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Long route is as per the link below (9 miles). For those looking for a shorter route, there are several options:
1) omit the Tudor Road loop at the end, making it around 8 miles
2) retrace your steps once in Barwell Town Centre (at the roundabout by the Blacksmith’s Arms) and that will make it just over 6 miles.
Not long now until the clocks change so soon we will be able to enjoy some of our Summer routes
Usual 6.15-6.20pm meet for 6.30pm departure.
See you there


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Liminal Spaces: Horror Stories
IFWG Publishing (March 1, 2022)
Reviewed by Mario Guslandi
A prolific, award-winning author from Melbourne, Australia, Deborah Sheldon returns with a new, powerful collection assembling twenty-three short stories, mostly previously appearing in genre magazines or anthologies, and a novella. Sheldon is rapidly becoming one of my favorite authors of dark and horror fiction and deserves to be more widely appreciated also outside the Australian speculative fiction setting.
For those who are not yet familiar with this talented writer, this volume is a splendid opportunity to get acquainted with her remarkable fiction.
Among the various tales included in the present collection, I will mention my own favorites.
“Carbon Copy Consumables” is an effective piece, halfway between fantasy and SF, addressing the subject of cloning and its unexpected consequences, while “Entombed” is a tense quickie with a claustrophobic beginning and a menacing ending.
The perceptive “The House Across the Road” features a single mother with two little daughters moving into a house, the hidden secrets of which will get gradually discovered.
In the excellent “All the Stars in Her Eyes” a rare eye disorder, a little girl born after a one-night stand, and an asteroid ready to hit the Earth are the ingredients creating a complex, unnerving piece on the SF side.
“A Multitude of One” is a cleverly ambiguous story where a woman who suffered a stroke thinks she’s fooled by a deceiving husband impersonating different individuals.
Finally, the novella “Hand to Mouth” is a veritable masterpiece ,featuring a man in prison writing to his son to explain the circumstances of a car accident in which his wife got seriously injured and lost part of her arm, subsequently substituted by a nasty prosthetic device. Much more is gradually revealed , with a great ,final twist in the tale.
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Stewart Dougherty presents the 2nd part of his disembowelment of the Clinton crime machine. The Weiner email bomb dropped in the middle of this. As it turns out, the Weiner lap-top mishap appears to a “Black Swan” of sorts that eluded Hillary’s tentacles of control. In the piece below, Stewart presents useful background knowledge and intellectual tools with which to help you analyze and interpret the next sequence of events before and after the election (assuming the election is not postponed).
The information that emerges from the Weiner laptop is going to blow people’s minds – John Titus, Best Evidence Productions, in an upcoming Shadow of Truth
Author’s Preface: We are far more interested in markets than politics. To us, free markets represent liberty in motion. But today, politics, and particularly the most corrupt political institution on earth, the Federal Reserve, have markets in a hammer-lock. At this point, we have to understand what is happening in politics in order to understand what is likely to happen in markets. We write a great deal about politics at this critical juncture in order to help you understand markets and achieve the financial freedom you desire and deserve.
Regarding the breaking Clinton-scandal developments, we believe that in addition to the 650,000 emails retrieved from the Abedin / Weiner computer which are going to show a level of corruption in this nation never before even imagined let alone proved, the FBI’s decision to re-open the investigation was related to the Bundy acquittals on October 27, 2016. We believe that government officials are looking up the barrel of a full-blown American revolution. Not the shooting kind, but rather something much worse for them: complete moral rejection of government and Establishment corruption by the PRODUCTIVE CLASS in America, which threatens to rapidly spread into and cripple the American economy just ahead of the holiday selling season.
The National Retail Federation has just reported that 25% of shoppers are waiting for the election outcome prior to deciding how much they are going to spend during the holidays, something the NRF has never seen before. If principled, productive people feel that this election was stolen from them by Clinton and Establishment corruption, they are going to shut down. They are going to WITHDRAW THEIR FINANCIAL CONSENT from a rigged, dirty system that is looting them and destroying their futures. While the government can effectively deal with many kinds of protest, it cannot even begin to deal with a general economic boycott by the productive class, even if it is just at the margin. (All profits are at the margin.) The consequences of such a boycott upon general business activity; tax receipts at all levels from municipal to federal; the stock and bond markets; and the national mood, with its extraordinarily complex and critical interconnections and ramifications would be monumental, and perhaps beyond all American precedent.
Despite a multi-million dollar, taxpayer-funded Federal legal onslaught in the case against the Bundy’s and their co-defendants, the jurors re-confirmed something communicated throughout history. Namely, that while there are a very few things that universally disgust human beings, one of them is bullies. The people are not pleased, and the Establishment knows it is in trouble. Now on to our article.]
The Clinton Syndrome Curse: A Clinton – Obama Co-Presidency. (The Clinton Syndrome: Part 2)
In Part 1, we defined the Clinton Syndrome as a psychological condition in which voters develop a favorable attitude toward a political predator who deceives, disdains, swindles and abuses them. It is a variant of the Stockholm Syndrome, but much larger in scope and scale, as demonstrated by the fact that tens of millions of American voters currently exhibit the pathological condition. This Syndrome was identified by Inferential Analytics (IA), an accurate and reliable forecasting method we have developed and use. You can read a detailed explanation of the syndrome in our first article on the subject: “The Clinton Syndrome: The Establishment’s Weapon for National Conquest (Part 1)” LINK
In this article, Part 2, we delve deeper into what the 2016 presidential election is really all about, and outline the consequences that will occur should the Clinton Syndrome prevail on November 8th. The Clinton Syndrome has resulted in a potentially deadly national disease which will wreak havoc if it spreads out of control at this time.
We regard as an existential threat to the United States the fact that tens of millions of American voters have no idea how deeply fraudulent the entire 2016 presidential campaign has been, from the very beginning. If Donald Trump had not appeared out of nowhere, this would never have been an election at all, but rather an orchestrated, planned enablement of the Clintons and their Establishment handlers to engage in unprecedented corruption, regime change and outright plunder.
If successful, this still-active effort to fraudulently inject the Clintons into the power seat will become a multi-trillion dollar gift to the Establishment elite who know exactly how to profit from Clinton graft and corruption; will destroy what is left of the American economy, which simply cannot sustain four more years of intense looting and fraud; and will result in the outright overthrow of the American form of governance by a deadly new political system that we call “crony communism (outlined in our article: Crony Communism: Hillary Clinton’s Game Plan for America. LINK
The people have been so confused and deceived by the multi-billion dollar avalanche of deliberately concocted lies and propaganda about this election that they don’t even know who is running for President on the Democrat ticket.
Hillary Clinton has both a co-presidential and a vice presidential running mate, neither of which is Tim Kaine, a corrupt political suck-up and hack who was selected precisely because he will do exactly what he is told, not matter how criminal or immoral.
Clinton’s co-presidential running mate is Barack Hussein Obama; her vice-presidential candidate is the United Nations. This is the Establishment’s Dream Team, cooked up to make the fastest possible progress toward their crony-communist and globalist overthrow of the United States. The Establishment realizes that the people are waking up fast to what is being done to them and their country. Therefore, they have put their corrupt machinations into high gear in order to beat the clock, which is ticking loudly.
When people say that a vote for Clinton means four more years of Obama, they have their arithmetic wrong. A Clinton victory means eight more years of Obama in the next four, and a total knock-out for the nation.
The Mainstream Media’s (MSM) deliberately false narrative is that Obama has been campaigning non-stop for Clinton because he wants to protect his “legacy,” and believes that Clinton will do this for him.
This is yet another of the “Big Lie” mind bombs that have been dropped onto the American people’s heads during this colossally fraudulent, dishonest and propagandistic Establishment onslaught to get Clinton elected.
This narrative is meant to suggest that Barrack Obama wants to retire, and then ride out the rest of his life looking upon his “legacy.”
There are two problems with this story. First, Obama’s legacy is already blowing up in his and the entire nation’s face, so there is nothing Clinton will be able to do to salvage it. Obamacare and the Iran Deal are just two examples among dozens of the collapse of Obama’s so-called legacy, which would much better be called a national damnation.
The second problem is that Obama is only 55 years old and has not given even ONE indication our model can detect that he actually wants or intends to retire. (Soros, one of his champions, is 86 years old and still wreaking havoc worldwide. These people never stop until the Reaper drops in.) In fact, what we see in Obama is the exact opposite: he demonstrates a strong desire not only to remain on the political stage, but to assume a larger presence upon it.
Speaking at a rally in Philadelphia on September 13, 2016 (while Hillary was at home recovering from “pneumonia”), Obama said, “It’s good to be back on the campaign trail.” He then said, “I really, really, REALLY want to elect Hillary Clinton.” (Please carefully consider that sentence, because it is a textbook example (although just one of hundreds over the years) of Obama’s pathological Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). He did not say, “I really, really, REALLY want YOU [the people to whom he was speaking] to elect Hillary Clinton,” but rather, “I really, really, REALLY want to elect Hillary Clinton,” making the people’s national election all about himself. Comments such as this are extraordinarily important to our analysis, and their significance has been borne out time and again over our 15+ years of doing this work. Paradoxically, the smallest factors often have the greatest implications.
Later in the same speech, Obama boasted (our comments added within brackets): “More Americans are working [in part time, minimum wage jobs], more have [100% subsidized] health care, incomes are rising [for the establishment elite], poverty is falling [according to false, politically doctored numbers] and gas is $2.00 a gallon. Thanks, Obama!!!” In Obama’s narcissistically crippled mind, the entire United States economy is a function of one thing and one thing only: him. Narcissists in positions of power are extremely destructive (e.g. Obamacare), because they are completely out of touch with what is happening in the real, as opposed their self-flattering fantasy world. In any event, this kind of campaign bragging, swagger and grandiosity is not indicative of someone who plans to retire from politics in the next few weeks.
Obama’s clear desire to remain in the game makes him valuable to Clinton, while also making Clinton valuable to him. Intersecting motives are where deals get done. And a Clinton – Obama collaboration would be ideal for the Establishment. Obama has been the gift that keeps on giving to the elite, as they have raked in trillions from his presidency. They want as much of Obama as they can get, because he is a money machine. (For example, witness Obama’s continuing efforts to ram the TPP, an Establishment fraud against the people, down the nation’s throat. Obama does whatever the Establishment tells him to do, in the full knowledge his “Library” Slush Fund will be richly rewarded for his efforts, just as the Clinton Slush Fund has been enriched by more than $1.8 billion, with a “b,” for the Clinton sell-out of people to the elite.)
Obama is the most internationally-traveled president in the nation’s history, having made 51 international trips to 56 different countries during his two terms in office. It is as if he has been running for international office, and now we can see that he has been. His globetrotting has required strength, stamina and energy, the exact physical attributes that Clinton, who has been pictured requiring assistance to climb a short set of stairs, lacks. Given her health issues, Clinton cannot possibly perform on a global stage going forward; she will be lucky to successfully navigate the White House.
This presents a problem. For the Establishment agenda to be fully executed, Clinton needs international support, and ideally, that international mandates be imposed upon the United States. But she will not be capable of traveling internationally to seal the deals that must get done.
This is where Obama comes in. While he would never step “backwards” into a role such as, for example, Secretary of State (an ego-wounding demotion), his passion for continued political involvement would find an excellent home at the United Nations.
In this Inferential Analytics scenario, Hillary Clinton will get Obama placed in a high level United Nations position. The United States pays for roughly 25% of total United Nations annual budget, far more than any other nation, and still has clout even though more and more countries are turning their backs on America.
Other nations would support the idea of a senior role for Obama if it were made clear to them that his mission would be to continue the “fundamental transformation” of the United States that he promised during his 2008 campaign and has been conducting ever since. This “transformation” has done extreme damage to the United States, and while it has been a disaster for America, it has been good for the rest of the world. Finally, they see a means by which to bring the United States to heel. The idea of the further weakening of the United States will sound to them like a very good deal. The one assurance they will seek is that in exchange for giving Obama an important role at the U.N., Obama will get Clinton to agree not to incinerate the northern hemisphere in a nuclear war, at least not until they have finalized their preparations for it.
A Clinton – Obama co-presidency will be a double body-blow to the nation, with Clinton turning it into a corrupt, crony-communist Establishment lootocracy from within, and Obama destroying it from without.
Leveraging the United Nations, Clinton and Obama can effect two personal agendas they have long sought: gun control, and a multi-million person “open borders” invasion of America. The first agenda will disarm the people, which has been Job #1 in every communist takeover in history; the second will ensure that the “Last American Presidential Election” occurs on November 8, 2016. In the future, presidents and all other politicians and government agency heads will be appointed by the Establishment, exactly as happens in communist regimes. While there might be “show elections,” the outcomes will have been pre-determined at every level far in advance.
A Clinton – Obama co-presidency will also ensure that other Establishment objectives are met. These include the institution of carbon taxes (an enormous and unprecedented new revenue source and looting opportunity); the passage of the TPP (an Establishment bonanza); and the maximum-possible imposition of the New World Order regime change agenda upon the nations and their people.
While Obama could advance the Establishment’s aims in virtually any high level position at the U.N., a role that would make him particularly deadly at the outset would be Co-chair of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), joining current head Filippo Grandhi.
Obama could make his appointment a matter of smooth sailing by stating his belief that the United States is a large, wealthy, relatively under-populated nation that could rapidly absorb a large number of immigrants. By promising to tap into the country’s private wealth, Obama could warrant that all new immigrants would be fully covered by the country’s comprehensive welfare system upon arrival, which is exactly what happens today. This idea would be intoxicating to the new Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, who was the former head of the UNHCR and is an avowed socialist.
The United Nations currently reports the existence of more than 60,000,000 displaced persons and refugees in the world. If the United States pledged to take in, say, 5,000,000 of them, senior U.N. officials would be delighted. What would they have to lose? Dealing with the integration and cost issues would be America’s problem, not theirs. The U.N. could pass a resolution, written by Obama in such a way as to make it convertible into an Executive Order by Clinton, mandating the acceptance of these refugees by the United States. Clinton would put up her hands and say, “I didn’t do it. The U.N. did it, and we must do our “fair share,” while also complying with international law and being decent and responsible international citizens.”
As we have pointed out in the past, the United States government is irredeemably bankrupt by any accounting definition one wishes to use. With $20,000,000,000,000.00 in on-the-books debt, another $10,000,000,000,000.00 in debt projected to be added over the next decade (it will be far greater than this, given current trends), and at the very minimum another $120,000,000,000,000.00 in unfunded debt and contingent liabilities, there is absolutely no way the government can ever pay its obligations. So you might wonder, how could the government possibly pay for an immigrant invasion of this magnitude?
The answer is, the government won’t pay for it; the people will. This is what crony communism is all about. It is estimated that today, there is roughly $70 trillion in private wealth in America. Assuming that half of it, or $35 trillion belongs to the cronies and is off-limits, this leaves $35 trillion that is available for expropriation and looting. While this is certainly not enough to fix America’s fiscal problems, not even close, it could fund 4 years’ worth of radical fiscal adventurism as well as crony communism regime change.
As Hillary Clinton has repeatedly said during this campaign, “We are going to go where the money is,” and if you don’t take that statement seriously, we believe you are making a very big mistake. She and top colleagues such as Sanders and Warren have said in plain English, at a high decibel level that they are coming for your money, and they are, because in their minds, you don’t deserve to have any. Just as Obama once famously said, in a rare, honest, off-script, non-tele-prompted moment, “If you have a business, you didn’t build that,” he and his fellow crony communists also believe, “If you have saved some after-tax money, you don’t deserve to have that.” To them, any savings you possess represent funds the government should have gotten its hands in the first tax cycle, but didn’t. They intend to rectify that error going forward.
We have outlined this theme to demonstrate that this election is about an agenda that very few people understand, because it has deliberately been withheld from them. In actuality, the voters have no idea what Clinton truly stands for, or what the Establishment agenda, which she fully believes in and will implement, really is. The stakes in this election are therefore greater than those of any other election in our nation’s history, in our view. This is why the Establishment has spent billions of dollars rigging it. They intend to collect trillions in plunder on the other side, but they can only do so if it goes their way. As we have already seen, they will stop at nothing to get what they want.
Some Implications of a Clinton – Obama Co-presidency:
Here is a snapshot of the forecast generated by IA in the event of a Clinton – Obama victory:
- The Clinton – Obama Co-presidential regime will be the most secretive and non-transparent presidency in U.S. history. Clinton will become invisible, just as she often has during the campaign, not just for health reasons, but because she will turn her back on everyday citizens, whom she disdains, once she gets the prize she has sought her entire life. Obama will make secret deals all over the world (think of the secret Iran cash payments and deal, and his behind-the-scenes agitating for TPP, but on a much larger scale, as illustrations). Every one of these deals will be a dagger in the nation’s back.
- The American people will never again know the truth about what actually goes on behind government doors, or about the corruption that infects the entire political and establishment system. The political class will never again allow itself to suffer Wikileaks-like exposure. Politics will shift to a CIA-like “need to know” model, where information is doled out selectively and in piece-parts. Only a very few at the top will know the overall agenda, and the full set of tactics being employed to achieve it. Anyone who compromises or exposes the system will simply be executed. (Seth Rich comes to mind.) Going forward, the people will know absolutely nothing about what is really happening in Washington, D.C., or about the D.C. / Wall Street and Establishment initiatives. Orwell’s prophecy, “1984,” which is already quite real, will become even more so.
- The United States will experience an accelerating Brain Drain. Forward-thinking people will realize that America’s slide into predatory crony-communism can and will never be reversed, and that it will be impossible for them and their loved ones to get ahead in such a corrupt, suffocating environment. (Imagine being scolded, lectured, insulted and talked down to on a regular basis by people like Clinton, Obama and Warren, because that is exactly what will happen.) Progressive countries will put out the welcome mat for hard-working, principled, skilled, entrepreneurial Americans. No one will want America’s whining, lazy, non-productive, “entitled” mooches. That’s just a fact. Virtually every nation anyone would actually want to move to for a better opportunity grades potential immigrants according to age, education, language proficiency, skills and likelihood to be productive. Prospects are disqualified if they do not earn a sufficient score. No sensible nation on earth wants to bring in do-nothings whose only capability is to leech off its producers.
- Productive Americans who remain in the country for their own reasons will quietly adopt a John Galt mindset, sidestepping the corruption and crony communist expropriation by shutting down, dropping out and fading off the radar screen. This will result in an immediate slow-down of business activity, which will ultimately lead to economic collapse. Given that all profits are at the margin, relatively small percentage declines in sales can entirely wipe out income.
- The John Galt effect will result in the collapse of the nation’s many Ponzi schemes, such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, pensions (government and private) and the biggest one of all, Government Debt. These schemes simply cannot be maintained in a dramatically slowing business environment, no matter how much private wealth is looted.
- Government will take draconian steps to shut down all non-government-sanctioned news and information outlets. Their prime target will be the Alternative Media, which will only be further empowered, and embraced by the people. A powerful Resistance movement will spread like wildfire. Nonetheless, people should fill their minds with as much truth as they possibly can right now, because it will become much harder and more expensive to find in the future. Today’s Alternative Media is the greatest gift any people in history have ever received, and people should leverage it as best they can while they can.
- A steady retreat by government officials and establishment elitists to their multi-trillions of dollars’ worth of taxpayer-funded bunkers will occur, as they seek to hide from the American people, who will be waking up by the additional tens of thousands every day.
- A Federal Reserve December rate hike has a 0% chance of happening if Clinton is elected; there is a 100% chance of a rate hike if Trump is elected. The Fed is a totally political organization, and they will do everything they can to punish the voters and scorch the economic earth if the people choose Trump over the Establishment agenda the Fed has been 100% behind.
- If Clinton wins, people will IMMEDIATELY be bombarded with MSM reports about the implications of the 2016 election upon the 2018 mid-term and 2020 general elections. This will be part of a full-scale effort to inject mass quantities of Hopium into the Trump supporters’ brains, and get them to focus not upon the rigged election of 2016, but on the “next” election where, they will falsely be told, their vote will “really count!” In the meantime, the Establishment will be doing everything necessary to ensure that the 2018 and 2020 “elections” are completely rigged, fraudulent and meaningless.
- A massive move into real money will begin, and this will be the subject of our next article. There are developments in this sphere that you must know about, and one of the most important Inferential Analytics themes we have ever examined was triggered on October 27, 2016. We will have a full description in the next week or so.
In conclusion, the 2016 election is an existential event for the United States. W believe that the situation is becoming so unstable that you have little time to do everything you can to prepare, and get your personal houses in order. We are writing to help as best we can, while we can.
Stewart Dougherty is the creator of Inferential Analytics, a forecasting method that applies to events proprietary, time-tested principles of human instinct, desire and action. In his view, forecasting methods not fundamentally based upon principles of human action are unlikely to be reliable over time. He is a graduate of Tufts University and Harvard Business School and has developed IA over a period of 15+ years.
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ISLAMABAD: Two of the seven noted figures named by leader of opposition Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan as caretaker prime minister have brusquely declined to accept the top office while his third recommendation has been bluntly snubbed by a high-flying political party.
After these refusals and rejections, only four recommended names are left for consideration by a wide range of opposition parties to pick up one of them as the interim premier.In the field are now two former superior court judges, a leader of the lawyers’ community and a political personality. Their names have not been disclosed by the opposition leader.
The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) has serious reservations about prominent human rights activist and former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Asma Jahangir, whose name was proposed by the opposition leader. She has not yet commented on her choice by him.
PTI Information Secretary Shafqat Mehmood says although Asma Jahangir is a respected figure, her attack on his party has been misplaced and unnecessary. Mehmood Khan Achakzai, whose name is included in the list, has also declined to become caretaker prime minister. He has conveyed his refusal to the top Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership with which he has excellent relations since long.
He wants to contest the forthcoming parliamentary polls from his native constituency of Balochistan. The interim prime minister, chief ministers, their cabinet members and the dependents of all of them are constitutionally barred from fighting elections that they would supervise as caretakers. Eminent Baloch politician Sardar AttaullahMengal, whose name was incorporated in Chaudhry Nisar’s list, has also rejected the proposal. “It is no less than a cruel joke on me to recommend me as interim prime minister at a time when so much violence is going on in Balochistan. I have no courage to face families of people killed daily in the incidents of terrorism and military operations. The operation launched in Balochistan in 2005 has left hundreds dead,” he has been quoted as saying while declining the recommendation.
In 2008, the elderly Mengal had declined the PML-N proposal to become its presidential candidate against President Asif Ali Zardari.A PML-N leader said that the objective behind proposing the names of Mengal and Achakzai for top slots was to involve them in the political mainstream and give them a sense of participation in the national affairs and decision-making level.
He said that it was well-known that the PML-N has tried to have good relations with noted Baloch leaders, who are estranged with the federal government since long. He said that their anger and ire, which escalated after the assassination of Nawab Akbar Bugti in 2006, was justified and called for. There is a dire need for a healing touch in Balochistan.
The PML-N leader said that his party’s initiatives were sending a positive signal to those Baloch young stalwarts, who were talking against the Federation of Pakistan while sitting abroad.While the opposition leader has made it public that he was discussing the short-listed names with major and small political parties including the Jamaat-e-Islami, PPP-Sherpao, Mir Hasil Bizenjo’s National Party, PML-Like-minded and Sindhi and Baloch nationalists, Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf is yet to propose his choices as the caretaker prime minister.
However, he also plans to consult with political parties about the names he would recommend so as to evolve a consensus.The opposition leader is yet to consult with Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s Jamiat-e-Ulemae Islam. He says although he is constitutionally not bound to talk to other opposition parties on proposing the next interim prime minister, he has decided to consult with all political forces and groups inside and outside parliament.
The process of consultation with the prime minister would be initiated after the dissolution of the National Assembly, he says and points out that if he and Pervaiz Ashraf fail to reach consensus on any name, the matter will be referred to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) as per the 20th Amendment for the final decision.
As the government has no plan to dissolve the National Assembly before it completes its five-year term in end-March next, the opposition leader has initiated the consultative process at least six months before that eventuality.


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Fans always anticipate a new LEGO Ideas set. The novelty that each set in the series provides is one of the highlights of the fan inspired theme. Next to be released is 21313 Ship in a Bottle, that will be available to buy from February 1, and a set that is very different from anything that has come before.
Brick Fanatics has received an early copy of the set, and like previous LEGO Ideas sets, the box art is beautifully designed. While LEGO sets often have attractive box art, LEGO Ideas sets always seem to get an extra level of love and attention to reflect the subject matter on the packaging.
Opening up the box reveals the bags of bricks along with the four large trans elements that will make up most of the bottle. If you have been dreaming of a set with lots, and lots, of trans blue studs, then 21313 Ship in a Bottle is the set you have been waiting for.


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The surrounding area has transformed significantly over the century but much of the church remains the same. It still has the original stained glass windows adorning the walls. Several old, wooden pews rest in the basement.
Holy Trinity Polish National Catholic Church in Southington also turns 100 this year and a joint celebration to recognize both churches will take place Oct. 19. A mass will be held at Holy Trinity at 4 p.m. followed by a banquet at the Aqua Turf Club.
The Rev. Joseph Krusienski has been with the Wallingford church for 30 years. He explained that the Polish National Catholic Church was formed in 1897 in Scranton, Penn. The church has a number of key differences from Catholicism, such as not recognizing the authority of the pope.
“It’s a more democratic sort of church where people are the ones that govern the church,” Krusienki said.
The church’s oldest member Frances Swantek, 92, can remember a time before television, when church activities were the highlight of family fun.
“We always had Polish food and we had picnics and outings for the kids,” Swantek said. “It was very active.”
Swantek still attends mass frequently.
She recounted many significant changes in the church during her lifetime. It was initially made up almost entirely of Polish immigrants, with many young families. Now, it caters to a more diverse crowd.
“Our mass is in English and sermons are in English so even though it’s a Polish church, it’s just kept the name,” she said.
In 1945, a fire destroyed part of the original steeple, ruining the floor-to-ceiling pipe organ on the second floor balcony.
“My sister lived right across the street from the church and it was her husband that actually went in and saved the sacraments,” Swantek said. Her two brother-in-laws “ran into the church in the fire.”
She said it was devastating.
Some years later, the church’s exterior was bricked. Aside from the changes to the outside, “the interior is basically the same,” Kruskienki said.
Colorful stained glass windows from the time the church was built line the walls of the chapel, some containing the names of the donors. Krusienki estimated each window would be worth thousands of dollars due to their authenticity and craftsmanship. Each contains a detailed image of Christian symbolism. Krusienki wouldn’t be surprised if the parishioners made the windows themselves.
“In the early days of the church there was not a lot of money,” he said. “People really rolled up their sleeves and did a lot of work.”
Frances Swantek’s nephew and fellow lifelong parishioner Robert Swantek, 77, keeps up the grounds of the church with his wife, Kim Swantek. He said his father mortgaged his house to help fund the bricking. He said many other parishioners did the same, buying bricks and financing the upgrade themselves.
He says he is glad the church has made it to 100 years.
“It means a lot when I see how many churches are closing up,” he said. “A hundred years, I think it’s pretty darn good.”


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Letters: So Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun was "by general consent a failure"? In fact, this fascinating one-off has long enjoyed a reputation from Bond fans and critics alike as the only post-Fleming Bond novel up to the same standard.
A famous beauty, Elizabeth Jane Howard married young and, after a series of affairs, left her first husband and daughter to become a writer. She went on to marry Kingsley Amis, and her work was overshadowed by domesticity until their rancorous divorce. Now nearing 80, she has published a candid autobiography
James Dixon hates his job as a lecturer at a grotty university and feels undermined by his boss. He is having a less-than-satisfactory relationship with Margaret, a neurotic woman whose recent failed suicide attempt has him on edge. He copes with the pressures of his life by pulling faces behind people's backs - maintaining a public face while privately thinking and feeling something else. Jim is a man who lives on the edge. He enjoys a drink and regularly wakes up 'spewed up like a broken spider crab on the tarry shingle of the morning' and finds himself ducking and diving his latest scrape with trouble. The test comes when Jim must make a public lecture and is unable to conceal his duplicitous nature.

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Bali Zoo Entrance Ticket
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- Experience the lush landscape and train to be a mahout for the day!
DescriptionEncounter animals from around the world with an entrance ticket to Bali Zoo. Get up close and personal with wildlife and see animals in their own habitats. General entrance to Bali Zoo includes access to the aquatic playground of Miniapolis Jungle Waterplay, where the kids can cool down with a splash around in the pools. Discover 8 hectares of lush tropical gardens and come face-to-face with white tigers, orangutans, Komodo dragons, cassowaries and many other exotic creatures.
IncludesEntrance to Bali Zoo Animal encounters and shows Miniapolis Jungle Waterplay Insurance Hotel pick-up and drop off (depending on option booked)
- For pick-up, please wait in the lobby of your hotel at least 10 minutes before the scheduled departure time. The local operator will reconfirm your pick-up time in advance. As this is a shared transfer, please be patient in the event of unforeseen delays along the pick-up route
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#brickwaybrewery Archives – PorchDrinking.com
Being a fan of spicy food, I’ve tried to like chili beers. Some are too mild, some blast out my taste buds; I rarely finish a full pint before tapping out. But when I heard that the GABF Gold Medal Winner for Chili Beer was a quick drive away in Omaha, Nebraska, I knew I had to try it.
When you take your first sip of Brickway Brewery & Distillery’s Jalapeno Pineapple Pils, you will set down your glass and say, “Oh, I get it. That’s what a chili beer is supposed to taste like.”
The Great American Beer Fest is an awe-inspiring menagerie of beer. Good beer, weird beers, surprising styles, and not nearly enough time to give them all a thoughtful pause. It can be overwhelming to know where to start, so we over at PorchDrinking have several different routes that we have planned out to make it easier for those who love specific styles. There isn’t really a wrong way to do GABF (except not drinking water, please drink water) so here is a way to dive in that is more musically inclined.


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Citing their commitment to reforming their football culture, the NCAA and Big 10 conference have decided to reinstate Penn State's football team to postseason play a couple seasons earlier than expected.
They also will give Penn State a full slate of scholarships in 2015-16.
"Following our briefing with Senator Mitchell, the (Big Ten's Council of Presidents and Chancellors) reached consensus agreement to support his latest recommendation and also agreed to restore the school's eligibility for the Big Ten Football Championship Game, which ran concurrently with the NCAA postseason bowl ban" said Sally Mason, the COPC Chair and President of the University of Iowa. "We support the NCAA announcement acting on that recommendation, thank Senator Mitchell for his dedicated service and appreciate Penn State's ongoing commitment to improvement."
The news is a big boost to James Franklin, whose recruiting class in his first season as PSU coach was ranked among the nation's top 10.
The Lions are 2-0 this season with victories against Central Florida and Akron.


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SunEdison, a subsidiary of St. Peters-based MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., and North American Development Bank (NADB) have signed a $65 million loan agreement for the construction of a 20-megawatt solar park in Picture Rocks, Ariz.
The solar power plant, which received certification and financing from NADB’s board in December, is expected to generate power to approximately 3,500 homes. The project will supply power to Tucson Electric Power through a 20-year purchase agreement. The new development complies with the Arizona Corporation Commission's Renewable Energy Standard, which requires regulated electric utilities in Arizona to generate 15 percent of their energy from renewable resources by 2025.
“We are very pleased to sign this loan with SunEdison, a company with a well-established presence in the solar energy sector. NADB works to provide affordable long-term financing for projects in the U.S.-Mexico border region that yield environmental and economic benefits for the citizens of the region.” NADB Managing Director Geronimo Gutierrez said in a statement.
The solar park will occupy 200 to 250 acres of a 305-acre lot owned by Tucson Water, a department of the city of Tucson. The new alternative energy facility is expected to eliminate more than 35,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, 125 metric tons of nitrogen oxides and 200 metric tons of sulfur dioxide per year.
To date, NADB has provided approximately $1.35 billion in loans and grants to support 154 environmental infrastructure projects near the U.S.-Mexico boarder. These projects represent a total investment of $3.33 billion and benefit more than 13.5 million residents, NADB said.
MEMC (NYSE: WFR) supplies silicon wafers for the solar and semiconductor industries and develops solar projects through its SunEdison unit. The company posted a net loss of $1.54 billion on $2.72 billion in revenue in 2011.

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Ride-hailing company Lyft has now authorized, sending in their self-driving cars to pick up passengers in the Boston neighborhood. The cars will be maneuvered with the help of a backup human drivers at the wheel and will be limited to short routes within the city’s Seaport District, a burgeoning tech … Read the rest
- Nutonomy is a Singapore & Boston based startup that is deep into Autonomous vehicles.
- Delphi is one of the biggest manufacturers and the leading supplier of automobile parts and technology to Automotive companies. Their recent interest has been heavily into leading the Autonomous revolution.


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- The list below includes 42 free or cheap things to do in or near Urbana, Illinois, including 44 different types of inexpensive activities like Parks, Recreation Centers, Bowling and Music Venue.
- From Meadowbrook Park to Urbana Public Library, there are a variety of budget-friendly attractions in Urbana and in nearby cities within 25 miles like Champaign.
Crystal Lake Park - Lake House abounds in scenic beauty. Boating enthusiasts can rent canoes, row boats or paddle boats for a small fee. The lake house that can be rented for various occasions and can accommodate unto 100 people.
Anita Purves Nature Center is a nature center offering nature themed educational programs for those of all ages. The center also hosts summer camps for children and maintains community garden plots available for rent at Meadowbrook Park.
The student union of the University of Illinois at Champagne, the Illini Union features a variety of attractions, including art on display, restaurants, shops, sports screenings, and an array of student activities and events.
Featuring beautiful landscaping, Crestview Park offers many amenities including a playground, picnic pavilion and shelter with grills. Park guests can also enjoy open fields and a picturesque garden dedicated to the Urbana Rotary Club's sister organization in Japan.
Established in 1920, Urbanaâ€™s Victory Park is named for the victory gardens that were planted there during World War I. The park has neighborhood community gardens as well as a covered pavilion that can be reserved for events.

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Unai Emery is set to ring in the changes as Arsenal prepare to face Blackpool in the Carabao Cup fourth round at the Emirates on Wednesday.
The Hard Tackle takes a look at how the Arsenal players fared over the course of the last two weeks, following the end of the international break.
Mohamed Elneny is inching closer to his departure from Arsenal, with Marseille weighing up a late move for the Egyptian midfielder.
Arsenal left it late to ensure a 6-3 aggregate win over CSKA Moscow and here's how the Gunners' stars rated against the Russians
Arsenal will look to continue their recent upturn in form when they welcome relegation battling Stoke City to Emirates on Sunday.
Mohamed Elneny has signed a new long-term contract with Arsenal, the club has confirmed
Arsenal suffered their first defeat in Europe this season on Thursday as 1. FC Koln earned a hard-fought 1-0 win at RheinEnergieStadion
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Kieran Gibbs are doubtful as Arsenal visit the Hawthorns to take on West Bromwich Albion on Saturday.
We take a look at the key news stories surrounding Arsenal from the day
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Preparation 10 minutes
Cooking time 45 minutes
Braai grids weren’t always available on the trek route, but therewere rocks everywhere. A rib braaied on a searing hot dolerite rock is crisp on the outside and juicy on the inside. Of course, you can also use a grid for this recipe.
- whole lamb rib
- 1 cup whitewine
- ¼cup olive oil
- ground coriander
- 1 tablespoon honey
- freshly ground black pepper
- Lean two flat rocks against each other over an open fire and heat them slowly and thoroughly.
- Mix all the seasoning and rub the mixture on the rib. You can braai the rib immediately or leave it in the fridge for up to 3 days.
- The rocks have to be so hot that water will bubble when splashed on them. Place one rock on top of the coals, then lay the ribmeaty side down and put the second rock on top. Use thick gloves (welding gloves work well) to protect your hands from burning.
- Make sure the fatty side doesn’t burn.When the meat starts to brown after about 15 minutes, turn the rib over. The meat should be cooked after about 30 minutes.
- Add a tablespoon of honey to the marinade and baste the rib again once you’ve removed it fromthe coals. Sprinkle over more coriander, salt and pepper to taste.

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The basic participation rules are to write a piece of flash fiction, poem, or song (300 words or less) for someone you know (real or imaginary). It may be in any genre, but it must have a holiday theme (real or fictional). Post it on your blog anytime between now and when the linky closes (which is late on December 16th). You will then give it to that someone, sometime before the new year. For full details, check out Leigh Covington's blog linked above. There are prizes involved!
The Gift (for Dyan)Annie pulled the blanket over her arms, afraid to look at her sister. The sight of Michaela on the other end of the couch was wrong. She shouldn’t be here.
“I just wanted to say hi,” Michaela said.
Annie didn’t know what to think, much less what to say, so remained silent. She stared at the sparkling lights of the Christmas tree. She always left it on all night on Christmas Eve.
Michaela moved into the cushion right next to Annie.
“Will you please just hold my hand?” she said, offering it to Annie.
“Okay…” Annie said. Wondering if she was in the middle of a dream, she grasped her sister’s hand, the familiar contours firm and warm under her palm. “But Michaela, you’re dead.”
“I know,” Michaela said. Sorrow deepened the blue of her eyes. “But I’m still here.” She cleared her throat. “You’ll never guess who crossed over yesterday. Do you remember my ex-boyfriend, Steven?”
Michaela nodded. “Well, the drinking did finally catch up to him. But you know, he’s not such a bad guy now.”
The clock in the living room chimed.
“Uh-oh, it’s time for me to go.”
“No, wait. Don’t…”
Michaela stood. With each ring of the bell, her image grew fainter, until she completely disappeared on the twelfth chime.
“…go.” Annie stared at her palm. She could still feel the impression of Michaela’s touch.
She didn’t fight the tears that dropped onto her cheeks like rain. She let them wash away the pain of losing her sister, once again. After the tears slowed, Annie smiled.
It wasn’t just the gift of touching Michaela, and talking with her like they had before. Michaela’s visit let Annie know that sisters are forever, and one day they would be together again.


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PETALING JAYA: Malaysian Airline stewardess Angeline Premila is believed to have been on the Boeing 777 which was shot down in Ukraine late Thursday night.
The Klang born who appears to be in her mid twenties had friends writing well wishes and prayers on her Facebook wall, for her safe return.
Her colleagues who had seen the crew manifest had written asking her to get in touch as soon as she is safe.
Earlier, The Ukraine Interior Minister said that all 295 people on board the KL bound plane was believed to be dead.
The plane which was due to have landed in Malaysia at 6am on Friday morning was from Amsterdam and was last known to have been in the Ukranian airspace.
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Tips for Planning a Successful Road Trip
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At Roguetrippers, we have learned a lot through the years. Every road trip, cruise, plane trip, train trip, or vacation with our pets has proven to be a learning experience.
There are many mistakes that we have made along the way, things we wish we had known before we went somewhere, and even accidental successes we have experienced when we travelled.
We will share these travel tips with our readers to help them have the best vacation and travel experiences possible.
Follow along for great travel tips, resources, and tricks to help make your vacation the best it can be. From ways to save money for and on vacation to travelling with pets, what to pack when you travel, and must-have items you should always have for travels.
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Suffield resident April Boccasile was honored as the "Volunteer of the Year" for her work in 2013 by the March of Dimes Connecticut Chapter at its Franklin Delano Roosevelt Spirit of Giving Celebration on Jan. 25. The evening celebrated the Chapter's volunteers, donors and sponsors, and honored 14 individuals and organizations as "Volunteers of Excellence."
In 2001, the Boccasile's daughter, Isabella, was born 14 weeks too soon, weighing 1 lb. 12 oz. She spent four months in neonatal intensive care (NICU) at Saint Francis Hospital. During their time at the hospital, learned about the March of Dimes from her daughter's neonatologist and decided to get involved.
A year later, the family was chosen as Ambassadors to represent local families at WalkAmerica - now March for Babies - the organization's largest fundraiser. April also changed her own career, going back to school to obtain her nursing degree. She is now a NICU nurse at Connecticut Children's Medical Center.
In 2011, the family was looking forward to welcoming another addition, when their daughter, Lily, was also born too soon. She did not survive. Turning extreme pain into action, the family again served as March of Dimes Ambassadors in 2012, speaking at numerous events, fundraising and sharing their story through media. April also began a blog for parents called "Lily's Amazing Grace." Through the blog, April collects journals, blankets called "LilyWraps," candles and other items to be donated to local NICUs.
In 2013 helped lead Connecticut Children's Medical Center's March for Babies team, as well as other activities within the NICU. She also served on the planning committee of the "Play It Forward" golf tournament, held in Suffield to benefit the March of Dimes, which has raised over $36,000 in just two years. She also serves on the Family Teams Committee, where she is helping to create a mentoring program for families joining the organization for the first time.
"To April, and indeed the entire Boccasile family, your support and love for the March of Dimes mission is so greatly valued and appreciated. We are proud to honor you as our 2013 Volunteer of the Year," said Deb Fafard, state director of the March of Dimes Connecticut Chapter.
In 2013 the March of Dimes celebrated its 75th anniversary and its ongoing work to help babies get a healthy start in life. Early research led to the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines that all babies still receive. Other breakthroughs include new treatments for premature infants and children with birth defects. About 4 million babies are born each year in the United States, and all have benefited from March of Dimes lifesaving research and education.
The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. With chapters nationwide, the March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. For the latest resources and information, visit marchofdimes.com or nacersano.org. Find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.


Can this S2 conquer the ruling king of electric scooters…Hiboy N1 Electric Scooter… the Xiaomi Mi M365? In this Hiboy S2 evaluation, see how this budget plan commuter takes on popular scooters in its class. Technical Specifications Tested top speed: 30.6 kmh * Evaluated variety: 20.4 km * Weight: 14 kg * Max rider weight: 120 kg Water resistance: IP54 Emphasizes Strong acceleration Effective double braking system Great power for size Brain massage on normal surface Narrow honeycomb tires
A low-cost scooter with all the right features? The Hiboy S2 guarantees a lot, especially in its mission to take on a currently remarkable list of spending plan scooters. With a top speed of 18.6 miles per hour, series of 17 miles, weight of 13.4 kg, and an IP54 water-resistance rating, the S2 makes a good go of it. Functions such as cruise control, an integrated mobile app, and digital lock push the S2 into the “premium” bracket when it comes to the feature-set of spending plan scooters. In spite of its effort to distinguish itself from its rivals with dual rear shock absorbers, the strong tires avoid smooth ride quality. The most significant possession of the S2, however, is the capability to include a seat whilst maintaining a budget price– the next best seated scooter costs over , 1,000.
The Hiboy S2 is best-suited as a scooter for leisurely flights at the weekends. The 350W motor, efficient in hitting a top speed of 18.6 mph, and a larger-than-average load capability, 118 kg, make the S2 a great entry into the scooting world for both adults and teenagers.
However, there is one caveat– you need to stick to well-kept roadways and pavements. Although the S2 boasts double rear shock absorbers, the 8.5 inch strong tires quelch the moistening benefits– eventually leading to vibrating wrists and shaking knees.
On either side of the handlebars, you’ll find the dual braking system. On the right, is the handbrake that controls the rear disc brake (the thumb-operated accelerator sits below this). Left wing, is the electronic thumb brake. Both thumb paddles and the handbrake are smooth to run. It’s unusual to see double brakes that can be run separately on a budget scooter that has a top speed of less than 20 miles per hour, but this is because the electronic brake lacks the power required to bring you to a fast stop.
In the centre of the handlebars sits the elegantly created LED display, evocative of the Xiaomi Mi 365. It keeps track of your speed, rider settings, battery level, and cruise control.
What you get with the S2, like the remainder of the variety, is a sleekly created matte-black finish that not just delivers but looks the part, too. The robust and long lasting scooter is made of an aviation-grade aluminium alloy. It adds a bit of weight to the scooter however it implies the S2 can quickly confront everyday wear and tear without falling apart.
The Hiboy P10 is most likely the tiniest folding e-bike I have actually ever used; It is even smaller sized than the Gotrax bike that I checked recently. It includes 12-inch air tires which are tiny on the planet of e-bikes however they are still significantly larger than e-scooter tires; Therefore, the tires can still absorb shocks pretty well when riding on rough roadways. The saddle is fairly thick and comfortable for long journeys.
The bike comes put together out of the box and it is nearly ready to utilize. You will just require to connect the fenders and pedals, fill the tires, and fully charge the battery before very first usage.
The Hiboy P10 uses small tires, it is not actually a compact e-bike due to the fact that of its design. The big battery is mounted in the middle of the bike, so the frame is unfoldable.
The P10 is powered by a 350W rear-drive motor which is rather effective. This is not the fastest e-bike however limit speed of 15mph is good enough for many average customers. I likewise have no problem climbing up some brief and low slopes. The riding experience is not smooth because it uses a cadence sensor, similar to any other spending plan e-bike on the marketplace. The motor will kick in as quickly as you start pedaling, so you ought to get used to it before hitting the road; The unexpected speed boost may surprise new riders. The double disc brakes are responsive and rather quick to avoid mishaps. When riding at night; You don’t have to invest extra to purchase the lights, I also love the big LED headlight and taillight which are valuable.
How fast does the hiboy S2 electric scooter go? Hiboy N1 Electric Scooter
The Hiboy P7 Commuter Electric Bike is an ebike that I’ve been utilizing for a bit now for travelling and doing food deliveries. I was lucky enough to have Hiboy connect to me to see if I want to try it out and I have to say, I’ve been having a blast using it. I believe it’s a solid entry-level ebike for most riders and it deserves checking out if you remain in the marketplace for an ebike to get you around town or to use for food delivery or side hustling.
To begin, let’s take a look at the specifications for this bike. The Hiboy P7 is a commuter ebike with a detachable battery that connects inside the frame. It’s a classically shaped bike and a great deal of people may not even notice it’s an ebike if they weren’t looking thoroughly.
Max Speed– About 22-23 miles per hour.
Range– Promoted as as much as 60 miles
Battery– 48v/15ah detachable battery
Gears– 9 Speed Shimano Gears
Motor– 500-watt brushless rear-hub motor with 5 levels of pedal help
Other Features: Aluminum frame, puncture-resistant tires, mechanical disk brakes, incorporated headlight.
Most of the parts seem to be unbranded or are brands I have actually never ever heard of, besides the Shimano gears, which is to be anticipated for a commuter ebike at this cost point (Hiboy offers this bike for in between $1,300 and $1,400 depending upon if there is a sale). That being stated, all of the parts appear to be strong quality and you could update the elements if you wanted to make it a more high-end trip.


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SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – An incident involving WSAV’s reporter Alex Bozarjian is getting nationwide attention.
Many may already know that Bozarjian was reporting live at the Enmarket Savannah Bridge Run when an incident took place involving one of the runners.
A video from Saturday’s live report has now been viewed millions of times online.
In the video, a man in a long-sleeved blue shirt moves behind her and appears to hit her on her backside.
Bozarjian says he indeed did slap her — and hard enough that it not only startled her but physically hurt her.
“He separates himself from the runners and he kind of winds up and, you know, he hit me hard,” Bozarjian said on “CBS This Morning.”
There’s been enough attention drawn to the incident on social media that she appeared on the morning show Tuesday to discuss what happened.
“It was extremely vulnerable,” Bozarjian said, adding, “I would say that the reason why maybe it caught so much fire is because the emotion is extremely relatable for women all over the world.”
The man at the center of this has been identified as Thomas Callaway. News 3 sat down with him on Tuesday.
He told us this should never have happened and he’s sorry.
“I’m thankful for this opportunity to share my apology to her and to her family, her friends and her co-workers,” Callaway said. “It was an awful act and an awful mistake.”
“I am not that person that people are portraying me as. I make mistakes, I’m not perfect and I’m asking for forgiveness and to accept my apology,” he added.
Callaway says he was caught up in the moment but he regrets that the publicity about the race centered on his actions and not on the event itself.
Meanwhile, the Savannah Sports Council, which organized Saturday’s run, is banning Callaway from future events — something he says he accepts.
Bozarjian has filed a report with the Savannah Police Department.
WSAV has issued the following statement regarding the incident:
The conduct displayed by one man toward Alex Bozarjian during her live coverage of Saturday’s Savannah Bridge Run was reprehensible and completely unacceptable.
No one should ever be disrespected in this manner. The safety and protection of our employees is WSAV-TV’s highest priority.
WSAV supports Alex completely as she determines the steps she wants to take next.


New Delhi: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met with Election Commission officials and appealed them to enforce a ban on the WB CM from campaigning.
Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi after meeting EC demanded the arrest of history-sheeters and flag marches by central forces as well. He accused Banerjee of “complicity” in violence allegedly aimed at the BJP, claiming that she has been “provoking” her Trinamool Congress workers to attack the saffron party’s functionaries.
“She holds a constitutional post but has been using unconstitutional comments, asking her party workers to take revenge and indulge in violence. She is complicit. She should be immediately barred from campaigning,” he said after the BJP delegation met the EC.
Senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari also criticised the attack by “TMC supporters” on Shah’s roadshow.


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TRC x Lit Immigration Book Club August Meeting
The Refugee Center and The Literary invite you to learn about our foreign-born neighbors at the fourth meeting of our immigrant and refugee centered book club series!
Did you know that Champaign-Urbana is home to a growing population of African immigrants? Ongoing conflict, political instability, and food insecurity have driven tens of millions of people from their homes in Sub-Saharan Africa, and many of those seeking new opportunities in the US have chosen to build their new lives in our community. While there are newcomers from all over the continent, our largest population comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congolese Community of Champaign County organization estimates that there are over 6,000 Congolese immigrants living in Champaign County! Due to this growing population, The Refugee Center employs a specialized caseworker to offer support to our new African neighbors.
The Girl Who Smiled Beads is a memoir by Clemantine Wamariya, who fled the civil war in Rwanda as a young child. The book recounts her experience seeking safety in seven different African countries over the course of six years before finally being granted refugee status in the United States. Ultimately, Wamariya was placed with an American family in the Chicago area, and the memoir also explores her experience adjusting to life in the US while reckoning with the trauma of her past.
Mark your calendars for our final Immigration Book Club event:
-September 27th: After the Last Border by Jessica Goudeau

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vivo has just expanded its Y-series, again, with little to no fanfare with the launch of the vivo Y21e in India. This comes after the company introduced the vivo Y33T and vivo Y21T earlier this month.
The Y21e features a 6.51-inch HD+ LCD panel with an 8MP front camera housed in a waterdrop notch. Around the back, it has a duo of a 13MP main camera and a 2MP lens.
Under the hood, it is powered by a Snapdragon 680 chipset coupled with 3GB RAM and 64GB of expandable storage. The new Y-series device also has a 5000mAh battery with support for 18W fast charging via USB-C port.
Out of the box, it runs on Funtouch OS 12 however, it isn’t stated if it is based on Android 11 or 12.
The vivo Y21e comes in Midnight Blue or Diamond Glow color options and is priced at INR 12,990.


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Sparks flew even before the Senate Judiciary Committee started a hearing to vote on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for a seat on the Supreme Court, as two women confronted Sen. Jeff Flake in an elevator.
“Look at me when I talk to you!” one of the women yelled at the Arizona Republican just minutes after he announced he would vote to confirm the federal judge.
CNN carried footage of the exchange as Flake headed to the hearing.
One of the women said she had been raped. Both of them told Flake his vote would send this message to women: We don’t matter.
“What are you doing, senator?” one of the women yelled at Flake.
After the incident, one of the women who confronted the senator, Ana Maria Archila co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy and the Center for Popular Democracy Action, released this statement: “Earlier this week, I shared my survivor story for the first time in front of Senator Jeff Flake’s office and I know that I am not alone. Survivors from Arizona and across the country have been flooding his office with their stories. By announcing he will vote ‘yes’ on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination, Flake showed us that he does not care about our truths and does not care about women. He claims to support civility, but has proven today that he would rather ignore women’s stories and support a disrespectful sexual abuser than stick to his values.”
As the hearing got under way, Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a former Connecticut state attorney general, raised a motion to subpoena Mark Judge. Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford says he helped the nominee corral her in a bedroom at a 1982 house party.
Blumenthal contended his testimony would help corroborate Ford’s version of what happened.
“We have a responsibility to subpoena, at the very least, Mark Judge,” he told Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa. “We cannot in good conscious vote without hearing from Mark Judge.’
The chairman then read a letter from Judge saying he did not remember the incident and had not spoken to Kavanaugh for years. That seemed to be enough for the Republicans, and Blumenthal’s motion was then defeated along party lines, 11-10.
Grassley used an opening statement to say he sees “no reason” to vote down the nomination based on the evidence the committee possesses.
The committee then voted to hold the vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation at 1:30 pm EDT.
Democrats protested when the roll was called to set up the afternoon vote. “No, because it violates the customs of this committee,” said Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt.
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, added: “I strongly object, this is just totally ridiculous. What a railroad job. My answer is no, no.”
The chairman contended he has overseen the “most thorough and transparent” confirmation process in U.S. history. Ranking member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., followed and expressed her frustration with that very process.
Feinstein defended herself and her staff from allegations they leaked a confidential letter from Ford, and she criticized panel Republicans for refusing to hear testimony from Kavanaugh’s other three accusers.
Leahy declared the Senate “a very weak arm of the Trump White House,” saying the chamber once was an independent entity. He described the chamber as “Alice In Wonderland.”
Leahy pointed to what Democrats say are Kavanaugh’s false statements to the committee “over and over and over again” during his confirmation hearings for the federal appellate court seat he holds and two days of testimony earlier this month.
Particularly, Leahy zeroed in on the nominee’s role in George W. Bush-era terrorist detention and interrogation programs.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., sent a message to President Donald Trump about selecting Kavanaugh: “You did a good job, Mr. President.”
He noted Democrats would have picked someone else to fill the seat of retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. “But did you win the election? No,” Graham said.
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grack.com goes on an odyssey of getting a new coffeemaker, learning BTLE and how it works, reverse-engineering the Bluetooth interface and Android applications for a coffeemaker, writing a Rust-based CLI interface, and finally, hooking it all up to a GitHub actions bot that lets you brew a coffee just by filing an issue!
I’ve always been pretty content with using whatever coffeemaker I had nearby. For the last two or three years I’ve been using an old 2-in-1 Breville YouBrew coffeemaker, with a grinder built-in. It was a workhorse and worked perfectly until this September. A few months ago the machine asked me to run the regular descaling process to deal with our hard water, and this is where our adventure starts.
The Dinamica Plus is about $100 more than the Dinamica, and this cost is effectively for the privilege of brewing coffee from your phone (along with some other goodies, like defining your favorite or custom drinks from the couch). The application is difficult to use and a bit buggy, however. It will often fail to find the coffeemaker. Once you’ve connected, there’s no guarantee that it’ll allow you to connect again without wiping all the saved data from the application. It’s also integrated with some sort of online service that returns a 404.
The first question we need to answer is how we’re going to talk to this thing. We know it’s Bluetooth from the application’s insistence that Bluetooth be turned on. But it’s not showing up on my MacBook’s Bluetooth devices list, which means it’s somehow different than the common Bluetooth “Classic” audio and phone devices that show up there.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.