sexually transmitted diseases, rape, and the lesser traumas of love and family life are all taken on here, frequently in mini-groupings of poems that set off reverberations of meaning and feeling. I suspect Victor Hanson, the designated classicist for neo-conservative warmongering, will not much care for Sleigh's use of Tacitus, Achilles, and other persons
from that grand tradition -- though he would be the poorer for it. Sleigh binds his interest in the flexibility of the poetic self to a series of experiments in form -- there are many poems that double in on themselves in odd, slanting ways, complicating that "sentimental blueprint, / lacking depth -- / a ruled axis X and Y / whose illusions / were bearable... / then unbearable..." so many of us carry (Sleigh's ellipses). Many have wondered whether we in the West have "grit" enough for the war on terror, a truly weird question Sleigh inverts: in this war, "our knowledge is the knowledge / of drifting sand, grit in the cupboard, / grit under the bed where a doll's head, / button eyes open, lies forgotten." Sleigh's formal control and classicism give these poems a striking authority.
...Space Walk is a fine collection of poems, particularly when viewed from Sleigh's own criteria of self-impersonation. For these poems' conversation with one another yields that "dissonance of feeling" he values. (For example, tracking the idea of necessity, particularly historical necessity, across these poems, is fascinating.) There are many poems that confound political or social engagement with sheer denunciation; Tom Sleigh offers up a quite different relation to the world.”
By Robert Pinsky
Sunday, April 1, 2007; Page BW12
Certain scenes keep returning in memory to represent something essential in a life, the way bits of a movie trailer represent the movie -- a scrap of dialogue, a facial expression, a landscape. Poetry, by creating such a scene in one life -- something Mother once said, for example -- can crystallize and hold up for inspection forces that govern life in general. Poetic attention gives the circumstances of a moment in one life some of the enduring qualities of myth. Here is an extraordinary poem of that kind from Tom Sleigh's new book, “Space Walk”:
Out in the garden, the wind was like a dog
digging in the snow, digging with its nails
to make a bed to lie down in against the freezing air:
and in my exhaustion, my stupefied numb thought
dug and dug its way down to where I knew
you were--though how could I believe it?
Once, your irony and honesty refused
to let you say, "Oh yes, my son the genius!"
when I showed you a poem-- saying with Groucho deadpan,
as you handed me back the paper, the typed words
already a little smudged: "Hopkins is a good poet."
And then you recited, " Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?. . . " winking
at the poets not yet born . . . poets who would
come after me, poets who would not believe
there was any such woman as you,
who would say of them and their poetry,
shrugging a little, smiling your sly, lopsided grin:
"How old are you, hon? From what I've read,
your sex life must be very important to you."
Digging in the snow, digging with its nails
down deep in the snow, the wind kept trying
to hollow a hole deep enough to escape its own bitter
blowing of snow around the frozen garden.
The casual, good-humored, even detached language of "with Groucho deadpan" does not conceal the fact that this little moment leaves not just a wound, but a scar. The specific dialogue between mother and son, the image of the restless wind churning snow with doglike persistence, the phrase quoted from Gerard Manley Hopkins, the unsettled and unsettling mixture of comedy and wound, communication and rage are elements that have all the tremendous, expansive and universal eloquence of the particular.
—Publishers Weekly (Mar. 2007)
Sleigh (The Far Side of the Earth) has slowly, and justly, won a reputation for his clean-lined, sinewy poems about tough men, wounded bodies and all the forms of strength—intellectual, moral, aural, physical, emotional. His seventh book of verse...may be his saddest and most humane. Stanzas about Homeric violence, and about its modern counterparts, frame understated, nearly tearful depictions of troubled lovers (gay and straight), grieving survivors and the last days of the poet's father, "moving with the clumsy gestures/ Of a man in a space suit—the strangeness of death/ Moving among the living." A Gerhardt Richter painting conjures reincarnations of Hercules, compelled by mean gods to "the fate he must fulfill, slaughtering/ with his club whatever comes into his way"; drag shows suggest obituaries; radio broadcasts look forward to the Earth's end; and the Middle East, ancient and modern, echoes with emblems of oblivion: "We will be covered by the dune,/ and uncovered in time." Body and mind, for Sleigh, must die together, and their mutual sadness, incomprehension and struggle generates each poem. This serious focus, the well-managed ancient Greek analogues and the wrung-out credibility of the best stanzas belong to nobody but Sleigh.
—American Poet: The Jounral of the Academy of American Poets

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August 26, 2014
New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte stars in the latest ad from Republican Scott P. Brown, her former Senate colleague from Massachusetts who is trying to oust Granite State Democrat Jeanne Shaheen.
August 25, 2014
LOUDON, N.H. — Will the 2014 midterms prove the death-knell for the traditional New Hampshire town hall?
Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott P. Brown and his backers have been relentless in pushing the case that the Democratic rival he’s trying to unseat, New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, has eschewed the traditional format in a way that dodges tough questions from ordinary Granite State voters about supporting President Barack Obama’s agenda.
But should Shaheen and several other Democrats on the ballot in New Hampshire prevail, even in an unfavorable national climate, it might be grounds to reconsider the town hall format even for national candidates like those aiming to win the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
Shaheen’s argument is that town halls have the propensity to be taken over by outside interest groups. She brushed off the Republican criticism last week, after an official Senate and Department of Agriculture event at a local farm.
August 18, 2014
DERRY, N.H. – Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has returned to New Hampshire to campaign — but this time, it’s for former Sen. Scott P. Brown.
“It is with great nostalgia I come back again to my second favorite state,” McCain told a Pinkerton Academy auditorium, where he stumped for Brown, a Massachusetts Republican waging an uphill battle to unseat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Granite State Democrat.
In predictable fashion, McCain joined Brown for what was billed as a foreign policy town hall meeting, at times taking charge as Monday’s star attraction. The event was part of a broader “New Hampshire Speaks” tour for Brown, but audience questions ran the gamut, even touching on impeachment.
“I’m a realist. That’s not going to happen,” Brown said of impeaching the president, instead pushing his stump speech about Shaheen’s record of voting with President Barack Obama and Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
“It would require 67 votes in the United States Senate for an impeachment,” McCain said. Full story
August 4, 2014
Three months before Election Day, it’s clear some senators may not return to Congress after the midterms — and that’s mostly good news for Republicans.
The GOP’s path to the Senate majority includes a mix of open seats and targeted Democratic incumbents. The two most vulnerable seats are in South Dakota and West Virginia, where Democratic senators are retiring. Republicans also have opportunities in open seats in Iowa and, to a lesser degree, Michigan.
But even if they are victorious in those states, the GOP must defeat at least two incumbents to reach the net six seats needed for control.
Luckily for Republicans, Democrats make up the vast majority of endangered senators seeking re-election. The GOP has a lengthy catalog of states where it has an opportunity to win, though there is a wide gap betweenthe No. 1 and No. 10 most vulnerable senators — who are ordered by most likely to lose.
Roll Call’s “10 Most Vulnerable Senators” list will be updated monthly ahead of the Nov. 4 elections. For now, here is where the incumbents stand: Full story
July 3, 2014
Updated: July 3, 8:20 a.m. | Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott P. Brown got Mitt Romney’s endorsement in New Hampshire Wednesday — but it might be a while until his comeback bid gets a lift from any of the Republicans seeking the GOP nod in 2016.
Typically, presidential hopefuls hustle to make inroads into the Granite State, which hosts the first primary on the national nominating calendar.
But the GOP’s 2016 prospects are so far staying away from that Senate race for fear of upsetting prickly Republican activists by endorsing Brown, who was a more moderate Republican in the Senate and supports abortion rights.
Brown is the odds-on favorite to win the Republican nomination on Sept. 9, when he will likely defeat former Sen. Robert C. Smith, R-N.H., and former state Sen. Jim Rubens. The GOP nominee will face Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., in November. Full story
June 23, 2014
Democrats are gearing up to unleash the Clinton Dynasty.
They hope deploying the popular former White House occupants could help drum up money and hype in what could be a tough election year for the party. Democrats see the power couple as an asset, especially because Republicans have no singular unifying figure who can hit the trail.
But good thing there’s two of them.
Democratic operatives say each half of the Clinton duo appeals to different segments of the electorate — so assignments to races must be deliberate and strategic.
North of the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi River is former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton territory — replete with voters who have already warmed to electing women to Congress. Former President Bill Clinton, party officials say, plays better in the South and Midwest, where he performed well with traditional Yellow Dog Democrats who relate to the party’s economic message but tend to be more conservative on social issues.
Together, Democratic leaders in the House and Senate say there are few areas where the Clinton duo wouldn’t have a positive impact.
“Both Clintons can go into any competitive district in the country and be enormously helpful to Democratic candidates,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel said. “The second Secretary Clinton is ready, we’d love to have her campaigning for House Democrats.”
May 22, 2014
Senate Majority PAC is up with a new TV ad attacking former Sen. Scott P. Brown, R-Mass., over a report that he attempted to torpedo an energy bill sponsored by the New Hampshire Democrat he’s taking on in his Senate comeback bid.
The ad slams Brown as a carpetbagger and refers to the Huffington Post report last week that Brown had lobbied against an energy efficiency bill backed by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio.
The Democrat-aligned super PAC put approximately $350,000 behind the ad, which will run for two weeks, according to a spokesman. Full story
Tom Steyer, the Democrats’ financial answer to the Koch brothers, has set his sights on specific Senate and gubernatorial races to spend the $100 million he’s earmarked for the midterm elections.
His super PAC, NextGen Climate Action, aims to promote candidates who support action to mitigate the effects of climate change. It was active in last year’s elections for Virginia governor and a vacant Senate seat in Massachusetts.
The group has now targeted the competitive Senate races in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan and New Hampshire, and the Florida, Pennsylvania and Maine gubernatorial contests. It will back the Democratic candidate in each case. Full story
May 16, 2014
Maine’s Angus King, one of two independents serving in the Senate, is endorsing two colleagues on Friday: New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen and Maine Republican Susan Collins.
Collins, who lost to King in the 1994 gubernatorial race, is a solid favorite for re-election, despite the fact President Barack Obama carried Maine by double digits in both 2008 and 2012.
“I think she’s one of the Senate’s MVP’s — smart, tough, and always willing to listen,” King said in a statement shared with CQ Roll Call. “In my book, she’s a model senator and I’m delighted to support her re-election.”
Despite Collins’ advantage, the endorsement, which was first reported by the Associated Press, is nonetheless noteworthy because King caucuses with Senate Democrats. Collins is being challenged by Democrat Shenna Bellows, who released a statement Friday noting that King gave her a heads-up about his endorsement.
April 23, 2014
Americans for Prosperity is scheduled to air a new ad Wednesday attacking Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., for supporting the president’s health care overhaul law.
In the spot, shared first with CQ Roll Call, a female narrator argues the law has put “your doctors and hospitals further out of reach.”
“What’s health insurance worth, if care isn’t there if you need it?” she asks.
March 24, 2014
Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott P. Brown has been touring New Hampshire relentlessly since announcing earlier this month he is moving toward a challenge to Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen — and his operation is now beginning to take shape.
A Republican source close to Brown said he will likely begin announcing full-time staff for his exploratory committee next week, with Andy Leach remaining senior adviser. A team of allies has helped Brown get a campaign off the ground, including Eric Fehrnstrom, a former Brown and Mitt Romney adviser who toured with Brown over the weekend.
Less than two weeks since entering the race, Brown is still ingratiating himself with the state he’s lived in since December. He’s fighting to prove his Granite State bonafides with an electorate largely aware of his representation of the Bay State in the Senate.
March 14, 2014
Former Sen. Scott P. Brown, R-Mass., announced Friday he is preparing to run for Senate in New Hampshire, kicking off a nearly unprecedented bid to represent a second state in the Senate.
Brown’s decision, unveiled in a speech at the Northeast Republican Leadership Conference in Nashua, N.H., comes 16 months after he was defeated for re-election in the neighboring Bay State by Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
If he wins the Sept. 9 GOP primary and can defeat Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Brown would become just the third person in history — and first since the 1870s — to have represented more than one state in the Senate, according to the Senate Historical Office.
“Starting tomorrow morning, and for the next several weeks, Gail and I will be traveling around the state to introduce ourselves, to ask questions, to speak with everyone of every background — Republicans, independents and Democrats alike — and above all to listen to them and learn of their concerns,” Brown said, according to his prepared remarks. Full story
Fox News has terminated its contract with former Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., ahead of his expected move toward a Senate bid, the network announced Friday.
“Scott Brown’s contributor agreement was officially terminated today once he notified FOX News of his intention to form an exploratory committee to run for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire,” Bill Shine, the network’s executive vice president of programming, said in a statement.
Brown is scheduled to deliver a speech at 4:30 p.m. today in Nashua at the Northeast Republican Leadership Conference, where he may for the first time confirm he is moving closer to launching a Senate campaign in New Hampshire. The Associated Press reported Thursday that Brown has begun reaching out to potential campaign staff and would announce the formation of an exploratory committee as early as today. Full story
January 16, 2014
December 19, 2013
Former Sen. Scott Brown said goodbye to Massachusetts on Thursday, confirming in a statement released to the press that he is moving to New Hampshire.
The Republican has been flirting with a Senate bid in the neighboring Granite State for months. But in the statement published by WMUR, Brown called his move to the Granite State “strictly personal” and said he had “nothing to announce with regard to my future political plans.” Full story


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- Pennsylvania’s community of 10 state-owned universities desires to spice up enrollment by 20% over the subsequent a number of years after seeing it plummet within the final decade.
- Dan Greenstein, chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Greater Training, outlined enrollment benchmarks at a gathering of its governing board this week. PASSHE will purpose so as to add 18,000 extra college students — 11,500 undergraduates, 3,400 graduate college students and three,000 who’re looking for nondegree credentials.
- Greenstein informed the board of governors that bolstering the variety of diploma earners will assist fill employment gaps within the state, together with in sectors like training and well being care.
Pennsylvania’s demographics shall be a headwind to PASSHE reaching its enrollment objectives. The variety of the state’s highschool graduates — the place the system primarily attracts its college students — has slumped within the final decade and is forecasted to drop additional by 2036.
System enrollment has fallen for a couple of decade, dropping from roughly 120,000 college students in 2010 to roughly 88,000 now, partially due to the dearth of highschool graduates. The state has additionally slashed PASSHE’s finances during the last 10 years, which in flip precipitated the system to boost tuition charges. System leaders have stated this pushed out lots of the low- and moderate-income college students it was designed to serve.
PASSHE pursued austerity measures, most notably a current merger of six of its establishments into two, shrinking the variety of system campuses from 14 to 10. Greenstein has stated the consolidation, tuition freezes and extra money-saving efforts have been supposed to reveal to state leaders the system was attempting to vary its practices.
These strikes have been a part of a broader system redesign, which simply entered its third and ultimate section.
And so they’ve paid off thus far. Pennsylvania lawmakers supplied a document $552.5 million for PASSHE’s working finances, a 16% enhance from the earlier fiscal yr and the biggest one-year improve it’s ever acquired. The state authorities additionally handed on to the system $125 million in federal coronavirus support.
On the governing board’s assembly this week, Greenstein described the money infusion as a restoration of state policymakers’ religion within the system. Now, to assist meet employer demand, PASSHE should develop enrollment, he stated.
He acknowledged it’s troublesome to draw new college students amid the projected downturn in highschool graduates. Greenstein stated the system would flip to serving to PASSHE college students who traditionally haven’t accomplished a level — specifically low-income and different deprived populations — in addition to tapping into the market of nontraditional, grownup college students.
He cited statistics exhibiting that 60% of Pennsylvania jobs require a postsecondary credential, however solely about 50% of adults have earned one.
In a press release, Board Chair Cindy Shapira expressed pleasure in regards to the system’s subsequent steps.
“Greater training throughout the nation is evolving, and Pennsylvania’s State System universities are adapting to it,” Shapira stated. “This modern new section of our System Redesign will increase alternatives for college kids to assist them enroll, succeed, graduate, and luxuriate in rewarding careers in Pennsylvania whereas strengthening the schools for the long run.”


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1. The importance of the Penguins getting five of eight points on their four game road trip is it keeps them in contention for the top-seed in the East and they boast one of the easiest remaining schedules. Only four of the Penguins remaining 16 games are against teams currently in a playoff spot.
2. The Steelers way is to always let the frenzy play out and sign third, fourth tier free agents, though, they did look into some second tier guys from Cary Williams, Derek Morgan and Brandon Graham. The Seattle Seahawks are not one of those teams who are nothing but complacent in acquiring Jimmy Graham today.
For the Steelers who are set to give Ben Roethlisberger another $100 million dollar contract, (Roethlisberger is seeking 6 years, $120 million) they will be lucky if they get four more great years out of Roethlisberger. While the Steelers way is often looked as the right way to do business for those who cover the team around here, but if there’s ever a time to go the free agency route it would have been now. With a potential great offense, the Steelers defense needs totally revamped to make that next step into a true Super Bowl type team and when your franchise quarterback is 33 years old with a lot of wear tear, you can’t bank on waiting three to four years for draft picks to become impact players. Surrounding the best possible team around Roethlisberger during his final elite years isn’t likely going to come from fourth, fifth tier free agents and draft picks.
The Colts are in a different situation with a young franchise quarterback but they are realizing the situation where the AFC is wide open with Peyton Manning, Tom Brady entering ladder stages of their career and they went out and added Frank Gore, Andre Johnson and Trent Cole in attempt to get to the next level of being a Super Bowl team.
3. Jason Worilds has over-estimated his market. The Eagles balked at Worilds asking price of what was initially believed to be $9 million per season with around $20 million guaranteed and the Giants are reportedly the latest team to also feel Worilds asking price is too high.
4. Steelers management wants Jarvis Jones to go into this off-season believing he’s the starter and is the reason the Steelers won’t sign Harrison right away. However, Mike Tomlin wants Harrison back and often gets what he wants when it comes to personnel decisions. The chances of the Steelers signing Harrison at somepoint before the season are looked at by some close to the situation as better than 50%.
5. Patrick Willis is an example of a player who decided to go out on his own terms. At Age 30, Willis stunned those in NFL circles, announcing his retirement this week. Few athletes have it in them to walk away from the money ($7.8 million) when they start to realize they might be slipping a bit and Willis is a rare one who likely still had a few impact seasons, even pro bowl ones left in him. Despite playing just eight seasons, no question he’s a Hall of Famer. One of the most dominant players at his position for a 5-6 year period.


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The venerable .22″ Lee Enfield No.8 rifle will continue in cadet use beyond its retirement date of 30th September – but on a “waste out” basis without spares or refurbishments, sources tell UK Shooting News.
The No.8 safety case – the essential set of documents which underpins the rifle’s suitability to use in Ministry of Defence service – is due to be extended beyond September in order to avoid a “capability gap”, say UKSN’s sources. We understand this means that while the existing fleet will continue in service, refurbishments will no longer take place.
This appears to be a U-turn on the MoD’s previous position, which stated unambiguously that the No.8 safety case would not be extended any further than it already has been.
In effect, if a No.8 breaks it will now be cannibalised for spare parts to keep the remainder serviceable. It is unlikely cadet units will see replacements for rifles condemned under such conditions.
Although procurement of a replacement .22 rifle is currently under way, the winner of the competition has yet to be announced. People familiar with the matter further tell UKSN that the eventual purchase of new rifles will be scaled back heavily due to budget pressures. The original contract, worth about £6m, will not go ahead in full and the original order will be scaled back to around 750 rifles.
On a 2-per-unit basis, as the No.8 was originally issued on, this would barely equip a third of the single service cadet units across the country – let alone school CCF units. Clearly, the No.8 will continue in service for a while yet.
The precise number of No.8s in MoD service is not precisely known but is likely to be in the mid-thousands. Serial numbers of rifles on issue range from the very low (A43 being the lowest your correspondent has seen himself) to the very high (A22742 being the highest number mentioned on the most excellent Historic Arms Resource Centre page for the No.8).
Save the No.8s!
Public pressure continues to have the No.8 fleet released to the public for the use of target shooters and historic collectors. It would be a travesty if these 70-yr-old national treasures were destroyed rather than preserved for posterity.
Although reports on UKSN and elsewhere paint a picture of a rifle fleet on its last legs, this situation arises mainly because the MoD does not let cadet units service their rifles – or make arrangements for gunsmiths to maintain them locally. Instead, defective No.8s must be returned to hard-pressed service armourers, often to remedy problems which judicious application of a screwdriver could solve.
As a single-shot hand fed .22″ rifle, there are few parts on the No.8 rifle which cannot be serviced or replaced by a competent civilian gunsmith. The majority of small spare parts are interchangeable with the .303″ No.4 rifle, for which there is a thriving market in spares, while specialist gunsmiths have begun limited production runs of certain No.8 components to serve those collectors with rare private examples.
Postscript: Do any UKSN readers have a decent photo of a No.8 rifle that they wouldn’t mind this blog using? If you do, please let us know in the comments below.


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Great place to meet for a drink and have a good meal.
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The title says it all! We had a wonderful Friday evening. A complete experiencbe with very fresh and tasty food.
7/26/2013 12:00:00 AM
The better Mexican food experience
My wife and I had a very enjoyable beginning of our weekend on Friday evening. Never disappointing.
11/14/2013 4:00:00 PM

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I just heard that there’s a software update for the Apple iPhone. I want it! But I’m confused: how do I update the software on my phone?
The key thing to realize here is that you don’t update the firmware (well, operating system, software, whatever you want to call it) on your phone, you update the mirrored firmware on your synchronized computer and then it automatically copies it onto the phone the next time you sync.
For example, here’s how I did the update with my Mac…
I plugged in my 16GB iPhone 3G to my MacBook Air and instantly got this:
Next screen shows this:
That’s basically all there is. Just wait. And wait. And eventually you’ll see:
How can you tell? Easy. On your phone click Settings –> General –> About and you should see:
Too much work? iTunes will show you your latest firmware version too:


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Welcome to Paradise! Well, not heaven exactly. The complete name is Paradise Waterhole, and it is part of Crystal Creek which flows down the Great Dividing Range and, at some times of the year, reaches the Coral Sea.
From Townsville you get there by driving north on the Bruce Highway. Over Cassowary Creek. Over Healy Creek - is that named after the forefathers of Australia’s former wicketkeeper? Must ask Ian during the Brisbane Test. Over Leichhardt Creek - ah, Leichhardt, the German explorer who was the historical basis for Voss, the finest Australian novel, by Patrick White. He crossed the Range in the 1840s, walked into the interior and was never seen again.
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Hi, in this post I'll quickly show you how you can start testing the functionalities and look and feel of a SAP CRM business role. The reason why you might want to do so, is because you started out a new SAP CRM project, and based on the Request for Proposal you have an idea about which standard SAP Business role most of the required functionalities are available in. Without needing to really customize your own customer specific business role, you just want to launch let's say the standard SALESPRO or SERVICEPRO business role.
At a real go-live, in most companies I have been involved implementing SAP CRM the
approach(es) for assigning a certain business role to and End-user are:
1) via the assignment of the employee in the organisational model
2) via the PFCG role assignd to the users SU01 master record (the one you also have defined in business role customizing)
3) via the SU01 User PARAMETER CRM_UI_PROFILE
Now being a consultant, and to really get a quickstart in testing out the functionalities of a specific business role, I am what concerns this article referring to the 3d option, so using the parameter CRM_UI_PROFILE.
How to use this:
1) you should know the name of the business role(s) you want to give a test-run
2) in the SAPGUI, launch the transaction code SU3 (normally everyone get's the authorization rights to use this transaction code) - assuming you did not get SU01 authorization access on the development sytem.
3) The values for this User Parameter you can maintain are either:
- a business role name
Launch the transaction code SU3:
Click on the tabpage "Parameters" and fill out the parameter name "CRM_UI_PROFILE" and add the value * (asterisk)
If I now logon in the CRM WEBUI, I will (normally) see a list of all business roles defined in the SAP CRM system. I can click on one from this list and start testing that particular business role.
Remark: I am in this case of course assuming you have the necessary authorizations in the first place.
Example 2: I already know the name of a particular business role I want to test.
In this case, instead of putting the Value *¨in the User Parameter, I enter e.g. the business role name SALESPRO.
When now logging on in the SAP CRM WEBUI, I do not get a selection list to choose from , but immediately launch the SAP CRM WEB UI using that particular business role.
Using the CTRL+ALT+F2 button combination, you can see I am actually logged in with the business role SALESPRO.
Remark: as you will read below in the comments you OBVIOUSLY also need to have the "right" PFCG authorization roles to actually be able to do anything!! Assignment of a BUSINESS role is 1 thing, assigning of corresponding authorization roles/values another thing.


June 12, 1989
Hundreds of Angolans are fleeing into neighboring Namibia to escape fighting between right-wing rebels and Angolan government troops, a Namibian government spokesman said. Up to 700 Angolans were reported to have entered northern Namibia, causing a major headache for U.N. officials, who are preparing to repatriate thousands of Namibians after years of exile. An international airlift of Namibian refugees starts today, the latest stage in the colony's U.N.-organized transition to independence from South Africa.
April 12, 1989 |
The U.N. peacekeepers had just stepped down from their trucks in remote bushland on the Namibian border here Tuesday when they had their first run-in with South African troops--over where to put up the blue-and-white U.N. flag. The South Africans had constructed a sturdy flagpole, next to their own flag, for the banner marking the opening of a U.N. assembly point for South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) rebels seeking refuge and safe passage back into Angola. But Australian army Sgt. Dave Sinai, of the U.N. contingent, was worried that the guerrillas would shy away if the U.N. flag were flying too close to the South African bunkers.
April 15, 1989 |
South African military intelligence detected a buildup of rebel forces across the Namibian border with Angola back in January. South Africans monitored guerrilla meetings, saw the arrival of fresh uniforms and heard talk of an invasion to "finally chase the Boers out." But when South African officials complained to the world, as they often do, few believed them. Just as South Africa had warned, though, the guerrilla buildup developed into a major cross-border incursion by the South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO)
April 23, 1989 |
Winds whipping off Antarctic Ocean currents are stopped cold here by the steep, apricot-colored dunes of one of the world's oldest deserts. The progeny is the Swakopmund fog, gripping a mostly uninhabitable stretch of African beachfront longer than the California coast. Such mischief from Mother Nature has made Namibia the continent's hidden, forgotten colony. Its raw landscape, flanked on the east and west by the Kalahari and Namib deserts, has been sealed off from most of the world for centuries.
March 22, 1990 |
Tens of thousands of Namibians took to the streets Wednesday in a riot of pomp, color and pageantry to celebrate their nation's independence. The world's newest nation, which became the 160th member of the United Nations, launched a massive street party to mark the end of colonial domination, first by imperial Germany and since 1915 by neighboring South Africa. President Sam Nujoma and his Cabinet were installed by U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar.
May 10, 1992 |
A 19-year-old model and part-time masseuse from the African nation of Namibia was named Miss Universe on Saturday. "I'm just the lucky one. My fellow contestants are just as beautiful," Michelle McLean told reporters. Miss Colombia, 21-year-old university student Paola Turbay, was first runner-up, and Miss India, 20-year-old model Madhushri Sapre, took third place. There were 78 contestants. McLean won $250,000 and a sports car.


COUNCIL tax will be frozen in Hillingdon for a third year running, the council’s leader has said.
Councillor Ray Puddifoot, speaking to the Gazette before Hillingdon Council’s draft budget announcement, said there would probably be a £16-million reduction in the grant it receives from government – but again no tax rise to help cover it.
The Treasury grant designed to help local authorities temporarily freeze council tax has been extended for another year.
Mr Puddifoot said despite the expected £16million shortfall in 2012-13 – on top of £26million savings this year – frontline services would be protected.
“We won’t know the full details of the government’s settlement until next week but we have already decided to freeze council tax and protect frontline services,” he said.
“There will be no library closures or reduction in rubbish collections. It will be an even tougher budget than last year but we have planned for it. Although the reduction in our grant will be less than this year, it gets more difficult.”
Mr Puddifoot has pledged not to increase council tax for the over-65s for four years. Other residents may see a 2.5 per cent rise from 2013-14.
Mr Puddifoot said the council would not need to resort to drastic tax rises in future to catch up although inflation is running at more than five per cent. The cabinet meets on December 15 to vote through its draft budget.


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- Spermicides prevent pregnancy by stopping sperm from getting to the egg.
- Spermicides alone do not protect against STIs and HIV – it’s best to use with condoms.
- You can have an allergic reaction to spermicides.
Spermicides are a type of vaginal barrier method. They prevent pregnancy by acting as a barrier to sperm so they can’t reach and fertilize one of the eggs that your ovaries produce each month. If you decide to use a spermicide, you need to use it every time you have sexual intercourse. Make sure you wash your hands before you put any of these contraceptives into your vagina. Women who are allergic to nonoxynol-9 should not use any method that contains spermicide or works with spermicide. Women who are having frequent daily intercourse may increase their risk of getting HIV if they use spermicides because of vaginal irritation. Condoms are much more effective than spermicide at preventing pregnancy, STIs, and HIV.
|Out of 100 women using spermicides|
|Typical use: 28 women become pregnant|
|Perfect use: 18 women become pregnant|
What are spermicides?
There are different forms of spermicides, including vaginal creams, foams, films, suppositories, and sponges. Spermicides work by forming a chemical barrier that either kills sperm or paralyzes them. So the sperm can’t pass through your cervix to fertilize the egg.
Spermicides can be used alone as a form of contraception, but they are much more effective when used with another type.
Where can I get spermicide?
You can get spermicide over-the-counter at drug stores. No prescription is needed. It costs between $0.50-$1.50 per use, and about $8 per package.
How effective is spermicide against pregnancy?
Spermicide alone is one of the less effective forms of contraception against pregnancy.
If women use spermicide every time they have sexual intercourse and follow instructions perfectly every time, it is 82% effective. This means that if 100 women use spermicide all the time and always use it correctly, 18 women will become pregnant in a year.
If women use spermicide, but not perfectly, it is 72% effective. This means that if 100 women use spermicide, 28 women or more will become pregnant in a year.
Does spermicide protect against STIs?
No. It is much better to use condoms for STI and HIV protection.
What kinds of spermicide are there and how do I use them?
Contraceptive foam, which is a spermicide in an aerosol form, is inserted deep into your vagina using a small applicator. Contraceptive cream or jelly can also be inserted deep into the vagina with a small applicator. Contraceptive creams or jellies are good to use with diaphragms and cervical caps. Follow the directions on the package. You should insert foams, creams, or jellies no more than 30-60 minutes before you have intercourse. You should wait several minutes after you insert them before you have intercourse.
The small, oval-shaped vaginal suppositories are placed deep in the vagina and release a contraceptive foam 10-15 minutes after you insert one. Because of this, you should not have intercourse until 15 minutes after insertion, so there is time for the foaming to occur.
A vaginal contraceptive film (VCF) is a 2-inch by 2-inch flat package with wax paper-like tissues, each containing the spermicide nonoxynol-9. You should put the film on a dry fingertip and insert it up into the vagina at least 15 minutes before you have intercourse.
The effectiveness of the spermicides usually lasts only for about an hour, so you will need to insert more if you are having sexual intercourse for more than an hour. Each time you have sexual intercourse, you should insert more spermicide into your vagina.
What about douching after intercourse?
Douching is not recommended after intercourse. There are no benefits and it is not safe because it can cause an increased risk in pelvic inflammatory disease, bacterial vaginosis (an infection of the vagina), and ectopic pregnancy (implantation of the fertilized egg outside of the uterus). Your body makes everything it needs to keep it clean. All you should be using to clean the outside of your vagina is water and soap. However, if you decide to douche in spite of this warning, you should wait at least 6 hours after intercourse so that the spermicide does not get washed away.
Are there any problems with spermicides?
Some women are allergic to spermicides, while others have some irritation in or around their vagina. You are more likely to get urinary tract infections. If you are having frequent daily intercourse, you may be more likely to get HIV.
What if I have problems with spermicides?
You should call your health care provider if you have any of the following:
- Soreness in your vagina
- Rash in or around your vagina
- Discharge that smells bad or that comes in a larger amount than normal

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I’m in the delightful South Carolina low country, looking out at egrets in the marsh, and the kids are asking when we’re going into town — so I have more important things to do than hold forth at length on the Supreme Court’s Arizona decision. But the initial headlines on Twitter tell you something about the news sources. Reuters: “U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Tough Arizona Immigration Law, in Defeat for Obama”; Univision: “Supreme Court Strikes Down Most of Arizona Immigration Law.”
Reuters is right. Ask the man on the street what he thinks the Arizona law is about (whether he’s for it or against) and he’d say the requirement that police check legal status of people they encounter in lawful stops — and that’s the part that was upheld by the Court. The other three provisions that were challenged were preempted by federal law, according to the Court, but could you even name what those parts are? Making it a state misdemeanor for an illegal alien to apply for employment would be nice, for instance, but it’s not even a federal crime yet.
In any case, the core of the law was upheld, and will no doubt start being implemented. So let the next wave of lawsuits begin!


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The film's striking visual precision is the result of cutting-edge photogrammetry, a process by which objects can be modelled and places mapped through thousands of photographs. It's a technique often associated with archaeology and Creamer's work has undoubtedly involved archaeological processes of excavation and reconstruction. Through dedicated archival research she has collaged together words and phrases dug up from letters and diary entries by John Soane and others, threading together a three-act choral libretto of lamentation and loss.
By all accounts, John Soane never got over Eliza's death. His architecture is imbued with mourning and the public performance of widowhood became an important part of his identity. For nineteen years after her death, he ensured that Eliza's bedroom was maintained unchanged. In effect, the room became a museum – materially the same as it had been during Eliza's life but, in terms of function and significance, altered completely. In Creamer's film reconstruction, every object is imbued with emotional significance and symbolic possibility. As the libretto laments the coldness of a corpse's hands, we see the objects those hands once touched: a small Wedgwood urn painted with flowers by Eliza, or a cherished pair of embroidered gloves (to keep living hands from being touched by dirt or time). An unlit candle and a stopped clock gesture towards the possibility of a moment fixed in perpetuity.


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On Jan. 18 inside Kensington’s Trinity Presbyterian Church, a small group gathered in an attempt to solve a very large problem.
Led by organizer and facilitator D. Michael Blackie, the Port Richmond West Community Action Network (CAN) met to fix one specific issue and, as residents with concerns, to discuss issues of blight and crime in the neighborhood.
The group invited city officials to the church to explore how residents and government workers can work together to clean up decaying properties and tackle drug-related crime.
In attendance were Assistant District Attorney Beth Grossman, chief of the Nuisance Property Task Force; Fran Burns, commissioner of the city Department of Licenses and Inspections; newly inaugurated City Councilman Mark Squilla (D- 1st dist.); and Sgt. Jim Morace, of the 24th Police District.
They addressed topics ranging from how to maintain private property to how to report neighborhood crimes. Drug-dealing, robberies and prostitution were cited during the meeting as particular concerns.
In the residents’ section of the city, dilapidated and abandoned houses are a considerable problem; their concern is that rundown, vacant properties can give way to higher pockets of crime, especially drug-dealing on neglected street corners.
“Folks have been angry and upset, and they have every right to be,” said Blackie, a former newspaper editor who is Port Richmond West CAN’s chief organizer. “After we got together and organized, what came out of that were problems upon problems, such as vacant houses, drug corners and drug houses. Our objective is to educate people about keeping their property clean, which can be anything from putting your trash out the right day to sweeping up the sidewalk.”
Blackie made it clear to city officials at the meeting that he and other residents are eager to help in any way they can.
“A lot of the crime we complain about we can do something about. We don’t deserve to be held captive in our own neighborhood, because if our neighborhood is doing well, then so are its people,” he said.
In turn, the officials at the session told the people much the same thing.
ldquo;I look at this neighborhood and I see a lot of problems, but problems that can be fixed,” said Squilla. “There is empty land and places that can be rehabbed, which would be incentive for people to want to move to this neighborhood. We want to work toward solutions to crime and any other complaints you have. We can’t promise to do everything you want, but we’re here to listen.”
The agencies led by Burns and Grossman figure prominently in any strides achieved by the neighborhood. As L&I commissioner, Burns oversees a department that issues permits for construction alterations and notices of code violations to property owners.
If an owner does not respond to a violation after three attempts at contact over 90 days, the person can be taken to court and potentially lose the property if violations aren’t remedied.
Of the approximately 25,000 vacant properties in the city, Burns’ office has cleaned and sealed about 1,500 of them (with about 600 subsequent demolitions). There is still plenty of work to be done.
“It’s a constant struggle,” Burns said.
As for Grossman, the assistant district attorney, her task force is a legal conduit that aids neighborhood residents.
“If your safety and quality of life are affected by a property in the neighborhood, then you are a victim,” said Grossman, a veteran of the district attorney’s office for nearly 20 years. “Your home is your castle, and you have every right to feel safe there. If you think any illegal activity is taking place, call our hotline (215-686-5858) and report as much detail as possible. We don’t deal with bad behavior, but we can deal with properties where bad behavior is coming from.”
In the end, Burns, Grossman, Squilla and Morace delivered the same message: We’re here to help you if neighbors, in turn, help us.
If deteriorating properties are reported to the proper offices, the hope is that the neighborhood eventually will turn around.
“Whether it’s private homes or corner bars and liquor stores, the problems with the properties are clear as day,” said resident Theresa Farrell. “They produce drug dealers, prostitution, fights, stabbings, shootings, stickups and robberies. How are you supposed to walk by with your children? It’s not something you can’t see — it’s everywhere in the community.”
Blackie reiterated the theme that everyone has to work toward the same goals.
“We are one community and all need to work together, no matter where you live,” he said. “We need to take back our corners; that’s why we’re here. People want to talk about what the police don’t do to help us, but a lot of it is about what we can do, too. If you put your feet to the beat and don’t just open your mouth, a lot of good can be done.” ••

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Rachael Tuff may be Kaetlyn Osmond’s biggest fan, but she may also just be the province’s next big skating star.
The 11-year-old figure skater from Witless Bay recently capped off a big year by skating away with an Atlantic Canadian Championship. Rachael represented Newfoundland and Labrador at the tournament, skating down 15 competitors from across Atlantic Canada in Halifax. It was the biggest competition of her burgeoning skating career.
“It was amazing,” said Rachael, when asked how she felt at the competition. “I wasn’t nervous, I was just excited because I’m used to competitions now.”
“I think Mom and Dad get more nervous than she does now,” noted Rachael’s father, Danny Tuff, laughing.
The Atlantic Canadian Championship was an enormous highlight this year for the young skater who won a number of provincial awards earlier in the season as well — four gold and two silver medals in total. The strong performances earned Rachael a small bursary from Skate Canada who recognized the potential in the young skater. Next, she will attend a seminar in Toronto in May, and will also be working on a new short program with Lance Vipond, the choreographer who has designed Osmond’s successful programs.
However, the biggest highlight of the year for Rachael may well be the opportunity to meet her hero face to face. After a successful competition year, the Witless Bay figure skater was selected by Skate Canada Newfoundland and Labrador to greet Osmond at the airport when the 2018 World Figure Skating Champion returned from Seoul, South Korea.
“It was really exciting,” said Rachael. “I told her I think she inspires skaters from Newfoundland.”
It was a special moment where two champions met, and perhaps, despite the 11-year age gap, they may one day meet on the ice. For now, however, the young skater is content seeing Osmond as an idol to inspire her skating goals and aspirations, not as a potential competitor.
“Kaetlyn Osmond is such an important inspiration to her skating,” said Rachael’s father. “For her to have met her at the airport that day…it was a really special moment… To have Kaetlyn Osmond from Newfoundland win a world championship, it really inspires young skaters”
As for Rachael’s father, he also was excited about the chance to meet his idols.
“I got to meet Kaetlyn’s parents,” said Tuff. “They’re my role models.”


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2020-11-08 Wanderung am Ochsenkopf
Mac went for a hike.
November 8, 2020
But lunch tastes good now, we always go after dinner😄😄👍
Say the planning is right in Brittany because the year is correct. ??
We're going for another walk with a couple of friends. And the planning is for 2022, when it will be decided where my nephew and brother want to go. You can choose from Brittany, Wales or Slovakia.
Had the Koomot planning for Scotland 2020 ready, ferry, campsites and student hotel Edinburgh and then Corona😥😢😭 came
Oh, that's a shame😪😪. Scotland is very beautiful, my brother, my nephew and I went cycling there in 2004 and my brother and I in 2006.