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1. So you’re reporting the news and this happens.
A live video of the River Clyde in Glasgow, invaded by a spider.
2. Yes, it’s just a spider close to the lens…but still.
3. Did you pay attention to the news? Nope.
By the way, he said: “Something somewhere somehow has resigned.”


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A powerful novel about Australia's frontier history, the story follows a successful trader and merchant in Sydney in the late 1870s. "Young James" Beckett believes he has put his past behind him, but when the enigmatic bushman Lancaster reappears in his life, he is forced to confront the haunting truth of his early years. In 1832, Young James and his father, the Captain, arrived in New South Wales and set out with a group of convicts and a guide, Lancaster, to claim property on the Morrombidgee River in Wiradjuri country. As land opened up for further settlement, more whites arrived and the delicate balance that was in place between the Beckett family and the Wiradjuri people was shattered. What happened next was so shocking that it has tormented Young James for life, and it is only his chance encounter with Lancaster decades later that provides the final clue to those terrible events. Based on Australia's first contact history, this is a gripping adventure about the desperate battle for land and its dreadful consequences.

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When bugs find your vegetable garden and help themselves to dinner, it can make you feel helpless. Maybe you cry “uncle”, give up, and say you’ll try again next year. But with the help of pest-fighting flowers, you’ll have natural pest control, the upper hand on claiming your vegetables, and nice-looking produce.
Greg Holdsworth is a garden writer for a website called finegardening.com. He says good flowers will help you fight bad bugs in several ways.
"They attract beneficial bugs which of course then become kind of like reinforcements on your team, and they in turn will then help fight the bad bugs," says Holdsworth. "Another thing that they do, they have properties in them that will repel the bugs, either the smell, or the oils, or the flesh of the plant itself."
A well-known flower in the war chest is the marigold, especially the scented varieties such as French and Mexican marigolds. Dahlias, Lavender, Four O’Clocks, and Chrysanthemums also have properties that tend to “bug” many destructive insects.
Of course, what works in my veggie garden may not work in yours. You’ll have to experiment, but native plants are the best choice. You know they’ll do well in your garden, and beneficial insects are already used to those plants.
Holdsworth says it’s important to strategically place your fighting flowers around the plants you’re trying to protect, or integrate them.
"The advantage of the border is that you know that they’re probably not going to be getting in the area where your actual plants are," he says. "The advantage of them being integrated within your plants of course is that they’re a lot closer."
Some flowers can also be ground up and stewed in water to create a “tea” that can be sprayed on infested areas.

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President-elect Obama has not even moved into the White House and already history is being rewritten. The nastiness of his campaign is being excised from the Akashic Records and all the evil things that Hillary was accused of, and that The Precious and his posse ended up doing/saying as well (voting for the war, being part of the old establishment, doing and saying anything to get elected, etc..), are now considered irrelevant, not important, or part of what The One had to do/say to get elected, a strategy that was denied to Hillary.
So what lessons are we to draw from all this past misogynistic behavior? None. There was no sexism, no women bashing, just some feminists playing the victims again (see one comment in another one of my posts). I must have been dreaming. Obviously I didn't know about the Obamawin's Law.
Vastleft from Corrente (http://www.correntewire.com/obamawins_law) explains the Obamawin's Law:
Thou shalt not break Obamawin’s Law:
No lessons shall be learned (or even considered) from the mistreatment Hillary Clinton received and/or the uncritical treatment Barack Obama received during the 2008 primaries.
The only acceptable reason to revisit this year’s Democratic primaries is for something constructive, like shaming Hillary for not taking evil advice that wasn’t offered to her by her campaign director.
Under no circumstances should you look back to recent months to evaluate Obama’s electability and the implications of his campaign and platform, the DNC’s electoral process, or the behavior of the media, the blogosphere, and Obama’s real-world supporters. It’s ancient history, it doesn’t matter, and a baby pony dies every time you bring it up.
Even people who want to broach such topics are becoming increasingly apologetic, because they know it’s consummately gauche to relive such long- and best-forgotten matters that obviously could have no relevance to today’s and tomorrow’s political situations.
For example, as Lambert notes, Bob Somerby feels compelled to say "not once, but twice, that he’s not refighting the Clinton/Obama primary, because that’s how looking at the actual record of events is consistently framed.”
Glenn Greenwald reacts to concerns about Rachel Maddow’s role in msnbc’s relentless surreality-based trashing of Hillary Clinton thusly: Amazing that there are still so many people who see the entire world through — every last square inch of it — exclusively through the prism of their specific preference in the Obama v. Hillary wars (Hard-core Obama fanatics now think that Chris Matthews and other Hilary-haters are exemplars of great journalism and hard-core Hillary fanatics think that Fox is Fair and Balanced).
Go ahead, I dare you: on almost any lefty blog, try to bring up any lesson that might have been derived from Obamamania and Hillary Hate. If you do, I hope you have a taste for STFU, because a big cup is a-comin’!


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To the enthusiastic applause of the Lying Press, RATs are consciously seeking to deliver the Oval Office to the woman whom Conservatism Inc. has been promising to defeat for two decades.
Thus one group, “Republican Women for Hillary,” just received the usual adoring coverage in CNN, where they were described as “an unlikely gang of pro-Clinton foot soldiers”:
For these women who founded the group, (and one man who has joined in solidarity), Trump's bombastic style, offensive rhetoric toward women and minorities, slapdash policy "suggestions" risk destroying the party.CNN’s editorializing aside, who are these “unlikely” women? The founder is one Jennifer Lim, who works for…the U.S. Chamber of Commerce! Of course, the Chamber of Commerce is outraged at Donald Trump’s “America First” approach to issues like trade and immigration.
[Republican women organize to support Clinton, by Chris Moody, CNN, July 3, 2016].
Indeed, CNN’s MJ Lee exults about how many traditionally Republican corporate leaders are coming around to supporting the Democrats:
Hillary Clinton has an opportunity that has eluded Democratic presidential nominees for decades: Being the candidate of big businessAnother figure identified by CNN’s Moody as part of “Republican Women for Hillary” is one Meghan Milloy
[Clinton seizes opening as Trump alienates big business, July 5, 2016]
who works for the conservative American Action Forum think tank and has formerly campaigned for Republicans like Trent Lott, Mitt Romney and Haley Barbour.Of course, Lott was a squish who was last seen complaining that Talk Radio was a “problem” that “we have to deal with.”
Mitt Romney has been cucking since the beginning of the 2016 campaign.
As for Haley Barbour, the former Mississippi used to lobby for the Mexican government on Amnesty. And his son Austin is a GOP operative who worked for Jeb Bush. [Austin Barbour joins Jeb Bush campaign to help in South, by Geoff Pender, The Clarion-Ledger, September 29, 2015] Barbour Jr. just gave an interview to POLITICO after Hillary was let off the email hook, bashing Trump—saying the “onus” was still on Trump to win over conservatives [Clinton’s email woes fail to sway Never Trump Republicans, by Katie Glueck, Politico, July 5, 2016].
And who else is Milloy connected to? According to CNN’s Moody,
She was recently married to Tim Lim, the founder of a media buying firm called Precision and a partner at Bully Pulpit Interactive, which has a contract with the Clinton campaign. But, she said, her reasons for supporting Clinton are genuine.If we can’t take the word of a paid political hack, who can we believe?
What we’re really seeing here is the union of Political Correctness and the Cheap Labor agenda. This is also what happened after the Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom. Suddenly, the “Trending” stories on Facebook and commentaries promoted by the MSM were pushing two key premises: First, that the Brexit campaign had enabled poisonous nationalism; second, the campaign was threatening the profits of currency speculators and the power of self-defined “elites.”
Now it’s underway within the GOP. Sudden “true conservative” invocations of “conscience” (curiously unprompted by the unconservative candidacies of Bob Dole/ George W. Bush/ John McCain/ Mitt Romney) are closely linked to a fear that Donald Trump might actually do something to stop immigration and protect American workers.
For example, Paul Ryan picked this moment of all moments to join in an MSM pile-on of Donald Trump for supposedly sending out an anti-Semitic tweet.
Speaking on the radio show of fanatically anti-Trump “conservative” radio host Charlie Sykes, Ryan said:
“Look, anti-Semitic images, they’ve got no place in a presidential campaign. Candidates should know that. The tweet’s been deleted. I don’t know what flunky put this up there.”Ryan added helpfully:
[Ryan to Trump: ‘Anti-Semitic images’ have no place in campaign, by Nick Gass, Politico, July 5, 2016]
But most importantly, as you know, one of the few times I spoke out against him during the primary very forcefully was in this area, when he failed to disavow supremacists, white supremacists.Bunk. The truth is that Trump is most likely not racist enough to know he is “dog whistling.” Trump has thus far run no television ads, has hired no staff to run his campaign in key states, and is only now beginning to put together the kind of campaign team any other candidate would have assembled months ago. And yet we are supposed to believe Trump deliberately chose a coded and obscure anti-Semitic meme, sent it out, deleted it, replaced it and then followed up with praise of the Elie Wiesel because it was all part of a grand strategy.
And all of this immediately after publicly rebuking a supporter who asked an anti-Israel question at a recent rally. [Donald Trump pushes back against anti-Israel question-vows ‘100%’ support, Forward, July 1, 2016]
It is possible Trump is playing 3-D chess while the rest of us are just playing checkers. But it’s equally likely he simply grabbed and tweeted out a meme he saw being circulated online without looking carefully who made it, where it came from, or what was the significance of a six pointed star, which does not, in fact, look like the Star of David anyway.
The MSM’s hysterical reaction tells us more the mindset of Jewish journalists than some secret agenda of Trump’s. For example, Matthew Yglesias concludes one condemnation of Trump by proclaiming, “[M]obilization of majoritarian ethnic identity is bad for the Jews, whether Trump likes it or not”. [Donald Trump and the Jews, Explained, Vox, July 5, 2016]
But why is Paul Ryan going along with the esoteric theories of far Left journalists? And how come the same people willing to accept the apologies and excuses of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise about speaking at an event hosted by David Duke’s organization are so eager to virtue-signal and preen for the MSM when it comes to Trump?
One suspects it’s because Scalise has dutifully become much less eager to combat mass immigration since rising to the House leadership.
And the ugly truth is Ryan would be relived if Trump loses and he can get back to pushing cheap labor policies for his donors. It’s not about morality, but about profits. Trump is being opposed not because he is doomed to fail—but because he may yet succeed.
This campaign of sabotage is having some effect. Trump is pulling closer, but he still trails in most polls because he has not yet been able fully to mobilize the white vote and to consolidate Republican support [WashPost/ABC Poll: Trump Losing Support of Republicans, by Mark Swanson, Newsmax, June 27, 2016].
Though #NeverTrump couldn’t deny Trump the nomination, it could still deny him the general election, against a deeply-flawed opponent.
“Conservatives” who believe they can afford to let Hillary Clinton become president because of their tender “conscience” should realize they are being had. Unless mass immigration is stopped, the GOP, conservatism and the historic American nation have no future. Trump is a (admittedly somewhat unlikely) gift from God. The GOP should “thank heaven fasting” for him.
Patriots are justified in viewing RATs who want to stab the Republican candidate in the back as traitors—not just to the cause of the GOP, but to the American nation itself.
James Kirkpatrick [Email him] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc.

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I was so proud of all the student performances this past weekend at our Russian Fiddle Student Concert! It was especially special to all be together once again and making music in a group! Enjoy a clip from the grand finale of our concert- all the student together performing "Khorovod," a traditional Russian round dance tune!
Hello fiddlers and friends! On July 14 I will start my Irish Fiddle Group Class again!
This class will be a 6 week session occurring weekly on Wednesdays at 7:30pm on Zoom. This class will be a little different than my usual Irish fiddle group classes. This class will focus specifically on Irish fiddle bowings. Bowings are a HUGE part of creating a true Irish sound, and being able to identify the note patterns that lend themselves to specific bowings will help you when learning new tunes for the rest of your musical career!
In this class you will be given the sheet music for each tune prior to class, and each week we will go through the basic notes of the tune then dive deeper into understanding bowings and note patterns in the tune. By the end of the 6 week session you will have learned 6 traditional Irish fiddle tunes, and the specific bowings and note patterns to create a true Irish sound! This class is going to be so much fun!! I encourage every student that has been playing their instrument for at least one year to join this exciting class! It is $72 for the 6 week session. CLICK HERE to sign up!
Yes it's time for the next student concert! We are so excited to offer TWO concerts on July 18- an in person concert at the Fiddle Lessons PDX home studio at 2pm and an online concert via Zoom at 4pm. I can't wait to hear all the students' performances of their Russian fiddle tunes and the group piece, Khorovod!

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Not natural substances
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injury the microorganisms that are essential to the wastewater therapy process
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rust and trigger leakages in concrete therapy storage tanks
quit the anaerobic digestion process in sewage-disposal tanks
disrupt the efficiency of second treatment systems (including the Ecoflo biofilter).
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Organic septic system ingredients include yeasts, all-natural bacteria, and enzymes. They are suggested to enhance the bacterial plants in sewage-disposal tanks and also drain areas, control biomass, and also reactivate dormant septic tanks.
Do I need to add bacteria to my sewage-disposal tank?
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President Donald Trump said on Monday that China is ready to come back to the negotiating table and the two countries will start talking very seriously.Politicsread more
The escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing dominated discussions at the G-7 gathering in France.Politicsread more
China's state media is putting up a brave front as the country's trade war with the U.S. escalated sharply over the weekend.China Economyread more
The latest round of tariff announcements in the last few days means that by the end of the year, essentially all Chinese goods exported to the U.S. will be subject to duties.China Economyread more
U.S. stock futures surged Monday morning after President Trump said China is ready to come back to the negotiating table following a phone call Sunday and the two countries...Marketsread more
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Tensions stemming from the U.S.-China trade war escalated sharply over the last few days, with much happening as Asian markets were shut down for the weekend.China Economyread more
Clouding the G-7 gathering, which represents the world's major industrial economies, are the tit-for-tat tariffs between Washington and Beijing.Politicsread more
Neither the U.S. nor China wants to be seen as the party that derailed trade talks, says William Reinsch of Center for Strategic and International Studies.World Economyread more
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World leaders, environmental groups and celebrities have publicly decried the vast swaths of forest being destroyed by the fires.World Newsread more
The sustainable food movement has inspired a return to traditional food crafts and preparation: canning, pickling, cheese-making, home brewing. Meanwhile, a similar trend has infused careers and occupations. These resurging professions can reflect a rejection of mass-production and indicate a move back toward more carefully considered and developed products and services.
They may have old-fashioned sensibilities, but it’s not a movement of Luddites: many who adopt the old ways still take advantage of modern technologies, if only to promote their endeavors online.
Should old professions be forgot, click ahead to learn about seven that will not.
By Colleen Kane
Posted 16 Dec 2010
Not since the back-to-the-land movements of the 20th century (the last one ending in the 1970s) has farming gained so much interest among younger people who didn’t grow up on farms. But now that the preaching of Pollan has gone mainstream, more Americans are reconsidering their food intake and production. As a result, urban farms are springing up in cities all over America, on rooftops and in empty lots. While the methods are similar to pre-pesticide organic farming methods, the ethos addresses numerous modern concerns.
Farming had long ceased to resemble the pastoral family model that’s still portrayed on butter cartons today. Food production is dominated by large-scale, industrialized monopolies. The goal of these new farms is to decentralize, to source food more locally and on a smaller scale that doesn’t damage the environment. Another aspect is the obesity epidemic: getting children involved with producing their own healthy food in hopes of breaking this harmful trend.
Baltimore’s Great Kids Farm is one such program. The organization teaches children about farming as they cultivate organic fruits and vegetables year-round, and it prepares them for agricultural, culinary, and environmental careers. They also run a CSA ($500 for 24 weeks of produce), supply local restaurants, and sell at farmers’ markets.
Branding used to be created by hand by professionals. In the digital age, however, anyone with a computer can make a sign or design a logo—but that doesn’t mean it looks good. “Brands and logos are becoming homogenized because designers are often just tweaking fonts that everyone has access to,” says Elizabeth Carey Smith, who runs the Brooklyn design studio The Letter Office. “Lettering gives companies an opportunity to create something truly unique.” Another benefit she points out is that other companies can’t steal the look easily.
“There are so many graphic designers out there, so those of us who have spun off into lettering have created a niche by resurrecting basically what used to be the primary craft of the trade,” she says.
Letterers don’t eschew technology entirely, of course. “The way that I work always starts off on paper. I use various pens and brushes and really explore the letterforms of the word or company name, looking for compositions that express what the company wants to be to its audience. I then refine these on the computer, and add to what I've done with color, image, and other components to create a whole identity system.”
Lettering is often done by freelancers, so they set their own hours. Rates vary, but creating a logo, which can take anywhere from four hours to a few weeks, can run about $1,000.
James Roberts of Melbourne, Australia makes footwear and leather goods by hand, using methods and tools much the same to those used a hundred years ago. His shoes start at $800 AUD (about $790 USD), with boots and custom work going much higher—and he has a waiting list of six months plus. Numerous other leather-workers ply their trade on Etsy.com’s online marketplace, crafting custom shoes, boots, and bags. There, a pair of custom-made men’s or women’s shoes can command $500 a pair, and bags draw $100 on up.
In this age of mass production, shoes come cheap. Why the interest in bespoke, even in such a down economy? For many, it’s about quality and luxury. “Handmade shoes are now in the realm of luxury goods when they were once the only option,” says James. “So to keep the profession alive, I strive to make the shoes fit that small luxury market and thus raise the quality and craftsmanship of every step in the process that I can.”
James uses all leather for his shoes’ uppers, linings and soles and stiffeners, he hand-sews the shoes, and he dyes his own leather. “A day in the workshop is hard work. I usually have a few different tasks that I aim to get done that day. Sometimes it can take all day hand- stitching the soles on.” He spends anywhere from 40-70 hours making each pair.
Sara Bigelow left her job in PR to become a butcher, and now works 11 or 12-hour days as one at The Meat Hook at Brooklyn Kitchen. She took about a 30% pay cut in this career switch, but says she did it for the love of the craft—and it doesn’t hurt to get fed grass-fed beef daily.
She explains the recent growth in her field: “I think people are interested lately in working as a butcher for a couple reasons: it's being sold as a sort of ‘sexy’ profession because of the primal/artisinal/tradesman cache of working with your hands and creating food; food itself (what we're eating, how it's prepared, where it comes from) has become an important issue, particularly in big cities but also nationwide—therefore being involved in the food world has become more appealing; finally, there is more opportunity for someone interested in working with food generally and meat specifically to do so.”
Sara says the work of the new butchers is similar to those of the 1940s, before large-scale meat production and processing plants took away part of the butcher’s job. What’s different about the new crop, she says, is “[We] educate anyone who's interested in the provenance of our meat, and why what we're doing (working with small, local farms, selling grass-fed beef, etc) matters.”
Beekeeping is another traditional craft seeing a bump in popularity due to rising concern over locally and sustainably produced foods. However, modern beekeepers are also in it to help combat the dwindling of the nation’s bee population.
In many ways beekeeping hasn’t changed, in that it still involves breeding honeybees, maintaining their hives, and harvesting their honey. But another new aspect is that it’s being taken up again in cities as it becomes legalized, and that modern beekeepers find themselves campaigning for its legalization. The New York Times reported that beekeeping became legal in the past two years in many municipalities from New York to Salt Lake City, and that many more are considering lifting their bans. The New York City beekeeping club now has about 900 members, a number double that of just a year ago.
Typically, beekeepers don’t do it for the money, and most do it as a hobby. But there are jobs in beekeeping, and others still have the prospect of selling honey ($3- $6 per pound), pollen, and beeswax products. Some also rent out their hives to other beekeepers ($40- $100). Some lose money or break even, but depending on the amount of hives one keeps, it can be profitable.
Comparing the enchanting, painterly look of hand-animated classics like Max Fleischer’s “Superman” or Disney’s “Snow White” to the cheaply outsourced look of later cartoons, it’s understandable why new technologies in digital animation were swiftly embraced.
Although Pixar is the reigning monolith of animated films, don’t write off traditional, hand-drawn-and-colored, 2D animation yet. No less of a titan than Disney (who owns Pixar) has advocated for traditional, after a five-year hiatus, with their two well received recent films, 2009’s “The Princess and the Frog,” and 2010’s “Tangled.”
And no less of a film critic than Roger Ebert validated the aesthetic choice when he heaped on the praise in his review for The Princess and the Frog: “This is what classic animation once was like! No 3-D! No glasses! No extra ticket charge! No frantic frenzies of meaningless action!”
That’s not to say that 3D won’t continue dominating the market, but the rumors of traditional animation’s death have been exaggerated. It’s a safe bet that if Disney won’t let 2D fade, it’s safe in the age of CGI.
The New York Times recently covered “The Barbershop Renaissance,” chronicling an uptick in retro-styled barber shops where men can get a shave and a haircut for …well, for more than two bits, but for less than they would at a frou-frou salon ($30-$40 for a haircut and $25 to $40 for a straight-razor hot shave). It’s manly, yet stylish, yet practical.
The interest is also in evidence elsewhere, on Amazon with its new category “classic shave,” eBay, where a representative cited in the article says “sales of merchandise returned by the search term barbershop were up 77 percent, sales of Barbicide were up 60 percent, and sales of items found by searching for the words vintage barbershop sign were up 251 percent.” Finally, the number of issued barber licenses increased by 10 percent.
The barbers of the Times’ renaissance are distinguished from their predecessors, the everyday barbers on a Main Street, USA, in that they’re being consciously retro in a desirable way, unlike the barber cited by a source in the Times piece, who gave him a cut evoking Keanu Reeves circa 1993 when he was aiming for a 1960s Don Draper.


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BRAINTREE -- When celebrating a Jubilee Mass for the Archdiocese of Boston's religious sisters on Nov. 4, Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley had to make a last-minute change to his homily.
Cardinal O'Malley said that the sisters, who gathered at the Archdiocese of Boston Pastoral Center's Bethany Chapel to celebrate the 50th, 60th, or even 70th anniversaries of taking their vows, represented centuries of religious life. It turned out that "centuries" was a low estimate. The sisters actually represented a combined 7,875 years of religious life.
"It says something about longevity in women religious," said Sister Germana Santos, a Daughter of St. Paul and the Archdiocese of Boston's delegate for religious.
Case in point: 96-year-old Sister Angela Gvazdauskas, who became a Poor Sister of Jesus Crucified and the Sorrowful Mother 70 years ago.
Ever since she was a little girl growing up in Worcester, Sister Angela wanted to be a sister like her older cousin. She attributed her long life to her faith but said that she is still going strong.
"I'm only 96," she told The Pilot.
During Mass, the sisters renewed their vows and congratulated each other on their milestones. Other sisters throughout the archdiocese also marked their jubilees but could not make it to the Pastoral Center due to illness or advanced age. Those who could make it shook hands with (or hugged) Cardinal O'Malley, received his blessing, and got their pictures taken with him.
"It's a miracle, to tell you the truth," Sister Jeanette Gaudet, who celebrated 60 years as a Missionary Franciscan Sister of the Immaculate Conception, told The Pilot. "It didn't seem like 60 years, I can say that for sure."
In a jubilarian reflection offered at the end of Mass, she said that by living and working with people of all backgrounds, religious sisters have special insight into the human condition.
"If we are open to having eyes that see," she said, "those years can also give us perspective. The higher the ascent, the deeper the depths plunged, the broader the vision."
In her 60 years of religious life, she has visited 11 countries, including Papua New Guinea, Egypt, Italy, Ireland, and Bolivia.
"It was a wonderful gift to see the variety," she told The Pilot, "and also the fact that people are all the same everywhere, really. They're joyful about some of the same things, and they're sad and in pain about some of the same things."
When she "experienced the joy of the Franciscan Sisters" in high school, she knew religious life was for her.
"I felt called to be in a really vital community where everyone was respected, everyone was loved," she said. "Everyone was brothers and sisters everywhere."
In his homily, Cardinal O'Malley compared the work of religious sisters to the ideals of the Synod on Synodality, which he recently attended in Rome. He said it was "refreshing" to see the number of sisters who participated in and assisted with the synod.
"It was just extraordinary," he said. "Sometimes we get disappointed that consecrated life seems to be on the wane, but I assure you, that is not the full picture."
He looked back on his own 58 years of religious life, and the changes that he has seen in that time.
"But I never doubted for a moment that religious life is one of the greatest treasures of the Catholic Church," he said. "Our religious sisters have initiated so many works and served so many millions of people, and always with such a special love and regard for the poor, the defenseless, the prisoner."
He said that religious sisters represent the "strong sense of community" that guided the church in its earliest days. With the synod, he said, Pope Francis is "trying to return" that community spirit to the church.
"We call you sisters because you are," he said. "Your call is to be part of every family, especially where God's merciful providence needs to be present."

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I thought of some other things 🙂
1. Declan should be able to make something like a short-circuit grenade that clings to bots or things that omega hasn’t suborned. Like the bullets for the centipede drones, but drains their batteries, power source, or surge and fry their cpus. I wonder if that could work against Vorsok tech? Perhaps it could carry a spell like the effects of the kwist bush on the black armor?
2. He should be able to create a network of permenant portals connected to the batteries he is creating, to be able to repond to Vorsok attacks (we know some likely places for portals). Don’t know if that is a good idea though…
3. I wonder if Chris could make a sword of his mono edge? Since his angel sword is will not always light up, it could be an alternative.
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Green living is supported by your actions. Saving energy and conserving water and other natural resources are key parts of a greener, eco-friendly lifestyle. Another important contribution to going green comes from the items you buy. Organic foods, chemical-free fertilizers, low VOC paints are all considered green products.
Bamboo is another material frequently found on lists of green products. As a green, renewable building material, bamboo has major advantages. It grows very quickly, and can be harvested in 5 to 6 years. Compared to a hardwood tree, which may take 50-100 years to mature, bamboo provides 10 to 20 times as much building material in the same amount of time. Bamboo is surprisingly durable as well. Bamboo also does not need to be replanted when cut, as it naturally and spontaneously grows back. For these reasons, bamboo has been used increasingly as a material for flooring and paneling. For building applications, bamboo is an excellent renewable raw material.
But be careful about letting clever marketers oversell you on the benefits of bamboo as a green raw material. More recently textiles produced from bamboo are entering the market. You can find bamboo sheets and pillowcases, bamboo towels, and even bamboo underwear. Bamboo has a natural anti-bacterial property as well. All this may sound great, having linens and clothing made from a plant such as bamboo, but there is a big problem.
To be turned into a textile, bamboo must be cooked in strong chemical solutions and turned into viscose, which is then reconstructed into fibers for weaving. This chemical cooking process requires a lot of energy and chemicals. Even worse, the treatment is so harsh that it entirely removes the anti-bacterial benefit of bamboo. After treatment for spinning into textile fibers, bamboo is no different than rayon.
Rayon is a man-made fiber created from the cellulose found in plants and trees. It is processed at high temperature and treated with harsh chemicals. Any plant or tree could be used as the cellulose source, including bamboo. However, the product that is created is rayon, and that rayon is indistinguishable whether it came from bamboo or any other cellulose source.
The FTC has recognized this deceptive advertising and has announced that bamboo-derived textiles are so heavily treated that any trace of the distinctive nature of bamboo fiber has been eliminated, making the material rayon, not bamboo.
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Bratislava, October 17 (TASR) – Health Minister Tomas Drucker (a Smer-SD nominee) can’t rule out the possibility that the central procurement of CT scanners for hospitals might be cancelled in the case of speculative bids, TASR learnt on Monday.
Drucker declared that the Health Ministry has a “sincere” interest in engaging in as good a tender as possible with maximum emphasis on transparency. He estimates that about 50 hospitals might buy CT devices in this way.
Drucker stands by the tender for the central purchasing of CT scanners for hospitals amounting to some €40 million that was criticised by MP Miroslav Beblavy (Independent) last week. He believes that it’s been prepared well. A team of experts worked on its preparation between May-July, and the tender conditions run to 106 pages. Drucker described Beblavy’s statements concerning a potential cartel as hypothetical. It seems to him that such a scenario was suggested to the MP by someone else.
The Health Ministry announced on Friday (October 14) that it will postpone the deadline for presenting bids in the tender by ten calendar days. The original deadline was set for October 17. The ministry will assess the tender terms one more time, and it’s still possible that they might be adjusted. “We want to go through all the comments. I don’t pretend that we’re without error,” said Drucker, who views the tender as being standard and one that anyone can join.
Beblavy said on Friday (October 14) that the tender should be scrapped and carried out anew. He claimed that it’s not a real competition, but a well-managed cartel. He added that it would be possible to save between €6-10 million if the processes related to the tender were modified. Beblavy said that he sees the idea of central purchasing as a good solution for halting dubious purchases in hospitals, but he doesn’t like the way in which the tender in question has been set.
The tender should be concluded in the final quarter of this year. It will be divided in two parts, based on the performance and features of the CT scanners. Each part will result in two winners of an e-auction that will gain a three-year framework contract. Not only state hospitals, but also non-profit organisations and regional hospitals under the remit of regional governments will be able to purchase scanners via the contract.


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Last decade, worries about peak oil supply were in fashion. The world was allegedly reaching a tipping point at which crude oil supply would plateau, and then decline. This sentiment led to a sharp rise in oil prices all along the futures curve and motivated governments to take efforts to plan for a possible supply crisis. Critics countered by arguing that while supply may eventually peak, global oil demand would reach its high point first. A combination of persistently high oil prices, widespread regulations on fuel economy, and a transition to alternative transportation fuels like electricity would undermine growth in consumption.
The outlook on the supply side has changed significantly. Oil production is nowhere near peaking. The shale revolution in the U.S., along with other patches of supply growth, has drowned out peak oil supply voices from the current conversation. On the demand side, talk of it peaking is still in fashion, however, as visible changes in the transportation sector have occurred in the past decade. However, although shifts are taking place with electric vehicles (EVs), autonomy, and more stringent fuel economy, it is not inevitable that we’ll soon be in a post-oil world and that demand will peak sooner rather than later.
Although shifts are taking place with electric vehicles (EVs), autonomy, and more stringent fuel economy, it is not inevitable that we’ll shortly be in a post-oil world and that demand will peak sooner rather than later.
The World Energy Council, in a report released Monday, sketched out three plausible scenarios for the future of energy supply and demand, with two of them seeing oil demand peaking before 2030. In these cases, besides moderation in population and economic growth, changes such as cheaper renewable energy such as solar, rapid penetration of electric vehicles, and more stringent fuel economy standards all conspire to cause demand to peak.
The Council calls one of these scenarios “Modern Jazz,” which sees an innovative world with disruption that spurs market-driven changes. The forecast has demand reaching 103 mbd by 2030 before falling. “Funding from venture capitalists, crowd-funding and other private investors enables continued breakthrough technological research that creates new markets and reshapes traditional economic models,” the report said.
The authors add: “Technology developments that disrupt traditional energy systems boost efficiency,” pointing out that shifts in consumer choices such as greater acceptance of EVs and increased telecommuting will “drastically” slow oil demand beyond 2030.
For “Unfinished Symphony,” which envisions a world where policies accelerate a low-carbon future, demand plateaus just slightly above current levels, growing at a modest rate before declining at 2030. In other words, this scenario lays out a world in which top-down mandates significantly restrict carbon and as a result energy demand. “Policy mandates substantially impact consumer demand for light-duty vehicles: Car-ownership grows at a moderated pace, and the mix of car technologies is highly diverse, including biofuels, EVs, and natural gas,” the Council said.
In the “Hard Rock,” business-as-usual scenario, transportation, similar to today’s world, is dominated by oil, so peak demand doesn’t occur until 2040, when it plateaus for a decade.
The business-as-usual scenario, dubbed “Hard Rock” after a quote from heavy metal singer Alice Cooper, envisions a fragmented political system and a world where climate initiatives aren’t at the top of the list. Transportation, similar to today’s world, is dominated by oil, so peak demand doesn’t occur until 2040, when it plateaus for a decade.
With oil having a monopoly on the transportation sector, it’s clear that either strong government policies or a major technology disruption will be needed in order to alter the projected path for oil demand and spur greater diversity in the transport sector, as the “Jazz” and “Symphony” scenarios show. But how plausible these scenarios are is up in the air, meaning the “Hard Rock,” business-as-usual path may win out.
For peak demand to occur by 2030, or even 2040, a lot of different variables have to fall into place.
As such, peak demand scenarios have been too optimistic in the past, and this one might be too. For instance, in 2013, Citi Research put out a report that oil demand would hit its top by 2020. That analysis now looks woefully premature. The optimistic scenarios from the Council may end up missing the mark, too, given that demand trends are made up of numerous factors such as economic growth, population trends, consumer income, subsidy policies, engine technology, fuel economy, oil price volatility, and the performance of alternative fuel sources. With so many issues in flux, it’s difficult to pinpoint when exactly oil demand will plateau and then decline.
The current low price environment has stimulated oil consumption, making the task of curbing demand growth much harder now than it was last decade and the first part of the 2010s, when prices were above $100.
The current low price environment has stimulated oil consumption, making the task of curbing demand growth much harder now than it was last decade and the first part of the 2010s, when prices were above $100. Oil prices could stay low for a very long time: With the massive overhang of crude stocks, OPEC’s trajectory unclear, U.S. shale showing signs of returning, in addition to numerous other large sources of non-OPEC supply, the market is still far from rebalancing. This gives more economic incentive to increase consumption and shun alternatives.
Second, while fuel economy standards are a powerful tool to keep demand in check, they are a blunt instrument. In the U.S., for instance, fuel economy targets are being undermined by changes in the fleet mix—spurred by low oil prices. So far, there’s been an almost 30 percent gap between the original 2016 goals and what has actually been achieved. The 54.5 miles per gallon target for 2025 is simply a projection, and whether that goal is reached will depend on consumer preference. In the U.S., amid the current low price environment, sales for SUVs and bigger cars have soared, countering the objective of reducing fuel consumption through efficiency—gasoline demand could hit a record high this year. Long term, greater fuel economy can actually lead to increased driving, as motorists use their savings from more efficient vehicles to travel more. That, in turn, could boost demand for oil.
Third, populations in the non-OECD world are continuing to grow and need oil, which currently fuels 95 percent of the transportation sector globally, in order to boost their economies. While China’s demand growth is slowing, it will remain positive for years to come. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) sees consumption there rising by 1.7 percent per year through 2040. India is poised to see its demand increase by 3 percent per year, while economies in the Middle East and Central and South America will also experience growth. The increases in these parts of the world will occur alongside demand remaining flat in the OECD, meaning global demand is set to rise by almost 25 mbd to 119 mbd in the next two and a half decades.
In this context, when compared to other long-term outlooks, the Council’s scenario that projects the status quo into the long-term future seems a bit too conservative with its demand estimates. It sees petroleum demand rising by 1.2 percent per year, before falling to just 0.1 percent annually starting in 2030 amid lower economic growth. In all, demand peaks at 104 mbd by 2040, well under the EIA’s outlook.
EVs needed to spur transformation
Of course, the EIA projections could be well off the mark, as the agency’s long-term outlooks have been in the past. The EIA’s long-term outlook doesn’t take into account possible policy and technological shifts. The World Energy Council’s “Jazz” scenario sees a rapid penetration of electric vehicles, but so far, despite their growth this decade, they make up less than 1 percent of global vehicle sales. There is room to cheer given that EV sales in the U.S have hit records, more inroads are being made in Europe, and China is being aggressive in incentivizing them for consumers. Last year, the number of EVs on the road reached 1.26 million, up 100 times higher than at the beginning of the decade. Still, EVs are a niche market, and they could be for some time since it takes at least one to two decades to turn over a fleet.
The World Energy Council’s “Jazz” scenario sees a rapid penetration of electric vehicles, but so far, despite their growth this decade, they make up less than 1 percent of global vehicle sales.
The World Energy Council Energy’s “Jazz” outlook is indeed attractive: Oil would lose its monopoly on the transportation sector based on market forces spurring changes and consumers would have more choices. But there is still a barrier when it comes to consumer education, and low gasoline prices undermine the economic case for EVs. Against this backdrop, in order for the Council’s “Jazz” scenario to be realized, there needs to be an environment to allow for economic disruption along with smart and sustainable government policy.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — U.S. Figure Skating named its Olympic pairs teams on Sunday morning. Here are the athletes who will be representing the USA in Beijing next month.
Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier
Knierim and Frazier didn’t compete at nationals because Frazier tested positive for COVID-19, but they have been the best of U.S. pairs figure skating over the course of their short partnership.
Knierim has been to the Olympics before with her husband and former skating partner Chris Knierim. Frazier is making his first trip to the Olympics. They took seventh at the 2021 world championships and won Skate America last season.
Frazier was alone quarantining in his hotel room in Nashville when he found out he had made the Olympic team. But he said the moment was just as great as he imagined it would be. Said Frazier: "I hugged the crap out of my pillow."
Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc
The winners of the pairs competition in Nashville are going to their first Olympics. Cain-Gribble’s road hasn’t been easy, as she contracted COVID in August and developed asthma in its aftermath. The pair took ninth at worlds in 2021.


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Twenty some years ago Peg and I used to eat at a place on Tacoma Avenue South. I think it was called Mrs. C’s. The owner served southern cooking. She later moved on to South Tacoma Way near the intersection of 512. Either the place there had been a failed Burger King, or it became a failed Burger King after Mrs. C’s closed. The problem was that you could only get to the restaurant if you were driving north on South Tacoma Way. The point however, is that we enjoy southern cooking. We have eaten at Southern Kitchen before, but didn’t like the food. Now, however after changes of owners, a great review and a personal appearance of Guy Fieri in Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, I went back.
It was Saturday afternoon and parking was still a problem, but I only had to walk up the block a little bit. There were only three empty tables. All were around the corner from the counter. Eventually a waitress walked by and asked if I needed to order.
The Southern Kitchen is known for their fried chicken, dressing and gravy, fried okra, grits, corn cakes, mac and cheese . . . none of which were what I was looking for. One of the reasons I had stayed away from the Southern Kitchen was the hashbrowns. If you know me or have read my reviews, I love crispy hashbrowns. I don’t like fried smashed potatoes, I don’t like home fries, I don’t like little diced potatoes throne into a frying pan, and I really, really, hate hashwhites. I always order hashbrowns the same way, “burnt, burnt, burnt . . . with an onion cut up in them.”
The waitress was super nice as I ordered biscuits and gravy with hashbrowns. Eggs over easy, and my made to order potatoes. They were delivered almost exactly as I wanted. The onions were just sitting on top, but that was close enough.
I might not like the biscuits without the gravy, but with the gravy they were excellent as was the gravy. The eggs were perfect. The hashbrowns were even darker than I had hoped. The next time around I’ll bring Peg and we’ll eat a regular dinner, but for now. I’m happy and look forward to my next meal at the Southern Kitchen.


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Amsterdam is one city that you can travel to with your kids and other family members, as it has so many fascinating attractions that you and your kids would love to see. Undoubtedly, Amsterdam is widely famous for its sex and drugs but it is also an pretty good family destination.
NEMO is a largest science centre in Netherlands, which you and your kids would certainly like to visit. Your children will love to learn so many things through exhibitions, films, workshops, and demonstrations. The science labs there offer interactive displays of numerous science processes, thus, making it easy and fun for your children to learn science.
The Kinderkookkafe is a café in Amsterdam that offers superb family-friendly environment to visitors who visit it with their kids. The concept this café has is unique and you could say exclusive, as not only it has both indoor and outdoor play areas for kids but kids can cook their meals as well. Your kids would love it there making their own burger or pizza.
Nestled in the East side of the Amsterdam city, the Artis Zoo has a perfect ambience that you and your kids can remember for a lifetime. The huge golden eagles on the gates seem magical, and you enter a world consisting of 6000 animals belonging to 700 different species. The other features of the Artis Zoo are a planetarium, aquarium, zoology and geology museums, and a botanical garden.
Amsterdam has many quiet green spaces to offer, which you can either choose to spend some time in solitude or to go there and play with your children. Vondelpark is one such city park wherein you can sit and relax, or walk and have a bike ride with your children. If you are there during summers, ensure you attend open-air concerts in the park. Let your kids have a bal in various playgrounds of this park and do stop by the Blauwe Theehuis to have a drink on the outdoor terraces that is one of the largest in Amsterdam.
The Amsterdam Dungeon
It is an 80-minute journey into the history of Amsterdam. You will enjoy the gripping storytelling, special effects, and outstanding performances by the artists who will make you scream and laugh.
Amsterdam is one destination that has plenty of kid-friendly and family-friendly attractions. You must visit it once to see and do fascinating things in Amsterdam.

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Dublin-based financial services company International Finance Group is
believed to be searching for a new chief executive for its UK IFA arm, IFG
Life and Pensions.
Industry experts believe a recruitment ad for an unnamed personal
financial services group looking for a chief executive for its UK IFA
subsidiary relates to IFG.
The ad states the IFA business has annual fee and commission income of
£25m and operating profits of £8m. It offers a salary of
£150,000 plus bonus and equity participation.
At the announcement of IFG's annual results in April group chief executive
Richard Hayes said he aims to grow a nationwide chain of IFAs in Britain
IFG has made several recent acquisitions in the UK to expand its IFA
business including Berkeley Jacobs retirement advisers for around £12m
last September and the Isa Shop for around £12m in December.


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January 16, 2023
Shearwater Firmware V95 For Perdix 2 and Petrel 3, and V23 For Teric are Now Available
Shearwater Firmware v95 is now available. This update is applicable to the Perdix 2 and Petrel 3. Firmware v23 is now available for the Teric.
Due to hardware differences, not all features are available […]
November 8, 2022
Shearwater Firmware V93 For Petrel 3 and NERD 2 is Now Available
Shearwater Firmware v93 is now available for the Petrel 3 and NERD 2.
Adds features released in Version 91 and 92 (which was only released for Petrel 3 and Perdix 2) to legacy […]
June 6, 2022
Shearwater Firmware V91 for Perdix 2 and Petrel 3 and Cloud V2.9.0 are Now Available
Shearwater is excited to release Version 91 Firmware for our new Perdix 2 and Petrel 3 models only. Features introduced in this firmware may become available on older products at a later date.
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This recipe is another great example of why roasted vegetables need to be in your cooking arsenal. They are incredibly easy to prepare, there are endless variations, and they taste incredible.
This recipe amps up the flavor of the sweet potatoes with pecans, red onions and a simple maple glaze. The second recipe in the video below is a variation using apples in place of onions.
- 1 Large or 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 Red onion, cut into wedges
- 1/4 Cup pecan pieces (walnuts would also work)
- 1/4 Cup crumbled feta cheese
- 1/4 Cup real maple syrup
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp kosher salt or seal salt
- Pre-heat oven to 415° F
- Place the pieces of sweet potato, onions and pecans in a large bowl.
- Add olive oil, maple syrup and salt. Stir well to coat all of the vegetables
- Spread the vegetables out evenly on a large baking sheet or shallow baking pan
- Roast in pre-heated oven for 25-30 minutes until the sweet potatoes are soft and develop a deep brown color on the edges.
- Place in a serving bowl and garnish with the feta cheese.
There are many variations you can try with this recipe. Add some baby carrots or replace the onions with chopped apples. Try adding some butternut squash. The sky is the limit.
If you found this recipe helpful or have any questions or comments please feel free to use the comments section below. If you want to see more good stuff from the Old Guy In The Kitchen click the “follow” here on the blog or visit my other sites:


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Please join us for our annual National Night Out celebration hosted by the communities of NPU-V! The event will promote community pride and safety. The event will be held on Tuesday, August 6th at 4pm and will hosted by the Mechanicsville community at Dunbar Recreation Center (477 Windsor Street SW).
-Free food and give-a-ways
-Opportunity to connect with local community partners
-Public safety resources
-Special guest speakers and performers
We also need volunteers! If you’re interested in volunteering or have any other questions, please contact: Watrina Watson at firstname.lastname@example.org


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This cool little geologic feature lives just outside of town behind the Wal Mart. Don’t stare at it for to long though, cause it’ll burn yer retinas out.
The Second in a two part series on how to use the manual functions of the camera.
I had a great time filming this one. Dirtbikes and quads scare the shit out of me,I would prefer something safe like rock climbing, but filming them is about as cool as it gets. I was amazed at how fast these riders will go over the broken terrain without concern for their well being. I saw several crashes that I thought would kill the riders but to my amazement they got up and kept on truckin. I was nearly run over several times trying to get in tight to the action. Hope you like it.


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South Boston News & Record
and Mecklenburg Sun
10/18/14 - 5:14 am
10/16/14 - 6:02 am
County native opts to switch duties as Emory RN, bringing him face-to-face with victims of outbreak
10/16/14 - 6:00 am
Town of Halifax expects to push back due date for personal property payments; South Boston struggles to stick to schedule
10/20/14 - 7:23 am
Frank Coleman Starnes, the most successful high school varsity football coach in Comet history, passed away Wednesday
- More A&E
South Boston police make three arrests over weekend
SoVaNow.com / August 26, 2013South Boston Police Officer S. Song arrested 51 year old James A. Wilson of South Boston on Sunday, charging him with being drunk in public, Song also charged Wilson with harassing emergency personnel by telephone on two separate days, July 19, and Aug. 19. Wilson was being held in the Blue Ridge Regional Jail until he sobered up.
Another South Boston man was arrested by Cpl. T. Bratton on Saturday, and charged with public drunkenness. Farnk A. Coley was also being held in the Blue Ridge Regional Jail until he sobered up.
Officer S. Song arrested 61 year old James Edward Woody of Halifax on Saturday,charging him with two time offenses of driving after having been declared a habitual offender on Dec. 30, 2012. He was being held in the Blue Ridge Regional Jail on an unsecured $2,500 bond. 1350
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“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison.
We have to accept that the journey towards our destiny is not easy in anyway, but that doesn’t mean we should give up. Majority don’t even try they accept that others tried and failed so need to try. People trying and failing doesn’t make you them, you are different and unique , identify why they failed and use it to your advantage.
The great of men will tell you they are greatly proud about their failures, for they have always used them as a stepping stone to better themselves. They understand the GAME OF FAILURE , it always works to their advantage. It’s your time to be a proud failure and not regretting you have failed or you failed.
There are many ways of doing things, it your time to discover them as you fail and raise, as i finish i leave you with the below quote to keep you moving no matter what you face in life.
“Progress in life has nothing to do with speed , it’s all about passion and determination.” How determined and passionate are you in what you are pursuing??

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A fire brigade in Sussex has launched a 12-month safety plan and asked the public to submit their views on it.
West Sussex Fire Brigade's plan aims to target high risk areas with safety checks and smoke detectors and step up programmes aimed at young people.
It also intends to educate "hard to reach" members of the community, such as migrant workers, about fire safety.
The brigade will present its proposals at local committee meetings across West Sussex.
A spokesman for the brigade said the plan was about preventing fires from happening.
"We are geared to responding to emergencies when they occur but we are also very conscious of the need to help people understand the inherent danger of fires," he said.
"This means we will continue to carry out educational and practical work to prevent such incidents occurring in the first place."


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It's the kind of night that would normally have Ibrox bouncing but Rangers will have to do it on their own as they look to advance to the Europa League last-32.
They would normally be roared on from the stands but while the atmosphere will be calmer than usual, motivation should not be a problem for Steven Gerrard's team.
They are yet to lose a game this season and want to finish their group campaign with a flourish as they look to finish above Benfica in top spot.
A win against Standard Liege would stand them in good stead to do just that, and would also make sure of knockout football for the second year running.
Rangers already won in Belgium thanks to Kemar Roofe's spectacular strike and will be confident of another three points to keep their momentum ticking over.
Here’s all you need to know about the matchday four showdown...
When and where will the game take place?
The match is at Ibrox on Thursday, December 3 2020.
Kick-off is at 8pm.
What channel is it on?
The game will be shown live on BT Sports.
Coverage begins at following the conclusion of AC Milan vs Celtic at around 7.45pm.
Will there be a live stream?
Yes. Subscribers can stream the match to their device using the BT App.
Where else can I follow the action?
You can follow it right here on dailyrecord.co.uk of course! We'll be running a live blog throughout the day, bringing you all the key moments as well as post-match reaction and analysis.
A match report and much, much more will also be available on our website following the final whistle.


Evidence given by a key witness in the Ericsson cash-for-deals scandal appears to back allegations that the Swedish mobile telecoms giant bribed Greek officials to secure a 561-million-euro contract in 1999.
Testifying at the Greek Consulate in Stockholm, the witness, a former Ericsson executive identified only as N., confirmed earlier claims by a company employee to Swedish media that he had been ordered by the management of the company to transfer an unspecified amount of money to a British lawyer representing the firm’s Greek branch. He said the meeting, held in Monaco, took place “under mysterious circumstances.”
In an interview with Swedish radio earlier this year, former Ericsson employee Liss-Olof Nenzell said that “politicians, generals and high-ranking state officials” were bribed to sign a contract for the Ericsson airborne surveillance system Erieye.
Ericsson has subsequently sold its defence business to Swedish group Saab.


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