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"It takes such a long train of abuses to persuade the mass of people to throw off their habitual customs and loyalties and to make revolution; hence the absurdity of singling out the American Revolution as 'conservative' in that sense. Indeed, this very breakthrough against existing habits, the very act of revolution, is therefore ipso facto an extraordinarily radical act.(...)
But the deep-seated radicalism of the American Revolution goes far beyond this. It was inextricably linked both to the radical revolutions that went before and to the ones, particularly the French, that succeeded it. From the researches of Caroline Robbins and Bernard Bailyn, we have come to see the indispensable linkage of radical ideology in a straight line from the English republican revolutionaries of the seventeenth century through the commonwealthmen of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to the French and to the American revolutionaries. And this ideology of natural rights and individual liberty was to its very marrow revolutionary. As Lord Acton stressed of radical liberalism, in setting up 'what ought to be' as a rigorous guidepost for judging 'what is', it virtually raised thereby a standard of revolution.
The Americans had always been intractable, rebellious, impatient of oppression, as witness the numerous rebellions of the late seventeenth century; they also had their own individualist and libertarian heritage, their Ann Hutchinsons and Rhode Island quasi anarchists, some directly linked with the left wing of the English revolution. Now, strenghtened and guided by the developed libertarian natural rights ideology of the eighteenth century, and reacting to aggrandizement of the British imperial state in the economic, constitutional, and religious spheres, the Americans, in escalated and radicalized confrontations with Great Britain, had made and won their Revolution. By doing so, this revolution, based on the growing libertarian idea pervading enlightened opinion in Europe, and gave immeasurable impetus to the liberal revolutionary movement throughout the Old World; for here was a living example of a liberal revolution that had taken its daring chance, against all odds and against the mightiest state in the world, and had actually succeeded. Here, indeed, was a beacon light to all oppressed peoples in the world!
The American Revolution was radical in many other ways as well. It was the first successful war of national liberation against western imperialism. A people's war, waged by the majority of Americans having the courage and the zeal to rise up against constituted 'legitimate' government, actually threw off their 'sovereign'. A revolutionary war led by 'fanatics' and zealots rejected the siren calls of compromise and easy adjustment to the existing system. As a people's war, it was victorious to the extent the guerilla strategy and tactics were employed against the far more heavily armed and better trained British army - a strategy and tactics of protracted conflict resting precisely on mass support. (...)
Also, as in any people's war, the American Revolution did inevitably rend society in two. The Revolution was not a peaceful emanation of an American 'consensus'; on the contrary, as we have seen, it was a civil war resulting in permanent expulsion of 100,000 Tories from the United States. Tories were hunted, persecuted, their property confiscated, and themselves sometimes killed, what could be more radical than that? Thus, the French Revolution was, as in so many other things, foreshadowed by the American. The inner contradiction of the goal of liberty and the struggle against the Tories during the Revolution showed that revolutions will be tempted to betray their own principles in the heat of battle. The American Revolution also prefigured the misguided use of paper money inflation, and of severe price and wage controls which proved equally unworkable in America and in France. And, as constituted government was either ignored or overthrown, Americans found recourse in new quasi-anarchistic forms of government: spontaneous local committees. Indeed, the new state and eventual federal governments often emerged out of federations and alliances of local and county committees. Here again, 'committees of inspection,' 'committees of public safety,' etc., prefigured the French and other revolutionary paths. What this meant, as was most clearly illustrated in Pennsylvania, was the revolutionary innovation of parallel institutions, of dual power, that challenged and eventually simply replaced old and established governmental forms. Nothing in all of the picture of the American Revolution could have been more radical, more truly revolutionary."
Auszüge aus Murray N. Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty. Volume IV: The Revolutionary War 1775-1784, S.442-444.


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Alabama Public Television Presents
Rebecca Osberg takes on 22q
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Born with congenital heart disease and many other problems, Rebecca Osberg struggled to succeed in school and become a nurse. She was 39 when she was finally diagnosed with 22q Deletion Syndrome, or Digeorge Syndrome, which affects 1 in 4,000. Rebecca raises awareness for 22q through social media channels, news media and meeting with government officials.
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CLIFTON (WGME) -- State Police say a Clifton man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the death of his girlfriend. Detectives have charged 37-year-old Dwight Osgood Jr. with the murder of 35-year-old Kerry Dill. Dill was found shot to death Monday morning at the home the two had shared for four years. Friends say Dill worked at the Clifton Country Store, Located next door to the home. "She was the sweetest of women. She always had an infectious smile, you know.
Fatal crash on JFK Boulevard affecting traffic near Bush Airport
The crash is affecting the southbound lanes of JFK near Will Clayton Parkway.
ISP investigating fatal motorcycle crash in Gem County
Idaho State Police are investigating a fatal motorcycle crash this afternoon. ISP was called to the scene around 9am this morning where they say William Miller of Emmett, failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of Berglund and Dewey Road in Gem County. Police tell CBS 2 News Miller was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident when his motorcycle left the roadway and crashed in a field 30 yards away. Miller died during the crash, next of kin has been notified.
Fayette County deputy in critical condition after being shot in the head in La Grange
A Fayette County deputy was shot in the head after officials were serving a search warrant Thursday evening.
NH woman injured in Rochester hit and run
ROCHESTER (WGME) -- Police are asking for the public's help in finding the driver of a car that struck a Rochester woman Friday night, sending her to the hospital. Rochester Police said around 9:30 p. m. Friday on Farmington Road near the Steak and Grill, Shawna Ducharme, 36, was walking along the shoulder and the road on the northbound side when she was struck by a vehicle.
How to Quiet a Noisy Dishwasher
Richard Trethewey suggests the solution to banging dishwasher pipes
Coroner identifies woman killed in North Hopewell Township crash
YORK COUNTY, Pa.-- Update: The individual killed in a single-vehicle crash Tuesday night has been identified as 46-year-old Rachel Shahan, of Stewartstown. Previous: A woman is dead after a Tuesday night crash. On Tuesday around 10:55 p.m., the coroner responded to Dunkard Valley Road at Swamp Road in North Hopewell Township for a reported crash with entrapment.
One person dies in single vehicle crash in Ephrata
EPHRATA, Lancaster County, Pa. -- Ephrata Police said that the driver of the vehicle, an 18-year old man, from Ephrata, is dead. They also said they crash happened on N. State St., near Valley View Dr. According to police, the driver went off the road into Coover Run creek. A towing company pulled the car from the creek.
El Niño Watch in Effect for Late Fall/Winter
The Climate Prediction Center has issued an El Niño Watch ahead of the upcoming winter season for the Northern Hemisphere.
Community activist Marvin Dean dies of cancer
Community activist Marvin Dean has died following treatment of cancer.

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The 24 ton truck, which was built for Pope John Paul II’s visit to Lancashire in 1982, was out of action at last year’s festival due to reported high costs in getting it back on the road.
It was being stored at Leyland’s DAF Assembly Plant, with a £1,000 figure reported to get it roadworthy.
But after extensive refurbishments to the vehicle’s home, the British Commercial Vehicle Museum in King Street, Leyland, the transformation of the interior of the museum has helped to secure the vast collection of motor heritage for generations to come.
“We are delighted to have the Popemobile lead parade once again this year.”
The Popemobile – or ‘Papamobile’ in Italian – is a truck-based vehicle specially created by Leyland Motors for Pope John Paul II’s visit to the UK in 1982.
The custom-made towering vehicle was designed by Ogle Design of Letchworth to give audiences a clear view of the Pope as he travelled around Lancashire and the wider country, with crowds of more than one million plus expected.
The 24 ton truck has bullet proof glass and under-floor armour to protect the Pope during his visit. The body design incorporates low ballistic material to repel small firearms.
Its Leyland Constructor Chassis was chosen for its renown off-road capability and speed if an emergency arose.
The Mayor and Mayoress of South Ribble, Coun Harry Hancock and his wife Marion, will be aboard the Popemobile as it leads the 2019 festival parade.
British Commercial Vehicle Museum Manager, Keith Moyes, said: “It is one of many treasured exhibits in our family-friendly museum.
We hope that as well as enjoying the festival celebrations, visitors will also come to our newly refurbished museum and see what we have to offer.”
Leyland Festival returns on Saturday, June 15. For more information visit https://www.leylandfestival.co.uk/


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Durban - Several important council meetings had been cancelled or postponed “on a whim” while other pressing matters affecting Durban ratepayers had also been shelved without reasonable explanation, opposition parties in the eThekwini council said on Tuesday.
The result was that officials were unable to implement pro-jects quickly without the council’s approval.
On Monday, city spokesman Thabo Mofokeng e-mailed a notice that the executive committee (exco) meeting scheduled for Tuesday had been postponed to Thursday.
“Apologies for any inconvenience,” he said.
Mofokeng said mayor James Nxumalo, deputy mayor Nomvuzo Shabalala and other committee members were either attending the national conference of the SA Local Government Association in Gauteng or a KZN cabinet conference.
He said Shabalala had previously chaired executive committee meetings in the absence of Nxumalo, but they had both been unavailable to chair Tuesday’s meeting.
But senior officials, who spoke to The Mercury on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media, said any postponement or cancellation of meetings caused serious service delays.
Another official said he had had to halt important projects because without council authorisation he was unable to do his job.
“It is especially problematic if a committee meeting is postponed because some committees meet once a month. That means you can go a whole month without a decision, thus causing delays,” he said.
DA caucus leader Tex Collins said his party was concerned that far too many important meetings were either cancelled or postponed because the ANC had to deal with party issues.
He said the constant cancellation of meetings was having a negative impact on services because vital decisions affecting the functioning of the municipality were not being made timeously.
“[ANC councillor] Nigel Gumede unilaterally postponed Tuesday’s exco meeting simply because he had to attend a Salga conference,” he said.
Collins added that the DA would report the matter to the department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs.
NFP councillor Bongiwe Mtshali said the party was concerned about the meetings being potsponed because services were being hampered as a result.
“The constant postponement of meetings shows that the ANC is not serious about governing this municipality… they are not serious about service,” she said.
Nxumalo said the statement by Collins was just an attempt to score cheap political points and was devoid of any truth.
“The decision to postpone the exco meeting was taken by myself in my capacity as chairperson of the committee due to urgent engagements with the city manager.”
He added that they were both attending the provincial cabinet conference organised by KZN Premier Zweli Mkhize.
“The argument that the postponement of the meeting by two days would affect service delivery was not logical and could only be seen in the context of political point scoring,” said Nxumalo.
Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs spokesman Lennox Mabaso said his department could not comment yet because it had not received any complaint. - The Mercury

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Brent crude climbed above $110 a barrel for the first time in six weeks on signs that the crisis in Ukraine is escalating. West Texas Intermediate gained before the release of weekly U.S. government inventory data.
Futures rose as much as 0.9 percent in London. Ukraine's government began an offensive against separatists in its east, recapturing an airport amid claims that Russian special forces were fomenting unrest. Crude supplies at Cushing, Okla., the delivery point for WTI, fell 640,000 barrels last week, the industry-funded American Petroleum Institute said yesterday. The Energy Information Administration will release data today.
“Futures are higher because the situation in Ukraine appears to be getting worse,” said Bob Yawger, director of the futures division at Mizuho Securities USA Inc. in New York. “The big draw at Cushing in yesterday’s API report is boosting WTI. If today’s numbers are anything like the API, WTI could easily breach $105.”
Brent for June settlement rose 73 cents, or 0.7 percent, to $110.09 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange at 9:33 a.m. in New York. Prices climbed above $110 for the first time since March 4. The May contract expired yesterday. The volume of all futures traded was 14 percent above the 100-day average.
WTI for May delivery advanced 83 cents, or 0.8 percent, to $104.58 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Futures climbed to $104.99 earlier, the highest level since March 3. Volume was 27 percent above the 100-day average. The U.S. benchmark grade’s discount to Brent for the same month narrowed to $6.33 a barrel.
Ukraine’s offensive yesterday marked its first foray against armed activists holding government buildings in cities near the Russian border. Interior Ministry units ousted pro- Russian activists who had seized the airfield in Kramatorsk. Efforts to contain the insurgency risk escalating tensions with the government in Moscow, which warned of a potential civil war.
Russia has 40,000 troops massed on Ukraine's border after its annexation of Crimea last month, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said.
U.S. crude inventories probably rose by 1.75 million barrels in the seven days ended April 11, according to the median of 10 analyst estimates in a Bloomberg survey. It would be the 12th gain in 13 weeks. Supplies climbed by 7.64 million, the API said yesterday in Washington.
Cushing supplies dropped in nine of the last 10 weekly reports from the EIA, the Energy Department's statistical arm. The weekly supply report is scheduled for release at 10:30 a.m. in Washington.
“A big nationwide build may temper the reaction to a Cushing supply decline,” Yawger said. “The focus has been on Cushing though, so it’s what I will be paying the most attention to at 10:30.”


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Sean of Lasting First Impressions writes "Atlus has done an amazing job with Persona 4 Golden."
"The story is crafted magnificently, even if it is a little corny at times, the player choice is intriguing, the added life simulation is very clever and, ultimately, the battles and RPG elements are flawless."
"If you are a fan of traditional turn-based RPGs with a magnificent story and are looking for something that is in-depth and detailed, this is a must-have game for you."
"If you don’t have a PS Vita yet, go get one just for this game."
"Atlus, I gave you (more than) an hour and I am IMPRESSED."

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If you're a fan of 90 Day Fiancé on TLC, then you will love 90 Day Bares All. We caught up with Shaun Robinson to unveil the secrets, BTS moments and shocking revelations that fans can expect on the new show!
Shaun Robinson is expanding the incredible 90 Day Fiancé universe with her new talk show!
The host is interviewing all of your favorite stars from all of the 90 Day franchises. Robinson gave us insight as to what the show delves into:
"We get to go behind the scenes of relationships, content we didn't see on regular TV... We have the brothers Tyrol and Dean, they were huge on 'Pillow Talk' and then all of the sudden they disappeared and fans wanted to know what happened."
Shaun is giving fans all of the inside scoop and BTS secrets you haven't seen on TV, including moments that fans have never seen before.
"People are like letting loose, this is like behind the velvet rope or stepping into the VIP room."
90 Day Bares All is also premiering on Discovery+, which gives the show complete freedom to feature uncensored content that is too scandalous for regular cable TV.
"Here we can show anything, they can say anything, and if you easily blush like I do, you might not believe what you're seeing or hearing!"
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How Long Does Percocet Withdrawal Last?
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When a person suffers from an addiction to prescription painkillers like Percocet, they may have many important questions about the recovery process. However, what is Percocet? Furthermore, how long does Percocet withdrawal last?
Understanding Percocet Withdrawal
Percocet is an opioid pain-relieving medication that is available by prescription only. Since Percocet affects specific areas of the brain, long-term use can lead to a serious addiction. When this occurs, withdrawal symptoms are common if a person goes too long between doses or stops using altogether. How long does Percocet withdrawal last? The length of this process will vary depending on the severity of your addiction, the symptoms you are experiencing, and the tools at your disposal to help correct these issues.
Common Withdrawal Symptoms
Many people ask, “How long does Percocet withdrawal last?” What they often want to know is what to expect in terms of symptoms. The following is a list of common Percocet withdrawal symptoms:
Since Percocet affects the brain in a powerful way, a person may experience restless energy when reducing or stopping the medication. This can lead to a temporary increase in nervous tension or anxiety attacks.
A person who is going through withdrawal may struggle with nausea, vomiting, or stomach cramps. These symptoms can reduce a person’s appetite and cause them to lose weight temporarily.
Muscle and Joint Pain
Reducing or stopping the use of Percocet can lead to an increase in pain. Successful rehab facilities can provide alternative measures to deal with painful sensations.
Those going through withdrawal can also experience huge shifts in mood. They may find themselves alternating between periods of intense sadness, anxiety, anger, or fear. Emotions will continue to level out as the person gets used to no longer taking the medication on a regular basis.
Helpful Treatment Options for a Percocet Addiction
When asking how long does Percocet withdrawal last, it is also important to realize there are many successful treatment methods available. The following list discusses some of the options that may be used to help you overcome your addiction:
Intensive counseling is often the first task that is undertaken to help treat addiction issues. It can take place on a personal basis, with family members, or among a group of peers who face the same challenges. This type of therapy can give you the freedom to talk about your issues without judgment.
The whole family suffers when someone in the home struggles with addiction. Therefore, the entire family needs access to proper therapeutic tools. Family therapies can provide the perfect setting to work out your interpersonal issues with success.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy can help you change the way you think. Specifically, negative thought patterns can be turned into positive thoughts that create positive actions.
Find Help for Your Percocet Addiction
Memphis Recovery Centers is a high-quality addiction treatment center in Memphis, TN. The compassionate individuals at this facility work hard to create an individual rehab plan for each person seeking help.
Don’t remain trapped in the cycle of addiction. You can get the tools you need to overcome these intense challenges. Call 866-304-8254 to learn how Memphis Recovery can help you regain your quality of life.


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In one in five cases of detected sexual violence in 2019, both the victim and suspected offender were under 18.
CSO figures show almost all of the suspected offenders were male at 99 percent.
The central statistics office has today published the latest figures on the age and sex of both victims and suspected offenders of serious crimes recorded by Gardai.
There were 32 male and 6 female victims of murder or manslaughter in Ireland last year. Four out of five victims of sexual violence crimes reported by Gardai in 2020 were women and girls.
In one in five cases of detected cases of sexual violence which was reported in 2019, both the victim and suspected offender were under 18 at the time of the offence. Almost all, 99 per cent of suspected offenders of sexual violence that year were men.


I'm a new knitter trying to figure out how to use circular needles when not joining the two ends. I have cast on and...now what? How do I make my first stitch without joining the ends together???? :oops:
Just turn the needles and begin with the first stitch, like you would regular, separate needles. The stitches you knit from will be on the left needle, and you'll knit them onto the needle in your right hand. That's it!
As long as the working yarn is on the first stitch on the needle tip held in your LEFT hand at the beginning of every row you do, you won't join in the round. Try to imagine it without a cord in between, then you do everything the same as you would with straight needles including turning your work around at the end of each row.
Have a look at the video in this thread
Thank you, everyone. I was overthinking it much too much! Thanks for your help!!!


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"Ninth Street and A1A Boulevard." Richard Whitecloud relays his oceanfront location to the emergency dispatcher. "The fatalities just keep racking up in this intersection," he mutters. "Dammit, man.
Whitecloud, six feet one with long, curly hair kept back in a ponytail, bends down to inspect a corpse: a baby loggerhead sea turtle he peels off the asphalt like a cookie off a baking sheet. Its shell is flattened. Wet guts bubble out of one side.
He records this crime against nature on infrared video, which captures the 2 a.m. scene in black and white – appropriate for a scene devolving into a horror movie. One by one, he collects tiny bodies and lays them on the curb: "1, 2, 3, 4..." In eight minutes, he'll be up to 27. He pans the camera to document the manmade inventions he deems responsible for the turtles' deaths: a bar's backlit sign and rope lights, amalgamated with city streetlights and the intense glow from an ice cream shop a block
Finally, Fort Lauderdale firefighters arrive in a full-size truck and open a storm drain. Four turtles are freed. Whitecloud spots one more hatchling in the road – still alive! – and hustles to pick it up, its flippers pumping as though it might fly away. "You're not gonna die tonight, buddy. I got ya."
Whitecloud shot this video in 2011, but he says little has changed for turtles in the interim. Lights still blaze along Broward County beaches, and hatchlings who confuse them for the natural light of the stars and moon get disoriented and march toward traffic instead of the ocean. Whitecloud blames authorities, who fail to enforce local laws that require turtle-safe lights. "We pay taxes," he says. "We expect [imperiled species] to be protected."
Sea Turtle Oversight Protection has saved 140,000 turtles since 2007.tweet this
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 makes it a federal crime to harm or harass a sea turtle. In 1993, the State of Florida outlined that beaches during nesting season (March 1 to October 31) should not be "directly or indirectly" or "cumulatively" illuminated. In turn, Broward County in 2000 required each of its beachfront cities to develop turtle-related lighting ordinances, which they did. Yet as anyone who's ever gone for an evening shoreline stroll can attest, plenty of lights shine on. Code enforcement officers generally treat offenders gently, and property owners are rarely fined.
Since witnessing turtles die in 2007, 42-year-old Whitecloud and his wife Siouxzen ("Zen," for short), a spiritual woman with clear blue eyes and hair that swings past her waist, have taken it upon themselves to recruit and train an army of volunteers. These dedicated folks stay awake all night and monitor Broward's beaches, helping turtles – both nesting mamas and newborn babies – find their way.
Volunteers with the Whiteclouds' nonprofit group, Sea Turtle Oversight Protection, have saved 140,000 turtles since 2007. Zen alone turned around 713 disoriented turtles on a single night. Still, STOP only has resources to patrol about 40 percent of Broward's beaches. Untold numbers of turtles are born and die without notice.
If cities would simply enforce their lighting laws, STOP's gargantuan effort would be infinitely easier to accomplish, the Whiteclouds contend.
"Just pick the biggest violator," Richard begs authorities. "Slap on a big fine, bring their ass in court."
"Development has exploded along the beach, but don't tell the turtles that," says Jim Ressegieu, who has led an educational turtle walk program at Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Science and Discovery for 25 years. "They still come up here and do their thing."
In the 150 million or so years they've existed, sea turtles have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, even across oceans, between feeding and nesting grounds. When it's time to mate (for males, every year; for females, every few years), they return to the beaches where they were born. Of the seven species of sea turtles in the world, three (greens, which are listed as "threatened"; loggerheads, which are "endangered"; and "critically endangered" leatherbacks) lay their eggs in Broward County. In 2015, 3,251 nests were established on Broward's 22 miles of shoreline. (Palm Beach, which has 47 miles of coastline with more vegetation and less development, saw 34,215; Miami-Dade, which was largely developed before scientists realized the effect of lighting on turtles, had just 578.)
Though Ressegieu doesn't get into the nitty-gritty of turtle sex during his nightly presentation at the museum, scientific literature explains that, like birds, the animals have a cloaca – a single orifice that does double duty to excrete waste and handle reproductive functions. As described in an article entitled "The Terrifying Sex Organs of Male Turtles" in the Scientific American blog Tetrapod Zoology, males are "horrifically well endowed," with penises half the length of their shells. (A leatherback carapace is usually six to eight feet long.)
Near their nesting grounds offshore, successful males use sharp claws to latch onto mates for up to 24 hours, sometimes tearing flesh. As the couple swims entwined, other males might try to knock off the mating male by biting his tail and flippers. After finishing, both turtles move on to other partners. A female keeps mating until she has enough sperm to fertilize all of her eggs.
And that's only half the work.
Months after copulation, a female still has to build a nest and lay the eggs; some might do so seven or eight times in a season. In a single night, females lay an average of 110 eggs per clutch. In about 45 to 80 days (depending on the species): babies! The temperature of the nest determines the sex of those little ones. If it's warm, females emerge; if it's cold, males. "Hot chicks and cool dudes," says Ressegieu. Only one in a thousand lives to adulthood.
In early June, after he gives an hourlong lecture at the museum, Ressegieu leads turtle walkers who pay $20 apiece to the sand behind the Harbor Beach Marriott hotel on A1A. Armed with infrared flashlights and walkie-talkies, Ressegieu walks north up the beach while a coworker heads south and the rest of the group waits by the hotel. Over two hours, the experts generally note about a dozen "false crawls" – turtles walking on the
At 12:40, just 20 minutes before quitting time, a crackle sounds over the walkie-talkie. A mama!
The tourists hustle up near the B Ocean hotel (formerly the Yankee Clipper) on the main stretch of Fort Lauderdale Beach, where a loggerhead has dug her nest and begun to enter what Ressegieu calls "the trance." He crawls behind her, his head low as if he were a soldier dodging sniper fire, and he sticks his infrared flashlight under the turtle's butt, motioning for the group to come closer until they are about a dozen feet back.
Eggs the size of Ping-Pong balls silently drop out of the mama turtle. Plop. Plop-plop. Pl-pl-
Richard and Siouxzen Whitecloud had already planned out the adobe house they intended to build thousands of miles west of their Fort Lauderdale abode. They'd even scouted out land for an organic farm. In two days, they would set out for New Mexico.
On July 10, 2007, Zen slipped off to Deerfield Beach to teach one final sunrise yoga class. She liked going before dawn to sculpt a medicine wheel in the sand and pray around it.
As she approached the beach near the city pier, Zen noticed something wiggling. "As far as the eye could see – hatchlings," she remembers.
Some went under a truck. Some were crawling between condos. Some had crossed A1A. She ran back and forth across the beach, dropping baby turtles in the water.
Over the next few days, Richard and Zen began calling authorities to make sure those in charge of watching the turtles all night were aware of the problem. They wanted to be sure someone would take care of getting lights turned off.
"We were blowing smoke up our own ass," says Richard, "thinking, 'There's got to be somebody out here who cares.'"tweet this
They quickly learned that although federal and state agencies set policies about turtles, the only regular, on-the-ground monitoring was a county program that partners with Nova Southeastern University students to rope off nests at sunrise. Dead turtles sometimes ended up in the trash when maintenance crews cleaned the beach. This came as a shock to the Whiteclouds, who assumed that "if you pay taxes, the law is enforced," Richard says.
"We were naive," adds Zen. "We thought, 'Obviously, this must be some type of oversight.'"
"We were blowing smoke up our own ass," says Richard, "thinking, 'There's got to be somebody out here who cares and can get shit done.'" Authorities, he says, condescended to them as though they were "Podunk, Indian hippies."
Richard resolved to find out who was responsible.
"And nature talks to me," Zen grins.
The couple figured they'd hold off on their move to New Mexico for a few days until they could get to the bottom of the matter. Says Richard: "We thought, 'If we chew enough ass politically, the people responsible for this happening will do their job and start managing the lighting.' That was an illusion.
"I was on the phone with a guy from the Department of the Interior in Washington," Richard remembers. "He said, 'If you want turtles protected, you're going to have to find a way to do it yourself.'"
The Whiteclouds each claim Native American heritage, and this is key to their world view. Richard, who is Cherokee, Blackfoot, and Welsh, had grown up in Central Florida, then moved to Philadelphia to be a painter and work in TV and film production. There, he met Siouxzen, who sold art and ran a free community center.
She is of Lakota Nation blood and was raised in the Oneida Territory, Turtle Clan, in upstate New York. "If anything is destiny..." she chuckles.
The two were friends for a long time. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, Zen began a healing walk along the East Coast down to Florida. Cell phones had not yet become ubiquitous, and she set off without one.
Richard felt compelled to check up on her. "There was a joy missing from my life. I had never experienced [that] from anyone but her," he says. He showed up in Deerfield, where he knew she had friends. When she finally walked into town, she remembers, "He was there sculpting a turtle in the sand." Soon they married, had a
But when Zen found the dead turtles, Richard started organizing friends to cover the beach at night for three-hour shifts to get the critters through that 2007 season. "We made a conscious choice to use the ethics of [our] own traditions to mitigate the
The Sun Sentinel ran a story and included Richard's contact information alongside a call for volunteers. Soon, answering the phone became a job in and of itself. Sometimes, 50 people would promise to come to the beach, but no one would show up. The couple dragged their four-year-old on shifts lasting through the night. They had to cut household costs to be able to do this work, so they moved into an Airstream trailer.
Nine years later, Sea Turtle Oversight Protection is a registered 501(c)3, though it is still scrappy. IRS filings show it brought in $95,000 in donations in 2014, and the only salary paid was $12,500 to Richard.
Despite the fact that he wasn't formally trained as a biologist, Richard realized government efforts were lacking. He obtained a state permit that allows trained STOP volunteers to redirect disoriented turtles toward the sea. A core of about 70 people has completed eight hours of instruction, fulfilled 40 hours of probationary training on the beach, and undertaken a minimum eight-hour-per-week commitment. They log reports and share data with government agencies. The group's smartphone app records the GPS location of nests and can be used to submit a formal complaint about turtle-lighting violators.
Leaders allow visitors to tag along on turtle treks for a $25 donation. Last year, members of the hardcore environmental group the Sea Shepherds joined STOP on night watches. (Palm Beach and Miami-Dade both have entities that patrol nests at sunrise and respond to calls about injured turtles. In Broward, the National Audubon Society also does some overnight hatchling rescue.)
STOP has spoken up for turtles at city meetings and in the press. The group has also posted videos on YouTube to show the reality of the turtles' nighttime plight. Soon, government agencies realized "they better step up their game because there's a new crew in town," Richard says. "We're like turtle Wikileaks."
In 2011, STOP threatened to sue when Fort Lauderdale indicated it would try to move turtle nests from its main tourist strip. The activists petitioned the Coast Guard in 2012 to shield a section of beach from light cast by the Hillsboro Lighthouse. All along the way, the Whiteclouds have called out cities for not enforcing their lighting ordinances.
When publicly pressured, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler pointed out that the city spent $2 million to retrofit 100 light poles on A1A with covers that aim light directly downward. While the city hadn't fined anyone, he said, it had won compliance from property owners through hundreds of warnings and violations.
As Richard Whitecloud sees it, that's the problem. Cities typically use nonpunitive enforcement rather than fines — therefore, the law is not taken seriously. He queries, "Why even have a law? Who picks and chooses which to enforce?"
Whitecloud says that only once has a Broward property owner been fined for a lighting violation. New Times could not confirm this because not every municipality responded to a request for data, but it's clear many beachfront cities have taken a casual approach to enforcement.
In Deerfield Beach, code compliance supervisor Bernard Pita says inspectors survey the beach twice per month. "We're in the process of notifying everyone as a reminder" that it's nesting season, he said in early June, and, "We have zero that have been fined."
In Hillsboro Beach, police Maj. Jay Szeznat says, "Fortunately, we have never cited anyone for a sea turtle lighting violation. We receive compliance by going out and speaking with residents, working with them... Education in the form of community partnerships is the key to our lighting success."
In Dania Beach, the city clerk's office reports: "The city has not issued citations on our turtle light ordinance."
Fort Lauderdale spokesperson Matt Little didn't have enforcement data for his city by presstime, though he said of STOP, "We like those guys." But, he added, "We get more complaints about the lack of light on the beach [than the light]."
In addition to lighting issues, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and the City of Fort Lauderdale all permit the Tortuga Music Festival – an event that capitalizes on the Spanish word for "turtle" and ostensibly has a conservationist mission – to bring 90,000 people to Fort Lauderdale Beach, at the cost of $100 per day per ticket, every April, when critically endangered leatherbacks are already nesting and loggerheads begin.
STOP has received donations from the festival and plants sea oats during the event to mitigate damage. Festival organizers declined to comment for this article. July 4 – when tens of thousands of people flock to beaches for municipal fireworks shows at the height of turtle hatching – is another major concern.
Broward County's turtle program conducts lighting surveys once a month and passes on problematic addresses to the various cities' code enforcement officers. But, as the 2014 report conceded, the surveys only count the number and type of light fixture on each property without measuring the intensity of the light. Still, the report identified the brightest properties in each city, including condos along Galt Ocean Mile, Beach Place, and the Elbo Room in Fort Lauderdale as well as the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood. The report said letters would be sent to properties with the "most egregious visible lights," but when New Times checked, a spokesperson said they never been sent "due to
The 2015 report was not ready at presstime, but in June, a county spokesperson gave New Times a list of the "brightest cumulative addresses" in each beachfront city. These include the Cove Beach Club in Deerfield; the $17.2 million-dollar Hillsboro Beach home of construction magnate Donald Thiel (who pays more than $250,000 in property taxes each year); piers in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea and Dania; and condo buildings in Pompano, Hollywood, and Hallandale.
Ultimately, says Whitecloud, local governments are more concerned with economic stimulation than with the environment – "property taxes and tourist revenue, because that's their main concern. Because it's always about money."
Just after dusk on Thursday, June 16, code enforcement officer John Weitzner, dressed in a uniform of a blue-gray polo shirt and official cap, wheels his bicycle up to an art deco house at the south end of the Broadwalk, Hollywood's beachfront promenade. Though it was the last city in Broward County to put an ordinance on its books, Hollywood is now vowing to get serious about turtle lighting.
A fixture by the home's front door emanates a bright white light. Weitzner knocks. "I'll tell them, 'Hey, you have that one fixture – easy peasy!'" But no one is home, so he leaves his literature and vows to check back.
"If you break it down to the atomic level," the lanky officer says cheerfully, "code enforcement is like sales. I like to inspire people. I treat people like I'd like to be treated. Once they see that you care, they tend to care."
Though the city's turtle-lighting ordinance was passed in 2011, it initially applied to new construction; existing properties were given time to come into compliance. Last year, the ordinance was enforced somewhat. Weitzner agrees that now, it's time to get tougher.
"It needs that political will," he says. "That way, the landlords are conditioned to know: This is not a suggestion; it's an ordinance. The rubber hits the road when you enforce."
The state had developed a model ordinance that beachfront cities were then directed to follow. It called for no "direct or indirect" or "cumulative" light to reach beyond sand dunes. Hollywood's ordinance states, "It is the intent of the City that, during Marine Turtle Nesting Season, no Artificial Light shall illuminate any area of the incorporated Beach of the City during night hours." Exemptions are made for streetlights and safety. Offenders can be fined $500 or sentenced to up to 60 days in jail.
Whitecloud interprets these ordinances to mean that beaches should be completely dark. But Weitzner says there's "a spectrum" of acceptability and rattles off lighting recommended by the state: The simplest compliant lighting incorporates low-wattage, amber bulbs and an opaque shield on the side of the light that faces the beach.
If Weitzner spots an offending light during his weekly nighttime shift, he snaps a photo. He can issue a verbal warning, then a written violation, then a notice – sent by certified mail and also posted on the building – that the violator must attend a hearing before a special magistrate. If the magistrate rules in favor of the city, a lien with a daily fine could be placed on the property.
Weitzner sympathizes with property owners, noting, "Some of these buildings are not small, so to do a retrofit is not an easy process."
Weitzner focuses on success stories. After he gave a talk to the condo board at the Summit Towers (two 24-story buildings), leaders incorporated lighting rules into their bylaws. The corporate entity is legally responsible for any offending lights on the building, Weitzner says, "so they policed themselves." He's happy to see shielded amber lights on a condo that he warned, and at the
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Along the Broadwalk, though, there's cause for concern. At Sushi Thai on the Beach, a backlit blue sign fronts the ocean, as do a cluster of neon signs in a window. Weitzner walks inside the bustling restaurant and hands a written violation to a cashier, saying kindly, "If you need an extension, I can give you one." Passing a souvenir shop, Weitzner frets, "Oh, this is not good. Way too bright." He snaps a photo and makes a note to write up a warning. Josh's Organic Juice Bar has about 15 superwhite lights shining on its gazebo. Weitzner tells a worker he'll need to swap or cover them and hands over a brochure.
But it's at Bonny & Read's Toucan Hideout – a bar once featured on an episode of Bar Rescue – that Weitzner pulls out the big guns. This property
He tapes a fluorescent orange Notice of Hearing to a back door, then goes around to the front, where patrons are happily guzzling drinks with the owner, Jamie Hawkes III, a tanned dude with long white hair and a hoop earring.
Upon seeing Weitzner, Hawkes stops midconversation and shouts, "I got the notice! I'm good! I'll go to court!" Then he bounds down the steps in his flip-flops, where Weitzner greets him with a grin.
"They're little babies and they get disorient–" Weitzner explains eagerly.
"According to my calculations, turtles don't mind – because there's a whole lot of nests on this beach!" says Hawkes incredulously. "And," he says, gesturing to the waist-high wall that separates most of the sidewalk from the sand, "if they go the wrong way, they're going to bang their little heads against the wall."
Ah, smiles Weitzner. No need for any head-banging if the bar would just comply. He pulls out a flyer that shows "acceptable" and "unacceptable" light fixtures.
Hawkes waves it away. "Guess who I am?" he boasts. "I'm the guy who might want to go in front of the special magistrate! I've had this bar 12 years, and I've only [encountered one disoriented turtle]. They go up the road by John U. Lloyd park, where it's dark. Turtles don't come here, in the middle of Mardi Gras!"
"Biologically, that's because there it's more friendly for nests," Weitzner counters. "If we can get this area more complied, there will be more nests."
"This little stupid shit about a light bulb!" Hawkes grumbles. "There's only so much a business can do! Two years ago, these lights were fine. Today they're not."
"You can have light – there's a whole variety of options," Weitzner says agreeably.
Hawkes gestures as though he is holding a shovel and moving it back and forth into an orifice. "Keep shoving it up a little farther," he says. "Because after I fix my light, it's going to be something else."
"When are you going to fix it?" Weitzner grins.
"Before I gotta go to court, how about that?"
They shake on it.
Doug Phinney has seen it all on Fort Lauderdale Beach. People having sex. So many drunks. People constantly snapping selfies with turtles. "They're like, 'Twerk on the turtle!'"
Just two days ago, he found a brick of pure cocaine right in front of Hooters, which he turned over to police. He jokes that if he'd known its value — $250,000 — and how far that could have gone toward funding STOP, "I would have thought long and hard about turning it in."
A high school teacher who has spent seven nights a week for the past five summers rescuing turtles with STOP, Phinney on June 23 shares his tales with a dozen tourists during a turtle trek as the group eyes a loggerhead nest just south of Sunrise Boulevard. A few rainy days had been followed by two nice sunny ones, and chances are especially high that turtles might hatch. Further down the beach, Zen is monitoring another nest with her kids' group – a dozen STOP volunteers ages 8 to 17 pulling an 8-to-midnight shift. Another volunteer is posted by the Swimming Hall of Fame, near the only leatherback nest in the city. There is a possibility that it, too, could produce hatchlings tonight.
Phinney roams for miles on foot every night, knocking down sandcastles that could become obstacles for turtles. He can see sharks' eyes gleaming as they swim close to shore in the darkness. One homeless woman keeps STOP's 24-hour hotline number handy and calls if she sees hatchings. "She'll wake up with baby turtles on her," Phinney chuckles. But in five years, he has only twice encountered a government wildlife officer. He says only one city commissioner, Dean Trantalis, has accepted an open invitation to join a turtle trek.
But there is good news, too. The W hotel is sleek and dark, and it's planning new lighting as it undergoes remodeling. Certain buildings require turtle-friendly lighting plans to obtain coastal construction permits; Richard Whitecloud will help businesses to plan and source appropriate lights for free. "We want to help develop solutions," he says. Several businesses have already converted to low-wattage, amber lights. The B Ocean hotel is modernizing its lighting and offering a turtle vacation package that includes a STOP turtle trek and a plush turtle. (Zen persuaded them to switch out a polyester-stuffed turtle with a biodegradable, fair-trade, hemp one.)
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Every now and then while storytelling, Phinney shines an infrared flashlight at the loggerhead nest, but there's no movement. And then, around 11 p.m., word comes over his cell phone: "There's a drop at the leatherback nest!"
After a mile hike southward along Fort Lauderdale Beach – past a giant wedding party taking photos, past teenagers shimmying 30 feet up a coconut tree, past two men punching each other on a sidewalk, past a girl barfing over the side of a pedicab, past the brightly lit strip of bars that STOP volunteers call "Hell's Kitchen" – the group of turtle rescuers, led by Zen, stand well behind the radius of the leatherback's roped-off nest. They use Cuban mops to flatten out the sand in a circle around the nest so that when hatchlings cross, their tracks can be followed and all babies accounted for.
Tourists on the trek can't believe their luck to witness a leatherback
"The universe wanted to give you a gift," says Zen.
In the center of the nest, sand dips down in a cone shape – a tiny, inverted volcano barely noticeable to an untrained eye. Over the next hour, it will slowly darken and widen, looking like a pot of boiling black water as tiny heads pop up like bubbles.
Because the moon is bright and the sky is clear, Phinney predicts all of the turtles will make it to the water without assistance. Just then, a blindingly bright light – someone using their cell phone as a flashlight – bobs along the shoreline. A volunteer runs to intercept him.
Seemingly at once, about two dozen turtles, each the size of a fist, make it out of the hole and crawl in all directions over dimples of sand that must seem to them like mountain valleys. Phinney was wrong; only eight go to the ocean without help. Over about 15 minutes, STOP volunteers scramble to collect the other 17 and put them in buckets. (Leatherback numbers have been low in recent years due to mercury in the jellyfish turtles eat.)
After the babies who need no assistance are safely in the water, the crowd gathers at the shore to release the others. As they set off, turtles are named according to the instructions of donors who pay $15 to name a leatherback, $10 for a green, or $5 for a loggerhead.
A volunteer lifts a squirming turtle out of a bucket. "This one is Dierks Bentley," announces another volunteer, reading off the list of names, which, it turns out, includes all the musicians who played at Tortuga Music Fest this year – a gesture that STOP offered as part of its involvement with the concert.
Nine-year-old Kalia Jones, who has already saved about 2,000 babies throughout her shifts with STOP, leads the group in blessing the turtle: "Swim happy and free, Dierks Bentley!" she says as he wiggles under the waves.
"This one is Sam Hunt."
The tourists join in a quiet chorus: "Swim happy and free, Sam Hunt!"
One by one, the turtles are christened and waddle into the waves. Whether they will return in 30 years when they're ready to breed is anyone's guess.
"Swim happy and free, Michael Franti and Spearhead!"
"Swim happy and free, Kelsea Ballerina!"
"Swim happy and free, a Thousand Horses!"
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The Graffiti Buster must not have to face the vandals whose art he demolishes very often - when I caught him checking things out and asked if he was planning to clean up my work, he muttered "maybe", then hurridly took off. I think I scared him: he was back less than 30 minutes later with four Phoenix Graffiti Detectives, one of whom finally read me my rights.
Maybe I was Mirandized instead of arrested because I'm just a suspect in this new crime they all came to investigate (the art that was being removed right then, that I just confessed to creating). Maybe it's because I've been so cooperative, sending them my postcards from the edge as evidence. But why four cops? I think it was in case I got out of hand over my art being defaced.
Great - no help at all. They'll sure show me, for trying harass and guilt trip the city into taking their share of responsibility for the prison crisis with my criminal activity. Not only will they clean up after me within hours of finding my work, they won't lift a finger to stop the rising death toll in the prisons.

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The suspect is led to Miri Central Police Station after he was handed over by the Pujut RC team.
MIRI: A man in his 20s was handed over to police after his suspicious presence at a residential area saw residents contacting their neighbourhood watch team.
The incident took place about 11.45am on Sunday when residents spotted two men parking their motorcycle at Pujut 4C and roaming around the area.
Worried the pair was up to no good, the residents contacted the Pujut Resident Committee (RC) patrol team, whose members rushed to the scene and caught up with the two men at Pujut 5C.
One of the men, however, fled the scene on foot while being questioned by the RC team while the other was handed over to the police for further action along with the motorcycle used by the pair.
It is learned that a woman in her 20s, who showed up at the police station later in the day claiming the seized motorcycle belonged to her, was also detained for questioning.


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Ayuredic tips to reduce cholesterol -Ayurveda acharyas have said that increased kapha and medho dhatu (fat) cause almost all diseases that are caused by increased cholesterol. Increased kapha and medho dhatu obstruct the body channels called srotas. Hence they advise the diet to reduce kapha and medas to avoid these diseases.
Xenoestrogen are a type of synthetic compounds which have estrogenic effect on living organism. These chemicals enter our body through pesticides, use of plastics and plastic bottles, chemicals and other pollutants. Xenoestrogens lower the level of testosterone and reduce sperm count in men. It may cause serious problems in female reproductive system too. http://www.ayurhelp.com/articles/plastic-bottles-and-low-sperm-count
Ample of water a day can keep doctor away.Water is the major constituent of our body. It is considered as macronutrient by nutritionists. It is very essential to keep our body well hydrated to maintain the normal body functions. Apart from this water can be wisely used to keep our body healthy and to prevent many health conditions. Texts of ayurveda eulogize medicinal properties of water while explaining the solutions for various diseases.
Prepare baby food or cereal at home | Parents will be under utter confusion when their tiny tot is 4 months old. Now they have to introduce him to the world of solid foods. Numerous advertisements on TVs and magazines about baby formula foods aggravate the state of confusion. Did our parents and grandparents face the same dilemma when we were young? How did they react to this situation?


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They look pretty cool and much to my surprise once they dried I easily peeled them off of the wax paper and they ACTUALLY stuck so here is how we made them.
1. I taped down printable pictures for the kids to use as patterns
2. I placed wax paper over the patterns and taped it down (the tape isn't required but it sure helps small hands)
3. We used puffy paint to trace over the patterns
4. Wait for them to dry COMPLETELY then peel them off of the wax paper and stick them on the window
Super EASY and FUN...we can't wait to make Christmas ones:-)

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There are so many teachers (more people work as teachers than in any other job category except retail sales) that when 16 percent of the force either moves schools or quits the profession, that represents very large numbers indeed. The latest figures from the National Center for Educational Statistics indicate that of the 3.4 million public school teachers in the country, 271,900 moved schools and another 259,400 left the profession in the 2012-'13 school year.
It's hard to quantify the cost of such attrition, but scholar Richard Ingersoll has put it at somewhere between $1 billion and $2 billion a year. And that's just the money spent on recruiting and what personnel people call "onboarding." It doesn't even get to the disrupted instruction and social cohesion of classrooms and schools -- particularly high-poverty schools, where attrition tends to be a bit higher than average.
We know from a lot of surveys and other research that one of the keys to stabilizing the profession and providing greater continuity in schools is what teachers call "supportive leadership."
But what constitutes supportive leadership is still a bit murky in many people's minds.
Today I thought I'd give an example from a school I visited recently in Kansas.
To give you a little background, Ware Elementary, with more than 700 students, is in many ways a tough place to teach. Located on Fort Riley, it serves the children of infantry troops who have been deployed, redeployed, and relocated for many years. Students, 79 percent of whom qualify for free and reduced-price meals, come and go as postings change. As many as 60 percent of students turn over during a year.
In 2001 it was named one of Kansas' first "schools in need of improvement," which is when Deb Gustafson became principal. It took a few years, but for many years now it has been a top-performing school in the state and was recognized with The Education Trust's Dispelling the Myth Award in 2007.
When I visited a few weeks ago, I was interested in talking with teachers about why they would choose to teach there rather than in other schools nearby that don't pose as many challenges.
One new teacher I spoke to said interviews in other schools felt "uncomfortable and judgmental," but that when she walked into Ware, she immediately felt that she was "part of a community conversation" about instruction and how to help kids achieve.
Another said that the first time she walked in the building, she felt that "even though it's a big and overwhelming school, there were people who cared" about her.
That teacher's sense that people cared about her was not simply because she happened to encounter caring colleagues; it was part of a carefully developed leadership plan by Gustafson.
Each grade level in the school has a lead teacher who is in charge of ensuring that any new colleague is immediately incorporated into professional conversations and has a guide to the school's culture and practices. One of those lead teachers, Erin Taylor, told me that the philosophy of leadership at Ware is: "I have to take care of you before I take care of myself."
That system, by the way, is replicated in classrooms, where all new students are immediately assigned a group of buddies who act as guides, sit with them at lunch, and incorporate them into their activities.
Brian Scruggs, who is the kindergarten team leader, said that when he first arrived 10 years ago from a small town in Kansas, Ware "seemed very scary." He added, "I don't think Ware is a place for everyone. We have a unique clientele with a lot of poverty, a lot of mobility, and a lot of developmental issues. That can be daunting."
But, he said, "I had an amazing team helping me," with common planning times allowing regular, deep professional conversations about instruction that continue outside the school. "My team have become my closest friends," he said.
Scruggs credits Gustafson for developing the systems that both ensured that he was supported as a new teacher and helped him become a better teacher. "I would not be half the teacher I am now if I didn't have the team."
But even more than that, he said, "I don't know if I would still be a teacher."
Ensuring that teachers develop strong professional relationships immediately upon entering school is only part of what makes up "supportive leadership," but it is a concrete example of how a school leader like Deb Gustafson not only helped a teacher like Brian Scruggs begin practicing a profession that, by all accounts, he is really good at but gave him a reason to stay to make a career.
To read more about Deb Gustafson, see HOW It's Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools and Getting It Done: Leading Academic Success in Unexpected Schools.


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Jinhai Heavy Industry of China has received patent rights for its large ship superstructure hoisting method after a state intellectual property review. The patent rights is for twenty years. The invention patent of large ship superstructure assembly method
When the maritime industry gathers at SMM in Hamburg, Goldhofer Aktiengesellschaft of Memmingen will present its transport equipment for the heavy-haulage industry, which is also suited for transporting ships or ship sections and offshore plants
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DryShips Inc. reports cancellation of four newbuilding contracts with Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries DryShips Inc., an international provider of marine transportation services for drybulk and petroleum cargos, and through its majority owned subsidiary, Ocean Rig UDW Inc
Transfer of flag follows ABS' designation as Recognized Organization ABS has added the first Japanese-flagged vessel to its classed fleet after having been awarded the status of a 'Recognized Organization' (RO) by the Japanese government.
Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha will pay a $67.7 million fine and plead guilty to participating in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids to internationally ship cargo that included cars and trucks, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) apprise that a contract has been signed with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. to charter two new 155,000m3 LNG carriers that will transport shale gas-derived liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States. MOL will manage the new vessels
President and CEO, Masami Iijima of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. informed that the compnay is currently proceeding with the procurement of eight LNG ships intended to be used for the delivery of LNG mainly to its customers in Japan from the Cameron LNG Export Project in the U.S.A.


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Plays the Compositions of Thad Jones: Forever Lasting
Both a generous sampling of the composing talents of Thad Jones (the album is also Arbors’ Great American Composers Series, Vol. 3; Vol. 1, also by Robinson, honored Louis Armstrong) and the instrumental versatility of Scott Robinson, this album is an enticing aperitif that should enhance listeners’ appreciation of composer and musician. For one thing, it firmly establishes Robinson’s stylistic, as well as instrumental, versatility, pulling him out of the trad-jazz pigeonhole where he’s sometimes unfairly relegated. For another, it highlights the adaptability and melodicism of Jones’ works in taking them far from orchestral settings.
Mike LeDonne’s B3 organ appears on five of the 14 tracks, three of them in a combo context with Robinson’s bass sax. That combination is a deep-pocket winner mining ballad, blues or bouncy swinger. At the bass sax end of the sonic spectrum, Robinson also plays contrabass sarrusophone (invented as a brass marching substitute for a bassoon); if the former’s vibrato suggests corrugation, the latter’s conjures up hard wheels on cobblestones. On the snapping-through-changes “Fingers,” Robinson trades solos with himself on soprano flute and the sarrusophone, taking hi-lo contrast to the max. The haunting lyricism of “A Child Is Born” is emphasized by Robinson’s eerie Theremin wafting out the melody over his improvised obligati on alto clarinet. Overdubbing also lets him interweave his flute, C-melody sax and soprano sax through a bossa and play six French horn parts behind his flugelhorn rendition of “The Summary.” His Four Brothers lineage tenor sax approach is heard on straightahead quartet (a trio with Richard Wyands, piano) tracks and in a duet with Hank Jones’ piano on the endearing ballad “All My Yesterdays.” And Robinson’s cornet solo on “Walkin’ About” honors Jones’ favorite instrument, although Robinson (ever the collector of exotica) uses his echo cornet, only employing the alternate, muted bell in the theme statement.

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The Patel community constitutes the largest chunk of voters
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s development plank apart, the coming elections in the State will see the Patel community deciding the winner — it constitutes the largest chunk — 16 per cent — of the electorate.
As many as 77 candidates declared by the ruling BJP, the Congress and the former BJP leader, Keshubhai Patel’s Gujarat Parivartan Party for the 87 constituencies that go to the polls in the first phase on December 13 are Patels.
Significantly, 52 of them are from the Leuva Patel community, to which Mr. Keshubhai Patel belongs.
The BJP’s list has 17 candidates from this community, the Congress 14 and Mr. Patel’s party 21. The number of Kadva Patel candidates is eight, seven and 10 respectively.
What is more, the Leuva Patels represent a good chunk of voters in the Saurashtra region, which has the maximum 52 seats in the 182-member House. And Mr. Keshubhai Patel hails from this region, where he is believed to have successfully mobilised his community against the BJP government.
However, says political scientist Achyut Yagnik, to believe that Patels, including the Leuva denomination, will vote en masse against the BJP will be wishful thinking. But with Mr. Keshubhai Patel emerging as the third force, the Leuva Patels have become a power to reckon with. They can influence electoral decisions in as many as 41 of the 182 seats in Saurashtra, Kutch and south Gujarat regions, while the Kadva denomination could be vital in 32 seats in north Gujarat and parts of Saurashtra.
The BJP’s strength in Saurashtra was hit in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections against its performance in the 2007 Assembly polls.
However, this does not guarantee an easy run for the Congress. For, in spite of its unimpressive showing in the parliamentary elections, the BJP led in 106 Assembly segments, against 76 of the Congress.
The BJP’s votes come from the upper castes, including Brahmins, Banias, Jains and Lohanas, Patels, and the Other Backward Classes. The Congress gets its chunk from the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and Muslims.
Analysts say if both Mr. Keshubhai Patel and the Congress work in tandem, the BJP has a tough fight ahead.

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Lots of people inquire about Medicare Plan F moving away. Yesin 2020they will phase out Plan F. It will be no more be accessible for new enrollees. Medicare beneficiaries who are already enrolled in it, however, are going to have the ability to keep it. Congress passed legislation which will no more permit Medicare supplement policies to pay for the Part B deductible for newly qualified Medicare beneficiaries on or after January 1, 2020.
Here is an example: if you don’t have any supplement, you’d owe a $1,384 allowance (Part A deductible in 2019) if you visit the hospital. You would also cover 20 percent of costly procedures like surgery because Part B only pays 80 percent.
Yes, You’re enrolled in Original Medicare (Parts A and B). |} You need assurance of mind knowing you’ll have help with a number of the prices that Original Medicare doesn’t cover. You’d like the flexibility to find any doctor who accepts Medicare, not just the physicians in a community, also with no referral. You intend to go to the usa and would like to have the ability to see any doctor who accepts Medicare. You find a physician who charges more than the Medicare-approved sum for maintenance. You’d like to obtain different dental and vision insurance coverage once you’re enrolled. No, You are not enrolled in Original Medicare (Parts A and B). You have coverage from a company who pays all or some of the costs that Original Medicare does not cover. You have coverage through your union that pays all or a few of the prices that Original Medicare doesn’t cover. You’re going to sign up for a Medicare Advantage plan (Component C).
Therefore, it’s not a true Medicare Supplement policy because it does not coordinate benefits with Medicare. |} Do I Want a Medicare Supplement Policy? The solution to this question is dependent on a single factor. Do you know you will have sufficient income and resources to cover all health care expenses NOT covered by Medicare, such as deductibles, copayments, or even non-covered services? If you are not convinced the answer is yes, or if you do not want to risk it, you should explore your options to supplementing Medicare.
Medigap Plan G in Fairland Indiana 46126 offers All the benefits of Plan F, with the exception of the Part B deductible. |} In the event you choose Plan G, then you are going to have to pay the standard annual Medicare Part B deductible ($185 in 2019) out of pocket.
Every corporation must market Plan A, which is the simple plan. The typical strategies are labeled A through L. Recall, the programs are standardized. Thus, Plan F out of one company is going to be exactly the exact same as Plan F from another provider. Choose the supplement policy which fits your wants, and then purchase that program from the firm which offers the lowest premiums and finest customer service. Core Benefits: Included in all plans.
This absolutely varies by region. Since Medicare supplement insurance programs in Fairland IN 46126 are standardized, so you don’t have to think about benefits being different. This means that you’ll want to scout out the Medicare gap plans with the lowest prices in your area. The most effective supplemental insurance rates will differ in each state, and your age, sex, tobacco use and eligibility for an household discount also impact your rate.
At the hospital: Because of the Part A deductible, you’d pay the initial $1,216. After 60 days, you’ll begin paying a portion of each day’s cost.
This advice isn’t a complete description of benefits. Contact the program for more information. Limitations, copayments, and limitations may apply. Benefits, premiums and/or manhood cost-share may vary on January 1 each year.

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The President's Commission on Organized Crime, saying that as much as $10 billion in narcotics profits is deposited in U.S. financial institutions annually, proposed legislation today that would let bankers police their customers.
"We think banks are in the best position to know their customers," said James Harmon, the commission executive director and chief counsel, in presenting a report on money laundering.
The report calls for the passage of a law titled the Financial Institution Protection Act. It would permit banks to turn over detailed information on suspect customers to law enforcement authorities without fear of civil action.
"Whether they know it or not, banks are part of the problem" of proliferating organized crime in the United States by providing criminals with ways of making their ill-gotten gains seem legitimate, Harmon said.
Under the current Right to Financial Privacy Act, banks are prevented from going to the law with anything but the most general information about a possible criminal customer.
Harmon said the new law would also override state statutes that in many cases were even stricter about the privacy of bank customers than were federal regulations.
Asked how the commission would prevent abuses of the new disclosure rules, he said, "Law enforcement doesn't have the time" to investigate any but the most suspect individuals.
The commission also suggested that money laundering be made a separate criminal offense, punishable by fines as high as $250,000 or twice the amount that was laundered and up to five years in prison for a first time offender. A second conviction could result in a $1 million fine and 10 years in prison.
Currently, U.S. banks must report transactions of $10,000 or more to the Internal Revenue Service. But wire transfers of money, bank checks and bank drafts are excluded from the reporting rule.
Last month, Congress increased the penalties for anyone taking $10,000 or more in cash out of the country and failing to file an IRS report. Nonreporting is now a felony punishable by five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Harmon said between $5 billion and $15 billion of profits made by the narcotics trade was put into the world financial system each year from the United States.


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Where did July go? Damn, it just flew by.
This morning I was burning some DVD's of Formula One stuff for a friend, and happened upon the two-part PBS documentary gem "Baseball: The Tenth Inning" by Ken Burns. These four hours are the update to the 18 1/2 hour, 1994 PBS Series, "Baseball"
Watching a little while I edited and added chapter marks to the F1 discs, I was reminded again of baseball's beauty and ability to charm. "Baseball: The Tenth Inning" covers the strike season in 1994 through the 2009 season. I found the post-9/11 coverage especially meaningful.
I was on a Baja fishing trip on 9/11, and stayed in Mexico for several days longer than planned because of the post attack grounding of aviation nationwide .
When we did get home to the States, baseball was just resuming play. Watching the Yankee's game from New York City at the Ancestral Digs in matching La-Z-Boys with my Dad was very therapeutic...that's when I knew America would come through the attacks OK. Later that same season, my Dad and I watched side by side again as San Francisco Giants' slugger Barry Bonds broke the Single Season Homerun Record with his 73rd.
Like millions of other American boys, I learned my love of America's Pastime from my Dad. He taught me to love the game, and to love his San Francisco Giants...I still think about him most when I'm watching the Giants play. He would have been thrilled to watch the Giants last season, as the scrappy team with no All Star sluggers and great pitching found a way to win, all the way to becoming World Series Champions. He'd be thrilled by this week's trade for NY Mets slugger Carlos Beltran too, though I'm a little worried that a star in the dougout might upset the delicate chemistry of San Francisco's "Band of Misfits"
The Giants have been playing their patented version of ball known to Giants' fans as "Torture". I've really been entertained so far this season...I'm liking the Giants' chances to repeat a little more each time they eke out another one run win.
I'll have plenty of time to enjoy the beginning of the Giants' "Stretch Run" because the Tour de France is over and my two favorite motorsports series are taking most of August off as usual.
MotoGP, the World Championship motorcycle road racing series takes three weeks off after Laguna Seca's USGP last weekend. Formula One races Sunday at the Hungaroring before taking their month-long summer vacation. Sadly, America's IndyCar has become as boring as the good ol' boy's NASCAR show. I'll watch a little of the NHRA drag racing spectacle, it is a technology series like F1, but it'll be Giants baseball that gets me through again.
Be assured, after catching that yummy halibut Monday, SturgeUrge and I will spend a couple of days on the water this August!


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Becoming a mother or father requires an capacity to adapt to alter. Newborns involve all around-the-clock care that generally interprets into minor cost-free time for their mom and dad. When mother and father get prospects to action absent, work out may possibly be the furthest detail from their minds. But it could be in new mothers’ and fathers’ most effective pursuits to consider physical exercise even when their schedules are frantic.
Wellbeing authorities at the Mayo Clinic recommend training assists to tame strain, hold the mind sharp and strengthen the immune program. Remaining healthy and nutritious with a new infant in the home may well be much easier when parents embrace particular strategies.


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Script: Jimmy Sangster (Bram Stoker)
Cast: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, John Van Eyssen, Valerie Gaunt
UK 84mins 1958 Horror
Terence Fisher came to filmmaking extraordinarily late, directing his first feature at the grand old age of 43, through the J Arthur Rank Studios. And he helmed a fair few films with some notable stars such as Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde and Herbert Lom.
However, his big break came when in 1957, Hammer Studios asked him to direct a remake of Frankenstein, aged 52. The Curse of Frankenstein was a box office smash, sealing his fate as the horror go-to guy for the rest of his career. This Hammer debut also created bankable careers of Cushing and Lee, who reunited for Dracula the same year, made also basically for peanuts.
John Van Eyssen plays Jonathan Harker, the man on a mission to kill Dracula under the pretence of being a librarian employed by Lee’s Count Dracula to catalogue his extensive library. When the cavalry fails, it’s Peter Cushing’s Van Helsing who goes in to clear up the mess.
The film has definitely aged, in terms of style and content. The acting style is more theatrical than today’s tastes will allow for without parody and, by today’s standards, the content is staid, the effects naïve, but the power and commitment of the performances, particularly Cushing and Lee are undeniable. At the time of its release, this kind of horror with attendant bloodletting was revolutionary and caused quite a stir. Something almost unthinkable now, when one considers the gallons of blood used in Chainsaw Massacre 3D, or the Saw franchise.
It is however heartening to see that it has been singled out for restorative treatment for many more generations to enjoy. I’ve no idea what sort of condition the original was in and there are still a few places at which one can tell the film must have been in a parlous state, but in the main, it feels very fresh and clean. The two disk DVD has an armoury of extras, including alternative versions of the full film. I suspect in the end this may be one for the interested and the collector, but a fine piece of work nevertheless by filmmakers, cast and restorers alike.
A classic then, but a classic ‘B’ horror, not on a par with a Lawrence Of Arabia say, so not without interest, but it was never made to look classy. This is Hammer House of Horror’s Dracula, after all, for Satan’s Sake. AT
DRACULA IS OUT ON DVD AND BLU-RAY
FOUR BRAND NEW FEATURETTES.
DRACULA REBORN. New 30 min. featurette about the film’s creation and history, featuring, among others: Jimmy Sangster, Kim Newman, Mark Gatiss, Jonathan Rigby and Janina Faye (Tania in the film).
RESURRECTING DRACULA; New 20 min. featurette about the film’s restoration, from the BFI’s 2007 restoration through to the integration of “lost” footage, featuring interviews with key staff at the BFI, Molinare and Deluxe142. Also covers the February 2012 world premiere of Hammer’s interim restored version including “vox pop” interviews with fans after the event.
THE DEMON LOVER: CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING ON DRACULA New 30 min. featurette.
CENSORING DRACULA; New 10 min. featurette on the original cuts to the film ordered by the British Board of Film Censors.


HARDWARE chain Bunnings is still "keen" to build a store on land near the Australian Weaving Mills factory in Devonport, according to AWM CEO Geoff Parker.
Bunnings management told The Advocate recently it was interested in finding a site in Devonport as well as building a new store in Burnie.
Mr Parker confirmed yesterday he had been talking to the Devonport City Council for six months about plans for a new Bunnings store and big box development in Tasman St where AWM also wanted to expand the towel factory's seconds retail outlet.
Similar plans were knocked back by the Devonport City Council in 2006.
Mr Parker said plans that were rejected six years ago were reworked to address traffic and rezoning concerns raised by the council then.
At the time the council said Tasman St was inappropriate for retailing and would introduce traffic issues to the area.
"When we did a presentation to the council in 2006 it didn't get off the ground there (in Tasman St)," Mr Parker said.
"We've been talking to the council about rezoning the land so Bunnings can go ahead there.
"We've been talking to the planning people about traffic issues to allay any fears and give the council a good understanding of how the project would be.
"There would be a Bunnings store, a big box development with no small shops and AWM wants to extend its seconds shop to get some real retail frontage."
Devonport Mayor Steve Martin told The Advocate the talks with AWM have been informal at this stage.


According to Thomson’s model of the atom, the positive charge of an atom was evenly distributed throughout its entire volume, the electrons were inside the positively charged region, like raisins in a pudding. This model explained well the stability of the atom. Rutherford’s model of the atom resembles that of the solar system. In the center of the atom there is a positively charged nucleus, in which almost all the mass of the atom is concentrated, the dimensions of which are 4, 5 orders of magnitude smaller than the dimensions of the atom itself. Electrons revolve around the nucleus, in some orbits. This model was controversial, because. the stability of the atom could not be explained from the standpoint of classical electrodynamics.
Remember: The process of learning a person lasts a lifetime. The value of the same knowledge for different people may be different, it is determined by their individual characteristics and needs. Therefore, knowledge is always needed at any age and position.


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Selena Gomez kicked off the upcoming New Year by popping over to a recent party fore Blondie Girl Productions, which is the production company started by her BFF Ashley Tisdale and Jessica Rhoades. The holiday party was held in Studio City not far from Ashley's digs, and Selena was boogeying on the dance floor alone without Justin Bieber anywhere in sight. . .
Blondie Girl has a production deal now with RelativityReal and they're working on a TV movie called The Keys. . . .
Timothy Busfield was spotted (by a Patch reader) this week on his cell phone at Studio City Hand Car Wash driving an older Saab convertible (which could be Mr. Studio City's since mine has passed hands many times locally). Anyway, the Emmy-award-winning 30something actor is still working hard, with three movies coming up: 23 Blast, Nightcomer and the TV movie Restless Virgins where he plays a Senator. . . .
Longtime Studio City resident Cody Simpson is not only a popular singer, but he's good at giving back to people. See the photo above in the gallery of him at the CBS Studios Backlot performing at the 4th Annual Los Angeles Family Day (a benefit for cancer research at Children’s Hospital of L.A.) The photo is courtesy of Melissa Paradis, a big fan. He gave his fans a sneak peek of his new rendition of Jingle Bells on his website (http://www.codysimpson.com) and he's going on tour in the UK at the beginning of the New Year. Look for him to be more active in the cancer functions in the future as well . . .
An avid reader used Tumblr to show how she sat next to Josh Hutcherson recently at Chipotle and he was charming and kept to himself even when fans asked him to sign a few autographs (see the photo above). He's been asking his fans to vote for him in Hunger Games in the People's Choice Awards. The other tight race is for best Music Favorite between Justin Bieber, his gal Selena Gomez, and local starlet Ashley Tisdale! Awkward!
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Major support - $1310 (Jul 21st low)
Gold has declined till $1317.70 yesterday and slightly recovered from that level. It is currently trading around $1323.58.
In the hourly chart ,it is trading slightly above Tenkan-Sen ($1322.40) and Kijun-Sen ($1322.37).But it should break above $1327.50 for slight jump till $1335.78/$1343.
On the higher side, any break above 55-H will take the commodity to next immediate resistance at $1332.36 which of $1356.39 and 1323.05/$1341.05 ( of $1356.39 and $1323.05).
The major support is around $1310.50 (Jul 20th low) and any break below targets $1300/$1292 (100 day MA).
It is good to buy above $1327.50 with SL around $1317 for the TP of $1340/$1349.


Q Control, according to a Lenovo press-release where the company appends a hyphen between the two words, is the name for the company’s “Intel Cooling Mode”. Enabled via a key on the device, Q-Control can “dynamically boost a PC’s battery life…to monitor the device’s thermal attributes and better control its fan”.
We can make out at least one USB Type-C port and a headphone jack too. Oddly, it seems that Lenovo has used images of multiple laptops in this promotional pack. While most of the photos of are a white Yoga laptop, there is a black one with different ports in the “Color-matched backlit keyboard” and “Up to 16 hours of battery 50 Whr” sections.
We have no idea when Lenovo will release this new Yoga Carbon (13″). Since it is a Tiger Lake laptop, we imagine that it will arrive after whenever Intel formally announces the architecture. Acer recently announced a Tiger Lake-powered laptop too, so Lenovo may announce the Yoga Carbon (13″) in advance of Intel unveiling Tiger Lake processors.


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