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iHerb Customer Reviews
Savings of: $0.50 (13% off)
Posted by bigdog on Nov 13, 2007
I really enjoyed the flavor of this product.
Solid Tasting Chips And Healthy Too!
Posted by Reviewer2520119 on Aug 08, 2010
I like this flavor but they're not as tasty as the Sesame & Seaweed flavor of this brand.
Posted by Reviewer1335893 on Mar 14, 2011
Chips are not bad, but it lacks taste
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미국과자는 역시 짜요. "Kettle Foods"의 Potato Chips, Honey Dijon도 샀는데 그거보단 나아요. 그래도 재구매 생각은 별로 없습니다.
no honey taste!
Posted by 5260944293155530777 on Apr 21, 2014
no honey taste!
Way too much salt/flavour
Posted by lucygoosyxo on Apr 04, 2012
Bought these with a couple other flavours after seeing so many raves, and I really just thought they were way over the top in flavour/ salt and could only eat a few. I think these were my least favourite of the ones I tried. Could just be me though, my husband happily finished them off!
Lundberg Rice Chips, Honey Dijon, 6 oz
Posted by Reviewer1243295 on May 01, 2011
Pretty tasty but too pricey.
don't waste your money
Posted by 5609895467045440172 on Dec 04, 2015
i didn't like it, the taste like rice
Not my taste
Posted by 5121474680564519821 on Jul 31, 2014
I did not care for these at all. They have a texture a bit like a pita chip - which i do like - but the flavor was just very odd to me. I thought they would taste like honey dijon pretzels, but they don't. It seems like a lot of others like these, so maybe I'm just too particular! I will not repurchase these.
great for snacking
Posted by Reviewer1741514 on Aug 07, 2010
love the crunch and the guilt-free snacking these offer

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Welcome to my blog. Sit back, have a cup of coffee and read about the latest.
Friday, February 5, 2010
I am officially an etsy seller! I have been researching this for a month to try and figure this out. I only have four items for sale right now but I will keep adding more. I am at dianeoneilart.etsy.com. If you are new to etsy they sell handmade art, clothes, vintage items and art supplies. It is a cool site and it is easy to spend hours just looking at all of the thousands of items for sale. Addicting!

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COLUMBUS—Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) is building its new Hilliard Branch at 4500 Hickory Chase Way. One of the panels to be used in the construction will be on display at the current Hilliard Branch (4772 Cemetery Rd.) to offer CML customers the chance to sign their names on it and become a part of the city’s – and library’s – history. The signed panel will then be incorporated into the renovated building, expected to open this summer.
The panel will be available for the public to sign beginning tomorrow, Friday, April 6. Customers are advised to act quickly. Once it is filled with signatures, the panel will be taken away for installation. The Hilliard Branch is open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday from 1-5 p.m.
The new Hilliard Branch is part of CML’s aspirational building program:
- The new Driving Park Branch opened July 12, 2014
- The new Whitehall Branch opened April 11, 2015
- The new Parsons Branch opened June 4, 2016
- The transformed Main Library opened on June 25, 2016
- The new Northern Lights Branch opened on Sept. 24, 2016
- The new Shepard Branch opened on Oct. 13, 2016
- The new Northside Branch opened on June 22, 2017
- Construction is underway on a new Martin Luther King Branch, scheduled to open in 2018
- Construction is underway on a new Dublin Branch, scheduled to open in 2019
CML understands that great libraries create stronger communities, and each branch is an essential hub that reflects the unique needs of the neighborhood it serves. Some of CML’s 23 locations are 40 to 50 years old and inadequate to meet the demands of a growing 21st century community. Demands and expectations will continue to grow, along with the population of Franklin County.
CML’s aspirational building program is the result of a community-wide process that will continue to serve the needs of Franklin County well into the future. The plan is a multi-phased comprehensive blueprint that reinvents and revitalizes the entire 600,000 square feet maintained by the library.
In addition to being a vital community asset, Columbus Metropolitan Library strives to minimize its environmental footprint. With each new building or renovation project, CML plans to use sustainable building materials, incorporate glass for natural light to reduce energy costs and introduce other design and building elements friendly to the natural environment.
Phase one of CML’s aspirational building program is transforming and significantly upgrading seven urban branches (Driving Park, Whitehall, Parsons, Martin Luther King, Northside, Northern Lights, Shepard) and two suburban branches (Hilliard and Dublin). In addition, changes to Main Library represent a major investment in downtown Columbus and the Discovery District.
Visit columbuslibrary.org for more information and to track progress of CML’s ambitious building program.
Columbus Metropolitan Library has served the people of Franklin County, Ohio since 1873. With its Main Library and 22 branches, CML is well known for signature services and programs like Homework Help Centers, Reading Buddies, Summer Reading Club and Ready for Kindergarten. The library’s Strategic Plan supports the vision of “a thriving community where wisdom prevails,” which positions CML to respond to areas of urgent need: kids unprepared for kindergarten, third grade reading proficiency, high school graduation, college and career readiness and employment resources.
CML was named a 2011 National Medal Winner by the Institute for Museum and Library Services for work in community service, the highest honor for libraries and museums. CML was also named 2010 Library of the Year by Library Journal.

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‘Tis the season to visit Ealing fa lalalala la la la la. Here’s what’s going on in Ealing this Christmas!
Ealing Shopping Centre
Shop ‘til you drop this Christmas and enjoy some festive entertainment at Ealing Broadway.
The big guy himself will be walking around the shopping centre on the 11th and 18th December between 11 am – 3 pm.
Frosty the Christmas Unicorn
Unicorns are real! Meet Frosty, get a picture and feel how soft and fluffy she is. Accompanied by the Frosted Fairy the wintery duo will be around Ealing shopping centre on 12th December between 11:30 am – 2:30 pm.
The magic elves will be in town on Wednesday 22nd December between 11:30 – 3 pm. Hear what Father Christmas has been up to, and let them show you some North Pole sparkle with some up-close magic tricks.
If wrapping presents fills you with fear, Ealing Broadway has you covered. On Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th December between 11 am – 4 pm they have a special team of Christmas elves ready to help you wrap!
Pop-up Gallery Shop
Collection of handmade gifts at an affordable price. Visit the pop-up shop if you are looking for something a little different to give this Christmas.
Find out more about shopping in Ealing this Christmas here.
It’s Christmas, so who doesn’t love a good market? The food, the music, the handcrafted gift ideas. At the Ealing market, you will find all this and more!
From cheeses to bratwurst, donuts to mulled wine. There’s something for everyone in the town square. Stalls are open until the 23rd December, from 9:30 am until 6 pm.
Come on down to the Questors Theatre between the 16th and the 31st December to watch this year’s performance of pantomime classic Snow white.
Ealing Symphony Orchestra plays their annual concert at Ealing Green Church. Join them on Saturday 11th September between 17:30 – 19:00 for a truly festive ensemble.
Carols by Candlelight
Sung by the renowned Ealing Abbey Choir, accompanied by the Ealing Orchestra join them and conductor Christopher Eastwood for a lovely evening of carols. For more information click here.


Introduction In October 2011 Qwire’s Committee created the category of ‘Life Membership’ for someone who has contributed in an outstanding way to Qwire. Katie Nemes was Qwire’s inaugural Life Member.
Katie Nemes Katie was the Qwire's inaugural life member who provided many years of exceptional and unwavering backstage support to the Qwire. She would be events manager one semester, then publicity officer, backstage manager, negotiator, translator, cleaner, counsellor, hotel for performing guests, friend to new member, protector of the Music Team, and always, Qwire's number one fan. That our first life member was someone who never sang a note is a testament to the many important roles she played for more than a decade, supporting the Qwire. Katie sadly passed away in 2017.
Chris Ashcroft Chris Ashcroft was Qwire’s first Musical Director from 1993-1996 responding to the advert inviting gay men and lesbians to come along and sing. He was a secondary school teacher and father of 4 teenage sons and had only just come out as a gay man. It took a lot of courage to stand up in public in those days but Chris led the Qwire members through some wonderful early times before moving onto become the Assistant Conductor of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and more recently singing with the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir.
Leanne Linmore Leanne Linmore was Qwire’s Musical Director from 1996-2009 leading the Qwire at a number of international and national events such as the Gay Games Cutlural Festival in Sydney in 2002 and Various Voices Festival in Paris in 2005. During her time Qwire produced 2 CDs and commissioned the work ‘True’. Leanne led the Qwire as it broadened its horizon performing to wider audiences such as the opening of the Canberra Playhouse Theatre. Leanne often reflects on Qwire as having a strong sense of belonging, family and community.
Karen Wilden Karen Wilden has been both Qwire’s Musical Director (2003 & 2018-2021) and Assistant Musical Director (Various) throughout Qwire’s lifetime. She has conducted the Qwire with emotion and enthusiasm, written and arranged songs and supported learning through recording hundreds of MP3 tracks. Karen went on Qwire trips to the USA (1998), Various Voices Paris (2005), Dublin (2014) and Munich (2018) and Out and Loud Auckland (2016). The Out and Loud Choral Festival Canberra 2019 gave Karen the opportunity to conduct Qwire in our iconic national institutions working with the guest conductor Stephen Leek in the Gala Concert at Llewellyn Hall. Karen has led Qwire through the difficult time of COVID 19 as it impacts on our communities.
Jessica Stewart Jess Stewart joined Qwire in 2013 and by 2014 was accompanying Qwire on piano at almost every rehearsal and at all our performances, including our overseas trips to Dublin, Auckland and Munich. Jess is a talented musician playing keyboard, saxophone and percussion as well as singing and arranging music which she has done for Qwire many times. Jess shares her love of music with unbounded enthusiasm and has taught many of us to read music and to understand notes and rhythm. Her musical creativity and vision have enabled Qwire to expand our music horizons, including our first virtual choir video for ‘World on our Shoulders’. Jess is an integral member of our music team and has continued to support Qwire during COVID lockdowns and challenges.


PARIS, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The French government will absorb extra strain on this year’s budget from a second lockdown through the issuance of Treasury bills, Finance Ministry sources said on Tuesday.
The government put France under lockdown last Friday until at least the start of December as it struggles to contain a resurgence in new COVID-19 cases.
It said at the time it would earmark an extra 20 billion euros - including nearly 11 billion in direct handouts to struggling small businesses - to cover the costs related to the lockdown in a 2020 budget update to be presented on Wednesday.
Better-than-expected tax revenue vis-a-vis previous estimates offered some relief from the higher costs and short-term debt issuance would finance the rest, finance ministry sources said.
“Medium and long-term bond issuance net of buybacks should remain at 260 billion euros. Any necessary adjustments will be made on other financing sources, short-term (sources) in particular,” one of the sources said.
The Finance Ministry has said it now expects the public sector budget deficit to reach a record 11.3% of gross domestic product this year due to the costs of pulling the economy back from the brink of collapse during the coronavirus crisis.
Nonetheless, the government expects the euro zone’s second-biggest economy to contract 11% this year, revised last week from a previous estimate of 10%. (Reporting by Leigh Thomas; Editing by Andrea Ricci)
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Cancer is among the top killers of America’s dogs and cats, and a new initiative is doing its part to change that.
In honor of National Pet Cancer Awareness Month (November), Nationwide and the Animal Cancer Foundation have teamed up for a virtual fundraising walk to raise awareness of the prevalence of the disease and support research for a cure.
Donations will be raised via the WoofTrax mobile app. Participants are asked to register for the event, then take walks at their convenience between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31.
Nationwide will donate $10 to the Animal Care Foundation for every person registered. An additional 10 cents for each walk taken during the time period will also be donated for a total of up to $75,000.
Those walking with their dogs are encouraged to post photos on social media using the hashtag #CurePetCancer.
One in four dogs and one in five cats in the U.S. will develop cancer in their lifetimes, making it the number one disease-related cause of death for these animals, Nationwide says.
In 2019, the insurance company received 106,585 pet insurance claims for cancer diagnosis and treatment for 23,502 pets, making cancer-related conditions one of the most common types of medical claims.
“Cancer can be a frightening diagnosis in pets and people both,” says Nationwide’s chief veterinary officer, Jules Benson, BVSc MRCVS. “Thanks to advancements in diagnostics and treatments, in many cases veterinarians are able to treat or manage the disease, maintaining quality of life.”
For more information on the virtual walk, click here.

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LIGHTS OVERVIEW AND DIAGRAMS -- CONTINUED
When the main light switch is set to any position except OFF, the rear service lights are turned on by setting the
REAR SERVICE light switch to the ON position.
The warning flasher operates independently of the other external lights. A separate system power (+24 -- 28 V dc)
input is supplied to the FLASHER switch through a 15--amp circuit breaker on the switch panel. When the FLASH-
ER switch is set to the ON position, the flasher control is activated and the warning light flashes. Additionally, the
flasher indicator light flashes whenever the warning flasher light is operating.
A diagram is included to show the relationship of the various lighting components.
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Springfield, Ore. -- "He's a little bit of both but I'd say he's a lot more of the lead by example guy," says Springfield Millers head football coach Adam Jones. "When Arturo shows up dialed in and he's there to work and play as hard as he can play, it gets infectious for everybody else."
Springfield's Arturo Diaz has been through it all with Millers football. The ups, the downs, the in-between. It was remembering the good days that helped Diaz lead his teammates through the bad.
"I think it was mostly guys my freshman year," Diaz recalls. "...you know Trevor Watson, Gabe Mitchell, Jordan Henderson...you know big all state players. I looked up to them. They had their own little group and I wanted to be in that group and I knew that I wouldn't get into that group until I was one of the guy."
That was a motivator, as well as his brother, Adrian Montes, who also played at Springfield.
"He would take it easy on me in practice so that was fun I guess," jokes Diaz. "I kinda wish I could see him now though put a little beating on him. I would run him over clear as day no doubt about it."
"His brother is...I see him every Friday night," Jones says. "They're definitely here and it's definitely a big deal to Arturo so it's important to him."
Through both classes of brothers though, Millers football has bottomed out buand started a rebuild under head coach Adam Jones.
"Unfortunately for some of these seniors, like I said over the summer, three head coaches in three years and it's just been an unfortunate set of circumstances and I think they deserve better," Jones mentions.
"What's been tough for me was learning how to be a leader not by saying stuff just by showing by example," Diaz expands. "Really when it comes down to it you have to show what you can do to your teammates."
And that's meant challenges on upperclassmen like Arturo. But with the advice of his brother and coach, Diaz has risen to be a key cog of this Millers team.
"It's like just show what you can do and be a guy that you can count on if they can't count on you they won't wanna be next to you on a Friday night," concludes Diaz. The hope, of course: to set the groundwork for future classes to lead Springfield to a place of prominence in 5A once again.
- Game of the Week Player Profile: Arturo Diaz
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John Stanley's Creature Features (6th Ed.) H-K
Part 4-Michael Myers, King Kong, Jack the Ripper & more slasher movies than you can shake a razor blade at. Surprised at a few omissions like the crappy Haunted Honeymoon & the much better tv-movie The Haunted with Sally Kirkland. Since the latter was a real case investigated by Ed & Lorraine Warren, check it out before it becomes The Conjuring 4. BTW, Stanley accidentally lists Halloween Night as both an alternate title for Hack-O-Lantern & as a separate movie. He also forgot there was a silent version of The Hands of Orlac before Mad Love.
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Kwon Mina deleted all her posts on the same day that Seol Hyun uploaded her 1st Vlog. Is it just a coincidence?
AOA Seol Hyun has just uploaded her 1st Youtube Vlog today. Then, Kwon Mina, AOA’s former member, suddenly deleted all…Read More »
Seol Hyun will reveal the first Vlog on her Youtube channel, netizens are curious about AOA’s situation
AOA Seol Hyun has just posted a teaser for her soon-to-be-uploaded Vlog on her Youtube channel - "Shining by Seol…Read More »
After allegations of bullying increased, artists were accused of halting activities and withdrew from participating projects. In which, the most…Read More »


Automotive aluminum is the most cost-effective top structural material for manufacturing electric cars, passenger cars and race car. Its weight loss effect is outstanding and can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Besides, it is highly recyclable. Lightweight can also reduce the cost of power batteries for new energy vehicles.
ABS panel is divided into two types: inner panel and outer panel. The performance requirements for outer panels are high and production is difficult. Typical representatives of conventional ABS alloys are: 2002-T4, 21187-T4, 2036-T4, 2037-T4, 2038-T4, 5182-O, 6009-T4, 6010-T4, 6015-T4, 6016, 6111, 5754, etc.
5754 aluminum alloy is used in the manufacturing of inner door. It has the advantages of high strength, good plasticity, high specific strength, good welding performance, strong temperature resistance, good corrosion resistance, and high fatigue resistance. Aluminium 5754 h22 is often used.
It seems almost impossible to create a new ABS aluminum alloy system at present. The only way is to optimize the composition of the alloy based on the existing 6xxx series alloy and create an ABS outer plate alloy with better overall performance than the 6016 alloy.
Based on the existing 5xxx series alloys, we will create an inner plate ABS alloy with better overall performance than 5754. At the same time, the new alloy should have a better cost performance.
The engine is considered the "heart" of the car, and its mass generally accounts for 20-30% of the entire vehicle. For engine aluminum, you can choose 5454 thin aluminum sheet.
5454 aluminum plate has high strength, high corrosion resistance, good plasticity and good formability. The strength of 5454 aluminum sheet is about 20% higher than that of 5052 aluminum plate. 5454 aluminum plate is also widely used in pressure vessels, marine facility pipelines, automobile wheels, oil tankers. 5454 h32 is a common temper.
5xxx aluminum alloy is the most commonly used deformed aluminum alloy in wheel forging, mainly including: 5052-O, 5154-O, 5454-O, 5083-O, 5086-O. 5xxx forged aluminum alloy wheels have high corrosion resistance and are suitable for working in extreme environments.
In recent years, aluminum alloy for cars have come in a variety of specifications. Some new aluminum alloys have good stamping properties, weldability and corrosion resistance, and have certain strength and stiffness. They are suitable for manufacturing load-bearing components with high stiffness such as the aluminum car frame. Haomei Aluminum can offer customers 5xxx and 6xxx aluminum alloys for the vehicles. Welcome to leave message below to inquire what you need.
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Play Free Mobile Games on 2FlashGames.Com
Play most popular mobile games, anytime, anywhere on your mobile devices
In the highly addictive arcade game Stack Tower you stack 3D blocks to a tower. The higher and the straighter you stack the blocks, the more points you earn. If you manage to place a block exactly on the one before, it will not lose size. Sloppy placement on the other hand will cut off the blocks and making them smaller and smaller until it gets impossible to add more blocks. You can play Stack Tower on your own and try to unlock all achievements or you can play against your friends and try to beat them. Do you have what it takes to the Stack Tower champion? Play now for free!
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Power Block is a colorful and action-packed arcade game that will put your hand-eye coordination and reflexes to the test! The game starts with a classic endless mode where formations of blocks will continuously fall from the top and where your task is to quickly fill the lines of blocks to make them disappear before they will reach the ground. Clearing blocks also earns you money that can be spend to unlock up to 10 different game modes, ranging from various endless modes to time-limited challenges and special modes. 'Black and white tiles' was 2015! Play the colorful Power Block now for free and prove your superior skills!
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Geometry Match Dash is an arcade action game that is based on a good sense for rhythm and great eye-hand coordination. The objective for the player is to tap or click on the screen when the a rotating figure is exactly over its shape that is drawn on the canvas beneath. While this is simple with a single rotating shape it gets harder with two or more and unbelievably hard when speed and the direction of rotation change with every match you achieve. Play Geometry Match Dash now online and enjoy the 30 levels packed with fun. Find out, if you are able to beat the near impossible challenges!
Puzzle Games, Classic Games, Skill, Arcade Games
Block Buster brings the retro charm of a classic brick breaking game, that you just can't put down, to your phone, tablet and your desktop computer. The game features not less than forty levels packed to bursting with fun and increasingly hard challenges. You move the paddle from side to side using your finger or the mouse and try to bounce the ball around the screen to destroy all the blocks. Some blocks will drop mighty power ups that give you multi-ball, set the ball on fire or lengthen your paddle if you manage to pick them up. But be careful not to pick up one of the negative extras, that could for instance shorten the platform. Can you go through all the levels?
Puzzle Games, Classic Games, Skill, Action Games, Arcade Games

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Research In Motion comments on BlackBerry outage
Friday, April 20, 2007
|"So long as RIM solves whatever went wrong and communicates it well enough to customers, we foresee no lasting impact."|
—D Newcrest analyst Chris Umiastowski.
All eight million users of BlackBerry have been relieved of a large system failure that left them without email for two days.
Emails were lost after a large system failure blocked all of their users worldwide, Tuesday. It is reported at 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday the system failure began. It ended Wednesday morning leaving its millions of users with a backlog of emails.
Research In Motion said that a system upgrade caused the large system failure and when they tried to fix the problem "it did not fully perform to its expectations".
"It wasn't a capacity issue, it wasn't a security issue. It was an outage overnight when there was an upgrade," said Co-CEO of RIM, Jim Balsillie. "I think it's pretty likely that the systems are in place that this kind of thing, as incredibly unlikely as it is to happen, is all the more unlikely to happen again."
- Wojtek Dabrowski. "RIM moves to prevent another BlackBerry outage" — , April 20, 2007
- "Blackberry reveals failure cause" — , April 20, 2007
- Canadian Press - David Friend. "Some users say e-mail starting to flow after RIM BlackBerry e-mail failure" — , April 18, 2007
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‘It is not credible to say they did not know what was happening. I complained to the UCI for years” said Mr. Pound to the famous French newspaper L’ÉQUIPE.
Dick Pound, a tax partner at Stikeman Elliott in Montreal, a former Olympic swimmer, a former vice president of the International Olympic Committee and founder of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) knows what he’s talking about.
He made anti-doping in sport, a personal struggle by founding the World Anti-Doping Agency (whose main offices and non-headquarters (!) – are found in Montreal).
In his presentation, during a course in sports law that I give at the University of Montreal, he hammered repeatedly that the scourge of doping was rampant (ad nauseam) in the world of cycling.
In addition, the newspaper Le Parisien reported that Mr. Pound had suggested a bit cynical, Armstrong admits he is “the best of the worst!”
Later Le Parisien wrote ‘Mr. Pound admitted that some supporters of Armstrong will continue to challenge the report of Usada, especially in the United States because “there are many people who have a strong emotional attachment to Armstrong. They do not know that he was a cheater.’
- UCI drug system designed to fail (bigpondnews.com)
- UCI knew drug testing system was flawed (bigpondnews.com)
- Drugs in cycling: it’s not only Lance Armstrong who has questions to answer | Observer editorial (guardian.co.uk)
- Ex-WADA head suggests UCI turned blind eye to Armstrong (dailystar.com.lb)
- Pound says it’s not credible that the UCI didn’t know about Armstrong’s doping (velonation.com)
- What if doping were legal? (mnn.com)
- 5 Questions: Doping report on cyclist Lance Armstrong (cbc.ca)
- USADA’s Armstrong file in hands of UCI lawyers (abc.net.au)
- Pound: UCI must have known about doping (cyclingnews.com)
- Dick Pound harshly judges the UCI (sportdroit.com)


Butterkist is relaunching with a new packaging design, supported by a £3m marketing campaign across broadcast, digital and print channels.
The new packs are colour coded for clearer flavour differentiation, and aim to offer greater stand-out on shelf.
New-look packs are available this month, ahead of the launch of a new TV campaign, which goes live on Monday 6 March.
The ‘Sharing’ message is at the heart of the brand’s marketing campaign, witnessed in the strapline ‘Butterkist makes the sharing moment’.
Anjna Mistry, senior brand manager at Butterkist, commented: “This re-launch of this iconic brand is based around three key elements, built from greater consumer understanding: a revitalised pack design to strengthen brand appeal on shelf, a compelling TV campaign communicating our sharing message to consumers and an integrated approach across PR, digital, social and shopper marketing.
“We are confident that these elements combined will deliver incremental category and brand growth and maintain Butterkist’s position in the market as the nation’s most loved, number one popcorn brand that brings people together and creates sharing moments.”


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Paradigm lost? : lifelong education in New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s
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Citation:Benseman, J. (2005). Paradigm lost? : lifelong education in New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s. journal article.
Permanent link to Research Bank record:https://hdl.handle.net/10652/2047
The concept of lifelong learning is very prominent in many New Zealand educational policies and writings at present. Although the concept can be traced back to many early educational writers, it first emerged as a tour de force in this country in the 1970s. This article reviews the development of adult and community education (ACE) in New Zealand from the early 1970s through to the early 1990s in terms of the ideals of lifelong education and the ensuing debates that surrounded it.


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If you really need to take the substrate out to clean them, use your tank water instead. 3. Water Change. This is the part where you replenish the water that you have removed from the tank. Place a clean plastic sheet, aluminium foil, a plate, a container, etc in the tank to break the impact of incoming water. This will prevent the incoming water from stirring up the leftover wastes and debris.
Similarly, you do not want to remove the fish from the tank when you do your regular 10-15% water change. This, again, is a lot more work on you, and creates an unnecessary mess. In addition, this can be highly stressful to the fish, and is likely to cause physical injuries to your fish.
When you do a water change dirty nitrate-laden water is removed from the tank, using a gravel-cleaning syphon, and the tank is topped up with tapwater that is lower in nitrate. This dilutes the nitrate level in the aquarium and helps keep the tank and fish in good shape.These make for pretty good tank mates for goldfish because they can handle the same water temperature and water parameters as goldfish. Moreover, while these guys are pretty small, they are more or less too fast for a goldfish to be able to catch and eat, so there is no issue of the goldfish eating them. Other than that there is no problem when it comes to housing goldfish and Zebra Danios (we.Find out more about what to feed your goldfish. Changing your tank water Only remove a small amount of tank water at each water change. Hopefully you won’t be surprised to hear that you can’t just fill your tank once and then leave it! You will need to change your water on a regular basis. However, this isn’t as simple as grabbing a jug, scooping out some water, then pouring some more.
Water chemistry governs every factor within the aquarium directly effects the health of fish and aquatic plants. Water from the tap can often have a water chemistry that makes it unfit for direct use in the aquarium. In these cases it may need to be adjusted to the species of fish or plant in the aquarium. This guide paves the way to easily adjusting your pH, KH, GH and other parameters. A.Read More
The Marine goldfish bowl features a quick-change filter cartridge with a patented Marina Slim S10 OR S20 clip-on filter for the water. It also makes use of a natural daylight effect LED lighting module, which lasts for a very long time. This lighting system is built into the aquarium canopy; thus, it can be operated whenever you please. Some of the items included in this aquarium kit are fish.Read More
Water Change Kit; Health Menu Toggle. Goldfish Diseases Menu Toggle. What’s your goldfish trying to tell you? Symptoms, disease and treatment; Bacterial and Parasitic infections; Flukes Treatment, Diagnosis, Prevention; Dropsy; Constipation or Indigestion; Goldfish lays on the bottom of the tank; Dealing with problems; Sick Fish Menu Toggle. Green Malachite Treatment for White Spot; Salt.Read More
I have a filter and I change 30% of the water every week. I add fresh start and filter start to take away the chemicals and add good bacteria. My tank has 80 litres and houses 3 big goldfish, 3 small goldfish and a cleaning fish. Also my fish are very easily prone to illnesses such as swim bladder, blood streaks on fins and often gasp for air at the top of the tank. Also, one of my fish has.Read More
Remove the correct amount of water based on the type of change you are doing and the size of your tank. How often to change and how much. This can depend on the tank size and amount of fish you have. The recommended is no more than 2 fish per 20 gallons. At that size, a once a week partial change, at least one-third of the water, is perfect for.Read More
Generally speaking, you should change some of your goldfish’s tank water once per week. We say “generally speaking”, because you will need to do more regular water changes in some situations. For example, if your tank was not properly cycled before you added your fish, then you may need to change some tank water as often as daily, in order to keep ammonia levels under control.Read More
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The iconic duo are live in effect tomorrow night at The Shrine in Chicago …
If you know your hip hop, you know Pete Rock & CL Smooth are one of rap’s most celebrated duos. For those living in the Chicago area, I envy you because you get to check them out on Friday, November 20th at The Shrine in Chicago.
There pair aren’t just doing a few songs and bouncing. Nah player, they’re performing their classic album Mecca & The Soul Brother in its entriety. This is a must see show for any true hip hop head that can attend. Doors open at 9.
Check out Rock & Smooth’s “T.R.O.Y.,” one of my favorite rap songs of all time.


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Why Knowledge and Incentives?
Why does RPE identify the key social problems as knowledge and incentives? My contention is that these two problems emerge from three key compelling, though inevitably contested (Lukes 1968; Hodgson 2007), assumptions, or constraints on our form of explanation: (1) methodological individualism, (2) subjectivism, and (3) analytical egalitarianism.
By methodological individualism, I mean the assumption that social activity is constituted, in the final analysis though not necessarily at all points in an explanation, by embodied human beings, rather than aggregated structures. By subjectivism, I mean the notion that individuals act on the basis of their own separate beliefs, experiences, and values (Hayek 1937; 1943, 5) that at best can only ever be partially articulated and shared with other agents. Our methods of communicating our thoughts and feelings are not given, and even when present, imperfect. By analytical egalitarianism, I mean a presumption of rough equality of power or capacity between individuals. This excludes the examination of inherent individual characteristics as an explanation of different social outcomes.
The problems of knowledge and incentives are two sources of disorder, or lack of coordination, that emerge from these assumptions. That is, they are present when humans have the characteristics of embodied individuals with their own mental lives and rough equality of power between them. There is no special agent that can naturally overpower the others and dictate the outcomes of the interaction. The knowledge problem is the result of these individuals encountering and interpreting a dynamic natural and social world through their limited senses and cognitive capacities. They face radical uncertainty as to the opportunities and threats they face, and bounded rationality when processing relevant information to guide their actions. The incentive problem emerges as a result of individuals or groups encountering others with subjective interests and objectives that are unreconciled with their own.
Although knowledge and incentive problems are distinct, their influence on each other means that considering them together allows us to better understand the challenge of human sociability (cf. Gamble 1989, 1). The knowledge problem extends to ignorance of the intentions and interests of others so that individuals are uncertain, for example, as to what might constitute an effective incentive for other individuals or groups. At the same time, lack of knowledge heavily influences the incentives that individuals face. In some contexts, this generates narrow, defensive attitudes that prevent potentially productive co-operation.

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The Love We Lost is my take on the Japanese magical girl genre. Set in the Japanese coastal town of Kamogawa about an hour from Tokyo, the story centres around Meg Momozono and her friends as they attempt to save the Earth from looming catastrophe.
City of Broken Dreams - Starlight Dreamers Book 6
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The next entry in my Starlight Dreamers lesbian erotic romance featuring Japanese-style idols. Isla and Millie begin preparing for their big debut, Ema takes a trip to New Meadowstone with her friends Kirsten and Danika, and Eva struggles with her new job in Movie Town.


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Graham Alexander was at a morning business meeting when his phone started buzzing with frantic calls and text messages from the staff at his hotel nearby, who said scores of armed men had arrived and were evicting everyone.
Mr. Alexander raced back to his 24-room hotel, in the Mexican resort town of Tulum, on the east coast of the Yucatan peninsula.
He said he found the entrance padlocked, his guests out on the street and the furniture being tossed away. Two burly men told him to leave “or we’ll take care of you,” he said.
It was the morning of June 17. More than two months later, the Canadian businessman is still fighting to get back his hotel, despite concerns for his safety and puzzlement that the men he holds responsible for his misfortune may be in Canada.
What happened to Mr. Alexander, a former Vancouver resident, was not unique. According to Mexican media reports, he was among more than a dozen hoteliers and other hospitality entrepreneurs who were evicted that morning in an ugly land dispute.
It was a cautionary tale about doing business in Tulum, a once sleepy village on the Riviera Maya that has now grown into a tourist hot spot with boutique hotels, fashion shops and yoga classes.
The June 17 evictions were only the latest episode in an ongoing feud over who owns the land accessing the palm trees and white sand of Tulum’s beaches.
Those supporting the eviction say it was a move to return the properties to people who actually held title to that land.
But the hotel operators say they were muscled out of prime locations by rivals from another Mexican state.
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Nestled in the heart of Nedlands, the Taylor Road IGA is not your usual supermarket.
Western Australian brewers continue to impress on the national stage, with Feral Brewing Company and The Monk Brewery and Kitchen winning major prizes at the 2015 Craft Beer Awards.
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With four sturdy casters to make it easier to move heavy potted plants, this rolling saucer also serves as a catch basin to protect surfaces from overflow. Made of tough, UV-stable plastic for indoor or outdoor use, it won’t fade in the sun or crack in cold temperatures. The ribbed surface keeps pots raised for air circulation and drainage, and its 1" high lip keeps excess water contained.
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The Saudi-American aggression along with their mercenaries continued on Saturday to launch raids and bombardments on a number of provinces, causing material damage to public and private property. Additionally, it continued in violating the cease-fire agreement in Hodeidah.
In the northern province of Saada, fighter jets led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE carried out five raids on the al-Ashash area in the Kataf district.
Also in Saada, various areas of within the Munebah and Razih district were exposed to Saudi rocket and artillery bombardment, causing severe damage to homes and property.
In the coastal province of Hodeidah, the mercenaries affiliated with UAE and Saudi Arabia used artillery shells and machine guns to target the city of the Shabab in the 90th Street and nearby areas, and the areas south of the district of Hays.
In addition. the mercenaries bombed with 10 artillery shells machine-guns the al-Faza area in the Tuhita district and shelled 3 times the area of Kilo 16 with mortars.
The Saudi-UAE mercenaries also targeted south and west of the city of the Tuhita with artillery shells and machine guns.
Moreover, areas south of the Faculty of Medicine in Hodeidah city were subjected to the mercenaries bombing.
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text: Cessna gear brackets and inboard angles are manufactured using an extrusion process which is geared for high volume, lower cost production. As the aluminum is extruded the molecular structure of the material is altered which makes it more susceptible to developing inter-granular corrosion. Shown here is a top view of an outboard gear bracket with severe inter-granular corrosion. Note how the material expands and flakes off in layers. This is due to the re-alignment of the molecular structure that occurs during the extrusion process. Parts milled from cold rolled aluminum block do not develop this type of destructive corrosion.

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With that great victory over Roma behind us, it's time to focus on our first away game of the new year. For the first time this season, AC Milan will kick off at 12:30, and they shall do so in the striking setting of the Penzo to face a Venezia side in search of points to strengthen their chances of survival. Ahead of kick-off tomorrow, let's take a look at the main stats and facts about matchday 21 of Serie A:
HEAD TO HEAD
1- This will be the 26th meeting between Venezia and AC Milan in Serie A: 15 wins for the Rossoneri, 4 for the Venetians, 6 draws. There have been 12 previous meetings between the two sides at the home of the Lagunari with AC Milan leading 7 wins to 3 (as well as 2 draws). This will be the first fixture at the Penzo since February 2002 (which ended in a 4-1 win for the Rossoneri)
2- AC Milan have lost just one of their last 22 Serie A matches against newly-promoted teams: in the other 21 matches, the Rossoneri have recorded 16 wins, five draws with 13 clean sheets. It is also worth noting that AC Milan have won their first away game of the calendar year in Serie A in the last four seasons, including last year, against a newly promoted side, a 2-0 win at Benevento.
3- AC Milan will kick off a Serie A match at 12.30 for the first time since April 2021: a 2-1 win against Genoa, Rebić's goal and Scamacca's own goal.
4- In their last 18 away games in Veneto, Milan have collected 12 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats, the last one coming back in 2017.
5- AC Milan are the league's most prolific side in front of goal both in the first half (16 goals) as well as the last half an hour of play: after 60’, the Rossoneri have scored 18 goals, just as many as Venezia have netted in the league overall.
6- Venezia could become the 80th different team that Zlatan Ibrahimović has scored against in the five major European leagues since the beginning of 2000. The Swede would become the second player to reach this milestone after Cristiano Ronaldo.
7- Olivier Giroud has scored five goals in Serie A this season, already one more than he scored in the 2020/21 Premier League with Chelsea. The French striker is still looking for his first away goal in a Rossoneri shirt: all five of his goals have come at San Siro.
8- In the home game earlier this season, Brahim Díaz scored his first, and so far, his only Serie A goal (out of a total of seven in his career) at San Siro. Also in the match on 22 September, Theo Hernández registered a goal and an assist in the same Serie A fixture for the first and only time in his career.
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They held prom pictures and high school yearbook cutouts. They wore t-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with faces, names, birthdays—and death dates. They drove from all over California to tell lawmakers that their children were “killed” or “murdered.”
Not by random violent criminals, gun-toting gang members, or mass shooters—but by drug dealers.
Inside a drab hearing room in a state Capitol annex, they lined up in front of a tall plexiglass divider to express their support for Senate Bill 44, otherwise known as “Alexandra’s Law,” which would help prosecutors bring murder charges against convicted drug dealers. For some grieving parents, laws like this represent a path to justice—the only way to punish the people they believe “poisoned” their children in a country that has gone soft against hardened criminals. For others, it’s a doomed latter-day embrace of the war on drugs that will only bring more pain and suffering.
On that March morning in Sacramento, Alexandra’s surviving parents, Matt and Christine Capelouto, sat eagerly in the gallery waiting for their cause to be taken up by the public safety committee. This was the third time the project named for their daughter had a hearing in three years; twice already, the committee—currently comprising four Democrats and one Republican—had voted it down. Each loss left an army of bereaved parents livid, and none more than the Capeloutos.
“We’ve allowed drug dealers to become serial killers,” Matt Capelouto told me. “It’s so hard to hold these drug dealers accountable in states like ours. We need to change that.”
They were determined to try again. Christine held a framed picture of Alexandra, smiling big with bright blonde hair, as she gently pleaded for the senators’ support. Matt spoke next, the room encased in a quiet tension. He approached the clear divider, looked senators square in the eye, raised his right index finger into the air, and, his voice trembling, intoned, “On behalf of all fentanyl poisoning victims, strong support.”
Families like the Capeloutos are adamant that their child did not experience some sort of self-imposed tragedy. Instead, they use the word “poisoned,” which makes it clear there is a villain in the mix here—and it certainly was not their kid. “I will never say my daughter died of a drug overdose,” Capelouto said, adding, “She was deceived to death.” Alexandra Capelouto died in December 2019, when she was 20 years old. She had purchased pills off the social-media app Snapchat that she believed were oxycodone, but turned out to be fentanyl, a much more potent opioid. Investigators believe Alexandra crushed and snorted at least one pill, enough to deliver a fatal dose for someone without a tolerance.
The data shows the Capeloutos’ anguish is far from anecdotal: The number of young people dying from fentanyl is spiking in unprecedented fashion.
Alexandra’s Law, if passed, would require courts to issue a written admonishment to defendants convicted of a range of fentanyl-related offenses, from possessing for sale to sharing or transporting the drug. The rebuke would alert the defendant that selling or giving away drugs could result in death, and that, if they do it again and somebody dies as a result, they could be on the hook for murder.
The bill falls under a category of controversial “drug-induced homicide” laws that seek to hold drug distributors criminally responsible for overdose deaths. Such laws are not exactly new, but since fentanyl has taken over the drug market, their popularity has exploded. After his daughter’s death, Matt Capelouto became president of a foundation called Drug-Induced Homicide, dedicated to passing these kinds of laws. If you visit his foundation’s website—druginducedhomicide.org—you will see this question in big block letters pop up on the screen: “Why are drug dealers getting away with MURDER?”
There is another set of parents who share the Capeloutos’ grief, but not their response. In fact, they vehemently disagree with activist efforts aimed at dealers. This group is personified by Aimee Dunkle, a bereaved mom from Orange County and a board member of Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing, or GRASP. Dunkle, too, was there in Sacramento on that March morning, and anticipation in the room mounted as she stepped up to the plexiglass divider to argue against the bill. Dunkle acknowledged the shared experience of the parents. (“We may not be united in policy, but we are united in unimaginable pain.”) Then she explained how her son Ben’s heart stopped beating after he used heroin with a group of friends, and how one of his friends had a criminal record because of drugs and was afraid to dial 911. “It was not heroin that killed Ben that night,” she said. “It was fear.”
Dunkle said that her son was not murdered; his death was initially investigated as a homicide, but police later ruled it an accident. “The law enforcement officer said to me, ‘Mrs. Dunkle, your son made a choice that night. Nobody forced him to buy heroin.’” The point, if a bit harsh, eventually resonated with Dunkle, who thinks that, instead of deterring drug use or dealing, bills like SB 44 would discourage more people from calling for help if doing so meant the possibility of a future murder charge.
The hearing for Alexandra’s Law exposed a deep and bitter split among thousands of families who have endured a most primal loss. What one mom explained to me as “a great grief divide” runs across the country, with parents disagreeing about the very core meaning of their child’s death. Was their child “poisoned” by a malicious drug dealer who should pay for their crime? Or did their child die from a tragic “overdose” that, with better public health policy and education, could have been prevented? Parents on both sides of the grief divide want their child’s death to mean something.
Inevitably, this parental divide has mapped onto our political divide, and is funneling into a fiery new frontier of America’s cascading culture wars. The right has taken up the cause of the “murder” faction. Some in the GOP have called for bombing clandestine drug labs in Mexico. Donald Trump has made fentanyl a centerpiece of his 2024 campaign, and he wants to swiftly execute drug dealers—the way, he says, they do in China.
Many Democrats and liberals, meanwhile, tend to see in the urge to crack down on dealers—some of whom may not even have known they were selling fentanyl-laced pills—a time warp back to the Reagan era. “Simply making it easier to prosecute someone for murder will not address or solve this problem,” California Senator Steven Bradford, whose district includes Compton and West Compton, said during the March hearing where senators debated Alexandra’s Law. He added, “We’ve seen this movie before—in the ’80s and ’90s—with mass incarceration and zero tolerance in the war on drugs.” This is why the Democratic-controlled committee voted Alexandra’s Law down.
For a long time, public sentiment seemed to be inching toward the latter, more realist view. Nearly a decade ago, polling showed most Americans had soured on harsh tactics against drugs—63 percent believed ending mandatory minimum drug sentences to be “a good thing,” and just 26 percent believed the federal government should prioritize prosecuting people for using “hard drugs.” Now, most Americans still believe the war on drugs to be an abject failure, but fentanyl and all its shocking lethality could be creating some doubt. Recent polling by The Economist and YouGov asked Americans whom they blame for the fentanyl crisis, and a vast majority, 74 percent, answered they blame drug dealers the most, as many of these parents do. (China and Mexico tied for second.) As fentanyl deaths reach staggering heights, lawmakers have felt enormous pressure to do something, anything.
And they have. Lawmakers across the country have debated—and, in some cases, passed—harsher fentanyl laws, from new felonies and mandatory minimum sentences for possession to laws that make drug selling akin to murder. Some states have recently hindered public health and harm reduction efforts: Colorado killed a bill that would allow overdose prevention centers, and California’s Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar measure. Idaho voted to limit funding for naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug, and West Virginia heavily curtailed syringe access programs. In congressional hearings and statehouses across the country, grieving parents are a common presence. Many say they want “accountability” for drug sellers, and their demands are being heard.
As fentanyl deaths keep surging, more and more parents are finding their way into a bona fide movement to make political sense of the unthinkable. Powered by profound pain, these parents are hell-bent on ending the worst drug crisis ever recorded in U.S. history. What they choose to do with their pain, and who they blame for causing it, could end up leaving a deep imprint on the shape of U.S. drug policy for generations.
That struggle could determine just how many more young people are lost forever.
Sitting in Los Angeles traffic on a Friday afternoon, Joseph Friedman, an addiction researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, spouted off a series of terrifying statistics about fentanyl deaths ripping through seemingly every stratum of American life. “There’s never been a modern overdose crisis that’s anything like what we’re seeing in the U.S. right now,” he told me. Unlike heroin, fentanyl is totally synthetic, which means drug traffickers no longer need to pay farmers to cultivate vast fields of poppies. The result is a cheap, abundant, and highly potent opioid feeding America’s voracious demand for pain relief. Friedman explained that young people—and perhaps especially young white people—were once fairly insulated from this crisis, which has spanned more than two decades. But that picture changed around 2019, when a new supply of counterfeit pills hit the scene, particularly on the West Coast. These drugs, dubbed “fentapills” and thought to be made in makeshift labs in Mexico, look like in-demand pharmaceuticals, such as oxycodone and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax.
In 2019, 253 adolescents died from fentanyl-involved overdoses in the United States, according to Friedman’s analysis published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA. By 2021, that number had risen to 884 deaths—a 249 percent jump. Factoring in deaths from all opioids among young people aged 15 to 24, more than 6,000 died in 2021 alone. “That’s very epidemiologically novel and unprecedented,” Friedman said. “And there’s no sign that those trends are reversing.” Like any good scientist, Friedman listed numerous caveats. Namely that while the teen death rate is rising fast, young people represent a very small portion of the 100,000 drug-related deaths that now occur every year. By proportion, adults in their thirties to fifties still account for the largest slice of mortality. And the analysis acknowledged it was impossible to account for the social impact of the pandemic. But what’s especially striking to Friedman is the role counterfeit pills are playing in the sudden deaths of young people.
In 2021, over a quarter of all the fentanyl seized by law enforcement was disguised in the form of a pill. Researchers suspect law enforcement only captures a small fraction of the illicit drug supply, and there’s millions upon millions of pills flowing. Many parents had no idea what fentanyl even was, let alone that their child could purchase it on social-media platforms like Snapchat. One question that came up again and again was: Why are young people seeking Xanax and oxycodone from their peers or even complete strangers online? Another: Why are dealers giving them such a deadly chemical instead?
“Americans consume a massive amount of pharmaceuticals,” Friedman told me. “It’s totally normalized.” Kids see their friends and parents take pills for all sorts of ailments, and they think they’re safe. The act of taking a prescription pill can seem innocuous. They have no reason to suspect what they’re buying is ultra-potent fentanyl pressed, molded, and colored as popular pills. Young people experimenting and self-medicating with drugs are nothing new. What is new is how lethal that self-medication and experimentation have become, due to knockoff pills.
Alexandra Capelouto’s story illustrates the horrifying trends Friedman found in his research. She was diagnosed with depression as a teenager, her dad explained to me. “She was a very empathetic young lady,” he said. “She always [bore] other people’s pain on her own shoulders.” When she died, Alexandra was on winter break from Arizona State University, where she was studying sociology; she hoped to one day work in foster care to help children. Days before Christmas, she was at her parents’ home in Temecula, a small, picturesque Southern California city that hosts a wine and hot-air balloon festival every year. She was having trouble sleeping, and she wanted something to help. Capelouto told me that someone Alexandra knew referred her to a man around the same age named Brandon McDowell, whom she reached over Snapchat. McDowell agreed to sell her approximately 11 blue pills, inscribed with “M” on one side and “30” on the other, the same inscription as a generic 30-milligram oxycodone.
On December 23, 2019, Alexandra’s sister, Skye, woke up to the sound of her mother screaming and a door slamming shut. Alexandra’s mom found her, slouched on her bed, sitting in front of a mirror she’d used to put on makeup. Grim scenes like this have played out in thousands of homes across the country. Parents walk into their child’s bedroom and attempt to rouse them awake, only to find that they are long gone. Alongside smartphones, headphones, and laptops where they streamed their favorite shows and movies before bed, remnants of drugs are found: crushed powder, rolled-up dollar bills, a handful of pills.
According to Matt Capelouto, the local criminal justice system had no answers for his daughter’s demise. Her death was deemed an accident, and legally the deck was stacked against a homicide case. As of 2019, California was one of 27 states without a drug-induced homicide law on the books, and though California prosecutors can still charge dealers with murder, they must be able to prove malice—that the dealer knew what they were selling was deadly, and that they sold it anyway. That’s what Alexandra’s Law is meant to fix: The admonishment solves the problem of having to prove malice.
Capelouto essentially thinks he got lucky when federal prosecutors took up the case. Though they didn’t file a murder charge, prosecutors initially indicted McDowell on a charge of “distributing fentanyl resulting in death,” which carries a 20-year mandatory minimum sentence. “You can’t tell me that locking him up would not save lives,” Capelouto said. “Common sense tells you, if he’s behind bars, he can’t continue selling more pills.”
Federal fentanyl prosecutions are becoming more common, but remain rare, and Capelouto possessed a mountain of evidence that parents don’t always have. He had access to his daughter’s Snapchat messages and the drug deal documented by home security cameras. Without all this evidence—and without federal intervention—he said, other families in California would have a very difficult time securing convictions, and dealers would get away scot-free. He wants Alexandra’s Law to change all of this.
To make his case, Capelouto zoomed in on what he believed to be the intentionally deceptive nature of the drug deal. Yet the federal government’s own numbers show that dealers rarely misrepresent drugs to their customers on purpose. According to a 2021 report by the United States Sentencing Commission, less than 5 percent of 886 federally convicted fentanyl offenders intentionally misrepresented the substance during the transaction. The commission deemed this sort of deception “particularly aggravating conduct” that results in an even stiffer penalty. In McDowell’s case, the federal prosecutor did not insist on the most severe punishment possible. In fact, McDowell was able to plead to a lesser charge of “possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.” He received a sentence of nine years.
In a press conference in Riverside, California, after the sentencing, Capelouto made it clear he wanted more. “I’m disappointed that Judge Jesus Bernal believed the defendant was not fully aware of the dangers of what he was selling,” Capelouto said at the press conference, standing next to Riverside County’s district attorney and a DEA agent. But there could be an additional reason for the lighter sentence: A condition of McDowell’s probation is that, upon release, he enters addiction treatment and undergoes counseling and drug testing, the implication being that McDowell was also a user of the pills he was selling. Still, in Capelouto’s mind, addiction should not be considered a mitigating factor. “Whether he had a drug habit himself or not should not dismiss, you know, his illegal conduct of being a drug dealer,” he said. (An attorney who represented McDowell declined to comment on the record for this story, and an attempt to reach McDowell directly in federal prison was unsuccessful.)
Some drug policy researchers do support what Capelouto wants. Writing in Scientific American, two veterans of drug policy made the case for targeting “sellers who deliberately sell fentanyl to inexperienced users” over the internet, because these sellers are more likely to cause fatal overdoses. But the drug trade in America is a vastly complicated illegal market, and young people buying pills online make up only a small part of it. A new RAND report analyzing America’s “opioid ecosystem” concluded that “drug-induced homicide laws make little sense, especially in the era of synthetic opioids.” The reason why, the authors write, goes back to the intent of sellers and consumers. Due to illicit fentanyl contaminating the broader drug supply, the authors suggest, both sellers and consumers are often unaware of what’s really in their drugs. In other words, drug-related deaths could be caused by ignorance rather than malice.
That ignorance is by design. Illegal drugs are inherently risky; they do not tend to be sold alongside a list of ingredients. The truth, according to multiple drug policy experts, is that almost a decade into this horrifying wave of fentanyl deaths, very little is known about dealers and what they know or don’t know.
What we do know is that decades of research show that aggressive drug enforcement and lengthy prison sentences do not meaningfully reduce drug use or drug overdoses at all. The theory of deterrence has simply not held up against the economic or social realities that compel people to use or deal drugs. Other research shows that most drug arrests are for minute quantities, oftentimes less than a gram, which cannot possibly make a dent in availability or price. And since fentanyl is synthetic, large shipments that get seized can be quickly reproduced and replaced in the market. The days of “droughts” are largely over. Perhaps most damning to the case for aggressive drug enforcement, especially at the street level, is a new line of research suggesting that local drug seizures are actually associated with more overdose events, not fewer. Traditional policing and drug enforcement look increasingly futile in the fentanyl era.
Capelouto has heard most (if not all) of this before. He is undeterred. He sticks to his own experience, and to his belief that drug dealers are greedy, deceptive, and that they should be punished—whether it solves the fentanyl crisis or not. In the case of his own daughter, he ultimately did succeed in achieving at least part of his vision of justice. Even if it wasn’t the 20-year penalty he hoped for, he said he was still “grateful” for the outcome: The young man who sold the fake pills will spend nine years in federal prison for it.
In federal court, Capelouto spoke directly to McDowell. He held a blue urn that contained Alexandra’s ashes, and he said, “If there is anything I would wish for today, it would be to hear Alex’s voice…. I just want to hear her voice.” Capelouto is fueled by his own agony. “The grief is daily,” he said. “It’s never-ending.” In this fight, his pain has found a purpose. “I have never sought any professional counseling or therapy,” he told me. “This is the best way to deal with it. And, ultimately, hopefully, save others.”
The sympathetic parent—white and suburban—has long played an influential role in shaping America’s drug policy. In his forthcoming book, The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs, University of Michigan historian Matthew Lassiter refers to this movement as “Parent Power.” In California in the 1950s, it was suburban parents who advocated for the kinds of mandatory minimums that would later be popularized in the Reagan-era war on drugs. He also found that those same parents hoped to shield their children from the punitive laws they supported. Lassiter even coined a name for the white youth victims of America’s drug war: “impossible criminals,” he calls them. Considered to be victims of “the urban pusher, foreign trafficker, and predatory ghetto addict” imagined as “‘wolf packs’ and ‘rat packs’ invading white communities to peddle drugs,” Lassiter writes, America’s youth were to be protected from the hordes, and if they succumbed to drug use, they were afforded the option of treatment instead of punishment. Throughout history, Lassiter argues, this agenda was pursued by both liberal and conservative politicians.
To understand the evolution of parent activism, Lassiter said that he has his students read a 2015 New York Times article with the headline, “IN HEROIN CRISIS, WHITE FAMILIES SEEK GENTLER WAR ON DRUGS.” These families, the paper reported, were “part of a growing backlash against the harsh tactics of traditional drug enforcement.” The grieving parents lobbied statehouses, held rallies, and started nonprofits, using their credibility to advocate for policies rooted in health care rather than jails and prisons. These parents were portrayed as well-to-do and well-organized. “Punishment is out and compassion is in,” the Times wrote of these parents, while also noting the stark lack of empathy when drugs, not long ago, devastated Black communities, and the response was draconian drug enforcement and incarceration.
In a political twist, parents like the Capeloutos have formed a frontlash to the backlash against drug enforcement that began when heroin shattered suburban families. Now, compassion is out, and justice and retribution are in—at least among a newer cohort of families who are suffering another wave of unspeakable tragedy in the age of fentanyl. To help them pursue their goal of justice, and to change laws, families like the Capeloutos have built relationships with traditionally conservative institutions, from local prosecutors and sheriffs to federal law enforcement. But parents battling over drug policy today are not consciously modeling themselves after suburban parents of the 1950s. Instead, they may be looking back to the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan became president and a new conservative mood took hold. An article in Kaiser Health News referred to the Capeloutos as being part of a new “MADD movement,” alluding to the extraordinary success of Reagan-era parents who fought for tougher drunk-driving laws under the mantle of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Candace Lightner, who goes by Candy, started MADD in 1980 after her daughter, Cari, was struck and killed by a drunk driver. Lightner grew furious at laws she deemed to be far too lenient. Still active in politics to this day, Lightner wrote a letter backing Alexandra’s Law. “She supported our bill 110 percent,” Capelouto said.
Of course, one key difference between drunk driving and the current fentanyl crisis, critics of harsher laws say, is the potential for those who get involved with fentanyl to do so unwittingly—something virtually no drunk driver could ever credibly claim. But the Capeloutos aren’t the only ones looking to MADD for inspiration in the fentanyl era.
Jacqui Berlinn lives an hour outside of San Francisco in a town called Livermore, and she borrowed MADD’s acronym when she formed a group called Mothers Against Drug Deaths. She then changed it to Mothers Against Drug Addiction and Deaths, or MADAAD, after the original group raised trademark concerns. Berlinn’s activism stems from her experience with her 31-year-old son, Corey, who, in the account she frequently gives to news outlets, is currently addicted to fentanyl and living, homeless, on the street in San Francisco. Unlike Capelouto, who is focused on passing new laws, Berlinn appears to aim at provocation, and leans heavily on spectacle that generates attention in the press. Berlinn has protested against drug dealers in the Tenderloin, a neighborhood imagined on Twitter as a druggy hellscape where dealers and users brazenly break the law every day with impunity. In reality, the Tenderloin is a small slice of the city where social services, low-income housing, and addiction treatment are all concentrated, and where deep poverty is, increasingly, in close proximity to high-end luxury apartments for young, tech-savvy workers. Berlinn has also taken part in a protest at Venice Beach, another neighborhood where visible suffering and poverty generate friction with very wealthy Californians. She appeared on Tucker Carlson’s erstwhile show on Fox News to criticize President Joe Biden, and she advocates for aggressive drug enforcement and against harm-reduction services, like overdose prevention sites, which she thinks are “enabling” addiction instead of treating it.
Berlinn’s group has also placed cheeky billboards around California and Washington, D.C. The first went up in April 2022 and caused a local uproar. Floating above an aerial shot of the Golden Gate Bridge at dusk were the words: FAMOUS THE WORLD OVER FOR OUR BRAINS, BEAUTY AND, NOW, DIRT-CHEAP FENTANYL. The bottom text had the call to action: IT’S TIME TO CLOSE OPEN-AIR DRUG MARKETS, the markets where her son buys his drugs. The ad created a headache for Mayor London Breed, who had just traveled to Europe to lure tourists back to San Francisco. The moms soon placed another ad in Sacramento to get the attention of Governor Newsom. Off Interstate-80, the billboard featured the words WELCOME TO CAMP FENTANYL in the style of the National Park Service, with a makeshift tent encampment in the background. In January, the moms had a mobile billboard circling the streets of Washington, D.C. That ad addressed President Biden and his son Hunter, who has struggled with addiction. The ad featured a photo of Berlinn holding a poster of her son, Corey, next to the tagline, PLEASE HELP MY SON ESCAPE ADDICTION THE WAY YOU HELPED HUNTER.
The division between grieving parents mirrors broader societal cleavages over policing and criminal justice reform, but also, increasingly, foreign policy. The moms who started a Facebook group called Lost Voices of Fentanyl, which has about 27,000 members, have protested in front of the White House, using a megaphone to urge Biden to “wake up.” In addition to joining calls for military-style action in Mexico, some of the moms have rallied in front of the Chinese Embassy, blaming the country for the production of fentanyl precursor chemicals.
The Lost Voices of Fentanyl group has helped spread the “poisoning” story far and wide, thanks, in part, to federal law enforcement. Virginia Krieger, one of the moms behind the group, boasts of having a “contract” with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the agency has amplified their preferred language—that fentanyl deaths are not “overdoses” but “poisonings.” “At the risk of jeopardizing our relationship with the DEA, I am not going to discuss the terms of our agreement or what type of agreement it is,” Krieger told me. (A DEA employee clarified that there is no contract, but that the agency maintains a “memorandum of agreement” with various national partners.) Krieger then elaborated, telling me the group’s relationship with the DEA concerns the “The Faces of Fentanyl,” a memorial exhibit inside DEA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. There, the agency curates a drug museum, featuring seized objects, like an illegal pill press. The Facebook group sends photos of people who died from fentanyl to the DEA, and about 2,000 photos like these are arranged in rows on thick granite walls. Each photo has the first name of the deceased, followed by their age at the time of their death, with the word “forever” next to it.
Capelouto isn’t shy about his personal politics. “I happen to be conservative,” he told me. His ideology came through rather clearly in a 2022 profile that appeared in the right-wing outlet Breitbart News, in which he echoed prominent GOP talking points, often well before those talking points became standard Republican fare. Conservatives tend to describe drugs with a familiar hawkish tone, and speak of fentanyl as a national security threat that requires a military intervention.
In Breitbart, Capelouto referred to Mexican drug cartels as a “terrorist organization,” a designation Biden and other Democrats reject. “Why has our own government never gone beyond our own borders to dismantle these terrorists?” he asked. On Fox News, he described fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction,” another label that Biden’s director of drug policy, Dr. Rahul Gupta, dismisses. The GOP deploys much of the same rhetoric. Trump Attorney General William Barr advocated for the terrorist label in a March op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, in which he wrote, “America can no longer tolerate narco-terrorist cartels.” In November 2022, Representative Dan Crenshaw of Texas introduced a bill called the “Declaring War on the Cartels Act.” Also last year, far-right Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert filed the “Fentanyl is a WMD Act” in the House. After Biden announced he’s running for reelection in 2024, the Republican National Committee cut a dystopian “AI-generated” ad depicting what the world would look like if Biden won again. Over the sound of police sirens, a newscaster says, “Officials closed the city of San Francisco this morning, citing the escalating crime and fentanyl crisis.”
It wasn’t always this way. In 2016, polling found that opioids were one of the last remaining issues of bipartisan consensus in the United States, even if Trump was already scapegoating immigrants and falsely portraying asylum-seekers as drug smugglers. The crisis has deepened and worsened since then, diffusing grief and pain across the country, and the two parties now sound as far apart as ever when they invoke drugs. Democrats tend to emphasize the expansion of health care and treatment, while conservatives pitch something more dramatic and sensationalist—they promise they’ll fight back, that they’ll “secure” the southern border, that they’ll bring justice to victims. From the push to label fentanyl a WMD to calling for war against drug cartels, the brash nationalist wing of the Republican Party has taken up the demands of grieving parents.
The Ternan family has decided to follow their own way forward. Ed and Mary Ternan, from Pasadena, lost their son Charlie to fentanyl in May 2020, three weeks before he was set to graduate from Santa Clara University with a degree in economics. Charlie also took a counterfeit pill he had bought over Snapchat. “We’ve zigged where others have zagged,” Ed Ternan told me. He and his family are singularly focused on improving drug education and raising awareness about counterfeit pills and fentanyl’s lethality. Their group, called Song for Charlie, is currently building a drug-education platform for the entire state of California. They chose to deliberately stay out of the political arena, because they fear politics could derail their message.
The Ternans do not want to get distracted in their effort to “reimagine the drug talk” between parents and children. “We have to do something different besides demonizing every substance that comes down the track,” Ed said. They’re not focused on “supply-side” tactics, like getting back at drug cartels or punishing dealers. They want to reduce demand, and educate young people about the dangers of fake pills. “Mary and I, and Charlie’s older siblings, decided a long time ago that we definitely are not going down the ‘We are gonna get justice’ path,” Ternan said. “That’s not something that’s healthy for us as a family. It doesn’t help us with our grief.”
On April 25, Matt Capelouto was back in the statehouse, the memory of his daughter powering his latest foray into legislative activism. At 8 in the morning, as he was on his way to another hearing about Alexandra’s Law, he told me he was “not optimistic,” but that he still had hope. “We’ll see,” he said. Hours later, as it became clear the measure would fail once again, for the fourth time, there was a commotion in the gallery. The committee vice chair called for civility and decorum, but the parents were too furious. One parent stood up and stormed out in a fit of rage. It was Matt Capelouto. “You’re making every excuse for drug dealers!” he shouted.
By contrast, Aimee Dunkle said she felt relieved after the bill failed back in March, when she testified in Sacramento. “I played a tiny role in that, which meant a great deal to me,” she said.
But she, too, was pained by the whole saga. “As I sat on the Senate floor waiting to testify, I was totally in no-man’s-land,” she told me. “I’m a grieving parent sitting in a room filled with grieving parents, and yet I don’t belong.” She could feel the rage in the room, and she wanted to get out. “From the moment my son died, I determined that I would go a different path with my grief,” Dunkle told me. “I had to try and stay in the light for my family, for my surviving son.”
Capelouto is cognizant of the sharp contrast—and he is wary of seeming angry and bitter. “In order to get the masses on our side, we still have to come across as rational, normal people,” he said, “even though there is nothing normal about us anymore. It’s a tough walk to walk.”
Everything he’s doing sounds tough. He stays up late at night, always working, thinking of maneuvers that could advance Alexandra’s Law. “We’re for sure going to bring it forward again next year,” Capelouto said. But he’s also, in his words, “disgusted” by the politics and politicking that has kept his daughter’s namesake bill from becoming a law. “It’s just very emotional and taxing.”
Yet he won’t let up. Or maybe he can’t. After McDowell, the dealer who sold Alexandra drugs, was sentenced to nine years in prison, Capelouto didn’t stop. If someday some version of Alexandra’s Law manages to pass, would he stop there? Passing this bill has become something bigger for him, even bigger than a law that would affect some 40 million people living in the nation’s biggest state. This has become his life’s mission, an outlet for his pain. When he wakes up in the morning, he knows exactly what his task is, and he will pursue it, relentlessly, as he has for the past four years.
“There is nothing more debilitating than the grief of losing a child,” Capelouto told me. “And on the opposite end of that, there’s nothing more motivating.”
Maybe he’ll never stop. Because the one thing he truly wants, he knows he can’t ever have.

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Report: Joshua Cribbs fails Cardinals physical
According to a report from Will Burge of ESPN Cleveland, the two-time Pro Bowl kick returner failed his physical during a free agent visit with Arizona.
ESPN Cleveland has learned from multiple sources that the delay in Cribbs signing is because he failed his physical with the Cardinals on Monday. It is unclear at this time what may have been the cause of the failed physical and if this will deter Arizona from signing the nine year NFL veteran.
Cribbs' agent, J.R. Rickert, confirmed the report to USA Today. Cribbs had off-season surgery on his knee and isn't fully recovered according to Rickert, who also believes the Cardinals will administer another physical examination on his client in a few weeks.
There were several reports in the last week that Cribbs was on his way to Arizona to sign a free agent deal with the Cardinals.
Cribbs made national news last week when he posted a farewell to the fans of Cleveland on his Instagram account. Cribbs has spent his entire eight-year career with the Browns.
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State’s short-term economic health improves, but slowdown predicted
The Nebraska Economic Forecasting Advisory Board improved its revenue estimate for this fiscal year on Friday, projecting the state will collect $69 million more in revenue than it identified in its February forecast.
But the forecasters also predicted slower growth in state tax revenue over the next two years, leaving Nebraska with a projected $232 million budget shortfall in 2020-21.
The advisory board adjusted its 2018-19 prediction made in February for sales tax collections from $1.685 billion to $1.7 billion; individual income from $2.471 billion to $2.495 billion; and its corporate income tax from $308 million to $335 million.
While the state is experiencing low unemployment and high production in agriculture and other fields, forecasting board members said they sense Nebraska’s economy will contract in coming years.
Tonn Ostergard told the board while the state’s economy is “still strong,” Nebraska has passed its economic peak in the decade-long recovery since the Great Recession.
Board member Richard McGinnis said even as the agricultural sector faces retaliatory tariffs from China and other countries, farmers are reporting “enormous” yields that may help most profit or break even this year.
Other board members said a lack of qualified workers has slowed production in some industries throughout the state, which combined with low unemployment has caused production to stagnate.
Looking ahead, the board projected slowing revenue growth in both the 2019-20 and 2020-21 fiscal years of 3.3 percent and 2.8 percent, respectively -- rates that fall short of the historical average growth of 4.7 percent.
That slowing growth, and the accompanying $232 million revenue shortfall projected by the end of the 2020-21 fiscal year, would hit just as the overall economy begins to retract.
State Sen. John Stinner of Gering, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, said Friday he was still poring over the numbers, but said the adjusted numbers created “a doable budget” next year.
Stinner said his priority will be to replenish the state’s cash reserve -- “the rainy day fund” -- and create room for the potential Medicaid expansion that Nebraska voters are to decide on next month.
“It doesn’t leave anything on the floor for a new spend,” he said, “and we need to repair some of the things that happened over the last biennium, like restoring spending levels to some agencies and provider rates.”
Gov. Pete Ricketts said the forecasting board’s decision to raise its revenue projection “underscores our state’s growing economy,” but he also said the potential for Medicaid expansion would likely negate any growth.
“Even with projected growth in revenue, Medicaid expansion for able-bodied adults would make property tax relief nearly impossible and cut funding for education,” Ricketts said in a statement.
Insure the Good Life, which is leading the campaign supporting Initiative 427, said expanding Medicaid would return millions of federal tax dollars back to the state to create health care plans for 90,000 low-income people who currently earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to qualify for other health-care subsidies.
A Lincoln think-tank warned the forecasting board’s future projections show changes enacted to Nebraska’s tax structure “are continuing to weaken” the state’s ability to generate revenue heading into an economic downturn.
“This highlights the importance of bolstering the cash reserve and examining our revenue system to make sure we can sustain investments in education, health care and other services essential to a strong economy,” said Renee Fry, executive director of the OpenSky Policy Institute.
But the upward revision of this year’s tax collections is welcome news for University of Nebraska students.
Earlier this year, the NU Board of Regents authorized President Hank Bounds to implement a midyear tuition increase if Ricketts chose to withhold the university’s appropriation in order to rein in spending.
It would have marked the second tuition increase for the 2018-19 school year, after a 3.2 percent increase took effect this summer.
According to an agreement described by Bounds, the governor would let NU know whether he intended to withhold their appropriations following the October meeting of the forecasting board.
On Friday, Bounds said Ricketts told NU “in light of the positive fiscal news for the state, there are no plans to hold back appropriations to the university in 2018-19.”
“Therefore, a midyear tuition increase will not be necessary -- good news for our students and families,” Bounds said.

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