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Are you considering investing in acrylic paints for your next art project? The answer is a resounding yes! Acrylic paints provide vibrancy and versatility that make them a great investment for any artist. Not only are they easy to apply and fast drying, but they also have a long lifespan of up to 50 years if stored correctly. In this blog post, we’ll explore the benefits of investing in acrylic paints and discuss how to properly store and care for them to ensure long-lasting results.
1. What is Acrylic Paint?
When it comes to painting on surfaces, acrylic paint has become a popular choice for many artists. Acrylic paint is a type of paint that uses water-soluble synthetic resin as a binder and is made up of pigments suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion. It is a fast drying paint that is used in many different mediums, such as canvas, paper, wood, or fabric.
Acrylic paint is known for its vibrant colors and versatility. It is highly pigmented, meaning that the colors can be blended easily and the paint can be manipulated to create a variety of textures and effects. Due to its fast drying time, acrylic paint is a great choice for students and beginners who want to create a finished painting quickly.
In addition to its vivid colors and quick drying time, acrylic paint is also known for its durability and longevity. When applied properly, acrylic paint can remain vibrant for years and is resistant to fading and cracking. This makes it a great choice for painting on surfaces that will be exposed to the elements, such as outdoor murals and signs.
Overall, acrylic paint is an excellent choice for many painting projects. It is easy to use, has a wide range of colors and textures, and is highly durable. With proper care and maintenance, acrylic paint can last for years and can be used on many different surfaces.
2. How Long Does Acrylic Paint Last?
When it comes to art, acrylic paint is an incredibly popular choice for many artists and hobbyists because of its vibrant colors and versatility. But, one of the most important questions people have when it comes to acrylic paint is how long does it last?
Acrylic paint is water-based, which means it is not permanent and will not last as long as oil paints. The good news is that acrylic paint will last longer than other water-based paints, such as tempera or poster paint. The longevity of acrylic paint is affected by several factors, including the surface it is painted on, the quality of the paint, and how it is stored.
One of the biggest factors that affects how long acrylic paint will last is the surface it is painted on. Generally, the smoother the surface, the longer the paint will last. If the surface is porous, such as wood or fabric, the paint will not last as long, as the paint will be absorbed by the material. If the surface is non-porous, such as glass or metal, the paint will last much longer as it will not soak into the material.
The quality of the paint also affects how long it will last. Higher-quality paints will last longer and be less prone to fading or cracking over time. Lower-quality paints may not last as long and may not provide the same vivid colors as higher-quality paints.
Finally, how the paint is stored can affect its longevity. Acrylic paint should always be stored in a cool, dry place, away from direct sunlight, to ensure that it lasts as long as possible. It should also be stored in airtight containers to prevent the paint from drying out.
In conclusion, acrylic paint can last for a long time if it is stored and used properly. The longevity of the paint will depend on several factors, such as the surface it is painted on, the quality of the paint, and how it is stored. By following the tips above, you can ensure that your acrylic paint will last for a long time.
3. How to Make Acrylic Paint Last Longer
When it comes to painting, many people are opting for acrylics over oil or watercolors due to their versatility and ease of use. But, how long does acrylic paint last? While acrylic paint can last a long time, there are several steps you can take to make it last even longer.
One way to make your acrylic paint last longer is to store it properly. Acrylic paint should be stored in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight and humidity. This will help to protect the paint from drying out and fading over time. Additionally, it’s important to store acrylic paint in airtight containers with lids. This will help to prevent any oxygen from reaching the paint and potentially damaging it.
Another way to make your acrylic paint last longer is to properly clean and care for your brushes. After each use, it’s important to thoroughly wash your brushes in warm water and a mild soap. This will help to remove any remaining paint from the bristles and prevent the bristles from becoming too hard and brittle. Once your brushes are clean, store them in a dry place and avoid leaving them in water for too long.
Finally, it’s important to use the right painting surface. Acrylic paints can adhere to a wide variety of surfaces, such as canvas, wood, paper, and more. However, some surfaces are better suited for acrylics than others. For example, canvas is a great surface for acrylics as it has a high absorbency and allows the paint to dry quickly. On the other hand, wood and paper are not ideal surfaces as they can absorb too much paint and cause the colors to fade over time.
Overall, acrylic paint can last a long time if you take the proper steps to store and care for it. By storing it in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight and humidity, cleaning and caring for your brushes, and using the right painting surface, you can make sure your acrylic paint lasts for years to come.
4. Tips to Preserve Acrylic Paint Quality
Preserving the quality of acrylic paint doesn’t have to be a daunting task. With a few simple tips, you can keep your paint looking vibrant for years to come. Here are 4 tips to preserve acrylic paint quality:
1. Store Properly – The best way to store your acrylic paint is in a cool and dry place, away from direct sunlight. To further protect your paint, transfer the paint to airtight containers and store them in a dry and cool place.
2. Seal Your Paint – Once you’re done with your artwork, it’s important to seal the paint with a clear acrylic finish. This will help protect the paint and make it resistant to dust, dirt, and moisture.
3. Add Extender – Adding an acrylic extender to your paint can help slow down the drying process and allow you to thin the paint to create a more watery consistency. This will also help your paint stay vibrant for longer periods of time.
4. Clean Your Brushes – Cleaning your brushes after each use will also help preserve the quality of your paint. Make sure to use warm water and a mild detergent to remove any traces of paint from your brushes, and then hang them up to dry.
By following these tips, you can make sure that your acrylic paint stays vibrant and lasts for a long time. Keep in mind that the shelf life of acrylic paint is about 2 years, so it’s important to pay attention to the expiration date on the paint.
5. Is Acrylic Paint Worth Investing In?
When it comes to art supplies, there’s no denying that acrylic paints are one of the best investments you can make. From the vibrancy of their colors to their easy application and fast drying time, acrylic paints offer a wide range of benefits that make them an appealing choice for a variety of projects. But one of the most important questions when it comes to investing in acrylic paints is how long they last.
The simple answer is, acrylic paints can last a very long time. In fact, they can last up to 50 years if they are properly stored and cared for. One of the main advantages of using acrylic paints is that they are highly resistant to fading, cracking, and discoloring over time. This means that you can use them to create art that will last for many years to come.
However, there are certain factors that can affect the longevity of your acrylic paints. For example, exposure to UV light or extreme temperatures can cause the paint to fade over time. Additionally, if you don’t store your acrylic paints properly, they can dry out and become unusable. That’s why it’s important to store them in an airtight container, away from direct sunlight and extreme temperatures.
Overall, investing in acrylic paints is definitely worth the cost. Not only are they incredibly vibrant and easy to use, but they also last a very long time. As long as you take the proper precautions to store and care for your paints, you can rest assured that they will last for many years to come.
Acrylic paints are an excellent investment for any artist. Not only are they highly pigmented, easy to apply, and fast-drying, but they can also last up to 50 years with proper care and storage. Their fade-resistant nature makes them ideal for creating long-lasting works of art, however it is important to store acrylic paints in an airtight container away from UV light and extreme temperatures. Investing in acrylic paints is a great way to ensure that your artwork will last for many years to come.


There's another new voice this week on Monster Kid Radio this week when Bloody Good Horror's Andrew Roebuck joins Derek to talk about everybody's favorite giant turtle. But which version of the original Gamera do they tackle? BOTH OF THEM! Gamera: The Giant Monster (dir. Noriaki Yuasa) and Gammera the Invincible (dir. Sandy Howard, Noriaki Yuasa) are decidedly different films . . . or are they? Listen to this episode to find out. Also, Jeff Polier calls in his thoughts on last October's Scare-A-Thon at the Joy Cinema, and Dwight Kemper has a few impressions for you.
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Mumbai, Aug 27 : Action director Amin Khatib has been roped in to call the shots on the stunts in a youth web series backed by producer Ekta Kapoor.
Titled “Bang Baang: Sound Of Crimes”, the show is billed as an action-thriller. Khatib, who directed action sequences in “Satyameva Jayate” is excited to work with Ekta.
“It’s a great opportunity to work with a successful producer like Ekta Kapoor. The vision that she has for this show is truly commendable. Living up to the title, the show will feature some never-seen-before action sequences, visual effects, and exotic locations. I’m sure the viewers are in for a roller-coaster ride,” said Khatib.
The show, which involves mystery, suspense, action, and youth drama, is scheduled to go on floors soon. It will stream on ALTBalaji and Zee5.
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Nemus is a new approach towards protecting and conserving the planet’s natural resources, beginning with the Amazon rainforest. This approach connects anyone with a digital (web3) wallet, to a direct impact in the real world, through the use of NFTs and cryptocurrencies.
Outside of operational expenses and a small % for early investors (~3.5%), 100% of NFT sales goes toward the purchase of land, economic activity to preserve and conserve the land, and rewards for Guardian.
All documents pertaining to land ownership will be publicly available for review within the Nemus application and also verifiable with Brazilian legal records online or otherwise.
As for NOT selling the land, Nemus will secure ownership of the land used for NFTs through a sophisticated legal structure which will impose a non-transferability and non-foreclosure restriction upon such land.
Also, due to Brazilian legal restrictions on foreign ownership of rural land in Brazil, the land used for NFTs shall be held by a Brazilian entity within the Nemus ecosystem.
Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DeFi... These technologies have been the missing link to building effective methods for protection of the rainforest. Previously, people could do little more than donate to a cause. Now, by simply holding an NFT, they become the cause.
Ethereum is the network where NFTs were born, and still to this day, the largest source for NFT trading and liquidity. It is battle tested for an array of complex smart contracts and was chosen for our first drop due to these factors.
No. Brazilian law is explicit in regards to who can own land in the rainforest and its complexity would make it impossible to issue NFTs (that represent ownership of land) in a decentralized domain.
While ownership of an NFT is not a claim to ownership of the land, NFTs grant Guardians the right to collect rewards in the native NEA token, mint additional NFTs through game mechanics, and participate in decisions concerning economic and social activity on the land, through the Nemus DAO. NFT holders will also gain access to the Nemus Data Room, which hosts a variety of documents and information pertaining to activity on the land, as well as drone footage, satellite imagery and more.
The frequency of drops will depend on a variety of factors from supply and demand, to the availability of new land. At the moment there are roughly 5-6 drops planned within the first year of Nemus covering more than 50,000 hectares (125k acres).

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maybe I was playing it wrong, but I'm not really sure what this game is trying to do. The ambition is definitely there, but I can't really tell what to think of the platforming/reaction elements.
I was about to ask where "beats" becomes a factor, and only just noticed while writing this that the clouds move in time with the beat. Is the music supposed to end up being a gameplay element, or just a stylistic choice? if the former, utilize rhythm in the gameplay more noticeably. If the latter, consider changing the title of the game (the title initially had me guessing about rhythm based mechanics)
the combat is a little boring and drawn out, the luck system isn't really a fully fleshed out concept yet, and you really just have to walk right & jump to win.
However, I can see that some heart has gone into style, animation, and music.
I'd definitely encourage the devs to keep working on this game, and hope to see what the end product feels like.
Hey, you're right about the naming choice 'Bullets & Beats' was maybe a poor name choice (however before it was called 'LuckyGame'..^^).
Well we want to make the music have more effect on the gameplay, but we haven't really decided on that. Your points about he luck system & combat not being fully fleshed out is spot on, because we were thinking this aswell. But we will work on it!
Thanks for your great feedback!
Quite fun, addictive. I found myself aiming to beat every achievement. Then, with a breath of relief, I saw the very last one ping. Then I looked down to realize THERE WERE NO NG ACHIEVEMENTS. it was for naught, but I don't really regret it. Game left me satisfied in the end.
If you do somehow update into NG achievements, I personally think the "secret" achievement should require the player to avoid every coin for a set distance of your choosing. Just a little bonus that some may discover, some may not.
I used to like this game, but ever since project nexus came out, I can't even play this anymore.
Really difficult, too buggy.
That is, however, what makes this game comparable to something like "I wanna be the guy". Very much "trial and error", the slightest fuck up ends your game early.
I used to spend hours wasting my time on Madness:combat but that game is REALLY difficult without cheats, and full of bugs. This is my new favorite time-waster.
This one GLOWS.
This is is a small peice of beauty in itself. Kudos to the creator of the music.
mehe.... I almost felt bad when I killed the clown...
simple, but altogether, fun.
thank you for the review
MeehClock here, newgrounds new critic! I have to say that this game is the best and most comparable to any sonic game on newgrounds, but not the best game. the controls were good, although on certain levels (particularly ice paradise) you would glitch and fall through the floor, earning a big fat WTFJUSTHAPPENOMFG. but besides that, pretty damn good!
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“I love all of you
Hurt by the cold.
So hard and lonely too
When you don’t know yourself.”
-Red Hot Chili Peppers, My Friends
This is for the broken.
The ones who walk through life in spite of it. The ones who are just trying to make it to tomorrow.
This is for all of us. Because we’re all a little bit broken.
Everybody’s got something. None of us make it through the years without being tossed around by life. We’re banged up and bruised and some of us are still bloody.
But we’re still here.
And that’s something.
And I want you to know something. I see you. Beneath the face you project, beneath the hollow laughter, beneath the wan smile. I see you.
I see you struggling. I hear the anguish in your voice and in your words. I know you look around and you…
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Smoke has been seen billowing from the laid-up cruise ship MSC Lirica which is currently at the dock in Corfu, Greece. Media reports indicate that a fire broke aboard the ship, which has a skeleton crew aboard, at 3:30 p.m. local time and that the crew initially tried to extinguish the fire before local assistance arrived on the scene.
Local media is reporting that the fire department sent 13 vehicles to the scene along with one fire boat. The Greek Navy also responded to the fire. At one point two fireboats were alongside the cruise ship. Later reports indicate that the fire has been extinguished by 7:00 p.m. local time.
MSC Cruises reported that there were 51 crew members aboard the ship and that no one was injured in the blaze. MSC is also saying that the fire may have originated in one of the lifeboats and that the damage was mostly limited to exterior scorching and and smoke on the superstructure in the middle of the ship. Pictures appeared to show two lifeboats destroyed by the fire and damage to staterooms in the midship area above the fire as well as possibly to the midship pool deck.
Built in 2003 at the Chantiers d’Atlantique shipyard in France, the 65,500 gross ton cruise ship has been idle in Corfu since January 2021, held in warm lay-up. The port police were reported to be investigating the incident.

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text: The DataSafe DX 2DX-33B battery has been on the market for 20 years thanks to its solid construction, reasonable price, and unparalleled reliability. This two-cell calcium flat-plate battery was designed with high-rate UPS applications in mind. The 2DX-33B’s multi-cell construction makes it more powerful than single cell batteries, and it lasts for up to 20 years. The 2DX-33B is a flooded lead calcium battery with two cells and square lead-copper post terminals. It comes with patented Slide-Lock post seal, dual lug, and optimal grid designs. There is also a heavy duty plate lug and strap, as well as bolted lead copper connectors. The whole battery is sealed in a PVC flame-resistant cover.

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Our 13th podcast comes from Tresor resident and Singular Records boss Marcelus. He is a strong part of a new Techno generation from France. Enjoy the ride!
Hi Ced how are you and what have you been up to recently?
Hey, I m fine and thank you for having me for the podcast! I’ve been doing usual dj things during the last weeks i guess, playing out and making music, well maybe i ve made less music than as usual to break a bit the routine.
How is your label Singular going?
I’m learning a lot, it’s nice to work with other artists, it’s definitely not easy all the time but i am happy i have opened it and being able to contribute with it.
You live in Paris. How would you describe the city and how is the scene there?
I live in the suburb more precisely, so i’m still a tourist really. I think it’s a very beautiful and busy city and the scene is very nice at the moment, it’s quite known now that it’s much better since two or three years yes, lots of good parties, and i think we all hope it will stay like that for a long time!
If you could collaborate with any artist, who would you choose and why?
I really don’t know, maybe Brian Eno.
Some new and some old shit you’re digging right now?
Yeah those young guys called “Fjaak”, that’s super nice! And they are very cool guys.
What annoys you or has pissed you off lately?
This anti–Russia way of thinking among other things.
What excites you besides music?
Being with friends, discovering new places, movies, good food and wines…
Anything coming up you want to share with us? Any shout-outs or final statements?
Yes I can tell you that I remixed a track from John Daly for Secret Sundaze, it should be out this month I think, I also finished my new ep for Tresor and it’s coming out in September, and of course it’s very nice to have one of my tracks signed on MDR and played by the boss himself on his fabric mix 77.


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Hi friends... welcome to my blog.I love flower making.I did some artificial flowers by using stocking cloth,crepe paper & foam sheet & also added some tutorials. I want to share my craft with all of u. Please have a look.
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When we left off with Roland and his quest for the Dark Tower, Jake dies because Roland was faced with the “second-most agonizing choice of his life” and chose to sacrifice Jake, his symbolic son. Jake tells Roland, “Go, then. There are other worlds than these.” Roland palavers with Walter. The Man in Black tells Roland about the past, the Universe, and Roland’s future with a deck of Tarot cards. The cards show the Sailor, which is Roland’s card, The Prisoner, The Lady of Shadows, and the Death card… these are the three that Roland will find through the three doors he will find along his quest.
The book ends with Roland watching the sunset on the beach of the Western Sea. The Man in Black is dead. Roland’s future is unclear, and less than 7 hours later we begin The Drawing of the Three on that same beach.
Like the Sailor card from the Tarot deck, Roland wakes to the “grating sound of water with a throat-full of stones.” The “monstrosities (or lobstrosities as they will later be called) and their chant of “Did-a-chik” “Did-a-chum” seem to be symbolic. Roland is crippled by them, hurt in a way that he has never been hurt before, losing the first two fingers on his dominant hand (right). This injury is unexpected, in more than one way (to Roland and to the Constant Reader). Why do you think King choose to do that? How does this change Roland? Do you think that the Prologue was a set up for the tone of the novel? Or do you think it was Ka?
King’s influences for the Dark Tower series are The Lord of the Rings; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly; King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table; and Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came. Do you feel like the Gunslinger showed these influences? Do you feel the influences in The Drawing of the Three?
In The Gunslinger, Roland is shown as a broken, damned man. One who possesses enough humanity to understand his actions, yet lacks enough humanity to change the course of his actions (Ka). Do you think that Roland has grown as a result of his actions? Especially his sacrifice of Jake?
What do you think about Eddie Dean, the Prisoner? What do you think about Roland’s thoughts while riding piggy back in Eddie’s mind?

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Growing Number of Children and Teens Experiencing Elevated Blood Pressure
The risk of elevated blood pressure among children and teens increased by nearly a third during a thirteen-year period, according to new research.
A new study, published in the journal Hypertension, suggests that higher body mass, larger waistlines and excess sodium intake may be the reasons behind the elevated blood pressure readings.
The findings are troubling because high blood pressure increases the risk for stroke, heart disease and kidney failure. Researchers said high blood pressure accounts for about 350,000 preventable deaths a year in the United States.
Researchers compared more than 3,200 children ages eight to 17 in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III in 1988-1994 to more than 8,300 in NHANES in 1999-2008. The study accounted for differences between the two groups in age, sex, ethnicity, body mass, waistline and sodium intake.
The findings revealed that while boys were more likely to have higher blood pressure, blood pressure rates increased significantly more in girls from the first study to the second study. Researchers also found that more children were overweight, and both sexes, especially girls had bigger waistlines in the second study.
Children whose body mass or waistline measurement were in the top 25 percent of the age group were about twice as likely to have elevated blood pressure as children with measurements in the bottom 25 percent. Children with the greatest sodium intake were also 36 percent more likely than those with the lowest intake to have elevated blood pressure.
The study revealed that African American children had a 28 percent higher risk of elevated blood pressure than non-Hispanic white children.
Researchers said that more than 80 percent of children in both studies had a sodium intake above 2,300 milligrams. However, fewer children in the second study had an intake above 3,450 milligrams.
"Everyone expects sodium intake will continue to go up," lead author Bernard Rosner, Ph.D., and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass said in a statement. "It seems there's been a little bit of listening to dietary recommendations, but not a lot."
Previous studies found that Americans eat an average 3,400 milligrams of sodium daily, which is more than twice the 1,500 or less that the American Heart Association recommends. Research has also revealed that around two-thirds of sodium consumption is from store-bought foods and one-quarter from restaurant offerings.
Researchers said limiting sodium intake can lower blood pressure, and the latest study suggests that reducing sodium intake in children's and adolescents' can lower average systolic (top number) blood pressure by 1.2 mm Hg and average diastolic (bottom number) pressure 1.3 mm Hg.
"High blood pressure is dangerous in part because many people don't know they have it," said Rosner. "It's a very sneaky thing. Blood pressure has to be measured regularly to keep on top of it."
In adults older than 19, blood pressure should be less than 120/80 mm Hg. However, blood pressure norms vary according to age, sex and height among children and teens.
While the latest research found "elevated" readings, researchers noted that the children could not be called hypertensive because blood pressure readings must be high three times in a row for an official diagnosis.


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Google News article shag is a type of fungus that grows on trees, shrubs and other plants.
It has a strong smell, but it is also edible, and there are various kinds of shag, from shag (also known as a green or pinkish fungus) to shagberries.
It’s also very useful in treating skin conditions, such as eczema.
In some cultures, it can also help with pain and inflammation.
If you find a shag in your garden or on the ground, take it home to see what you can use it for.
You can also use shag as a tea ingredient.
It can be used to treat or cure certain diseases, such the common cold, malaria and other infections.
Shagberries shag berries are very hardy and have a long shelf life.
You could find them in the garden, or in the fruit of the common shagberry.
Shags are often found on the branches of trees, but you can also find them on rocks and other objects.
They are also a good source of protein for fish.
Shagging is often used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat rheumatoid arthritis, but the evidence is limited.
However, in some cases it is used to improve the health of people who are sensitive to chemicals or toxins.
Shagged mushrooms can be found growing on plants in a variety of ways, including in the soil.
They can also be grown in pots and stalks.
Some varieties of shagged mushrooms grow up to 4cm (1.5in) tall and are about 2cm (0.9in) wide.
You’ll need a sharp knife to slice them.
There are many different types of shags.
There’s also shagbark, which is a common mushroom with a similar appearance to shags, but much smaller.
You may also find a type called a shagg, a shagged rock, or a shagging mushroom.
Shaggs are a good food source for many other animals.
They’re often eaten raw, as part of a salad, or as a meat substitute.
Some shag mushrooms can also contain vitamin C, which helps fight colds and flu.
They make a great source of vitamin C. Shig can be eaten raw as part an alternative to fish or meat, and is also used as a supplement to help people who take vitamin C supplements.
Shigs can also make a good way to get the nutrients they need in your diet, such with a meal, or to supplement your diets of fish and other vegetables.
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If the soil is dry, you can try shagbing with a stick to get rid of the dead plant material.
You might also want to plant some trees in your yard, or use a shrub to cover the roots of the shag.
Shrag berries shag berry are also quite popular as a food source.
They’ve been grown in different cultures around the world, including China, Japan and Australia.
Shoggy manes Shag berries can be hardy in the UK, but can also survive in warmer climates, such a the USA.
They grow up between 2 and 6cm (about 1.4 to 1.7in) in height, and can be picked up in the ground as a root vegetable or as the fruit itself.
They have a similar taste and smell to shagging, and they’re commonly found growing in woodland and open fields.
They may also be a suitable food source if you have to go on a long road trip or a long trip by car.
Shug berries are also easy to grow and are good for the soil and plants they’re growing in.
You should find a few to harvest as a part of your winter food, or plant them in your gardens.
They also have a great deal of protein.
Shrubs and shrubs Shrub, shag or shagging mushrooms can grow up as a tree, shrub or branch, depending on the type.
If grown as a bush, shrubs grow to about 1.5cm (2.3in) high, with branches up to 2.5m (8ft) long.
If growing as a shrubby, they grow to 3cm (9.1in) height, with the trunk up to 1m (5ft) wide and growing to 6m (22ft) across.
They typically grow in damp, sunny places, so make sure you use an appropriate watering scheme.
Shrub shag fruit, shrag berries, shrub mushrooms, shagging berry and shag manes can be collected from different areas.
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This morning in my reading I came across Mark’s pericope of the demon-possessed boy in Mark 4:14–29. If you are unfamiliar with the story, a father comes to Jesus requesting that he heal his son who has a spirit that makes him mute and causes seizures. The father had already brought the boy to Jesus’ disciples, but they were unable to cure him. Mark 9:19 records what happens next, ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς αὐτοῖς λέγει· Ὦ γενεὰ ἄπιστος (And answering he said to them, “O unbelieving generation!”).
To whom is Jesus speaking and whose unbelief prompts this accusation? I always assumed he is speaking to his disciples who were unable to perform the miracle on account of their faithlessness. That is, after all, how Matthew presents the story in 17:20, ὁ δὲ λέγει αὐτοῖς· Διὰ τὴν ὀλιγοπιστίαν ὑμῶν (And he said to them, “Because of your little faith.“).
In Mark’s presentation of the story, however, other culprits may be guilty of the charge Jesus levels and the cause of accusation.
After Jesus’ transfiguration, he rejoins the other nine disciples who were engrossed in a debate (συζητοῦντας) with the scribes. Asking them what the debate is about, the father presents his case before Jesus, the disciples, and the whole crowd: Your disciples weren’t able to cure my son. Mark then writes ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς αὐτοῖς λέγει (and answering he said to them). To the disciples? To the whole crowd? To the scribes? Presumably the crowd and the scribes were debating with the disciples, claiming that Jesus did not have the power or authority to accomplish this task. Though not made explicit in the text, this would seem a reasonable conclusion on the basis of the surrounding thematic material.
As we continue reading through the narrative, we find another possible culprit: the father and the son. This reading is supported in Mark 9:22–24. After the father presents Jesus with the problem, he petitions Jesus to cure his son saying, ἀλλʼ εἴ τι δύνῃ, βοήθησον ἡμῖν σπλαγχνισθεὶς ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς (but if you are able to do anything, having compassion upon us, help us). Jesus’ response turns the father’s request on its head: Τὸ Εἰ δύνῃ, πάντα δυνατὰ τῷ πιστεύοντι (If you are able? All things are possible for those who believe).
Jesus’ response is either a rebuke of the father’s faithlessness in believing that his son can actually be healed—his son has had this affliction since childhood—or another rebuke of the disciples who should have been able to heal the boy if only they believed. If the latter, I would expect that Jesus would have said this with a bit of cheekiness. Perhaps with an inflection in his voice or maybe a sly glance over at the disciples. The former has support throughout the gospels where Jesus’ willingness to heal is consonant with the faith of those seeking healing (cf. Mark 2:4; 5:25–29; 6:5). Furthermore, the father, in his desperation, exclaims, Πιστεύω· βοήθει μου τῇ ἀπιστίᾳ (I believe. Help my unbelief), which seems to indicate that Jesus directed his statement at the father, not the disciples.
All three options—disciples, crowd, and father—have strong textual support. It would be easy for us to rely on Matthew’s version: Since Matthew frames Jesus’ rebuke as aimed against the disciples, it must mean that Mark has intended likewise. Mark’s ambiguity, however, allows for all three options, thus placing all three groups under the same rebuke—the disciples for their inability to heal, the father for his lack of faith, and the crowd for doubting Jesus’ power and authority.
[[Note: Though I made these observations prior to looking through the commentaries, you can look at France’s discussion on Mark 9:19 in his commentary in the New International Greek Testament Commentary series for a similar discussion and conclusion, p. 366.]]
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State energy companies that account for well over half of global oil production and an even larger share of reserves, are ill-prepared for a transition towards cleaner fuels.
The International Energy Agency said in a new report: “Some are high performing, but many are poorly positioned to adapt to changing global energy dynamics.”
The world’s listed oil and gas majors such as Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil have come under fire from activists and shareholders for their inaction on climate change.
But this is the first time national companies, which produce much of the world’s oil and gas and until now have only had to answer to their governments, are in focus.
“No oil and gas company will be unaffected by clean energy transitions, so every part of the industry needs to consider how to respond,” the Paris-based body said.
The IEA report is due to be presented during the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos this week, where climate change is on the agenda for discussions.
Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions account for almost all global carbon dioxide emissions and about two-thirds of all greenhouse gas emissions.
Profitable national oil companies such as Saudi Aramco are stepping up research efforts, while others such as CNOOC of China and Malaysia’s Petronas are investing in offshore wind and solar.
Yet, the IEA said “none of the large NOCs have been charged by their host governments with leadership roles in renewables or other noncore areas.”
National oil companies are responsible for the stewardship of their countries’ hydrocarbon resources on behalf of governments that rely heavily on the income derived from it. Oil and gas sales comprise more than 60 per cent of fiscal revenues in countries such as Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Nigeria, Iraq, Kuwait and the UAE.
But should the world take a more aggressive approach to climate action, with some oil and gas assets becoming uneconomic, the risk of stranded volumes is “significantly higher” for the state players than for listed energy majors, the IEA said.
This is why some countries, with 30 years or more worth of reserves, are trying to diversify their economies beyond oil production, even as they believe their low-cost asset base will hold them in good stead through any energy transition.
The IEA said the oil and gas sector broadly faces a “strategic challenge” of balancing short-term returns, while demand for fossil fuels remains robust, with a long-term licence to operate.
Until now, investment by oil and gas companies into cleaner technologies and low carbon research activities, for example, has been less than 1 per cent of total capital expenditure.
Some international energy majors are making a push into electricity. But the IEA said greater investment is needed into low-carbon hydrogen, biomethane and advanced biofuels.
It added that companies also needed to reduce the environmental footprint of their own operations, including the leakage of potent methane emissions.
The IEA said the oil and gas industry — known for its ability to operate across geographies and at scale — will be critical for developing key capital-intensive clean energy technologies.
The post State oil companies underprepared for energy transition appeared first on Financial Times.


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After finding that a website exposed sensitive information regarding 260,000 attorney discipline cases in California and other jurisdictions, the State Bar of California is investigating a data breach. Officials from the State Bar found out about the leaked documents on February 24.
Officials said that as of Saturday night, all confidential data published on the website judyrecords.com had been removed, including case numbers, file dates, information about the types of cases and their statuses, as well as the respondent’s names and complaining witnesses.
“We apologize to anyone who is affected by the website’s unlawful display of nonpublic data,” as stated by the State Bar executive Leah Wilson. “We take our obligations to protect confidential data with the utmost seriousness, and we are doing everything we can to ensure that we resolve this issue quickly and prevent any such breaches from recurring.”
The entire case documents were not made public. Officials said they don’t know if the data was leaked due to a hacking attack. Judyrecords.com is a website that compiles court case records from throughout the country. According to the California Business and Professions Code, disciplinary investigations are kept private until official charges are filed.
The public can search for case information on the State Bar website. Still, the information on the attorney discipline cases maintained by judyrecords.com is not meant to be accessible to the public. The State Bar’s Odyssey case management system, provided by Tyler Technologies, was used to store the data.
The State Bar informed law enforcement and recruited a team of IT forensics professionals to examine the data incident. The investigation is being assisted by Tyler Technologies. The State Bar had also contacted the website’s hosting provider, requesting that the publicly available data be removed.


After the success of Tamil romantic-thriller Naan, music composer-turned-actor-and-producer Vijay Antony of 'Nakka mukka' fame, has decided to make his upcoming Tamil production venture Salim in Telugu and Hindi too.
In Naan, Vijay Antony played the role of a psychopath killer, and it was directed by Jeeva Shankar. The movie had Vijay Antony, music composer Siddharath Venugopal and Rupa Manjari in the lead roles.
Vijay turned actor and producer with Naan, which emerged as a sleeper hit at the Box Office in 2012. It was dubbed in Telugu as Nakli.
"Works are underway in full swing for a simultaneous release in all three languages. Meanwhile, 50 percent of the talkie portion is said to be completed. I'm pleased with the product and eagerly awaiting the release of the film," Vijay said in a statement.
The film, which is being directed by Nirmal Kumar, features Vijay and Aksha Pardasany in lead roles. As a composer, Vijay Antony is known for Tamil films such as Sukran, Vettaikaran and Velayudham.


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Ismael Lopez likely did not know that the person who killed him in his own home was a police officer. He was shot when officers were trying to serve a warrant in a tragic wrong-house raid Sunday night.
Officers did not realize they were at the wrong home until after Lopez was dead, The Washington Post reported. Lopez apparently was shot simply because he was holding his gun in his hand when he opened the door.
“The deceased subject had absolutely no warrant for his arrest,” District Attorney John Champion told Jackson, Miss., CBS affiliate WJTV. “He wasn’t wanted for anything at all. I want to make that abundantly clear at this point.”
‘Put the Gun Down!’
Southaven, Miss., police were at the mobile home park where Lopez lived to serve an aggravated assault warrant on someone else but, for unknown reasons, cops went to the wrong house.
Lopez, who was in bed, apparently heard someone at his door, got up and grabbed his gun.
“The officers began hollering ‘Put the gun down! Put the gun down! Put the gun down! Put the gun down!’ at which point that did not occur,” Champion said. “More than one shot was fired toward the door. There was a subject, a male subject, inside the residence that was killed as a result of this gunfire.”
Friends of Lopez said the shooting never should have occurred.
“If you’re shooting through a door in that manner, you don’t know who’s behind that door,” friend Jordan Castillo told reporters.
Castillo showed reporters three bullet holes in the door.
“They’ve been in that home for 13 years,” family attorney Murray Wells told WMCA TV. “The only time the police had ever been there was when they had been robbed.”
Lopez had no criminal history.
“A long-standing employee of the city of Bartlett, a mechanic. Loved in the neighborhood,” Wells said.
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ARTICLE I: NAME
The name of this regional system of cooperating libraries shall be “The Northwest Kansas Library System.” For the purpose of these bylaws, the term “System” shall be construed to mean the Northwest Kansas Library System.
ARTICLE II: AUTHORITY AND PURPOSE
The System is established and shall be operated as a municipality pursuant to, and in compliance with, the laws of the State of Kansas, particularly K.S.A. 75-2547, et seq.
The purpose of the organization shall be to provide through a system of cooperating libraries, improved library service to all citizens in the Northwest Kansas area and to otherwise promote library interests in the State of Kansas.
ARTICLE III: MEMBERSHIP
The membership of the System shall consist of those participating libraries designated by the State Library of Kansas Board. Additional libraries shall be included in the future as designated by the State Library of Kansas Board.
Any legally established or club library in the counties of Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas, Trego and Wallace is eligible to participate in the System, provided it files with the System Board. The System Board shall vote approval and petition the State Library of Kansas Board to approve inclusion of such library.
Two types of library membership are possible:
1. Participating members are those libraries in counties that levy the System tax.
2. Contracting members are libraries in counties which do not levy the System tax.
A participating library, or participating libraries of a county, when in unanimous agreement, may withdraw from the System by submitting written notice to the System’s governing body one year prior to the adoption of the annual budget, subject to the approval of the State Library of Kansas Board.
In the event of the withdrawal of a participating library from the System, all System assets and all System property purchased with System funds shall become the property of, and shall be returned to the System.
ARTICLE IV: GOVERNING BODY
The governing body of the System shall be the System Board. The System Board shall be composed of one representative from each participating library and the Governor’s appointee from each participating county. Each representative is to be elected by the trustees of the participating library and certified in writing to the System office by the chairman of that library board, the librarian, or school administrator.
Representatives Term of Office:
1. Each library representative shall be elected for a term of four years. In the event the representative is unable to attend a Full System Board meeting, an alternate may be given the right to represent that library by giving notice to the System office
2. No representative shall serve for more than two full consecutive terms. A representative must be off the board for one full year before being eligible for reappointment. Governor’s appointees shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor.
3. In the event of the death or resignation of a representative, an alternate shall complete the unexpired term of the representative.
4. The election of all representatives shall be certified in writing to the System Center prior to taking office.
5. Each member library shall elect its representatives every fourth year. In the event a new member library is added to the System, a representative shall be elected to serve until the next regular election for that library.
The System Board shall adopt the annual budget and plan of services, approve officers and amend the bylaws. It shall delegate to its Executive Committee such other duties as are not specified in these bylaws.
The System Board shall hold a regular annual meeting before the 15th of August at a place and time to be specified in the meeting notification.
1. The Annual meeting shall include an evaluation of the current System programs, the adoption of the annual budget and plan of services,
2. The approval of the election of officers, an end of the year review of System service, and a review of the bylaws.
3. Any member of the Executive Committee or a majority of the System Board members may call a Special meeting of the System Board.
ARTICLE V: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The Executive Committee shall consist of one member from each county in the system that levies the System tax. The System Board members from each taxing county shall appoint one of the members from their county to serve on the Executive Committee for a period of two (2) years.
At least one member of the Executive Committee shall be a Governor’s appointee. Governor’s appointees are eligible to serve as long as they are Governor’s appointees.
The duties of the Executive Committee are as follows:
- Chairman–To preside at meetings and appoint special committees.
- 1st Vice Chairman–To act as chairman in the absence of the Chairman.
- 2nd Vice Chairman–To act as chairman in the absence of both of the above.
- Secretary–To ensure that minutes of the System Board and Executive Committee meetings are recorded
- Treasurer–To ensure that accurate financial reports of the System are provided.
The Officers shall be elected by the Executive Committee from the members of the Executive Committee to serve for a period of one year. No officer shall serve more than two consecutive years in the same office.
The System Director shall attend all meetings as a nonvoting technical advisor to the committee.
In the event of a vacancy on the Executive Committee, a replacement shall be appointed by the System Board members from the county in which the vacancy occurs to fill out the term. If a vacancy occurs in an office the Executive Committee shall fill the vacancy by electing a member of the Executive Committee to fill out the term.
The Executive Committee shall meet at least monthly at a place and time to be determined by the majority of the Committee, unless deemed unnecessary by the Chairman.
The Executive Committee shall be empowered to conduct all affairs of the System not specifically reserved for the System Board.
ARTICLE VI: COMMITTEES
1. The Chairman shall appoint a Budget Committee to be composed of the Treasurer and additional members of the System Board. The committee shall prepare and submit to the full System Board at the Annual meeting.
2. The Chairman shall appoint a Planning Committee to be composed of members of the System Board. This committee shall prepare and submit to the Full System Board at the Annual meeting.
3. The Chairman shall appoint a Policy Committee to be composed of members of the System Board. The committee shall review and revise the NWKLS Policies to submit to the Executive Committee. The Committee shall review and revise the NWKLS Bylaws for submission to the Full System Board.
Other committees shall be appointed by the Chairman when the Executive Committee or Board deems it necessary to carry on the business of the Board.
The Chairman shall be an ex-officio member of all committees.
ARTICLE VII: VOTING
Each representative or alternate shall have one vote at System Board meetings. The representatives of contracting libraries and non-legally established public libraries shall have voting power on all matters except those related to the budgeting of regional tax funds.
1. System Board–a quorum for System Board meetings is forty per cent of the total members of the Board.
2. Executive Committee–a quorum is the majority of the members of the committee.
Voting by proxy is not allowed.
ARTICLE VIII: RULES OF ORDER
“Robert’s Rules of Order“, current revision, shall apply except when in conflict with state statutes or these bylaws.
ARTICLE IX: AMENDMENTS
Amendments to these bylaws require a majority vote of the total number of qualified members of the System Board, subject to the approval of the State Library Advisory Commission, and provided the proposed amendment is printed, with the changes and corrections delineated, and mailed prior to or with the agenda for the meeting.
Revised October 8, 2015

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Hematite (AE) or haematite (BE) is the mineral form of Iron (III) oxide, (Fe2O3), one of several iron oxides. The ore sometimes contains slight amounts of titanium. When shaped into ornaments, it is often called black diamond. Hematite is a very common mineral, coloured black to steel or silver-gray, brown to reddish brown, or red. It is mined as the main ore of iron. Varieties include...
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Dota Dragon’s Blood Season 2 will premiere on Netflix on Jan 18, 2022. Here’s what we know about it.
- The first season of Dota: Dragon’s Blood premiered on Netflix on March 25, 2021.
- On 19 April 2021, Netflix renewed the animation series for its second season or Book II.
- Dota: Dragon’s Blood Season 2 arrives on Netflix on Jan 18, 2022.
Created by Ashley Miller, Dota Dragon’s Blood is an animated TV series based on the epic Dota video game, especially the second part titled Dota 2, which is a multiplayer online battle arena. The series is produced by Studio Mir in association with Ashley Edward Miller’s company Kaiju Boulevard and animated by Production Reve.
The official Netflix synopsis of the series reads, “The fantasy series tells the story of Davion, a renowned Dragon Knight devoted to wiping the scourge from the face of the world. Following encounters with a powerful, ancient Eldwurm as well as the noble Princess Mirana on a secret mission of her own, Davion becomes embroiled in events much larger than he could have ever imagined.”
The first season of Dota: Dragon’s Blood premiered on March 25, 2021. It follows the adventures of Dota 2 heroes Davion the Dragon Knight and Mirana the Princess of the Moon. Other heroes, Invoker, Terrorblade, and Luna were also featured in the first season.
Upon its release, Dota: Dragon’s Blood garnered a positive response. It became an instant hit among the anime and game community. It makes it to the Top 10 list of most-watched series on Netflix in 47 different regions such as the Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia, among others.
Since the first season landed on Netflix last year in March, the fans have been waiting for updates on the second season. So, what’s the latest update on Dota: Dragon’s Blood. Here’s what we know.
Dota: Dragon’s Blood Season 2 Release Date & Time
On April 19, 2021, DOTA 2’s official Twitter account announced the anime’s renewal. You can check the tweet below. Well, they aren’t referring to it as Season 2 but as Book 2. Perhaps, this gives a more essence of the DOTA franchise.
Book 2 is coming! The second season of DOTA: Dragon's Blood is in the works.
— DOTA 2 (@DOTA2) April 19, 2021
In October 2021, the Netflix Anime YouTube channel shared the first trailer of Dota: Dragon’s Blood season 2. It was also confirmed that the anime series would return for the second season in Jan 2022.
On Dec 9, 2021, a full trailer was released that confirms that DOTA: Dragon’s Blood Book Two (Season 2) will arrive on Netflix on Jan 6, 2022. However, the release date was pushed by two weeks.
Well, there is no need to worry. The delay is not long. Dota: Dragon’s Blood season 2 will premiere on Jan 18, 2022. You can check the date on Netflix’s official page. You can also watch Dota: Dragon’s Blood season 1 if you haven’t.
New shows and movies usually drop on Netflix at midnight PST. So, Dota: Dragon’s Blood Season 2 will drop at 12:00 am on Jan 18, 2022. New content is released worldwide at the same time. Here’s Dota: Dragon’s Blood Season 2 premiere timing in various time zones:
- Central time: 2:00 am on Tuesday, Jan 18, 2022
- Eastern time: 3:00 am on Tuesday, Jan 18, 2022
- British time: 8:00 am on Tuesday, Jan 18, 2022
- Central European time: 10:00 am on Tuesday, Jan 18, 2022
- India time: 13:30 pm on Tuesday, Jan 18, 2022
- Australia time: 6:00 pm on Tuesday, Jan 18, 2022
Dota: Dragon’s Blood Season 2 Plot
Season 1 of Dota: Dragon’s Blood concluded on a major cliffhanger. In the end moments, Princess Mirana’s patron goddess Selemene found out that his ex-lover, Invoker has struck a deal with the demon Terrorblade. The deal will bestow seven souls to Terrorblade in exchange for the goddess Selemene’s soul. This will also heal the wound of Invoker as he’ll eventually seek his 1000 years old revenge. Invoker, therefore, has two choices in front of him. Either he can kill her, or he can just take her powers, which would technically hurt more.
Meanwhile, Davion is transformed back to human form but he still has Slyrak’s soul within himself. Now, Invoker has ordered Fymryn to bring Davion so that he can take out the soul from him and give it to Terrorblade, as promised. Among these aspects, season 2 will also cover former Goddess Mene who would more likely return. Although Invoker stated that the lotuses can’t bring her back, but we know how good he is at lying. Also, Luna is badly injured and it lefts Mirana to lead her people.
Cast and Characters – Voice over artists
Below are the cast, or just say voice-over artists in Dota: Dragon’s Blood. Season 2 would also cover all the characters shown below, with their voice cast.
- Yuri Lowenthal as Davion
- Josh Keaton as Bram
- Lara Pulver as Princess Mirana
- Tony Todd as Slyrak the Ember Eldwurm
- Troy Baker as Invoker
- Kari Wahlgren as Luna
- Alix Wilton Regan as Selemene
- Freya Tingley as Fymryn
- Stephanie Jacobsen as Drysi
- Anson Mount as Kaden
- JB Blanc as Terrorblade
DOTA 2 Episode Count
There is no official update from Netflix about the episode count for the second season of DOTA: Dragon’s Blood. Having said that, the first season had 8 episodes. So, we are assuming the second season to follow the same pattern.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Ar Gor - eggs, geese, women, feet and other stories
Here's a sneaky peek at a piece I'm nearly finished making for an exhibition here in Dingle this April. 'Ar Gor/The Hatchery' is a group exhibition in An Lab, with a theme of eggs, geese and other associations. 'Tá an gé ar gor' - The goose is hatching. From some research into this project, I have been drawn into the murky world of eggs, geese, feet, distaffs and other stories...
Trawling through the internet was torture, so I returned, as always, to some of my favourite books for inspiration. I love Marina Warner, her books are gems and are on the I-will-never-part-with-you-bookshelf. From little snippets in her book 'From the Beast to the Blond', I came across the myth of the Bertha and the Queen of Sheba, both goose-footed women. Further research opened up a huge world of goose-footed sirens and beauties from Perchta (or Bertha), Tantaire, BabaYaga, Frau Holle to the Queen of Sheba...A lot of feisty old biddies it seems! Eat you as soon as look at you.
Unfortunately I don't have enough time to really delve into it now, but it'll be a subject I will come back to as soon as I can. When I mentioned this research of ladies with avian appendages on Facebook, one friend left me this message.
La Reine Pedauque, Bertha Bigfood, the Goosefooted Queen (Queen of The South) is an amalgam of Bertha of Burgundy and an older Teutonic Mother Goddess, whose symbol was the Distaff. They became aligned as Betel is the word for Distaff in the Language of Oc. There is also an association with the Queen of Sheba, as one of the riddles she posed to Solomon concerned the production of flax. The day after Epiphany was known as St. Distaffs Day or Rock Day, after an old name for the distaff, and this ancient Queen was celebrated then. There is also an association with the many Black Virgins in ancient French churches.
Holy moly! (Thank you Helen!!).There is a gem of a textile story in there, but it will have to wait. I have such a busy few months coming up, no time for dreaming about geese, feet, distaffs and other stories...


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With a Roth IRA, you get no tax-deduction for the money you contribute . . . but neither do you pay any tax on the money you withdraw. (There’s also less paperwork and more flexibility.) As a result, many people have toyed with the notion of converting their traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs. It often makes sense.
(The scenario in which it would not is if you are in a high tax bracket now, and expect to be in a very low one as you withdraw the money. I say: fat chance. But if you did expect to be in a very low tax bracket as you withdrew the money, the tax benefit of the Roth IRA would be correspondingly low, and would probably not justify giving up today’s tax deduction.)
You don’t have to convert by any special deadline. But if you were thinking of converting, this could well be a better time to do it than, say, this time last year. For two reasons:
- First, your IRA may have shrunk in value with the stock market. If so, there will be less money to convert and, thus, less tax to pay on the conversion. Later, when it bounces back, all that bounce-back will be free of tax.
- Second, it looks as if tax brackets themselves are likely to come down this year – so the tax you’ll owe may be lower still.
Of course, if the bear market has further to run, as it probably does, you might want to wait still longer to convert. And if some of the drop in tax brackets winds up being phased in over time, that, too, would be a reason to wait. But clearly, this year would be a better time for most to convert than last year – even if it proves not to be as good as, say, next year.
(You could always waffle, converting some now and – if the value of your traditional IRA falls further – the rest later.)
For Vanguard’s worksheet on Roth IRA eligibility and conversion, click here.
And don’t forget that the deadline for contributing this year to either kind of IRA (as opposed to converting, for which there is no deadline) is Monday. (Monday – oy! — is also the deadline for filing YOUR TAXES! Or at least your Form 4868.)
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Jack Mann appreciation continues with three pieces by his colleagues. Please enjoy these memories of Mann from John Schulian, Tom Callahan and Dave McKenna.
By John Schulian
In the world according to Jack Mann, if a ballplayer dragged his private parts over the post-game spread while reaching for the mustard, a sports writer damn well better file it away for future use. Maybe he wouldn’t be able to re-create the scene for a family newspaper, but he could certainly offer some well-crafted hints. In fact Jack insisted on it when he was a visionary sports editor at Newsday because he would have done no less were he writing the story himself. He was, after all, a slave to the truth no matter how discomfiting.
Not everybody appreciated it. To this day, there are those who recoil at the sound of his name before recovering to rail profanely about his parentage, fondness for the grape, and well-worn mean streak. Jack was, in his time, the most complicated and divisive figure in sportswriting this side of Mark Kram and Dick Young. You either loved him or hated him, and if you loved him, there were still going to be times when you wondered why the hell he did some of the things he did.
Of course the legend occasionally got in the way of the facts. Jack may have thrown a tray of type out a window at the Washington Daily News, for instance, or it may have been his boss, Dave Burgin, who did the honors. God knows they were both capable of it in the days when they were making the sports section in that abysmal tabloid the liveliest reading in town. Or maybe the incident never happened at all.
What I can guarantee did happen was Jack’s constant and very public humiliation of Shirley Povich, the icon who anchored the Washington Post’s sports page for 70 years. Shirley was every bit as gracious and gentlemanly as Red Smith, and a fine writer, too, but by the early 1970s, his reportorial legs were gone and his column showed it. He covered more and more games by watching them on TV. Even the Redskins, who become more important than the White House during the NFL season, couldn’t get him off his couch. Jack smelled blood and went for the kill, parodying Shirley’s style (“The way it came across on Channel 9”) and sneeringly referring to the Post by its advertising slogan (“Over at ‘Quoted, Honored and Consulted’”).
It was not for nothing then that the Post never hired Jack full-time after the Daily News and his subsequent employer, the Washington Star, went belly up. To tell the truth, I was surprised he got so much as a freelance assignment at the Post, but when Casey Stengel died, there was that byline – Jack Mann – on the front of the next day’s sports page. I doubt the old Professor got a better sendoff. And there would be more pieces by Jack, not a lot of them but enough to keep his name alive. I still wonder how hard George Solomon, who was then settling into his job as the Post’s sports editor, had to fight for Jack. But they had worked together at the Daily News, and George understood just how good Jack was.
To read his prose was to get a sense of the man at the typewriter. It was blunt, no-nonsense, and it could, on certain occasions, feel like a punch in the mouth. And yet, while lyricism wasn’t his game, he wove enough literary allusions into his work to let readers in on the fact that he knew Hester Prynne wasn’t a baseball Annie from Boston.
Somehow, probably out of sheer orneriness, Jack was an even better reporter than he was a writer. He proved it forevermore when he hired on at the New York Herald Tribune and found himself on the horse racing beat. Looking back, you might say he was simply part of the Trib’s grand tradition of turf writers. Joe Palmer preceded him and Pete Axthelm followed him. One problem, though: Jack didn’t know one end of a horse from the other when he got the job. But he showed up early, stayed late, and asked the right questions. By the time I saw him in the barns at Churchill Downs, drinking a 7 a.m. beer with Spectacular Bid’s trainer, he knew as much as anybody and what he didn’t know he would bust a gut trying to find out.
That same dogged intelligence was what drove Jack to become, at Newsday, one of the architects of the sports-page revolution in the 1960s, hiring bright young men and savvy old codgers and telling them to turn the clichés upside down. You don’t do something that bold, however, without stepping on toes, and Jack brought his foot down hard almost willfully, maybe even perversely.
It happened everywhere he went – New York, Detroit, Miami, Washington, Baltimore – and it cost him job after job. He didn’t even last two years at Sports Illustrated, which was where I first read him. But he made me a fan for life with his crackling good profile of Bill Bradley at Oxford, and as a fan I felt an obligation to find about more about him. Impressionable lad that I was, I thought there was a certain romance to his prickliness and the way he bounced from one paper to another.
I was starting to move around a bit myself when I landed at the Washington Post in 1975. I put in my time on the Redskins and the NBA Bullets, made my mark with features, and then George Solomon dispatched me to write a column about the Touchdown Club’s annual Christmas bash. What I said about those smug, sloppy, powerful drunks was hardly in the spirit of the season. But Don Newcombe, the former Dodgers pitcher and a recovering alcoholic, wrote a letter to the editor praising my column, and Jack dropped me a note of congratulations tempered by his own experience. “I have seen the Shriners,” he said, “and they are the fucking worst.”
A few weeks later, after I had written him back to say thanks, I spied a visitor to the sports department, fiftyish, not real tall and a bit disheveled, with a wry smile and eyes that bored into you from beneath jutting brows. “Jack Mann?” I said. “I’m John Schulian.”
“Oh, yeah,” he said. “We write letters to each other.”
For reasons I never quite fathomed, we were friends, or at least friendly, ever after. We talked when our paths crossed, traded thoughts on writers and athletes, shared the occasional pre-game meal. I received only one invitation to go drinking with him and turned it down because I don’t believe in pro-ams that involve alcohol. The next day he showed up in the press box bruised and abraded. He said he’d gotten in a bar fight with some Marines who were less than half his age and most assuredly didn’t realize that they were putting dents in someone who had been a Marine himself in World War II. “You were a Marine, weren’t you?” he asked me. When I told him I wasn’t, I don’t think he ever looked at me the same way again. But he wouldn’t have been Jack Mann if he had.
John Schulian is the co-editor of “At the Fights.” His next collection of sports stories, “Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us,” will be published this fall.
Mann in Charge
By Tom Callahan
Someday I’ll pass by the great gates of gold,
And a man will walk in, unquestioned and bold.
“A saint?” I’ll ask, and old Peter will reply:
“No, he carries a pass. He’s a newspaper guy.”
-a favorite jingle of Jack Mann, who was sentimental about absolutely nothing except newspapers
In fedora days, sportswriters wholeheartedly embraced only four games: baseball, college football, boxing and horse racing. Like most of the papers, like all of the writers, the last two are dying out now.
At dinner on the road, neither the beatmen nor the columnists said much about sports. They stuck to one topic of conversation: newspapers. It was the only thing any of them really cared about. Which starts to describe Jack Mann, who, even when he was serving magazines (even when he was serving drinks on Fire Island), was emphatically a newspaper guy.
As a matter of fact, he was a legend in the trade, probably the best writer better known as a talent scout and blue pencil editor since Stanley Woodward or at least George Kiseda.
For Newsday on Long Island, Mann gathered fresh reporters in several senses of the word fresh and showed every one of them how to squeeze a pound and a half of gee-willikers out of their stuff. A renowned headline writer, Jack regularly lent himself to the copy desk for marking special occasions such as when George/Christine Jorgensen “Returned From Abroad A Broad.”
Because Mann kept telling bosses to go fuck themselves, he was obliged to move around a lot. In 1979, Jack found himself in Washington for the afternoon Star covering the hell out of Baltimore trainer Bud Delp, minor-league jockey Ronnie Franklin and Triple Crown candidate Spectacular Bid. Mann literally rode in the van with the horse. He hated the word literally.
After winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in a walk, The Bid got an overwrought ride even for Franklin and finished third at Belmont Park. The alibi was that he had stepped on a safety pin in his stall. “Leave it to Delp,” Mann said, “to find the needle in the haystack.”
Secretariat’s sire was Bold Ruler, Spectacular Bid’s grandsire. So it made a kind of sense for The Bid to stand at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky. But did he have to stand right next to Secretariat? In abutting two-acre paddocks, they raced back and forth at the fence line. Though six years older, Secretariat never once let the gray colt win. Bid turned completely white except for a black mane and tail. He was gorgeous. But he was no world-beater at stud. Disappointment is hard on the heart.
His fee that had started at $150,000 per live foal dropped, and dropped again. He was moved to less and less exalted places on the property, eventually all the way to Unadilla, New York, where he died dispensing favors at $3,500 a throw.
“He wasn’t Affirmed,” Mann said, “let alone Secretariat. And I guess he could never look you in the eye around the breeding shed. But he was a hell of a sweet horse to me, the son of a bitch.”
Tom Callahan is the author of many books including “Johnny U: The Life and Times of Johnny Unites,” and “The Bases Were Loaded (And So Was I): Up Close and Personal With the Greatest Names in Sports.”
A Difficult Mann
By Dave McKenna
I used to write about horse racing as a freelancer at a very low level in the late 1990s, so I got to watch Jack at the Maryland tracks for his last several years of typing. Everywhere you look at the racetrack you see people you won’t see anywhere but the racetrack, but even in that glorious circus Jack stood out. He was mean as a motherfucker to me, but it never bothered me because he was mean as a motherfucker to everybody except young women. He would make a wisecrack every time he walked by me, and it always took several minutes for me to get what the hell he was insulting me for this time. Often it turned out that he’d read something I’d written and his wisecrack was destroying some lousy sentence or misused word that showed up under my byline. I don’t remember many specific walk-by barbs, but they were all along the lines of “What sort of fool would say ‘prior to’ instead of ‘before’?” then I’d remember that a week prior to him mumbling that I’d typed “prior to” in a story.
Jack surely didn’t like that I wasn’t as committed to words as he was. Hell, Webster’s took a backseat to him, maybe that’s why he was so pissed at the world. but, over time, watching how much he cared about his work, and how hard he worked,you had to love the guy. and even if you didn’t know his back story, you knew there wasn’t anybody like him. In small doses, he was totally unbearable. But you can’t ask more of a grown man than consistency, and pretty quick you could tell how straight he was. He took motherfuckerhood to a genius level; kinda like Van Morrison on stage, if you’ve ever had the painful pleasure of seeing him live.
I still think about him all the time, and I’m sure I’m not alone.
Damn, I just had a flashback of that look of disgust he always gave me. What a lucky bastard I was to be around that guy for all those years of Saturdays.
Dave McKenna writes for Washington City Paper and is getting sued by Dan Snyder for a million dollars.


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Responding to media reports of the death in custody of Briton Lee Bradley Brown, who was detained in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim Hancock said:
“Police in Dubai have confirmed to Amnesty International that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is carrying out an investigation into this death in custody. We are told that if a police officer is found to have broken the law, he will face justice.
“Amnesty International welcomes this assurance. But we urge the UAE authorities to ensure that the investigation is full, thorough and independent. This is required whenever such deaths in custody occur and there are serious allegations of possible misconduct by the detaining authorities.
“The results of the investigation must be made public and the UAE authorities must ensure that anyone found responsible for torture or other unlawful action is promptly brought to justice.
“In recent years Amnesty International has received various reports alleging torture and other ill-treatment by police and security officials in the UAE. We look to the UAE authorities to uphold their responsibilities to ensure the humane treatment of anyone held in detention, and to hold to account any officials who commit abuses.”


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Employees of a pet store in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on Monday evening said they were still in shock over a violent robbery they went through last week.
Emily Frank, an employee at SP2, in the 2300 block of West Leland Avenue, said a man last Thursday brought pet supplies up to the counter and the announced to her co-worker that he was being robbed.
"He was told to go to the back room. Then the guy roughed him up," she said. "It was awful. Terrible. There was only $80 in the drawer."
On Sunday, a man entered Second Journey Resale, in the 1900 block of West Montrose Avenue, and asked for help with a purchase, police said in a community alert.
The man then grabbed the employee and announced a robbery, the alert said. The employee gave the attacker money and attempted to leave the store, but the man punched the employee in the face before fleeing.
In each robbery, only one employee was inside the store at the time, the alert said.
The robber was described as a 35- to 45-year-old black man with a medium complexion who stands between 5 feet, 11 inches to 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs between 240 and 250 pounds, authorities said. He was wearing a beige, puffy jacket; dark jogging pants and dark gym shoes, the alert said.
Anyone with information should contact detectives at 312-744-8263.
Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly reported the name of the business hit in the second robbery.


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Surgical and Non-Surgical Treatment Options for Herniated Disc Pain
Your spinal discs separate your vertebrae, soaking up shock. Without the discs, your spinal bones would grind against each other, making it impossible for you to absorb shock. Apart from protecting your vertebrae, these cushions give your spine flexibility, making bending and twisting easy. However, a malfunction of your discs could result in painful symptoms. Roswell herniated disc surgeons at Apex Spine and Neurosurgery relieve their patients’ painful symptoms, preserving their spinal health using minimally-invasive procedures. Are you suffering from persistent back or neck pain that prevents you from participating in your everyday activities? If so, Apex Spine and Neurosurgery experts are the professionals to contact.
What are the possible causes of herniated discs?
A herniated, ruptured, or slipped disc is a relatively common problem. Though the condition could happen anywhere along your spine, you will most likely have it affecting your neck or lower back. This is because your neck and lower back offer your spine the most flexibility.
There are several factors responsible for herniated discs. Some of the common causes are:
Age. As you age, your spinal discs gradually and naturally lose their fluid volume. As a result, tiny tears and cracks start to develop on the outer surface, forming a throughway for the gel-like interior to sip through.
Trauma. Your disc will rupture after a high-impact force such as a fall or car accident. You could also force your discs to overstretch when you twist or lift a heavy load.
Your risk factors for developing the condition could include:
- Being overweight
- Occupation, especially demanding jobs requiring lots of twisting, bending and other repetitive activities straining your spine
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Driving often
What non-surgical measures will your doctor recommend when you have a herniated disc?
A herniated disc will not only depend on a surgical procedure. Your doctor could also recommend the following conservative treatments to ease your painful symptoms.
Physical therapy. The physician could help find positions and take part in physical exercises likely to minimize your pain. Your doctor could also suggest
- Ice treatment
- Short-term bracing for your lower back or neck to offer support
However, if your symptoms fail to improve with conservative treatments and your mobility worsens with time, your doctor may recommend surgery. In such a case, your doctor will use laparoscopic surgery to remove the disc’s protruding portion. The technique prevents the specialist from scraping your vertebrae and spinal cord to access the affected disc.
What symptoms will you have with a herniated disc?
The symptoms you will have with a herniated disc significantly depend on the herniated disc’s location and the herniation size. If the herniation is not pressing on your nerve, you could only feel a dull ache or even have no symptoms. However, if it is pressing on your nerves, you will most likely feel pain with weakness or numbness, especially the part of your body the affected nerve travels through. Other symptoms you could have include:
- Slow reflexes
- Balancing issues
- Pain when you sneeze, cough, or move in particular positions
- Loss of bladder or bowel function
- Inability to retain a position for long
A herniated disc is disabling and could affect you adversely when you fail to seek medical intervention. Contact the professionals today to find relief from a herniated disc.

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