CHULA VISTA, Calif. (Border Report) — The city of Chula Vista is the second largest in San Diego County with well over 200,000 residents, 60 percent of them Latino.
In California overall, Latinos are the largest ethnic group accounting for 40 percent of the population.
Three years ago, two-thirds of registered Latinos voted for Gov. Gavin Newsom providing him with a large margin of victory.
With him facing a recall election, a recent poll done by the Public Institute of California shows Newsom continues to enjoy wide support among Latinos with 66 percent of people polled saying they want him to remain in office.
But a New York Times report published last week shows a different picture. It states Latinos are split on the recall. And that so far, only 18 percent of all registered Latino voters have turned in their ballots.
In comparison, 32 percent of white voters have already voted.
The figures were compiled by Political Data Inc., a Sacramento-based research group.
Latinos might be backing away from Newsom because Latinos in the state were hit in disproportionate numbers by the COVID-19 virus.
And according to the California Latino Economic Institute, two-thirds of California Latinos suffered income losses during the pandemic as a result of shutdowns and health restrictions.
But supporters insist Newsom has actually done quite a bit for Latinos when it comes to education and providing more money for English learners as well as giving money to undocumented migrants.
As for the city of Chula Vista, Border Report conducted a very informal poll along 3rd Avenue in the heart of the city.
Sixty percent of people who were asked said they were against the recall and wanted Newsom to remain as governor.
Thirty percent said they didn’t care one way or another, with 10 percent stating they wanted someone other than Newsom running the state of California.
The recall election is slated for Tuesday.


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Although employee expectations at work have reached an all-time high, 76% of HR decision-makers believe those expectations aren’t out of control, and 53% believe employees deserve a good experience at work, according to a March 6 report by isolved.
At the same time, HR leaders voiced concerns about rising employee experience expectations, citing it as the top threat to talent retention.
“Effective HR teams want to create great employee experiences,” Amy Mosher, chief people officer at isolved, said in a statement. “It’s not about convincing HR benefits or payroll professionals to create talent-focused experiences but rather providing them with tools to enact organizational changes effectively.”
The report indicated a disconnect between what employers believe they’re offering and what employees are actually experiencing. Although 95% of HR leaders said they were confident in their employee experiences, 58% of employees are considering new job opportunities in 2024, marking an 11% increase over 2023, isolved said.
Several factors appear to be at play, according to the report. About 73% of HR leaders reported significant involvement from top management in decision-making, which could hinder organizational priorities. In addition, 51% said they’re spending four or more hours per day answering repetitive questions.
Overall, employers may be pulling back on employee experience in 2024, according to a Forrester report. As a result, employee engagement and culture will likely continue to decline for another year.
HR leaders’ expectations around employee engagement also continue to decline, according to a report from The Conference Board. In turn, most CHROs said their main human capital management priorities for 2024 include employee experience, organizational culture and leadership development.
In an Integrated Benefits Institute report, 51% of employers said employee satisfaction, employee mental health and emotional support are top priorities in 2024. Employers must balance quality programming with cost management and account for diverse needs, IBI said.

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With the release of Doorman in November 2018, Slowthai gave the clearest and fiercest indication yet that he could be a star in the making.
Production from Mura Masa added a punk tempo to his unkempt, intense flow, and the Northampton rapper underlined the expansiveness and versatility hinted at by his impressive range of previous singles (T N Biscuits, Ladies, Drug Dealer).
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The Cayman Islands Centre for Business Development, in the Ministry of Commerce, is holding a free webinar for businesses affected by COVID-19, on Wednesday, 29 April, from 10am to 12pm.
The session will focus on the topic ‘Working strategy and projects’ and explore best-practice strategic-planning tools to apply regularly to businesses.
The training webinar will be hosted in partnership with consulting firm Kerage Un Limited and facilitators Karen Kersey and Sara Jan.
Commerce Minister Joey Hew said in a press release that these types of training sessions are especially important as business owners seek to to redesign or re-think their business models.
“Businesses are going through a lot right now amid the uncertainty of COVID-19,” he said. “Some of the actions taken over the next few weeks could determine the long run of individual businesses and even the economy. I encourage our entrepreneurs to seize the opportunities provided by these webinars to be equipped with the most impactful information.”
The Centre for Business Development, which opened last month, aims to provide support to small businesses across the Cayman Islands, especially during this current crisis.
The centre’s public services include business-continuity training and the processing of several relief measures announced by government to support micro and small businesses.
To join the webinar via Zoom, visit the Business Guidance section of www.gov.ky/coronavirus for the link.

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If you have had a browse through Issue 2, you will have seen our fashion spread on page 54.
Set in the ‘wilds’ of Centennial Park our shoot occurred on a very cloudy day, with low light and and a darkening sky.
Lucky for us, it was exactly the kind of day Dan Hilburn and I had dreamed of for our INTO THE WOODS photo shoot.
It gave an edgy mystery to the images and with Dan’s mad skills and the help of his assistant Ray, they were able to create a perfect mood.
A graduate from the prestigious COFA, Dan’s photographic experience includes street, editorial, fashion and campaign work.
His natural talent, keen eye and attention to detail yields amazing results.
Dan was an amazing asset to this shoot and helped make it all possible with his quick thinking and positive attitude.
To get in touch with Dan, just go to his website – it’s got everything you need to make contact.

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Bennett Automotive of Lebanon is GROWING!! We are seeking Experienced Service Technicians. Due to a recent acquisition, Bennett Automotive is looking to add both A and B Technicians to our growing team.
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Maple princess reminds St. Lawrence County residents of sapping season
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 9:10 am
New York State Maple Princess Kylea McAdam is reminding people that maple season is here. Several maple producers in St. Lawerence County that are opening their doors for the public include Sweeter Creations in Madrid, The Orebed Sugar Shack in DeKalb, Finen Dandy in Norwood and Parker Maple Farm in Pyrites. These maple producers are open March 22 and 23 and March 29 and 30. For more information visit slcmaple.com ormapleweekend.com. Above is McAdam at one of the many parades she attend last year.


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Dr. Michael Morrissey, MD is a Anesthesiologist - Pain Medicine, Anesthesiologist - General practicing in Glens Falls, NY
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The trend of selling food through 'Food Truck' is gaining popularity among the people in the country. It has directly opened up income-generating opportunities among young entrepreneurs who wish to involve in the field of business.
Food trucks in Bandar Seri Begawan have been introduced since the beginning of this year. Business trends adapted from foreign countries as one of the efforts to enliven Bandar Seri Begawan, especially at night.
With the concept of fast, easy and affordable, Food Truck is the choice of people to relax while enjoying food. Most Food Truck dealers provide the simplest menu and suit the tastes of the customers.
It is hoped that this food truck business will continue to thrive and entrepreneurs can become an example to other youths to come up with more innovative food selling ideas in the future.
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As I have proceeded through 17 years of having CFS, I have encountered more and more individuals who also suffer from this terrible disease. I have had conversations with people who struggle to have the will to keep going even one more day, seen videos of people who cannot roll over in bed or even speak, people who have not left their homes for decades or have had to move from one home to another year after year because of financial dilemmas that have resulted from this disabling illness. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is among the cruelest of diseases. There are no words to capture how it takes that moment where the train goes off the tracks, crashing into the earth in flames and makes that moment every moment of your life.
All of this is terrifying to an undefinable degree, but what is most amazing to an equally undefinable degree, is that these same people are consistently the kindest, most generous, caring people I have ever encountered. I see people reach out to others they have never even met with the care and love of a parent or a partner. I see a connection and sense of community, where we are all acknowledging one another's brilliant and bright existence, outside and in spite of this illness. I don't know if CFS simply strikes the bright and the kind, or if the experience makes us so. Regardless, I wanted to share this with all of you who have CFS, and also those of you who don't and may not have the privilege of bearing witness to this community of humanitarians.
A final thought. It strikes me in my heart whenever I hear of another person with CFS that this sort of thing isn't supposed to happen to angels.
But it does.
Millions of them.
And as an angel would, these people gracefully spread their wings and continue to fly about the earth doing what angels do.
They say "if the shoe fits, wear it," and I sure do see angel shoes on you! You are definitely being a light.ReplyDelete
And indeed, it's so true. The whole community of neuro-immune sufferers is aglow with the angel-light and sharing it around. It's a beautiful and humbling thing.
I hope to never be challenged with a long-term illness, especially one as debilitating as CFS, but if I ever am, I hope I find such a welcoming community.ReplyDelete
“We are all angels with only one wing, only when we come together can we fly.”ReplyDelete
- Luciano de Crescenzo
This quote always makes me think of 'us'. And i agree with all my heart, the friends i have made with this illness are beyond a doubt some of the most compassionate, thoughtful and intelligent people i have ever met. I'm waiting for the day when we all get to unleash those gifts on the world again en masse...can't wait to see it.
After getting to know so many with CFS I find that it happens to some of the best, warm-hearted, intelligent people. It's a shame.ReplyDelete
Beautifully written and so obviously heartfelt...the world is just a better place with you as a brilliant light...ReplyDelete
Well said. I wish outsiders could see our community like this - like I know it. Without my friends on Internet, I would never have found a knowledgeable doctor, let alone testing and treatment. And who would have sent me jokes to cheer me up when I was down in the dumps?ReplyDelete
The level of deception it takes to pretend we're not there can't last forever. There will be answers, there will be treatment. In the meantime, it is people like you that helps us get through to another day. Thank you.
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Illnesses do not discriminate. Nor suffering or early death. It usually happens to the best of us.ReplyDelete
It's a hard blow and a big challenge to remain yourself - your before the illness self.
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The new issue of WIPO Magazine has several interesting articles, including one on the 60th anniversary of the WHAM-O toy company. Wham-O is best known for introducing the hula hoop to America in 1958, followed by Frisbee flying discs, Slip ‘n’ Slide and Superball. In celebration of its 60th birthday, WHAM-O is sponsoring a kid inventor contest. The winning inventor will receive $2000 and WHAM-O may choose to produce their toy. The deadline is March 31, 2008.
Some of WHAM-O’s recent patents include a shark-shaped water slide (D562,929); children’s waterboard with squirting device (7,264,522) ; and a children’s playground slide (D540,413).


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This activity engages learners in examining data pertaining to the disappearing glaciers in Glacier National Park. After calculating percentage change of the number of glaciers from 1850 (150) to 1968 (50) and 2009 (26), students move on to the main glacier-monitoring content of the module--area vs. time data for the Grinnell Glacier, one of 26 glaciers that remain in the park. Using a second-order polynomial (quadratic function) fitted to the data, they extrapolate to estimate when there will be no Grinnell Glacier remaining (illustrating the relevance of the question mark in the title of the module).
In this activity, students learn about how climate change is affecting the Arctic ecosystem and then investigate how this change is impacting polar bear populations. Students analyze maps of Arctic sea ice, temperature graphs, and polar bear population data to answer questions about the impact of climate change on the Arctic ecosystem.
This is a long-term inquiry activity in which students investigate locations they believe harbor cellulose-digesting microbes, collect samples, isolate them on selective media, and screen them for cellulase activity. These novel microbes may be useful for the production of cellulosic ethanol. In the process they learn about plating techniques, serial dilutions, symbiotic relationships and enzyme specificity. Two methods are provided, one focusing on isolation of pure microbial strains, the other focusing on finding symbiotic communities of microbes.
This interactive animation focuses on the carbon cycle and includes embedded videos and captioned images to provide greater clarification and detail of the cycle than would be available by a single static visual alone.
This energy game activity engages students in learning about energy sources. This game demonstrates that energy, the environment, and economics are closely tied together. During the course of the game and in the discussion afterward, students learn the concepts of scarcity, opportunity cost, net energy profit, law of diminishing returns, and that availability does not mean usefulness.
In this activity, students distinguish between direct and indirectly transmitted diseases and participate in a group game to simulate the spread of vector-borne diseases. They then research a particular pathogenic disease to learn how global warming and biodiversity loss can affect disease transmission.
In this video, scientist Dr. Susan Prichard discusses the impact of pine bark beetles on western forests, including information on how climate change, specifically rising temperatures, is exacerbating the problem.


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In this week's report, the number of homes sold in the Cambrian Park market dropped to 73 over the past 30 days, a decrease of 3.9% from last week's report, but still above the monthly average. Meanwhile, the Willow Glen neighborhood reported 64 home sales, the highest number from all of the surrounding neighborhoods. Months of inventory is on a four-week downward trend, this week hitting one months. With such low levels of inventory, Cambrian Park is still a definite seller's market, in spite of the dip in sales.
Wonder which homes are generating the most buzz? Here are the most viewed listings in Cambrian Park:

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Lots and lots of chatter across the ‘Net this week about Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Bastards” – his latest movie project about a raucous crew of American soldiers who travel into Germany in 1944 to kill a lot of Nazis.
You get the idea.
It should not be surprising there’s been a lot of QT news and analysis the last few days.
First the long-awaited/much discussed script was delivered to four, Hollywood studios.
Then there was the news Brad Pitt was in talks to star.
And then… the script was leaked.
Cue: mass (media) hysteria.
NY Mag (Vulture) got their hands on a copy of the script and followed with a detailed review.
Defamer was fed up with the hype and penned an open letter to Quentin.
Hey, I’m excited about the movie, too, which doesn’t even have financing yet, or really anything besides a script, but clearly the 165 pages long script has everybody jacked up and looking forward to next year’s release.
All of which leads me to Chris Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele -– the writers working on the script for the Miles Davis biopic.
I’m not sure if the script is even finished, but if it is/or when it is I’d like a copy. I’m happy to start the online madness for the forthcoming film about the jazz legend.
So guys, when you’re ready… I’m ready to read.


text: This study tested the extent to which gender role attributes and gender role ideology account for sex differences in internally directed psychological distress and in externally directed deviant behavior in a random sample of 2,013 adolescents. Results indicate that gender roles substantially mediate sex differences in both types of pathology: Masculine instrumental attributes reduce internalized distress, whereas feminine expressive attributes reduce externalized behavior problems. In addition, conventional gender role attitudes were positively related to externalizing problems among male adolescents, but were unrelated to pathology among female adolescents. These associations were largely equivalent across Black and White racial groups and across age groups (13 to 19 years). Two alternative theoretical models linking gender roles and pathology are discussed.


News... but not as you know it
Revealed: The price of following a title-winning side in Europe
Metro Sport Reporter for Metro.co.uk
All fans know following a football club is an expensive business, particularly so for the more successful sides in Europe.
United could land Vidal in January if they sell Mata in swap deal
The Red Devils might finally land their man.
Roma coach Garcia sent to stands during Juve clash for most bizarre reason ever
The 50-year-old's actions were deemed to be dissent.
Arsenal have opened up talks for these two strikers...
Arsene Wenger wants one of these two forwards in January.
United pushing to sign Juve stars in £51m double deal
United are pushing for this talented twosome.
United and Arsenal both eye Juve man Ogbonna
Louis van Gaal and Arsene Wenger both need more numbers at the back and Italy star could be the answer.
Mata could be sold by United in January, hints Neville
The Spain international could be sold to make way for new players.
Serie A clubs keen on Januzaj loan in January
Adnan Januzaj could be available for a short-term loan deal in January, with Serie A duo Fiorentina and Juventus reportedly interested in his services.
United set to seal Vidal transfer after cash boost
The big saga of the summer could finally be resolved by January...
Serie A's top earners revealed - Juventus star Pogba must be fuming
The ex Manchester United man is earning a lot less than you probably think...
Mata lined up for Juventus move
Serie A giants Juventus are believed to be planning a January move for Manchester United’s Juan Mata.
United target Vidal labels knee injury story as false
The talented Chilean has dismissed his injury woes as lies.
Juve 'want to sign Liverpool's Johnson in January'
Some Liverpool fans may be pleased to hear this news...
United dodge £42m bullet as Vidal picks up knee injury
United fans will actually be GLAD to have missed out on Vidal.
Arsenal 'make offer to sign Juve forward Giovinco'
Arsenal's hunt for a new forward has taken them to this little Juve star.
United still working on £39.5m Vidal deal ahead of deadline
Could this FINALLY happen? Please, please, please.
Is United's Welbeck on his way to Spurs?
Spurs could replace Juve-bound Roberto Soldado with Danny Welbeck...
United could finally sign £42m Vidal by Monday
Arturo Vidal looks like he could finally be en route to Manchester United.
United step up hunt for Norwegian wonderkid Odegaard
Manchester United are reportedly planning to fight it out with Barcelona and Juventus for Norwegian wonder kid Martin Odegaard.
United in new 'serious' talks to finally sign Vidal
United are closing in on finally bringing Vidal to Manchester. At last!
Is this Podolski confirming his Arsenal exit?
The Arsenal forward posted what seemed to be a farewell message on his Instagram account.
Pirlo left unimpressed by surfer babes
He's the coolest man in football but it still takes a hell of a lot to impress Andrea Pirlo.
Podolski's Arsenal exit in doubt as Juve eye Shaqiri
Lukas Podolski's expected move from Arsenal to Juventus isn't yet a done deal and the Italian champions are considering Bayern Munich's Xherdan Shaqiri.
Arsenal's Podolski could finalise Juventus loan move by Monday
The Germany international looks set to finalise a move away from Arsenal next week.
Podolski removed from Arsenal squad ahead of Juve transfer
Lukas Podolski is leaving Arsenal with a switch to Juventus now looking set to go through.
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MANILA (UPDATED)—Presidential candidate Senator Panfilo Lacson disputed Vice President Leni Robredo’s description of him as engaging in too much talk but lacking in “on the ground” work as a reason why voters should not choose him as the country’s next leader.
Robredo made the statement in her interview with Boy Abunda when asked for reasons why voters should not choose her rivals.
In a tweet, Lacson said it was not his nature to inappropriately show off (be “epal”) when he gives out help during times or calamities or when he helps individuals.
"Hindi ako kulang sa ‘on the ground’. Hindi lang talaga ako ma-epal tuwing magbibigay ng tulong sa mga kalamidad man o sa mga indibidwal na tulong,” Lacson said.
In a later statement, the former police chief's spokesperson, Rep. Romeo Acop, alleged that Robredo is not yet ready to become president because of her recent statements.
"Vice President Leni Robredo’s half-baked and rushed answers to incisive questions during recent presidential interviews shows she is not quite ready for the office of the Chief Executive," said Acop.
The lawmaker also claimed that the vice president's answers are "often myopic in nature and inconsistent."
Even if Robredo's intentions are good, he said these are not enough to help the country from poverty and disaster recovery.
"I noticed that she often chooses to gnaw on specific examples she has presented before. This cannot stand for a Chief Executive that must have a macro view of the country's big problems," he explained.
"While we laud the Vice President’s willingness to serve the Filipino people, the Office of the President is another level entirely, requiring the knowledge, competency, and experience possessed by only one candidate at present – my good friend and colleague, Sen. Lacson."
Acop also criticized presidential frontrunner Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. for his "motherhood and socialist" statements, which he also described as "hollow" and reused.
"He is just parroting statements made by current and former government officials that betray his lack of personal knowledge needed to govern the country," the lawmaker said.


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The Trouble With Avon
The trouble with Avon LLC starts in their tagline which is as misleading as it comes, ‘A company for women’. If it reflected truth, it would read, ‘A company for women ran by men’ because if you go to their distribution center, you’ll discover almost every area supervisor is a male, while every floor leader beneath them is female. This even when the women often have been there far longer.
Recently, there was a big ado on the financial markets about Avon possibly recovering from near bankruptcy. Yeah, don’t count on it. Because activity in their distribution center tells a different story. Here are some points to consider:
*They closed their distribution center in California in 2018. That leaves only one for the whole country, located in Ohio.
*That distribution center doesn’t field enough orders to keep its single shift working 40 hours a week this time of year. Many employees are encouraged to take unpaid time off.
*Holiday sale results meant that many promotional items, like their ‘A’ boxes, had to be broken down and used as excess.
*Tech and equipment is dated. There are constant jams and breakdowns. Many functions aren’t automated (in the current sense).
*They rely on temp workers for much of their employee base but have trouble attracting workers since the pay was until recently, under $10 an hour. Currently, it is at $11 which is still not a livable wage. At some point, if they want to stay competitive, they’ll have to really raise them.
So if you want to rely on Avon, you do so at your own peril. The health of a company can often be judged by its own internal infrastructure. And even though it imports many goods from places like China, Avon here in the States doesn’t rate too well.


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If you are looking for an evocative and rich of traditions setting, Luxury Farm Wedding will be great for you. Apulia is a magical land, full of splendid beaches where it’s possible to experience something unique. If we move away from the shores to the countryside another treasure of this land can be discovered: Apulia’s farms. Those ancient dwellings, dated back to the 700, express the old rural life’s charm.
Today these big spaces, that preserve the stone walls and beautiful courtyards, have been renovated to celebrate a unique wedding surrounded by nature, a sophisticated design and quality and original food service.
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My curious little guar,
I admit, it would not be unusual for the three of us to engage in an intimate encounter. Given how long it has been since we were all together, it is very likely that we should all wish to share our hearts, minds, and bodies as we once did.
I would also be satisfied just in spending the time solely with Ervis, since I have done some reconciling with Avon already. And although Avon is usually credited with being the most empathetic of us, Ervis is far more emotional and capricious. I need to know that he is alright and I think the easiest way to know is if we were to share that intimacy.
Yet, I would not wish to have any one of my daesoohn feel excluded. This is our full reunion! We three, who have styled ourselves to represent the three aspects of our gods, will come together and a perfect balance will be maintained. Ervis, warrior and devout follower of Boethiah, skilled with great sword and with a sword in each hand, his strength knows no parallel. Avon, mage and devotee of Azura, gifted in the schools of destruction, healing, and conjuration, wise and reserved, yet able to let out the most wicked thoughts. And then myself, rogue and follower of Mephala, once a spy and assassin for the temple, now a wandering bard, with sword in one hand and dagger in the other, I make music in the spotlight, then attack unseen from the shadows.
Each of us has strength to protect each other from their own weaknesses. United we stand without equal. Why would we not wish to come together and join in the passion of each other’s bodies which we have come to know so well? To let our limbs entwine as our hearts speak as one. There is a spiritual transcendence that takes place during such acts. An awakening of the soul, of the mind. Together you can do what one alone could never hope to dream of accomplishing. One above you, another below. To feel, as one moves, that you all move. Each part of you touched and loved by those you trust. It is its own special type of ecstasy. One I am always hungry for.
I really should purchase some delightful little toys in Riften. Nothing quite like adding to the fun, right?


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CTD arrests TTP militant with Rs1m bounty
Peshawar – Counter Terrorism Department has arrested a militant of Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP), with a head money of Rs1 million. An official said that the arrestee, identified as Nawaz Sharif, was wanted in the cases of extortions and bomb attacks on security forces in North Waziristan tribal district.
The CTD, Bannu region arrested the outlaw, affiliated with the Mullah Mukhlis Group of the TTP-Hafiz Gul Bahadur Shura. The security personnel raided Mir Ali Bazaar after they received an intelligence report that the outlaw had reached the area for a terrorist activity.


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Discover more from Michael Ian Black
I’m intrigued by altered states. Whether induced through drugs, meditation, near death experiences, or whether they just come about on their own like in these two examples, I’m fascinated by the contradiction by our everyday reality and the more expansive realities we’re sometimes shown. Is there a “real” reality? I have no idea. What I do know is that I have occasionally experienced alternate realities and that they are among my most profound memories.
My friend Michael Showalter and I started playing chess around the same time. We were in our 20’s, living in New York City, and we both got the bug. I don’t remember which of us started playing first, but one of us got the other one into it and for a while we were pretty well-matched. Soon, though, it became obvious that Michael was the stronger player. After a few months, I couldn’t beat him at all. Which makes the following story more inexplicable.
One afternoon, I was at his apartment and he asked if I wanted to play. I said sure, knowing it was hopeless, but I enjoyed the challenge. The game started normally enough, but then something happened which I’ve never discussed with anybody, not even him.
It’s kind of hard to explain but all of the sudden I was seeing the board for the first time. I don’t know how else to describe the sensation. It was almost as if every other time I had played, I was thinking about the board without seeing it but this time I was seeing it without having to think about it. And, of all the sudden, I knew exactly what move to make, what he would do in response, and then exactly how I would respond. I checkmated him within about ten moves.
Even in the moment, I couldn’t understand what was happening; it almost as though I was possessed. Like some old Russian chess master had taken over my body and was playing the game through me. It felt like I was experiencing the game both first-hand and second-hand, like it was me but it wasn’t me. When the game ended, so did the experience.
So, what was that?
Athletes talk about being in a “flow state,” in which it feels as though the body is acting on its own without thought or instruction. As an actor, I’ve experienced that flow state once before, during a play. I have a hard time describing it in words but I can describe it in an image. During one scene, something (I don’t have a better word) overcame me and I experienced doing the scene as – I know this sounds really weird – a column of fire. I felt as though a cold fire were coming out of my mouth when I spoke and erupting from my finger when I pointed at my scene partner. Again, the experience didn’t last long, only for the duration of the scene. Then it was gone, again, never to return. And, again, I’ve never discussed that feeling with anyone.
Actually, that’s not true. Once, during an interview with the singer Audra McDonald, I asked her what it felt like when everything was lined up correctly in her body and voice. I said I imagined it like a column of light shooting through her and she told me that’s precisely how it feels. I wanted to be like, “I know, right?” but it seemed inappropriate to compare myself to somebody who probably has a separate room in her apartment for her Tony awards.
What are these experiences?
The father of research into Flow was the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, pronounced: “Me high? Cheeks send me high!” and I think it’s fair to admit that the only reason I include him in this piece is to also include the pronunciation. The article I found which provided that handy pronunciation describes what happens to the brain during Flow:
In a state of flow, [the prefrontal cortex] is believed to temporarily down-regulate in a process called transient hypofrontality. This temporary inactivation of the prefrontal area may trigger the feelings of distortion of time, loss of self-consciousness, and loss of inner critic.
Moreover, the inhibition of the prefrontal lobe may enable the implicit mind to take over, allowing more brain areas to communicate freely and engage in a creative process (Dietrich, 2004). In other research, it’s been hypothesized that the flow state is related to the brain’s dopamine reward circuitry since curiosity is highly amplified during flow (Gruber, Gelman, & Ranganath, 2014).
Scientists are unsure why this happens, only that it does. Moreover, what I can tell you is that those two brief experiences are among the most pleasurable of my life. It’s hard to explain why they were so pleasurable except to say that it felt like, for a few moments, more alive. Like, hyper-alive. Ironically, that sense of hyper-aliveness came with an accompanying sense of feeling less individuated.
In the case of playing chess with Michael, I didn’t even feel like myself because I, The Other Michael, do not possess the chess skill I displayed during that game. Of course, chess is a game of perfect information (meaning that both players have access to all the available information during a game – nothing is hidden), so it’s possible that what was happening was that, for whatever reason, my mind was making unexpected connections that I normally do not see. How and why it happened at that time I have no idea.
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An idea that recently made its way into my dumb brain is that our five senses are not, as we commonly believe, the ways in which the world is revealed to us. Instead, our senses act as a filter so that we experience enough of reality to survive and succeed but not so much reality that we’re struck dumb. In other words, the real reality might be so overwhelming that we would be incapable of dealing with it.
If that sounds strange (the way it did to me when I first encountered this idea), remember that we already know we only naturally experience a sliver of the light spectrum and the audio spectrum; we know that dogs smell a hell of a lot more than we do. I’m sure the true is for taste and touch, as well. Our human senses are limited tools that evolved to best serve humans. Maybe our experience of reality is as limited as our experience of the light spectrum. When we enter Flow, maybe what’s happening is we’re somehow dipping our toes into the more expansive slipstream of real reality.
I can’t quite say my two experiences were “meaningful” in the sense that I can imbue them with any kind of purpose. What I can say is that I have often thought about them over the years and felt a yearning to retrieve that feeling. I just wish I knew how. Maybe I’ll smoke a fat DMT blunt to try to get it back. I don’t know. Of course, I have no idea where to get DMT and I’m not even exactly sure what DMT is. I just know that Joe Rogan smokes it and he’s my role model in all things. I’m not even sure what I experienced is traditional “Flow” or something more intense but shorter lived. I’m also aware that the more I write the word “Flow” the grosser it becomes.
I’m curious to know if you guys have experienced flow states, what you think causes them, if you’ve ever done anything to consciously try to enter them and whether or not those efforts were successful.

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In the Spirit of the Gracious and Compassionate
Creator of the Heavens and the Earth
Moses Towe Jr. was my mother’s father. He would not allow smoking, drinking, gambling, or dancing in his house. Those are not Christian prohibitions — even though he was the choirmaster and a trustee of the New Chapel Baptist Church in Plymouth, North Carolina. Those prohibitions are specifically characteristic of the Maliki school of law as practiced among Muslims in West African nations.
When I mentioned these prohibitions to my father, who is Jamaican, he told me that his mother had similar values.
Because of this — and other indications — I am convinced that my ancestors were Muslims of the Fulani people of West Africa.
The Fulani Connection
The three principal Fulani nations of the Atlantic slave-trade period — that I am familiar with — were Futa Toro and Bondu, in what is now Senegal, and Futa Jallon, in what is now Guinea. At the time of the slave-trade, 100% of the men and 20% of the women were literate in Arabic. Fula, the language of the Fulani people, is not even a distant relative of the Arabic language. It has incorporated many Arabic words as a result of so many Fulani people being Muslim for several centuries. West Africa — and the entirety of Africa south of the Sahara and east of Lake Chad — was never invaded or conquered by Arabs or other Muslims. The prevalence of Muslims in this area is the result of contact with merchants and other travelers. Two exceptions are the Fulani Jihad of Uthman dan Fodio (1754-1817), in the region of Nigeria at the beginning of the 19th century, and the empire of al-Hajj Umar Tall (1797-1864), spreading east from Senegal in the mid-19th century. Uthman dan Fodio was a teacher of the Maliki school of law.
Several men who had been captured and sold into slavery across the Atlantic Ocean were scholarly men of the Fulani people — Ayyub ibn Sulaiman, Bilal Muhammad, Salih Bilal, Abdur-Rahman ibn Ibrahim Sori, Omar ibn Sayyid, and Abu Bakr As-Siddique. Prior to their enslavement, they had been university students and teachers, and one or two were law students, one was a merchant (whose knowledge of Arabic earned him a reputation as an Arabic scholar in England), and one was a military general (who was also the son of the ruler of Futa Jallon). These are the people — intelligent, literate, scholarly, professional, civilized people — from which my African American (and Jamaican) family is descended.
Abu Bakr As-Siddique, a university scholar and teacher from Timbuktu, who was captured in Ashanti territory during a civil war and sold into slavery in Jamaica, British West Indies — his family claimed descent from Prophet Muhammad. Following the full emancipation of slaves in Jamaica in 1838, Abu Bakr returned to Africa. I doubt if there is any direct family connection, even though my father is from Jamaica. But his example opened my eyes to the possibility that some of those caught up in the slave trade and transported to these lands could be descendants of Prophet Muhammad (and therefore descendants of his ancestors, Ishmael and Abraham, as well).
The Tall Family
As pronounced by the Fulani people, the family name “Tall” rhymes with the English word “pal”. My grandfather’s family name — Towe — is pronounced the same as the West African Fulani name “Tall” would be pronounced in the local dialect of northeastern North Carolina, in which “Towe” and the English word “tall” both rhyme with “how”. (“How tall are you, Paul?” would be pronounced, “How tow ah you, Pow?”) When my mother went to school, she was told that “Towe” should be pronounced the same as “toe”. That is not how we pronounce our own family name.
The Tall family — an extended family — is an illustrious family in West Africa. Its most famous member was al-Hajj Umar Tall, mentioned above, whose empire stretched from what is now Senegal almost as far as what is now northern Nigeria, and who also impressed the scholars of Makkah with his intellectual superiority.
The name “Tall” (actually “Ta`l“) does not seem to be Fulani in origin. It contains two consonant sounds (the emphatic taa’, and `ain) out of the three, which are not a regular part of the Fulani language — but which are part of Arabic and of Berber languages.
The Berbers, the Muraabitoon, and Spain
Directly north of the Senegal River lived the Sanhaja people (from whose name the word “Senegal” seems to be derived), a prominent Berber family. The most illustrious member of this family was Yusuf ibn Tashfin (1061-1106), one of the two leaders of the movement known as the Muraabitoon, which established an empire stretching from Timbuktu to Seville. Over 950 years ago, Yusuf went north from his homeland along the Senegal River to Spain, whose Muslim leaders had asked his help against the advancing Christian monarchs. These Black Africans — the Moors in Spain — were the main factor in raising Europe out of the ignorance and degradation of its Dark Ages. The first European universities were established for the purpose of acquiring the Moorish learning. Among many other things learned from the Moors, the Europeans acquired algebra (invented by Muslims) and the fundamental principles and practices of symphonic music.
This history of Fulani and Berber Muslims connects my ancestry directly to the Muslim civilization which stretched from the Atlantic coasts of Africa and Spain, across Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and India, to the Pacific coast of Indonesia — a civilization that preserved, led, and advanced world-wide civilization for eight centuries (from at least 711 to 1492 and beyond) while Europe languished in its Dark Ages.
The guiding principles of the Moorish Muraabitoon movement and of my Fulani ancestors were drawn from the Maliki school of law, the same school of law from which my grandfather got the rules of his household.


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Building our beautiful indoor secret garden at the Quintessentially Wedding Atelier was so much fun with our amazing team. We wanted to create the perfect wedding flower scene using the finest seasonal flowers.
The Langham hotel (a beautiful London wedding venue) was the perfect backdrop to our set, that included 2 10 ft trees, a growing staircase garden and a floral bench to set the scene. Using scented roses, delphiniums, hydrangea, cheery blossom and lots of other beautiful seasonal flowers and foliage.
We met some lovely brides planning their special days and felt inspired by the other exhibitors. Especially the amazing Ricky Paul! Wow.


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Wasn't it just a few days ago I was commenting on how ridiculously hot Gisele BÃ¼ndchen bra and panties pictures were for a baby mama? Well, in the matter of just days she's managed to re-raise her own bar. Gisele BÃ¼ndchen lingerie pictures make me want to be a boy again, living next door to Ms. BÃ¼ndchen, and hanging out at her house 24x7 watching her bake cookies. Okay, I know supermodels don't bake cookies, let alone eat them, still, I'd just stare across the table at her while she starved herself into hotness.
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'Hamish' highland cattle Original Painting Framed
An ORIGINAL watercolour and pen painting of a bold highland cattle named 'Hamish'. I created this painting whilst in the Isle of Arran, so it is throughly inspired by and dedicated to beautiful Scotland!
My original artworks make a perfect gift for a extra special occasion, collectors pieces or for a special feature piece in your home!
All of my watercolour paintings are created using professional quality paints on cold pressed 300gsm paper.
Framed size: 66 cm x 71 cm
This is a very special frame. The painting double mounted in a natural colour to perfectly compliment and enhance the colours in the painting framed in stained solid oak frame.

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Avaliado por: Mark R , Outubro 2015
This tour is a must. Selina was an amazing guide. Not only was the whole experience relaxed and highly informative, but the paintings especially were absolutely incredible. Be prepared for a lot of walking.
Avaliado por: Sara , Janeiro 2016
This tour seemed a little overpriced and underwhelming. We expected much more from our guide for the pricing of this tour.
Avaliado por: mikewsc , Maio 2015
Got to museum. No one there knew where our tour was. Were able to get in and tour on our own, which of course we could have done without Viator. Called the contact number and the emergency number and never got an answer. Our other two tours were fine but could have been booked directly. My advice wouldbe to do alittle research on the web and book tours directly with the entitty.

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St. Charles likely to offer incentives for new sports bar
St. Charles is expected to offer financial assistance to help transform a vacant downtown property into an upscale sports bar.
A nearly $200,000 investment is planned for upgrading the exterior of 100 S. Riverside Ave., improving its interior systems and separating the building into two tenant spaces, according to city documents.
The renovations are slated for completion by this spring, when the Flagship on the Fox restaurant and bar plans to move into the northern portion of the site, said Russell Colby, community development division manager.
Aldermen acting as a committee this week supported covering a portion of the project costs through two economic incentive programs. A $20,000 grant will go toward facade improvements, and an additional $25,000 will help upgrade building utilities, pending approval from the city council.
The exterior renovations are primarily planned for the portion of the building that will be occupied by Flagship, Colby said. Property owners are installing overhead doors, allowing a covered dining patio to be usable year-round, he said, and the side of the building facing Walnut Avenue will be replaced with a glass storefront.
The city's historic preservation commission recommended approval of the facade grant, saying in a resolution that the improvements would "enhance the appearance of Riverside Avenue."
"(The commission) was very supportive of the design and thought the enhancements really were going to add to the character of the building in a way they thought was a nice fit for the downtown area," Colby said.
Additional investment could go into building out the tenant spaces, Colby said. Flagship will take up about 6,400 square feet, and property owners are working to pin down a business for the southern portion of the building.
The property overlooking the Fox River has been vacant for several years. It previously housed Danny's Corner Pocket and Chord on Blues.
"It's a fairly large building that was used by two different businesses but hasn't been divided into two properly demised spaces," Colby said. "Some of the work being funded is to assist with utility services to separate them properly between the two units."
Flagship on the Fox owner Stephen Mayer said the establishment will offer a night life experience with TVs for watching sporting events and a menu featuring burgers, sandwiches, salads, soups and a variety of appetizers. Mayer also owns Flagship Tavern in Chicago.


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Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee Explores the Impact of Social Media Evidence on U.S. Trademarks
Published: September 15, 2019
Jocelyn Hanamirian The Walt Disney Company Burbank, California, USA
The pervasiveness of social media continues to grow, and has now extended to the realm of intellectual property. With this in mind, the Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee, European and Central Asia Subcommittee, and the United States Subcommittee have collaborated on this two-part, regional perspective explaining how to submit evidence of social media usage to prove fame to courts and to administrative tribunals.
Part 1 of the series, published in the September 1 INTA Bulletin, provides a perspective from the European Union. Here, Part 2 of the series provides a perspective from the United States.
Today, a robust social media presence is a key part of a company’s marketing strategy. Increasingly, the challenge of measuring the impact of clicks, likes, and follows falls not just to marketing and analytics teams but also to trademark practitioners, as they advocate for a brand’s strength and fame in the marketplace.
A survey of U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB or Board) decisions, as well as U.S. federal and state court decisions, revealed that U.S. tribunals routinely recognize social media statistics as evidence of the strength or fame of a brand. At the same time, there are challenges to effectively harnessing this evidence.
U.S. tribunals recognize social media profiles and posts as evidence of the fame of a trademark, both within the context of a trademark infringement claim’s likelihood of confusion analysis (as evidence of the commercial strength of a mark and/or the marketing channels used to promote the mark), as well as within the context of dilution claims, as evidence of the duration, extent, and geographic reach of advertising and publicity of the mark.
As the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit put it, “Promotion on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook not only constitutes marketing, but is among the most popular and effective advertising strategies today.” Kibler v. Hall, 843 F.3d 1068, 1075 (6th Cir. 2016) (finding the district court erred when it failed to consider plaintiff’s social media marketing evidence of commercial strength of plaintiff’s mark).
It is difficult to draw a conclusion as to the value of social media evidence per se, in part because evidence of a mark’s exposure through social media is most often only one component of a larger evidentiary submission on the fame of a mark, along with sales and advertising figures. Certainly, the fact that a brand has earned a substantial consumer following on social media can be a valuable piece of the puzzle.
For example, in recent TTAB decisions concerning the opposers’ marks CHANEL, GUCCI, and MARGARITAVILLE, the Board cited the number of the brands’ social media followers and webpage visits as evidence of the fame of the marks, alongside other significant evidence of fame. Chanel, Inc. v. Makarczyk, 110 USPQ2D (BNA) 2013, 2020 (Trademark Trial & App. Bd. May 27, 2014) (noting that the opposer’s CHANEL mark had more than 9.5 million Facebook fans, approximately 40 million views of its YouTube channel content, and ranked as the number one shared fashion brand on Pinterest); Gucci Am, Inc. v. UGP, LLC, 2018 TTAB LEXIS 241, *13 (Trademark Trial & App. Bd. July 13, 2018) (non-precedential decision) (noting that the opposer’s GUCCI mark had “almost 4.9 million Twitter followers, 17.4 million Instagram followers, almost 16 million Facebook followers, and has received over 16.2 million Facebook ‘likes.'”); Margaritaville Enters., LLC v. Bevis, 2017 TTAB LEXIS 108, *15 (Trademark Trial & App. Bd. Mar. 16, 2017) (non-precedential decision) (noting that the social media presence of the MARGARITAVILLE brand has expanded consumer exposure to the brand).
In one notable federal case, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) obtained an order preliminarily enjoining a defendant art gallery and café from use of the mark MOMACHA, demonstrating a likelihood of success on the merits of its dilution claim with evidence of fame of the MoMA mark that included not only more traditional metrics, such as museum attendance figures and merchandise sales, but also statistics such as the volume of unique visitors to MoMA’s website (more than 13 million) and MoMA’s social media following (more than 5.5 million followers on Twitter, 3.4 million on Instagram, and 1.96 million on Facebook). Museum of Modern Art v. MOMACHA IP LLC, 339 F. Supp. 3d 361, 369, 381 (S.D.N.Y. 2018).
If the subject mark is displayed within a brand’s social media account, the Federal Circuit has suggested that this is sufficient to show that consumers who follow that social media account are exposed to the mark. See Omaha Steaks Int’l v. Greater Omaha Packing Co., 908 F.3d 1315, 1321 (Fed. Cir. 2018) (“In light of the direct overlap between the company’s name and its marks, it is undisputed that an Omaha Steaks ad involved either its registered tradename, ‘OMAHA STEAKS,’ or one of its registered trademarks displaying that name.”).
Where available, it may be useful to provide further context to supplement raw social media statistics, such as how interactive customers are with a brand on social media, whether a brand has been the subject of significant marketing campaigns leveraging social media, and whether a brand’s social media following has grown over time, telling a larger story about consumer awareness of a mark.
Following the Federal Circuit’s clarification in Omaha Steaks of its holding in Bose Corp. v. QSC Audio Products that evidence of market share is not strictly required to contextualize ad expenditures or sales figures where such figures are not misleading, the TTAB has nevertheless suggested in a footnote to a recent decision that, “the better practice is for the propounding party to introduce testimony and evidence into context so as to remove any doubt [that the figures are misleading] (e.g., the significance of the number of hits that a website may retrieve or the number of followers one has on social media).” Am. Express Mktg. & Dev. Corp. v. Vo, 2018 TTAB LEXIS 447, *10‒12, n.19 (Trademark Trial & App. Bd. Dec. 13, 2018).
In the context of dilution claims, the high degree of fame required can present a further challenge for brand owners, propounding evidence of social media marketing. Interestingly, if a brand characterizes its use of social media as permitting it to target a particular niche of consumer, this may cut in favor of a finding of likelihood of confusion-where a defendant’s mark targets the same niche through the same channels-but it may also undermine a plaintiff’s ability to prove for dilution purposes that it has achieved more than niche fame. Ducks Unlimited, Inc. v. Boondux, LLC, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 132383, *96‒97, *110‒112 (W.D. Tenn. Aug. 18, 2017) (target consumers shared by parties found to be an overlapping niche audience).
Overall, U.S. tribunals have demonstrated an awareness of the significance of social media statistics. While any one social media statistic is unlikely to be determinative of whether a mark is famous, relative to the strength of a party’s evidentiary submission as a whole, the foregoing illustrates the potential impact that social media evidence can have, on par with any other evidence of marketing or advertising.
Although every effort has been made to verify the accuracy of items in the INTA Bulletin, readers are urged to check independently on matters of specific concern or interest.
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BANGOR, Maine — Local bank officials say deposit fraud protections are in place to protect against fictitious ATM deposits, but that didn’t stop a Texas man from walking out of TD Banknorth on Saturday with $14,000 in cash after putting empty deposit envelopes into an ATM.
Richard Walston, 24, who recently moved to the area from Stephenville, Texas, apparently took the money Saturday and was arrested Monday after returning to the Exchange Street bank in Bangor with two friends to make another withdrawal.
TD Banknorth spokesman Neil Permenter said Thursday that the bank has security measures in place to safeguard the financial institution against ATM deposit fraud, but to protect the bank he could not say what they are.
“There are different levels of holds,” he said. “There are a variety of factors” that come into play when making withdrawals. “We do have controls and security measures in place. [Walston’s arrest is] evidence there are mechanisms in place.”
Walston, who listed a Brewer address when he was arrested, was charged with felony Class B theft and faces a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $20,000.
Penobscot County District Attorney Chris Almy said Walston has another address, 179 Indiana Ave., Bangor, which is Acadia Recovery Community, a shelter and graduated substance abuse treatment facility.
Walston allegedly made four fake deposits within minutes around 11:30 p.m. Jan. 9 at the outside ATM located near the bank’s drive-through lanes. The first two deposits were for $2,000 and the second two were for $20,000, for a total of $44,000, Almy said.
“It was later learned that he deposited empty envelopes,” he said. “For whatever reason, the bank computer allowed $22,000 of the amount to become available. He withdrew $14,000 in cash” the next day.
Banks must follow federal guidelines that deal with withdrawals, but “in this case, they didn’t even check to make sure these deposits were valid, which causes problems,” Almy said.
Marlene Thomas, vice president in branch administration for Merrill Bank, which has two Bangor branches and others around the region, said that computers, like humans, make mistakes.
“It’s a computerized world,” she said. “When they work, they work great.”
There “absolutely” are differences between in-person deposits and those made at an ATM, Thomas said.
“When you’re dealing with a machine, it takes the human element out of it,” she said.
Other local financial institutions, including Infinity Federal Credit Union and Maine Savings Federal Credit Union, do not accept ATM deposits.
Don Poisson, Maine Savings vice president of member services, said, “That’s a safety net.
“We don’t accept deposits at our ATMs; it’s just withdrawals,” he said, adding that deposits can be made through the credit union’s night deposit boxes, which are emptied by two employees. “It’s really secure.”
Having ATM deposits would require “a different level of security, and we’ve chosen not to take that security risk and have other avenues for customers to get their money into their accounts,” Poisson said.
After making the late-night deposits, Walston returned to the bank the next day “to inquire about the account and what was available,” Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards has said.
With the $14,000 in hand, Walston went on a spending spree, buying jewelry, a big-screen TV, lottery tickets, swords and other items, giving a lot of the stuff away, including cash gifts to friends, Edwards said.
Bank personnel at the Exchange Street branch of TD Banknorth in Bangor discovered the fraud and theft on Monday and called police around 12:30 p.m.
Unaware of the bank’s discovery, Walston returned to the bank at 1:41 p.m. and was arrested while two of his friends waited outside in a taxi, Edwards said. Only $1,200 in cash and some property purchased with the stolen cash have been recovered, the sergeant said.
The two friends, Brewer residents Kyle Cunningham, 19, and William Gustin, 20, subsequently were arrested on unrelated charges.
All three suspects were taken to the Penobscot County Jail. Cunningham and Gustin were released earlier this week. Bail for Walston was set at $2,000 cash or $20,000 surety, and he remained in jail Thursday evening, a jail official said. He is scheduled to face a judge in Penobscot County Superior Court on Feb. 27.
Bangor Police Department investigators are still trying to recover the remaining cash or property purchased with the stolen funds and are asking anyone with information to contact the department at 947-7384.


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Today, we were able to see, first-hand, the conditions and hard-ships of living in a rural village in Nepal. In the district of Bara in southern Nepal near the Indian border, we visited a remote village and were able to see how the people live.
We arrived in the village in the late afternoon, our jeeps barely able to drive through the narrow dirt roads lined with huts and crowded with children, chickens, goats. There were a few bicycles and the occasional motorbike, but it was clear that not many cars passed through, especially not ones filled with foreigners. Our cars pulled up to two story, decrepid school building in a large field in the middle of one of the villages; there was a large group of men crowding around to see what our purpose was there. One of the men greated us with little orage flowers, an although the children had gone home for the day, they had anticipated our arrival by writing “welcom” in Nepal by the entrance of the school. We were given a tour of the school where we learned that hundreds of children were in attendence. The building was in poor shape, and the classrooms were dirty and filled with broken benches; we were told that in some of the larger classroom, over 200 students attenden class each day. I cannot imagine trying to learn, or teach, in that kind of environment. The pre-school was nothing more than a tree-sided structure with a dirt floor; we learned that the homeless often slept under the crude shelter, and were allowed to do so as long as they cleaned up and were gone in the morning by the time the children came.
Next, we walked through one of the near by villages, accompanied by what seemed to be a village elder. He showed us his home, a small, mud hut, and showed us what his wife was cooking for dinner- some rice and a small amount of vegetables for 5 people. It was getting dark, and fired glowed outside every hut as women prepared meager meals of mainly rice; small children warmed their bare fingers and toes on slow-burning ashes. We spoke to one woman, who looked much older that she likely was, thanks to a life of work, poverty and hardships. She worked on a plot of farm land, and was paidÂ not in cash, but in bags of rice; If she took two bags home, she would have to repay the landlord with four- she was, essentially, trapped in a system of bonded labor. She worked 10-12 hours a day to feed 8 mouths.
It was an unbelievable experience to see this state of living, especially at night, when the cold, the lack of electricity, and the lack of basic needs was most prevelent.


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Apache Tajo™ 0.11.0 released!
The Apache Software Foundation announced the release of Apache Tajo v0.11.0 on Oct 28. The new release heralds significant enhancements for easier data integration and interoperability with other hadoop ecosystems.
Tajo at ApacheCon – Big Data Europe 2015
Gruter senior developer and Apache Tajo co-founder, Dr. Jihoon Son, was a presenter at Apache:Big Data Europe, held in Budapest, Hungary on September 30. Son's challenging session looked at the new features in the coming release Tajo 0.11, ...
Gruter’s paper accepted at IEEE BigData 2015
Gruter scientists are researching cutting-edge techniques on big data processing system, and a subset of our work has been accepted in the IEEE BigData 2015 Conference, titled "An Evaluation of Alternative Shared-nothing Architecture for Analytical Processing Systems".
Gruter at Hadoop Summit 2015
Last June 9-11, the 8th Annual Hadoop Summit took place in the Convention Center, San Jose. Hadoop Summit is one of the biggest Hadoop conferences in the world, where cutting edge Hadoop technologies are introduced and shared. Gruter participated as one of sponsors of the conference.


Cheat Codes x Dante Klein’s ‘Let Me Hold You (Turn Me On)’ 100 million Spotify plays
Cheat Codes x Dante Klein’s rework of classic summer hit reaches milestone ‘LET ME HOLD YOU (TURN ME ON)’ SURPASSES THE 100 MILLION SPOTIFY PLAYS
Two and a half months after its release, Cheat Codes x Dante Klein’s summer tune ‘Let Me Hold You (Turn Me On)’ reaches the impressive milestone of 100 million Spotify plays.
With its sensual beat, uplifting summer sounds and luring vocals by Cheat Codes, the LA bases trio and the Dutch Dante Klein have created the perfect recipe to heat up any dance floor. Their version of Kevin Lyttle’s classis ‘Turn Me On’ has proved to be the perfect tune for the summer of 2016.
Earlier this year Cheat Codes already reached worldwide success with their track ‘Sex’, together with the Dutch trio Kris Kross Amsterdam. With ‘Sex’ they reached yet another milestone surpassing the 300 million Spotify plays earlier this week.


ENFIELD halted a run of four straight defeats with victory over Todmorden on Sunday in the Musbury Fabrics Lancashire League.
And it was paid man Alviro Petersen who came up with the goods with an unbeaten 63 in their six wicket victory.
He put on a stand of 92 with skipper Mas Ahmed (52) in their 144-5 and Petersen has now got 858 league runs for the season.
Earlier Enfield bowler Imran Abid had taken 4-67 to keep the home side at 143-6.
Church came out on top in their local battle with Accrington who had threatened to upset the Blackburn Roaders title hopes.
However, Church were in inspired form with Phil Sykes hitting 57 and lower order batsman Sam Tucker hitting 48. He just needed two to celebrate his maiden half century off the final ball but it was a bye.
Church made 179-9 with Accrington pro Tama Canning taking 5-55 -including the wicket of his friend Mark Aspin (21).
Canning then top scored with 30 but it was Church's bowler Nick Westwell who ripped through the Accrington order with 7-42 beating his previous best of 9-83 against Lowerhouse in 1985. Accrington fell 69 runs short.
And Rishton slipped to a 110-run loss against East Lancs. The visitors made 240-6 with Paul Turner making 103 not out.
Only Rishton sub pro Tushar Arothe performed with the bat with 56.
- CHURCH pro Ruven Peiris has 971 league runs this season, with Tama Canning on 893. Peiris needs one more wicket for 50 for the season.


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Creative Accounting, Audit Risk and Audit Failure in Nigeria: What is the Auditor’s Perspective?
Innocent Augustine Nwaorgu (),
Mary-Fidelis Abiahu (),
Jacob Aondohemba Iormbagah () and
Patrick Amaechi Egbunike ()
International Journal of Economics, Business and Management Studies, 2019, vol. 6, issue 2, 261-271
Creative accounting has taken a centre stage in the discussions around audit failures on the global stage. Several researches have sought to proffer solutions that aid organizations to avoid the potholes. This study however examined the Auditors’ perspective on the effect of creative accounting practices on audit risk and audit failure in Nigeria. The study employed survey research design using the Chi-square to analyze data gathered from questionnaires distributed to 115 practicing auditors from different geo-political zone in Nigeria. The findings of the study revealed that creative accounting has a significant effect on audit risk with a non significant effect on audit failure. Based on the results obtained from this study it is recommended that, Auditors should ensure that detailed attention is given to the detection of creative accounting practice by managers during the course of audit practice. Also, auditors must make sure that they adhere strictly to the dictates of the International Standards on Auditing in order to avoid failure of audit.
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Most books, films and songs that speak of love refer to romantic love between two people. We’re taught to look outside ourselves for completion, to seek the Other and to rejoice when we connect, or to keep searching.
What we’re really seeking is a piece of ourselves, which is why we often feel incomplete when we link up with someone whom we hope will fill the empty place inside us. The wedding of the light and the dark, of the magnetic, receptive, lunar, “feminine” self and the dynamic, assertive, solar, “masculine” self, has to take place first within our own being. And yet — it’s through relationship that we get there!
The beloved is a catalyst to help us merge the complementary aspects of ourselves. This is a radical idea, and challenging to hold. It turns everything we believe about romantic love on its head. I’ll illustrate this apparent paradox with a personal example.
At the turn of the millennium, I forged a profound heart connection with what The Mayan Oracle (a book/card set based on the Mayan calendar) calls a “companion of destiny.” We unfolded deep layers of love within ourselves through the conscious soul work we did together.
Then he was gone, and as much as I know we are all One, as much as I began expanding into a greater knowing and loving because of the place he awakened in me, still there was a poignancy, a longing that lingered.
I began stretching to allow this love to be a lens I looked through all the time, not pegged to an individual. The gift of my companion’s essence, what we shared, lives on inside me, so in a sense, I felt like I was missing myself. It was a strange sensation — like seeing my reflection and wondering where the mirror was.
The way out is always through, and the way through lies in joining with other companions on the path. When I find and connect with my spiritual siblings, my sense of fullness grows. From this strength, the familiar heartache we all know transmutes into a sort of laughing pain; it doesn’t really hurt, because my high self knows the truth.
A friend of mine entered into a relationship recently, knowing at the outset that it would be brief. Her partner had made clear that his life mission would take him elsewhere. Now she feels pain. I congratulated her instead on her courage. She will not look back at the end of her life and wonder, “What if?…” She chose to walk a road that was being paved three feet in front of her.
Becoming whole — embodying our masculine and feminine energies, both within ourselves and as a planetary organism — is the creative quest of our time. It’s about affinity, like attracting like. In this ripe moment of personal and collective possibility, we’re all beginning to remember who we are on a soul level, and to integrate these energies as never before. Whether we call these complements yin/yang, receptive/assertive, or light/dark, in essence it’s about sacred reunion. As we are able to celebrate this marriage first in our own hearts, the joy and the love we then have available to share in relationship increases exponentially.
I invite you to sound the clarion call for your own companions of destiny — those who can see and honor your authentic self. The Mayan Oracle says, “When you have been truly seen, you feel empowered, and remembrance of a shared sacred trust is ignited.”
Acknowledge your connection with all life, and allow the simple to nourish you. Sitting beneath a tree, enjoying the sun on your face and the wind in your hair, being thankful for life itself, is wholeness exemplified. The romance of living — and the wedding — begins first within you.
Here are some suggestions for connecting with yourself and your companions of destiny:
1) Five Questions To Wake Up With Every Day:
- What brings me joy?
- What am I proud of?
- What am I grateful for?
- What am I excited about?
- Who loves me/Whom do I love?
Try them all or choose one and ask yourself this question every morning before you open your eyes. It’s a fabulous way to set the tone for an abundant, flowing day.
2) Loving Through Time. Name, out loud to yourself, all the people you love, or have ever loved. Remember your second grade teacher, the kind man at the candy store, that stranger who gave you money for bus fare? The list will become expansive and extraordinary as you reach back in memory. As your circle grows, you’ll feel your own heart grow more and more full of the love you seek.
3) Mudras, Meditations, Affirmations. The Mayan Oracle and other books are chock-full of specific actions you can take to transform different patterns of “shadow wisdom.” For the companions of destiny focus, The Mayan Oracle suggests the mudra: left hand over heart, right arm at right angle with palm forward and fingers together. The meditation is: “I am the faithful arrow that flies into destiny’s dawning.” The affirmation is: “I open to new beginnings. I receive guardians and guides.”
Copyright © 2001-2016 by Amara Rose. All rights reserved.
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Amara Rose is a “midwife” for our global rebirth. Her services include transformational guidance, talks, e-courses, a digital download CD, and an inspirational monthly newsletter. She is widely published in health, business and new thought magazines, both digital and print. Learn more: http://www.liveyourlight.com


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An armored truck rumbled outside the Capital Gazette newspaper office in Annapolis. Police with assault rifles walked the street. Yellow crime tape cordoned off the newsroom where the journalists were fatally shot.
And across the street, their colleagues — two reporters, one photographer — worked to report the story of the day: the massacre of their friends and co-workers.
“I don’t know what else to do except this,” said reporter Chase Cook, the grief showing in his eyes.
Cook, a state politics reporter for The Capital newspaper, had worked 16 hours on Tuesday covering the primary elections. So he was home Thursday afternoon when a gunman blasted his way into the Capital Gazette newsroom. Armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun, police say, the attacker killed five people, and two others were injured — reporters, editors, sales assistants.
Just that morning, assistant editor Rob Hiaasen had called Cook. A reader had complained about a headline.
“We worked it out,” Cook said. “I haven’t spoken to him since.”
Hiaasen was one of the journalists killed.
On Thursday afternoon, Cook’s cellphone rang again. Editor Rick Hutzell said there there had been a shooting. Hutzell was hurrying back from vacation in Ocean City.
Cook also sped to the newsroom.
Outside the Westfield Annapolis Mall, he saw photographer Joshua McKerrow, a 14-year veteran of the newspaper. They embraced.
McKerrow had started his workday at sunrise, photographing the induction of the newest class at the Naval Academy. By afternoon, he was driving home to celebrate his daughter's birthday. He had promised her a snowball.
Hutzell had called him, too.
"He said he'd heard there had been a shooting," McKerrow said. “He couldn't get in touch with anyone in the newsroom."
As McKerrow drove, he heard sirens.
"Literally, that same moment, I saw dozens of emergency vehicles. ... My heart sank.”
At the mall parking garage, Cook and McKerrow met reporter Pat Furgurson.
Furgurson had spent the morning at the doctor’s office. He decided to lunch at the mall before work. His cellphone rang with an editor at The Baltimore Sun warning him: stay away.
“He said, ‘There’s been a shooting in The Capital building,’ ” Furgurson said. But he was in disbelief. He pictured a former newsroom, a few miles away.
“The old one?” he asked.
Now, the three journalists joined to begin reporting on the crime in their newsroom.
Those who escaped the gunman were at the police station and unreachable. Cook scrolled through their tweets, glimpses of chaos: “Please help us … gunman shot through the glass door … opened fire on multiple employees … nothing more terrifying.”
Furgurson’s pickup truck — the one he had driven back and forth across Anne Arundel County in his 19 years with the paper — became their makeshift office. There was a Jesus figurine on the dash, a blues CD in the radio, and laptops in the truck bed where McKerrow was filing photos from the scene.
Cook leaned against the tailgate, a reporter’s notepad in his back pocket, typing updates on his cellphone.
They knew few details. They tracked updates from police.
As they worked, a swarm of national news media descended on their office, home to a pair of local newspapers tracing back nearly 300 years.
“Jeff did say we’re putting a paper out?” Cook asked.
McKerrow adjusted the camera strap on his shoulder.
“He did,” the photographer said firmly. “We are.”
Between their news stories and photos, they texted messages to family, friends and colleagues. The phone calls poured in. Journalists who left the newspaper years ago offered to return and help.
How are you? they asked.
Cook was OK. But what else does one say?
“The words ‘OK’ and ‘good,’ they don’t really mean anything right now,” he said.
He turned back to his phone, and his next assignment: biographies of his five slain colleagues.
Furgurson’s wife arrived. They watched police work the crime scene across the street.
“How many of you are there to put out a paper?” Becky Furgurson asked her husband.
“We don’t have any editors, except Rick,” he told her.
Hutzell arrived. They hugged in the parking garage. Then the editor left to speak with the police.
Hours passed. Police and reporters gathered at 8 p.m. for a news conference. Cook and Furgurson squeezed through the crowd of journalists from NBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal.
Radio reporter Joel McCord saw Furgurson and shouted. McCord waved him over.
“No,” Furgurson yelled. “I’m trying to save my spot."
In the barrage of reporters’ questions to police, Cook managed to get one in. He wanted to know about his colleagues who escaped.
“Can you just tell us a little bit about the people who were not injured?” Cook asked. “What their status is? How they’re doing?”
“We have people here who have met with them,” Lt. Ryan Frashure said.
The reporter and the police spokesman had spoken countless times at crime scenes. But never like this.
“It’s very important that they’re taken care of,” Frashure said. “Our hearts go out to them.”
Furgurson found himself called out as a Capital reporter. In moments, he was mobbed by national news cameras.
He doesn’t remember what he said. But he felt his words were imperfect.
“I should have told them to buy a local newspaper.”


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Healthcare practice is rapidly changing with advances in technology in a globalized world. The way we practice,communicate and relate to each other is relentlessly changing and with it the way we make decisions. Decision making in healthcare practice is an important clinical reasoning process and issue. It has impact on efficiency and consequences for effectiveness.
|Title of host publication||Clinical reasoning in the health professions|
|Editors||Joy Higgs, Gail M. Jensen, Stephen Loftus, Nicole Christensen|
|Place of Publication||Edinburgh|
|Number of pages||9|
|Publication status||Published - 2019|

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IMF decreased its forecast for the Russian GDP growth
The International Monetary Fund decreased its forecast for the Russian economic growth in 2014 and 2015 to 0.2% and 1% respectively, declared the Advisor of the European department of the IMF, Antonio Spilimbergo on April 30, 2014.
Remind, that the previous forecast was at the level of 1.3% for 2014 and 2.3% for 2015.
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This isn’t unique to the Omate TrueSmart watch, however there were some issues that popped up after the Kickstarter period came to an end. The folks at Omate have made some unpopular announcements in the weeks since the funding has come to a close, notably, about how the watch would not include the Play Store. On the positive side though, despite seeing delays, Omate does seem to be keeping those backers informed of what is going on.
To that point, they have recently offered another update on the shipping. This one comes as a bit of good news and bad news though. First, the good. Omate has said the Developer Edition watches are now shipping. This means those who backed as a developer should be receiving their watch within the next two weeks time. There are about a 1,000 in that group and the watch had 512MB RAM and 4GB storage with 2100MHz network support.
Shifting over to the not so good and it looks like the team is still trying to get all watches out before the end of December. Well, specifically, out before Christmas. We have seen a shipping schedule in the past, and as many will remember, they will be going out based on the specs of the watch — and not necessarily by whether you were an early bird backer. Assuming they are able to keep this schedule, all TrueSmart watches should be in the backer hands within a few weeks time.
As a recap, here is the current schedule;
- 512MB+4GB (2100MHz EU 3G): End of Nov
- 512MB+4GB (1900MHz US 3G): Mid of Dec
- 1GB+4GB (1900MHz US & 2100MHz EU 3G): Mid of Dec
- 1GB+8GB (1900MHz US & 2100MHz EU 3G): End of Dec
Otherwise, there was some talk of CNC issues. Details here point towards a “high failure rate of the curved touch panel” during the Pilot Runs. This meant the team had to rework the casing to make it fit properly. To fix this they hired a pair of quality engineers to better monitor the process. There was also mention of how the wristband tooling was modified to a more robust design and they qualified a better water-resistant loudspeaker supplier.
But development issues aside, it now seems the biggest hurdle is going to get the orders packaged and sent. If you remember back, the Omate Kickstarter offered quite a few options as add-ons and this appears to be causing issues — making sure everyone gets those extras (such as t-shirts) that may have been added on. That said, here is to hoping Omate will be able to keep to the delivery timeframe without any further issues.