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|Title:||Improvement of plant growth and seed yield in Jatropha curcas by a novel nitrogen-fixing root associated Enterobacter species||Authors:||Madhaiyan, M.
Hsin I, C.
Jatropha curcas L
Plant growth promotion
|Issue Date:||2013||Citation:||Madhaiyan, M., Peng, N., Te, N.S., Hsin I, C., Lin, C., Lin, F., Reddy, C., Yan, H., Ji, L. (2013). Improvement of plant growth and seed yield in Jatropha curcas by a novel nitrogen-fixing root associated Enterobacter species. Biotechnology for Biofuels 6 (1) : -. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1186/1754-6834-6-140||Abstract:||Background: Jatropha curcas L. is an oil seed producing non-leguminous tropical shrub that has good potential to be a fuel plant that can be cultivated on marginal land. Due to the low nutrient content of the targeted plantation area, the requirement for fertilizer is expected to be higher than other plants. This factor severely affects the commercial viability of J. curcas. Results: We explored the feasibility to use endophytic nitrogen-fixing bacteria that are native to J. curcas to improve plant growth, biomass and seed productivity. We demonstrated that a novel N-fixing endophyte, Enterobacter sp. R4-368, was able to colonize in root and stem tissues and significantly promoted early plant growth and seed productivity of J. curcas in sterilized and non-sterilized soil. Inoculation of young seedling led to an approximately 57.2% increase in seedling vigour over a six week period. At 90 days after planting, inoculated plants showed an average increase of 25.3%, 77.7%, 27.5%, 45.8% in plant height, leaf number, chlorophyll content and stem volume, respectively. Notably, inoculation of the strain led to a 49.0% increase in the average seed number per plant and 20% increase in the average single seed weight when plants were maintained for 1.5 years in non-sterilized soil in pots in the open air. Enterobacter sp. R4-368 cells were able to colonize root tissues and moved systemically to stem tissues. However, no bacteria were found in leaves. Promotion of plant growth and leaf nitrogen content by the strain was partially lost in nifH, nifD, nifK knockout mutants, suggesting the presence of other growth promoting factors that are associated with this bacterium strain. Conclusion: Our results showed that Enterobacter sp. R4-368 significantly promoted growth and seed yield of J. curcas. The application of the strains is likely to significantly improve the commercial viability of J. curcas due to the reduced fertilizer cost and improved oil yield. © 2013 Madhaiyan et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.||Source Title:||Biotechnology for Biofuels||URI:||http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/116404||ISSN:||17546834||DOI:||10.1186/1754-6834-6-140|
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As mortgage rates hover near three-year lows, prospective homebuyers and homeowners who’ve yet to refinance are getting a.
Refinance rates are still lower for ARMs. So what’s going on? First, ARM rates are all over the place lender to lender because they are a very small percentage of new loan originations today, around 6.
"In a week where worries over global economic growth drove U.S. Treasury yields 13 basis points lower, the 30-year fixed.
Mortgage interest rates fell on two of five. The MBA’s refinance index increased by 0.4% week over week, and the percentage of all new applications that were seeking refinancing rose from.
Fed Rate Historical Chart James Leynse/Corbis Historical/Getty Images After the Fed bailed out Bear Stearns, it thought the crisis was over. In April 2008, the Libor started to diverge from the fed funds rate. The Fed lowered the fed funds rate, but Libor continued to rise. Despite the Fed’s reassurance, banks continued to panic, and were unwilling to lend to each other.Chase Bank 30 Yr Mortgage Rates You can choose a fixed 15-, 20-, 25- or 30-year term. monthly mortgage insurance is required, as well as a mortgage insurance premium paid at closing. A 3.5% down payment of $5,250 on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage with a loan amount of $144,750 and an interest rate of 4.5% (5.610% APR), would require 360 monthly payments of $1,076.73.
Welcome to our new article. that the average rate on the 30-year loan slipped to 3.55 percent this week from 3.60 percent last week. The rate stood at 4.51 percent a year ago. The average mortgage.
Interest Rate For Second Mortgage The Average Interest Rates for a Second Mortgage | Pocketsense – Also, average rates are higher for home equity loans than HELOCs, according to myfico. For example, the average national interest rate for a $30,000 home equity loan at the time of publication was 6 percent. A closed-end second mortgage is another type of stand-alone second mortgage.
Refinancing at today’s new and lower mortgage rates can save millions of borrowers an average of $267 a month according to.
Volume was still 70% higher annually, thanks to a stronger overall refinance market this year. Demand fell as the recent.
Monthly payments on a 15-year fixed refinance at that rate will cost around $699 per $100,000 borrowed. That may put more pressure on your monthly budget than a 30-year mortgage would, but it comes.
“Those recession fears may hold some buyers back.” Moreover, Fairweather said that low mortgage rates have flooded the.
It is expected that 35% of all new mortgages. Reserve’s rate cut of 25 basis points last month may lead to significant.
However, if you can get that number to 20% or above, you’ll open yourself up to the best refinance rates and do away with that pesky mortgage insurance requirement. If you have the cash on-hand,
The prepay volume was up 26% from the prior month. The lowest mortgage rates in almost three years are driving more Americans.
Multiple benchmark mortgage rates increased today. and build equity much more rapidly. The average rate on a 5/1 ARM is.
The decline in mortgage rates is expected to help home sales and to stoke refinancing, putting more cash into consumers’ pockets, analysts said. “The benefit of lower mortgage rates is not only.

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The festival will bring Rae Sremmurd, Lil Pump, San Holo, Arno Faraji, MIMI and Your Girl Pho to the Auditorium.
Rae Sremmurd aka brothers Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi will be bringing their multi-platinum releases Black Beatles, No Type, and critically acclaimed triple album SR3MM to Perth fans. South Florida’s Lil Pump will join the duo, showcasing his charismatic repertoire and viral hits, including Gucci Gang, I Love It and Esskeetit.
Dutch electronic producer San Holo will make the crowd dance with his creative EDM, and 2017 triple j Unearthed High winner Arno Faraji will be bringing his rhymes. Rounding out the lineup is locals MIMI and Your Girl Pho.
FOMO By Night hits Red Hill Auditorium on Thursday, January 10. Tickets on sale now.


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Lawyers Propose Changes to SOTUS' Operations
For starters, the group proposes a form of term limits, moving justices to senior status after 18 years on the court. The proposal says that justices now linger so long that it diminishes the likelihood that the court's decisions "will reflect the moral and political values of the contemporary citizens they govern."
To get around the Constitution's prescription that justices serve for life, the group would let justices stay on the court in a senior role -- filling in on a case, perhaps, or dispatched to lower courts -- or lure them into retirement with promises of hefty bonuses.
It would set up a regular rotation on the court by providing for the nomination of a new justice by the president with each new two-year term of Congress. If that results in more than the current nine justices, only the nine most junior would hear cases.
The new policy would not take effect until those already on the court are off, but the current tenure of the court suggests what a radical change that would be.
2. Limit term as chief justice to 7 years
3. Removal of justices in ailing health
The third proposal deals with the removal of justices in failing health "who are increasingly prone to remain in office and retain their political power even if no longer able to perform their office."
It did not name names. But it said the chief justice should have the duty of advising such a justice to resign and promptly report that fact to the Judicial Conference of the United States (if the chief is the one in question, it falls to other justices to report him).
4. Creation of a "Certiorari Division"
And the proposal would deprive the justices of one of their greatest powers: deciding which cases they hear. Justices now comb through the thousands of petitions for certiorari they receive each year, and in recent years have declared a declining portion of them worthy of their time.
The court issued 67 merit opinions last term, the lowest number since the 1950s. The number of cases the court will decide this term is a bit higher.
"It is increasingly difficult to justify absolute independence for justices whose chief work is expressing and imposing on the public laws on topics of their choice," the proposal said.
It envisions a "Certiorari Division" made up of senior justices and appellate judges who would review the petitions and send 80 to 100 each year for the Supreme Court to decide, whether it wanted to or not.
For further analysis see Matthew Franck's post here.

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E-mail at the library
In response to many requests from our users, the library will now allow free e-mail access on all the computers. There will be four computers available for advance booking for e-mail or Internet browsing/searching/research. Users may book 30 minutes at one time and up to 1 hour per day. We will still have an "express" computer for e-mail. It is available on a first-come first-served basis for the next available 15-minute time slot. Word processing is still available on four computers for a charge of $2.50 per 30 minutes. All pages printed cost .25 each.
Users can check out our Web site at www.whistlerlibrary.ca for good links as well as access to our online databases. The databases include Ebscohost, which provides the full text of almost 3,000 magazines and journals; Canadian Newsdisc which provides the full-text of 15 major Canadian newspapers and transcripts of various CBC and CTV Broadcast programs; Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) which provide full-text access to Canadian periodicals, newsletters, daily newspapers, and citations to an additional 400 titles. You can search the databases by keywords or subjects to find articles on almost any topic. In order to access the databases, you must enter the number of your current Whistler Public Library card.
Do you know a famous person?
If so, were asking for your help
The Whistler Library/Museum & Archives/Arts Council Capital Campaign is hosting Imagination 2003 on April 12 th , 2003. It is a black tie dinner and memorabilia auction to be held at The Westin Resort & Spa in Whistler. Were collecting mementos/personal items with a story from famous people around the world, including for example, former President Bill Clinton, Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York, Tiger Woods, J. K. Rowling et al. If you or someone you know can help put us in touch with or obtain a memento from someone famous, please call our Capital Campaign office at 604-932-2222 or e-mail our campaign manager email@example.com . Well tell you more about the fundraiser and about the process for gathering such mementos from famous people.
Congratulations to the winners of the Whistler Public Librarys Young Adult Writing Contest!
Ages 12-14 Short Story:
1 st Holocaust by Sarah Brackstone
2 nd The Locket by Lisa Laird
Meaty Madness by Riva Fisher
Ages 15-18 Short Story:
1 st The Wild Ride by Jessica Ellis
2 nd Snowy Reality by Mike Daugulis
3 rd Genuine Hero by Rhett Vernon-Jarvis
Ages 12-14 Poetry
1 st Broken Glass by Sarah Brackstone
Ages 15-18 Poetry
1 st Rejoicing Remembrance by Mike Daugulis

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About Salem, West Virginia, USA
Salem is a city in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,006 at the 2000 census. It is located at the junction of U.S. Route 50 and West Virginia Route 23; the North Bend Rail Trail passes through the city. Salem International University is located in Salem. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem,_West_Virginia )

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It’s April Fools: What Entertainment News is for Real, and What’s a Joke?
April 1st is never a good day to release some unbelievable news, because, the chances are slim that you will be believed. Think back to the launch of Gmail; at the time, a gigabyte of mail space was an unbelievable amount. I don’t even think my computer’s harddrive was much bigger than that at the time. Google had to release a second statement on April 2nd assuring everyone that no, they were absolutely serious about offering that much storage for mail.
The Best of the Game of Thrones Tributes and Parodies
We’re only two weeks away from the Game of Thrones Season 3 premiere, and HBO is dropping tantalizing hints about what the next season might hold. They’ve released images of the actors who will play important characters in Season 3. The have discussed the growth of Daenerys’s dragons, which are now dog-sized, and can burn down a house. And, in a move that may exist solely to mess with readers of the books, Entertainment Weekly has put Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen on their cover together.(What does it MEAN? Probably nothing.)
7 Celebrity Baby Names That Make Rainbow Aurora Seem Normal
Holly Madison named her new daughter Rainbow Aurora, setting off the usual round of celebrity name bashing. However, while Rainbow Aurora is certainly unusual, it’s far from the worst name celebrity baby name to grace (disgrace?) a newborn.
Finally a Show About Nothing: Starring Jerry Seinfeld
Have you ever noticed how Jerry Seinfeld has this talent for bringing a lot of funny people together? He’s showcasing that skill once again in his new web comedy “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” which premiers on Crackle July 19th at 9 p.m.
Ryan Gosling, Tim Tebow, Zach Galifianakis Videos Nominated for Webby Awards
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences has announced the nominees for the 16th Annual Webby Awards. Hosted by comedian, writer and actor Patton Oswalt, the star-studded ceremony will take place at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on May 21st at 5:30PM and will be streamed live at webbyawards.com.
From rising stars to legends, StarCam has exclusive celebrity interviews from the red carpet of Hollywood’s hottest events to the big galas that raise both funding & awareness for charitable causes. http://blog.starcam.com


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Bay Area survives shootout
FOXBORO — The inaugural championship game of the Women's United Soccer Association was heading to a shootout, and Brandi Chastain, who has a little experience in these things, had an inkling about how this one was going to go.
"I knew LaKeysia (Beene) would save one, just like I knew Bri would save one in '99," said Chastain, who along with Briana Scurry was a hero of the U.S. World Cup victory two years ago.
Beene stopped Sun Wen in the first round, then got a boost when Charmaine Hooper left-footed hers wide yesterday as the Bay Area CyberRays won the WUSA title with a 4-2 shootout victory over the Atlanta Beat.
The game was tied 3-3 at the end of regulation and stayed that way through 15 minutes of overtime.
Chastain, who perhaps is best remembered for having whipped off her shirt after scoring the winning goal in the World Cup shootout, was on deck for the CyberRays when Julie Murray clinched it. Murray, who also had a goal in regulation, was named the Founders Cup MVP.
"I'm very happy it didn't make it that far," Chastain said. Asked if she had any special way of celebrating planned, she said, "No. Nothing."
Atlanta took a 3-2 lead with six minutes left when Sun Wen, who entered the game as a late substitute because of an ankle injury, beat Beene from close range. The CyberRays answered just two minutes later when Tisha Venturini made a nice move of her own to tie the game.
Sun, leading off the first of five rounds of penalty kicks, kicked the ball to Beene's left, where the WUSA goalkeeper of the year was easily able to corral it and put Atlanta in an early hole. When Hooper missed two rounds later, it put the Beat down two goals.
"It's an incredible way to win," said Scurry, who's save against Liu Ying in the World Cup set up Chastain's game-winner. "But it's also an incredible way to lose."
The game established somewhat of a tradition for new soccer leagues: Major League Soccer also held its first title game at Foxboro Stadium, a rain-soaked overtime affair in front of 35,000 singing fans.
The women's championship, played under puffy clouds and sunshine, drew just 21,078 to a stadium that holds 58,000 for NFL games.
Judging from the high-pitched cheers coming from the stands, many of them were the young girls who have formed the sport's fan base since the U.S. team won the World Cup.
Chastain said the thrill of establishing a league and winning its first title surpassed even the World Cup.
"We started out with nothing and we did something great," Chastain said. "... This is the most special moment in soccer history for us."
There was plenty of action in the first half before the teams settled into a more conservative style for most of the second.
The CyberRays took a 1-0 lead in the sixth minute when Katia headed the ball across the goal box and Dayna Smith failed to clear it, instead knocking it out to Kelly Lindsey at the left corner of the box. Lindsey powered a shot that deflected off Chastain into the far side of the net.
Atlanta tied it in the 11th minute when Homare Sawa connected with Nancy Augustyniak and she found Kylie Bivens unmarked about 15 yards out. The Beat went ahead 2-1 in the 14th minute when Cindy Parlow led Hooper near midfield and she bumped the ball once with her chest to elude the defense and then broke in on Beene all alone.
Scurry made a nice save in the 30th minute on Lindsey's shot from close range, getting a hand on it to knock it off the crossbar. But the Rays tied it in the 43rd minute when Murray broke away from the defense, slid it past Scurry from right to left and then scored with her left foot.
It was still 2-2 until Sun scored what looked to be the game-winning goal in the 84th minute, dribbling past the defense and beating Beene. But just two minutes later, Katia headed one into the box to Venturini, who eluded two defenders before scoring.
Nikki Serlanga hit the post on a free kick in the fourth minute of injury time, allowing the game to go into overtime.

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Fans of Lost or Jurassic Park may think of Hawaii as a place where mystical creatures hunt you down and try to kill you. The reality is that the Hawaiian Islands are a paradise — the ultimate relaxation destination and the home of the aloha spirit.
Located smack dab in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the ever-changing volcanic island chain has more on offer than just bitching breaks, sexy surfers and a lack of upper-body clothing. Here’s a rundown of the must-see and -do hotspots on the three major islands.
The metropolitan hub of the Hawaiian Islands, Honolulu, on Oahu, is where the aloha spirit meets the urban jungle. And while the buildings of downtown Honolulu are aesthetically reminiscent of 1970s Miami, the city is filled with as many stores and brand names as any large North American city.
The gay scene is prominent, with numerous gay or gay-friendly venues, the two major ones being Hula’s Bar and Lei Stand and Fusion Waikiki. Started by Hawaiian gay icon Jack Law in 1974, Hula’s was conceived as a gay bar that welcomed people of all sexual orientations and backgrounds; it became a popular drop-in for a number of celebrities, including Elton John and Dolly Parton. Almost 40 years later, Hula’s is still the most popular gay bar in Hawaii, drawing visitors from all over the world to enjoy a refreshing cocktail on its breezy lanai (veranda) overlooking the buff bodies on the beach.
Aloha tip: Make sure you check out a Hawaiian luau, a traditional feast where a whole pig is cooked in the ground throughout the day and served for dinner. The most famous luau is held at the Royal Hawaiian hotel every Monday evening.
Hawaii (The Big Island)
If size matters, then the Big Island is for you. As the proverbial twink of the archipelago (it is the youngest island in the chain), it is full of adventure and excitement; after all, it is the most likely to blow a huge volcanic load when agitated.
Its western coast, known as the Kona District, is home to bold black-sand beaches, lush golf courses and the vast majority of the world’s macadamia and coffee farms. Just south of Kona International Airport is Honokohau Beach, a popular spot for gays to get their gear off and frolic in the waves. Further south, the small town of Keauhou is where you’ll find the larger resorts and tourist spots, including Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park — ideal for avid outdoorsmen looking to get sweaty. There are plenty of outdoor adventure activities on the western coast, and most tour companies pick up from the major hotels and resorts in the area.
On the eastern coast of Hawaii is Hilo, the island’s most populated city and the city closest to the only active volcano in the chain. Blue Hawaiian Helicopters operates tours over the Kilauea volcano, located in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The tours depart from Hilo International Airport. The gay-owned and -operated Absolute Paradise B&B, located 45 minutes south of Hilo, is a secluded, home-style lodge that offers a quieter accommodation experience than the busy resorts. Although, tech addicts be warned: there’s no cellphone or TV signal on site, so your Facebook updates will just have to wait.
Aloha tip: Rent a car on the Big Island. It’s the best way to get around, as public transportation is minimal. All major car rental companies are on site at Kona International Airport.
Maui is the Hawaiian island most visited by Canadians, and it boasts arguably the best beaches in the world, many of which are found on the island’s western coast, near the town of Wailea. With its picture-perfect surroundings, the resort-laden town centre is dominated by families and a disturbing abundance of inflatable water equipment.
Luckily, just a short five-minute drive from the village is Hotel Wailea, a gorgeous boutique property nestled in the hillside, consisting of 72 luxury villas. With cinematic views of the Hale Mahina (the House of the Moon) volcano, silk-draped poolside cabanas and complimentary access to on-site spa facilities, Hotel Wailea is the perfect choice for gay travellers.
An appealing alternative to the town’s main beaches is Little Beach, just a few kilometres south of Wailea.
“Little Beach is off the beaten path but comes to life every Sunday afternoon,” says Mark Warnock, a 21-year-old business student from Atlanta, Georgia, who has visited Maui every six months for the past three years. “At sunset, a ritualistic drum circle and fire show takes over the north end of the beach and continues throughout the evening. It’s a celebration and a truly awesome experience. I completely fell in love with the island, and every time I go I experience something new and unique.”
Despite its metropolitan vibe, many local gay men prefer to steer clear of the bars and clubs and take advantage of the ideal year-round climate to explore the island. “Oahu is a gorgeous island, and there is so much more to it than just Honolulu and Waikiki,” says Oahu local Ryan Hoan. “I definitely encourage visitors to check out the city, but I also make sure they venture out and see the real Hawaii.
“I’m more likely to take a road trip up to the North Shore with friends on the weekend and go camping than to hit up a club,” he says. “Plus, you can still have plenty of fun in a tent.”
Aloha tip: Head down to the Lobby Lounge at the Four Seasons Wailea to see a spectacular sunset over the ocean. Also, take a snorkelling trip to Molokini, a partially submerged volcanic crater off the Wailea coast. Pride of Maui operates twice-daily trips.


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I be jammin in the kitchen.
I don't can as much as I use to, but I still make jam and jelly.
Last year we ran out and it was a disaster in the making.
I tried buying a few jars just to see how they tasted and was sorely disappointed. If you know of a good, no, a great jam company, I might be willing to try them.
The peach I make has only sugar, lemon juice and crushed peaches.
I have made this recipe for many years and it has only failed me once.
It was freaking fabulous.
I am on my way out to finish glazing and load a kiln. Yep, on my way, right now, here I go.

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As Rev. Jesse Jackson tried to discuss the dangers of military-style weapons on the street, Fox host Harris Faulkner repeatedly interrupted to complain about black crime and Black Lives Matter.
Faulkner didn’t bother to hide the animosity in her voice when she “asked” Jackson, “Why has there not been a call for the deaths of blacks at the hands of other blacks in Chicago at the level of Black Lives Matter […] and also at the same time to tell policemen and women that they have their back?”
Did you catch what may be a Freudian slip there? Regardless, I am still wishing and hoping for a guest to ask one of these Fox black-attackers why the “fair and balanced” network only seems to care about black deaths in Chicago when they can be used as cudgels against African Americans with other concerns?
When was the last time Fox delved into actual programs that are trying to address the matter? And when was the last time, anyone on Fox reassured African Americans about their backs regarding police killings of unarmed citizens? Speaking for myself, never.
Jackson, like so many other Fox guests, did not confront this blatant concern trolling designed to camouflage racial dog whistles to Fox’s audience.
Meanwhile, as Jackson began, “When you have access to military weaponry…”
Faulkner interrupted to take an ethnic dig at Muslims: “We do have radical Islamic terrorism!”
“If you were a police person,” Jackson said to Faulkner, “and I were challenged in some way, I could walk right beside you with my AK-47, say, ‘how do you do.’”
Faulkner replied that despite allowing open carry in Ohio, “We just saw peace” at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, so “you can’t paint a broad brush.”
Actually, it was Faulkner painting with a broad brush. The fact is that open carry can complicate police interactions and make mass shootings even more dangerous. More importantly, while Faulkner was holding herself up as a champion for the police, she didn’t seem to care that it was the head of the police union in Cleveland who had requested a suspension of open carry in Cleveland – and discussed it on her own show. There are other police departments opposing it, including the Dallas chief of police who said the law had made it more “challenging” to respond to the shooter who killed five officers this month.
Jackson responded to Faulkner’s “broad brush” complaint by citing the specifics of the Sandy Hook Elementary School and Aurora, Colorado movie theater shootings. “These military weapons and assault rifles are just too dangerous to be in the hands of civilians,” he said.
So Faulkner changed the subject to suggest that Black Lives Matter activists are the real danger.
Still in scold mold, Faulkner said, “Your nominee has hashtagged BLM. Are you comfortable with that?”
“There is no connection between Black Lives Matter and this killing,” Jackson said, presumably meaning the recent deaths of officers in Dallas and/or Baton Rouge. “These soldiers, these veterans, did not get their training nor their inspiration from the civil rights movement.” Then, referring to the recent police killings of African Americans Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Jackson added, “When you look at the killing, the execution of the death in Baton Rouge and in Minnesota and in, across the country, something must be done about this. I am hopeful that we would get beyond the need to have weaponry for which there is no defense in the name of security.”
Faulkner may not have the same fire as some of her colleagues but she is obviously up to the job of race baiting other African Americans over Blacks Behaving Badly, just like so many others at Fox News.
Watch Faulkner strut her racial stuff below, from Fox’s July 24 coverage of the Democratic National Convention.


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BIGGS — Hunter Roles was well aware he had yet to allow a hit against the Quincy High baseball team.
However, the senior ace for the Biggs High baseball team wanted to shove that thought deep into the back of his mind. He was focused on getting the win.
When the final out was made, Roles officially secured the no-hitter along with a 2-0 victory on April 5 at Bobby Hill Field in Biggs. He struck out 12 batters and didn’t allow a walk in his strongest outing of the season.
“It was crazy,” Roles said. “I never really thought I would get through it but every inning the goal is to get three up and three down.”
Roles relied on his fast ball and even contributed at the plate as he hit a run-scoring double to give Biggs a 1-0 lead.
“He had the determination in his eyes,” Biggs coach Javier Solis said. “He got on the bump. Nobody was close to hitting him the entire seven innings. He came out ready to fight.”
Solis, who has coached Roles since he was in seventh grade, has watched first-hand how much progression Roles has made over the years.
“He’s worked his way up,” Solis said. “If he’s not doing it on the mound, he’s definitely doing it with his bat.”
Roles sports a 2.70 ERA and has struck out 24 batters in 23 1/3 innings. At the plate, he’s provided 15 hits, including six doubles, scored 13 runs and totaled seven RBIs.
“He’s very motivated and never putting people down,” Solis said. “You can see him goofing around with the guys but he knows when he needs to focus. He always has a smile on his face.”
Roles began playing baseball when he was as young as 2 years old. Roles also played football and basketball this season but wants to pursue playing collegiate baseball once he graduates.
“Baseball has always been a thing I’ve always been around since I can remember,” Roles said. “It’s a brotherhood and I just love it.”
During Roles’ first three seasons playing for Biggs, he took a back seat to the senior starting pitchers. It wasn’t until this year when Roles flourished and took over as the Wolverines’ ace.
“Hunter has never had to be our No. 1 pitcher,” Solis said. “Him being a senior, he had that determination of ‘Hey, I want to be that No. 1 guy.'”
The Wolverines are 8-3 overall and 3-1 in the Mountain Valley League. Many players on the team were part of a Little League squad that won a championship years ago.
This year’s group wants to repeat that feat and win a MVL title for Biggs for the first time since 2004.
“They’re very motivated,” Solis said. “It means a big deal to these guys.”


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The failure of Befikre really broke my heart - Vani Kapoor speaks to Anupama Chopra about the responses to her performance in #Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui, her long gaps between films and what she's hoping this film changes for her career trajectory.
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Michele Johnson, a senior partner at Latham & Watkins and one of the country’s top litigators, likes to cite the genius of recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“She embodied this ability to take on the patriarchy by bringing them along with her,” Johnson said, citing a leadership trait she’s looked to follow. “She wasn’t a rabble-rouser; she wasn’t a rioter.”
While rabble-rousing may have its place, Johnson said, Ginsburg “was the one who brought along change little by little by little until she changed the world” and was an “absolute inspiration” to so many like herself.
“She argued a case during our lifetime that allows us now to get a mortgage and buy a house. In our lifetime that was not allowed in this country under the law,” Johnson said of the legal changes benefiting women.
Gingsburg, the second woman justice to sit on the high court, died at age 87 on Sept. 18.
Her legacy lives on among countless women lawyers, including Johnson, who won one of the Business Journal’s Women in Business Awards at the 26th annual event last month (see stories, pages 1, 4 and 6).
It’s just the latest accolade and honor for Johnson; she has been named to the Top 250 Women in Litigation 2020 by research firm Benchmark Litigation, the 25 Most Influential Women in Securities Law by Law360 and the Top Women Lawyers list in California by the Daily Journal.
Latham & Watkins in Costa Mesa ranked No. 5 on this year’s list of largest OC law firms, with 77 lawyers locally.
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“I was home-schooled through high school and grew up in a very insular and sheltered family and community, very religious with really traditional views of gender roles,” she said of her childhood in Phoenix.
The upbringing she said could probably be best described as Pentecostal, was expected to make her a stay-at-home mom rather than a career woman.
She eventually “decided to rebel” against her upbringing and picked up “grit” as she traveled her professional path.
In 1995 she graduated from Arizona State University, and was accepted at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., “traveling out there sight unseen.”
She received her JD from Georgetown, one of the best law schools in the U.S., and joined Latham shortly after graduation in October 1998.
She is currently global chair of the Litigation & Trial Department, and the former managing partner of the Orange County office.
Johnson represents financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, boards of directors, and individuals in securities, M&A, and other complex commercial litigation.
Of late, she’s gotten headlines in the sports world by representing the U.S. Soccer Federation in a closely watched discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. women’s soccer team.
She remains optimistic that younger generations will break down remaining barriers against women professionals so that “more and diverse groups are better represented at the highest levels.”
“All of us have a long list of stories about being treated a certain way or approached a certain way or dismissed or underestimated or undervalued,” Johnson told the Business Journal on Oct. 30. “It puts you off your game because you feel out of place.”
Johnson adds: “I feel optimistic given that the newer generations are more used to seeing women in those positions and therefore less used to calling them out or thinking that something is out of place because they’re wearing a business suit and not an apron.”


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Srinagar: A Government Primary School building was gutted in a fire mishap at Nadigam village in South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Thursday evening.
Locals told that a massive fire broke out this evening at Government Primary School building Nadigam following which they called officials and tried to douse off fire.
They said that the school building was partially damaged till the fire was doused, adding that the fire tenders couldn’t reach on time as snow remained accumulated on the roads leading to the school.
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Less than 48 hours before the Sabarimala temple in Kerala to be opened for all, as per Supreme Court verdict, thousands of Lord Ayyappa devotees, mostly women, continue to carry out protests against the verdict. A massive protest today reached the Kerala secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram. Political parties and Hindu organisations have also been part of the 'Save Sabarimala' campaign.
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Egypt Courtroom Sentences 5 Younger Ladies To 2-Years In Jail For Posting Indecent Dance Movies On TikTok
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An Egyptian courtroom has sentenced 5 younger ladies to 2 years in jail for posting “indecent” dance movies on TikTok.
The prosecution assertion named two of the defendants 20-year-old pupil Haneen Hossam and 22-year-old Mawada Eladhm and stated the opposite three helped run their social media accounts.
The ladies have been additionally fined 300,000 Egyptian kilos (A$26,000) every for “violating the values and rules of the Egyptian household,” inciting debauchery and selling human trafficking, in keeping with an announcement from the general public prosecutor.
Haneen Hossam and Mawada Eladhm rose to fame although TikTok, amassing tens of millions of followers for his or her video snippets which embody sharing of footage of themselves sporting make-up, posing in vehicles, dancing in kitchens and making humorous skits.
Nonetheless, their social media stardom grew to become their undoing in a rustic, the place residents can land in jail for imprecise crimes resembling “misusing social media,” “disseminating pretend information,” or “inciting debauchery and immorality.”
Their legal professionals have vowed to attraction the ruling.
Eladhm’s lawyer, Ahmed el-Bahkeri, confirmed the sentencing, saying the prosecution deemed Eladhm’s photographs and movies “disgraceful and insulting.”
“Eladhm was crying in courtroom. Two years? 300,000 Egyptian kilos? That is actually one thing very powerful to listen to,” stated Samar Shabana, the lawyer’s assistant.
“They only need followers. They don’t seem to be a part of any prostitution community, and didn’t know that is how their message could be perceived by prosecutors,” she added, in reference to their posts encouraging younger ladies to share movies and chat with strangers in alternate for cash on one other social media platform.
A extensively circulated on-line petition described the arrests as a “systematic crackdown that targets low-income ladies,” following the arrest 10 feminine TikTok customers have been detained or prosecuted by authorities in current months.


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The Maharashtra government has set up a committee headed by Director General (Prisons) to study if the daily wages for prisoners in the state should be hiked.
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has set up a committee headed by Director General (Prisons) to study if the daily wages for prisoners in the state should be hiked.
The government sought the study as it feels the wages paid to the prisoners for various works undertaken in the state jails are very less compared to other states.
Industries carried out in jails include leather work, carpentry, handicrafts and office stationery. While skilled prisoners are paid Rs 40 per day, semi-skilled and unskilled inmates are paid between Rs 17 to Rs 35.
The study committee is led by Director General (Prisons) Meeran Borwankar and its members include joint labour commissioner, director of the state industries directorate and the deputy director general of prisons, among others.
Medha Gadgil, Principal Secretary at state Home department, said, "The daily wages for prisoners in the state are not par with wages paid in other states. We felt the need to increase the amount, if required. The committee headed by Borwankar is expected to submit the report soon."
There are 38 jails in Maharashtra, including Arthur Road in Mumbai, Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai, Yerwada in Pune and all are overcrowded to the extent of 32 per cent.
The committee is studying the wages in Tihar jail, Karnataka and Gujarat prisons. In Karnataka jails, skilled prisoners get Rs 80 to Rs 90 on a daily basis while unskilled prisoners get Rs 70 per day.


A new road (known in the 1990s as the 4th Republic Road) connected Kanka directly to Ahenkro, first as a grated road and, after completion of Bui Dam, as a paved road. Viewed here from the north edge of Kanka, looking northward, Ahenkro is visible in the distance. 18 June, 2016.
Road leading into Ahenkro from the south with the Banda hills in the background. Two cell phone towers are visible on the south edge of town and electrical power lines run along the east side of the road. The new market building located on the south side of Ahenkro is visible at the point where the road curves in the distance. A motorized three-wheeled car and a motor cycle travel on the road ahead. Ahenkro, 19 June, 2016.


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We cut the chocolates into quarters so that more than one person could taste all of the offerings while also trying to avoid palate fatigue. While this may sound like a silly problem, it can be quite frustrating when your taste buds become overstimulated mid-tasting and fail you. To try to limit this, Saltines and club soda were set out to help tasters pace themselves.

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Akamai experts discovered the new botnet, which conducts it, which conducts DDOS attacks against ordinary users and entire companies in the gaming industry. According to the security researcher Allen Vesta, the Botnet “Dark Frost” (the original name “DarknessBotnet”) was created on the basis of various malware, such as GAFGYT, QBOT, MIRAI, and unites hundreds of infected devices with different architectures.
The goals of attacks are game companies, hosting providers of gaming servers, online streamers and even simple participants in the game community, with whom the attacker came into contact. According to Akamai, Botnet is active since the middle of last year, and its potential is about 629.28 Gbit/s.
It is noteworthy that behind the creation and activity of Botnet there is only one person whose nickname decided not to disclose, so as not to contribute to its popularity. A novice cybercentor loves laughter for the sake of periodically “drop” the server of one or another online game, launching a live broadcast for its fans, or “packing” in a different way. All attacks are also documented by screenshots that the author publishes in his Discord channel.
“The attacker boasts of his achievements on social networks and uses Botnet even to resolve small online disputes,” said West.
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In addition, on the same Discord channel, the attacker offers his DDOS services to anyone who can finance them. Apparently, the Internet hooligan plans to develop a full-fledged cybercrime business on the DDOS-Naima.
Botnet Dark Frost is an example of how easily novice cybercriminals with a low level of skills to use already affordable harmful software for serious damage to both ordinary people and infrastructures.
“Although this is not the most advanced or stunning attacker, Botnet Dark Frost was still able to accumulate hundreds of compromised devices to fulfill the orders of the offender. The threat that these single actors can pose on its scale, even despite the lack of novelty in their methods” – the analyst summed up.


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Imaging systems as ultrasound, sonar, laser and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) are subjected to speckle noise during image acquisition. Before analyzing these images, it is often necessary to remove the speckle noise using filters. We combine properties of two mathematical morphology filters with speckle statistics to propose a signal-dependent noise filter to multiplicative noise. We describe a multiscale scheme that preserves sharp edges while it smooths homogeneous areas, by combining local statistics with two mathematical morphology filters: the alternating sequential and the self-dual reconstruction algorithms. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is less sensitive to varying window sizes when applied to simulated and real SAR images in comparison with standard filters.


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Girls in Russian marriages are viewed lucky indeed. Even if the marital life went through a whole lot of fluctuations, Russian females still discover happiness with their husbands. The first sign that a Russian bride-to-be is happy at her new existence in her husband’s residence would be her desire to prepare food for him. It seems like practical but food preparation for a person is really not that easy. Nevertheless, Russian spouses know how to serve their partner’s culinary requirements, that is why you’ll see their fronts light up as soon as they see you taking a stand at the drain preparing a common dish.
Girls in Russian partnerships are expected to do many duties such as caring for the house, preparing for the purpose of the family unit, cleaning and shopping for the family as well. If these types of girls in Russian relationships find it hard to fulfill their duties at your home, then at times, the husband would probably hire an aide called a nanny to deal with her. A nanny can do all the home chores and in many cases go out to acquire groceries to get the home. As you can see, being nanny is quite beneficial to Russian ladies.
Girls in Russian partnerships are also required to take good care of their books in order that they could attract a lover. In fact , Russian wedding brides are very conscious about their natural beauty. Brides place much work in attending to their cosmetic makeup products, hair style and standard appearance. Actually this is considered so that you can win a lover. Girls via Russian way of life always make an effort to look their finest especially during gatherings such as marriages.
The salary that girls in Russian partnerships earn is also a big factor why these ladies result in a very content life with the husbands. In fact , a lot of men choose to marry girls from top quality families since these young ladies usually bring in a higher salary than other girls. Aside from the salary, another reason why Russian girls find marriage very worthwhile is these ladies are very dedicated to their partners. Russian brides are extremely devoted to their man unlike various other women who are not willing to commit to any person. This is also among the reasons why Russian girls are very appealing to men.
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Dinosaurs, cars, and action! Here’s your chance to take a look at some of the most fun and impressive vehicles of the Jurassic Park franchise so far!
When one thinks of dinosaurs, they don’t necessarily think about cars, but the Jurassic Park film franchise features a wide variety of vehicles. They can’t use just any old vehicle in a movie about dinosaurs, though. These trucks, crossovers, motorcycles, and four-wheelers need to have enough power to haul a dinosaur, be durable enough to survive a dinosaur, or be fast enough to outrace one.
At least a couple dozen vehicles have been used throughout the five previous Jurassic Park movies. With the sixth installment being released this week, there are sure to be a few additions to that list. Sadly, there won’t be an appearance by the Ford F-150 Raptor or the RAM 1500 TRX in Jurassic World: Dominion. Talk about missed opportunities! We do know to expect a few Jeep Wranglers, the Jeep Gladiator, and vintage Grand Wagoneer sightings.
Looking back over these movies now, what are the most memorable vehicles? Which ones were involved in the most impressive scenes of the franchise? After some thorough research (plus a movie marathon), here are the cars of Jurassic Park!
We have to start with perhaps the most famous Jurassic Park vehicle there is: the Jeep Wrangler. In the movie, the 1992 Jeep Wrangler YJ Sahara was the official Jurassic Park vehicle, so multiple Jeep Wranglers were used, each with a different number on it. Jeep Wrangler 12 was the one Dennis Nedry used while trying to escape. Jeep Wrangler 10 was the one chased by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was Jeep Wrangler 18 that characters Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler used when they drove through the park and saw the Brachiosaurus for the first time.
That scene is a classic in cinematic history, and certainly in the Jurassic Park franchise. There were so many 1993 Wranglers used in the movie that some are now unaccounted for. Some are in private collections. Several are still owned and stored by Universal Studios. The exposure from being featured in a blockbuster like that certainly didn’t hurt Jeep’s sales. Avid fans have purchased Jeep Wrangler models and customized them to look like the vehicles used in the movie. I admit that it’d be pretty fun to spend an afternoon driving around town in a replica Jurassic Park Jeep Wrangler.
Pairing up with guaranteed blockbusters is a smart promotional move for any carmaker. Audi did it with recent Marvel movies. Chevrolet did it with the Transformers movies. Mercedes did it with the most recent Jurassic Park movies. Mercedes timed the release of the 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE 450 AMG Coupé to match the release of 2015’s Jurassic World. It was used within the first 20 minutes of the movie. The white coloring stood out among all the green on the island, and that Mercedes logo was very prominent. While it was mostly used on low-level off-roading trails, it made a good first impression.
Before the Unimog U 4000 was used in the fourth movie, a 1997 Unimog U 1300 was used in the third one. Mercedes-Benz was all in on the Jurassic Park craze by the time the third movie came out. As a multi-purpose four-wheel-drive vehicle, it made sense for the multi-man crew to use the Unimog to travel the mountainous terrain on the island of Isla Nublar.
While the Unimog U 1300 was a fun feature in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the writers took a different route with the Unimog U 4000 in Jurassic World. It was used as a mobile veterinarian unit. After the dinosaurs escape and chaos ensues Claire (played by Bryce Dallas Howard) no longer has access to her GLE 450, so she ends up behind the wheel of the Unimog U 4000. The Unimog is bulky, but it’s also powerful. Claire had the pedal to the metal as she tried to outrun a large pack of angry raptors.
When actor Chris Pratt joined the franchise for the second trilogy, so did some fun motorcycles. His trusty Triumph Scrambler was used in several scenes, but the most memorable may have been when he was riding it through a field, leading dozens of raptors to a specific spot in order to put a plan into action. Three Scramblers were customized for the movie with Arrow 2-1 exhaust and a Lucas tail light. The bikes were also upgraded with Renthal handlebars.
Triumph ended up gifting Pratt one of the customized bikes. One is at Triumph’s headquarters in the United Kingdom, and the last one was put up for auction. Minor SPOILER ALERT for Jurassic World: Dominion here: Pratt is still using two wheels in a chase scene, but this time he’s on a Montesa 4Ride. Maybe he’ll take one of those home to his personal collection, too.
In the Jurassic Park movies, you don’t just outrun the dinosaurs. Sometimes, if you’re a villain, you capture them as well. For the unenviable task of capturing a human-sized dinosaur, characters used the 1992 Hummer. In one scene the 1992 Hummer HMC4 is seen getting some hang time as it was launched into mid-air, side-by-side with a motorcycle.
The standout moment for the vehicle was on the dinosaur hunt though. It was given the fictional name of the, ‘InGen Hunter Snagger,’ since it was specifically equipped to trap a dinosaur. The vehicle was modified with a passenger area on the back and extendable seats on either side of it. There are no indications that this vehicle was modified in other ways, so it likely had one of the original five engine types and three automatic transmissions. On the high end of that spectrum was a 6.6-liter turbo Duramax LLY V8 mated to a 5-speed automatic transmission.
If the Jeep Wrangler is the most famous Jurassic Park vehicle, the 1992 Ford Explorer is a close second! It’s been used in video games, made into a special edition Matchbox car, is on display at Universal Studios in Orlando, and has been replicated by other Explorer owners for personal use and auction.
The Ford Explorer was still new when the decision was made to use it in the original 1993 Jurassic Park movie. Filmmakers used a first-generation 1992 Ford Explorer. The vehicle was presented as a very durable choice, surviving the wrath of a T-Rex. It’s got to be quality if it can survive that, right? Using the 1992 Ford Explorer for several off-roading scenes was logical, but it wasn’t just any 1992 Explorer that was used. Modifications were made for the movie.
Right away, you can tell that this 1992 Explorer stands out. The red, bright green, and bright yellow paint job certainly made sure of that. The other modifications may surprise you. The horsepower wasn’t ramped up. The tires weren’t replaced. Instead, to create the illusion of a driverless vehicle, the Explorer was modified so that a technician could drive it from the cargo area! With Ford’s approval, Steven Spielberg created a bit of futuristic movie magic with the help of some creative automotive experts.
Starting with the third Jurassic Park movie, Mercedes-Benz rolled the ML 320 into the spotlight. Maybe it was seeing Ford and Jeep get multiple memorable big-screen moments that convinced Mercedes-Benz to join in on the fun. While it’s maybe not as memorable as the Ford Explorer, the 1998 ML 320 also received a custom paint job. The Explorer stands out a little more with the bright colors, but, honestly, I think I’d take the ML 320 instead with the dark green camouflage finish.
Mercedes timed the release of this car to the release of the movie, so theater-goers were getting their first glimpse of what looked like an off-roading, tough, capable crossover. In real life, it was no Jeep, but they worked for the purposes of the movie. The vehicles on film looked to be equipped with certain features that would be useful while driving around on an island filled with potentially dangerous dinosaurs, but even ordinary versions of the vehicle caught the attention of Jurassic Park fans. Advertisements for the 1998 ML 320 appeared on every VHS copy of the movie.
Although the Rolls-Royce Phantom VII wasn’t featured all that much in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, but it did help tell a story. Rolls-Royce is a worldwide symbol of luxury, so Claire being chauffeured in the Phantom VII onto the grounds of a very old, ornate-looking mansion meant wealth. It meant power. Whoever she was going to meet had both. It’s not a big moment in the grand scheme of the Jurassic Park movies, but it’s interesting to see how the director and producers successfully used automobiles even when they weren’t involved in action scenes.
When the carnivorous dinosaur escapes the ship and wanders through San Diego, he eventually ends up chasing Dr. Malcolm in his classic, red Custom S. Malcolm had that 330-horsepower 350 cubic-inch V8 working overtime to escape the angry, stubby-armed, sharp-toothed T-Rex. The scene ended without any damage being done to the 1969 Pontiac. Who really wants to damage a car like that anyway, even if it’s for a movie?
Dr. Ian Malcolm (played by Jeff Goldblum) was a mix of cool and smart with his tinted glasses and black leather jacket, so it stands to reason that his car of choice would be a 1969 Pontiac Custom S convertible. It’s the car he drove to an oceanfront dock while waiting for the arrival of a tyrannosaurus that was being transported to the mainland on a ship.
If you’re going on a dinosaur-hunting expedition on an island without much shelter, a decked-out RV isn’t a bad thing to bring along. That’s what a group of scientists, observers, and hired henchmen did for the third installment of the franchise. With a green camouflage paint job, this RV doesn’t look like one you’d take a family vacation in. In the movie, it was a portable command center, filled with computers, video monitors, workspaces, and various other supplies.
The one thing you don’t want to do is kidnap a baby tyrannosaurus in your Fleetwood Southwind Storm, especially if Mommy T-Rex finds out about it. Similar to what happened with the Ford Explorer in the original movie, the Southwind Storm took a beating. It was flipped over by the dinosaurs, pushed towards a cliff, and eventually pushed off the cliff in an extended suspense-building scene. Despite being continuously flipped over, the Southwind frame remained sturdy.
Those are the highlights, but there are several other vehicles that can be spotted throughout the six-movie franchise. Planes, helicopters, ships, tractor-trailers, bikes, and pretty much any other kind of transportation you can think of are all well-represented in the Jurassic Park movies. If it’s got an engine, it can probably be found somewhere in these iconic movies. You can spot a Freightliner Cascadia, a 2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, 1983 BMW 733i E23, 1983 Ford LTD Wagon, and a 2014 Ford Fiesta if you’re paying attention.
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Dear Miss Shuba,
We regret to inform you that as per your performance evaluation of this year we will have to terminate your employment effective immediately. This is in no regards a retaliation of your sexual harassment complaint against our senior employee. Please find attached the complete details regarding the severance pay and let us know if you have any queries.
HR Team, GEC Enterprise.
She stared at the email message on her computer, her mind racing so fast that the words blurred together and no longer made any sense. Just three lines, but enough to make her life--the life she’d worked so hard and sacrificed so much to build--begin to crumble around her.
This has to be a joke, she thought, a cruel joke.
She looked around blankly not sure what to do. ‘Effective immediately’ Does she have to go right away? Go away where? This is her life! This is what she has fought her parents for, fought her husband for. She does not even have a family now because of this job. She has no children that ladies talk about at playgrounds making her feel an outsider, outcast-divorcee. She missed out on her whole normal life to be at this place and now she has to go?
The reality was unsettling, unreal. And then suddenly a seething realization came into her.
‘This is in no regards a retaliation of your sexual harassment complaint against our senior employee’
That was exactly what it was. A retaliation. She held her head in her palm. Deep down she knew this was coming. A foreboding that she should have taken seriously. She wasn’t going down so easily. No, She won’t.
She got up from her cubical and walked straight through the glass door of her HR. Manager. Mr. Moorthy sat there looking busy. He raised his finger in air gesturing her to wait for a minute, while he looked at his laptop pretending to read a very important email. He used pretentiousness to assert his authority. But it was a bad move, because his laptop was clearly reflecting on his back glass window which showed that he was losing in a game of solitaire.
“your game can wait” She said being done playing nice.
He smiled at her and said “why don’t you have a seat. There is still three hour before you last day gets over”
It was a cunning taunt, Only Mr. Moorthy could have the audacity to do that to a person he has just fired.
“What is this” She placed her laptop in front of him. He looked at it with little interest.
“Miss Subha, this is as per companies performance evaluation process. You know the rules”
“The evaluation that has been given by the person who harassed me .” She said strongly.
“Look miss Subha,That case has been closed. It’s in the past. Why would anyone retilate for a closed case”
“Looks like Mr. Shekar did just now by giving a bad evaluation report. I have got this company two new accounts. How can I be worst performer”
“Well… its all in his personal report. He said lazily tryng to search for the email on his computer but she snapped “I know all about that report. And as per that hararsment case, company did not even take my complaint seriously”
“ You got a formal aplogy.. that is very humiliating for someone who did not do anything…” He looked at her jugingly.
“Did you even read my report?” She asked him disgustingly.
“Yes, infact its right in front of me” He said and clicked on his computer “ And I have to tell you there were many inconsistancies between yours and Mr.shekar’s version. And base don that inquiry team decided to have a amicable settlement.”
“What kind of discrepancies…”
“Well the report says… On the Night of New years party, Mr. Shekar , flowed you around everywhere while being in intoxicated state. He blocked you in hallway near the rest room and asked you to kiss him on his cheekcs to wish him happy new year. When you refused he pinned you to the wall and assulted your breast singing ‘Jingle bells’ song…” He paused to give a fleeting look at he rbreast and then looked back at the laptop. It was only a second, but subha felt her eyes welding up, but she fought it back. Not hee. Never in front of them. She still remmebred that night, the warmness of his hands that never left her ever since. Not even after the cold shower, not even ice. Not even smoothing words of her other female collegues who warned her not to report anything. They were many but nobody spoke. She decided she has to and now she si paying the price. She kept her head staright and asked
“what is the discrepancy here…”
“You see,.. why would a guy sing jingle bells when its new year .. and not a Christmas party…” He said with a staright face, trying to keep his eyes at level with her.
But she knew they were searching for another fleeting look at he rbreast. This was his discrepancy. What he sang while assaulting my breast. How could anyone even respond to this? I have to give explanation of what a pervert was thining while he was assaulting me?
“He was drunk….” She said in measured tone.
“Ahh! Yes ..” He looked down at report again “ Mr. Shekar continued to mock me by singing jingle bells everytime we would be in team meetings and would pass me. It was evident he was sharing the story of assulat proudly. Creating rumors about my charater.”
“Look can I be candid with you. You are a single lady.. divorce, who dress nicely.. talk to guys nicely.. people can assume other wise. It was a party, he was drinking.. you are beautiful.. things happen. He is a good guy and our top performer. You could have easily forgiven and moved on. But you had to be insubordinate to him. You have start all this comaplain and hit the dam hornet’s nest. This was bound to happen.”
“But tell you what.. I will give you good reference. You will land a job soon.”
She came out seething.. She could not understand what was more humiliating. The hands that molested her, the knowledge that now her story was a common talk at the water break or lunch break.. or now that she was frired…because she was a bad worker anyway. She knew how office worked. Rumors about her charters were akready flowing since that day. But she let all that go. Because she had worked this hard to get at this place. But now she had nothing.
She got home and lay staring at her wall dejectedly. She could call her parents, but they would only end up saying I told you so. She felt the hands of every peson that gave her that sly smile, that rubbed past her in meeting rooms, that looked below her neck line , on her breast. They all were laughing and molesting her right now and she could not even scream, because it would just drown in their laughter. How can she speak louder then them all. How can she when her own friends would not dare to open up their mouth. Won’t come toagther to help. She was fianally at a place her husabdn told her she would be. A heartless, motherless lonely divorcee. She suddenly layghed. Because she never used to belove in prophecy, especially not from an emotionally abusive husaband.
She closed her eyes for brief moment and then got up determined. She logged into jobs online site and started searching for jobs. She had spent seven hours on the injustice done to her by today, four years to the injustice done to her by his husband and sixteen years of mis opportunities due to her parents. She wouldn’t be sparing a single more minute on the things that did not worked out. She had wasted too little time trying to fit into someone else definition of perfect. So she left him and she came to this city much to the shame of her parents. The black sheep of their family , a divorcee and tag that will be carried by other sisters in her family. Will be use dto measure their charcter. So many people had given up so much for what she was right ow. She owed to all of them and to the possible- in the hopeful future- daughter that she will have one day to do something. To take a step.
Did shekhar’s wife knew what he did? She should just drop a email to her with all this. create havoc in his life, why should only she suffer? But will that change anything, hitting in covers wrapped in shame , dropping a lone email to the wife, whose email address she did not know. No, she wanted to scream but into closed quarters, but in open places, to people with sans eyecontact. To call out to the people nobody else would.
May be because it was that she was follish or because she just felt suffocated that she opened her blog and started writing about everything that happened instead of searching a job quietly. Moving on the way she did always.
And she wrote every detail that was just a rumor uptill now, a office gossip, a coffe break joke on her blog. Each humiliating detail, every look was documented in her blog. Did she took a second before clicking that post? Was their a vauge hesitation? Did all thoses people who looked at her from the corner of the eyes held her hands to stop her from posting it? NO they did not, because they did not cared in their confident carelessness, their insults, their mocking. If it was their it was replaced by a cold determination in her eyes and she clicked the button.
Now everyone in the world saw what happened to her in their mind, replaying each details with their little own version of incident. She shut her eyes and close doff her laptop. It was done. She was too tired to think what people would be thinking right now.How they would be imaging her right now. She was tired because she had fough long and hard and so that day she slept peacefully.
One day she will have voice, one day she wouldn’t have to scream to be heard.
There was absolute quite the next day. So she gave her that. Her phone was ringing. It was that call that she ha dreaded. From her parents. Probably waiting to tell her how much disgrace she has brough to the family. She kept it rining the whole next day. It was time to get back on her feet again now since she felt lighter telling people what had happened.
So she took whole week to plan rest of her futire. She had eough to stay aflot for next one year, with the serverance pay. She worked on her resume and searched online for jobs keeping strictly away from her online post. She has to stop caring what people think to move forward. It was by the end was one week that her phone had started to ring off. Potential job recuriters, subha thought. Wasn’t it too soon?
She picked up her phone whne suddenly a message popped up. It was from Shekhar. Unwillingly her heart missed a beat. Did he read her blog? Is he aplogigising? A faint optimist inside her refused to die. She opned the message.
“I am going you take legal action against your stunt on internet. Take down your blog or You will go for long time in defamation case you whore!
She shut off her phone and threw it away on her bed. Her hands shaking. This is not happening. They wnate dto beat he rto the ground. She could never come out of this mess. She should have stayed quite, kept her head down, kept her mouth shut! But she never listens. This fight was bigger than her ego. She cannot take it.
She deiced it was time to be grown up. Time to take the beating and accept that nothing can be done against them.
She logged into her computer to take down her blog . To erase it forever but then as soon as she logged in her fingers stopped and her brows looked at the screen in mild confusion. Like a child looking at something new for the first time. There were 20,000 repost of her blog. The twitter account where she had shared it had exploded with comments. At first as she began to read it she expected them to critize her, shame her, but they had shamed the culprit. It was comments of support, solance and support that shocked her. A few that brough her disgrace drowned in the heap of messages that shared their stories, from other offices . And then came some from the same office. The one from the girl who sits on second floor, different guy. A lady in legal department from GEC shared what happened to her on same night by another employee.
Her heart was thumping so hard that it was becoming hard to concentrate on the screen. Could it have been some kind of crule joke? Could it. She was crying because she was not sued to support, she did not know how to recvie it.
She cluched her pillow and cried. Cried while reading it , then smiled knowing that she was never travelling alone in her journey. Their were many, so many that had been their, who thought like her, who felt heavy in their chest.
She was so lost in her europiha that it startled her when the bell rang in her house. Who could it be? Shekhar? No he just send her that defamation threat on phone?
She looked thorugh the peep hole and found some ladies dressed in smart kuri. She opened the door tentatively.
“HI” She said still looking at them through half opebed door , secured by the chain lock.
“HI, Miss Subha?” They enquired with a small smile.
“Yes” she aid and somehow felt confident to open the full door.
“We are from Womens’s power NGO. We are here to contact to you in reagrds of your sexual harassment incident” They way they said that word without an ounce of shame gave shuba a dignity to welcome them into their home without prejudice.
They sat and introduced themselves. How they have been dealing with women who found them seles in tough situation and how they provide legal guidance eto them.
“How did you get to know about me?” Shubha asked. Could it have been that her blog reached them? How did they know my home address then?
They smiled “ The other ladies in your office gave us your address. Some of them who had similar experiences contacted us and told that you would be willing to pursue the court case.”
“Were they all harrsed by Shekahr?” She asked surprised.
“No, by different people in the same office..” They said. Subha looked at them confused.
“So how can we all pursue a case against the person who asuslte dme”
“We are not filing case against shekhar miss Subha, we are suing the GEC company, For failing to provode it’s female employee’s a safe working place…”
Subha stared at them in disbelief. A case against the whole company? Was it that prelevant. And nobody ever knew about it?
They looked at the confused face and smiled “ Your blog kind of started a fire..the way it was so openly stated , it connected with other victims and they decided to come toagther. There is something about openly accepting what has happened to you. It brings people toagther. It tell sthem that it is not one off case. That it was prevelant and spereading. And until they do something, it will not change” She spoke with a pride , like someone has to the one who took the step they had hoped for long to be takne by someone.
She no longer had to scream above the laugh of others, because her voice was not alone now.
The lady smiled at her and said “ You have kind of hit the hornet’s nest. We are going to make them pay”
And I think, it was after a long time that subha felt the warmth of accomaion

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I have always been intrigued by photography. The work of Ansel Adams comes to mind as capturing something as simple as nature in it's pure element in a way that invokes a strong sense of emotion or wonder. Kind of like how you can look at something and see it in a completely different way.
Perhaps we can also think about our preconceived ideas about things, people, places, institutions and see them in a different light? I saw this little chapel sitting all alone in a cold, desolate winter setting, there was something different about it. The way the light captured it as the sun was rising, the fog beginning to burn off, the icicles hanging on for dear life as if a strong breeze would send them crashing to the ground.
I was seeing not just a building or gathering place but something that captured my attention in a different way. It made me start to ask questions about larger things than myself. Stopping to take the time to ask these questions and photograph this very interesting subject was, in a sense, an all too fleeting moment of inner-peace, wonder and awe.
The way the light was dancing on it was just something that made me get out of my warm car and trudge though about 2 feet of snow in tennis shoes and start taking countless photographs of it defies any logic.
What if we all took that extra few minutes to stop when something unique catches our eye, someone needs help etc? It might not be convenient or planned, but the outcome may end up surprising you. I would encourage others to slow down a few notches in this ever racing world we live in and take in the subtle beauty surrounding us, even in strange places. It takes many forms and is plainly visible if you take the time to notice it.


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NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 3 – The High Court on Monday rejected a request by two Members of Parliament and a matatu driver to temporarily stop the implementation of the new traffic laws.
Justice David Majanja said the laws were properly passed by Parliament and signed into law by the president.
Lawyer Evans Ondieki appearing for Makadara MP Gidion Mbuvi, aka Mike Sonko, Ferdinand Waititu of Embakasi and driver Brian Gakere said that implementation of the new provisions in the Traffic Act had caused untold pain to commuters since Public Service Vehicle (PSV) operators went on strike protesting the laws.
“Some people could not make it to work today, because this strike is not only in Nairobi but it national. No one should be allowed to undergo such pain,” he said.
He argued that the law was discriminatory as it targeted only drivers yet the transport sector has other players such as the operators, commuters and road users.
“A temporary injunction will provide time for consultation to see if there can be consensus and see if there could be a review of the law,” Ondieki argued.
The lawyer said that raising huge fines was a challenge for motorists caught overlapping, obstructing, driving on pavements or through a petrol station, especially drivers in the PSV sector who earn about Sh500 a day.
He argued that government departments such as the Ministry of Roads and the City Council of Nairobi had not taken the necessary measures such as marking designated bus stages and other road postings to enable the drivers do their jobs properly.
“Implementation of the law is supposed to be a natural process, it cannot come as an event,” he stated.
John Khaminwa who is appearing as a friend of the court said that the judicial advocacy system had been paralysed as there were no office staff and messengers to convey crucial documents to and from the courts.
“It undermines the judicial movement; we don’t have messengers, photocopiers in our offices. The system of advocacy has been paralysed, we are not able to assist the court as we should,” said Khaminwa.
The new traffic regulations came into effect on Saturday and matatu operators within the city and across the country remained opposed to them and paralysing public transport.
Scores of public service vehicles have been seen parked on the roadsides and hundreds of commuters were forced to use alternative means or walk to their places of work.
Matatu operators have complained that the rules are punitive and are not aimed at controlling traffic or reducing road carnage. The operators argue that the laws spell heavy fines that will affect the matatu business negatively.
The operators have also said the rules are an avenue for traffic police officers to collect more bribes rather than enforcing the laws without harassment.
The laws came to effect on Saturday and bear heavy penalties and lengthy prison terms for offenders.
According to the new traffic laws, a motorist caught overlapping, obstructing, driving on pavements or through a petrol station will be fined between Sh100,000 and Sh300,000 or three months in jail or both.
Speeding beyond the prescribed limits will attract a fine of Sh10,000 or three months in jail or both. A penalty of Sh500,000 or 10 years imprisonment or both will be slapped against a motorist caught driving carelessly.
The new traffics rules are tougher on careless driving causing death as this will attract life imprisonment as the new rules treat this as murder.
The new rules recommend a fine of Sh500,000 or 10 years in jail or both for driving while drunk.
The new rules also have a medical requirement as drivers will be required to undergo a mandatory eye test every three years for licensed driver and if one fails the test the license is withdrawn.
The new rules that came into force last Saturday are not only meant for Public Service Vehicles but all motorists and pedestrians.