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Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 3:57pm
Milton man arrest for alleged drug possession
Updated Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 9:27pm
A Milton man was arrested yesterday (Wednesday) evening for the possession of drugs in Wilmington.
State Police say Michael N. Lopez was driving his car and failed to signal before making a turn at the intersection of Lancaster and North Jackson Street in Wilmington.
He put his vehicle in reverse and hit the trooper's vehicle, and then drove forward hitting another police vehicle while trying to flee.
Lopez was taken into custody and police found over 34-thousand dollars worth of heroin and one gram of marijuana.
The convicted felon was committed to Howard Correctional Institution in lieu of 122-thousand dollars cash bail.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) — All of the usually expected groups were in attendance at this year’s March for Life in Washington Jan. 22, the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.
There were busloads of students from Catholic schools and Catholic universities, evangelical churches, conservative action groups and more.
However, one group gathered beside the Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall touting nose rings and fluorescent hair was far from the typical pro-life crowd.
The Pro-Life Alliance, a coalition of “nontraditional” organizations that have banded together for the protection of the unborn, held its first news conference an hour before the March for Life rally began.
Aimee Murphy, the group’s founder and spokeswoman, addressed the media, stating the alliance’s mission is to bring all of its groups together to “abolish abortion regardless of religious stance, political affiliation … economics, that sort of thing” and to show that there are nontraditional pro-lifers “in the movement.”
According to Murphy, alliance members “will all work together to abolish abortion.”
Upon starting the news conference, Murphy reiterated the group’s stance to unite “atheists, pagans, Buddhists, Muslims and Jews” on the issue of the sanctity of human life and dignity. “Being pro-life does not have to be a Catholic thing, an evangelical thing or even a conservative thing; we at the Pro-Life Alliance coalition intend to show unity in the pro-life issue in light of and despite of our diversity.”
Murphy went on to say that “alienation of nontraditional groups in the pro-life movement has made them inactive and apathetic” and that the pro-life movement is better served by “remaining united in diversity, rather than creating division by infighting.”
The groups in the alliance include Life Matters Journal, Feminists for Nonviolent Choices, New Wave Feminists, Secular Pro-Life, And Then There Were None — Pro-Life Outreach, Democrats for Life of America and Consistent Life, with more groups “who will be signing on in the days and months to come.”
According to Murphy, “you could outlaw abortion with Republicans alone or with Christians alone, but you cannot create a culture of life without the support of every human being; peace cannot be attained by mere factions.”
Other speakers from groups such as New Wave Feminists and the Democrats for Life of America followed Murphy in stating their desire to create a culture of life across all walks of life.
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As is often the case in fight week with world titles on the line, all is not quite as it seems.
Challenger Alexander Povetkin is a 39-year-old adrenaline junkie who would celebrate an upset win by treating himself to a parachute jump.
Meanwhile, the unified champion – a man 11 years his junior – has been mulling stage-of-life issues.
"I've got to the stage where [I think] what do I live for?" IBF, WBA and WBO king Anthony Joshua told reporters. "What am I doing? Who am I impressing? I'm in the gym. You get to a mid-life crisis and you just don't care no more. It's one of those things.
"And then you know what it's like when you're younger; I want to be heavyweight champion of the world. You become it and you think it is going to change your whole life, but I've realised it doesn't.
"I'm just still sitting here, small room, content with my flat and I just hit a wall where I was like: 'you know what, I just don't care anymore'.
"This is my life, I have got to stick with it and that's probably why I haven't bothered to cut my hair because I have got nothing to cut it for."
Coiffure issues aside, Joshua looks in typically imposing physical shape as he prepares to take on a a fellow former Olympic champion who has lost just once in 35 fights.
Povetkin's loss was to Wladimir Klitschko, who famously came close to dethroning Joshua in a Wembley epic 17 months ago. It was the night the Briton became a superstar, climbing from the canvas and riding out a mid-fight crisis to separate the great Ukrainian from his senses with a thunderous 11th-round uppercut.
Stadium extravaganzas are Joshua's new normal. He returns to England's national stadium having bested Carlos Takam and Joseph Parker in front of 80,000 fans in Cardiff.
We saw a new side to the knockout machine last time out as he added Parker's WBO strap to his collection. Joshua controlled the range with improved footwork that nullified the New Zealander's speed, seeing out the championship distance for the first time.
By the time a unanimous decision win was announced in the Welsh capital, public demand was already pulling in another direction. Now it was time for motormouth WBC king Deontay Wilder. All of the belts.
Negotiations between Joshua and Wilder's camps proved fractious, increasingly embittered and frustrating. Step forward a certain Tyson Fury.
The undefeated former champion and Wilder are poised to announce a date and venue for their end-of-year showdown and have been able to trade from the position of giving the public what they want, while Joshua deals with a smaller, aging foe who has served a doping ban.
Fury's two comeback bouts have proved pitiful spectacles and, with nothing to lose, he was always going to prove an easier negotiation for Wilder. But in tandem they have won the PR battle and will loom over Joshua's weekend work.
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A growing list of Democratic lawmakers have joined a boycott of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration this Friday in the latest effort to undermine the Republican’s presidency even before it begins.
As of Tuesday, dozens of congressional Democrats have publicly announced they will be boycotting the swearing-in ceremony, including Representatives Jerrold Nadler, Adriano Espaillat, Jose Serrano, Nydia Velazquez of New York, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois; Marc Pocan of Wisconsin; John Conyers of Michigan; Raul Grijalva of Arizona; Katherine Clark of Massachusetts; Kurt Schrader and Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, Lacy Clay of Missouri, and Barbara Lee, Mark Takano, Mark DeSaulnier, Jared Huffman, Ted Lieu and Judy Chu of California.
Also not attending is Texas Rep. Al Green who said, "I will not attend the inauguration because my conscience says it is the right thing to do," referencing Martin Luther King, Jr. in his decision.
In a statement issued on Sunday, California Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard said, "I thought long and hard about attending the Inauguration because I value our democracy and respect the office of the presidency, regardless of party. However, the disparaging remarks the President-elect has made about many groups, including women, Mexicans, and Muslims, are deeply contrary to my values. As a result, I will not be attending the Inauguration.”
Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison said, "I will not celebrate a man who preaches a politics of division and hate. I won't be attending Donald Trump's inauguration." Ellison, who is running for chairman of the Democratic National Committee, tweeted this statement on Monday.
Tennessee Rep Steve Cohen said, “This president semi-elect does not deserve to be President of the United States. He has not exhibited the characteristics and the values that we hold dear."
Georgia congressman John Lewis, who gained fame in the 1960s for his involvement in the civil rights movement, was the first to declare his refusal to participate in the inauguration, going so far as to say he did not recognize Trump’s November win or his presidency as legitimate.
Speaking with NBC last week, Lewis claimed Russia was responsible for the outcome of the 2016 election.
“I don’t see this President-elect as a legitimate president,” Lewis said.
In a further snub to the incoming president, Lewis declared that for the first time since taking office in 1987, he would skip the presidential inauguration.
A string of other Democratic representatives quickly joined suit, with dozens more still undecided, including Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown, both associated with the left-wing of the party.
Rep. Sean Duffy (R., Wis.) on Tuesday told Democratic members of Congress who are skipping President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration to “put your big boy pants on.”
As an increasing number of Democratic lawmakers are deciding to forego the inauguration, Duffy responded on CNN.
Duffy said he was not happy after President Obama won his election but Republicans did not boycott his inauguration.
“Listen, Democrats lost, Donald Trump won,” Duffy said. “You may not like him, you might not agree with his agenda just like we didn’t agree with President Obama’s agenda, but show up.”
“In the future, what happens with the next Democrat presidential-elect that goes to their nomination? Are Republicans now supposed to say that we’re going to stay home, that these events become partisan in nature?” Duffy continued. “That’s bad for the country. Show up, be part of it, put your big boy pants on, and let’s start working together.”
The New York Post reported on January 1st that Donald Trump's advisers invited Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to the inauguration ceremony. The Trump transition team led by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, contacted Netanyahu regarding Netanyahu's participation in the ceremony.
"There’s a plan for Trump to meet with Netanyahu. They’re talking all the time. And Netanyahu is talking about possibly going to the inauguration," a source close to Trump said. According to a report on INN, however, Netanyahu has turned down the invitation to the inauguration. Some pundits have speculated that Netanyahu’s disinclination from attending may be linked to the ongoing investigations against him in Israel.
Immediately after the presidential elections, Netanyahu called Trump to congratulate him. Immediately following the elections, Trump invited Netanyahu to visit the US "at the earliest possible opportunity."
Trump has continuously emphasized that Israel is “very important” to him and has also promised to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
According to an INN report, Likud MKs Sharren Haskel and Yehuda Glick may become the first Israeli lawmakers to attend the inauguration.
MKs Haskel and Glick confirmed Tuesday that they had received invitations to attend the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Donald Trump this Friday and had accepted.
Haskel said that she was "honored to be invited to the inauguration ceremony, which is a historic occasion, and at the same time continue to strengthen the relations between Israel and the US. As part of my diplomatic experience I have had the opportunity to meet with officials from the American government in order to foster cooperation [between the US and Israel. I will continue to work to strengthen our great alliance with the US."
MK Glick was born in the US and remained an American citizen until he was forced to give up his citizenship when he joined the Knesset last year.
Glick told the Times of Israel that he was attending the inauguration to show his support for the US and its relationship with Israel, not to support President-elect Donald Trump. "I am not going to Washington to show support for Trump’s candidacy. But as far as I know the elections are over, and he’s been elected president.”
Several leaders of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria also accepted invitations to attend the inauguration, including Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan, Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi; and Ma'aleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel.
Professor Eitan Gilboa, an expert on US-Israeli relations at Bar-Ilan University’s BESA Center for Strategic Studies, called the attendance to the inauguration of a foreign leader by Israeli officials "unprecedented."
“I don’t recall any participation of Israeli officials at an inauguration during the entire history of the State of Israel,” Gilboa said.
Last Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson outlined the massive security preparations for the inauguration during a briefing at the Multi Agency Communications Center at a secret location in Virginia.
NPR reported at that room, dozens of representatives from an alphabet soup of different agencies will gather to monitor events starting on Thursday, with a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, through next Saturday's prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral.
But the main focus will be Friday's swearing in of the 45th president and the inaugural parade from the Capitol to the White House. Johnson says officials expect from 700,000 to 900,000 spectators to attend the Inauguration Day ceremonies. He said 99 groups are expected to rally in favor of or against the new president.
Johnson said officials "know of no specific credible threat directed toward the inauguration." But they're taking no chances. Johnson said the "global terrorist environment is very different" this year compared to 2009 or 2013, at Barack Obama's inaugurations. He said law enforcement has to be concerned with homegrown violent extremism, acts of so-called lone wolves and people who have self-radicalized.
"We've got to be vigilant, we've got to plan, we've got to prepare," Johnson said. After terrorists drove trucks into crowds in Nice and Berlin last year, officials are protecting against a similar action in Washington. "Hard perimeter areas" where non-government vehicles will not be permitted, will be fortified by dump trucks, heavy trucks loaded with cement, and buses, Johnson said. "That is a precaution that we are doubling down on in particular this inauguration."
By: Ariella Haviv


Ever since the beta, the performance of New World has always been in question with rumors of the game bricking GPU, which was then attributed to an issue on EVGA end. But, still, a lot of users regularly complain of the New World high CPU temp. People have their CPU heat to nearly 850C while stilling in the game’s menu. While the overheating is a problem, the game also becomes unplayable as the FPS drops and the game starts to stutter. If you have encountered overheating with the game, we have some solutions you can try.
How to Fix New World High CPU Temp
High CPU temp is not a good thing because it can have a permanent impact on the GPU and the CPU. Continuing to run the game in high CPU temp can melt the connection on the motherboard, but that’s the least of your concerns, the GPU and CPU can be bricked as well. Here are the solutions to fix the New World high CPU temperature.
- Ensure that your Processor Power management’s min power state is below 15. We have it set to 5%, but you can have it to higher, but it should not be above 50%. Having it up too high will make the CPU work at max at all times and that can cause overheating. You will have this problem if you have set the power option for max performance, balanced on the other hand auto-sets the value to acceptable limit of 5%. Here is how to alter the settings.
- In the Windows Search, type Edit Power Plan
- Click on Change advanced power settings
- Expand Processor power management
- Expand Minimum processor state
- Change the settings to somewhere in the range of 20%
- If you have followed the above method and the game is stuttering it’s because the performance settings for power counter the stutter and FPS drop in-game by giving the game the boost it requires. If the above method is making the game unplayable or you are getting undesirable FPS and consequent stutter, try limiting the FPS. Change the power settings to Performance and cap the FPS of the game through in-game menu or the Nvidia Control Panel.
- Do not overclock. OC is supposed to give you performance boost but it comes with a lot of caveat as it make the GPU unstable. You can see crashes and healing as a result of OC. Do not overclock the CPU or GPU and you should see the difference in the CPU temp.
That’s all we have in this guide, we hope you were able to reduce the New World high CPU temp by following one of the solutions. We will update the post when we have more info. If you have a solution we didn’t cover, please drop them in the comments.


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Kate has been a lecturer at SMU since 2019. She graduated from SMU in 2015 with a BBA in Marketing and minors in English and Advertising and received her Master of Letters in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture from the University of St Andrews in 2018, where she studied the intersectionality of contemporary literary theory, fantasy literature, and Inklings Studies.
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I am traveling with my husband and 22 year old daughter, they have both been to Israel (30 years ago for my husband!), but I have not. I have wanted to go for years, and am very excited. We will have about 10 days in Israel, and then 4 -5 in Istanbul, where we will be visiting with my nephew & his wife, and she is a native. I am looking for an outline of the Israel part of my trip. How many days in each city, and where to start, etc.
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Constitutional reforms should always address in large measure two fundamental and interrelated goals: nation building and socio-economic progress.
Nation building is the deliberate fashioning of an integrated political community within the fixed geographic boundaries in which the nation-state is the dominant political institution. Socio-economic progress is the sustained and widely diffused improvement in material and social welfare. These goals can be achieved from a wide choice of options and varying methods and strategies that should be the subject of discussion whether in constitutional assemblies or constitutional convention.
Oftentimes, these goals are obscured by politicians who are motivated by other competing goals, explicit or latent, such as survival or enrichment in office, or the protection of vested social and economic interests. Indeed, these objectives oftentimes take precedence over and constrain the goals.
Assuming nation building and socio-economic development are major political goals, what patterns of organization and action are most likely to move societies efficiently toward these twin goals? Only a constitution forum could answer this question.
To deal with these overriding goals, a modern and reformed constitution must cope with a series of major tasks, among which the following seem highly significant: integrating diverse ethnic, religious, communal and regional elements into a national political community.
This is the essence of nation building, the process by which groups with strong and even hostile particularistic interests antedating the idea and the fact of nationhood agree to coexist and identify with a newer and larger entity, the nation. In this process, individuals originating these groups transfer a portion of their loyalty to the symbols and institutions of the new national entity. This is an acute problem in many developing nations which are attempting to fuse diverse particularistic interests in a national policy.
Indeed a new constitution must be devoted to close the gap between groups divided by ideology, religion or regional loyalties, be these the New People’s Army, the Muslim separatists, and some tribes who are seeking autonomy as in the Cordilleras. The creation of real political parties can go some way in mainstreaming these alienated at marginalized elements who can only voice their demands and air their discontent in the parliament of the streets or in their jungle lairs through the barrel of a gun.
Organizing and distributing formal powers and functions among organs of central, regional, and local governments and between public authority and the private sector should also be another major concern. This can be implemented through a system of devolution, decentralization, and even federalism to stop the cry for the abolition of “Imperial Manila” and its centrifugal power of governance.
Constitution-making is not only a formal authoritative act. It is also a continuing adjustment and re-interpretation of legal norms in response to changing needs originating in such areas as technological and social developments, international pressures, ideological commitments, and shifts in relative power among organized interests. Especially in developing societies, our institutions and arrangements relating to the distribution of power are likely to be in flux and under pressure for frequent modification especially in this age of multilateralism and globalization. To guide and manage these adjustments place a major claim on the attention of constitutionalists.
It is not surprising that there is the continuing and periodic clamor for changes in the form of government – from national assemblies and to bicameralism to parliamentarism and federalism.
Since socio-economic developments require shifts in centers of power in order that new technologies may be successfully introduced and institutionalized, resource may be mobilized and allocated to development functions. The population may be brought into an effective pattern of communication with national political and administrative authorities.
Managing the affairs of a modern nation requires a wide range of complex and sophisticated skills. Certainly localized governance can make the effort more manageable.
Equally essential is the fact that model physical and social techniques must be carried out through specialized institutions which either did not exist in traditional societies or require radical restructuring in order to discharge the function associated with nation building and development. In effect, the building of new institutions is as deliberate a process in developing nations as the fostering of modernizing skills. This is particularly important in the rural, agricultural societies which will require development of modernizing skills and institutions. Devolutions of power from the center will surely accelerate rural mobilization and usher the industrial revolution.
If we cannot draft a new constitution that can attend to all these, cannot we at least under the present system pass the necessary executive fiat and congressional enactments to do the same?
Constitutional experts in the countries I visited have advised me against copying wholesale their form of government which to this late date continue to evolve. For example, in Italy, because the disaffection of some with their Prime Minister, they now want a directly elected head of government. In the United Kingdom (UK), there is an attempt to abolish the House of Lords, its second chamber. I must confess that I came back perhaps less enlightened than when I left. I have, therefore, prepared this paper which perhaps reflects my ambivalent feelings towards such weighty issues as Presidentialism vs. Parliamentarism; Unicameralism vs. Bicameralism and Unitarism vs. Federalism.
We have learned from the past that under a strong leadership backed up by parties with a philosophy of government, a presidential bicameral form of government is not a hindrance to the process of development. Moreover, a presidential system can even speed up the process of development if this is equated with strong leadership as in the tenure of President Quezon, Magsaysay, and even Marcos. This is not a brief for perpetuating a system that obviously depends on authoritarianism or backed up by a strong party system as in the case of the US and France.
What we are simply saying is that the reason for amending our constitution should not be based on false dilemmas or unsupported political hypotheses but rather on more cogent arguments such as the need to amend certain articles such as the elimination of “bumiputra” provision which has successfully impeded the flow of foreign direct investment into the country.
You may recall that the last administration was bent on implementing constitutional amendments that would eliminate the restrictive economic provisions from the Saligang Batas.
(To be continued)

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Running on the course where they hope to challenge for a WPIAL Championship next week, the Avonworth Girls Cross Country Team showed they are peaking at the right time. The team won the AA Division at Thursday’s TSTCA Cross Country Championship held at California University of PA. Next week’s WPIAL Championship will be held on the same course.
The Girls team, competing without injured Senior Captain Emily Tyler, used 4 top 20 performances to secure a victory over Elizabeth Forward and New Castle. Leading the way for the Lopes was Junior Anna Igims who finished in 2nd place with a time of 20:45 over the hilly 5K course. A trio Freshman crossed the finish line next with Lindsey Hartle taking 4th, Taea Schriefer in 11th and Maggie Colenbrander in 16th. Juniors Natialie Marshall and Lauren Pflueger came in together at 46 and 47 with Sophomore Brook Johncour finishing 81st.
The Boys team, competing in the A Division, earned 5th Place and were led by Sophomore Jackson Habala who finished 6th overall with a time of 18:34. Junior Luke Wagner was next for the Lopes finishing 21st followed by Senior Jacob Noethiger in 27th and Freshmen David Kujawinski in 28th. Sophomore Eli Kaurer took 34th place followed by Freshman Luke Woodfill in 41st and Sophomore Mike Frank in 46th.
Coach Jason Smith was pleased with the results of both the Girls and Boys team. “We are really happy with the performances of both the Girls and Boys teams today” Smith said. “It was good see this course and we are looking forward to seeing what the teams can do at the WPIAL Championship!”
The WPIAL Cross Country Championships will be held on Thursday afternoon. The top 3 AA Girls teams and top 4 A Boys teams will qualify for the PIAA State Championship. In addition, the top 20 Boys in A and top 15 Girls in AA will qualify for the individual PIAA State Championships.


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Besides creating all the great memories, one of the best things about Thanksgiving is the food. And even better than the food? Definitely the leftovers!
My family loves sandwiches made with the leftover turkey. One of my favorites is this Turkey Cranberry Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Every time I have this my taste buds and belly give me thanks! The combination of savory turkey, sweet and tart cranberry sauce, plus the melty cheese and the toasted buttered bread is amazing!
To make this sandwich just pull out a few slices of turkey, grab some leftover cranberry sauce and Cacique® Oaxaca Cheese. Ten minutes later you can relax, eat and think about that slice of pie you are going to have next. Ah! Don’t forget the napkins! This guy can be a little messy, but totally worth it! Make sure you save some leftovers for this melty, drippy and heck of a good Thanksgiving sandwich!

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At yesterday’s WWDC07 conference, Steve Jobs and Electronic Arts have revealed new games coming to the Mac. EA will release several key titles for the Mac this summer. They are include Command & Conquer 3, Battlefield 2142, Need for Speed Carbon, and Harry Potter. Id Software also revealed their next gen game engine at WWDC, showcasing some pretty interesting new technology.
Activision and Infinity Ward have officially announced the availability of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The game will offer players various war zone experiences including “fast-roping from Blackhawk helicopters”, being a “sniper, under concealment, in a Ghillie suit miles behind enemy lines” and “engaging hostiles from an AC-130 gunship thousands of feet above the battlefield.” Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare will be released for the PC, Sony PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this Fall.


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Elections Canada is now investigating more than 31,000 reports of misinforming robo-calls and harassing live calls in 77 ridings. The Conservative Party has been accused of being behind these calls for weeks now, with critics arguing that the party may have used these tactics to swing results in its favour.
After it was revealed that Elections Canada was investigating an incident in Guelph of voters being called on the phone and told to go to polls that didn’t exist during last spring’s federal election, people across Canada have come forward, reporting calls of the same nature, or of harassment by people claiming to be calling on behalf of certain political parties.
Mr. Dean Del Mastro has claimed that our own Peterborough riding has been affected by mysterious callers claiming to be a part of his campaign, although he will not release the names of those complaining. He has reported the misleading calls to Elections Canada, calling for an investigation of all parties for inappropriate phone calls to voters. He is one of the only two Conservatives to come forward with such complaints.
There have been rallies in Ottawa, and Vancouver. Last weekend, several cities nation-wide including Toronto, Calgary, Guelph, and Peterborough, joined the wave of protest over the scandal and about the state of democracy in Canada.
The NDP introduced a motion that calls for the government to make three changes to the Elections Canada Act in the next six months: to give Elections Canada more investigative power (such as the ability to force political parties to provide documentation of their expenses), to require that all telecommunication companies register with Elections Canada during a general election if they are to provide voter contact services, and to require that these companies identify and verify the identity of their election clients (the political party that hired them).
In response, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said: “Mr. Speaker, we have no objection to such a proposal.”
One Conservative MP, Maurice Vellacott, has spun the robocall scandal in a different direction, claiming that Elections Canada will find that it is “significantly responsible” for the robocalls. He blames Elections Canada for “too frequently provid[ing] incorrect information” and having technical difficulties with electronic phone lists. The spokesman for the Prime Minister, Andrew MacDougall, has expressed that these views are Vellacott’s own, and that “The Conservative Party has been cooperating fully with Elections Canada.”
Conversely, Mr. Dean Del Mastro, who stood in for Harper to respond in the House of Commons last Monday, insisted that the Liberals alone are at fault for the scandal, demanding that they release records of calls made on the Liberals’ behalf during the last election, but denying that the Conservatives should release their own records.
Recently, there have been accusations of a last-minute influx of previously unregistered voters who cast ballots in the Eglinton-Lawrence riding in Toronto, and that there were at least 2,700 applications for late registration to vote in this riding that failed to provide addresses or gave false or non-residential addresses, according to CBC News. Failing to provide an address, or providing a false or non-residential address, violates Elections Canada rules.
Furthermore, there are talks of court challenges of the election results by two different MPs. Where incumbent Liberal MP Anthony Rota had lost last May’s election to Conservative Jay Aspin by 18 votes, in Nipissing-Timiskaming the Liberals have said that they’ve collected at least 30 complaints of misleading calls. Elections Canada has been concentrating on interviewing voters in this riding.
The other MP to legally challenge the election results is from Toronto: former Etobicoke Centre Liberal MP, Borys Wrzesnewskyj, lost by 26 votes to Conservative Ted Opitz. He claims that he has evidence of voter suppression, and evidence that some people may have voted in his riding without proper verification of their identity and thus that a significant number of ineligible voters could have possibly voted in his riding, swaying the election results.
One of the last successful federal challenges of election results under similar circumstances was in 1988, in Maurizio Bevilacqua’s York North riding; however, the issue was not over allegations that a rival party had violated the Elections Act; it was an error made by Elections Canada.
A new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll, claiming to have surveyed a representative sample of 1001 Canadians online, has found that “81% want an independent investigation to find out exactly who was behind any misleading robocalls that may have been made in the May 2011 federal election.”

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Warner Brothers has released their final trailer for the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The trailer gives us a closer look at Ben Affleck‘s Batman, as well as letting us hear Gal Gadot‘s Wonder Woman talk for the first time.
The sequel to 2011’s Man of Steel will see Henry Cavill‘s Superman face the wrath of Gotham’s masked vigilante in a showdown for the ages.
In addition to DC’s Holy Trinity, the film will feature Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, and Laurence Fishburne. The film opens nationwide on March 25th.


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The highly anticipated Pokemon games Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! will released for the Nintendo Switch next Friday. New videos were uploaded on Wednesday featuring the games’ Elite Four and Gym Leaders. Team rocket, returning characters, and rivals from the earlier Kanto-region games were also teased.
Aside from the release of the mentioned games, the Nintendo Switch Pikachu & Eevee Edition will also be shipped on the same day. Those who purchase this will have one of the games pre-installed plus feature themed Joy-Con controllers.
The game is set in the franchise’s first region Kanto and based from the 1998 game Pokemon Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition. You can play with only one Joy-Con controller which means another player can be with you in going along the game. You can also control the throwing of Pokeballs using the Joy-Con controller similar to the mechanics of the mobile app Pokemon GO. You can now walk with your captured Pokemon or ride them. The Pokemon will now have the capacity to find hidden items.
New Pokemon Meltan and Melmetal will be available in the games though trading via the Pokemon GO smartphone game. Nintendo will also release a Poke Ball Plus controller which will function as a Joy-Con but you can also “hold” one Pokemon that can also be transferred to your Pokemon GO smartphone game account. Pokemon that you captured in Pokemon GO can also be transferred to the Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! games.
It was announced by GAME FREAK director Junichi Masuda that Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! will probably be his last work as game director for this popular franchise. Masuda is the director, producer, and designer of the various games in the Pokemon game franchise. He is also the developer for the Pokemon Green and Pokemon Red games.
3 Episode Impression: "Bloom into You"Nov 4, 11amSynopsis A shoujo loving girl named Yuu awaits the day she gets a love confession that sends her heart aflutter with bubbles and blushes. However, upon being confessed to by a junior high classmate, she finds herself feeling nothing.
First Episode Impression: "Hinomaru Zumou"Nov 5, 12pmSynopsis This is a tale that takes on the combat sport of sumo and stars a "small" new student, Ushio Hinomaru. He has entered into Oodachi High School and aims to join the sumo club though it has gained a weak reputation.
A Work of Whimsy: "Hinata no Aoshigure"Nov 4, 6amSynopsis Hinata, a young boy who likes drawing, finds himself falling in love with his classmate Shigure. The problem, however, is that Hinata has trouble talking to other people and resigns himself to his drawings and imagination.
- Marvel Co-Creator and Comic Book Icon Stan Lee Passes Away
- Winnie-the-Pooh World to Return in ‘Kingdom Hearts III’!
- New Anime Adaptation for ‘Fruits Basket’ Manga is Confirmed!
- New ‘Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!/Eevee!’ Video Features Elite Four and Gym Leaders!
- ‘Lu Over the Wall’ Anime Film to Release on Home Video
- Naruto/Boruto Attraction to Open in ‘Nijigen no Mori’ Theme Park In April!
- More Photos Emerged on the Filming of Upcoming ‘Monster Hunter’ Live-Action Film
- First Episode Impression: "Hinomaru Zumou"
- Umamusume: Pretty Derby TV Anime Returns with a Special Home Video
- ‘Kingdom Hearts III’ Releases New Video Featuring ‘Tangled’ Movie’s ‘Kingdom of Corona’ World
- Ryoko Gi and Takeshi Kusao will be Part of the ‘Black Clover’ Anime Cast!
- Gunjō no Magmell Cast Kengo Kawanishia and M.A.O as Main Characters
- 3 Episode Impression: "Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken"
- 3 Episode Impression: "Bloom into You"
- A Work of Whimsy: "Hinata no Aoshigure"
- Tatsunoko's The Price of Smiles Anime is Listed for 12 Episodes
- A New PV Reveals More Details for Kunihiko Ikuhara's Sarazanmai Anime
- An Okay but Cute Family Romance Story: "Mikakunin de Shinkoukei"

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Axelrod said if Romney picks Ohio Sen. Rob Portman as his running mate, it wouldn’t affect the Obama campaign’s strategy for competing there. He added that if anything, Portman’s ties to the Bush administration’s economic policies — he was a Bush budget director and trade representative — would reinforce that Romney wants to return to the Bush policies.
Vice President Joe Biden waits to conduct a mock swearing-in ceremony with Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, in the Capitol's Old Senate Chamber, December 2, 2014. Schatz was sworn in to serve the remainder of his term since he was appointed to the seat after Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, passed away.


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Character: Poison Ivy / From: DC Comics 'Gotham City Sirens' & 'Batman' / Cosplayer: La Esmeralda / Photo: Ashtray Arts Photography
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First look: Benedict Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor shoot scenes for Dr Strange in New York City <<< i cant wait for this to be released
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Superhero Week: The naked truth underneath female superhero costumes - so true #comicbooks
Costume designer Yuri Schuurkes designed a 3D printed Spider-man mask you can buy!


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Residents of Hawaii and Alaska, two states with close ties despite their vast distance apart, should generally expect improvements in air travel with the merger of Alaska and Hawaiian airlines, industry observers said Monday.
Alaska Airlines announced on Sunday it had a definitive agreement to purchase its smaller West Coast counterpart in a $1.9 billion deal, assuming regulators approve in the next year or so.
The agreement will also need the approval of Hawaiian Airline shareholders, but given that Alaska Airlines is paying a premium for its rival, that’s a likely outcome, one observer said. Hawaiian Airlines’ stock value tripled on Monday, highlighting the deal’s massive value for Hawaiian Airlines’ shareholders.
Travelers in both states will see increased travel opportunities, observers said.
Alaskans who already frequently travel to Hawaii, often for winter relief on Alaska Airlines, can expect better access to more Hawaii destinations, and even international stops such as Japan and Australia, through Seattle or Honolulu. Alaskans will also see new opportunities to boost Alaskan Airlines’ mileage rewards that yield discounts, since Hawaiian Airlines is currently not a miles partner, observers said.
Under the deal, the combined company would operate a hub in Honolulu, where Hawaiian Airlines is based, second only to the combined company’s headquarters in Seattle, where Alaska Airlines is based. Both companies are more than 90 years old and were founded in their respective states.
For residents of Hawaii and Alaska who rely on the airlines for critical services, often in small remote towns with limited transportation options, the combination is a promising fit, observers said. Alaska Airlines already has a presence in Hawaii, and will likely make sure the needs of that states’ rural communities are met, they said.
Hawaii is a natural extension of Alaska Airlines’ focus on the West Coast market, where demand for travel to the Hawaiian islands is strong, said Brett Snyder, an airline industry analyst who runs the crankyflier.com blog. Snyder had called for a merger of the two airlines in recent years and said Monday on his blog that he loves the airlines’ decision to unite.
There are many things the two companies can do together that they can’t do alone, which is not always the case in an airline merger, he said. Hawaiian widebody aircraft that travel internationally will join Alaska’s narrow-body aircraft that travel domestically, opening up potential travel combinations for passengers, he said.
“Maybe Alaska starts flying to London or Tokyo using wide-bodies from Seattle, and that makes it a seamless easy connection for Alaska Air loyalists in Alaska get to those locations,” he said.
Some Alaskans are looking at the deal skeptically and say they’d rather see Alaska Airlines investing to improve their customer service rather than buying another company, six years after it acquired Virgin America for $2.6 billion, said Scott McMurren, a transportation and hospitality consultant in Alaska who writes for the Anchorage Daily News and owns alaskatravelgram.com.
But most seem to think the merger is exciting, based on comments on online forums, he said.
The deal could create a resurgence of Honolulu as a trans-Pacific hub, which could open up better travel opportunities and mileage redemption for Alaskans flying on Alaska Airlines, McMurren said.
Alaskans will have more single-airline, direct connections through Honolulu to Hawaiian Airlines’ destinations, which include Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Tahiti and others, McMurren said.
“So the idea of having a through-flight on one airline (with different brands) bodes well, and it also bodes well for those of us who are collecting miles and looking to redeem miles,” he said. “The idea that you can use Honolulu as a hub to these destinations is a real benefit for Alaskans.”
The deal can also have the reverse effect, opening the door to bring more travelers to Alaska from Hawaii and international destinations for, say, jumping onto cruise ships plying Alaska waters, he said.
“People in New Zealand and Australia love to go on cruises,” he said.
Ben Minicucci, chief executive of Alaska Air, said on Sunday that the proposed merger won’t impact the the airlines’ operations until it passes regulatory muster. The plans call for a combined company that keeps the Hawaiian and Alaska airlines brands, but under a single rewards program and single collective-bargaining agreements for their different unions, Alaska Airline officials said.
The expanded company will open access to 138 destinations throughout the airlines’ networks, including non-stop service to 29 international destinations, the airlines said. It will open more than 1,200 destinations through the oneworld Alliance that expands travel options involving other airlines.
At least two financial service firms who attended a public meeting with airline officials on Sunday said the deal is a sensible one for both companies. They expressed concerns that federal regulators may look closely at the deal.
“Alaska’s balance sheet is back to pre-pandemic strength while Hawaiian’s stock is hit by what should be short-lived earnings challenges,” such as engine issues, the fires in Maui that hurt travel and slow demand in Japan, said Raymond James and Associates in a report on Monday.
Alaska is buying “at the bottom,” a departure from its Virgin America purchase, the report said.
“Given that the U.S. Department of Justice pushed back on the JetBlue/Spirit deal, we aren’t convinced they approve this,” the firm TD Cowen said in a report. “That said, we think this combination makes a lot of sense, and it should be approved.”
Scott Laird, who grew up in Alaska and Hawaii and is a freelance travel writer for Fodor’s and others, said the two airlines have just a small percentage of markets where they overlap. That could reduce regulatory concerns about anti-competitive outcomes of a merger.
Laird, a former Anchorage-based travel agent who also worked in the airline industry, said both airlines have a deep commitment to serving people in their namesake states, and that can be expected to continue with a merger.
He said there shouldn’t be any major impact to Alaskans from the deal, if approved. Hawaiian Airlines does not serve the Alaskan market, so it will not eliminate competition in Alaska, he said.
He said Alaska Airlines has already made significant investments to understand the Hawaii market, he said.
The merger “will benefit both Alaskans and Hawaii residents because they will have a stronger airline in the end that can better compete with some of the incumbents,” he said, referring to the largest airlines such as American Airlines.
Laird said his Hawaiian friends have expressed concerns with Hawaiian Airlines’ moving its corporate headquarters to Seattle from Honolulu. They say high-paying jobs in Hawaii will be reduced, he said.
And some Hawaiians might regret seeing changes to their local airline, he said.
“There’s that sort of touchy-feely point of pride, in that the airline with our name on it is based in Hawaii, and it’s run by people who are our neighbors,” he said. “So there will probably be some of that feeling that this airline is no longer home-grown and locally connected.”
Peter Forman, an aviation historian and expert from Honolulu, said Alaska and Hawaii are both similarly unique in that many communities rely on aviation and not roads to reach the outside world.
“There’s always a concern when there’s a merger because you wonder how things will change,” he said. But he believes Alaska Airlines is the “best possible partner” for Hawaiian Airlines.
“It looks to me like it’s a really, really good fit,” he said.

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The nachos are my favorite meal! I order the half order and it's huge, but so delicious. (I've shared the full order with 3 other people, we had it as our meal, and we barely finished the plate!) I love the chili, grated cheese (not icky cheese sauce!), guacamole that's piled on the chips. I partner the nachos with the Big Stick cocktail...oh so good! My husband loves the pulled pork sandwich which comes with a huge pile of steak fries. (The curly fries are even better, in my opinion!) I've also had the california chicken sandwich which has delicious bacon, cheese and guacamole. So good!!! I just love the decor inside the restaurant, casual with so much to look at!! You'll have a great time at Heroes!


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// Wickes raises its annual profit forecast after reporting a better-than-expected jump in sales
// The retailer’s adjusted pre-tax profits increased to £46.5 million for the six months to June 26
Wickes has seen its half year profits exceed expectations after it benefited from a boom in Brits looking to improve their homes during Covid-19 lockdowns.
The retailer now expects its full year adjusted pre-tax profit to come in towards the upper end of analysts’ expectations.
In the six months to June 26, the DIY retailer saw its adjusted pre-tax profit increase to £46.5 million, which was ahead of guidance of around £45 million.
In addition to this, like-for-like revenue rose by 33.1 per cent year-on-year and by 22.4 per cent on 2019.
Wickes said its digital strength and capability is continuing to underpin its performance with two thirds of sales driven by digital channels.
The retailer is now set to pay its first dividend since the demerger and listing on the London Stock Exchange.
Wickes chief executive David Wood said: “This is a strong first half performance underpinned by our attractive digitally-led, service-enabled proposition. In our first set of results since demerger, we have delivered an increase in sales and profits as we continue to help the nation feel house proud.
“As a business we have responded well to the increase in demand across our three routes to market, supporting all our customers. I would like to thank each of my colleagues for their continued hard work and support.”
Wood added: “While the immediate external environment remains volatile, we look to the future with confidence. We expect to deliver a full year adjusted Profit Before Tax towards the upper end of expectations, and beyond that, we have the right business model to win over more customers and capitalise on the growth opportunities within a large and growing home improvement market.”

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Responses to Questions from Rep. Melvin Watt on the Marketplace Equity Act
These questions related to this testimony to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. See related answers to questions from Rep. Chaffetz.
1. If services exist or are developed that sufficiently simplify the tax collections process for vendors, is or will a small business exemption be necessary?
Technology AND state sales tax simplification is necessary to make the process easy enough to obviate the need for a small business exemption. Look-up software is crucial, but so is addressing (1) a general determination by many jurisdictions to duplicate reporting, collecting, and auditing functions; (2) poor guidance on line-drawing between taxable and non-taxable items in advisory rulings; (3) states that permit jurisdictions to define their own tax base independently of the states; (4) far too many overlapping sales tax jurisdictions, which actually grow in number each year; and (5) states’ eagerness to grant exclusions, exemptions, and preferential rates to special interests. The entire system is ad hoc and the costs are imposed entirely on retailers that collect the tax. Awesome software solves none of those problems and is even limited in its ability to navigate those problems.
2. Proponents of H.R. 3179 argue that a $1 million small business exemption threshold would exclude more than 90 percent of online retailers thus denying States much of the uncollected sales and use tax revenue that the bill is designed to help them secure. Opponents of H.R. 3179 advocate for a small business exemption threshold ($10-$15 million) because they argue that a lower threshold would cripple small businesses and, because the top 10 percent of online retailers are responsible for the majority of uncollected sales and use tax revenue, a higher threshold would still capture the majority of uncollected sales and use tax revenue that the bill is designed to help States secure. What is the appropriate small business exemption threshold? Why?
A large threshold would collect most of the uncollected revenue while concentrating compliance costs on large firms, at least if the current state of the industry remains mostly unchanged. A small threshold wouldn’t raise much more money but would increase compliance costs.
That said, rather than figuring out how many firms we should subject to an unnecessarily complicated and economically wasteful enterprise, my position is that a better avenue would be to require simplification of sales tax systems as a condition of states gaining the power to collect from out-of-state vendors. If we can do that, the waste of time and resources that goes into all that nonsense can be redirected into more productive avenues, without reducing the revenue that states and localities get. As the SSTP experience shows, only Congress will be able to get that set as a standard, either by enacting simplification requirements or credibly threatening to enact simplification requirements.
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Correlating surface processing and wetting characteristics in nano and micro-structured anodized titania for preparing a suitable surface for photocatalytic degradation of pollutants
TiO2 nanostructures have been attracting attention due to their immense potential in gas sensing, photocatalysis, biomedical implants, Li-ion batteries, and solar cells as they can be tuned to have highly active and sensitive surfaces with a large surface area to volume ratio. The functional efficiency of nano-titania can be altered by modifying the bulk and surface structures, which influence the material properties. In recent times, TiO2 has directly been used in photocatalytic degradation of pollutants. TiO2 has emerged as the most commonly used material for photo-induced catalytic reactions among others due to its unique properties, high chemical stability, non-toxicity, robustness, and ease of fabrication and maintenance. In this study, attempts have been made to correlate the surface processing techniques and conditions with the surface wetting and the photocatalytic activity of anodized TiO2. Based on the performance of the surface, a model pollutant will be employed to study the photocatalytic activity by surface flow technique. A freestanding photocatalytic membrane will be attempted and evaluated. The study will help in understanding the relationship between the operational conditions and the resultant surface properties with an intention to achieve the desired functionality. Surface characterization techniques such as electron microscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, water contact angle and surface energy measurements will be carried out to aid the study.
Keywords: Anodisation, nanostructures, surface energy, superhydrophilicity, TiO2

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Understanding Psychotherapy with Dr Frances Gillies, CEO of the British Psychotherapy Foundation.
In a recent radio interview for World Mental Health Day 2022, Dr Frances Gillies, CEO of the British Psychotherapy Foundation, met with Adam Cox to discuss the benefits of accessing psychotherapy. Listen to learn about:
- What psychotherapy is, and how it works
- Mental health stigma today
- The current problems people face when accessing mental health support
- The importance of finding a therapist you trust
- What to do if you are struggling with your mental health right now

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In a verbal tussle with Fox Business Network host Liz Claman January 24, Business & Media Institute Managing Editor Amy Menefee explained that conservatives are just looking for some balance from the media.
"You get upset when the media is skeptical about certain things and you say that that's un-American," Claman said. "Yet when we're not skeptical you're saying now, ‘Why aren't you skeptical?' Which is it?"
"Well from our perspective ... we just want to hear all the economic sides that are out there which means economists who are talking about, you know, other opportunities, other options," Menefee said about the media coverage of the economic stimulus package. "And there are plenty of economists out there right now who are saying this is not going to do much good."
Menefee also addressed the media coverage of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to Congress January 17. "[T]hey said that he was embracing a stimulus package, that he was saying that Congress needed to do something quickly. What he actually said was if you wanted to have something like that, then here's what it would need to look like: it would need to be quick; it would need to be effective and those sorts of things," she said.
"But more importantly, even, he said the Fed was not forecasting a recession," Menefee added, "and we saw all kinds of reporting right after that where people said he was, qoute, ‘confirming recession fears' and that he was telling us we're headed toward a recession and that was completely twisting what he said."
"A three-quarter-point inter-meeting cut that's not scheduled is an indication of big fears that something's coming," Claman shot back. "And then you have Ed Lazear [and] Hank Paulson talking about worries about how we really need to push job creation and unemployment is historically low and we do tend to point that out but it just makes you wonder if they know something we don't. You know, I think that in that case that's something that the media needs to look at more closely."
Menefee acknowledged that fears exist, but added, "I think part of the reason that the frenzy has just grown to such a point is that we don't hear as much from those economists are saying, you know, this is not the best solution, that we need permanent tax relief and not just a rebate that we're going to have to repay later."


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The "Share the Vision" program in Great Britain is a growing "mixed library economy" of commercial and voluntary producers of a range of alternate format
materials accessible to a range of visually impaired people (Corrigan, 2003).
New Line Cinema, the minimajor behind ``The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy, also announced Monday that it plans to release titles in the HD DVD format
The final specifications and format
book for DVD+R9 seem to be much further along than that for the DVD Forum's DVD-R9 format
Nor are we turning over the IP rights of the JT format
to an independent or an outside organization.
Companies have generally underused HTML because it can cost more than PDF or image-based formats
, depending on the level of skill and customization documents require.
Portable document format
(PDF) files can be created from most any desktop application with Adobe Exchange software, a product increasingly hailed as a de facto standard for universal access to electronic documents over the Internet.
In addition to text documents and spreadsheets, OpenDocument defines presentation format
DSpace (1) is free, open-source software that has the functionality to capture, store, manage, and support preservation of digital objects in any format
Painter is not in your toolbar, click on Tools, Customize, the Commands tab and then Format
Even with "rapid" file recovery features, any backup system that does not utilize full file format
must restore the files to disk before they can be accessed by network users.
Optimism for the format
was heightened in February 2001 when IMAX sealed a deal with the Walt Disney Co.
The new eDocument technology comprises a set of libraries that will provide application developers, software print workflow producers, online document services, and corporate IT departments with powerful tools for document format
creation and conversion, including XPS, PDF, PostScript[R], PCL and proprietary formats
, as well as comprehensive document manipulation, processing, and viewing capabilities.

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BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — The City of Boulder has launched a new grant program to help homeowners whose manufactured houses were damaged by the hurricane-force winds during the 2021 Marshall Fire .
According to the city, more than 400 homes had damage to the roofs, sidings, windows and doors that has led to rising energy costs and exposure to the elements.
Senior Housing Project Manager Crystal Launder said the manufactured home communities were most at risk and vulnerable in extreme weather events.
Boulder launches wind damage repair grant program
The program, called the Manufactured Housing Wind Damage Repair and Efficiency Upgrade Grant Program , will launch in February.
To start, residents will fill out a self-certification form, which must be submitted before applying for a Wind Damage Repair Grant. Then the homeowner must complete the grant application, review the grant agreement, choose and schedule a repair estimate, and sign the grant agreement. After that, the homeowner will sign a construction contract and do a final walkthrough with grant staff once the work is done. At the end of the process, grant program staff will review the final invoice and pay the contractor.


Incredibly popular since the day of its premiere (conducted by Beethoven himself!), the Seventh Symphony is one of the composer’s most rhythmic and dancing works. Maestro Karajan, great connoisseur of the composer’s work, and the Berliner Philharmoniker present here a truly exceptional interpretation.
Complete Cycle of Beethoven's Symphonies
Verbier Festival 2013


This video is of a flat view of the Digital Globe March 15 2018 very high resolution satellite image of Cerro Aracamuni in Serranía La Neblina National Park, Amazonas State, which is a Protected Area within the Biosphere Reserve of the Alto Orinoco Casiquiare, where all mining is ILLEGAL. One of the three mining areas inside the park is visible and reveals many aspects of illegal mining: the small blue and black squares are the roofs of the miners’ living quarters and where the gold mineral is processed. This is a very isolated place that is obviously stocked by Venezuelan army helicopters that land in the make-shift heliport also visible in this image/video. Army helicopters provide machinery and other necessary provisions for mining and the miners, and they also are used to smuggle out the gold. The river and the riverbed have also been affected by deforestation and the removal of earth leaves large dark ponds of water. This illegal mine is controlled and exploited by the Colombian FARC & ELN Guerrillas. The estimated size of these mines is 50 hectares.


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2|Entertain and the official series site have confirmed two Classic Series DVD releases for March and May.
10th April sees the release of Genesis of the Daleks starring Tom Baker, Lis Sladen and Ian Marter. The story has long been regarded as a classic and marks the first appearance of Davros, creator of the Daleks.
Extras on the set include:
- Commentary with Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Peter Miles (Nyder) and director David Maloney
- Genesis of a Classic – cast and crew recall working on the story in this specially shot documentary
- The Dalek Tapes – new documentary narrated by Terry Molloy (who plays Davros in other Doctor Who stories), that tells the story of the Doctor’s most iconic villain, including rare footage from programmes such as Blue Peter
- Blue Peter – a March 1975 item looking at a collection of Doctor Who models
- Doctor Who 1976 Annual as a PDF
- Radio Times Billings
29th May sees the release of Inferno, starring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor.
The two-disc set includes the following special features.
- Commentary with script editor Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts, Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier) and John Levene (Sgt. Benton)
- Can You Hear the Earth Scream? – a 35 minute making of documentary, featuring interviews with Barry Letts, Terrance Dicks, actors Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney, John Levene, Ian Fairbairn and actor/stunt arranger Derek Ware
- The UNIT Family (Part One) – a 36 minute documentary looking at the first half of the ‘UNIT family’ that characterised the Third Doctor’s Earth-bound stories. Featuring interviews with Barry Letts, Terrance Dicks, UNIT creator Derrick Sherwin, and actors Nicholas Courtney, John Levene, Caroline John and actor/stunt arranger Derek Ware
- Visual Effects Promo Film – an excerpt from an early attempt to ‘sell’ the experience and facilities of the BBC Visual Effects Department to new clients. Featuring model effects filming from Inferno and The Ambassadors of Death
- The Pertwee Years Intro – a short introduction to the story’s final episode from Jon Pertwee, originally presented as part of BBC Video’s The Pertwee Years VHS release.
- The 1971 Doctor Who Annual as a PDF
- Radio Times billings
- Photo Gallery
- Subtitle Production Notes
In our first competition of 2006 we’re offering one reader the chance
to win a copy of the Tom Baker classic, ‘Horror of Fang Rock’. Full details.


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Monday morning, Springfield, Oregon will unveil a new public art project dedicated to the show that unites Springfields everywhere.
Simpsons creator Matt Groening kept millions of fans in suspense for years, refusing to say exactly which of the dozens of towns named Springfield are the true fictional home of Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart and Maggie.
But we all knew it was Lane County’s Springfield, right? And Groening confirmed this two years ago in an interview with Smithsonian magazine.
Since last Thursday a team has been working on a city-commissioned mural depicting the Simpsons which will grace the West Side of the Emerald Arts Center. The project is being overseen by Erik Nicolaisen. He grew up in Portland, and he went to the University of Oregon for college. He now lives in L.A., where he runs a mural company and moonlights as an actor .
He can recall the early days watching the show, back when it was on the Tracey Ullman show. “I remember the first time seeing the Simpsons and it was just kind of mind-blowing stuff.”
Nicolaisen’s company was contacted by the city and encouraged to apply. “I think they just wanted somebody who could recreate the imagery to a T…Fox is actually sending their Vice President of Animation to come up and oversee the painting of this. That’s how serious they are about things looking as they should.”
But even with the corporate types breathing down his neck, Nicolaisen’s excited at the opportunity. “It’s a cool project. You don’t get asked to do these long-standing pieces very often and when you do, they’re usually signs or something like that. So to do a piece that’s Oregon-centric and done by a local Oregon kid, Matt Groening, who’s an international legend…it’s really once in a lifetime.”


Happy 30th Birthday – Phyno (Azubuike Chibuzo Nelson)
Happy 30th Birthday Phyno Azubuike Chibuzo Nelson &
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Online pharmacy marketplace Netmeds.com has recently raised USD50 million (Rs 324 crore) in tranched funding led by OrbiMed, a healthcare focused investment firm.
As part of the deal, OrbiMed’s Dr. Sunny Sharma will join company’s board of directors.
Pradeep Dadha’s (CEO & founder of NetMeds) family investment fund has been an investor in OrbiMed, along with MAPE Advisory Group.
Pradeep Dadha reportedly said that the company plans to use about $10 Mn of the $50 Mn raised capital in developing back-end infrastructure and to augment its logistics infrastructure in order to provide medicines and healthcare products in under-served cities.
Founded in 2010 by Pradeep Dadha, NetMeds, is a licensed pharmacy marketplace that offers authenticated prescription and over the counter (OTC) medicine along with other health products. It has been promoted by the Dadha family, which has been in the pharmaceutical business for over 100 years.


Police laud legacy of late officer
BY COREY DAVIS
Monday, December 17, 2018
A former longtime officer with the Rocky Mount Police Department who was laid to rest recently is remembered for his class, dignity and being a trailblazer in local law enforcement.
Pinetops native Milton Harris, who died Dec. 3 at the age of 76, served almost 30 years with the Rocky Mount Police Department. He gean work at the department in 1969.
During his time with the police department, Harris moved up the ranks and is known for being the second African-American to be named a captain at the department.
While serving as captain of the Staff Services Division, Harris’ duties included officer recruitment, in-service training and management of other internal support service such as animal and parking control, taxi and wrecker inspections and telecommunications. He was also responsible for the division’s operating budget and for providing training and guidance to subordinate supervisors
Interim Rocky Mount Police Chief Willie Williams was Harris’ training officer and the two men rode together as partners for about four years. Williams has high regard for the character of Harris and his being an integral part of bringing more minorities and women officers into the agency.
“He was a very good officer, who was smart and he had a great ability to identify potential problems,” Williams said. “He recruited all the time and we made a lot of progress during his time in diversifying the police department. He was also instrumental in getting the police mobile command unit. He sort of found the money and did the leg work. Those are some of the things he contributed that go beyond normal duties.”
James Silver, who has been a deputy with the Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office for two years, is the grandson of former Rocky Mount police chief John Manley, who was the first African-American police chief at the Rocky Mount Police Department. Silver said Harris was his grandfather’s mentor and someone he looked up to and inspired him to serve in law enforcement.
“Just growing up, he would tell me to get your education and when I became an officer to always know how to serve,” Silver said. “He told me you can arrest everybody, but can you serve everybody? Each and every day, I don’t put on a uniform looking to arrest people. I go out looking to serve people and some law enforcement officers can’t wrap themselves around that philosophy.”
Edgecombe County Sheriff Clee Atkinson said he and Harris both attended Thorne’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. Harris was an active member until his health began to fail and was known to help cook and deliver meals to the sick and shut in.
Atkinson remembered as a young law enforcement officer what stood out to him about Harris was his presence and how he carried himself. Harris’ daughter, Latrece Harris, who is a teacher at Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools, described her father as someone that wore the uniform with pride and took great care in his appearance. He wanted his uniform immaculate and his shoes shined to perfection.
“He also encouraged his officers to have the same attitude toward their appearance,” Harris said.
Atkinson said the best advice Harris gave him was to make sure to always treat people like he would treat his family. When Atkinson was appointed sheriff, Harris told him something that has continued to resonate with him to this day.
“He told me to never forget where I came from and to always lean on God,” Atkinson said.
Latrece Harris said during her father’s tenure at the police department not only did he fight crime, he also once delivered a baby. He also participated in a case involving a man who had barricaded himself into a house and was threatening to attempt suicide.
“He was able to talk the man and de-escalate the situation and he would go out of his way to help others,” Harris said.
J. Russell Harris, a nephew of Harris, is the associate pastor at Greater Joy Church in Rocky Mount. Harris said when he went to basic law enforcement training to become an officer he selected his nickname to be “Captain Harris” because of the admiration people in law enforcement had for his uncle.
Unfortunately, for Harris, an injury he sustained caused him to resign from the field of law enforcement. But Harris said he found joy in knowing he could still be just like his uncle by being a man of character and grandeur.
“It’s an honor to hear and witness how well respected my uncle was in the community and abroad,” he said. “Capt. Milton Harris was a stellar gentleman who I will always carry in my heart for as long as I live.”


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Last week the Dog wrote a post about laying out the difficulties of starting a new political party to the Left of the Democratic Party. If you want to read it you can find it here. The challenges are extensive to say the least. Since the Dog thinks that is a bad idea he urged those who might be thinking of this path to stay and work within the Democratic Party. While not everyone agreed (we are all Liberals after all) there were a couple who pointed out while the Dog was showing a problem, he did not really offer the means to a solution. This is a fair observation and so the follow is some practical advice for those who want to take over the Democratic Party and move it more to the Left.
So you have decided to take over the Democratic Party? Great! Let’s start with a reality check. You are not going to take over the national Party in one fell swoop. Unless you have about 1 million fellow travelers who all are on the exactly the same page this is going to take some time and a lot of work. However, any attempt to influence the national policy of a nation of 305 million is going require both of those things, so don’t let that get you down, just focus on where you can be effective and grow you efforts.
Now, let’s be really clear, what you are about to embark on is to become a politician. You may not be facing the voters in general, but you are getting involved in an organization that operates on democratic principals. This means majority rules voting and in many cases hard core parliamentary tactics. You are going to have to be able to persuade and be ready to compromise from time to time to move your point of view forward. This is going to be true no matter what party you get involved with, new or old, so again, don’t let that deter you, just recognize it.
In order to have the fastest level of effect, you want to start actually outside the Party. You are going to try to get elected to the County or State level Executive Committee, to do this you will need supporters, especially if you are not well known in the Party now. What you need is a group of folks who have the same desire you do to change things and you need to be organized. On the internet it is easy to find folks who think like you do, but how do you find them in your neck of the woods? The Dog has a couple of ideas that might help you.
First off, don’t reinvent the wheel. Look for any group which labels itself as a Liberal or Progressive Caucus in your County Party. There may or may not be one, but if there is they are the folks you want to hook up with. If there is not one, well that is probably the first thing you need to do, found one. Still it does no good to found a Caucus of One, so you have to find like minded folks. Luckily there is a place where you can start!
Use the Social Media sites like Face Book and the DFA site to find the folks in your area. They are simple to use and they are a great place to get a feel for how many folks think the way you do in your area.
Drinking Liberally was founded to get like minded Liberals together in the days when it seemed like the entire country had gone all the way to the Right. Many large and not so large cities have more than one branch of this group. Go there, buy a drink and start chatting up the Liberals and Progressives about the changes you want to make. See if you can find folks who are ready to do some real work to change the Democratic Party. You are likely to find those who are already involved, but there are always some who are ready to be activated and become activists. Start getting them to coalesce around the idea of taking over the County Party. Yeah, that’s right, you are going have to start at the County level to get to the State level.
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Welcome to the Christmas Book Fair and another selection of great gift ideas.
The first author today is Deborah A. Bowman with the YA, time travel novel – Delilah Astral Investigator Infinity Series: Episode 2, The Boy Who Would Be King
About the book
As the second Episode in the “Delilah Astral Investigator Infinity Series”, modern teen “Dee”/Delilah Sanchez is wondering why and how she was selected to head this Time-Travel/Astral Projection Team. She certainly didn’t ask for it! In the first Episode, “The Boy and the Shopkeeper”, she had to watch an old man and the boy who loved him like a grandfather kill each other time and time again. It almost tore her heart out!
With the help of the 1774 American Colonial Lord Bartholomew Darnesworth Wharton, III, and her intuitive cat Mollie, they were able to not change history so much but change the way the two people died. The boy became a hero for his community, and the old man’s life was an inspiration to all the children he had helped grow up. In Episode 2, the stakes are much higher! As they travel back in time to 1502, the “change” in the past threatens to destroy Dee’s current reality, turning her hometown into a war-torn British colony awaiting the nuclear bomb that would blow up the whole planet.


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Tycoon Comedy Music Festival, 50 Cent’s new funny fest recently took place in Houston, Texas on Thursday, August 25th at Toyota Center . The show featured a lineup of nationally familiar comedians, including B-Simone, Karlous Miller, Michael Blackson, Bill Bellamy, DC Young Fly, Gary Owen, Lil Duval, and D’Lai.
Fans were treated to surprise musical acts between each comic’s set, including a special performance by 50 Cent himself.
After the successful showing in H-Town, the hip hop mogul took to twitter to announce a possible South Florida date posting “Tycoon was crazy next stop MIAMI, we gotta turn it up. I’m a need @unclelukereal1 for this, it just won’t feel right with out him •”
Referring to Miami’s own iconic hip hop legend Luther Campbell. Uncle Luke wasted no time in responding
“Count Miami in we’re going to Roll out the red carpet for you my brother.”
Now that’s what i would call a “Power Play” ? See what we did there ?


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A mostly manufactured controversy has arisen when the actor Chris Pratt was criticized for wearing a “Don’t Tread On Me” Flag shirt. The flag is used by multiple patriotic organizations and sports teams but has also been adopted by various far-right political groups and gun rights organization.
One Twitter user said,
“Nice shirt… Only people I see with that flag are alt-right racists,”
Fox News went crazy and is using this opportunity to attack, “the left,” and “liberals,” for daring to criticize patriotism and the US flag. That flag, also known as the Gadsden flag after the General that designed it during the Revolutionary War; was never an official US Flag but did represent a time when all men were not deemed created equal. Below is a look at all the official US flags in history and some of the things that occurred while each flag flew. The flag can be a patriotic symbol, it is also fair to condemn the abuses which have taken place in its name.
Articles of Confederation establishes rights for “free citizens.”
The first Fugitive Slave Act is passed
Slaveowner Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner. He believed blacks to be “a distinct and inferior race” and “the greatest evil that afflicts a community.” The third verse celebrates the death of slaves.
Slaves complete reconstruction of White House
The House of Representatives agrees to the Talmadge Agreement barring slaves from Missouri, this led to the Missouri Compromise admitting them.
The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a Slave state.
At Monticello, VA. 130 former slaves and other possessions of Thomas Jefferson were sold at auction.
In Cincinnati, OH, rioters attack blacks and white abolitionists for fear blacks would take their jobs.
Texas enters the Union as a slave state
Missouri allows Interstate trading of black people
The State of Missouri prohibits freed slaves from receiving an education.
Congress passes another Fugitive Slave Act mandating government participation in recapturing escaped slaves.
Under this flag, the Supreme Court overturned the Missouri Compromise and opened up slavery to all the territories.
The Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case ruled a black man had no rights.
The last slave ship arrives in Mobile Bay, Alabama
New York City draft riots, hundreds of blacks wounded or killed.
Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest orders the massacre of mostly Negro Union troops attempting to surrender, (Hands Up). A 25-foot statue, visible from Interstate-65, exists today on private property in Nashville, TN. He was an early member of the Ku Klux Klan and was honored in 2019 by the Tennessee Governor.
The “black codes” are passed in all Southern legislatures in the former Confederate States. Slavery by another name.
Reconstruction ends when the Federal Government withdraws all Federal troops from the South under a compromise over the Presidential election. It Made Southern Legislatures White Again.
Jim Crow becomes the law of the land in the South
Eighty-five black Americans were known to have been lynched in 1890
The Supreme Court legalizes “Separate but Equal” giving rise to Jim Crow
Eight blacks were killed by whites in Wilmington, NC
Major cities implement legalized segregation specifying black and white neighborhoods. These include Baltimore, Dallas, Greensboro, Louisville, Richmond, Roanoke, and St. Louis.
Oklahoma National Guard troops bombed Black Wall Street in Tulsa, OK
Three days before his trial, Mack Charles Parker is beaten to death in his jail cell for allegedly raping a white woman.
Donald Trump is elected President and appoints Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.
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KUANTAN Rangers and Miri FA will be making their long-awaited debut in the Brunei Futsal League (BFL) today.
The two Malaysian teams were supposed to join at the start of the 10-team BFL on April 16 but were unable to do so due to a technical error.
Kuantan Rangers start their campaign with a game against RizFiz FT today, take on the Royal Brunei Armed Forces Sports Council (MS ABDB) tomorrow and face Miri FA in their third game on Sunday.
All three games are scheduled to kick off at 7pm at the Multipurpose Hall (Hassanal Bolkiah National Sports Complex).
Miri FA face bottom-of-the-table Najip FC today and Kota Junior tomorrow.
Both games are scheduled for 9pm at the Multipurpose Hall.
The updated schedule and standings are available on www.nfabd.org.
NFABD invited Kuantan Rangers and Miri FA to compete in the BFL to raise the league’s standard of play and provide exposure for NFABD’s national development team – which is currently in Bangkok competing in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-20 Futsal Championship.
Kuantan Rangers played an exhibition game against reigning BFL champions Kota Junior on April 15 which they lost 3-2.
The home and away format in this year’s BFL will see each team play 18 games.
The post Kuantan Rangers and Miri FA set to finally make BFL debuts appeared first on Borneo Bulletin Online.