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Made with organic coconut oil, this culinary game-changer brings plant-based buttery goodness to your morning toast and beyond. (from Miyoko's)
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Prime suspect wanted in 2017 brutal attack & robbery of Carol Harper back in Slappey parking lot returns on charges
ALBANY, GA – Albany’s aggravated mugging suspect Jermaine Monson is now back in the Dougherty County Jail.
Monson was located on April 11th and taken to the Madison County Jail without incident.
South Georgia Television News confirmed with the Madison County Florida Sheriff’s Office that the 37-year-old was extradited today back to Dougherty County, on a fugitive warrant.
The warrant pertains to the 2017 mugging of 72 year old Carol Harper.
Surveillance video captured the attack, that left Harper with multiple broken bones and injuries she never fully recovered from before her death.
Monson was held for months for a trial that was never held, due to the lost video. But Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards plans to prosecute Monson now with the lost video, now found.
There has been a bench warrant out for Monson’s arrest since November 15th of last year. Quinlan Parker South Georgia Television News was previously informed by Lisa Harper, Carol Harper’s daughter that Monson was active on social media and even shared on of our previous stories with a sarcastic caption saying, “APD on Monson evidence fumble They doing they best”
We spoke with Lisa by phone after confirming Monson’s recapture and return to Albany.
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Universe 80M Years Older Than We Thought Scientists get most accurate look yet at Big Bang-era radiation By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff Suggested by AstroDude Posted Mar 21, 2013 3:31 PM CDT 69 comments Comments This image released March 21 by the ESA and Planck Collaboration shows the afterglow of the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background, as detected by the European Space Agency's Planck space probe. (AP Photo/ESA, Planck Collaboration via NASA) (Newser) – The universe has been around just a bit longer than we've given it credit for. Scientists today unveiled the most accurate data ever recorded from the radiation left over from the milliseconds after the Big Bang, revealing that the universe is roughly 80 million years older than advertised, Science News reports. Of course, that only amounts to a 0.5% difference given that the universe is around 13.81 billion years old. But that was far from the only finding of value. The data comes from the Planck space telescope, and combines to form a kind of map of the universe. "It might look like a dirty rugby ball, but some cosmologists would have given up their children to get a copy of this map," says one University of Cambridge cosmologist. Among the puzzling findings: Half of the sky appears to have more fluctuations than the other, contradicting the theory that the universe should look nearly identical in all directions.


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Nashville, TN — Global Songwriters Connection, a leading International Songwriting organization headquartered in Nashville, TN, has presented it’s prestigious 2020 Lorna Flowers Award to Avrim Topel. Global Songwriters Connection’s mission is to help songwriters’ dreams find direction through our extensive knowledge and experience in the music industry. The award, which is usually presented at GSC’s Annual Holiday Celebration attended by 500 to 600 industry members in the CMA Building on Music Row, was announced this year on-line in lieu of the Covid pandemic.
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In its eighth episode, HBO’s The Last of Us adapts one of the darkest chapters of the 2013 video game that inspired it. Picking up an unspecified amount of time after the events of the series’ seventh installment, The Last of Us episode 8, titled When We Are in Need, follows Ellie (Bella Ramsey) as she fights to survive a series of interactions with a priest-like madman named David (Scott Shepherd).
David is, just as he is in the original Last of Us, the predatory leader of a group of post-apocalyptic cannibals. Ellie’s scenes with him rank firmly as some of the most unnerving and psychologically disturbing that The Last of Us has delivered up to this point. His right-hand man, James, is also, notably, played by Troy Baker, the actor who portrayed Joel in the original Last of Us games.
Beyond that fun Easter egg, here are 5 questions we’re dying to know after The Last of Us episode 8.
Early on in When We Are in Need, David tells a grieving mother and daughter that they’ll have to wait until spring when the ground has softened to bury Alec, the man who Joel (Pedro Pascal) killed at the end of The Last of Us episode 6. The brief look David exchanges with James, however, suggests that Alec’s body had already been partly dismembered and fed to David’s followers when he says this.
Assuming David hadn’t been killed by Ellie, it’s worth wondering: What was he planning on telling Alec’s daughter and wife when they wanted to bury him in the spring? How would he have explained what had been done to Alec’s corpse? Odds are, David hadn’t planned that far ahead yet. Based on just how securely he seems to have a hold on his leadership position, though, he probably wouldn’t have had to worry too much about explaining away his actions.
In The Last of Us episode 8, David tells Ellie that his group has resorted to cannibalism as a result of just how difficult the winter season has been for them. It’s never revealed just how long he, James, and their select number of confidants have been secretly feeding human meat to their fellow survivors, though. At first, it seems like Alec’s body was the first that they’d butchered.
That notion is dispelled later in the episode, however, when Joel wanders into one of the group’s buildings and discovers multiple dismembered human corpses hanging from hooks like pieces of meat. That one shot alone suggests that David and his inner circle had turned to cannibalism a fair amount of time before Ellie and Joel even entered the picture.
When The Last of Us episode 8 begins, Joel’s stab wound has been successfully sewn shut by Ellie. However, not only is his wound infected but his and Ellie’s food supply has also been wiped out. Those two details suggest that The Last of Us episode 8 picks up with Ellie and Joel several days, if not a few weeks, after viewers last saw them.
Unfortunately, When We Are in Need never explicitly reveals just how much time passed between The Last of Us’ seventh and eighth episodes.
Joel is understandably horrified when he discovers the human corpses hidden in one of the Silver Lake resort’s buildings. However, it’s hard to tell whether he’s surprised by the fact that he’s wandered into a community of cannibals.
This question likely won’t ever be answered, but it is interesting to wonder, given just how much he’s seen and done, whether Joel’s trip through Silver Lake is the first time he’s actually encountered cannibals in The Last of Us’ post-apocalyptic world.
Ellie manages to kill both David and James on her own at the end of The Last of Us episode 8, but not before coming face-to-face with the full, twisted threat that David poses to her. Consequently, when she stumbles out of Silver Lake’s burning steakhouse at the end of the episode, she looks understandably traumatized by all that she’s experienced. While she quickly embraces Joel once she realizes it’s him standing in front of her, it’s clear that whatever was left of Ellie’s innocence has been taken away from her by the events of The Last of Us episode 8.
With that in mind, will Ellie be okay by the time The Last of Us’ forthcoming season 1 finale begins? Her and Joel’s relationship seems to be as strong as it’s ever been, but it’s unclear right now whether Ellie will still be the same lively survivor fans have come to know and love when they see her again.
The season 1 finale of The Last of Us airs Sunday, March 12 on HBO — here’s how to watch The Last of Us on any device, anywhere.

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Why do cooking smells make me gag?
The smells of roasting, frying and baking are often associated with welcoming, homely, mouth-watering aromas. But not when you have parosmia.
The smell of cooking suddenly becomes the stuff of nightmares. We look at why, and some tips for getting around it.
What we detect as smell is the thousands of molecules naturally escaping from the food, flora and fauna around us. In general terms, heat stimulates the rate of escape, which means more molecules reach the receptors in your nose, which explains why the smells of cooking are so powerful.
Now combine that with what we know about parosmia. Recent research at the University of Reading demonstrates that the odour molecules that trigger parosmia share some common structures, and occur across a range of seemingly unrelated foods. The same potent molecular compounds can be found in foods as diverse as onions and coffee and watermelon.
And now, let’s throw in a third parosmia grenade: the chemical process known as the Maillard Reaction. This occurs in the browning process of cooking – roasting, baking and frying. It is a chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars that gives browned food its distinctive flavor. Roasted chicken, baking cookies, frying onions are all examples of the Maillard Reaction at work.
When your recovering neurons are bombarded with these potent compounds, parosmia – that unique, disgusting smell – is your brain’s response. Fortunately, there are some simple things you can do to reduce the impact of cooking smells.
Heat stimulates the release of a larger number of parosmia-triggering compounds, so keeping it cool will reduce that activity. For example, some people notice that roasting chicken is a parosmia trigger, but cold cuts of turkey are quite manageable.
When your reactions are severe – very common in the early days of parosmia – you may find that eating cold foods will help you get the nutrition you need. If you are the cook, use a nose clip in the kitchen to avoid being overpowered, and remove it when food is cool enough to stop being a trigger.
It’s not always necessary to take heat out of the equation completely. Changing your cooking methods to avoid the Maillard Reaction can help.
- Poaching meat like chicken and fish avoids browning.
- Using a slow cooker is an excellent way to include a wider range of ingredients in your meal without suffering the effects of browning.
Feel your way
Parosmia does not last forever, it will pass. We know that changing your habits is inconvenient and it’s disheartening, but cooking and eating things differently – just for a while – will help your recovery. Parosmia is a health condition that you have to make adjustments for, so whatever you try, be kind to yourself.
This information is taken from our Food Masterclass – created with our friends at Altered Eating – and is available as an online course on the AbScent Network.

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Millennials in Greece trying to enter the job market come up against countless closed doors. At the same time though, they are quite innovative and proving themselves capable of charting new paths (a good thing too, considering it is they who will have to run this crisis-weary country one day).
This kind of thinking is what resulted in the first Makerspace in Athens. It is a small, communal workspace for young professionals who do not have the funds to rent or buy their own and equips them with modern and traditional tools. It was created by Ilias Saltiel and Constantinos Zervos, two former students at the University of Edinburgh who returned to Athens with an achievable idea.
“Makerspaces are quite common abroad as more people want to stop simply being consumers and are seeking to become creators, or makers,” says Ilias in reference to the maker movement, which for many signals a third industrial revolution. “In Greece, this shift is linked to the crisis because many workers found themselves out of the labor market and on their own, having to use their other skills to make a living,” says the 27-year-old mechanical engineer who first visited a similar kind of workspace in London in 2013.
Then, along with Constantinos, he began to develop ideas for the development of a workspace around which a community of modern craftsmen and women could be fostered.
Today, items made by professionals at Athens Makerspace adorn the windows of the workshop in the eastern Athens neighborhood of Kaisariani. There are colorful plastic figures made using a 3D printer and a wooden disc with the workshop’s imprint, carved with a CNC router and inspired by the Phaistos Disc. Walking through the door of the Athens Makerspace it becomes immediately clear you’ve entered a lively, cooperative place equipped with specialized tools for each craft. On the ground floor there is a state-of-the-art CNC router that can cut materials both two- and three-dimensionally.
There’s also a needlework corner, complete with machines that can sew, make and cut various fabrics. Upstairs are workshops for jewelry, T-shirts and electricals, machines including a vinyl cutter, 3D printer, laser cutter and a thermopress, and even a robot lab. Those who want to use the workspaces pay a monthly fee, in order to make unlimited use of the space possible. “We promote the idea of doing it together,” says Ilias. “We interact,” he adds.
Down in the basement is the smelter. Wearing special gloves, headphones and a mask, 14-year-old Yiannis cuts and polishes an iron knife he is making. “I come here every day by public transport from Alimos,” he tells us, surrounded by keys, wires, pliers and a trowel. He will continue doing this until 11 o’clock at night, when the Makerspace closes.
While Yiannis works in the soundproofed space that absorbs the tremendous amount of noise produced by the tools he’s using, Ilias and David, along with designer Vangelis Tsitsibikos, are planning future workshops. “Since the day we started, we’ve organized about 40 different workshops, as our goal is for all who are interested to come along and stand a better chance in the labor market,” says 21-year-old David, who studied in the UK. “The workshops were extremely popular. People came to make things like T-shirts and tennis rackets,” he says.
Working with schools
As a nonprofit organization, the Athenian Makers team has created workshops for elementary school students in the Greek capital as part of the Open Schools program run by the City of Athens with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. “We brought equipment and tools into the classroom,” says Ilias. “The kids were excited as they rarely get the chance to make something with their own hands.”
The team hopes to move to a new and more central location in the future, where they will have a better chance of increasing the number of workshops. “We would like to add workshops for gardening, metalwork, cooking, a computer lab and a space with creative activities for children so that their parents can leave them there while they attend workshops,” says Ilias. “We will also set up an e-shop where our members can trade what they’ve made in these spaces with each other.”


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A few months ago I started an serie of Layouts exercises to practice my visuals abilities. At this case, I felt in love of Maria Svarbova's work (https://www.behance.net/Aria_Baro) and I wanted to try a layout and Art Direction to show one of her photo sets.
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Kedah-born but internationally celebrated, Yuna has emerged as a force to be reckoned with in the pop universe. With an adroit melding of neo-soul, folk and R&B, she has given the world a sound that is exquisitely melodic and, dare we say, beautiful. With her new Malay album Material out in the ether, and before she's due to take the stage at the MasterCard Theatres, she brought us up to speed on the journey she's had.
'Let’s all come back to Earth and listen to the more important things in life.'
Your last performance in Singapore was for Sing Jazz 2015. How was that experience for you?
It was a lot of fun and it was my first time performing at that venue. People were just showing up and hanging out. The mood was all very chilled-out and relaxed. There wasn’t an overwhelming crowd, so it was easy for me to interact with and get to meet everyone there.
What have you been busy with since then?
I’m in the middle of recording my new album in the United States. It’s almost done and I’m really excited! It’s slated to be out in January 2016. In the midst of all that, I’ve also been busy with new music videos, visuals for the album, and performing around town. After the show in Singapore, I’ll embark on my fall tour around the United States.
The title track from Material has inspired a lot of online buzz. How did it come about?
‘Material’ is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that’s in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don’t need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
This notion is stronger now that the music of today revolves around being flashy with your possessions. You see people flaunting their Rolexes, cars and handbags and it’s to see overwhelming young people listening to these songs. Let’s all come back to Earth and listen to the more important things in life.
Kanye West recently announced that he’s running for President in 2020. What’s your take on artists being activists at the same time?
People pay attention to artists and celebrities, so they have the opportunity to do something great with this limelight. I, for one, have no problem with Kanye running for President, because if it’s something that he truly believes in and it can lead to greater good, why not? I’m all for that. Being a musician and artist can feel superficial at times – you talk about yourself everyday and pose for photos for the magazines and newspapers, and it can be very tiring for your well-being.
What was it like working with Pharrell on ‘Live Your Life’?
It was a lot of fun! I had only been making music for four years when we collaborated, and for me that came quick. Neither of us expected the song to be a hit, and I personally just wanted the opportunity to work with him. It was a great experience because he’s such a sweet guy and he taught me to be open to new music and ideas, and to freely embrace the person that I am. I’m very grateful for the time I got to work with him.
Nocturnal has many fans. Do you feel a difference in your Malay and English albums?
Definitely. While the music style is very consistent, what I sing about isn’t always the same.
My Malaysian fans enjoy a different aspect of me as compared to my non-Malay speaking ones. I try to connect with both sides and make them all feel appreciated. For example, ‘Material’ would be great for the Malay album, but not necessarily for the English one I’m currently working on, simply because of the different perspectives the two audiences have. Ultimately, I’m still the same girl regardless.
You are often referred to as a style icon for young Muslim women. How does that make you feel?
I enjoy fashion and taking the effort to present myself well, and I’m glad that a lot of people refer to me as a ‘Hijabster’. I’m not the greatest fan of the term but I think girls everywhere should be confident in their own skin and be inspired to look and feel good inside and out. If being deemed a fashion icon for Muslim girls is one way I can do that, then, great!
Lastly, what are you looking forward to the most about playing in Singapore again?
I’m very excited to perform in Singapore again. It’ll be a different set-up from my earlier show and I’m actually kind of nervous about who will turn up! Singapore has always been there for me, since the days I performed small gigs in cafés starting out, and I consider it home now.


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Shrimp can be eaten cooked and warm, or cooked and then chilled, as in a shrimp salad. But before we get to cooking, first the shrimp need to be defrosted. And how you defrost them can impact their final texture. … Leave for another 10 to 20 minutes and the shrimp should be completely defrosted and still cold.
Do you have to thaw frozen raw shrimp before cooking?
No need to defrost shrimp before cooking. Learn how to cook shrimp from frozen, taking them straight from the freezer to the pot. It makes dinners a breeze and they taste so good!
How do you cook frozen raw shrimp?
- If frozen, thaw the shrimp.
- The shrimp will bend easily when thawed.
- Heat the oil or butter over medium-high heat.
- Add the shrimp to the hot pan.
- Season the shrimp with salt and pepper.
- Sauté the shrimp until pink and opaque.
- Transfer to a serving dish.
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How long can shrimp be defrosted before cooking?
You can safely keep raw shrimp that’s been defrosted in the refrigerator for an additional one to two days before cooking, says the U.S. Department of Agriculture. You can also safely refreeze the thawed shrimp within that same timeframe.
Why should you not force thaw shrimp?
DO NOT FORCE THAW UNDER RUNNING WATER because the shrimp will absorb the water and it will turn to mush, fall apart and will be too soft.
How do you thaw frozen raw shrimp?
Fill a large bowl with cold water. Remove the frozen shrimp from their packaging and seal them in a Ziploc bag. Submerge the bag in the cold water, placing a plate or lid over to ensure it remains fully submerged. Let sit for 10-20 minutes, until shrimp are fully thawed.
Can I put frozen shrimp in air fryer?
You definitely can cook frozen shrimp in your air fryer. However, you need to thaw your shrimp first if you are going to bread it. To cook frozen shrimp with no breading, put shrimp directly in the air fryer basket. Cook at 400 ℉ for 5 minutes (if frozen cooked shrimp) or for 10 minutes (for frozen raw shrimp).
How long do you boil frozen uncooked shrimp?
Boil your shrimp for 2-7 minutes, or until they begin to float.
- Stir your shrimp periodically as they boil to make sure they all heat evenly.
- There’s no need to wait for all of your shrimp to float. Once you notice a half a dozen or so pop up, it will be safe to take them off the stove.
How do you cook raw shrimp?
The best way to keep shrimp fresh while preparing them is to keep them in ice water. Return the cleaned shrimp to the ice water until you are ready to cook them. Pat the shrimp dry with a paper towel before cooking. Leave the shell on while boiling or steaming shrimp.
How long do you have to boil shrimp?
Add 8 cups water and bring to a boil over med/high heat. Once water boils, add the peeled and deveined shrimp and simmer until pink, about 2-3 minutes depending on size of the shrimp. Drain and transfer cooked shrimp to a bowl of cold water to stop the cooking process and let cool.
How long is frozen shrimp good in the fridge?
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Can I defrost shrimp on the counter?
To defrost shrimp, you could just leave it out on the counter and check periodically to see if they are ready, but they will lose some of that wonderful chewy texture that defines them. … This method really does keep the texture just like fresh from the sea shrimps.
How can you tell if thawed shrimp is bad?
The best way to tell if shrimp has gone bad is by looking at it and smelling it. If it has an unpleasant or sour smell, then you should dispose of it straight away. Similarly, if the shrimp is particularly slimy in texture or looks off in any way, you will need to throw it away.
Why is it bad to thaw shrimp in water?
If the water were actually warm or hot, it could start to cook the shrimp. If the shrimp were defrosted directly under water, not in a bag, they could absorb some of the water and the texture would become mushy.
Can you get sick from frozen shrimp?
While there are no reports of anyone getting sick from the shrimp, anyone who bought an affected bag should throw it away or return it for a refund. … The FDA confirms it found salmonella in cooked shrimp from Kader Exports during a test.
Can I cook shrimp from frozen?
Totally! Unlike chicken or salmon that must be cooked to a correct temperature to ensure their safety, shrimp are so small and so quick to cook that it’s hard to undercook them or serve them underdone. Cooking them from frozen actually helps prevent overcooking, leading to juicer, more tender shrimp.


Hot Button: Red-light cameras
When Mike McKim made a right turn on red at the corner of NW Market Street and 15th Avenue NW in Ballard last December, there was absolutely nothing remarkable about it. No oncoming traffic. No one in the crosswalk. Just “city driving,” as he calls it.
But the video taken by the intersection’s traffic-light camera told another story, revealing that McKim failed to come to a complete stop before turning right on red. His infraction—one of 4,199 violations captured last December by Seattle’s 30 traffic-light cameras—cost him $124.
Since 2005, 20 jurisdictions across Washington have deployed red-light and speed cameras to improve traffic safety, applying the hammer of $100-plus fines to make their point. After initiating a six-camera pilot program in 2006, Seattle installed 24 more cameras between 2008 and this year. Want to push yellow? Want to roll through a right turn on red? It’ll cost you.
Despite their increasing use, these cameras continue to raise a lot of questions. First and foremost: Do they make traffic safer?
Traffic-safety officials believe the cameras certainly reduce the number of vehicles that speed through red lights. They probably don’t reduce the number of accidents, but they may lessen the severity by trading nasty right-angle collisions for comparatively less dangerous rear-enders (from motorists being struck from behind after slamming on their brakes so as not to trigger the cameras).
The Seattle Police Department reported as much in a December 2008 study (seattle.gov/police/programs/technology/redlight.htm) based on two years of pilot-project data. A more recent study of Spokane’s two red-light cameras suggests the same, which squares with a 2007 study in Virginia (vtrc.virginiadot.org/doc/VTRCAnnualReport07.pdf) that many consider to be among the most comprehensive on the subject. (It continues to receive headlines for its finding that red-light cameras increased traffic accidents by 12 percent.) So what constitutes “safer”—fewer motorists running red lights, but more fender benders?
One thing not in question about red-light cameras: They make a lot of money. This is true for the jurisdiction that permits them, as well as for the company that owns, installs and operates them. In the case of Seattle, that’s American Traffic Solutions of Scottsdale, Arizona.
Seattle Police Department spokesman Sean Whitcomb says ATS charges Seattle $3,500 a month for each camera monitoring as many as two lanes, and $3,750 per month for each camera covering three lanes or more. That’s more than $1.2 million a year going to ATS from Seattle alone. Whitcomb says ATS can charge an additional $5 for every infraction after the first 800 caught at each camera. He says that proviso has never been activated and uses it as evidence that SPD’s contract with ATS does not contain an incentive to ticket more motorists to raise revenue.
Still, take those 4,199 notices of infraction (NOIs)—they are not “tickets” per se—issued last December at $124 a pop. The city’s experience is that about 75 percent are paid, which comes to $390,507 for one month. Multiply that by 12 months and that’s real money (nearly $4.7 million before the city’s payment to ATS).
Math like that engenders the almost universal claim that red-light cameras are simply revenue-generating machines. Bonney Lake city administrator Don Morrison wouldn’t disagree. He says they made a lot of money for his community between 2006 and 2008—and also made the streets safer. The small Pierce County municipality used cameras in school zones and found they had a significant effect in reducing speeds. But the city had problems with its vendor, a company that eventually was acquired by ATS, and after too many complaints from citizens, the City Council pulled the plug. Nevertheless, Morrison has no problem with the technology. “It worked marvelously,” he says, “and, to be honest, it was a revenue maker. We exceeded operating costs by about 50 percent.”
So why is it that Seattle and other cities are free to rake in the dough via such a high-priced fine? It would appear they are exposing a loophole left open by the 2005 state Legislature when it allowed for installation of traffic-light cameras: Legislators decided the fine should be in line with what it might cost for a parking ticket, but they didn’t say what kind of parking ticket.
Of the 20 cities in the state that employ red-light cameras, all have chosen to issue fines that are at the high end of the parking-ticket spectrum. Seattle started at $101, then raised it to $124 in 2007 to be consistent with what it would cost a motorist being ticketed by a uniformed officer for running a red light.
Several Seattle attorneys have challenged this as overreaching. A class-action suit filed last June in federal court contends that—among other things—the various jurisdictions have collected fines that are excessive. Attorney David Breskin of Breskin Johnson and Townsend, who speaks for the attorneys involved in the suit, says the legislative intent back in 2005 was to have such NOIs cost “about $20”— the average cost of a parking ticket at the time. (Currently, of the 109 types of parking infractions in Seattle, all but 10 carry fines of either $39 or $42; parking in a handicapped space is the priciest offense, at $250.)
In March, however, U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour dismissed the claims, saying cities could set the fees as long as they are in the range of what a jurisdiction might fine a motorist for a parking violation.
The plaintiffs have appealed Coughenour’s ruling. “The court’s purpose is to be faithful to the intent of the Legislature,” Breskin says. “There was no consideration at all for what the Legislature intended.”
Just as the lawsuit seeks to limit how much jurisdictions can collect, so too did a House bill introduced in the state Legislature last session. Championed by Christopher Hurst, D-Enumclaw, the bill sought to reduce to $25 the fine for each caught-on-camera infraction. House Bill 2780 died in committee in February, but it gained enough notoriety around the state that it’s likely to return in the next legislative session.
If a renewed bill were successful, some worry that $25 will be considered worth it to get to a meeting on time. “If you set the fine too low, are you really going to be changing the people’s behavior?” asked Seattle City Council member Nick Licata on KUOW’s The Conversation last February. “If the [$124] fine is at that turning point where it gets someone’s attention so that they don’t want to pay the fine, then that’s the right price.”
It’s probably the right price for another reason: If a city charges only $25 per infraction, can it cover the more than $3,500-per-month fee for each camera? Consider the December 2009 number—4,199 NOIs issued by Seattle cameras—and multiply it by $25. You get almost exactly the monthly fee Seattle pays ATS, about $105,000.
“Those things are not cheap,” Bonney Lake’s Morrison attests. “For us, they took about $25 to $40 [per NOI] to run it. When I heard about [the legislation in Olympia], it seemed to me like a backdoor way to kill it.”
It may be a death by double-edged sword. Not only would reduced fines make it difficult for jurisdictions to recoup costs, it most likely wouldn’t deter motorists from driving dangerously, either. After all, even McKim—who paid the $124 ticket—doesn’t think his experience with the red-light camera has made him a safer driver. “The answer is ‘no’—I’m not trying to drive more safely,” he says with a laugh. “I’m just trying not to get a ticket!”
Originally published in May 2010


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Afrosoul Queen Aramide dishes out the official music video for her Timaya featured song titled “Fall On Them”.
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Remembering the Ancestors: Widening our Circle of Gratitude
by Aninha Esperancza Livingstone, Ph.D.
The practice of gratitude is one that changes our state. This shift in attention has the power to rearrange our hearts, broaden our thinking and expand our energy field. As we remember what we are grateful for, we weave ourselves more deeply into the fabric of life, disrupting habitual ways of thinking about ourselves, and the world.
One habit, that we may not even be aware of, is that of limiting our expression of gratitude to the living. In a culture that relegates the ancestors to cartoon ghosts and Halloween costumes, our reference points are diminished. So too is our connection to those who came before.
For those of us who have not been raised in a cultural context that honors the ancestors, it can be helpful to examine our own cultural biases. In the field of psychology, when people report hearing unexplained sounds, they are described as having auditory hallucinations. If they see something that others do not, they are understood to have visual hallucinations. Granted, some culturally nuanced additions have been incorporated into diagnostics, thereby acknowledging diverse views on health, illness and ultimately reality itself. Nonetheless, experiences outside the norm are prone to fall into a narrow storyline.
The truth is, about 45 percent of Americans believe in “ghosts” according to polls taken in the last three years. This is not to minimize or deny the reality of those who suffer from intrusive or medically induced hallucinations, but to address the continuum of experiences, which includes vibrant health and expanded sensory awareness.
My own encounter with this realm places me in the 45 percent. When I was 14, my father died and yet I continued to feel his presence. My mother, who was not metaphysically inclined, also sensed him. His restlessness spirit disturbed her. Although it was outside her usual belief system to do so, she sought spiritual assistance.
I remember two people coming to our home. They invited us to stand in a circle while they addressed my father. I don’t remember what they said, but I do remember my mother and I sensing quite strongly that he had moved on and had found peace.
Although this may seem “New Age” to some, there is a long cross-cultural history that predates it. The ancient Greeks were one among many cultures who normalized this phenomenon, referring to it as psychopomp*,* pompos meaning guide, and psyche signifying, breath or soul, in other words, one who guides souls.
Many continue to care for the dead in ways that have been passed down through generations. The Jewish practice of reciting kaddish for example, can be seen as a means of helping the soul of the deceased journey upward. Additionally, during the Mexican Day of the Dead, food, drink, music, flowers and such are offered to remember and sustain loved ones. Modern day funerals of all persuasions continue to be a powerful expression of paying tribute to those who have passed, although not all maintain the belief that the deceased are fed by attention from the living. These acts of support, remembrance and love can be understood, in part, as expressions of gratitude, for when we are grateful there is a natural impulse to give back.
Although we live in starkly different times than our distant ancestors and many traditions seem to have sunk to the bottom of the American melting pot, some things are perennial. It turns out that story telling is one of them; it is both an ancient and contemporary doorway to experiencing ourselves as part of a much larger story.
Research indicates that the sharing of family stories over time can create what Duke, Lazarus and Fivush are calling an intergenerational self, resulting in greater resiliency. Although the research focused on children, my experience, both personally and professionally, leads me to believe that adults benefit as well.
How do your family stories live in you? Do you know where your ancestral bones lay? If your lineage immigrated here, what stories do you know about their journey? Do you sense what hopes and fears may have lived in their hearts? If they were enslaved, how do you relate to their struggles, their strengths? We each have unique family stories depending upon the thrust of history and where our people stood in its unfolding.
Whether we believe in an unseen realm or not, stories link us to a larger identity, one in which we are no longer isolated individuals, but rather part of a long story that is still being written. Knowing this can open our hearts and minds, allowing us to widen the circle of gratitude.
As we go through our day, we can pay tribute to those who came before, regardless of personal beliefs, spiritual orientation, or extrasensory capacities. We need only find what resonates with our unique sensibilities. Practices range from displaying old photographs, sharing family stories, cooking special recipes, and researching one’s heritage on-line, to creating daily rituals that may include giving offerings, asking for support, and listening for communication in the myriad of modes through which it might come.
Expressing gratitude to those who have come before, be they from our bloodline or not, reminds us that we are but one link in time, a bridge between the past and the future. As we acknowledge the larger story from which we have emerged, we may find ourselves living a new story that serves to enrich not only our personal lives, but ones that stretch both backwards and forward in time, in ways that we may never fully understand.
Dr. Aninha Livingstone, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist, writer, and mentor in San Rafael, Ca.
Her approach to healing focuses on retraining our attention to include a deeper connection with our bodies, a clearer perception of our energy fields, and an enriched relationship with all that which resources us, both seen and unseen. www.aninhalivingstone.com

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Das Amulett version 2.0, a German text adventure by Martin Oehm. Written 1996 in Turbo Pascal 5.0 as the author's first attempt to write a German text adventure with a decent parser, so the game is rather easy. MS-DOS executable.
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Die Zeitreise, a German interactive story by PIVOT. MS-DOS executable. Source code is available from the primary author, Bernd Roehling.

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Building on the Brofenbrenner’s work, McLeroy, Bibeau, Steckler, and Glanz (1988) offered five levels of factors’ influence specific to health behaviour: intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, community, and public policy (Sallis, Owen, & Fisher, 2015).
Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Model
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Microsystems impact a child directly. These are the people with whom the child interacts such as parents, peers, and teachers. The relationship between individuals and those around them need to be considered. For example, to appreciate what is going on with a student in math, the relationship between the student and teacher should be known.
Mesosystems are interactions between those surrounding the individual. The relationship between parents and schools, for example will indirectly affect the child.
Larger institutions such as the mass media or the healthcare system are referred to as the exosystem. These have an impact on families and peers and schools who operate under policies and regulations found in these institutions.
We find cultural values and beliefs at the level of macrosystems. These larger ideals and expectations inform institutions that will ultimately impact the individual
All of this happens in an historical context referred to as the chronosystem. Cultural values change over time, as do policies of educational institutions or governments in certain political climates. Development occurs at a point in time.
Source: Paris, J., Ricardo, A., & Rymond, D. (2018). Child Growth and Development. College of the Canyons. Open textbook library – http://www.uilis.unsyiah.ac.id/oer/files/original/79f04d87bf89c0f27024fc4f376048c9.pdf
Risk and protective factors exist at every level at which an individual interacts with others and the society
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influence through social agents’ behaviour and attitudes, resulting in the development of a perception of what constitutes normative behaviour


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Halloween's Annie Brackett is in the unique position of being BFFs with one of horror’s most notorious Final Girls. Brash and sarcastic, Annie is the polar opposite of Laurie Strode. She’s constantly teasing Laurie about her uptight tendencies, playing the role of “bad influence” in Laurie’s life. But despite her caustic character, Annie is a true friend to Laurie, right up until the very end.
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Writers are like everyone else. Doesn’t matter what genre they write in. And when it comes to working styles, even within the same genre (Horror, in my case), we’ve all got our habits and our mannerisms and our quirks. And those things change over time. For instance, I used to love to write in total solitude with just the right music going.
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Today’s revelations from UK Government papers released under the thirty year rule confirm what many people across Scotland have suspected since the 1980s – that the Tories used Scotland as a testing ground for the poll tax.
What is more shocking is that it was Oliver Letwin – now David Cameron’s policy chief – who pushed the idea of trialling the poll tax in Scotland, against the advice of other Tory ministers.
All through the 1980s, Scottish Labour stood against the poll tax and stood with people across Scotland who were affected. It was a cruel and unjust tax and, much like the bedroom tax, hit people across the country who couldn’t afford to pay it.
Unsurprisingly, it was one of the final straws that eventually led to the downfall of Margaret Thatcher.
David Cameron and Margaret Thatcher are two Prime Ministers separated by thirty years, but they share the same policy adviser. And Oliver Letwin is now the man responsible for ideas such as the bedroom tax and the millionaires’ tax cut.
The phrase “same old Tories” has never been more appropriate.
Then, like now, the Tories were completely out of touch with the will of the Scottish people, and it took the Labour Party to get rid of them and clear up the mess that they made.
Today’s documents also reveal that David Willetts – then also a Downing Street adviser – wanted to freeze the Barnett Formula in order to reduce the Scottish budget.
At a time when industries across Scotland were going to the wall, and unemployment was crippling many Scottish communities, the Tories were plotting to cut Scotland’s budget even further.
In 1985, the Tories had only been in power for 6 years, and still had another 12 to go. They were only at the start of their project to change the face of our country forever.
Today, we also have a Tory Government that has only been around for a few years and they have tried to start where Margaret Thatcher left off.
We can’t allow them to carry on for another decade, let alone another five years.
In May, we have the chance to get rid of this Tory Government and just like the poll tax was consigned to history after fierce, we’ll start work to get rid of the Tories hated bedroom tax on day one.
Scotland cannot afford another five years of the Tories. These would be five years when people like Oliver Letwin and David Willetts could go even further and finish the job that they started with Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
This weekend, a whistle-blower revealed that the SNP really would do anything if they had the balance of power in May, including signing up to support the bedroom tax. That means they’re preparing to deal with the Tories after May.
That means that the only way to get rid of the Tories – and Tory policies – from Scotland is to vote Scottish Labour this May. Every vote for the SNP is a vote that will let David Cameron, and Margaret Thatcher’s advisers, back into Downing Street.
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Popular low-cost carrier JetBlue turns 24 this month and is celebrating with a one day only sale for travelers, including a tempting discount rate to Costa Rica uncovered by The Tico Times. JetBlue is offering seats for as little as $99 one-way to San José, for travel from Fort Lauderdale as well as cheap fares from other select U.S. cities on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, February 20 through May 15.
“As JetBlue hits our 24-year mark, we want to show customers our ongoing appreciation by making it easier to book trips to beloved destinations like Costa Rica,” said Jayne O’Brien, Head of Marketing and Loyalty at JetBlue.
The no-blackout sale means beach and rainforest escapes to Costa Rica are available from major Florida hubs like Orlando starting at just $104 each way. West Coast travelers also score deals like Los Angeles to San Jose from only $171 one-way.
Compared to typical airfares to Costa Rica hovering around $300-500 roundtrip, sale fares letting travelers fly for less than $100 roundtrip are an exceptional value.
In kicking off the month with a one-day deal like this, JetBlue likely aims to fuel winter bookings while much of North America remains bundled up in winter coats. The airline knows a seat sale timed during peak cabin fever season is a proven tactic to drive bookings and get customers dreaming of sandy beaches or verdant jungles.
While the ultra-low fares to Costa Rica need to be snatched up today, JetBlue’s birthday sale includes other money-saving opportunities as well. Travelers can take advantage of packaged vacations, bonus TrueBlue points offers, and everyday low fares throughout the week.
It was noted that, whether planning with points or great sale fares, Jetblue hope its 24th birthday deals make that long-awaited Costa Rica vacation a reality for more customers.
The celebratory sale follows continued route expansion by JetBlue into various warm weather destinations like recently launched New York-Belize service. It also comes just after a federal judge blocked the proposed JetBlue-Spirit merger over antitrust concerns, a ruling both discount carriers plan to appeal.
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I have made mention of the annual seaside trip from Newmarket Colliery, but another really big occasion was the Annual Carnival. Almost everyone in the village played a part in making this event a success. All the local farmers competed against each other for the best decorated cart, and the shire horses were fitted with polished harness and were well groomed. Local womenfolk usually cleaned and decorated the carts with flowers and ribbons. On the parade through the village each cart was filled with the children, all dressed up in their home-made dresses. Every mother made sure her child was clean and well dressed and the girls always looked so pretty; some would get dressed up as if going to a fancy dress ball.
Others had a bit of fun as a comic band. But there was nothing comical about the Stanley Brass Band who led the procession. They were indeed a fine band of very talented musicians. Most of them were miners and it was a pleasure to listen to them play.
Some of the menfolk had still a Penny Farthing bicycle in their garden shed and the few who possessed one had it polished and greased and they rode in the procession. Games were organised. All the children in the village at all ages took part. There were races for different age groups of running, sack races, egg & spoon races - all good fun. The womenfolk all made a contribution of buns and cakes so that everyone had a little something to eat. An elderly lady (I wish I could remember her name) made bottles and bottles of nettled beer. She made a small charge of 1d. per bottle, and it was a most refreshing drink.
It was indeed a very special day and I think God must have known how important it was to the villagers because I never remember any occasion when it rained. Ir was always a bright, sunny day.
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Coach Craig Hartsburg promised there would be changes and he delivered. So did the Blackhawks, who rocked the Hartford Whalers with three goals in the first 10 minutes Sunday night and went on to a 4-1 victory at the United Center.
Murray Craven, who played center for the first time in a Hawks uniform, got the first goal just 84 seconds into the game. Except for a late empty-netter by Gary Suter, all the scoring was in the first period as Jeff Hackett, in goal for Ed Belfour, made the lead stand up.
Other changes besides the Craven move included the callup from Indianapolis of Steve Dubinksy and Mike Prokopec, who provided the physical presence Hartsburg has been seeking. Dubinsky has been here before but Prokopec, 21, was making his NHL debut.
"That's what they were looking for," said Dubinsky. "When they told me I was coming up they said they were lacking physical finishes. Mike and I are both physical players and we were able to cause a little havoc out there."
"The two kids from Indy gave us a big jump," said Hartsburg. "They were physical players. They bumped and battled along the boards."
"The key is they came in and showed the enthusiasm we need," said veteran Brent Sutter, who centered for the two youngsters. "They finished their checks. It's a heck of an ingredient to have two kids come in and play as well as they did."
Hartsburg said he moved Craven to center on the Eric Daze-Bob Probert line because "Brent had been playing there but I wanted to make sure the two kids had a veteran center."
Hartsburg said the Hawks' quick start was "obviously where we won the game. We put 'em on their heels right away. That's the way you should come out at home."
It was the opposite of the way they came out Thursday night when they got behind 3-0 to Ottawa just as quickly as they went ahead this time. It was that effort--or lack of it--that prompted Sunday's changes.
"When things don't go well, the only recourse is to make changes," said Craven. "Craig's been searching for the right combination that would play well night after night. Obviously, he had not been able to find that."
For one night, at least, everything clicked. Craven's goal was set up by Probert, whose crushing hit separated Andrew Cassels from the puck to the right of rookie goalie Jason Muzzatti.
"Eric (Daze) did a good job too," said Craven. "I've got two 225-pound wingers and they're going to knock people off the puck and create loose pucks. That's a luxury in this league to have two guys like that on either side of you."
Craven's goal was followed 27 seconds later by an unassisted goal by Keith Carney, who found some loose change in the slot and made a deposit behind Muzzatti. Joe Murphy's power-play goal at 10:16, a tip-in of a Tony Amonte shot, was the clincher.


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As part of national Alcohol Awareness Week, local people in Stockton-on-Tees have been highlighting the dangers of drinking during pregnancy with a 'Pregnant Pause'.
The Pregnant Pause, which represented the nine months that a woman is pregnant for, aimed to educate more people about a disorder which affects thousands of babies every year, is completely preventable and yet is still not widely known about.
Foetal Alcohol Specrum disorder is what can happen if a mother drinks during pregnancy and can affect the development of a child's organs and facial features.
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The news that Toyota is taking North American product development authority from Japanese bosses and putting it in the hands of North American executives is the culmination of nearly two years of soul searching by Japan's largest automaker.
The formerly very centralized company says vehicles unique to the North American market no longer will require painstaking and frustrating sign-offs from Japan at each step in the development process. This won't be an easy cultural change.
The operational change recognizes that the central flaw in Toyota's rise to global supremacy -- and subsequent slip in recent years -- was that the company was built on island insularity.
In the new system, when locals spot trouble, they will be empowered to do something about it. Plus, it's supposed to give locals a bigger voice in tailoring cars to regional needs.
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Echinacea, commonly called “coneflowers” for their cone-shaped inflorescences capped by a prickly dome of seedheads, grow well in the home garden, when provided with the right conditions. Echinacea are important sources of nectar for butterflies and many birds (particularly goldfinches), who flock to the plants to devour the seed. Echinacea are, in this way, “two for one” plants. You get to enjoy the gorgeous flowers, as well as the colorful wildlife they attract.
Light: Echinacea thrives in full to partial sun. Plants need at least four hours of sunlight per day. The plants grow natively along the edges of woodlands, so they will thrive in spots with morning shade and afternoon sun or vice versa.
Soil: Echinacea will tolerate poor rocky soil, but will not grow in wet, mucky soil. Mulch plants with compost at the time of planting.
Spacing: Coneflowers are clumping plants. One plant will tend to get larger, but it will not spread and overtake the garden via roots or rhizomes. The eventual size of the plant clump depends on the cultivar, so check the mature size listed in the plant description to help you decide on spacing. If a plant is estimated to grow to 18 inches wide, leave 18 inches between plants. Because Echinacea establish deep taproots, you need to plant them where you want them. They do not like to be moved once established.
Planting: Plant Echinacea plants in the spring or the fall, in well-drained soil in full to part sun. Echinacea is easy to grow from seed, as well, but requires a cold, moist period—called stratification—in order to germinate. Sow seeds thickly in the fall (after hard-frost in the north and before winter rains elsewhere), covering lightly to discourage birds from eating them. Seeds will germinate in the spring. Most plants will bloom during the second year—one reason it’s advantageous to start with transplants.
Growth Habit: Echinacea are clump-forming perennials that grow to a mature size of between 12-36 inches wide and up to four feet tall. The size depends on the variety. Plants have an upright habit with large flowers with cone-shaped centers borne on tall, straight stalks.
Staking: These plants are sturdy and rarely require staking. Occasionally, plants growing in partial shade will become tall and floppy. You can stake plants using a single stake and connecting individual stalks to the stake with soft twine.
Watering: Echinacea is a low-water plant; however, you’ll need to water young plants to help them establish new roots. That is usually a sequence of every day or every other day right after planting, moving to a couple of times per week, to once per week, to every other week, to watering only when your area is experiencing extreme drought. The second year after planting and beyond you should not have to water Echinacea at all unless you’ve gone eight weeks or more without rain. They are that drought-tolerant.
Fertilizing: Most perennials like to live lean, and don’t need seasonal fertilizer applications. Mulching Echinacea plants in the spring with compost should be enough unless your garden has specific nutrient deficiencies. If your plants are growing lots of leaves but no flowers, or the leaves are strangely colored (purple or yellow) get a soil test to determine which nutrients plants are missing and fertilize accordingly.
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Mulching: Do not bury the plant stem, but mulch in the spring with compost to improve soil fertility around the plant.
Trimming & Pruning: You can prolong the already- long bloom period of Echinacea plants by deadheading them. Cut dead flowers back to a leaf where you can see a bud ready to swell and break. Toward the end of the bloom, leave some flowers on the plant to dry and go to seed. Birds love to snack on the seeds, which is enough of a reason to keep them, but the plants will also self-sow, allowing you to end up with some freebies during the next growing season.
Control size and delay blooming of the entire plant by cutting plants back in June to 30 inches tall. If you prune some of your plants, but not all of them, you’ll have a nice, long, staggered coneflower bloom season.
Let plants stand until they are fully dormant and dry. Seeds are an important wildlife food source. Cut back in mid winter when you’re tidying up the garden.
Dividing & Transplanting: Echinacea plants do not like to be divided or transplanted. Because they establish taproots, it’s difficult to fully remove the plant from the ground, and once re-planted they have a difficult time re-establishing. If you must transplant, do so in the spring, and dig as large of a root ball around the plant as you can manage. Replant immediately.
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Echinacea has been used medicinally to treat a variety of ailments, including infections and wounds. It is still a popular herbal supplement. In addition to this use, Echinacea is almost unmatched in its garden utility. It is equally at home in the formal garden setting or a wildflower meadow. Pair it with salvias, catmint, and other cottage garden plants for the former, and with Gaillardia, Asclepias, Goldenrod, and Rudbeckia in the latter.
Is there an easier plant to grow in the garden than an Echinacea? Hardly. These plants have few pest and disease problems. Japanese beetle, leaf spots, powdery mildew, and vine weevils sometimes affect the plant. There isn’t much you can do about any of those issues, but they’re rarely such problems that they would require treatment.
One issue with Echinaceas is that they do reseed fairly prolifically. If you find this is an issue, deadhead the plants immediately after the petals fade to cut down on “volunteers.”
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