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Wine region: South Africa
A couple of years ago I wrote: “If you had to hold up a country as an example of how not to do it, vis-à-vis wine, then South Africa would be in pole position.” Most of the reasons were historical. During the eighties, before apartheid came to an end, other countries were able to invest heavily in vines and technology, whilst South African growers were left out of the loop. Secondly, the co-operative system which for so long determined prices and production, although it established security for the industry, neither promoted quality nor encouraged innovation. There had to be a major undertaking to abandon the age-old habit of growing as many vines as possible on the same estate on easy-to-cultivate land. Sensible measures, such as planting higher up on hillsides in search of cooler climates, are only a comparatively recent phenomenon. Having said all that there are encouraging signs: the Coastal Region has an ideal climate to produce quality grapes and there are some fascinating examples of Pinotage. And the IPW (Integrated Production of Wine) system officially launched in 1998 has set benchmarks for quality that are beginning to bite. My sneaky feeling is that more growers should experiment with Rhone and Italian grape varieties rather than adding to the world’s brimming reservoirs of Chardonnay and Cabernet.
And so to 2008. That chomping noise you hear is me eating my air-dried words liberally barbecued with humble grape pie. Within the past couple of years strong identification of terroir allied to a sensitive organic approach to winemaking has driven quality of South African wines remorselessly forward. I’ve tasted great Cabernet, Merlot (and blends thereof), Shiraz is improving and Grenache, especially where there are old vines, is a star. Synergistic (yes, it’s the revival of that buzzword) blends are in fashion, oak is being used to highlight rather than obliterate the fruit, the approach to winemaking is certainly more considered at every stage of the process.
All is not rosy, however, and there have been critical murmurings of a discernible greenness in South African red wines. Is it a winemaking fault, a characteristic of the region (or certain grape varieties) or something else?
The (Fun) Winery team encompasses everything characteristic about the ‘New South Africa’. A diverse cultural and racial mosaic, combining indigenous South Africans with Northern Hemisphere adoptees - a blending of ideas, of values and of purpose, creating a natural dynamic for innovation and success. The Winery’s distinctive range reflects entirely separate styles. Each range has its own raison d’etre, independent of the others, though complementary to the bigger picture. The wines have a pleasing restraint from the Burgundian Radford Dale Chardonnay to the very mineral wines from Black Rock and Vinum.
The Winery is a winery to watch, so to speak. This year they have been recognised by the respected John Platter which garnishes virtually all the offerings with plentiful stars – and quite right.
If The Winery covers many bases extremely capably then Niels Verburg’s Luddite is a one off speciality. This is a knock-your-socks-off-and-marinate-your-toes-in-it-Shiraz, a wine so generous you’ll be smiling for days.
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U.S. Confirms It Is Supporting Saudi Military Operations In Yemen
Update at 2 a.m. ET Thursday: U.S. Confirms It Is Supporting Saudi Military Operations
In a statement late Wednesday night, National Security Council spokesperson Bernadette Meehan said:
"In support of [Gulf Cooperation Council] actions to defend against Houthi violence, President Obama has authorized the provision of logistical and intelligence support to GCC-led military operations. While U.S. forces are not taking direct military action in Yemen in support of this effort, we are establishing a Joint Planning Cell with Saudi Arabia to coordinate U.S. military and intelligence support."
Update at 8:08 p.m. ET: Saudi Arabia Launches Attack
Saudi Arabia, in coordination with a coalition of 10 allies, has started a bombing campaign in Yemen.
The airstrikes came hours after unconfirmed reports emerged that Yemen's President Abed Raboo Mansour Hadi had fled the country, as Houthi rebels closed in on Aden, the country's second largest city. The rebels had also just seized an airbase, just 35 miles from Aden, that was critical to U.S. drone operations against al-Qaida.
"Yemen shares a long border with Saudi Arabia, a major American ally, and the Saudis were reported massing forces on the Yemen frontier as President Mansour's last redoubt in Aden looked increasingly imperiled.
"Along with Syria, Iraq and Libya, Yemen is now the fourth state to veer toward political disintegration in the aftermath of the Arab Spring revolts that first erupted four years ago."
Quoting an unnamed U.S. official, Reuters reports that the United States is supporting the Saudi military in the operation. The official did not elaborate on what that support was but, Reuters reports, "Saudi Arabia's envoy to Washington told reporters the United States was not participating in the military operation itself, which includes air strikes against Houthi fighters."
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Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has fled his palace in Aden, after Houthi rebels appeared to be closing in on the southern port city. It's not clear if the embattled president has left the city or the country.
U.S. State Department spokesperson, Jen Psaki, says the administration was in touch with Hadi earlier today. She confirmed that he is no longer at his Aden residence, but cannot confirm any additional details about his location.
Earlier, The Associated Press, which cited Yemeni security and port officials, said Hadi had left the country by boat, however those reports could not be confirmed. The news service says Houthi rebels captured the city's airport, and that Aden, the country's economic hub, could soon fall.
The Shiite rebels captured the capital city, Sanaa, in September and have swiftly advanced toward Aden, where Hadi encamped after being pushed from power.
Rebels also reportedly were battling pro-government security forces guarding the president's palace in Aden, and seized an airbase that was critical to U.S. drone operations against al-Qaida.
On Tuesday, Hadi appealed to the U.N. Security Council to authorize a military intervention to prevent Yemen from "sliding into more chaos and destruction," according to The Guardian.
Reuters reports that Saudi Arabia is moving heavy military equipment, including artillery, to its border with Yemen. Saudi Arabia says the buildup at the border is purely defensive.
Gregory Johnsen, a Yemen expert with Buzzfeed, tells NPR's Michele Kelemen that Saudi Arabia is saber rattling, and that it would be a huge miscalculation if it sends troops into Yemen.
Johnsen, the author of The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia, says the increasing chaos in Yemen could spill over into the region, especially between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran, which Johnsen says is providing aid Houthi rebels.
"What we're seeing are regional rivalries, particularly between Saudi Arabia and Iran, are being grafted on to this local domestic conflict." Johnsen says that when you put all the different elements together, it's a "witch's brew."
The ongoing volatile political and security situation has forced the U.S. to pull all its remaining personnel — civilian, military and intelligence — out of the country. The move could have an impact on U.S counter-terrorism efforts against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, considered one of the most dangerous offshoots of the terror group.
There are growing concerns the deteriorating situation could create a power vacuum in Yemen. Nabeel Khoury, with Northwestern University, tells NPR that the chaos and a looming civil war will produce more terrorism by groups such as the self-proclaimed Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
"We've seen now that ISIS has established a small foothold in Yemen, this will likely grow, a lack of political stability means extremism thrives," says Khoury, who was deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Yemen a decade ago.
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Conservationists Go Big in Montana –Land&People
Deb Love remembers the day well. June 12, 2006, was “the perfect Big Sky day,” she says, “sunny and beautiful.” Clouds drifted across a bright blue sky above the rustic lodge at Holland Lake—a popular summertime destination in the southeast corner of Montana’s Swan Valley. Gentle waves lapped the lakeshore, while east of the lake late-season snowfields marked the remote alpine basins and steep couloirs of the Swan Mountains.
Love, the Northern Rockies director for The Trust for Public Land, had joined other TPL staff, fellow nonprofit partners, private conservation funders, and two dozen Swan Valley residents to discuss the future of 66,000 acres of private forestland owned by the Plum Creek Timber Company. On a map of the valley, these lands appeared as pink squares alternating in checkerboard fashion with green squares denoting the Lolo and Flathead National Forests and blue squares showing land owned by the state. Such “checkerboard” patterns, common throughout the West, resulted from a 19th-century federal policy that awarded every other section of land to railroad companies— sections that eventually passed to Plum Creek.
As part of a larger transition in the forest products industry, Plum Creek—the nation’s largest private landowner— had begun taking land out of timber production and selling it for development, which threatened to block wildlife corridors, disrupt habitat, and close lands to local uses such as hunting, fishing, and other recreation.
For more than a decade TPL had been working with valley residents to protect important parcels of Plum Creek checkerboard land. But more recently the company had announced that a certain 20,000 acres would be sold—lands crucial to wildlife and to people’s way of life in the Swan Valley. TPL and its partner, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), turned to the private philanthropy community for help. Would they be interested in making a significant investment in the Swan Valley?
Listening that day were representatives of the Wyss Foundation, founded by Swiss philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; and other funders. Their consensus was that TPL and TNC needed to think bigger—much bigger—if they wanted support for this work. “Either protect the whole Swan Valley or we’re not interested,” Deb Love recalls them saying.
Go big the nonprofits did. The effort that kicked off that day evolved into the Montana Legacy Project, the largest conservation project of its type in U.S. history. TPL and TNC crafted a deal with Plum Creek under which they ultimately acquired 310,000 acres, including sensitive landscapes throughout western Montana.The project has been a victory for wildlife and residents; a tribute to the tenacity of local conservationists; a sterling example of what conservation groups, residents, and government leaders can accomplish together; and a model for future conservation projects of its kind. And it got started because a group of residents wanted to preserve a valley they cherished for its timber resources and natural beauty alike.
Racing to Save the Swan
Lying between the rugged peaks of the Swan and Mission mountains, the Swan Valley is a mosaic of lowland forests, meadows, and wetlands traced by the snaking path of the Swan River. Condon, the valley’s main settlement, offers little more than a post office, a general store, and a tavern named Liquid Louie’s along two-lane Route 83. While the valley’s human habitation is thin, it is home to one of North America’s densest populations of grizzly bears, healthy numbers of endangered lynx and bull trout, and other sensitive wildlife. And it lies at the heart of the tenmillion-acre Crown of the Continent ecosystem—also encompassing the Bob Marshall Wilderness to the east and Glacier National Park to the north—which is unique in the contiguous United States in sustaining every single native species of large mammal that lived there when Lewis and Clark made their famous expedition.
“It’s just a very, very special place,” says longtime Swan Valley resident Melanie Parker, who attended the Holland Lake meeting and whose work has been critical to the preservation effort. “The valley’s got a lot of magic even now,” she declares, “even after all the changes it’s seen in a hundred years.”
Parker and her husband, Tom, and two children, Kyra, five, and John, three (along with assorted horses and mules and a new puppy) live in a modest cabin tucked beneath the Swan Mountains. In addition to running a hunting guide service, they together founded Northwest Connections, a community-based conservation organization that conducts scientific research and environmental monitoring in the valley and helps educate the public on habitat issues there. In 2001, Melanie—a skilled naturalist, environmental educator, and impassioned community activist—helped develop the Swan Lands Coordinating Committee, which brings together every state and federal agency, nonprofit, and business or individual landowner with a stake in the Swan Valley to come up with a collective vision for its future.
The valley once was prime hunting and fishing ground for the Salish, Kootenai, and other Native American groups. And for more than a century it has been home to loggers, hunters, trappers, back-to-the-land settlers, and others who have used Plum Creek lands as de facto public lands, thanks to the company’s generous policy of opening its properties for recreation. On these lands local folks taught their kids to hunt and fish, and went to try to harvest an elk each winter.
The first hint that this traditional use could change came in 1997, says Parker, when residents learned that Plum Creek intended to sell for residential development 2,500 acres surrounding one of the valley’s most beautiful, historic, and environmentally sensitive lakes. Nested in the shadow of the Mission Mountains, the lake is named for pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh, who camped there for two weeks in 1927 after spotting the water from the air on a cross-country journey. TPL stepped in and, working with the local community, was able to add Lindbergh Lake and the surrounding land to Flathead National Forest.
Over subsequent years TPL worked with local residents like the Parkers, and with organizations like the Swan Ecosystem Center, TPL’s main partner in the Swan Valley, to identify and conserve additional Plum Creek lands important to the community. By the time of the Holland Lake meeting in 2006, TPL had purchased and conveyed to the Forest Service about 7,200 acres, while protecting 7,400 more with conservation easements. Another 5,200 acres in the valley were protected by landowners through voluntary conservation easements.
“Unfortunately,” says Parker, “we couldn’t keep up with the pace of protection. How in the world were we ever going to muster the political and financial wherewithal to figure out a big-scale solution?”
Go Big or Go Home
Among the attendees at the 2006 Holland Lake meeting were Eric Love, Deb’s husband and then TPL– Northern Rockies director, and Jamie Williams, then TNC’s Montana state director. Recognizing the power that a partnership between TPL and TNC could bring to a project of this potential magnitude, Eric and Jamie immediately began working together on a conservation solution. Assembling the details would command nearly every waking minute of their attention for the next three years and cement a close collaboration. (Eric would eventually leave TPL to join Jamie at TNC.)
Nationwide, TPL and TNC often partner on large conservation projects, and it was clear to everyone at the initial meeting that the Montana Legacy Project would call on all the technical savvy and financial and political muscle the two organizations could muster. Concurrent with TPL’s work in the Swan Valley, TNC had been working on a similar, 88,000-acre conservation deal on former Plum Creek lands in the Blackfoot Valley.
Private funders are increasingly supportive of large, landscape-scale conservation efforts that involve multiple nonprofits, widespread community support, and state and federal agencies. Knowing this, and with the funders’ message to go big or go home ringing in their ears, Eric and Jamie began working on a plan to purchase all of the remaining Plum Creek acres in the Swan Valley. Tom Tidwell, then head of the U.S. Forest Service Northern Region in Missoula and now the agency’s chief, consulted closely with them. And it soon became clear that among the company’s 1.2 million acres in Montana, areas beyond Swan Valley also deserved protection.
With help from The Wilderness Society (TWS), TPL and TNC identified Plum Creek lands that connect Swan Valley habitat to the massive wildlands of central Idaho’s Salmon-Selway ecosystem. Fragmentation of such large, linked habitats is one of the greatest threats to wildlife and environmental values in the Rocky Mountain West—particularly in the face of habitat damage wrought by climate change—and protecting them is part of a national movement that is being called “large landscape conservation.”
“We have to look at these bigger, broader landscapes,” said Bob Ekey, who was Northern Rockies regional director of TWS at the time of the Plum Creek lands inventory. “There was a sense that we had to act quickly.” TPL and TNC completed their negotiations with Plum Creek in June 2008. The 310,000 acres that would be acquired included many of the company’s most critical checkerboard lands—parcels already identified by state and federal land agencies as being important for conservation.
Funds for Montana Legacy
After the Montana Legacy Project was officially unveiled to the public, TPL staffer Robert Rasmussen and TNC outreach director Chris Bryant hit the road, attending more than 80 community meetings to explain the project’s aims and ask: who should own and manage the former Plum Creek lands? Initially project organizers believed that Montanans might prefer private sales followed by protecting the land with conservation easements. But while some communities preferred state ownership and others federal ownership, “it turned out they all wanted the land to be public,” recalls Deb Love. “People wanted to be able to hunt and fish and hike and camp on these lands, as they always had.” There was also a strong interest in maintaining these lands as working forests, contributing to local economies.
With an agreement to acquire the lands in place, TPL and TNC went back to their funders. If the foundations were surprised by exactly how big the final package was, they nonetheless kept their word to support the project. A $25 million Wyss Foundation donation gave Montana Legacy an early boost and was followed quickly by a $15 million commitment from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Wyss would grant an additional $10 million in December 2010, as the project completed its third and final acquisition phase. About two-thirds of the land has now been transferred to its ultimate steward.
Altogether, $100 million in private money is leveraging approximately $400 million in public funding, the bulk of which has already been secured through the efforts of Montana governor Brian Schweitzer and U.S. senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester, who continue to work on generating the funding for the remaining lands targeted for public ownership. As chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Baucus played a key role in ensuring that the Montana Legacy Project received the support it needed in Congress. “Montana is extremely fortunate to have political leaders who believe in the vision of conserving land for future generations,” says Eric Love.
A Grand Vision for Western Landscapes
The legacy project has remade landownership across a significant stretch of western Montana. Lands that passed from public to private ownership more than a century ago as a result of 19th-century railroad land grants are now finding their way back into public hands. Owing to the size and complexity of the deal and the degree of partnership and cooperation it entailed, the project also has been credited with helping to inspire President Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors (AGO) Initiative: “to promote and support innovative community level efforts to conserve outdoor spaces and to reconnect Americans to the outdoors,” in the words of the initiative’s April 2010 announcement. When the AGO initiative began its 20-state listening tour of public meetings last year, the kickoff event was held in Ovando, Montana, at the southern end of the Crown of the Continent. Federal officials used the occasion to praise the Montana Legacy Project as an example of community-based conservation done right.
The project’s multiple public benefits have both an immediate impact and great significance for future generations. A positive future for the Crown of the Continent ecosystem seems within reach. And the legacy project ensures that residents will continue to play a vital role in the management of working forests. Public access to cherished recreational lands will likewise continue.
Achievements on this scale depend on a web of public and private partnerships and experienced leadership such as TPL and TNC can bring. “At the end of the day, the only reason any of this is possible is that we all worked together,” says Kat Imhoff, TNC’s Montana state director. Just as important to the project’s success was the dedication of local residents like Melanie and Tom Parker.
“This project would never have happened without the full support of the community, which means folks like Melanie and Tom spending their evenings and weekends talking to neighbors at the grocery store, or at the end of the day on a barstool at Liquid Louie’s,” says Deb Love. Melanie believes that the full rewards of the legacy project will be reaped by future generations, including her own kids. “Wouldn’t it be cool if our kids inherited a great functional model of where people were working it out with grizzly bears, making a living, having a thriving small rural community in the middle of a wild place like this?”
Jason D. B. Kauffman is a freelance outdoor-environmental writer and photographer living in Missoula, Montana


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Accidental Artist – a report by Deepa Kamath| 20mins
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Creativity does not have to be the preserve of only artists, writers, musicians and other professional practitioners of the creative arts. Ordinary people, doing mundane jobs in the city often find spaces for self-expression, surprising themselves and others with the results. In this episode we visit accidental artists, unexpected poets, and bathroom-singers-turned-recording-musicians, who take the capital C out of creativity.
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BC prosecution Service has charged a Vancouver woman for luggage theft at the Vancouver International Airport.
Miriam Tremblay, 26, of Vancouver, has been charged with seven counts of theft under $5000. The charges originated from alleged luggage carousel thefts that occurred between July 12, 2019 and August 2, 2019 at the YVR Domestic Terminal Building.
Tremblay is due in Richmond Provincial court on September 11, 2019. Richmond RCMP YVR Detachment has been actively investigating luggage thefts and said police is committed to ensuring the safety and security of travellers to Vancouver International Airport.
“Our officers, especially those from our Airport Crime Unit, have been steadfast in gathering evidence to move this case forward,” said Sgt. Lundie.
There have been at least 139 reports of stolen luggage at the airport in the past two years, and police has arrested two people before as part of this investigation.


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text: "You didn't kill me that night in the woods, you won't kill me now." Based on the Events of the Dream SMP Blaze is a 21 year old warrior with a questionable past and strong devotion to L'Manberg, a prosperous country led by Wilbur Soot. Some say the girl is mysterious, with many secrets behind everything she chooses to do. As Blaze battles in the war for L'Manberg's independence, she begins to look at everything differently. Can she trust everyone around her? What does she have to do to keep her past hidden? And finally, who on the enemy side has been keeping her alive all this time, and why? Chapters posted as I feel comfortable doing so, credit to any/all Dream SMP members Dream x OC story Warning: Blood, gore, mental illness, suicide, language, violence, etc. 3rd - lmanberg - 7/5/2021 14th - dreamsmpwar - 7/5/2021 70th - dreamxoc - 7/7/2021 533rd - wilbur - 3/15/2021 866th - romancefanfiction - 6/16/2021 995th - technoblade - 6/19/2021 Thanks for reading!

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By Tendai Guvamombe
The 11th Edition of The Africa Green Waste and Energy Expo and Conference kicks of today on a high note. The momentous occasion is taking place in Harare and has attracted more than 50 delegates across Africa who are attending in the physical format.
Among the notable achievements spanning from the previous editions, the engagement for 2022 has entwined the “theme event” with diplomatic arrangements coming in different format.
This year’s Edition runs under the theme, “Accelerating locally led interventions for low carbon and climate resilient societies.”
The most significant aspect is centred around the ability to foster maximised engagements and this has taken place in the form of the side events concurrently taking place during the ongoing Africa Green Waste and Energy Expo and Conference.
The Stolkhom+ 50 Conference Feedback, Children’s conference and Youth Conference, are some of the side events taking place on the sidelines of the conference expo.
Speaking during the opening ceremony, on behalf of Minister of Environment, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Honourable Mangaliso Ndlovu, The Permanent Secretary in the same Ministry, Munesu Munidawafa said the Expo has become a key result area in Climate Change Programming as Africa is heading towards global emissions reduction in a manner that ensures resilience across communities.
“The Green Expo has become a cardinal for climate change discourse in the region and across the globe.Climate change calls us to change the way of doing business across sectors to with stands the extent of climate shocks. As a region we need to accelerate emissions reduction and ensuring resilience in our societies.”
“We stand guided by our international obligations and remain committed to the NDC which we submitted to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change which will be achieved in a rapid economic growth under NDCS 1.
Permanent Secretary in Minister of State and Devolution for Harare Metropolitan Province, Tafadzwa Muguti, said the Green Expo is presenting remarkable strides in advancing climate action in Africa. He also spoke on future collaborations towards upcoming editions.
“The expo has become a platform for the re reintegration agenda for the country’s climate programmes.It has made significant strides towards climate change programm ing in Africa, as green agenda plays a pivotal role in the region as a whole in a sustainable manner.”
“As Harare Metropolitan Province we will avail land to the great initiative towards centers of excellence. The initiatives speaks towards local agenda and it is high time that our local authorities starts to contribute financially and areas of expertise towards Green Expo incoming Editions.”
Malawian Ambassador to Zimbabwe , HE. M. Polepole expressed excitement at the arrangement of the Africa Green Waste and Energy Expo and Conference 11th Edition saying it will help tackle challenges faced by Africa on Climate Change.
“I am so excited to attend the Green Expo as i am standing in for the group of Ambassadors in SADC region.It nolonger a secret that we have been all affected by climate change In all our sphere of lives. I am delighted that some of these issues will be addressed during the entire engagement.”
Zimbabwe’s Child President H.E. Unatsi Nyoni said that humans are the reasons behind climate change catastrophes hence the need for consented efforts to achieve climate goals in the manner of sustainable development goals. He also advocated for youth inclusion in all engagements.
“The earth has been dying because of us the so called owners of the environment. We need to achieve the commitments that are before us and this resonates with Sustainable development goals. SDGs are integrated, hence the outcome of one goal will have an effect on others. In many countries Waste management is one of the challenges across communities. We plead for youths Inclusion, participation and funding towards green start ups and participation in such forum.


Dungeon Of The Endless, a roguelike, dungeon defence game that originally launched on PC, has been announced for the PS4.
The game is developed by Amplitude Studios and published by Playdiginous and SEGA. No official release date has been given, but the game is set to arrive ‘soon’.
The premise of the game is that a few hundred condemned criminals have been shipped to the Auriga System onboard the prison ship “Success”. All they know of the Planet is that it has water, temperate zones, plant life, and plenty of metals in the crust. The planet Auriga once hosted a major settlement of the galaxy-travelling precursors known as the Endless and is still orbited by a functioning (and well-cloaked) defensive system.
Luckily, each holding pod for the Prisoners acted as an escape pod, allowing them to fall to the planet and bypass the security measures. Unfortunately, they ended up crashing into an Endless facility, all the way down in a basement so deep and ancient, you could call it a Dungeon.
The game boasts the ability to form a team of heroes, deploy them, and gain mastery of unique abilities. Dust can be gathered to power the rooms you visit and you have to utilise your resources to keep your team alive and hold off the waves of monsters. Each new door offers a new layout and level as you continue along the path to discovering the truth about Auriga.
You can check out the console announcement trailer below:
Dungeon of the Endless has been out on PC since 2014. But now it is finally making the jump to console and during those five years, it has received a number of updates and improvements. It is currently sitting at ‘Very Positive’ reviews on Steam. Amplitude Studios are most known for developing the Endless Space titles.
Dungeon of the Endless is coming to PS4.
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I’ve come across a number of posts recently regarding prayer and Christopher Hitchens, an unlikely pairing. Regrettably the pairing has been occasioned by Mr. Hitchens’ recent diagnosis with cancer. Since the release of his 2007 book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, which among other accolades won an award for most subtle subtitle (admittedly, that was an award of my own devising of which Mr. Hitchens was never advised), Hitchens has earned a certain notoriety with the sorts of people that would be inclined to pray for those who are ill and who are now, in fact, offering their prayers on his behalf. The whole situation has raised certain questions about the appropriateness of prayer for those who may not desire them and the ethics of making it publicly known that you are praying for a public figure.
Here’s a sampling:
On Thursday, I almost posted David Brog’s “Praying for Christopher Hitchens,” except that, on the whole, Brog’s piece left me a bit uneasy. It may be that Ross Douthat’s “Prayers for Christopher Hitchens” originated in the same sense of unease. Douthat also includes a link to post on CNN’s religion blog, “My Take: Why Christians should pray for Christopher Hitchens,” which at the time I’m writing this had elicited over 1,200 comments.
Both Douthat and Rod Dreher mention an interview Hitchens gave Hugh Hewitt in which Hitchens addresses this matter of prayers offered in his behalf. Here’s an excerpt of his rather appreciative response:
CH: Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts. It’s, I’m afraid to say it’s almost as well-founded an idea. I mean, I don’t, they don’t know whether prayer will work, and they don’t know whether I’ve come by this because I’m a sinner.
HH: Oh, I…has anyone actually said that to you?
CH: Yeah, oh yes.
HH: Oh, my gosh. Forgive them. Well…
CH: Well, I mean, I don’t mind. It doesn’t hurt me. But for the same reason, I wish it was more consoling. But I have to say there’s some extremely nice people, including people known to you, have said that I’m in their prayers, and I can only say that I’m touched by the thought.
Update (7/19): More on the topic from Carlin Romano at The Chronicle of Higher Education: “No One Left to Pray To?”
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So… you might enjoy the offhanded comment of Hitchens’ fellow Atlantic writer Megan McCardle:
“If it weren’t blasphemous, I’d suggest saying a prayer for him.”
And, being in Miami, you will miss my reference to Hitchens in this morning’s sermon. :-)
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LG 32LF595B HD Smart LED TV
The secret behind LG TV's life-like color and wide viewing angle is the panel. Just as the quality of the beans
determines the quality of the coffee, the quality of the panel determines the quality of the TV. The IPS Panel
used by LG is the reason why LG LED TVs have clearer, more consistent, and sturdy screens.
Life-like Color : IPS offers a color impression that is most identical to that of the original image.
The colors are truly closest to nature and most comfortable for the eyes.
Wide Viewing Angle : Among LCD panels, it is visibly clear that IPS shows the most consistent color and contrast from all angles. Free from color wash and contrast loss, it is the ideal panel for all purposes.
Blur-free Clarity : IPS is decidedly superior to the competing panels in the clarity of its pictures
during fast motion display, allowing blur-free, crystal-clear pictures.
Stable Screen : IPS panels are stable and sturdy, and resistant to damage, as opposed to weak
competing panels; just try a simple knock or poke at the screens to see for yourself.
LG webOS TV is designed to be obvisously simple, so that it is easier to learn and more fun to use. Now, all you have to do is relax as webOS 2.0 makes the TV experience simpler than before.
MAGIC REMOTE COMPATIBLE
Pointing, Wheel, and Voice ‚¬œ the most convenient and advanced TV remote.
Pointing : Just point and click--a smart remote for your smart tv.
Wheel : Scroll up and down, zoom in and out with a wheel - just like using a computer mouse.
Voice : Speak to your Remote to find what you want.
AN-MR600 & AN-WF500 to be purchased separately.
LG webOS TV is designed to be obvisously simple, so that it is easier to learn and more fun to use. Now, all you have to do is relax as webOS makes the TV experience simpler than before.
You can switch to any app, broadcast or connected peripheral without navigating to a dedicated ‚¬˜home‚¬„ screen. Instantly find your entertainment right on your Launcher.
LG Content Store
Your search for new and exciting content is over. Find everything you love about entertainment in LG Content Store, the one-stop-shop for apps and much more.
Plug and play on with a helpful pop-up screen that instantly appears when you connect a new device. External devices can also be accessible through the Input Picker found on the right top of Home screen.
Conveniently browse the internet on the large TV screen with the most optimal browser interface, which is simulated to most resemble the PC environment. You can open tabs instead of windows, and the use of the Magic Remote with the wheel function enables you to click and scroll just like a mouse.
Browse and share files from external devices wirelessly on your large TV screen or watch TV on another smart device with LG Smart TV‚¬„s Smart Share. LG introduces a true Smart TV that connects to other devices more easily than ever. Enjoy any content without constraint.
(For features available in SmartShare feature , please refer specification section)
WiFi Alliance certified Miracast allows you to enjoy easy and fast connection among TV, Smart phones, and Tablets without wires, enabling easy transfer and sharing of your digital contents right on the TV screen.
Intel® WiDi (Wireless Display) technology enables easy and fast connection between LG TVs and laptop PCs without requiring a network or messy cables.
Picture Quality consists of three properties 'Clarity, Color, Contrast'.
PMI (Picture Mastering Index) is the new standard, including all the ingredients related to these factors to exress vibrant and lifelike color.
PMI is defined by 3 factors
-Digital Image Processor
-Advanced LED Panel Techonology
-Advanced BLU Technology
Not only LG's World-Class LED panel, but also Digital Image Processor and Advanced BLU tech are all evaluated for this new 'PMI'.
Brilliant LED backlighting display delivers crystal-clear images, true blacks, and the most vivid, life-like colors on a slim screen.
TRUE COLOR ACCURACY
IPS panel offers the most identical color impression to that of the original image in every precise pixel of ULTRA HD resolution.
Wide Viewing Angle
Among LCD panels, it is visibly clear that IPS shows the most consistent color and contrast from all angles. Free from color wash and contrast loss, it is the ideal panel for all purposes.
IPS panels are stable and sturdy, and resistant to damage, as opposed to weak competing panels; just try a simple knock or pokr at the screens to see for yourself.
Triple XD Engine
Enjoy sheer perfection of Color, Contrast, and Clarity with the all-powerful Triple XD Engine. LG's latest and most advanced Triple XD Engine brings the highest level of excellence in Color, Contrast, and Clarity for the best picture quality and performance.
Flexi Mount Bracket
LG TV comes with flexible wall mount brackets which lets you rotate the TV as per your viewing angle requirement
*Disclaimer : Number of directions in which the TV can be moved after wall mounting vary from model to model
LG TVs are DivX Certified®, and can play DivX® video up to 1080p HD. Enjoy the vast variety of premium content from the internet through DivX HD.
Smart Energy Saving
The Smart Energy Saving feature helps users to be a little greener by limiting power consumption. The feature includes backlight control for adjusting brightness, a screen-off function that turns the picture off for playing audio-only, and the Standby Mode Zero function which allows the TV to effectively hibernate, using zero electricity.
Motion Eco Sensor
The Eco Motion Sensor is a brilliant new technology that reduces power consumption by slightly adjusting the brightness of the screen relevant to the speed of the pictures.
Device LED LED TV Yes Screen Size (cm) 32 : 80 cm HD Resolution Yes Resolution HD 1366 x 768 IPS Panel Yes BackLight Module Slim LED PMI (Picture Mastering Index) 400 Analog TV Reception Yes
Triple XD Engine Yes Resolution Upscaler Yes Active Noise Reduction Yes Dynamic Clear White Yes Dynamic Color Enhancer Yes Picture Mode 8 modes(Vivid, Standard, Eco, Cinema,Cricket, Game, Expert1, Expert2) Picture Wizard III Yes Aspect Ratio 8 modes ( 16:9, Just scan, Original, Full Wide, 4:3, 14:9, Cinema Zoom 1, Zoom) Real Cinema 24p Yes
Dolby Digital Decoder Yes DTS Decoder Yes Speaker System 2Ch Speaker Audio Output (rms) 10W Sound Mode 4 modes (Standard,Cinema, Clear Voice, Cricket) BollyWood Mode Yes (Enabled when in Smart Sound Mode as per content) Sound Optimizer 3 modes (Off, Stand Type,Wall-mounted Type)
LG Smart TV
Smart TV powered by webOS Yes Smart TV Yes Smart TV Platform webOS 2.0 Launcher (Recent / Home / My Apps) Yes LG Store [3D Content(in 3D models only), Apps & Games] Yes Wi-Fi (Built IN/ Optional) Built IN WiFi Direct Yes Magic Remote Built IN/ Optional Optional (AN-MR600 & AN-WF500 to be purchased separately) Magic Remote Modes 3 modes (Point, Wheel, Voice) Voice recognition Yes (with Magic Remote Only) Voice recognition - Language US English Voice recognition - Usage In Search / Web browsing / SNS Smart Phone Remote Controller (Remote App) Yes Premium Content (India Specific Apps) Yes Full Web Browser Yes Game World Yes (in LG Store)
Miracast Yes Intel® WiDi Yes
Divx (SD/HD) DivX HD Picture JPEG, JPS, MPO External Device App Download Yes Audio Codec AC3(Dolby Digital), EAC3, HEAAC, AAC, MP2, MP3, PCM, RA, WMA Subtitle for DivX (Language) 15 Language (English, French, Spanish, Protuguese, Italian, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Russian, Maori, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Thai, Hebrew, Arab, Korean)
Motion Eco Sensor Yes Smart Energy Saving Yes Input Labeling Yes Simplink (HDMI CEC) Yes OSD Languages Total 33, Indian : 11 (Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Malyalam, Assamese, Kannada, Urdu, Marathi ,Punjabi, Gujrati) Subject to updation regularly
HDMI 2 USB 2
RF In 1 Composite In (CVBS + Audio) 1 (Composite/Component Common) Component In (Y,Pb,Pr + Audio) 1 (Composite, Component common) Digital Audio Out (Optical) 1 Headphone out 1 LAN 1
Local Key Type Jogstick
Magic Remote Optional (AN-MR600 & AN-WF500 to be purchased separately)
Power Supply (Voltage, Hz) 100~240Vac 50-60Hz Power Consumption Standby Mode 0.3W
Set Weight (w/o stand) Kg 6 Set Weight (w/ stand) Kg 6.2 Set Weight (in Carton) Kg 8.5 Set WxHxD (w/o stand) mm 732 x 437 x 55.5 min: (55.5 ) Set WxHxD (w stand) mm 732 x 481 x 207 Set WxHxD (in carton) mm 810 x 497 x 146
All eligible company warranty and service support is being provided on LG 32LF595B HD Smart LED TV


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U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) today released the following statement on the U.S. D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to strike down the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
"Today's decision is a decisive victory for states and their ability to stand against EPA's costly rules and regulations that threaten to increase consumer electricity bills and cripple local economies," Johanns said. "EPA has a troubling history of overreaching beyond its authority and ignoring state enforcement agencies. I'm pleased the Court called EPA out on both counts in this case.
The EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, which set strict new emission standards, would have forced energy providers to implement costly changes in just six months.
The Court's opinion notes that EPA violated the Clean Air Act by failing to give state authorities a chance to submit plans to comply.
Last year, the State of Nebraska joined more than three dozen other petitioners in a lawsuit challenging the rule's implementation.
Johanns introduced legislation in 2011, which would halt the implementation of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. The legislation also would require EPA to give states at least two years to submit their own regulatory plan and prohibit EPA from applying any federal plan if states have not been given enough time. Additionally, Johanns was one of four co-sponsors of S.J. Res. 27, which would have cancelled the cross-state rule and sent EPA back to the drawing board.


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Harold Kushner offers advice on conquering fear
Rabbi Harold Kushner, Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, speaks about his new book, "Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World."
Rabbi Kushner has written several books over the past three decades, including his 1981 bestseller about coping with tragedies, "When Bad Things Happen to Good People."
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- Harold Kushner on conquering fear
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October 17, 2007
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October 15, 2007

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This tallgrass prairie is set among low rolling hills of limestone strata that cover layers of sandstone, flint and chert. The headwaters of the South Fork of the Cottonwood River run through the property.
The heart of the Flint Hills, east of Cassoday in eastern Butler County and western Greenwood County
To restore a functioning tallgrass prairie ecosystem, The Nature Conservancy purchased the preserve in 1972 and 1973 with funds provided by the late Katharine Ordway.
The Flint Hills typifies our commitment to large-scale projects that preserve the natural ecosystem and the human culture connected to that ecosystem, both of which are equally threatened.
Originally used for grazing because the underlying limestone made it unsuitable for plowing, this preserve contains healthy populations of big bluestem, little bluestem, Indian grass, switch grass and typical forbs of the tallgrass environment.
Management practices are underway to protect a number of target species, including the greater prairie chicken, the short-eared owl, and the Henslow's sparrow. These species have large area requirements, but tolerate or require a variety of habitats within their home ranges. All of these target bird species have experienced significant population declines due to the loss of suitable habitat.
Coyotes, deer and bobcats roam this tallgrass prairie. Another threatened species, the Topeka shiner, is a small minnow that lives in the headwaters streams of the Cottonwood River. Nearby grazing introduces silt into the stream waters and harms shiners' nests.
Tours and visits of Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie Preserve are available by appointment. Please contact the Kansas Chapter for more information.


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Substance use disorder (SUD) is the persistent use of drugs (including alcohol) despite substantial harm and adverse consequences. Substance use disorders are characterized by an array of mental/emotional, physical, and behavioral problems such as chronic guilt; an inability to reduce or stop consuming the substance(s) despite repeated attempts; driving while intoxicated; and physiological withdrawal symptoms. Drug classes that are involved in SUD include: alcohol; cannabis; phencyclidine and other hallucinogens, such as arylcyclohexylamines; inhalants; opioids; sedatives, hypnotics, or anxiolytics; stimulants; tobacco; and other or unknown substances.
In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition (2013), also known as DSM-5, the DSM-IV diagnoses of substance abuse and substance dependence were merged into the category of substance use disorders. The severity of substance use disorders can vary widely; in the DSM-5 diagnosis of a SUD, the severity of an individual’s SUD is qualified as mild, moderate, or severe on the basis of how many of the 11 diagnostic criteria are met. The International Classification of Diseases 11th revision (ICD-11) divides substance use disorders into two categories: (1) harmful pattern of substance use; and (2) substance dependence.
In 2017, globally 271 million people (5.5% of adults) were estimated to have used one or more illicit drugs. Of these, 35 million had a substance use disorder. An additional 237 million men and 46 million women have alcohol use disorder as of 2016. In 2017, substance use disorders from illicit substances directly resulted in 585,000 deaths. Direct deaths from drug use, other than alcohol, have increased over 60 percent from 2000 to 2015. Alcohol use resulted in an additional 3 million deaths in 2016.
According to Statistics Canada (2018), approximately one in five Canadians aged 15 years and older experience a substance use disorder in their lifetime. In Ontario specifically, the disease burden of mental illness and addiction is 1.5 times higher than all cancers together and over 7 times that of all infectious diseases. Across the country, the ethnic group that is statistically the most impacted by substance use disorders compared to the general population are the Indigenous peoples of Canada. In a 2019 Canadian study, it was found that Indigenous participants experienced greater substance-related problems than non-Indigenous participants.
Statistics Canada’s Canadian Community Health Survey (2012) shows that alcohol was the most common substance for which Canadians met the criteria for abuse or dependence. Surveys on Indigenous people in British Columbia show that around 75% of residents on reserve feel alcohol use is a problem in their community and 25% report they have a problem with alcohol use themselves. However, only 66% of First Nations adults living on reserve drink alcohol compared to 76% of the general population. Further, in an Ontario study on mental health and substance use among Indigenous people, 19% reported the use of cocaine and opiates, higher than the 13% of Canadians in the general population that reported using opioids.

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Millionaire ordered to demolish giant beach hut after 'secretly' building sun deck
A millionaire businessman has been ordered to tear down part of his lavish new beach hut after he secretly built an upper-storey sun deck without permission.
Simon Saunders controversially won approval for the oversized timber chalet to be built on a popular beach in Dorset.
Although it dwarfed a row of traditional huts, council planners insisted the inside would be no different to all the others along Chesil Beach.
But locals were aghast when builders working on the £300,000 property opened a folding flap in the roof to reveal a second floor sun deck hidden inside.
Millionaire businessman Simon Saunders has been ordered to tear down part of his lavish new beach hut after he secretly built an upper-storey sun deck without permission
Mr Saunders has been served with an enforcement notice ordering him to remove the top floor section, although he is appealing this
Mr Saunders, who designed the famous Atom sports car, made no mention of the feature in his original plans.
He has been served with an enforcement notice ordering him to remove the top floor section, although he is appealing this.
Residents and the West Bexington Heritage Group have written letters of protest to the planning inspector who is likely to oversee the appeal process.
Lester Cowling, spokesman for the heritage group, said: 'When this barn of a chalet was first built people suspected there was more to it than met the eye.
'It had a great big roof space and as it was developed you could openly see it had an upstairs mezzanine level and sun terrace.
Simon Saunders made no mention of the second floor sun deck in his original plans
'I'm sure it would be very nice to sit up there of a summer's evening with a few drinks and look out to sea.
'But that wasn't in the original plans and had they been then everybody would have objected.'
Mr Saunders, 47, paid £235,000 for a timber 1930s chalet two years ago.He submitted plans to demolish it and replace it with a new hut.
Planners at West Dorset District Council gave the plans the go-ahead and at the time it was said the new chalet would be of a similar size to the previous one.
But locals claim it is three times bigger than the other 13, one-bed chalets and looks totally out of character.
Mr Cowling, 65, said: 'It dwarfs everything around it. The council thought it would be of similar size but it is 300 per cent bigger.
'Now we know why it is so big, because of this upstairs area. The chalet as it is sets a precedent that could change the whole nature of this seaside village.
'This sort of building may well be appropriate in other places but is totally inappropriate here, just like a London skyscraper would be.'
Tony Edwards, the chairman of West Bexington Parish Council, said: 'Most people were amazed at the sheer scale and mass of this hut when it was introduced to this otherwise humble row of chalets.
'The parish council expressed some concern over the height of the chalet at the time the planning application was submitted.
'But it would seem the plans were grossly misleading.'
Simon Ludgate, an enforcement officer at West Dorset council, said: 'There are four elements of the hut that go beyond the permitted development.
'One of them is the upstairs sun deck and another is a decking platform on the outside of the property.
'We have served the owner with an enforcement notice to change the hut back to the original plans and Mr Saunders is appealing.'
Mr Saunders said there were a lot of people who thought his new chalet was wonderful.
He said: 'I just wish people would use their efforts more constructively rather than destructively.'
Mr Saunders is a former designer for Porsche and Aston Martin. He set up Ariel Motor Company in Crewkerne, Somerset, in 2001, and then launched the £36,000 Atom car, which has featured on TV's Top Gear.
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The multiplying populations and increased demand have made it necessary for production firms to work on their potential waiting periods for individual products. So does that mean companies are hiring extra laborers? Coming up with multiple warehouses? Or are they thinking of limiting their variety of goods to be able to fasten up the production of one particular choice in line? News Flash! Nothing like that is happening here. Instead, thank God, you have technology on the save. Have you heard of rapid prototyping based on 3D CAD models?
A Detailed Look Into Rapid Prototyping
In rapid prototyping, you have access to the right technology to design and create an output of anything to visually or physically evaluate the features. In other words, it also stands for the fast fabrication of the physical parts based on 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) methodology. The prototype is completed using the 3D printing technique. Also, you have the prototypes differentiated into high-fidelity and low-fidelity. In the case of the former, the proposed finished product is an exact match of the design, while in the latter, you have a marked difference between the design and the final product.
How Does Rapid Prototyping Work? Real Industry Applications
In the process of rapid prototyping, you have multiple manufacturing technologies involved. The list includes layered additive manufacturing, high-speed molding, casting, extruding, and machining.
Following the basic steps, you create a CAD model and convert the design into STL (Standard Tessellation Language) format to speed up production. The STL depicts a three-dimensional surface geometry free of color, texture, and other CAD features. Finally, it’s time to introduce them to the prototyping machine. Here the database slices the STL model into multiple layers based on the build technique and required accuracy. Once the first layer is complete, the machine starts with the second layer and continues until the process is complete. Because most machines are autonomous, they require less human indulgence and are also great at speed.
Coming to the real industrial applications of prototype modeling technology, it has made reliable impacts in architecture, medicine, archaeology, mechanic, and aerospace in the recent past.
Rapid Prototyping And The Proposed Theory Of Creating 3D Model Car Steering Wheel
As already discussed, the ultimate milestone for companies today is to shorten the waiting period and fulfill the market demands within no time. Also, they need to be mindful of the customer’s unique taste. Help the leads choose from various designs and styles to stand out. And as exciting as it sounds, rapid prototyping technology has a crucial role in the process overall.
Recently, a team of researchers has proposed using the rapid prototyping technique in business. They wanted to create a 3D virtual model of the steering wheel of a car and then turn it into reality with an assembled real-size spatial model of the same.
The team went on to divide the entire process into two separate phases.
- The preparatory phase of designing the steering wheel
- The virtual modeling phase
The Preparatory Phase
The preparatory phase in rapid prototyping came loaded with multiple sub-goals. The main work here was all about finalizing theoretical knowledge. Moreover, it also includes the imaginational perspective of the designer in terms of what will go into the steering wheels. The team focused on creating a production schedule for steering wheels without an airbag or multifunctional technology. In this, they did find how to include the CAD-based rapid prototyping technique to open up new possibilities and upscale the desirable virtual 3D models.
The Virtual Modelling Phase
In the virtual modeling phase, the researchers went on to model the different parts of the steering wheel. They came up with an assembly of seven parts in varying colors. The entire line was divided into four groups. Where one group was bi-color, and the other three were monochrome. As part of this phase, the researchers also explained the various dimensional characteristics, software applications, and number of assembly members required in each production process.
Overall, it was a comprehensive experience with the outputs according to the various research goals. If applied to real-life scenarios, this will surely fast forward the production schedule.


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Meg, a black Labrador-huntaway cross, disappeared after a crash in which the car she was travelling in rolled on 31 January in Purakaunui.
At least 40 volunteers had searched for her since, without finding a trace.
Meg was found yesterday by a farmer less than a kilometre from the crash site.
The dog had lost half her body weight, and has a dislocated or broken right leg and a dislocated or broken left foot.
Meg's owners, Andy and Alison Cunningham, said they had just given up hope of finding her, and were talking that day about how they would need to take down all the posters promising a reward for sightings.
In another twist, Meg is being treated at the Dunedin Wildlife Hospital, which was started two months ago by a trust led by Mr Cunningham.
Ms Cunningham also volunteers at the hospital normally for injured wild birds.


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DETROIT — A union for Detroit-based DTE Energy Co. workers and the utility have reached a tentative contract agreement. Utility Workers Union of America Local 223 said in a statement released early today that it will soon set up ratification meetings with its members to vote on whether to accept the tentative deal. DTE spokesman John Austerberry confirmed the agreement today and said the company had no additional comment. Negotiations began April 7. The contract for one group expired Sunday. The union represents 4,000 DTE workers. The union last week said its members authorized a possible strike as the two sides negotiated a contract. The vote didn't automatically result in a strike but authorized the union to call one.
DTE, union reach tentative contract agreement

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Today I worked on Lynda.com lessons. I also emailed my answer from the question in today’s blog post. I am working on Chapter 11 Lesson 2 Drawing curves with the Pen tool. Now I am working on lesson 3 Drawing complete shapes with the Pen tool. The pen tool starts out confusing and gets easier
So I have drawn a square and a triangle.
Here is what I drew with the pen tool so far.


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More on the Topic of Design
In a recent post we invited you to consider the value of delivering an overnight experience/accommodation on the traditional center console. This week the second part of the question, what next, takes a look at the explosion of ever larger open or center console boats: think 41, 42, 46 and recently 54′. Wow, some of us at Southport have been at this for a long time and can remember when a 43 Egg Harbor, 46 and later 54 Bertram or a 50 Hatteras was a BIG BOAT. Of course, unlike cars which keep getting smaller, boats have been getting longer for some time, think: megayachts once considered 80′ are now 300-400+; currently popular cruisers that began as 24′ I/O’s are now 50 – 60′.
But, to the question, would the boating public be happy with a well-executed express style model on our 33 platform? The obstacle for Southport is the hull form that makes a Southport ride so well, the fine entry and robust Carolina flare. This was the problem the original builder faced as well. That is, other builders who have included an express model on mid-thirties product have in most cases a hull form with a fuller or more rounded forward section. With the additional interior volume a less aggressive forefoot offers these builders have enough room to approach what some would consider a spacious interior.
Since we would never compromise the exceptional ride of a Southport, we are challenged on the present 33’s narrow forefoot to deliver the same space and wonder if we should wait to offer a more spacious overnight experience when the time comes for Southport to have a 38-40′ model, which while continuing to have a fine entry will have enough room in the boat to move the cabin bulkhead aft enough to deliver a “ball room” sized interior.
The walk around concept is the second alternative deck plan in which to offer overnighting, but once again too often the brands who have offered this while maintaining the center console positioning have either had to add a step to the deck (potential for tripping on the rise when walking fore or aft to fight a fish) or raised the forward section of the console (coffin box/sun-pad) to a height that makes the line of sight a challenge and approaches the same height as the gunnel (ring deck), which makes the seating surface less than a safe perch in a rough sea.
So. We at Southport are keen to know what you think: deliver a great product, which the folks at C Raymond Hunt & Associates (our naval architects) believe is possible and endorse on the current 33 Southport, but which like others may be somewhat of a compromise – OR – wait for a larger platform


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Hold The Fort Lyrics
1 Ho, my comrades, see the signal, waving in the sky!
Reinforcements now appearing, victory is nigh.
“Hold the fort, for I am coming,” Jesus signals still;
Wave the answer back to heaven, “By Thy grace we will.”
2 See the mighty host advancing, Satan leading on,
Mighty ones around us falling, courage almost gone!
3 See the glorious banner waving, Hear the trumpet blow!
In our Leader’s Name we triumph over every foe.
4 Fierce and long the battle rages, but our help is near,
Onward comes our great Commander, cheer, my comrades, cheer!
Hold The Fort Hymn Story
“Hold the Fort” is a Christian hymn that was written by Philip P Bliss. It was first published in 1870.
Below are more hymns’ lyrics and stories:


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South actress Samantha Akkineni will star in the Tamil and Telugu remakes of Kannada thriller U-Turn, which was remade in Malayalam in 2017. (Also Read: Naga Chaitanya - Samantha Ruth Prabhu's marriage and Akhil Akkineni's Hello made 2017 special for Nagarjuna)
On Twitter, Samantha wrote that the project will begin filming in February.
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The original Kannada film featured Shraddha Srinath, Radhika Chetan, Dileep Raj and Roger Narayan in pivotal roles, and was directed by Pawan Kumar.
The film revolves around the death of motorists who break a traffic rule at a particular flyover in Bengaluru and subsequent pinning down of the culprit by an intern journalist and a police inspector.
Samantha Akkineni, 30, is a celebrated actress in the Southern film industry and features in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films.
She is the star of films Neethaane En Ponvasantham, Eega, Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu, Attarintiki Daredi, Theri and 24.
Last seen in Mersal, Samantha Akkineni is currently gearing up for her new film Irumbu Thirai, scheduled to release on January 26.
Her upcoming projects include Rangasthalam, Super Deluxe and Mahanati.
Samantha Akkineni married Naga Chaitanya at a private ceremony in Goa last year. (Also Read: Wifey Samantha's birthday wish for Naga Chaitanya will turn your heart into mush - see pic)


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UFI and SISO Executives Call On Governments to Enact Testing Over Quarantine Policies
UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, and SISO, the Society for Independent Show Organizers, are calling on global policymakers and governments to follow a “testing before quarantine” approach for business-related travel and activities. This approach, both organizations say — which would include activating the potentials of rapid antigen COVID-19 tests — would enable businesses to move forward out of a severe global recession.
A statement signed by UFI President Mary Larkin (president of Diversified Communications, USA) and SISO Chair Doug Emslie (group chief executive, Tarsus Group) encouraged policymakers to find the best possible solutions to maintain the flow of people, products and services while the global community develops and rolls out vaccination programs. This protocol is greatly needed to stabilize businesses and help people around the world avoid economic hardships as government financial support programs are scaled back over time, Larkin and Emslie stressed.
The exhibitions industry possesses one of the critical skills for any economic recovery, as it sets up and operates the market places and meeting places for industries and communities to meet for business, Larkin and Emslie said. Trade shows and exhibitions are organized events, as recognized by the WHO and governments — they are not unorganized mass gatherings. In recent months, hundreds of trade shows have taken place, predominantly in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, with health and safety measures in place, based on global industry standards and aligned with local regulations. Not one of them has caused a COVID outbreak, Larkin and Emslie added.
Simultaneously, hundreds of relevant trade shows have been cancelled or postponed because buyers and sellers aren’t able to plan to attend, primarily due to travel restrictions and rapidly changing quarantine regulations.
For economies to recover and sectors to restart, the business community needs clarity and reliable regulations for the coming months. Additionally, reliable rapid antigen COVID tests are becoming widely available and could provide the best solution for creating safe environments capable of holding managed business events.
Rapid testing can be applied pre- and post-flight, and at the check in points for events – replacing the need for people to quarantine if tests are negative, Larkin and Emslie said. Combined with the existing safety measures around events, this will create a safe and reliable framework for business professionals to engage, and help the industry to overcome the current impasse that is causing more economic damage every day.
As a sector, we stand ready to implement rapid testing processed around our organized events, Larkin and Emslie said. They are asking governments and authorities to work with the industry to activate our knowledge and expertise to make sure businesses can meet and do business throughout the current pandemic.
Read the full statement here.


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Frozen yogurt is a fickle dessert—it keeps its cool when faced with an army of screaming spoon holders but melts instantly when greeted by a smiling sun. Explore ice cream's elusive nature with this Groupon.
Choose from Six Options
- $5 for $10 worth of frozen yogurt, valid at the South Salem location
- $5 for $10 worth of frozen yogurt, valid at the West Salem location
- $5 for $10 worth of frozen yogurt, valid at the Keizer location
- $10 for a $20 punch card to use over multiple visits, valid at the South Salem location
- $10 for a $20 punch card to use over multiple visits, valid at the West Salem location
- $10 for a $20 punch card to use over multiple visits, valid at the Keizer location
Guests load cups of creamy fro-yo ($0.40 per ounce) with more than 50 types of toppings.
Our customers loved this deal last year, earning Limeberry Frozen Yogurt a spot on Groupon's Best of 2011 list.
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Since the Charlottesville protests of 2017, the Left has been on a monument removal craze, which conservative Pat Buchanan noted in a recent column.
With Democrats in firm control of the state legislature, they will likely shove their PC agenda down Virginians’ throats.
Buchanan calls attention to how first-term Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton has criticized U.S. capitol statues of George Washington and Robert E. Lee.
Both statues have been significant artifacts of Virginian history for over a century at Washington, D.C.
Instead, Wexton wants to replace Lee with an African American hero from a list that she and Congressman A. Donald McEachin submitted.
Two of those on the list are lesser-known figures from the desegregation era of the 1950s. The third is the renowned historical figure Nat Turner.
In “The Americans: A Social History of the United States,” published in 1969, author J. C. Furnas gives a politically incorrect perspective to the life of Nat Turner:
In August 1831, Nat Turner, paranoid slave preacher and cunjur man, led his superstition-fuddled followers to kill fifty-five whites of all sexes and ages in an aimless terrorizing of Southhampton County in the southeastern corner of Virginia.
“The poor twisted creature could hardly have found a worse time to sharpen Southern fears of a slave rising,” wrote Furnas. The Virginia legislature ended up rejecting bill that would gradually phase out slavery by a narrow margin.
Turner would be tried and hanged after he was caught.
Nat Turner’s terrorist actions had effectively delayed emancipation.
Buchanan argued that “If the Virginia General Assembly votes to replace Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol with a statue of Nat Turner, it will not be the unifying event Wexton imagines.”
However, things are getting heated on other fronts.
On January 20th, there will be a “Lobby Day” at the Assembly, where thousands of gun advocates will gather in Richmond to protest Northam and his new Democrat majority’s gun control proposals.
BLP reported that about 91 counties have created “Second Amendment sanctuaries” where local authorities are expected to not enforce prospective infringements on the Second Amendment by the state legislature.
The Washington Post wrote:
Virginia is a former Confederate State with strong rural traditions and lax gun laws. Guns represent the strongest, reddest line against the demographic changes that have seen Old Dominion voters usher in a new era of Democratic leadership in recent elections.
A Nevada-based group called the Oath Keepers said it is sending training teams to help form posses and militia in Virginia. The leader of a Georgia militia called Three Percent Security Force has posted videos and calls to arms on Facebook, urging ‘patriots’ to converge on Richmond.
It’s not just guns and history that Virginians are divided over.
Last year, Northam voiced his support for abortion through the first nine months of pregnancy. He took it a step further by supporting abortion even if it was unsuccessful.
Northam made his views about the rights of the unborn clear:
(Third trimester abortions are) done in cases where there may be severe deformities. There may be a fetus that’s nonviable. So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. … The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.
Political tensions are so high in Virginia that Buchanan believes “a new secession is underway” because “Virginians are separating from each other over issues as deep and divisive — such as who can take innocent life and when — as those that divided us in 1861.”
Although calls for secession will likely not morph into anything concrete in the short-term, Virginia is clearly politically polarized at the moment.
The 2020 session of the Virginia General Assembly will be a heated affair no matter how we look at it.
Merrick Garland Suggests that Getting Rid of Lawsuit Protections is Not a Second Amendment Violation
Garland as AG will be a disaster for the right to bear arms.
If Merrick Garland is nominated as Attorney General, the Second Amendment is in big trouble.
Based on his comments at a Senate hearing on February 22, 2021, Garland made a suggestion that the repeal of lawsuit protections for gun manufacturers is not unconstitutional.
AWR Hawkins of Breitbart News reminded his readers that President Joe Biden campaigned on a platform of repealing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which shielded lawful gun manufacturers from lawsuits.
In a previous Breitbart News report, Biden spoke at an MSNBC forum in 2019 alongside gun control organizations such as March for Our Lives where he expressed his support for gun manufacturers to be subject to lawsuits.
At the speech, Biden suggested that the PLCC be repealed. He declared, “No other outfit in history has gotten this kind of protection” and asserted that the legal actions would bring about “change overnight.”
In a subsequent occasion on February 7, 2020, Breitbart News covered Biden’s remarks to a New Hampshire crowd, in which he stated that it was a “mistake” to shield firearms manufacturers from lawsuits. He continued, “The first thing I’m going to do as president is work to get rid of that.”
Later that month, Breitbart News recalled how Biden called out gun manufacturers at a South Carolina rally and boasted, “I’m going to take you down.”
According to a report by The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah Senator Mike Lee asked Garland about his views on removing protections for gun manufacturers. Garland responded, “I have not thought myself deeply about this. I don’t think it raises a Second Amendment issue.”
When he was questioned if he is in favor of Biden’s plans to ban so-called “assault weapons”, Garland responded, “Where there is room under the law for the president’s policies to be pursued, then I think the president is entitled to pursue them.”
Biden’s track record as a gun control proponent is well-documented. From his support of gun-free zones at schools to the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, Biden is Gun Control Inc.’s guy. With Democrats in control of the House and the Senate, there will most certainly be attempts to ram gun control down our throats. If they can’t beat us legislatively, they will most certainly use the courts to undermine the Second Amendment. Pro-gun organizations should be ready to lawyer up and use whatever means possible to keep courts from destroying our rights.
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text: I have several daylily plants that I thought were Stawberry Candy. However, I'm now noticing that a couple of the plants are quite different. Notice the difference in these two photos. The top picture is much darker and the flowers are quite a bit larger. The bottom photo looks more like the pictures I see online of Stawberry Candy daylilies. So is my top one just a variant, or is it some other as yet unidentified daylily?

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Gloucester Daily Times
---- — Thursday, April 4
“Power of the Purse” event, sponsored by Women’s Fund of Essex County, 6:30 to 9 p.m., Brookwood School, Manchester. Hors d’oeuvres and wine, and raffle featuring chances to win distinctive purses and bags donated by renowned designers and retailers. All proceeds fund special projects and annual grant awards made by The Women’s Fund throughout Essex County. $35 in advance, $40 at door. www.thewomensfundec.org.
‘Lawyer for a day,’ with Orlando & Associates, 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Manchester Public Library. Free consultations with civil litigation attorneys, basic legal advice, personal injury law, medical malpractice, general liability, etc.
Saturday, April 6
Chili & Chowder Fest to benefit Wellspring House, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., First Parish Church, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., 1 Chapel Lane, Manchester. $10 for adult, $5 for children under 12. Chili, chowder, beverages, hot dogs and assorted desserts. Free parking available behind Town Hall. www.firstparishchurch.org.
Official ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Children’s Room, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Library Trustees will thank the community for its support of the 125th Anniversary Capital Campaign and honor Sara Collins on her 25th anniversary as children’s librarian. Refreshments and entertainment.
Monday, April 8
The Non-fiction Book Group meet, 5 p.m., to discuss Blood, Bones and Butter: the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef/ by Gabrielle Hamilton, the 2013 selection of Manchester’s community reads.
Tuesday, April 9
Harold Burnham & Friends discuss building the schooner Ardelle, 7:30 p.m., Waterline Center, Essex Shipbuilding Museum, 66 Main St. Burnham shares photos from Ardelle’s voyage to Washington, D.C., to collect 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowships. $8 for members, $10 for nonmembers.
Wednesday, April 10
“The Child in Nature: A Parent and child workshop” 10:30 a.m., Manchester Public Library. For ages 2 1/2 - 7 years old. Please register by calling 978-526-2016 or email Miss Sara, firstname.lastname@example.org.
Thursday, April 11
Poetry Reading with Barbara Flaherty and Susan Gabriel, 6:30 p.m., Manchester Public Library. Both poets have recently published their own books of poetry.
Saturday, April 13
“Genealogy Research: Finding and Documenting Your Ancestors,” presented by Barbara J. Beake and Peg Plummer of Essex Society of Genealogists, 11 a.m., Essex Senior Center, 17 Pickering St., Essex. Free and open to the public.
monday, April 15
Manchester Public Library closed on Monday, for Patriot’s Day. Regular hours, 1 to 8 p.m. resume tomorrow,
Wednesday, April 17
Drumlin Farm’s baby farm animals visit Manchester Public Library, two sessions; Preschoolers, 10:30 a.m., Kindergarten through fifth grade at 11:30 a.m. Register at 978-526-2016 or email Miss Sara: email@example.com.
*Non-fiction Book Group*
The Non-fiction Book Group will meet Monday, April 8 at 5 PM to discuss
/Blood, Bones and Butter: the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef/
by Gabrielle Hamilton, the 2013 selection of Manchester’s community
reads. Everyone is welcome to this discussion.


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VIENNA (Apr. 24)
The Patriotic Front, which is composed of the clerical groups supporting Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, made public today their program for solving the Jewish question. The communique, addressed to the press, declared that the “Jewish question must be regulated some day in accordance with Austrian culture, eliminating all alien influence in the Austrian state.” The statement was signed by Captain Reichel, who is acting as leader of the Patriotic Front under Chancellor Dollfuss.
Although the Dollfuss government has officially disclaimed any intention of changing the status of the Austrian Jews, or of introducing restrictive measures against them, the Christian Socialist party, one of the mainstays of the Dollfuss regime, under the leadership of Dr. Emmerich Czermak, has openly demanded numerus clausus for Jewish students and the withdrawal of citizenship rights from the Jews.
Recent dispatches from Vienna indicate that although the Dollfuss government still maintains that it is not anti-Semitic, government officials, communal institutions and private concerns are dismissing Jewish employees and that anti-Semitism is gaining ground rapidly in Austria.
RESIGNATION OF ORNSTEIN CREATES CRISIS IN COMMUNITY
A crisis was created in the Jewish community of Vienna today with the resignation of Dr. Jakob Ornstein from his post as vice-president. Dr. Ornstein is the only non-Zionist official on the board of the Vienna Jewish community.
The conflict arose over the question of full citizenship equality for the Jews of Austria. The powerful Christian Socialist party, headed by Dr. Emmerich Czermak, and to which Chancellor Dollfuss belongs, has openly advocated the limitation of the citizenship rights of the Austrian Jews.
Dr. Ornstein’s group, the Union of Austrian Jews, is determined not to consent to any such limitation and is fearful that some of the Zionist groups in the Vienna Jewish community will make concessions to the Czermak program.
Dr. Ornstein’s place on the Jewish community board has been taken by Dr. Ticho.

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I think the Tillamook Baby Loaf Bus is starting to get comfortable in Texas!
When people think of a production shoot – whether it is for a TV show, movie or commercial, most people think of a sprawling set, large studio, lots of staff running around, props, styling sessions and demanding actors. Well I’m here to tell you that the production of the Tillamook meets Texas TV campaign was nothing like an ordinary production shoot! We wanted to keep things as simple as possible. The goal was to introduce Tillamook Cheese to Texans and capture the authentic interactions they have with people on camera.
With a small crew, a Tillamook Baby Loaf Bus, and a lot of Tillamook Cheese on hand the characters Luke and Dale traveled around Texas introducing Tillamook Cheese to Texans. They visited farmers markets, BBQ restaurants, car shows, a hat shop, iconic landmarks and fields, homes and cities in between! The locations were real, the people were real and we had a really great time bringing this campaign to life! Here are a few of my favorite moments from the shoot.
Watch all six spots in the Tillamook meets Texas campaign here. Enjoy!


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