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Questions about the future of employee domestic partner benefits offered by many of the nation’s most prominent private sector employers emerged several years ago when states began passing same-sex marriage laws.
Verizon, Delta Airlines, IBM and the Corning glass and technology company were among the first to announce they were discontinuing domestic partner benefits for employees living in states where same-sex marriage had been legalized.
Each of those firms along with others said they were pleased to offer full spousal benefits to their gay and lesbian employees who marry.
According to sources who monitor trends in employee benefit programs, the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in June legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states has prompted more private sector employers as well as public employers such as county governments and state-affiliated universities to drop domestic partner benefits for their employees.
“We have heard in part through news reports but also through our health desk that there are some private companies and also some public entities that are now wrapping up their domestic partner benefits programs because same-sex couples can marry,” said Camilla Taylor, an attorney with the LGBT rights group Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.
“And that’s unfortunate because we believe people should not have to get a legal marriage in order to be respected as a family,” Taylor told the Washington Blade.
Lambda Legal and several other national LGBT rights organizations, including the Human Rights Campaign, have issued statements calling on employers to retain domestic partner benefits for unmarried employees.
Some LGBT rights advocates have said forcing employees in a same-sex relationship to marry as a condition for receiving partner benefits such as health insurance coverage could subject them to discrimination in states where anti-LGBT discrimination remains legal.
“If an LGBT employee is, in effect, ‘outed’ by being required to obtain a public marriage license in a state that doesn’t provide explicit nondiscrimination protections, it could place that employee and their family at risk of being denied credit, housing and public accommodation,” HRC legal director Sarah Warbelow told the New York Times in June shortly after the Supreme Court ruling on marriage.
Other LGBT advocates, including Taylor of Lambda Legal, have said they don’t see marriage exposing same-sex couples to discrimination to a significant degree greater than same-sex partners living as couples and receiving domestic partner benefits.
“If you’re talking about solely private employers quietly offering health benefits to their employees who may not be married to their significant others then that may be what people are talking about when they say you may not want to get married because that’s a public record document,” Taylor said.
“However, there are so many ways in which someone’s relationship is discoverable that it seems like choosing not to marry is not very effective in today’s information age,” she said.
Lambda Legal, HRC and five other national LGBT organizations issued a joint statement in June saying an employer cannot legally fire someone who is married to a same-sex partner.
“Even though no federal statute explicitly prohibits sexual orientation or gender identity discrimination, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has determined that firing someone because they married a person of the same sex constitutes impermissible sex discrimination under federal law,” the statement says.
Taylor and other LGBT activists who favor retaining domestic partner benefits for unmarried same-sex and opposite-sex couples say the most important reason for doing that is to offer gay and straight couples a choice.
Todd Solomon, an attorney with the Chicago-based law firm McDermott Will & Emery, which specializes in employee benefits law, said nearly all of the companies that have dropped domestic partner benefits since same-sex marriage became legal had limited those benefits to same-sex couples.
“If their starting point was covering same-sex and opposite-sex unmarried couples, which many companies do,” Solomon said, “they’re not changing anything in my experience because they’re already accustomed to covering a sector of employees who can legally marry but have just chosen not to.”
Solomon said companies he knows that have dropped domestic partner benefits have a record of being LGBT supportive due, in part, to their earlier decisions to provide those benefits to same-sex couples that were barred by law from marrying.
From an administrative standpoint, said Solomon, company domestic partner programs are complex and burdensome due to federal tax laws that require the employee receiving the partner benefit to pay a tax as if it were taxable income.
“So it’s not being dropped in the spirit of now we don’t have to offer this benefit and we don’t want to protect gay and lesbian employees,” Solomon said. “It’s being dropped in the spirit of halleluiah – now we have marriage equality. Everybody can get married if they want this benefit. And we can get rid of this ridiculous tax regime that we’ve had to manage for years and years and this burdensome administrative scheme we’ve had to do to cover same-sex partners under our plan.”
Earlier this month, Tennessee-based companies Bridgestone Americas, Hospital Corporation of America and Vanderbilt University announced they were phasing out their employee domestic partner benefits, according to WSMV-TV News in Nashville.
In October, the Orange County, Fla., Commission voted unanimously to discontinue its employee domestic partner benefits effective Jan. 1, 2016. Employees currently enrolled in the county’s DP program were given a one-year grace period to get married as a condition for receiving full spousal benefits, the blog Business Insurance.com reports.
Taylor noted that Cook County, Ill., in which the city of Chicago is located, is also phasing out its domestic partner registration program.
Meanwhile, several states that have enacted domestic partner or civil unions laws in past years have also either phased out or automatically converted their domestic partner or civil union registrations into marriages after the states passed same-sex marriage laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont are among the states that converted civil unions to marriages, the NCSL says.
The D.C. City Council included a provision in the same-sex marriage law it passed in 2009 that explicitly retains D.C.’s domestic partner law and DP registrations. The D.C. marriage equality law, which took effect in 2010, gives same-sex and opposite-sex couples who were registered as domestic partners the option to convert their partnerships into a marriage free of charge if they wish to do so.
Jesus Ranon, an economist with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, said data on employee domestic partner benefits that the BLS began collecting in 2012 shows that the availability of DP benefits had not changed significantly as of March 2015.
A chart published on the BLS website shows that as of March, 37 percent of all U.S. “private industry workers” are estimated to have access to same-sex domestic partner benefits for health care. The chart shows that 32 percent of all workers in private industry had access to opposite-sex domestic partner benefits for health care.
A separate BLS chart shows that 36 percent of “civilian workers,” a category that includes private sector and civilian public employees working for government agencies, had access to health-related DP benefits for same-sex couples. Thirty-one percent of those in the civil workers category had access to health-related DP benefits for opposite-sex couples, the BLS data show.
In its 2016 Corporate Equality Index report, which surveys private sector employers on LGBT-related personnel policies, HRC reports that 64 percent of U.S. Fortune 500 companies offered domestic partner benefits in 2015 to LGBT employees. HRC released the 2016 report in November.
The report says 94 percent of the Fortune 500 companies that participated in the HRC survey reported they offered domestic partner benefits in 2015. It says that among Fortune 500 companies that did not participate in the survey, 40 percent offered DP benefits.
The HRC Corporate Equality Index report rates companies for policies pertaining to LGBT employees on a scale of 0 to 100, which is the highest possible score. The report says 25 rating points are awarded to companies that provide various forms of domestic partner benefits, including health insurance and other partner-related benefits. It says 10 rating points are given for “equal health coverage for transgender individuals without exclusion for medically necessary care.”
An HRC spokesperson couldn’t immediately be reached to determine whether HRC is keeping track of companies surveyed in its Corporate Equality Index report that have dropped domestic partner benefits for same-sex or opposite-sex employees.

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The anticipated merger of Honeywell Quantum Solutions (HQS) and Cambridge Quantum (CQ) has finally occurred. The two companies have merged under its new name: Quantinuum (pronounced Quan-tin-you-um), a blend of Quantum Continuum.
Honeywell Quantum Solutions (HQS) is a quantum hardware company that uses trapped-ions for quantum computing. HQS was the brainchild of Darius Adamczyk, CEO of Honeywell. His innovation led to the company being formed in 2015 as a business unit of Honeywell International, a $32 billion conglomerate. Adamczyk believed that quantum computing would evolve into a full-stack technology that ultimately would be needed by almost all customers of Honeywell's various business units that included aerospace, building technology, performance materials, safety, and productivity solutions.
Cambridge Quantum (CQ) creates agnostic quantum software. It was founded by Ilyas Khan in 2014. CQ develops quantum software for many disciplines, including quantum chemistry, quantum machine learning, and quantum augmented cybersecurity.
When the merger announcement was first made, it came as no surprise. Honeywell International has been an investor in CQ since 2019, and it now owns a majority stake in Quantinuum. As part of the spinoff and merger, Honeywell International agreed to invest $300 million in the new company while retaining a 55% ownership. Honeywell International also has a long-term agreement to continue manufacturing ion traps used by HQS. However, IP associated with the ion traps remain with Quantinuum. Honeywell’s businesses will continue to serve as a proving ground for the new company’s quantum offerings.
As separate companies, HQS and CQ were both strong commercially and technically. However, the merger of CQ’s software and Honeywell Quantum Solution’s Model H1 quantum computer strengthens the new company’s competitive position. If Quantinuum becomes a public listing, which is likely, it will make an interesting investment.
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But Khan explained there is another fundamental reason that Cambridge Quantum will remain its own brand. He said, “Cambridge Quantum is an IBM content hub, and we will remain an IBM content hub. So, for that reason alone, we will continue to be Cambridge.”
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Quantinuum indicated it would be making several significant announcements within the next few weeks. The first announcement relates to a device-independent cybersecurity product that is platform agnostic. The product will be marketed under the Cambridge Quantum brand. It will use the Honeywell Model H1 to provide an important function for the product output.
Additionally, Honeywell has conducted extensive research on error correction for quantum computing over the past several years. Without error correction, it will not be possible to scale a quantum computer to the size necessary to perform large and important calculations. Tony Uttley, Quantinuum president, and COO said Quantinuum would shortly make several important error correction announcements.
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- Is it likely that Quantinuum will go public? It is not certain, but likely.
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|Victim of Sex Abuse by Priest Sues the Springfield Diocese
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July 4, 2002
A former priest who was assigned to churches in Madison County resigned from the priesthood in Texas after admitting he abused children in the Springfield Diocese decades ago, according to published reports in Springfield and Amarillo, Texas.
A man who currently lives in Westmont, Ill., a western suburb of Chicago, is alleging the Rev. G. Neal Dee abused him between 1964 and 1968. Frederic Nessler, a Springfield attorney who is representing the man, would not reveal the victim's name but said he was born in 1953.
Nessler said his client plans to seek a monetary settlement from the diocese. According to the Springfield State-Journal Register, Nessler's client is the only person to come forward with abuse allegations against Dee.
However, Nessler noted that when his client wrote the Springfield Diocese earlier this year asking for information on where Dee was, the diocese said he was in ongoing therapy and there was no evidence of a lapse. And Nessler said that makes him wonder whether his client is really the only person Dee abused.
"If the first instance of abuse they heard of regarding Father Dee was when my client initially wrote to them this year, then why did they respond by saying Father Dee was in ongoing therapy and there was no evidence of a lapse?" he said.
Officials with the Springfield Diocese could not be reached for comment.
Dee was ordained as a priest in 1964 and first served as associate pastor at Blessed Sacrament parish in Springfield. Dee moved from there to St. Mary's Catholic Church in Alton and later served at St. Boniface in Edwardsville, St. Matthew's in Alton, St. Alphonsus in Brighton, St. Elizabeth in Marine and St. Gertrude in Grantfork. Dee moved to the Amarillo Diocese in 1988.
Dee resigned Friday because of the Catholic Church's new policy on priest sexual abuse, called the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, passed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at its meeting in June in Dallas, according to the Amarillo Globe-News. The charter requires abusive priests to be removed from active ministry.
However, the policy still is under review and has not been approved by the Vatican.
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1. Alabama (9-0)
2. Texas Tech (9-0)
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Of these teams, the top three are sitting within striking distance of a championship, but only two control their destiny completely. If Alabama wins out and emerges from the SEC unscathed, they will, without a doubt, book a trip to Miami. No need to look any further into Saban's crew. They hold all the cards right now.
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Next: Penn State. To go unbeaten, JoePa needs only to beat Iowa, Indiana and Michigan State, an enviable slate, but will face strength-of-schedule questions should Texas Tech win out. And in fact, sitting at #3, Penn State has to hope that Bama or Tech loses a game. It is conceivable that Penn State gets bumped for a one-loss SEC or Big XII champion.
Speaking of Texas Tech: they're unbeaten, but to earn a title berth they'll have to travel a far more difficult road. The Red Raiders must face No. 9 Oklahoma State next week, followed by a fortuitous bye, then No. 6 Oklahoma on the road. To round out the regular season they'll get Baylor, who just gave No. 14 Missouri a scare, losing 31-28. Assuming they get that far, they must cap it off with a win in the Big XII championship game, where they'll likely face Missouri representing the Big XII North. That's one hell of a row to hoe, folks.
It'd be a travesty of epic proportions if an unbeaten Tech is left out in favor of JoePa's sentimental story, but the way the BCS standings are sitting presently, that won't happen. The more interesting question is, what will happen to Tech if they lose one of those games, but still win the conference championship?
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It's obvious to all of us now that the Big XII is one of the two best conferences in college football this year. The BCS standings reflect this, with four teams representing the Big XII in the Top 10. However, only one of them will get a shot at the title game. Here's where it gets interesting.
Highly respected and at #4 in the BCS Standings, Texas is definitely still in the game despite their recent loss in Lubbock. The dynamics are such that Texas has to hope for Tech to lose not one but two of their remaining games to get a chance to play in the Big XII championship matchup. Considering the competition that Tech must play, this is not necessarily far-fetched. The Longhorns would need to win out, which they should, as the most competitive games on their schedule are behind them. Should this scenario occur, Texas will likely play Missouri for the conference title, and should they win, will be considered one of the best one-loss teams in the country. Perhaps the best.
And don't forget about the Sooners, who lost a relatively close game to the Longhorns. The Sooners have a chance to knock off Texas Tech on November 22, and then must also win at No. 9 Oklahoma State. There are some tiebreaker scenarios (between Texas, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma) that Oklahoma will need to avoid be sure they'll get a date in the championship game; most of those ties favor Texas. But the Sooners need to beat Texas Tech first, then hope the Longhorns lose another game. Frankly, Oklahoma is a bit of a longshot. It's amazing that these three top teams are not only in the same conference, but in the same division.
Believe it or not, the Gators have racked up such massive style points from their beatdowns of Georgia and LSU that they've now put themselves in a position to play for the title despite losing to Houston Nutt's Ole Miss squad a month ago. Here's what they have to do to get there. The Gators must beat Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Citadel and Florida State, games in which they'll all be heavily favored, and then beat likely SEC West champion Alabama. It would helpful to the Gators if the Tide remain unbeaten until they meet in Atlanta to help with their strength of schedule argument, but even if Bama loses to LSU they'll still be highly regarded.
Florida has to hope for help from the Big XII, however, to climb high enough in the standings to book a trip to Miami. The most ideal scenario for Florida is that Texas Tech loses at least one game and that any team not named Texas wins the Big XII championship. That should seal off the Big XII and promote Florida as SEC champions to face off against Penn State.
Without a doubt, the team with the most difficult hill to climb is Southern California. The Trojans' only loss came to Oregon State, a team that the Nittany Lions had their way with early in the season. Penn State destroyed the Beavers 45-15, and Oregon State paid it forward to USC just two weeks later with their 27-21 win. USC's problem isn't that it lost only one game; it's that they don't have any opportunity to make up for it with a marquee win. Only Cal (ranked at No. 21) remains as a game which offers even the slightest element of prestige for the Trojans. It doesn't matter how big the Trojans win in their remaining games, the only way they get back to playing for a crystal football this year is by hoping Penn State loses a game, and the Big XII or SEC champion has two losses when all is said and done. It's an unlikely scenario at best, but possible.
We'd be remiss not to consider the chances of teams like Utah, Oklahoma State, and Boise State; so let's give them their due.
Utah, at 9-0, has not played a single ranked team this season. Normally beating Michigan puts a lot of bling on your resume, but not in the first year of the Rich Rodriguez era. The other teams Utah has played and beaten? UNLV, Utah State, Air Force, Weber State, Oregon State (hey!), Wyoming, Colorado State, and New Mexico. They'll play their first ranked team, No. 12 TCU, this week, and have San Diego State and No. 15 BYU remaining.
Utah's good, but they simply don't have the resume to make it to the top of the pile, even if they go unbeaten.
Oklahoma State may have a reasonable case that they don't belong in the "outlier" category. After all, they're 9-1, play in the toughest conference (and division!) of college football, and still have a chance to beat No. 2 Texas Tech, Colorado, and No. 6 Oklahoma. FanHouse feels that running the table is unlikely, but should it happen, the BCS formula still may not favor the Cowboys. Remember, Alabama, Penn State, and Florida all sit ahead in the standings. Oklahoma State winning out as conference champs likely favors an SEC vs. Big 10 matchup in the title game, for the third time in as many years.
And finally, lovable Boise State. The Broncos do have a decent road win over then-No. 17 Oregon, but have played absolutely nobody of consequence thereafter. A title is simply not in the cards for the Smurf Turf crew.
Making Sense of the BCS Picture: It's Anyone's Game to Lose originally appeared on NCAA Football FanHouse on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:54:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.


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A multi-page report is created by the student and may take more than one night to finish. Short templates are available in lots of fun book report ideas suitable for young children.
Narrative point of view Unsteady timeline Part 2: Introducing Macbeth and Lady Macbeth The supernatural is a fundamental part of the structure of the plot Quotations and Intermix Examples from the Text As you create your outline, try pairing the general points of the summary with specific details from the book.
Your teacher will see that you not only read the book but also understood it. Keep your quotations brief and vary your examples. Do not overuse quotes.
Include one quotation per paragraph. When Albert thinks he hears a voice while killing Reuben, it prefigures sleeplessness that spares him and his wife.
However, ensure that your book report gives your Book report paper a feel of the book and include the most important ideas. For example, you will need to focus primarily on discussing the essential characters or the characters that appear most frequently. Writing the Body of Your Report William Shakespeare Macbeth defines thin line between right and wrong and the existence of supernatural.
Open a line that will grab the attention of your readers. You should place one sentence summary of the entire work in the last line of introduction. Overall, an introduction should be 3 to 6 sentences long.
It is on rare occasions that they may either be short or long. Describe the locations mentioned in the book.
If your story takes place in a little town, go ahead and mention it. If the setting is futuristic or imaginary, go ahead and say so.
Use persuasive language when you can and go into details. Any significant events should get mentioned in your plot summary and the impacts they have on the characters. This part of your report should appear similar to a comprehensive outline of the book itself.
Macbeth and Banquo encounter witches as they cross a moor who prophesy that Macbeth made Thane of Cawdor and eventually King of Scotland. Lady Macbeth convinces him to Kill Duncan, and he agrees. He kills Duncan and plants evidence of regicide on two guards.
Macbeth gets then Crowned King.These book report forms are suitable for both beginning readers and older children. The first is simply a form they can fill out that becomes their book report. The second set is an outline primer plus a page for them to handwrite their report (if you don’t already make them use a word processor!).
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TIP Sheet WRITING BOOK REPORTS. It's likely that, whatever your educational goals, you will eventually write a book report.
Your instructor might call it a . - Book Report on Reviving Ophelia In this book therapist Mary Pipher writes about her experiences at work with adolescent girls. It is intended to make the reader aware of the perils of being a teenager in today's sexualized and media-saturated culture.
Learning how to write a college book report paper is a necessary starting point for every student. You cannot simply read a book or its review and reflect on it in writing. There is much more to composing a fine book report than just reading and jotting down your thoughts.
A book report is meant to discuss the contents of the book at hand, and your introductory paragraph should give a little overview. This isn't the place to delve into details, but draw off your hook to share a little more information that is crucial to the storyline.

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, NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 5 – Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko on Monday approved incitement charges against Senator Johnson Muthama while political scientist Mutahi Ngunyi will face a hate speech case.
Muthama will be charged alongside activist Japheth Muriira Muroko over utterances made during a Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) rally held at Uhuru Park two weeks ago.
“The DPP is satisfied that there is sufficient evidence to sustain charges of incitement to violence against Johnson Muthama and Japheth Muroko in relation to statements and utterances they allegedly made. The DPP therefore directed that they be charged accordingly,” a statement from the DPP read.
Muthama while addressing a CORD rally organised to support the teachers to get a pay increase, alleged that President Uhuru Kenyatta had shielded Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru from investigations over corruption allegations.
Muthama alleged that President Kenyatta had on the other hand “chased away” Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu “like a dog” over alleged corruption.
Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria’s file was however sent back to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) as the DPP requested that NCIC be enjoined to carry out further investigations into allegations that he incited his constituents when he told them to attack those opposed to National Youth Service projects.
The DCI had sent the file to the DPP recommending for its closure due to lack of evidence but the DPP re-ordered for an investigation.
Tobiko asked the DCI to conduct further investigations and re-submit the file within 14 days.
Kuria is also facing hate speech charges over comments he posted on social media.
Ngunyi will be charged over messages he posted on his Twitter account that were directed against CORD leader Raila Odinga and the Luo community.
The decision to charge Ngunyi comes even after he issued a public apology and offered a goat to the community.
Ngunyi who appeared before the NCIC after he was summoned pleaded with the commission that he be allowed to reconcile under the reconciliatory provision under the NCIC Act.
Uasin Gishu Senator Isaac Melly and two other suspects will also be charged for allegedly taking part in offenses of ‘rioting and malicious destruction to property’ when protesting against the Eldoret University Vice-Chancellor.

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On Saturday I joined DC Randonneurs for another great 200km brevet. The name of the route is Pastries & Coffee . On DCR calendar for a first time!
Surprisingly 51 riders showed on the start line. We all gathered in the “Big Bean Coffee” in Severna Park. On the back of the shop was check in. It was literally on the bike path. Plenty of runners early morning.
The usual instructions before a ride, and we were on our way. With fresh legs and a flat road profile, our tires were rolling fast. I quickly joined the main group of about 12 to 15 riders, and we were keeping a nice pace. On the first long descent I noticed a climb coming up. Quickly moved to the left, and attacked it. I was not feeling like using my low gears so early in the ride. As I reached the top few more riders came behind, soon passing by me. One of the organizers was taking a video of us !
We then continued pedaling in a nice pace. A quick look at my GPS left me scratching my head – we were averaging almost 20 mph after one hour of cycling. As always, I thought to myself that I need to slow down. As I was thinking that . . . Flat tire 😦 😦 😦 This was my FIRST flat of the year. Over 3000 miles without a single flat.
These tires are so hard to remove I thought.
I have a spare tube and tools , how bad could it be ?
Soon in my hands was my favorite tire tool – The Crank Brothers Speed Bicycle Lever Tool !
I pressed hard , the tire did not move. One more try, and the tire lever broke. . . Luckily I always carry two regular lever tools. Many cyclists passed by , as I was still struggling with this flat. There was also a female rider, sprinting left and right at least 5 times. I guess she was waiting on her riding partner. She checked on me like everybody else, making sure I am OK . And then she kept asking me:
Are you still here?
You are not done yet?
No I wasn’t – I replied.
Let me inspect everything !!! 🙂
The repair was done in 25 minutes. If there was a challenge for the longest time to change a tire , then I will be the champion. Soon afterwards I was back in the saddle – what a relieve . . . I continued to pedal strong to the next control at mile 45 – Rose Heaven. I needed to make it up for the lost time. I left the control within two minutes.
Outside I met tandem riding partners Chuck and Crista. They looked ready for departure as well. Chuck was checking my bicycle, and appeared to appreciate my vintage looking brass bell. We then continued north towards Ellicott City.
We shared few stories before they decided to stop. I continued alone again. . . Soon afterwards I met a familiar face in front of me. It was Bill Beck. His speed was just fine for me, and we finished the ride together. We pedaled on a bike path very close to BWI. Bill was able to take this nice photo.
I enjoyed those bike paths. Specifically Crist Mill Trail at Patapsco Valley State Park. In the early afternoon the trees provided nice cover. It was shady and cool – what a treatment! The park itself was so beautiful, with a path running along the river. Bridges crossing over it.
One hundred miles were behind us. Now we only had about two hours of cycling. Bill was a great riding partner. We shared many stories and talked almost non – stop 🙂 . From one bike trail to another, we headed to the finish line. Pizza and cold drinks for everyone as usual at the finish 🙂 The organizers did such a great job. R12 is not just a dream after all . . .
Sorry to hear about the flat tire. On the up-side, sounds like you rode with some great people, and Bill is certainly excellent riding company.
Yes , indeed. It was great. Almost cloudy all day. 51 riders 🙂
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In cities, development inevitably takes place as urban planners make decisions about maximising land use. A process that commonly takes place during development of neighbourhood is gentrification – defined as improving or renovating a neighbourhood to raise its value to suit the standard of life for middle-class residents.
Gentrification is characterised by changes in the demographics of residents from lower income to higher income, large increases in market value of property prices and rents, different land use to suit developmental needs, and new characteristics and culture of the neighbourhood to include what is desirable and attractive.
For a verbal explanation of gentrification, watch this video below:
It is a phenomenon that is common across cities. However, how people view this process depends on which side of the fence they fall on – the ones who see their property value increase, or the ones who have to pay higher rent. The increase in rent and higher costs of living due to new developments usually come hand-in-hand with the displacement of lower-income groups or older long-term residents who feel that their needs are no longer met by the surrounding amenities.
Why does gentrification happen?
There are two main theories that researchers use to explain gentrification: production-side theory and the consumption-side theory. Both of these work concurrently to produce this phenomenon.
The production-side theory posits that redevelopment of neighbourhood happens due to the economics of property within the capitalist system – when land has not been invested upon previously, it provides an opportunity for investment to raise the value of the land, allowing it to resell for a higher price. This motivates the development of older neighbourhoods.
On the other hand, consumption-side theory explains gentrification from the perspective that culturally, people who are getting more affluent want to improve their quality of life by relocating. Often, middle-class workers move closer to their workplaces, and the demand for amenities and urban lifestyle increases in those neighbourhoods.
When supply meets demand, the changes in the neighbourhoods take place.
Effects on the people
Clearly, there are both costs and benefits to changing neighbourhoods. Stories about how gentrification affected lives, and initiatives taken to address concerns have been documented in this article. Closer to home, neighbourhoods such as Dakota, Chinatown and Tiong Bahru have also undergone changes that are not entirely welcome by older residents. Contentious developments have taken place such as the rise of hipster cafes and restaurants which do not meet the living needs of older residents in the old neighbourhoods of Tiong Bahru. In a bid to remain commercially relevant, Chinatown and Kampong Glam became more tourist-friendly. Some have lost their business, while others gained from the increase footfall from tourists and locals alike.
While gentrification may not always benefit the locals, it is inevitable that it will take place in urban areas. The sensible action would be for developers to thoroughly consider the needs of different stakeholders, and balance the priorities to ensure that the benefits are shared amongst property owners and the people who live in the neighbourhoods that are changing.
Questions for further personal evaluation:
- What changes do you see in the places you grew up in?
- Is gentrification a good idea? Why, or why not?
- ‘peril’: serious and immediate danger
- ‘ardent’: very enthusiastic or passionate
- ‘contentious’: causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial
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- City Lab: Studies show that in some U.S urban areas, concentration of the poor has been on the rise instead.
“Many past studies have explored the complicated relationship between gentrification and displacement, and researchers have come up skeptical about whether the first directly causes the second. (For one, displacement is quite difficult to measure.) Demographic shifts observed over time appear to happen in part because low-income residents are more precarious generally, and more likely to move. As rents rise, they’re often replaced by higher-income residents. The low-income residents who do end up being pushed out, however, tend to move to worse-off areas. Over time, these complex, simultaneous changes lead to a shifting of economic, and often racial, boundaries.”
- City Lab: Even the presence and concentration of dog parks in neighbourhood can represent the effects of gentrification.
“Parks and recreation departments face tremendous pressure today to dedicate more and greater space for the nation’s fur-babies, even in cities where there aren’t enough local parks for actual children. The rise of dog parks—up 40 percent over the last decade—has consequences for neighborhoods that have them as well as those that don’t. More than half of the nation’s parks departments now boast a dog park
Back in the day, “a dog park wasn’t a thing” says Kathryn Ott Lovell, commissioner of Philadelphia Parks & Recreation. “You walked your dog around the neighborhood. You took your dog around the block. Standards and expectations for dog owners have shifted. The culture of dog ownership has changed.”
The fancy-town dog park in the early designs for Lincoln Yards might be among the least-divisive features of this project, which closed in on as much as $1.3 billion in public funding (through a tax-increment financing scheme) last week. But it is nevertheless a small marker of disparity in the city—one that can be found all over. It’s a pattern whose consequences range from worrisome sign of neighborhood gentrification to outright structural inequality.”


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One of the representative green teas in China. Produced in Huangshan, Anhui, it has the fragrance of orchid, and the tea buds are natural and full.
Picking time: March (Mingqian Spring Tea)
Packaging Date: April 9th
Net content: 3g/Bag
Grade: Top Grade
Origin: Huangshan, Anhui
Dry tea: Light green, full of tea tips, tea buds are natural and full.
Fragrance: Floral, bean fragrance
Soup: Light green bright
Taste: Sweet and rich aroma
Wet tea: Buds are fresh and tender, beautiful in shape
Storage method: Store in a cool, dry, dark place. For long-term storage, it is recommended to place it below 0°C to keep the green tea fresh.
How to brew?
Huangshan Maofeng should be brewed in a glass.
1. First add 2/3 of 85-90 ℃ water, add 3g of tea, smell the tea aroma
2. Wait 2-3min for the tea leaves to stretch before drinking.
More About Huangshan Maofeng Green Teas:
The origin of Huangshan Maofeng Green Teas?
Huangshan Maofeng originated in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty (around 1875). At that time, a tea merchant, Xie Zheng‘an, opened a tea shop and selected fat and tender buds and leaves from the high-altitude tea gardens in Huangshan to create this high-quality tea with excellent flavor.
Because the tea pekoe is covered with body and the buds are like peaks, it is named "Maofeng", and later named "Huangshan Maofeng".
Some British businessmen praised it after tasting it, and immediately became famous in Shanghai. After being shipped to the Northeast, it was also welcomed by consumers and became famous all over the world.
Where is Huangshan?
Huangshan is located in the subtropical monsoon climate zone, which is characterized by mild, rainy and four distinct seasons. Due to the high mountains and deep valleys, the climate changes vertically. At the same time, due to the large difference in sunlight radiation between the north and south slopes, the local topography plays a leading role in the climate, forming the characteristics of many clouds, high humidity and more precipitation.
Huangshan has a long history of tea production, superior natural conditions, many mountain forests, and deep land, which is very suitable for the growth of tea trees.
If you want to try our black tea made in Huangshan, please click here
How does Huangshan Maofeng taste?
In time for this year's Qingming Festival, we selected "Huangshan species", "Huangshan large-leaf species" and other tea trees that have developed fat and tender shoots, and made them by hand. After making, the tea shape is slightly rolled, the tea is obvious, and it has golden fish leaves (small leaves next to the bud head), which are the characteristics of the standard premium Huangshan Maofeng. The tea soup is fresh and mellow, with a fresh orchid fragrance.

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China may reduce its generous electric-car subsidies, according to a new Bloomberg report. The government hopes to force automakers to innovate rather than rely on incentives to continue driving demand for electric cars in the world’s largest new-car market. It’s part of an ongoing effort to better regulate China’s explosive electric-car sales growth.
Government subsidies have led to huge EV sales spikes in China over the past few years, making the country the world’s largest market for electric vehicles. But officials are reportedly considering reducing the average purchase incentive by more than a third from 2018 levels, according to Bloomberg, which cited anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
The plan, which is reportedly still under discussion and could change, could also raise the minimum range requirement to qualify for subsidies from 150 kilometers (93 miles) to 200 km (125 miles). Under new rules that went into effect February 12, subsidies for cars with ranges of less than 300 km (186 mi) have already been reduced. But the government also increased subsidies for cars with ranges of more than 400 km (248 mi), to 50,000 yuan, or about $7,500 at current exchange rates.
The Chinese government wants to emphasize quality as well as quantify. Many of the electric vehicles sold in the country are short-range neighborhood electric vehicles that wouldn’t be considered roadworthy in the United States. Chinese automakers also continue to struggle to meet Western standards of quality and performance, but cuts to subsidies likely won’t prove popular with local automakers who have come to rely on them to boost sales.
The policy shift creates even more uncertainty for foreign automakers looking to build and sell electric cars in China. High sales and anticipated stricter emissions standards have led to a number of joint efforts between Western and Chinese automakers to build electric cars locally. Now, however, those automakers face the potentially double whammy of subsidy cuts and a trade war between the U.S. and China.
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Latin name: Pterinochilus murinus
If you are interested in this incredible species, please note that we do not recommend them for beginner tarantula enthusiasts and be sure to read through all our information on them.
Our stock: We have several unsexed young adults available which are all about 4” in size including leg span. Photos are representative of our general stock.
They are eating live medium crickets.
Other names: OBT, Orange Bitey Thing, Mombasa Golden Starburst Tarantula, Usambara Baboon Spider.
Habitat: They are a very widespread species, native to many South and Central African Countries.
Lifestyle: These beautifully colored old world tarantulas are burrowers who will dig and live inside deep holes and line them with webbing. They will also build large visible web tunnels at the entrance to their burrows. They hunt by ambushing any insect prey that happens to be passing by the entrance of their burrow. They will live in this burrow for the duration of their lives unless they are disturbed or they are a sexually mature male searching for a mate.
Size and Lifespan: Their leg span when they reach adult size is typically around 6” and females are heavier-bodied than males with bigger abdomens. Lifespan differs greatly depending on the sex of the tarantula. Males top out at 4 years of age with them being sexually mature for last year of their lives. Females can live up to 15 years.
Quick care stats:
Temperatures: 80 degrees Fahrenheit on the warm end, 70 degrees Fahrenheit on the cool end.
Humidity: 60%-70% Manually mist lightly in the AM and PM or set up an automatic mister to do the job.
Tank size: 1-5 gallons or smaller for babies, 10+ gallons for adults.
Tank type: low rectangle-allow for ample floor space.
Lighting: Both a heat pad and a dimmable heat lamp are recommended, especially in winter. Thermostats are also helpful. Full spectrum UVB lighting is not required for this species but is recommended to simulate a natural day/night cycle.
Substrate and furniture: Soil or coconut fiber substrate 3"deep or deeper as these guys like to dig. Provide lots of hiding places. Provide a small water dish that is not so deep that the tarantula cannot climb back out on its own.
Handling: This species is not recommended for handling under any circumstances. Though they prefer to go into threat posture and will even slap the ground when they feel threatened, the risk of being bitten is still present and they have been known to bite without prior warning. They are also an extremely fast species. The potency of their venom is not well studied but it is known to be significantly toxic and very painful.
Use extreme caution when transferring them from one enclosure to the next or cleaning. The use of catch cups will make this process safer.
Feeding: 1 appropriately sized insect prey item no more than 1x per week. Feeding your Orange Baboon Tarantula can be very exciting to watch as they will often burst out from their web tunnels and snatch their prey with amazing speed as soon as the food item is offered.
Always remove uneaten food items if they have not been consumed after 8 hours.

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|Other names: BYS, Brazilian Lyme-like disease, Brazilian human borreliosis|
|Amblyomma cajennense transmits the condition|
The Baggio–Yoshinari syndrome , formerly known as the Brazilian Lyme-like disease and Brazilian human borreliosis, is a disease transmitted by the Amblyomma cajennense tick, but the organism that causes the infection is still unknown. Clinical features resemble those of Lyme disease (LD).
Signs and symptoms
A distinct feature of the syndrome is its prolonged clinical evolution, with relapsing episodes and autoimmune dysfunction. If diagnosed in its early stages, the symptoms respond well to antibiotics. If the disease evolves to a chronic phase, it can potentially cause oligoarthritis, cognitive impairment, meningoencephalitis and erythema nodosum, with the patient risking to develop both articular and neurological sequelae.
The neurological manifestations of BYS were first described by Yoshinari et al. including patients with peripheral neuritis, meningitis and cranial neuritis (facial nerve palsy, diplopia and deafness).
The etiology of BYS is due to Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato
In terms of the diagnosis of Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome one finds it is based on clinical and epidemiological data (and ruling out other possible conditions via DDx)
The management of Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome is done via:
In 1989, Brazilian researchers Professors Domingos Baggio (an entomologist from the Biomedical Sciences Institute of the University of São Paulo), Paulo Yasuda (a microbiologist from the same institute) and Natalino Hajime Yoshinari (a physician from the Rheumatology Department at University of São Paulo's Medical School) started research on Lyme disease in Brazil, by suggestion of Dr. Allen Steere. At that time, LD was almost unknown among Brazilian physicians.
The first cases were described in Brazil in 1992 in siblings from Cotia, São Paulo that developed symptoms as a migrating redness, general flu-like symptoms and arthritis after being bitten by ticks. Although the symptoms were similar to those presented by patients of Lyme disease, clinical and laboratorial results were considerably different. Ticks of the Ixodes ricinus complex were not found at the risk areas; bacteria from the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex —that cause Lyme disease— were not found in biological fluids and tissues of the siblings. Blood analysis of the patients on electron microscopy exhibited structures resembling microorganisms of the spirochaete phylum. For these reasons, the Brazilian zoonosis was considered a new disease and named Baggio–Yoshinari Syndrome (BYS), defined as: "Exotic and emerging Brazilian infectious disease, transmitted by ticks not belonging to the Ixodes ricinus complex, caused by latent spirochetes with atypical morphology, which originates LD-like symptoms, except for occurrence of relapsing episodes and auto-immune disorders".
- Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia, vol.49 no.5, São Paulo, Sept./Oct. 2009: Neurological manifestations in Baggio-Yoshinari Syndrome (Brazilian Lyme-like disease syndrome) Archived 2018-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia, Vol.54, Issue 2, March–April 2014, Pages 148–151. Chronic lymphomonocytic meningoencephalitis, oligoarthritis and erythema nodosum: report of Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome of long and relapsing evolution Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Yoshinari, Natalino Hajime; Bonoldi, Virginia Lucia Nazario; Bonin, Serena; Falkingham, Erica; Trevisan, Giusto (August 2022). "The Current State of Knowledge on Baggio–Yoshinari Syndrome (Brazilian Lyme Disease-like Illness): Chronological Presentation of Historical and Scientific Events Observed over the Last 30 Years". Pathogens. 11 (8): 889. doi:10.3390/pathogens11080889. Archived from the original on 7 September 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
- Revista Brasileira de Pesquisas Médicas e Biológicas vol.40 no.4 Ribeirão Preto Apr. 2007: Description of Lyme disease-like syndrome in Brazil. Is it a new tick borne disease or Lyme disease variation? Archived 2021-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira vol.56 no.3 São Paulo, 2010: Brazilian Lyme-like disease or Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome: exotic and emerging Brazilian tick-borne zoonosis Archived 2018-09-29 at the Wayback Machine


Well, it hasn't thrown it yet but it is banging hard enough that I have parked her on the sidelines until I can repair her.
Money is a huge issue, but I hate to just throw another used 2.5l in without making some improvements of some kind.
If you were in my situation, with money being tight, what would you do? I can probably get another worn 2.5l from a junk yard and swap it in, but I am worried about the unknown condition of that engine. I would like to drop in a 4.0l but that could get more expensive couldn't it? Are there other options that won't cost a ton?
If youre not pressed for time and since you said you're short on cash. I'd say pull it puti in on a stand and rebuild it. If the crank is not trashed, bearing sets are around $100 for mains and rods. You can take your time do do it a little at a time. If you can do it yourself you'd have less then $500 in part. Sometimes you can get away with just reusing your old crank, but it's always good to to have a machine shop check. If it needs machined they can also set you up with the appropriate undersized bearings.
If it's knocking the Crank Shaft needs to be reground. The question is why did it start to knock?
No oil pressure, just worn out because it has 300,000+ miles on it and been taken care of, or very late on oil change, this all can tell what all need to be replaced.
It is definitely knocking on the low end. The noise was very clear at the oil pan when using the mechanics stethoscope. The odometer reads 92k, but I suspect it has rolled, especially with this damage. The Jeep is in fantastic shape so I figured the mileage could be correct, but now with this knock I am beginning to believe it has a lot more miles. The oil has been changed regularly.
I am going to start looking for used engines now. Being down one car is making life difficult for my family.
I have located a replacement in a u-pull-it type yard for $500. It is already pulled and had a compression check and they guarantee it for 90 days, so I should be covered if I start it up and it turns out to have a bad bearing as well, or any other major issue.
I am going to be doing this swap in my garage. I have basic hand tools (full set of wrenches, ratchets, sockets). I will have to rent a lift. What other items, besides fluids, should I be buying for this operation? Are there any funky tools I should have on hand? Other parts I should be replacing while I have the engine out? I am thinking it will be smart to check out the clutch.


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You've had a white crested laughing thrush talk? Thank you for the warning because that probably would have been fairly startling if mine started taking
YES. It was one of the strangest moments of my life. For those of you who don’t know, this is what a White-Crested Laughingthrush looks like:
It’s a cool little songbird that makes a loud call like a “laugh” sometimes, but still sounds distinctively like a bird. They aren’t like crows, ravens, or mynas which are known for being able to mimic.
One day I was in an exhibit that housed about a dozen birds including two White-Crested Laughingthrushes, a male and a female. I went to pick up a metal food dish and when I looked up, the male hopped down from a branch, landed right in front of me and goes,
*CLANG* I dropped the damn food pan and suddenly questioned my entire existence because this little cardinal wannabe just said hello to me like it was the most normal thing in the world. None of my coworkers believed me until a few weeks later when he finally talked in front of my boss.
He only ever said hello, and it was weird because none of us remembered saying hello to the birds in that exhibit, at least not on a regular enough basis for them to start mimicking it. He probably just picked it up from random zoo visitors.
So Boston College just had its ArtsFest 2014 gallery show two weeks ago and a few of my collage pieces were selected to be in the Stokes tent exhibit. A professor for the Harvard University Arts dept. came in gave many of the pieces an award of recognition.
We had a Q&A session with all the artists and I was told to talk a bit about the bird piece I did, entitled “Capture the Crown”, which was LOADS of fun to construct! A shoutout to Fabulousanima and her dad for the bird book that aided in this idea!
The installation features 5, handcrafted and metal-leafed paper made North American birds, all of which have prominent crests.(I’m playing with the theme of royalty.) The Cardinal, the Bluejay, the White-crested Laughing Thrush, The Phainopepla(seen with crown), and the Tufted Titmouse.
There is a possibility the cardinal may be sold next thursday. We shall see :0~
Also known as White’s Thrush, the scaly thrush is a species of thrush (Turdidae) which breeds in wet coniferous taiga in eastern Asia and Siberia. And winters in southeastern Asia during the winter. Scaly thrushes are very secretive in nature, preferring areas with dense cover. Like other thrushes they are omnivorous, feeding on a wide range of insects, other invertebrates, and berries/other plant matter. The taxonomy of Zoothera duama still requires revision with six subspecies which are sometimes elevated to species status.


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Opec crude oil prices $55-$60 – Oil after Opec expected to remain in $55-$60 range: QNB - Arhive
Opec crude oil prices $55-$60
Opec cuts have expedited the clearing of the global oil market, the key determinant of oil prices is shifting to US shale oil breakevens, which are expected to remain in the $55-60 range, QNB has said in an economic commentary.Opec crude oil prices $55-$60
This, QNB said, keep oil prices at around this level in 2017.Opec crude oil prices $55-$60
Oil markets have been in waiting mode during the early part of this year to see how effective Opec’s November agreement to cut production in 2017 would actually be.
The first round of January data has now come in and it suggests that compliance with the agreement is high, lending support to prices, QNB said.Opec crude oil prices $55-$60
With this new data in hand, QNB has refreshed its outlook for oil prices.
With excess supply in global markets now expected to clear in 2017, the key determinant of prices is likely to shift to the costs of the marginal producer, in this case US shale companies, which are currently estimated to be around $55-60. Opec crude oil prices $55-$60
At the end of November 2016, Opec surprised markets by reaching a comprehensive agreement to cut production by 1.2mn barrels per day (bpd) for six months, effective from January 1, 2017.
Additionally, an agreement was also reached with a number of non-Opec producers to cut output by 0.6mn bpd, including 0.3mn of cuts from Russia. As a result, oil prices rose 8.8% to $50.5 from $46.4 the day before the meeting and have averaged $55 since. The compliance of producers with the Opec agreement will be key to determining the future trajectory of oil prices. Based on the latest data from Opec and the IEA, it appears that compliance has been high.
Opec has cut production by 1.1mn bpd compared with a target of 1.2mn (93% compliance), with 0.6mn of these cuts coming from Saudi Arabia.
Non-Opec is expected to achieve production cuts of around 0.3mn bpd in early 2017, compared with a target of 0.6mn. “To calculate the balance of supply and demand in global oil markets in 2017, we assume 100% compliance with Opec production targets during the first half of 2017,” QNB said.
“We assume that the agreement will not be extended in June and production will revert to pre-agreement levels during the second half of the year.
This implies a 0.3mn bpd increase in Opec production on average over 2017 compared with 2016,” QNB said. Based on IEA data, the global oil market was oversupplied by 0.4mn bpd on average in 2016.
Demand is expected to grow by 1.4mn bpd in 2017, which would totally wipe out the surplus. However, this will be partly offset by increases in supply from Opec, US shale and other non-Opec producers. The net effect would be a shift from an oversupplied oil market to one that is undersupplied by 0.25mn bpd in 2017.
Taken in isolation, the clearing of the oil market should be sufficient to raise oil prices above the $60/b level. However, higher prices are likely to bring marginal producers back into the market, leading to higher supply and capping price increases.
The average breakeven price for US shale is estimated at around $55/b currently. Having been in steady decline since April 2015, US production has increased since November 2016.
Therefore, QNB expects oil prices to remain bound in the $55-60 range, on average, during 2017 as US shale oil production puts a lid on prices. Changes in US shale breakeven prices are likely to determine oil prices in 2017. US shale breakeven prices have fallen from $80-90 a few years ago to around $55-60 currently.
The costs of production were brought down by targeting low cost fields, productivity gains as technological advances allowed more oil to be extracted from each well as well as by falling costs for labour and other oil services thanks to excess capacity in the industry. “It is not clear whether the drivers of lower costs will continue in 2017,” QNB said. Source: Gulf Times

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Returnee ministry involves movement and connections. The author explains how these two factors have encountered adversity and opportunity during the COVID-19 global pandemic.
The conflicts and challenges facing returnees as they arrive back in their homeland can be enormous. Culture shock, family matters, work situations, and church issues all contrive to make it unlikely that Chinese Christians returning home will maintain a relationship with Christ if they try to go it alone. The importance of preparation for their return is evident.


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MEMPHIS - Last week at the Republican National Committee's annual spring meeting in Memphis Tennessee, the committee members considered resolutions addressing current cultural trends.
Among those resolutions passed, the RNC agreed on a proposal supporting a ban on abortion after 20 weeks, stating “the Republican National Committee strongly supports federal, state, and local pain-capable unborn child legislation that bans abortions at 20 weeks of gestation and beyond.”
Illinois' Republican National Committeewoman Demetra DeMonte wrote, introduced and shepherded through a party resolution condemning the persecution of Christians.
RESOLUTION ON CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION
Whereas, Religious freedom is a fundamental human right that is legally secured for persons in the United States by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and was established as a worldwide goal and priority for U.S. foreign and diplomatic policies by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998;
Whereas, The Center for the Study of Global Christianity estimates that more than seventy million Christians have been martyred over the last two thousand years, “with more than half of these in the twentieth century under fascist and communist regimes; and, that one million Christians were killed over the ten-year period from 2000 to 2010, with an average of one hundred thousand Christians killed each year;”
Whereas, Persecution of Christians around the world is at an all-time high, as evidenced by the destruction of churches, homes, neighborhoods, and schools, and by the slaughter, beatings, torture, forced marriage, rape, kidnapping, enslavement, and imprisonment of innocent civilians in countries including Burma, China, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, and Zanzibar;
Whereas, The annual reports of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and the United States State Department have over many years documented a strong correlation between religious freedom and societal health—that countries with religious freedom tend to be more stable, secure, and prosperous;
Whereas, Religious freedom is even recognized under Article 18 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states, “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance;” and
Whereas, “Political correctness” and the hostility toward faith generally, and Christianity in particular, by many intellectual, media, and entertainment elites in the United States have undermined the cultural and political foundations of religious freedom in our nation in recent years; therefore be it
Resolved, The Republican National Committee recognizes the increasing persecution of Christians worldwide, condemns acts of terror and aggression, whether in the name of religious law or secularist ideology, and condemns legislative, executive, and judicial acts that weaken or violate the religious freedom of Christians and other people of faith in the United States,
Resolved, The Republican National Committee calls upon our President, Congressional leaders, and Governors to speak out against violations of religious freedom and the persecution of Christians here and abroad, and to promote religious freedom as a priority in all domestic and foreign policies and in diplomatic decisions; and
Resolved, The Republican National Committee calls upon Faith leaders of all denominations to speak out against persecution of Christians and others here and abroad, and calls upon church congregations to act in providing prayer and charitable support for persecuted believers at home and around the world.
Chief Sponsor Demetra DeMonte, National Committeewoman for Illinois
Approved May 9, 2014

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A few weeks ago I asked on Instagram and my blog for people to share the main challenges they face when sketching with watercolour.
I loved going through all the responses and there was a clear winner! The next three challenges also stood out from the rest and all four struggles are things that I specifically address inside my Watercolour course which we’ll be going through starting next week.
So here are the four most common challenges when sketching with watercolour…
1. How to control the water!
I’m not at all surprised by this as it’s the most essential skill to develop when doing any painting with watercolour. But it’s even more important when you go out on location sketching with watercolour because the outside conditions can change and there are more distractions.
And so this is why I’ve devoted a whole week to this topic in my Watercolour course. 🙂
To control the water while you are sketching with watercolour you have to understand:
- how pigment in water behaves
- how to use the right amount of water (and pigments) when you are mixing washes in your palette
- how to control the water in your brush
- how to be aware of the water on (or within) your paper and make the right decisions about when to apply new washes
- how all of your paints behave slightly differently and the better you know them the easier it is to create the best mixes.
These are all things that we look at in Watercolour Lesson 1!
And then we use the skills we develop in the first week for the rest of the course, especially when we start layering and working wet-in-wet.
I explain the important principles of how water behaves by using diagrams and small demos and then have designed a few specific exercises so that you’ll start controlling the water and get to know your paints better.
Here are a few images showing you some of the things we explore in Lesson 1…
I encourage participants, if they feel confident enough, to paint fruit and vegetables of their own choice so that they learn to apply the principles to their own subjects and style of sketching.
2. Choosing and mixing colours
Many beginner urban sketchers fall into the trap of putting too many different colours (hues) into their palettes. They get fixated on mixing exact colour matches, forgetting the bigger picture.
In Watercolour I share a curated 12-colour palette, refined through years of experience. This palette is perfect for urban sketching as all the paints work together harmoniously. They are great mixers but can also be used on their own! They represent a range of different pigment types so they create a variety of ‘pigment parties’!
This palette will jumpstart your watercolour journey and can be customized later as you gain confidence.
You’ll learn practical guidelines for using colour and I also share my Master Palette concept which makes mixing colours on location dramatically easier. This exercise is always a class favourite!
3. Creating sketches with good shadows and a range of values
Once again I’ve specifically designed a few exercises to help you understand how to see colour as value and how to think about it before picking up your brush. You’ll no longer worry about mixing the right colour and instead, you’ll consider values and create sketches with impactful contrast.
As for ‘good shadows’ I’m somewhat obsessed with creating shadow washes with incredible watercolour magic and have lots to share on this topic!
4. Leaving whites
Watercolour Lesson 4 reveals my top tip for preserving white… drum roll please… start with the darks!
This technique flips traditional watercolour (light to dark) on its head, making it perfect for lively urban sketching. It’s faster (less painting!), preserves white effortlessly, and leads to strong values.
Do you relate to any of these challenges?
Let me know in the comment section below.
(If you are reading this via email, please click on the article title link below and add a comment on my blog. Thanks!)
Just a reminder that the Live Version of my Watercolour course starts next week – it’s a chance to work through the course with an inspiring cohort of sketchers from around the world. I’m hosting 7 weekly bonus livestreams as well. It might be 2 years before I again host such an interactive group event for my Watercolour course so this is a big deal! 🙂
I’m super excited to be going through these Watercolour concepts again and if it’s a good fit for you I would love to see you in the cohort. Find out more here!
Note: If you have purchased the Watercolour course at any time you can be part of this Live Version for free! Simply go to the Watercolour classroom via sketchingnow.com – My Account – My Courses and follow the instructions on the course homepage.


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Ok, I’ll admit I can be a bit of a crazy cat but even for me the thought of stepping out in Edinburgh at the end of November isn’t the most attractive proposition. Let’s face it, it is likely to be cold and maybe a bit windy. But myself and thousands of others from all across Scotland will be wrapping up and taking to the streets of Edinburgh for Scotland’s Climate March on Saturday 28 November. Why? Because we want a better and just future for all – where climate change is part of our past, not our future.
The things that will motivate people to take to the streets will be varied – for some it’s their belief that those who have contributed least to climate change should be helped to cope with some of its worst impacts. For others it’s the loss of iconic species whose habitats are being destroyed to support our ever growing appetite for cheaper products, whether clothing, wood or oil. For me it’s a mixture of both. As part of my job I see incredible images of animals from all over the world – from tigers playing in the snow, to a newly hatched turtle making its way to the sea. I also work with passionate and dedicated people at WWF Scotland who want to see a better, fairer future for us all. The things I have learned since working for WWF have had an affect on how I live my life. I better link the impact my actions can have on those living thousands of miles away. For example I recently moved house and bought some new furniture. Thanks to the WWF Forest campaign, I was careful to check where the wood for my dining room table had come from and if it was from a sustainable source. By doing so I hope I have helped save a small piece of forestry somewhere, leaving trees standing for animals such as orangutans to live in.
So that’s why I will be joining the event on Saturday 28 November, no matter how cold or windy it is. It’s being organised by Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, and is one of hundreds of similar marches taking place all over the world the weekend before world leaders meet for the latest UN climate talks in Paris. People from all walks of life will come together to call for an agreement that cuts greenhouse gas emissions and helps the poorest countries adapt to the challenges they face caused by climate change. The family-friendly march will culminate with music, entertainment and speeches at the iconic Ross Bandstand in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens.
So if you’re up for it, join me and thousands more and brighten up a dreich November day!
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NANOG 45: Register Now, Hotel Link Available
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Wed Dec 17 09:13:37 CST 2008
As a reminder Peter Cohen is running the new and improved Peering BOF survey
during NANOG45. If you wouldn't mind answering questions posted at
http://tinyurl.com/bofsurvey after you register we would all appreciate it.
Thanks! -Ren Provo
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Tom Daly <tom at dyndns.com> wrote:
> NANOG 45 in the Dominican Republic is fast approaching, so now is the time
> to go get registered for the conference.
> You can register for NANOG 45 at:
> I'm also pleased to report that our hotel has provided us with with a
> direct link for online reservations. You can make your reservations online
> Be aware: the hotel is offering very nice rooms at a great rate (part of
> what should make your travel justification easier), so be sure to register
> Also, consider booking travel soon. A number of airlines have
> substantially discounted flights at the moment, but one never knows when
> they might expire.
> Looking forward to seeing you all in SDQ,
> Tom Daly,
> for the NANOG Program Committee
> Tom Daly
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