COLUMBIA — He sacked the quarterback 11 times during his final season in junior college, and envisioned another double-digit total his first year at South Carolina. But four games into his career with the Gamecocks, defensive end Marquavius Lewis is still waiting on his first.
“It’s eating me up inside to get one,” said the former four-star recruit from Hutchinson Community College in Kansas. “I’m going to keep grinding, and I’m going to get there. When I get my first one, you’ll know it.”
The addition of Lewis was central to the overhaul of a Gamecocks defense that last season finished next to last in the SEC. The soft-spoken Greenwood native was a terror in junior college, where his 11 sacks were part of a campaign that produced 63 total tackles, 20½ of them for loss. He was penciled into USC’s starting lineup even before his first practice.
And he’s remained there, a 6-3 and 264-pound presence, even as coaches have shuffled some pieces around him. But the statistics have been slow to come — Lewis though four games has recorded seven total tackles, and no sacks. Although he got a hand on Marquise Williams on a late third-and-goal in the season opener, it was Dante Sawyer who was credited with taking the North Carolina quarterback down.
“I’ve heard him say a few times that it’s been long overdue for him to get one,” said Gamecocks linebacker Skai Moore. “But I feel like it’s coming. When you watch film, he’s right there a few times. It’s just one more second, one more step. But he definitely makes a difference pass rushing, causing a lot of disturbances. So his time is going to come.”
Why has it taken so long? Although USC (2-2, 0-2 SEC) has shut out opposing offenses in the second half of three games this season, the Gamecocks have been playing all year from behind, which head coach Steve Spurrier said adversely impacts sack totals overall. USC had four in the opening-night victory over North Carolina, and has three since.
“Those defensive linemen, if we can get us a two-touchdown lead or so forth, that’s when they’ve got a chance to really have sort of big impacts,” Spurrier said. “… We need to get ahead of somebody before I think those players really have a chance to take off.”
USC has also used Lewis primarily as an inside rusher, co-defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward said. “I know everybody’s looking for Quay to sack a lot of quarterbacks and that type deal, and I think it’ll come,” he said. “The games we’ve played, he hasn’t had a tremendous amount of opportunities, because we’ve played him inside. So we’ll look at him maybe outside some here in the near future, and we’ll see how that works out.”
Sawyer, a junior college transfer who plays defensive tackle, leads South Carolina with two sacks entering Saturday’s noon game at Missouri (3-1, 0-1). While the Gamecocks are on pace to better the SEC-low 14 sacks they managed last season, their seven sacks this year still ranks 11th in the conference.
“I think we need to win on first and second downs so we have them in third-and-longs, so those boys can pass rush and we can get off the field,” said spur T.J. Gurley. “We’ve been in like third-and-2, so they’ve been running the ball. We need to win first and second down so those boys can really pin their ears back and rush.”
USC co-defensive coordinator Jon Hoke sets numerical goals for each game in categories including sacks. He wanted five last week against UCF, and the Gamecocks managed two. What happens if they fall short? “It’s a headache, basically,” said defensive tackle Taylor Stallworth. “He’s on us 24/7 about that.”
Even so, the play of defensive ends Lewis and Boosie Whitlow — a true freshman who last week recorded his first career sack, and USC’s first safety since 2009 — remains widely praised by teammates who see an impact not necessarily reflected in statistics. Quarterbacks “feel his presence,” Stallworth said of Lewis. “He gets there pretty quick.”
Moore, USC’s leader in tackles and interceptions, agreed. “It does a lot. You see it on film, especially,” he said. “When those guys are getting back there and just causing some type of pressure on the quarterback, pushing the O-line back on the quarterback, it does a lot for the whole defense.”
But for Lewis, who in spring practice set a goal of double-digit sacks this season, the goose egg on the stat sheet remains an irritant. “I wish I could have gotten in more on some bigger plays,” he said, “but I’m going to keep working, and I’m going to get there.”
Stallworth doesn’t doubt it. “His time is coming, trust me. His time is coming,” the tackle said. “He works hard. He’s a very hard worker. He’s a great pass rusher. His time is coming. I feel like this game, he’s going to get a few.”


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Like a lot of toy photographers, I love taking pictures outdoors. It’s wild – a wave washing my little LEGO subjects out to sea, a snake slithering between my legs as I quietly stand (holding my breath) in a swampy drainage ditch, or even the curious human passing by inquiring about what exactly is going on. Continue reading An Outdoor Light Box
i’ve been perusing all of the “what’s in your bag” and “favorite five” posts here on #stuckinplastic and it got me thinking. i’ve been doing a daily photo project since soon after i got my first dslr (a nikon D60) in 2008, but i do it more for the daily memories and out of mindfulness than because i feel like a Photographer or legographer, so it feels odd to imagine sharing my camera bag. Continue reading do we have to narrow it down to only 5?
i recently had the good fortune to interview one of the LEGO designers behind the new jurassic world line-up (look for that piece in the upcoming issue of Bricks). and it rekindled my childhood love of dinosaurs.
as a kid, i loved hunting for fossils out at the river (the river being the missouri). i found various shells and plant bits in the shale and marveled that they might be as old as 60 million years, even tho’ i couldn’t really even grasp that number.
i always insisted that we stop at every touristy rock shop in the black hills and i scoured the ground on scorching summer days in the badlands of south dakota, hoping to find a tooth from a saber-toothed tiger. i dreamed of being a paleontologist, but abandoned those dreams early, thinking that everything would already be discovered by the time i grew up (back then, growing up seemed so impossibly far away).
i thrilled when i read of the discovery of sue, the most intact t-rex fossil ever found – you guessed it – in south dakota. (so i was kind of right, all the good stuff was already discovered.) i loved that sue ended up at chicago’s field museum, where i could visit her, since i was living there at the time. and although i moved to denmark before she was up and on display, i did go back and visit her a time or two anyway. and she is magnificent.
all of this came flooding back after my interview with nick and i had to get me some dinosaurs. now, on these long, light summer evenings, i can lay on my belly in the grass in our back yard, posing my raptors and my dilophosaurus in the glorious golden light and dreaming of all those fossils out there, yet to be found.
i came across some old photos recently and was reminded of my old friend fuzz. fuzz was a little scrunchy beanie baby. do you remember those? they were all the craze for awhile back in the late 90s.
nearly 20 years ago, when i was a serious graduate student on a fulbright scholarship to macedonia, i took fuzz everywhere. he’s been to the balkans, istanbul, russia, sweden, denmark, london and germany. and yes, he’s even been to the pyramids. i always had him in my backpack, sometimes riding on the outside, but often stuffed inside. he was imminently stuffable and didn’t mind it a bit. i could always whip him out, fluff him up a bit and pose him wherever i wanted. he saw all the sights.
i ended up talking to a lot of people on my travels, because they thought it was so sweet that i was photographing my teddy bear. and i honestly don’t remember ever being embarrassed that i was photographing a toy. i wonder where i lost that along the way?
i liked photographing him from behind best. he somehow seemed most thoughtful that way. it became a bit of a game to see how much expression i could get out of him without showing his face. even tho’ i was using one of those kodak advantix cameras in those days. you remember the ones? they were a film camera, but they had the gimmicky feature of allowing you to adjust between three sizes of photos along the way, including a panorama. i tried to save the panoramas for special occasions. honestly, i enjoyed that camera.
my favorite photo of him, i took at the hermitage museum in st. petersburg. he was posed looking wistfully at the fog out of a rather dilapidated window. unfortunately, i didn’t come across that photo in the stack of photos i found, so i can’t share it.
the best part of that photo was that one of those old russian ladies who sits impassively on a stool in the museums, sternly frowning at the guests, lest they do anything like dare to touch one of the paintings, was so charmed by fuzz that she even pointed out several other places i should pose him for his picture and thanks to her he got to sit on some chairs that were otherwise roped off. so much fun for me, but i also think it was fun for her – a little bright spot in an otherwise boring day of frowning at people who got too close to the matisse. i’ll bet she still remembers it, just as i do.
maybe it’s actually a good thing i can’t find that photo. possibly it’s much better in memory than it was in reality.
I apologize that it’s taken me so long to reply (once again). Things are finally starting to slow down a bit, and more terrifyingly, I seem to have some time to myself!So, I’ve been going through the “Why?” series tonight and trying to get a handle on it. There are two obstacles that I’m not sure I can overcome, to be honest. The first is that I am incredibly uncomfortable writing about myself, though when pressed, I have certainly capitulated. The second (and likely more difficult obstacle) is that my answer to “Why?” isn’t especially happy. It extends far beyond the subject of photography, really, and I find it hard to separate it from the larger question of why I do anything at all. Why I am driven to excel; why am I driven to prove my worth over and over again?You’re quite correct when you state that the answer may take some introspection, although I have actually been aware of this for some time now. I say this not to illicit sympathy, of course; it’s a statement of fact and I’ll admit that I’m somewhat embarrassed that the answer is so cliché – as the child of two self-involved alcoholics, I developed a habit of seeking their attention (and more importantly, their approval) through achievement.It’s fair to say that this shaped me into a fiercely independent person. I was a shy but willful child, and thankfully had the presence of mind to make my own decisions. I would not become a doctor or lawyer or whatever high-paying, high-status vocation they’d propose; no, I would do things my way, and earn their respect my way.30 year later, I’m still doing things my way (for better or for worse), and I do it because it’s what I want.But on the rare occasion that mom messages me to praise a recent photo, I am that child all over again, and I am so proud.
OMG. I have a style. A Brick Sailboat photographic style. It wasn’t always there, I guess parts of it were, but now I see it clear as day. I see it in most of my shots. Consequently, my style is absent from every shot I decide NOT to share. Hundreds of discarded shots sent to the digital trash can. Poor things. All lacking that special something I want to see in my finished work.
Style doesn’t come easy, or quick. I didn’t really find mine until around shared-pic #400. Once I realized what the pictures of Brick Sailboat were all about, it has become so much easier to get the shots I want. When I’m having a frustrating day shooting, I take a moment and remember my style. It gets me back on track. People often ask what kind of camera I use. What they’re really asking about is the list below – what makes a Brick Sailboat shot!
The Brick Sailboat style (for now anyway):
- I’ve got to get the focus right. Since I shoot primarily outdoors, this almost always involves natural light. More recently I’ve started using DIY reflectors to bounce the natural light into the faces of the figures (avoiding the dreaded sunline!).
- I like to get in close…really close. Fire up that macro setting and let her rip.
- I often shoot from below the subject (this sometimes involves building sets on stilts and/or digging a hole in the ground for my camera).
- The background matters…a lot. Take pictures in wild places.
- Stay candid. This is the most important. I want my minifigures to look like they would be having an adventure, even if I wasn’t there to photograph them. That means they rarely look directly into the camera. A lot of times there are figures in the background doing rather boring stuff – walking, checking their phone, doing what they do. I regularly crop parts of figures out of the frame. Turn heads, move arms & hands, make it look natural-ish.
- Stick to the story. My pictures are connected by story. Not all pictures further the plot, but when they need to – they need to. Could the picture tell a story without a caption?
- I can’t get comfortable in my style. Study others. Try to figure out what makes their shots unique. Experiment.
So, there you have it, the seven ingredients that make up my own personal style. I’m sure my list will grow as I continue to take pictures and study all of the great toy photographers here on SiP and beyond. What’s on your list? What makes your photos tick? What makes up your personal style?
~ Mr. S (a.k.a. Brick Sailboat)
for what reason, purpose, or cause?:
“Tell me why are you’re here?”
for or because of which:
“There is no reason why he shouldn’t”.
an introductory expression of surprise, disagreement, indignation, etc.:
“Why, don’t be so silly!”
Let me premise this by saying that I’m not a photographer. Heck, I don’t even own a real camera. I’m just a knucklehead with an iPhone!
it was july 7, 2013. i was in a long line at the grocery store. it was a summer day and sunshine-starved danes (yes, we are often starved for sunshine in the middle of the summer in denmark) were piling their baskets with grillables and rosé and rushing towards the register, to get home before the sunshine left again. the line was long and there was no sign of them calling another cashier to open another register, so i was stuck. as i was waiting, i glanced to my left and there was a display of small, shiny, colorful bags of LEGO minifigures. prominently depicted on the package was a minifigure of a guy in a chicken suit. i had a brood of hens at home of which i was inordinately fond and i thought, “i’ve gotta have that chicken suit guy,” so i grabbed a couple (or three) bags and tossed them in my basket. Continue reading here’s where it all began
In the beginning I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.
I had been working on a dinosaur-themed comic book and purchased a few toy dinosaurs to help with anatomical designs. The Allosaurus was first, but soon followed by a Triceratops and a Velociraptor. All made by the French brand, Papo.
They had almost no articulation, but the detail of the sculpt and paintwork were unparalleled. That’s what really caught my attention, the realism of the figures. Continue reading 65 Million Years Ago …
Like most folks, I have two days a week off from work. Most times I spend those days taking pictures, getting caught up around the house, running errands and avoiding phone calls from…work. These past couple of days off were much the same with one exception. I sat down and watched Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The Art of Fiction
The story shifts from modern day Robert, to a little known fictional artist working in the midst of The Impressionists in France. This artist, Beatrice de Clerval, exchanged letters with her husband's uncle, which Robert reads continuously. The letters give way to narrative, and we learn the story of Beatrice and her daughter, Aude, as well.
A common thread throughout the story is the forbidden May-December romance. I count 5 of them, if we include Robert and his obsession.
I am interested in how this story took root in Kostova's head. The book itself begins with a painter working, and ends with the identification of the resulting painting as one by Alfred Sisley. I would have loved it if Kostova started her story with the one person in an obscure painting, and created a ficitional world around her. However, the online consensus is that Sisley didn't paint anything like the painting Kostova describes.
This is a 560 page book, which is a lot, but the ending seems rushed and unbelievable. I would have preferred for Kostova to take another 40 pages, (I mean really, at that point, what's another 40 pages between friends?) to tie together some loose ends, in order to reach a less contrived conclusion.
I had to rush to finish The Swan Thieves, as The Typical Book Group will meet to discuss it in a few hours. I have some questions, which I will put on my spoilers page, and which I hope the other book groupers will want to discuss.
Got to go!
Next Up: We'll see what the book group decides
Almost Done Listening to: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson. I didn't like this book at first, but I seem to have fallen for Major Pettigrew. Now I am actually delaying driving, to try to make it last longer.


If there were a scintilla of doubt that McConnell did the nation a great favor, that doubt should have been put to rest during Garland’s June 15, 2021, speech on “Violent Extremism and Domestic Terrorism.” The ideological purge will make Lois Lerner blush.
Mitch McConnell likes to boast, including recently, that his most consequential achievement in his Senate career was keeping Merrick Garland from filling the Scalia seat after the death of the great conservative Justice.
McConnell, with a consistency his detractors refuse to acknowledge, followed historical practice and precedent in refusing to allow the Senate to take up the Obama nomination of Garland in an election year where the party controlling the Senate (Republicans) differed from the party controlling the presidency (Democrats). The confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett in 2020 was consistent with this practice, because the same party (Republicans) controlled the Senate and presidency.
In 2017, Neil Gorsuch — not Merrick Garland — filled the Scalia seat after Trump’s victory in 2016. So far, so good.
Garland now is U.S. Attorney General. If there were a scintilla of doubt that McConnell did the nation a great favor, that doubt should have been put to rest on June 15, 2021.
On that date, Garland delivered an address on “violent extremism and domestic terrorism” that reflects an ongoing weaponization of federal law enforcement and national security apparatuses in a war not just on people who pose a credible and actionable threat of violence, but on people who pose an ideological threat.
Garland made clear that he was leading an all-government effort:
I am very happy to be in the Great Hall today with representatives of the FBI, the ATF, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys; and with representatives of the National Security Division, Civil Rights Division, the Criminal Division, and the Office of Justice Programs.
I am pleased to announce that the Administration is today releasing the first National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. Each of your components will play an important role in ensuring its success.
The National Strategy is designed to coordinate and provide a principled path for the federal government’s efforts to counter the heightened domestic terrorism threat, using all available tools. It is the culmination of an effort undertaken at the President’s direction by federal agencies all across the government – from the Justice Department to the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State, Health and Human Services, and others.
Garland focused on reaching beyond crimes: “We must not only bring our federal resources to bear; we must adopt a broader, societal response to tackle the problem’s deeper roots.” Garland gave lip service to non-politicization of this effort: “espousing a hateful ideology is not unlawful. We do not investigate individuals for their First Amendment-protected activities.”
But the remainder of the speech suggested that promise would not be honored, including by enlisting Big Tech, which has well-documented ideological bias, in the effort:
The FBI reports that roughly 50 percent of our cases originate from tips and leads from law enforcement or private sector partners and private citizens, who identify potential threats and report them to the FBI or our partners.
Creating and maintaining an environment in which individuals, community groups, and others continue to come to us depends on the extent to which we can continue to merit their trust. This includes making sure that our determinations are made free from bias. So that, too, must be part of our long-term approach.
Equally important is our work with private industry and with international partners. The National Strategy emphasizes that the government should continue to enhance the domestic terrorism-related information it offers to the private sector.
The technology sector is particularly important to countering terrorist abuse of internet-based communication platforms to recruit, incite, plot attacks, and foment hatred.
Did you catch that? “Foment hatred.” Wait, didn’t he just say earlier in the speech that “hateful ideology” would not be the focus? To quote a great sage, “I’ll let you ban hate speech if you’ll let me define hate speech.” The government and Big Tech will be defining “fomenting hatred” in this all-government effort.
It’s pretty clear what is going on here. Team Obama, which weaponized the IRS against political enemies, is running the show, and the guy they wanted on the Supreme Court now is leading the charge at DOJ. Garland is a functionary in this regard, anyone Biden nominated for Attorney General would do the same. But we are much better off grappling with Merrick Garland as Attorney General for a few years, than with Merrick Garland for life on the Supreme Court. We don’t need a functionary on the Supreme Court.
This all-government effort will be abused, count on it. “Fomenting hatred” will be defined to include lawful non-leftist political opposition (as it already is on campuses). The ideological purge will make Lois Lerner blush.DONATE
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Friday, November 27, 2009
sailing it forward, the animal came near the round woofed willow
hut, bees stabbing along the pollen-knuckled dome;
The animal curved to the place that breathed apart, on its own
its breath circling it like a moon
and lodged itself in the deep water of wintered-over leaves
where an ear scouted, spinning the leaves with a throaty blue light.
The animal came plumed and choired with night.
(From the poem “Quiet, Quiet”, Tim Lilburn, Killsite 2006)
At one time I had a theory about the complexities of Tim Lilburn’s poetry. He had erected what I impressively described to myself as an “internally referential” system of language and thought, a way of writing that suppresses direct reference to the objective world, lacks any obvious narrative or thematic thread and as a result creates an opaque mask through which the reader is at great pains to penetrate. The reader’s job is to break the poet’s code, by recognizing distinctive symbolic and syntactic strategies used to convey meaning.
Nice theory, but it never really helped me get down to what an actual Lilburn poem was about. So I eventually adopted other approaches for uncoiling the mystery. Like reading his work aloud and discovering its surprising musicality, but still uncertain about its meaning. Like presenting a Lilburn poem to my reading group, only to find that others seemed equally mystified. I read his earlier poems, examined his earliest sources like the 4th century monk Evagrius and worried over Jesuitical concepts such as acsesis (discipline), sophrosyne (temperance) and noesis (cognition).
None of it mattered. None of it helped – and then suddenly I found myself, unaccountably, back where it all begins, back to Plato - or at least to Tim Lilburn’s re-working of Plato in his book of essays Going Home. Understand, this is not the Plato we commonly encountered in our first year of university philosophy. Socrates is no longer just the sweet old man patiently guiding handsome young boys to ineluctable truths about the physical world and ideas. A different game is afoot according to Lilburn. In that highly stylized, mythological fashion that we both respond to and resist as modern readers, Socrates and his young charge, Phaedrus, set out on a journey to discover nothing less than the character of the soul:
“The wings of the soul – all of the soul is winged – are what is most divine about it and, thus, divine things –wisdom, beauty, goodness – cause them to strengthen; foul, ugly things atrophy them.”
The soul ascends “to the banquet at the rim of heaven” where it sees, but cannot partake of, “views of justice, interior order, knowledge – contemplative clarities `of what really is that is’”. The ascent of the soul, symbolized as the heavier, more unruly of two winged horses, is followed by the inevitable fall and loss of wings. The soul’s wings may grow again, so goes the story, but only as a “philosopher’s mind grows wings because in memory it keeps close to what it has seen.”
Here’s where the light goes on for me. Not coincidentally it’s also where Lilburn is at his most poetic (at least in prose) and his most illuminating. “Phaedrus and Socrates," he writes, “sit on the riverbank in the heat of the afternoon, talking, talking. The day is hot; the stream is cool.” Let that image sink in a little bit. See those two sweet souls sharing a moment made up entirely of contrasts, the heat and cool of their thoughts meandering like a stream from one consciousness into the other. What are they talking about? They’re talking about, replies Lilburn, the only thing the winged soul has managed to wrest from the banquet at the rim of heaven:
“Beauty is one of the radiant things the soul saw as its head momentarily lifted above the high rim before it was yanked downward by the team it could never control, that had never stopped pulling, before it was shouldered aside by other enthusiastic souls keen to see `that blessed and spectacular vision’ in the hectic, noisy moment of rapturous insight: feathers broke off in the melee and forgetting immediately began.”
For the first time I recognize an agony, an agony of desire there on the banks of a river shared by one old man and one very young man, an agony intense enough to match the torn, tumultuous struggle in Lilburn’s poetry. Beauty, now the charge of Philosophy, “is the only one of the ultimate things that still comes through to human beings.” It becomes available through “apokatastatic” or restorative remembering, through something Lilburn later calls “an erotic enterprise” that grows “at least, in part, from an experience of poverty”, the poverty of our human understanding. “Want to understand me?” I hear Lilburn saying. “Then first acknowledge this poverty and how it belongs to us both.” Know above all that this poverty is mirrored in all good writing, writing which, like philosophy, is characterized by what it does not know and has yet to learn, driven by desire to know. Writing “that takes itself as unparalleled achievements,” says Lilburn, "truncates desire.”
Lilburn’s activities as a poet and philosopher meet here, informing one another; in fact, one can hardly comprehend his poetry without understanding and appreciating his philosophic mind’s search for truth, just as his philosophy searches for its living body in his poetry. But to understand Lilburn is to understand that neither poetry nor philosophy commands his entire allegiance.
Instead, Lilburn is preoccupied by something larger and deeper: to recapture the western contemplative tradition through a reconsideration of desire as a critical and underlying human impetus for everything: for social and political organization, philosophic positioning and finally for poetic art - in contrast to the rational foundation upon which our civilization is commonly believed to rest. What this might mean for poetry is intriguing. What it might mean for us as human beings might very well speak to our survival as a species or at the very least to how we prioritize the competing interests of our hearts and minds and ultimately their mutually dependent well-being.
But I keep coming back to that moment on the riverbank where Socrates and Phaedrus sit. And I seem to have found an answer - in my desire to grasp the complexities and explorations of a beautiful mind. I am made “permeable”, as Lilburn might put it, by the poetic experience, while remaining hopeful that eventually I am better able to grasp, in a way that Phaedrus was not, the intent of that mind and its direction, to know better what it means to say.
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“We regularly review the structure of our teams and make adjustments based on the needs of the business and, following a recent review, we’ve made the difficult decision to eliminate a small number of roles on our Buy with Prime team,” an Amazon spokesperson wrote in an email to TechCrunch.
Amazon laid off 30 employees, or fewer than 5% of staff, CNBC reported on Thursday. The affected workers will receive at least 60 days of pay and benefits, the outlet wrote, as well as assistance from Amazon to help them find new positions within the company.
Launched in 2022, Buy with Prime is a service that enables third-party merchants to offer Prime benefits like free shipping and returns. The company introduced new features last year, allowing customers to track orders through Amazon’s website and mobile app and live chat with customer service. Buy with Prime expanded its availability in early 2023, adding more U.S. brands like BigCommerce and Sustainable Glam.
“Buy with Prime is a top priority for Amazon, with strong adoption from merchants and positive feedback from customers, and we will continue investing significant resources in Buy with Prime to build on that momentum. We’re grateful to these employees for their contributions, and we’re focused on supporting them in their next steps,” the spokesperson added.
Earlier this month, Amazon laid off 500 Twitch workers and hundreds of employees at Prime Video and MGM Studios. The company had the most layoffs in its history over the past two years, cutting 27,000 roles or 8% of its corporate workforce.

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Looks like Malaysia has just gotten itself another contestant in the LTE broadband game. TM has decided to throw its hat into the LTE ring with their new TMGo 4G service that runs on the 850Mhz LTE spectrum and will be delivering speeds up to 20Mbps.
TMGo is being offered as a prepaid service so to get yourself some of its wireless broadband goodness, you’ll have to get yourself a device starter pack, which will then need to be topped up based on your usage requirement. There are two device options available with both using a SIM card – a USB mobile adapter for a single user option and a MiFi hotspot router for a multiple user and more mobile option. So how much will they cost? The USB Mobile adapter starter pack will cost you RM115 while the MiFi router starter pack will be RM315 and both options will start you off with 2GB of data over a 30 day period. And to sweeten the deal, TM is also throwing in an additional 500MB for the next 6 months, as long as you keep an active subscription.
That’s of course the starting up price, once your initial 30 days of 2GB data is up, you have three price options to continue your subscription – RM10, RM30 and RM50. The minimum RM10 option gives you a 7 day validity with 1GB of data while the RM30 option gives you 30 days with 3.5GB, and to top it all of, the RM50 option gives you 60 days validity with 6GB of data. TM’s sweetening the subscription deal even more by offering bonus data availability if you take the RM30 or RM50 option. You’ll get 500MB and 1GB of data for the RM30 and RM50 options respectively. Now considering the total data quotas you’re getting for their highest subscription option (7.5GB at least for the next six months) that works out to around RM7/GB which is pretty competitive.
Can’t wait to get your hands on TMGo? Well its already available for sign-up but there’s a slight catch though. Surprisingly, the first areas for roll out isn’t the Klang Valley as you’d typically expect. Instead, lucky Kedahan and Melakans will be the first Malaysians to get their hands on TM’s new wireless broadband services. And that’s not the entirety of the two states either as only certain areas will be getting its coverage (refer below). Of course, TM will also be rolling out the service to other parts of Malaysia in the coming months, so just be patient.


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|Reviews for True Mates REBOOT|
| asia.joanna.7334 chapter 11 . 10/9
Omg this is so good.I like sooooo! :)) Omg, omg, omg you have to update soon please,I hope you update really soon. I can't wait to see where you go from here. I beg of you please, maybe some time today. Plz, I will die.
| juliet709 chapter 11 . 9/26
loved this. nice to see a totally different pairing. hope to see an update on this soon as it is shaping up to be a wonderful story.
| Brookie Twiling chapter 11 . 9/8
First, poor you, dealing with a 3-year-old boy; something my brother has to look forward to! Second, I do hope you finish this story someday, it's quite intriguing and I must say I would love to see more of Benjamin and Bella's relationship and how they work together, as well as seeing what those dickless pansies come up with next.
Great story! Really enjoying it!
| Guest chapter 11 . 9/1
please update very soon i would like to know what happnes with Bella and Ben and what the Cullens have to say for themsevles
| Ncovell chapter 11 . 6/23
Please update this story soon I love it so much and I can't wait to see what happens next
| bellislefan chapter 11 . 5/24
so jake isn't the "obsessed with bella" git he is in the books? good. how much of a pain are dumbcoppertop and dumberslut going to be ?
| katiepyros31895 chapter 11 . 4/11
please update soon
| maddypaddy30 chapter 11 . 4/5
| EmiArusima chapter 11 . 2/21
Do you knowwhen you will updatethis story ? please
| B4bidden Products chapter 11 . 12/17/2016
Dam! this is my 1st Ben and Bella story that I have ever read I think. it is absolutely amazing! PLS pls please continue it
| Rayne Arianna Maranochi chapter 11 . 11/8/2016
This has to be continued, it's so good, and I love how it's playing out. I can't wait for more chapters, pleas tell me this isn't discontinued?
| AEK chapter 1 . 11/5/2016
| dawn.schlimpf chapter 11 . 10/18/2016
Please update very very soon thank you
| kitsunlover chapter 11 . 10/15/2016
okay just refound this can't wait to see what happens next
| Tarrasen.Sun chapter 11 . 9/27/2016
I hope to eventually see this finished! This is truly a unique story, I love it!


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Centrally located in Swakopmund, Desert Villa Guesthouse offers a 24-hour front desk and a garden. It is 50 metres away from the Namib Desert and 7 minues' walk from Palm Beach.
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|Located in Swakopmund, Be-Still Accommodation offers en-suite accommodation with free WiFi access throughout and on-site private parking free of charge.||
Located along the Atlantic coast within a 15 minutes’ walk from Palm Beach, Hansa Hotel Swakopmund features two restaurants, a bar and terrace. It has a garden and offers free WiFi in all areas.
Score from 37 reviews Very good
The quiet Namib Guesthouse is 10 minutes’ walk from the beach and Swakop River. Located in Swakopmund, it provides rooms with free Wi-Fi and plasma TVs. Shopping centres are nearby.
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Breakfast only served till 09h00
We liked the location which was only a short taxi ride from the town and restaurants, also the sound of the sea at night, only wish we could have stayed longer.
The wind down the corridor of our room.
The rooms are luxurious and cosy. The rest of the facilities is also excellent. The breakfast delicious and rich. The stuff friendly and helpful.
Nothing not to like. Only that I had to stay only for one night!
spacious comfortable sittingroom and bedroom.
Breakfast was terrible ! Very dry bacon and boerewors everyday. Are there no sausages ?
The setting and overall experience was rememberable !
First night we were advised to have dinner in town without booking before hand. We ended up going from one restaurant to the next and in the end had dinner in the Hansa Hotel.
We loved the room, location, facilities and amenities at the guesthouse. General staff were very friendly and helpful overall.
Kitchen staff seems to be all over each other and not sure who is doing what. We were served cold tea and cold food apart from the cooked eggs. A tip perhaps: when customers order take away food, please provide knifes, forks and plates with the delivered food or else ask take away companies to provide plastic cutlery at least.
Shower tap broken and no hot water.
excellent and exited staff who are proud to take you on a guided tour and explain everything The happiness of staff told that a very good vibe exists ,which made us feel like "one of the family" Thank You we will make use of your facility when we are in the area and recommend to friends
to leave the following morning and not staying over for another night !
I like the shower and the music. And the rest whas very good. Thank You have a nice day.
Very clean and comfortable.
The room is right outside the large restaurant area where they host large conference groups and is quite noisy.
The friendliness and help from all staff from booking in to departing. Excellent.
A small problem - handrails for us older generation.
the bed was very comfortable, views were great and staff very helpful
that there was no wifi in the rooms
The staff were exceptionally helpful - Even ideas for us tourists. The room was terrific, everything in the room was most comfortable! Thank You for a lovely stay!
The view from the balcony over the ocean was amazing.
There where no freezer in the room too cool my beer and other stuff.
Staff were exceptional at making us comfortable
A bit out of the way - needing to travel into town each day
Rooms well appointed.
In spite of prior booking only one of the 3 rooms were sea facing. One of the rooms had virtually no ventilation and should not be used to house guests. This was very disappointing. On request the staff were not prepared to move us to a better room.
Comments from all our staff was positive and we will in future book the venue
Friendly staff, great rooms
The view as well as room decor.
The bathrooms lack enough privacy in our opinion.
Comfortable rooms, excellent breakfast and friendly staff. Nice view of the ocean - though it's not right on the beach. Very comfy and large bed. The style of the hotel is luxurious but a bit impersonal, which fits its main purpose of being a conference facility.
The hotel is about 10-15 minutes by car from the centre of Swakopmund. It's in a half-empty residential area outside the city, so it feels a bit isolated.
Neat and clean rooms. Very good value for money!
They dont have phones in the rooms,which is bad,cause each time u need help from reception u need to go there, they also have no restaurant for lunch in case the guest dont want t go to any restaurant for lunch or dinner at city!!
Nice location just outside of town with a view of the ocean & beach. Staff were very accommodating and helpful.
My stay at Atlantic was absolutely beautiful, the service was excellent, the staff was friendly, the breakfast was great and the rooms were fantastic.. Felt like I was in a 5 Star Boutique Hotel. A big thank you to Landi, for making our stay so pleasant. her friendly and helpful personality made dealing with her a pleasure.. Thank you for going out of your way by not only arranging a xmas dinner for us but for making our anniversary special.

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday promised that issues raised in the CAG report over coal block allocation would not be “swept under the carpet” and necessary “corrective action” will be taken even as he lashed out at BJP for pursuing obstructionist politics.
He said the CAG, in its report on coal block allocation, has “rightly or wrongly” made certain allegations about public functionaries and the government was ready to discuss these in Parliament and Public Accounts Committee.
“I assure all of you that the issues raised in the CAG report are not being swept under the carpet. They will be discussed in Parliament as they should be. Whatever corrective action is necessary will be taken,” Dr. Singh said in his ‘message to the nation’ soon after the turmoil-ridden Monsoon Session of came to an end.
“The CAG report on coal block allocation should have been discussed in Parliament and Public Accounts Committee but the Opposition chose to cause disruptions,” he said.
The CAG report had criticised allocation of coal blocks instead of auctioning them during 2005 and 2009 and felt that it could have accrued benefits to the tune of Rs 1.86 lakh crore to private firms.
Unhappy over wastage of the Parliament session, Dr. Singh said obstructionist politics amounts to “total negation” of democracy and is hurting efforts to revive growth besides weakening the country.
He asked “all right minded Indians to stand up and unite against the forces of anarchy and disruption” to secure the foundations of hard earned democratic and Constitutional rights”, warning that politics of disruption would be a “grave violation” of democracy and could lead to “deeply divided and disenchanted” country.
Noting that the country is faced with several challenges on security and economic front, Dr. Singh said the government can rebuild growth momentum but is “constantly distracted by the actions of those who prefer obstruction over discussion“.
The Prime Minister said, “We have great respect for the institution of CAG but if we do respect this institution, we must be willing to debate its finding in PAC or even on the floor of Parliament which we have always been willing.”
He said the institution of CAG would be strengthened only by taking its reports seriously enough to discuss them in the PAC and in the House.
“PAC reports deal with complex issues on which there can be different points of view and all these must be heard fully before rushing to judgement. We do not strengthen the CAG as an institution by using its reports to prevent discussion and cause disruption,” Dr. Singh said.
Attacking BJP without naming it, he said, “The Opposition chose not to take advantage of the subtle institutional practices dealing with the reports of CAG and insisted on disrupting Parliament. This is negation of democracy.”
He warned that “If this thought process is allowed to gain momentum it will be a grave violation of Parliamentary politics as we have understood.”
Hitting out at BJP for disallowing functioning of Parliament by pressing for his resignation, Dr. Singh said, “The Opposition chose not to take advantage of the subtle institutional practices dealing with the reports of CAG and insisted on disrupting Parliament. This is negation of democracy.”
The Prime Minister asked “countrymen and countrywomen to make up their mind if this is the right way” to serve the functioning democracy.
“We take pride in the fact that since Independence, we have been a practising and functioning democracy. What we have witnessed in this session is a total negation of that,” he said.
He said, “those who follow this path (of disruption) detract from India’s prestige as the world’s largest Parliamentary democracy. They are unwittingly only serving the ends of those who want to weaken the country and discredit its institutions.”

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Heat medium fry pan over high heat until very hot. Add diced red pepper and corn. Sear without stirring until beginning to char. Stir once and let char a bit more. Remove from heat and add to a bowl. Add remaining salsa ingredients to the bowl. Stir until well mixed. Adjust seasoning to taste. Set aside. Can be prepared a day ahead. Southwest Dressing: Place all ingredients for dressing in a blender. Puree until very smooth. Adjust seasoning to taste. Pour 1/2 of dressing into a squeeze bottle. Set aside. Freeze or refrigerate other 1/2 of dressing for future use. Can be prepared a day ahead.
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Preheat warming oven to 200 degrees. Note 1: Regular flour can be used for the recipe, but we use rice flour so that gluten free guests may enjoy the dish. Note 2: Unused, cooked patties can be cooled and frozen for future use. Thaw and reheat in oven on a grate over a cookie sheet. Note 3: We also serve this as an optional side starch that same day for guests choosing the sweet breakfast option. In a food processor with a medium shredding disc, process sweet potatoes and onion. Transfer to a large mixing bowl. Add eggs, flour, baking powder, salt, pepper and curry powder to potato and onion mixture. Mix thoroughly by hand. Heat oil over medium heat in a large (preferably cast iron) fry pan until hot. Work in batches. Take ~1/3 cup of mixture and form into a patty, about 3 inches in diameter and gently place in hot oil. We use a 3 inch cookie disk to help keep the shape. Gently add 3 or 4 more to pan. Fry 3 to 4 minutes until golden, using care to not burn. Gently flip and fry another 2-3 minutes. Remove to a grate on a cookie sheet and place in warming oven. Prepare remaining hash brown patties and place in warming oven. The following assembly instructions are for a single serving. We don't have fixed seating times, so we prepare this on demand when guests arrive for breakfast.
Note: Many guests ask "what is a basted egg?" I tell them it's the best of both worlds - a fried egg on the bottom and a poached egg on top. Any egg prep method (fried, poached, scrambled) can be used for this, but we prefer the basted method. Often times, it's a conversation starter with the guests. Heat 1/2 teaspoon butter in an omelet pan over medium heat until melted and slightly bubbly. Break two eggs into a ramekin or similar small bowl, then gently pour into heated omelet pan. Wait until the spreading egg whites start to solidify around the edges and base, then add one teaspoon of water to the pan. Immediately cover with a clear lid. The water creates a steam that poaches the top of the egg while the bottom fries. For runny yolks, cook until the yolk just hazes over and all the egg whites around the yolk are cooked, about 2-3 minutes total. Cook covered 30 seconds longer for medium and 90 seconds or so longer for hard yolks. Final assembly: Grab a small handful of arugula and small handful of baby spinach and place together in a mixing bowl. Add 1-2 teaspoons of dressing and mix thoroughly. Greens should be moist, but not dripping with the dressing. Plate the greens. Top the greens with one hash brown. Add the basted eggs over the hash brown. Top the eggs with one to two tablespoons of salsa. Serve hot. Five minutes later, go visit the guests and hear the "Ooohs" and "Aaahs".
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Hi guys. I’ve been a little absent lately. Free time isn’t something I can really enjoy myself in terms of brawl hacking these days.
Also, I’ve been working on stage fixing and even stage making for the recent ProjectM demo. One of the stages I’ve made to be used in that demo is my own version of the Metal Mario stage in SSB64.
Yeah, this stage was already in the vault… at least 3 times. But I’ve always wanted to make my own one, and I felt this was the moment, specially due to the ability to give the stage a real metal effect. It comes in 2 versions, the standard one, and a smaller one, fitting the size that had one of the old versions in the vault, used in ProjectM prior to the demo.
I’ve also included the ProjectM version in a separate folder, which is smaller than the standard one, and bigger than the small one. Get the one you want, unless you don’t want it, or you already use it in said demo.
Now, the other item in the title. I’ve made a new tool called GCT Analyzer. You may have used ChiboSempai’s GCTEdit, which opens txt and gct files, and allows to edit them and stuff. This GCT Analyzer is similar, only that doesn’t open txt files, but only gct’s.
The tool looks the entire file, identifies some of the codes (not all of them, the database has to keep growing), and lists them. If some code isn’t identified, it’s put together as an ‘unknown code’. You can select the codes in the list and preview them in txt format.
Why could be this tool interesting? You may have not compiled the gct you’re using. It may have some codes you don’t want to use, but it is harder to find all the codes and compile them yourself. The tool allows you to remove codes from your gct. It also allows you to include new codes (from other gct files) and export your codes as individual gct files. Those individual gct files can be stored, and fused afterwards, with GCT Analyzer or even GCT Fusionizer.
Basically, it’s meant to help you to customize your codes. You can’t edit them in the program, that’s the bad thing. But once splitted, you can use tools like GCTEdit to edit them quickly.
Anyway, people aren’t usually editing codes, but using them. And editable codes like the ASL or the custom SSS are already covered by other tools.
So this is it. Keep always a copy of your gct before using the tool (it isn’t perfect and may fail). Also, some codes may not be found. If you know of a code that should be listed, and isn’t, just report me the issue via private message and I’ll add it to the internal database.
As a final note, I’ve done some stage skins for the ProjectM demo. These are 2 of them:
For those willing to make ProjectM demo skins for stages, in order to avoid problems, please be sure they’re not desynching on wifi and replays. Some stages in the ProjectM pack may look like the original Brawl ones, but they have some edits that make them different. So be sure you’re editing a stage in the pack, not an original Brawl one, not only for not desynching, but for keeping the same visual experience.
That’s all. Next time, Temple of Time, or Fire Temple, or whatever, who knows xD
EDIT: I’ve updated the tool, now the changes in the codes (text format) can be put back into the gct file. This allows you to add codes that you have in text format only too.

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Geranium pratense 'Mrs. Kendall Clark'
Kendall's Meadow Cranesbill
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WHITSUNDAY Coast Airport (WCA) was voted ‘Best Large Regional Airport’ at the Australian Airports Association Annual Awards, in Adelaide, on Thursday, November 17.
And it is officially the fastest growing regional airport in Australia.
Whitsunday Regional Council Mayor Julie Hall said it was wonderful recognition for the hard work of the amazing WCA team, led by Chief Operating Officer Aviation and Tourism, Craig Turner, who was at the awards to receive the ‘Best Large Regional Airport’ gong.
“It is significant to point out that our airport previously won the Best Large Regional Airport, in 2018, so to have shown our resilience and bounced back so quickly after the COVID pandemic is a credit to Craig and his team,” Mayor Hall said.
“The flow-on economic benefits to our region’s tourism industry and business stakeholders in Airlie Beach, Bowen, Proserpine, Collinsville, and other areas is huge.”
Chief Operating Officer Aviation and Tourism Craig Turner said the award was ‘just reward’ for the resilience and hard work of his team to navigate the airport through the COVID era and emerge the other side bigger, better, and stronger.
“Our awards entry was entitled ‘Navigating Through and Prospering in a COVID World’ and highlighted how critical our airport is to the success of the Whitsunday region for our industry and business stakeholders,” Mr Turner said.
“We have hit over 220 flights monthly, which means more bums on seats, bodies in beds and visitors exploring our region, and a major reason the Whitsundays is one of Australia’s most popular tourism destinations.
”Our weekly flight numbers now are greater than pre-COVID and the most flights we’ve ever had in the 70-year history of the airport.
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“It’s stomach-turning to see this barbaric federal program wiping out hundreds of thousands of native animals,” said Collette Adkins, carnivore conservation director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Killing carnivores like wolves and coyotes to supposedly benefit the livestock industry just leads to more conflicts and more killing.
The operation of a high-energy nuclear power plant has, in effect, transformed a Central Coast ocean environment into a habitat more commonly found in Southern California. Multiple scientists have spent lifetimes studying the cove and documenting how the native cold-water fish and algae largely died off and were replaced by more-temperate species that can tolerate the balmy ocean.
In recent decades, PFAS exposure has been linked to a growing list of health problems, including immune system suppression, lower birth weight and increased risk for some cancers.
The way out of this bind would also appear obvious and urgent. By accelerating our transition to cheap and abundant renewable fuels, we can address two grave threats to the planet at once: the climate-warming, air-polluting menace of hydrocarbons and the dictators who rule their supply.
Startlingly large amounts of methane are leaking from wells and pipelines in New Mexico, according to a new analysis of aerial data, suggesting that the oil and gas industry may be contributing more to climate change than was previously known.
As climate breakdown takes hold, more people are likely to be affected by extreme weather, including flash floods, heatwaves, more violent storms and coastal storm surges, made worse by sea level rises.
Floridians are almost out of time to save the last of the state’s native habitat – only about 15% remains. Conservation efforts have significant bipartisan support in Florida, but are up against a tsunami of housing development. One million people move to Florida every three years.
Deforestation has devastating impacts on biodiversity, food security, and global heating. A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)warned about catastrophic consequences humanity faces with rising temperatures.
But disaster struck in December. The couple learned the farm’s previous owner had decades earlier used PFAS-tainted sewage sludge, or “biosolids”, as fertilizer on Songbird’s fields. Testing revealed their soil, drinking water, irrigation water, crops, chickens and blood were contaminated with high levels of the toxic chemicals.
“In the positive situations, the calls are far shorter, with minor fluctuations in amplitude. Grunts, more specifically, begin high and gradually go lower in frequency.
Alaina Wood is well aware that, planetarily speaking, things aren’t looking so great. She’s read the dire climate reports, tracked cataclysmic weather events and gone through more than a few dark nights of the soul. She is also part of a growing cadre of people, many of them young, who are fighting climate doomism, the notion that it’s too late to turn things around. They believe that focusing solely on terrible climate news can sow dread and paralysis, foster inaction, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. With the war in Ukraine prompting a push for ramped up production of fossil fuels, they say it’s ever more pressing to concentrate on all the good climate work, especially locally, that is being done.
In 2020, a forest fire near the reactor caused radiation levels to spike to 16 times above normal. The conflagration was extinguished after a two-week effort by firefighters, with a man arrested for allegedly starting the fire “for fun”. Climate scientists have pointed out that such potential disasters are partially a symptom of global heating, with rising temperatures causing forests to dry out and become more suitable fuel for fire.
Alaina Wood is well aware that, planetarily speaking, things aren’t looking so great. She’s read the dire climate reports, tracked cataclysmic weather events and gone through more than a few dark nights of the soul. She is also part of a growing cadre of people, many of them young, who are fighting climate doomism, the notion that it’s too late to turn things around. They believe that focusing solely on terrible climate news can sow dread and paralysis, foster inaction, and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
“The fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine risks upending global food and energy markets, with major implications for the global climate agenda. As major economies pursue an ‘all-of-the-above’ strategy to replace Russian fossil fuels, short-term measures might create long-term fossil fuel dependence and close the window to 1.5C,” he warned, in a video address to a conference on sustainability run by the Economist newspaper in London on Monday.
Indeed the team say the new findings add weight to the idea that human language evolved gradually, with communication among our ape-like ancestors likely also influenced by social factors.
Countries are “sleepwalking to climate catastrophe” if they continue to rely on fossil fuels, and nations racing to replace Russian oil, gas and coal with their own dirty energy are making matters worse, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres warned on Monday.
Every day, millions of homes and thousands of businesses receive more than 15 billion gallons of natural gas, on average, from the nation’s largest gas utility, Southern California Gas Co. Families use the planet-warming fuel to stay warm in the winter and cook dinner on gas stoves. Power plants burn it to generate electricity that powers air conditioners on hot summer days.
The danger is twofold: heatwaves at the poles are a strong signal of the damage humanity is wreaking on the climate; and the melting could also trigger further cascading changes that will accelerate climate breakdow
The push is largely coming from investors themselves, who are increasingly keen to know how climate change might impact the businesses they fund. The White House also wants to address climate-related financial risk. President Biden issued an executive order last year pushing the federal government to help identify the risks posed by climate change.
Climate scientists, oil executives, progressives and conservatives all agree on one thing these days: The energy transition is upon us. The uninhibited burning of fossil fuels for more than a century has already warmed the planet significantly, and cleaner and more sustainable sources of power are urgently needed in order to avoid further catastrophic changes to the environment. But even as longtime adversaries use the same terminology, calling in unison for an “energy transition,” they are often talking about starkly different scenarios.
Both Greenpeace USA and the Sunrise Movement are calling for Biden to declare a climate emergency and use the Defense Production Act, which allows the federal government to commandeer manufacturing operations under emergency circumstances, to expedite the transition to renewable energy.
Light pointed to “decades of research” that has found no safe levels of benzene exposure because it’s so toxic at very low levels. The petroleum-based chemical “causes cancer”, especially leukemia and in blood forming organs, the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote. The toxin has also been shown to harm the central nervous system and reproductive organs. The US banned benzene’s use as an ingredient nearly 45 years ago, and it is “somewhat unique in that it’s pretty well established to be incredibly toxic – that’s been known for decades to over a century,” said David Andrews, senior scientist at the public health advocate Environmental Working Group.
At the urging of environmental groups, Democrats are going on the offensive on gas prices — hitting energy companies with a populist message that puts the party squarely at odds with Republicans and the oil industry. To do otherwise would be “dangerous and political malpractice,” Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster, argued in a memo published on Thursday.
While this ingenuity demonstrates the cephalopods’ intelligence and “extreme ability to adapt,” Proietti stressed that “it is not a good thing to think that the animals may be using litter as shelter because the seashells are gone.”
Homes in the area were built in the 1970s and 1980s and marketed to Black, low- and middle-income residents who weren’t told that the site was a one-time landfill. As awareness grew and environmentalists raised concerns, the area was named a federal Superfund cleanup site in 1994. Amid reports that the soil was contaminated with lead and carcinogens, including arsenic, residents began a decades-long effort to be relocated at government expense.
Since 2016, more than 50,000 structures in California have been destroyed by wildfire. During fire season in the West, when the sky is dim with smoke and the sun’s an eerie red, you might find yourself breathing in tiny carbonized particles of what used to be someone’s front-porch swing. These fires are only going to get worse as the climate warms. Unless we want to keep risking lives and inhaling incinerated dreams, something has to change.
Last fall, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) took out a full-page ad in The New York Times declaring that the U.S. “produces the most sustainable beef in the world” and that “cattle play an important role in protecting and enhancing our ecosystems.” Why was the nation’s beef trade group spending some of its $66.5 million budget to promote this climate-forward message? Because the conversation about the climate crisis has been heating up (pun intended) and policy makers increasingly connect food production, particularly meat and dairy, with the crisis—and rightfully so.
Long before most of the emergency rooms were overloaded, it was the food system that showed the first signs of the enormous impact the pandemic would have. Empty shelves at the supermarket. Closed restaurants. Farmers dumping milk out into their fields or euthanizing animals as meat processing plants became overwhelmed or shut down. And it wasn’t just farmers or the restaurant owners or the agricultural industry that suffered: hunger spiked across the country. Food insecurity in the US increased from 11% to 15% during the pandemic, with at least 60 million Americans visiting a food bank during 2020, an increase of 50% from the year before.
In April 2020, while Covid-19 spread around the country, and millions of people were sheltering at home, Shay Meyers, the CEO of Owyhee Produce, one of the largest onion growers in the US, asked his workers to bury thousands of pounds of onions.
Almost all the infrastructure in Quintana Roo state is concentrated in a coastal ribbon of beach resorts and timeshare properties, especially from Tulum to Cancún, about 80 miles (130km) to the north. Air-conditioned white minivans filled with tourists buzz over hot asphalt as palms stand by on parade. But this land is in a perilous position.
Officials announced in 2019 that the transit agency would allow the public to acquire the 22-ton cars, as BART slowly replaces more than 650 of them with the new Bombardier fleet. BART released a news story on Feb. 10 detailing the “winners” of the odd sweepstakes contest, who only have to pay to move the cars and upgrade them — at a minimum cost of about $8,000.
Granholm said the Biden administration wants to act as a partner with the oil industry to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy, even as some in the fossil fuel industry have chafed at Biden's climate policies. “We have to still reckon with the impact of climate change. We can walk and chew gum at the same time," she said, adding that "to be on the right side of history, we have to work together.”
Britain said Tuesday that it would phase out Russian oil imports by the end of the year, and other European countries — far more dependent than the United States on those supplies — are under pressure to take similar action. International banks, shippers and insurance companies are balking at deals with Russia. BP, Shell and Exxon Mobil have decided to suspend big operations there.
“I started to think about the parallels between climate change and this war and it’s clear that the roots of both these threats to humanity are found in fossil fuels,” said Krakovska.
If it goes through, it could significantly blunt one of the Kremlin’s most formidable economic weapons: piped gas to heat and power the continent. It also raises an uncomfortable question: Why did it take a full-blown attack on civilians to speed up climate action?
But while states such as Connecticut and New Jersey have enacted some curbs on neonicotinoids, the US federal government is set to bend to pressure from farming groups and pesticide makers to perpetuate their use nationally.
Heavy exposure is known to cause serious and sometimes fatal organ damage, including killing off brain cells. But what became clear by the 1970s is that there is no safe level of lead exposure, and even exposure to low but chronic levels of lead can still be dangerous, especially to the developing brains of children. Aside from cognitive loss, other research has suggested that lead can affect people’s behavior, and there is even some evidence that higher exposure in past decades may have increased crime rates on a national level.
The city of Los Angeles is suing Monsanto and two other companies for past and future costs of dealing with contamination of waterways by long-banned chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, the city attorney announced Monday.
HIGHLAND, Calif. — When California declared the San Bernardino kangaroo rat an endangered species recently, conservationists rejoiced. The state designation seemed to promise stronger protections for the tiny, seed-munching rodent.
SACRAMENTO, CA – In response to increasing concern about pervasive and persistent pollution caused by microplastics, the California Ocean Protection Council yesterday approved the first comprehensive microplastics strategy in the nation. This leading-edge Statewide Microplastics Strategy identifies early actions and research priorities to reduce microplastic pollution in California’s marine environment. Worldwide, an estimated 11 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean each year. Without any intervention, this amount is anticipated to triple by 2040. Over time, plastics break down in aquatic environments into pieces of ever-decreasing size, with those less than 5 mm in size known as “microplastics,” which are easily ingested by ocean life, causing harm such as tissue inflammation, impaired growth, developmental abnormalities and reproductive complications.
“ Aside from all-out nuclear war, nuclear plant meltdowns pose the greatest risk of radiation exposure. An international expert panel is urgently needed to develop rules protecting nuclear plants during warfare. We can’t just hope we’ll be so lucky next time; this is a game of Russian roulette the world can’t afford to play!” - Christie Brinkley
The problem is the planet’s population of whales is now only 5% of its estimated level 400 years ago, whaling having taken a terrible toll on the world’s largest marine mammals.
While the idea of earthworms or bacteria having personalities might seem a stretch, it’s clear that more complex animals, including wolves, bears, dolphins, whales and many birds, have highly developed personalities that mirror human traits.
Before it became a conflict zone, the Donbas has long been Ukraine’s coal country, and the earth is riddled with hundreds of miles of tunnels underneath cities, factories, and farms, many of them abandoned. Recently, those shafts have been flooding, causing the surface to shift and carrying toxic chemicals that now threaten the region’s water supply. One of those mines, the site of a nuclear test in the 1970s, remains potentially radioactive. Ukrainian scientists have warned that the risks to the region could be “more deep and dangerous than Chernobyl.
Ultimately, solving the problem of plastic waste requires that companies produce and use less plastic, experts said. Single-use plastics like bags and takeout containers — which have boomed during the pandemic — should be the first to go.
After failing to overturn an election expected to hasten the transition away from fossil fuels, conservative industry groups last year managed to get future votes canceled and tightened their grip over the process used to develop new building codes. The Biden administration protested, along with dozens of major cities, but the battle over a critical tool for shrinking the fourth-largest source of the United States’ climate-changing emissions got little attention.
(Bloomberg) -- Not only are humans not adapting fast enough to hazards created by climate change, many of the relatively limited dollars they are putting toward preparing for a warmer future are being misspent, according to the world’s leading scientists. The term “maladaptation” runs throughout the report put out Monday by the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPC
With the bang of a gavel made of recycled plastic and a standing ovation, representatives of 175 nations agreed on Wednesday to begin writing a global treaty that would restrict the explosive growth of plastic pollution. The agreement commits nations to work on a broad and legally binding treaty that would not only aim to improve recycling and clean up the world’s plastic waste, but would encompass curbs on plastics production itself. That could put measures like a ban on single-use plastics, a major driver of waste, on the table.
US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which administers the Endangered Species Act, has been working on proposals in recent years that would strip the Key deer of its endangered species status – even as the agency’s own scientists have highlighted the threat of rising sea levels to the deer’s habitat, according to records obtained by the Guardian and Type Investigations.
Timothy F. Smith, 50, a professor of sustainability at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia, said he and his colleagues had long wrestled with doubts about their work: “Is it worth continuing if we’re not having the impact that we need?”
“Proven solutions that will reduce US plastic waste and pollution already exist and can be swiftly enacted. The success of single-use plastic bans, water refilling stations, and reusable food and dish ware can be extended nationwide.”
The research focused on microbial meat as it had been produced at industrial scale for 20 years and was already available, said Dr Isabelle Weindl, also at PIK. “Even accounting for the sugar as feedstock, microbial protein requires much less agricultural land compared [with] ruminant meat.” Previous studies have shown the protein quality of microbial meat is equivalent to beef but it requires 90% less land and water and produces 80% less greenhouse gas emissions.
More than half of the energy used by American households — only 7 percent of which came from renewable sources as of 2020 — goes toward heating and cooling. Using the millions of abandoned wells scattered around the country to switch the source of that heating and cooling to geothermal energy, then, could lead to a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions.
Wind power capacity doubled over the last year, while solar power grew by almost 50%.
“The climate emergency is not a game and we can’t just spin our way through it. We need to think about where our materials come from, how they’re made and interrogate the whole supply chain – from construction to demolition and reuse.”
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On 26th of
December, in Elista, Mikhail Grishankov, Deputy General Director, Russian
Federation Government Relations, CPC-R, and Batu Khasikov, Head of the Republic
of Kalmykia, handed motor and specialized vehicles for the total value of over
29.8 mln rubles to municipal and regional budgetary institutions. The vehicles
were purchased by CPC as part of its 2023 charity program.
excavator-loader worth 7.7 mln rubles was purchased for the municipal
autonomous institution "Road Repair and Construction Department"
(Elista). The universal vehicle in two-bucket version has a lifting capacity of
2.5 tons, a 95 hp diesel engine and extended functionality due to the
possibility of changing attachable equipment. The telescopic boom allows the
excavator to dig trenches up to 4.9 m deep.
Public Utility Service from Chernozemelsky District Municipality received
specialized vehicles for the total amount of over 7.5 mln rubles: two ChLMZ
MD.02 road vehicles and BELARUS-320.4M tractor. Thanks to the mounted plow-brush
equipment road vehicles based on the BELARUS 82.1 tractor can be effectively
used for cleaning roads and adjacent territories from precipitation and dust in
any season. Due to high productivity and low weight, comparable to the weight of a
passenger car, the BELARUS-320.4M mini-tractor is capable of effectively
solving tasks in the municipal sphere without adversely affecting the road and
district medical institutions of the Republic of Kalmykia received specialized
ambulances worth over 14.6 million rubles. Elista-based Republican Cancer
Dispensary named after E.S. Timoshkaeva received a minibus based on Gazelle
NEXT. The Republican TB Dispensary, the V.D. Mandzhieva Republican Children's
Medical Center and the Elista City Polyclinic each received one LADA Niva
Travel-based cross-country specialized ambulance. Two such four-wheel drive
vehicles were given to Iki-Burulsky District Hospital and two to Chernozemelsky
District Hospital named after U. Dushan.
interacts with the Republic of Kalmykia authorities under a five-year
Cooperation Agreement signed in April 2022. The document covers all socially
significant spheres of the Oblast life - health care, education, culture,
children’s sports, and provides for a targeted aid to the most vulnerable
population. Particular attention is paid to purification of tap water to
drinking quality in children's educational institutions. In 2022, CPC allocated about 100 mln rubles
to implementation of charity projects in the Republic.
CPC Pipeline System is one of the major
investment projects with foreign capital in energy sector in the CIS. The
length of the Tengiz – Novorossiysk pipeline is 1,511 km. This route transports
over two-thirds of all Kazakhstan export crude, as well as crude from Russian
oil fields, including those in the Caspian Region. CPC Marine Terminal is
equipped with three Single Point Moorings (SPM) that allow to load tankers
safely at a significant distance offshore, also amid poor weather conditions.
CPC Shareholders: Federal Agency for State
Property Management represented by PJSC Transneft (trust management) – 24 %, IC
CPC Company LLC – 7%, JSC NC KazmunayGas – 19%, Kazakhstan Pipeline Ventures
LLC – 1.75%, Chevron Caspian Pipeline Consortium Company – 15%, LUKARCO B.V. –
12.5%, Mobil Caspian Pipeline Company – 7.5%, Rosneft-Shell Caspian Ventures
Limited – 7.5%, BG Overseas Holding Limited – 2%, Eni International N.A. N.V.
S.ar.l. – 2% and Oryx Caspian Pipeline LLC – 1.75%.


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This round tape measure is contemporary in look and is ideal in size.
Made from natural beechwood and sized to fit neatly in your accessory pouch, the centred retraction button adds to its modern look.
This tape measure is a "must have" for every maker. And of course, having the letters KP on it, made it a must have for my shop. KP for Knit Pro (or KP for Kernow's Projects.) Haha. Beautifully smooth and pretty to look at too.
What I love about these tape measures though is (of course) those cute sheep!! :) And the fact that the number start a nice space away from the very end of the tape. I have far too many tape measures here, that have the first couple of lines of the measurement, obscured by the metal end. These don't suffer that, and that makes them top in my book.


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This Super League match classed as anything but super
On Sunday the big Sonu Feedermasters Super League came to Ferry Meadows . . . unfortunately there was yet another disappointing result from a big match at the venue.
But perhaps even more disappointing is the extremely harsh criticism the venue has received on social media, particularly from anglers that should know better than rubbish a venue after the extreme weather we have had over the past few months.
It may be that the lakes are not going to live up to their fine reputation this year, but let’s give it a chance. At the very least wait until conditions are right, and then if no bream show in numbers by all means have your say.
To the match itself and it was Will Freeman topping the field on the individaul front. He drew peg 91 on the Gunwade Lake and put a very good 55lb 15oz net of bream to the scales.
Runner-up was Steve Ringer. He was on peg two fishing the Overton Lake and caught at long range, weighing in 38lb 13oz.
On the team front some of the very best in the country found it very difficult indeed. Winners on the day were Drennan Barnsley with 22points.
Result: 1 Will Freeman, 55lb 15oz; 2 S. Ringer, 38lb 13oz; 3 R. Packwood, 32lb 8oz; 4 S. Freeman, 31lb 2oz.
Teams: 1 Drennan Barnsley, 22pts; 2 North West Match, 24; 3 Dambusters, 25; 4 Ringer Baits, 26; 5 Dynamite NE, 26; 6 Sensas Leigh Tackle & Baits, 30.
It was an extraordinary week at Decoy Lakes with just about all the lakes fishing really well thanks to the big change in weather conditions.
In the Over 55s match on Friday on the Willows, Vince Hull finished out in front from peg three. He fed sweetcorn and pellet to put a 151lb 10oz net of carp and F1s to the scales.
Chris Saunders on peg five came second with 131lb 4oz, followed by Tom Wilson with 118lb 13oz.
Just take a look at the fishery’s open match results on the Oak and Yew Pools.
On Saturday, Danny Carlton caught a massive 301lb 3oz from peg 18 on the Oak Pool on pellet close in.
Adam Jones came second from Oak 13 with 258lb caught on sweetcorn fished shallow, then came Des Proud with 244lb 15oz.
I don’t think Danny Carlton will forget last weekend in a hurry as he also won the Sunday open match with 263lb 15oz from the very same peg he had the day before, Oak 18!
Runner-up in this one was Nigel Clark with 260lb 15oz, followed by Ken Humphries with 220lb 12oz.
Beastie Lake at Decoy was the venue for the Ramsey AS match on Sunday and with no less than 14 anglers putting 100lb plus to the scales no one around the lake had any idea who had won it.
At the weigh-in it was Andrew Rayment on peg six with 144lb 8oz who took the honours. He caught some big fish on a pellet waggler in the first half of the match before switching to the margin with sweetcorn for more huge fish.
Just missing out was Guy Dew on peg 18. He fished red maggot on the pole to finish with 141lb 4oz. Ricky Young with 140lb 4oz came in third followed by Keith Rayment on 135lb 12oz.
With a few pegs under water, Hotpoint AC had to re-arrange the draw for Sunday’s match on the Willows at Decoy.
Thankfully though it did not upset sport. It was not easy but just about everyone enjoyed the day.
Out in front was the consistent Paul Faulkner. He drew peg 32 and with a little extra room took full advantage catching along the bank in the margins all day feeding with micro pellet and dead reds and fishing maggot on the hook for a comfortable victory weighing in 95lb 15oz.
I managed second from peg 25. After a very slow start the fish started to come to a small feeder and a good late run in the margins saw me putting 75lb 6oz to the scales.
Third place went to Tyrone Horn, who also caught on the feeder both across to the island and also close in for 61lb 1oz from peg 24.
Another club fishing Decoy Lakes at the weekend was the Conservative Club, who were on the Six Island Pool on Saturday.
Leading the way with 164lb 13oz from peg 25 was Steve Fogarty, who caught all day fishing the margins with cat meat netting carp close to double figures.
Runner-up was Gaz Clingo. He was another angler who fished the margins to weigh in 130lb from peg 20 all taken on sweetcorn. Third with 119lb 7oz was Tony Ruddy, followed by John Parnell with 118lb 14oz.
JVAC fished their Sunday club match on Six Islands and Four Islands with both waters producing some fine weights once again.
Winner on Six Islands from peg four was Chris Saunders. After a slow start the fish soon came close in and by the final whistle he was well clear of the chasing pack putting 178lb 2oz to the scales.
Runner-up was Andy Gausden, who drew peg 18 and caught 150lb 7oz on a variety of methods.
Gus Gausden came third with 148lb 2oz.
Over on Four Islands it was Ian Frith topping the list. He drew peg three and caught 141lb 6oz on caster shallow.
Runner-up was Lee Kendall on 132lb 14oz with Roy Whincup third with 83lb 4oz.
Most of the good weights in the Cock Inn match on the Willows fell to those feeder fishing, only late on did the pole have much effect, and that was close in.
Matchwinner was Stan Hotchkiss from peg one with 122lb 11oz of carp and a few F1s, feeder fishing close in with corn.
Second was Bob Mills with 76lb 8oz from peg six caught on cat meat close in on the pole and third was Mick Sidney with 51lb 1oz from peg eight.