Friday, August 28, 2015
Why Bernie Would Make A Terrible President
As I write this, Senator Bernie Sanders is set to introduce a bill that would, if passed, end the for profit prison industry in this country. I say "if passed" because like virtually every other bill Sanders has introduced, it has zero chance of ever becoming law. For instance, back in July, Sanders introduced a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. To say it was dead on arrival would be an understatement.
And therein lies the big problem with Sanders. He is an idealist whose vision for America, if elected, will never see the light of day. Imagine if Bobby Kennedy hadn't been taken from us in '68. He'd be Bernie Sanders today. But unlike Kennedy, who, had he won, would've had Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, Sanders, if he wins, would face, at best, a divided Congress, with Democrats holding a slim majority in the Senate and Republicans holding the majority in the House or, at worst, both houses firmly under GOP control.
It would be the ultimate "no-win" scenario for a Sanders administration. A populist president stymied at every turn by a determined opposition and unable to get any of his political agenda through. Sound familiar? Can you spell screwed?
Now I know what some of you are thinking. All the Democrats have to do is win back the House and get to 60 seats in the Senate. Good luck doing that. This isn't 2008. Not by a long shot. The truth is, thanks to gerrymandering, there is no math that leads to a Democratic majority in the House for the foreseeable future. The Senate? As of now, Democrats would be lucky to get to 51 seats, and keep in mind, one of the seats they're counting on - Pennsylvania - shows Republican Pat Toomey with a 15 point lead over his opponent. Two others - Florida and Ohio - are tossups at the moment. Hardly reassuring if you're a Democrat.
Progressives always go apeshit when they hear this, but they're living in a make believe world if they think they just because they've had a few victories over the last several months that the world is their oyster. It's one thing to be on the right side of the history; it's quite another to govern a country in which roughly 45 percent of the population profoundly disagrees with your worldview. Make no mistake about it, the far Right is more than willing to go to the mat to stop the freight train that is coming their way. And with Republicans more worried about facing a primary challenge than losing a general election, Bernie Sanders could be the second coming of Christ and the results would be the same: a lot of great speeches with nothing to show for them.
Despite her many flaws, Hillary Clinton would likely be a more pragmatic president than Sanders. She learned a great deal from her husband, especially the way he was forced to work alongside Republicans after Democrats got creamed in the '94 midterms. She's also had first-hand experience serving both in the Senate and in the State Department all the while being in the crosshairs of the GOP. Assuming she survives this email scandal, she will be far stronger for the ware.
The one thing that progressives have in common with Tea Party conservatives is their contempt for compromise. They see Bernie Sanders as the perfect tonic for what ails a broken political system. And they may be right in their assessment. The system is broken and has been for quite some time. But being right isn't the same as being successful and, like it or not, success isn't measured by the things you want but rather what you're willing to do to achieve them. While I admire Sanders' principles, I just can't see him willing to negotiate with people he profoundly disagrees with. Can you see him dealing with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell on a budget, or the environment, or anything else for that matter? Me neither. But I can see Hillary Clinton doing that and coming out of that negotiation with most of what she wanted. And, no, not because she's principled, but because she's a political animal just like her husband was. It's no accident that 15 years removed from the Oval Office, Bill is still the most popular ex-president the country has had since the days of FDR. And conservatives can't stand that fact. It drives them nuts.
Look, I get it, progressives. Hillary rubs you the wrong way. She's Lex Luther and Bernie is the Man of Steel. But this isn't a movie; this is real life. And in real life, it isn't the charismatic hero who fills arenas that ends up saving the day. In fact, except for the rare instance, heroes rarely accomplish much at all. Jimmy Stewart played Mr. Smith in that movie we all love and cherish. But it was, after all, a movie.
I know the term career politician has gotten a bad rap and deservedly so. But since when did the term novice become so endearing? You may love Bernie Sanders just like you love Elizabeth Warren. There is nothing wrong with that. As progressives, we should never be ashamed to embrace those things that define us. I would much rather live in a progressive, pluralistic world than the xenophobic, backwards world most conservatives would have us live in. But if we don't choose the right candidates to lead us, we might never see that world come to fruition. I think Bernie Sanders would be so badly overmatched he would be a one-term president. He would make Jimmy Carter look like LBJ. And that is too much of a risk to take, especially given the stakes.
If Hillary Clinton is not your cup of tea, so be it. Ask yourself this question. Is Jeb Bush your cup of tea? Or Scott Walker? Or, Heaven help us, Donald Trump? Personally, the Republican candidate I'd be most worried about is Ohio governor John Kasich. To paraphrase the Rolling Stones, you can't always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need.
Food for thought, people.


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Harry Newton came by the Mint Hill Times office this week to drop off a picture of a recent fishing trip to Tennessee. He traveled with fellow Mint Hill resident Ken Allred and together they caught hybrids that weighed between 8-10 pounds. The largest striper was 16 pounds and they used gizzard shad for bait.
Although both Patriot varsity teams dropped contests at Vance on Tuesday night, both coaches are optimistic as they head into conference play Friday night.
The Indy boys were trailing by 21 at halftime, but a third quarter rally cut the Vance lead to single digits. Head Coach Preston Davis said he made a challenge to his players during the intermission.
“I told them they weren’t playing with enough energy, and they were playing weak. I really had no fight out of them. I told them they needed to step up and show some fight.”
Davis sees some aspects of the game that the Patriots need to improve.
“We can’t give teams more opportunities than they already get. We definitely have to work on taking better care of the basketball and avoiding turnovers.”
Boys: Vance 76 Independence 54
Girls: Vance 38 Independence 33
A Wake Forest Rolesville fan posted a video of team highlights on youtube. What caught my eye was the title of the video that says Butler is “hype.” If there is one school who has lived UP to the hype this season, it’s Butler. Not only did they lose their All American quarterback (Christian LeMay) […]
Sue Myrick (N.C. 9) voted against the DREAM Act last night, citing loopholes that will lead to amnesty for illegal immigrants. Myrick is the U.S. Representative for the Charlotte area, including Mint Hill.
“The DREAM Act is amnesty, plain and simple,” she said. “Once an illegal alien applies for citizenship under this bill, the government is […]

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First appeared in print in The Rhinoceros Times, Greensboro, NC
Did We Invade the Wrong Country?
I find it just a little amusing that pundits -- especially opponents of the war -- are now saying, "It looks like we invaded the wrong country, if we wanted to get the governments that supported 9/11."
What they mean is that Iran, not Iraq, seems to have given the terrorists who blew up the World Trade Center safe passage -- including the decision not to stamp their passports so that they could not be identified as having passed through Iran.
Well, duh. Of course Iran supported them. Iran has openly supported terrorism since the "holy" dictatorship of the ayatollahs was established during the Carter presidency.
But we didn't invade Iraq because they directed or actively supported or had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attack. Nor did President Bush ever say so. What he said was that Iraq was an active supporter of terrorism -- an undisputed fact -- with a relationship with Al-Qaeda -- again, another undisputed fact.
President Bush never said that Iraq was directly in charge of or had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks.
What he did say was that Iraq was a dangerous, active supporter of terrorism, that Iraq had used some WMDs (poison gas) against domestic and foreign enemies, had developed others (biological weapons), and had actively worked to develop nukes. All facts.
But the President could have made an even better case against Iran and its client state, Syria. Or, for that matter, the genocidal regime in Sudan.
Militarily, Sudan and Syria would have been much easier campaigns to conduct, demanding much smaller forces and in both cases liberating millions of grateful people from viciously oppressive, murderous regimes.
But Sudan and Syria both knew their vulnerability and changed their stripes -- just enough to persuade the U.S. that negotiation was better than invasion.
Iran's regime, however, has taken the opposite tack. They have defiantly proclaimed their intention of developing nuclear weapons -- and we know they're crazy enough to use them, if not against us, then against Israel.
So why didn't we invade Iran instead of Iraq?
First, our goal was not to invade everybody who sponsored terrorism. The hope was that by toppling one powerful regime, we could persuade the other bad actors to change their behavior -- as happened with Syria, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen.
Second, in choosing which regime to topple, Iraq was the obvious target politically: We were technically already at war with Iraq, they were firing at our airplanes weekly, the American public already knew Saddam to be a criminal and a monster, and we could get the support of allies in the Persian Gulf to allow us to stage our invasion. The issue of WMDs only came up in the context of trying to get the U.N. to join us in the war.
Third, while Iraq was not the best target for an occupation -- it is an inherently unstable political unit which had been three separate provinces under the Ottoman Empire, and it has infinitely permeable borders -- it was a relatively attractive target for our military, with its flattish unforested terrain.
Fourth, Iran was and remains a military nightmare. Even now, with access to the long border between Iraq and Iran, an invasion of Iran would combine the worst features of the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns. There are plenty of mountains where resistance forces could hide, and plenty of cities into which they could melt.
Fifth, the dictatorship in Iran is not quite as monstrous as Saddam's was. There are actually opponents of the regime who have been allowed to live. There was reason to hope that with the right kind of pressure at the top and support at the bottom, the regime might either change its behavior, or the people might change the regime. An invasion might only unite Iranians in patriotic resistance to an American invasion.
We did not attack the wrong country. There were sound reasons to invade one major terrorist-supporting country (Afghanistan did not count), and the intransigent foe that practically begged us to invade was Saddam.
The truly baffling thing is that everyone is speaking about the invasion of Iraq as a mistake that needs to be blamed on someone.
The truth is that it was an astonishingly quick and relatively bloodless military campaign -- partly because so few of the Iraqi soldiers and leaders made any attempt to defend the regime of Saddam Hussein.
And the occupation -- of a country with a Sunni minority that fears democracy because it will put the Shi'ites of the south into ascendancy -- has actually gone surprisingly well, despite the mistakes we made early on.
While guerrilla and terrorist activities have taken a toll of our soldiers and of Iraqi civilians, they have never received any widespread public support. Most Iraqi citizens either tolerated or supported the American occupation as a necessary stage before returning to self-government.
And when people make much of the fact that more of our soldiers have been killed during the occupation than during the campaign, that is only because the campaign caused such an astonishingly low number of casualties among American troops.
If the initial invasion of Iraq had cost us the expected level of casualties, then the occupation would not have cost us more American lives.
It is only because of the propaganda that we have been pounded with during the occupation that the American people are actually coming to believe that it was somehow a mistake to invade Iraq.
Let's see: We ran the cleanest military campaign in history, with the fewest civilian casualties relative to the size of the armies involved. We toppled a dictator who was killing thousands of his own people a year and terrorizing the rest. We removed the possibility of Saddam giving gas, bio-weapons, or nukes to terrorist who might then use them against us -- or our friends, allies, or France.
And President Bush's administration handled it so deftly that the surrounding nations remained relatively quiescent, instead of joining in Osama's anti-American jihad.
So there were mistakes -- by intelligence services and occupation planners before the war, and by administrators and the military during the occupation.
Please show me one campaign in history that had no mistakes. Usually the mistakes cost many thousands of lives, if not outright defeat.
The astonishing thing about the Iraqi campaign is that it is perhaps the closest thing to a flawless war that we have ever conducted -- and I include the troubled occupation of Iraq in that characterization.
Even our mistakes and moral lapses have been trumpeted by us with mea culpas that no other conqueror in history has ever bothered with.
I'm fed up with the attempt to blame somebody for a military campaign that by any rational historical measure was an utter triumph.
Of course, President Bush can't call the Iraqi campaign the triumph that it was, because he knows -- as his opponents often forget -- that the war is not over.
Iraq and Afghanistan were campaigns in that war. But the terrorist jihadists have not given up. They will certainly mount another attack in the United States, timed to cause maximum harm. When we make it harder to attack some targets, that only redirects them to attack others.
More American blood will flow. And when it happens, President Bush will not have to eat any extravagantly triumphant words, because he didn't say them.
The Iraq campaign achieved much; but the war is still young.
Well, no, the war is actually quite old -- it can probably be dated to the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut.
But we only started treating it as a war in 2001. And from that point to now, it is hard to imagine any government in history that has ever managed a war of comparable difficulty as well as this government has managed it.
It is especially hard to imagine John Kerry being anything other than a champion appeaser, like Neville Chamberlain before World War II. Do you really think that if Clinton, Gore, or Kerry had been President in the aftermath of 9/11 that our enemies would have met with such swift and relentless suppression of their capability to mount further attacks on American soil?
Democrats in California are teaching all of America just how humorless they are.
Supporters of President Bush are supposed to grin and bear it when Michael Moore and Al Franken and other Hollywood "humorists" savagely slander him. But when Governor Schwarzenneger quotes an old Saturday Night Live sketch, calling obstructionists in the state legislature "girly-men," it doesn't occur to Democrats to merely shake their heads and say, "Oh, that silly Austrian."
No, they're full of outrage, demanding apologies.
And why should Schwarzenneger apologize?
Oh, because his remark was "homophobic."
That tells you exactly what the word "homophobic" means: nothing at all. It's simply an ugly word hurled at anybody who opposes the extremist social agenda in America.
Notice that nobody ever called the "Hans and Franz" Saturday Night Live sketch homophobic. Apparently it only becomes homophobic when a Republican quotes it. Even if the Republican is the person who was the original target mocked by the sketch.
Even if he's the most socially "liberal" Republican holding a governor's chair in America today.
Speaking of apologies, I expect that any minute now we'll hear a chorus of apologies from the Left for their having constantly called President Bush a liar because in his 2003 State of the Union address he said that Hussein was trying to buy uranium in Africa.
Turns out that it's the guy who called Bush a liar who was the liar. Oh, wait, excuse me, he was a "misspeaker," not a liar, because only supporters of the war are liars; opponents who get the facts wrong merely made innocent mistakes.
The fact remains: Bush's intelligence sources were right. Hussein tried to buy uranium from Niger. Just like he said.
I'm holding my breath waiting for those apologies.
The Left doesn't actually care about truth. I mean, look at how they keep pounding on the 2000 election as having been "stolen." The only people trying to overturn the outcome were the Democrats. They didn't care about an honest vote in Florida. They only cared about picking up a few extra votes in heavily Democratic districts.
Don't forget that the same Democrats tried to get the courts to erase the votes of Florida's overseas servicemen on technicalities -- while claiming they wanted "every vote to count."
And these people call Bush a liar?
Yet even now, Kerry is making a big deal about sending out teams of lawyers to watch over the 2004 election, preparing to file court actions to demand recounts wherever they can find some "irregularity."
Translated into English, that means "wherever the vote is close enough and the state courts are sympathetic enough that election results can be thrown out or added to until the correct outcome is achieved."
Thus Richard Daley, who managed the steal-the-election effort of Al Gore in 2000, has brought dirty Chicago politics to all of America.
Remember that there is only one defense against this strategy, only one way to avoid the anti-democratic shenanigans of the election thieves who are poised to try it again:
President Bush's supporters need to go and vote. Even in states where the polls say he has an overwhelming lead. Even if the media call the election and say that one or the other candidate has already won.
If the polls are open, go and vote.
If the election isn't close, even the most dedicated election thieves will give up and go home.
Remember, too, that the only before-the-count cheating in the Florida voting was committed by the television networks that announced Florida's results while the polls were still open in the Florida panhandle.
That's conservative Republican country -- the only part of the state of Florida that is solidly "southern" in culture and politics.
The media had vowed that they would not call any state until all the polls had closed. Somehow, though, Florida -- a state that they all knew was too close to call -- was the only one where an early announcement of results would suppress mostly Republican votes.
If they had held off calling the state, so that last-hour voters in that area hadn't given up and stayed home, there would have been a measurably wider margin for President Bush.
Then it might not have been close enough for even Richard Daley to think that the state might be stolen after the fact.
Don't let yourselves be manipulated. Get to the polls early. Don't wait for the end of the day. Take time off work. It's worth it. In states where a Bush victory is a foregone conclusion, pile up margins for him that are so huge that nobody can call him a minority president.
Because we can't afford to replace Bush with a candidate who has been an enemy of American defenses for his entire career -- starting the day he got home from Vietnam and threw whatever it was he threw over the fence.
Copyright © 2004 by Orson Scott Card.
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text: Plunge into Iceland´s purest hot spring water and bathe in floating pools by Lake Urridavatn. During long arctic winters, the lake freezes over. However, some years ago, the local community noticed that one part of the lake never froze. Upon inspection, they saw that hot water emerged from deep under the lake, causing the ice to melt in that one particular spot, leaving melted ice holes in that area. In Icelandic, melted ice holes are called “Vok”, hence the name of Vok Baths. Today, its purpose is not only to allow locals and guests alike to enjoy some rejuvenation, but the hot springs also supply hot geothermal water to the local community. Board your coach in Seydisfjordur and drive over the impressive mountain-pass of Fjardarheidi, pass Egilsstadir Village and head to Vok Baths by Lake Urridavatn. Seize the opportunity and dip into the hot water and rejuvenate yourself in this wonderful spa, while enjoying the stunning view of nature. Vok also features cold tubs and a sauna. While in the water, enjoy some herbal tea, brewed from the pure spring water, the only certified drinkable hot spring water in Iceland.

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The Pizza Hut Double Sensation may be the most delicious (and ridiculous) thing the iconic pizza chain has ever created. Offered exclusively by Pizza Hut Singapore, the Double Sensation gets its name from its two unique crusts. The outside crust is filled with three types of cheese: parmesan, mozzarella and cheddar cheese. The inner ring is filled with bits of chicken sausage and cheese.
As if that wasn’t enough, the Pizza Hut Double Sensation is topped with turkey, ham, bell peppers and mushrooms, all on a salsa sauce. The inner pizza has smoked chicken and zucchini pepper on an alfredo sauce. Oh, and there’s a cherry on top: a 10” sells for $21.75 and a 13” sells for $27.49. The rest of the world needs this pizza as soon as possible, Pizza Hut.
The Pizza Hut Double Sensation is Two Pies in One
1. Flavor-ringed Pizzas - Pizza chains can explore innovative flavor combinations and unique crusts to create exciting and unusual pizzas.
2. Double Sensation - Food establishments can experiment with dual-layered pizzas to offer customers a surprising and delightful culinary experience.
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1. Food and Beverage - In the food and beverage industry, there is an opportunity to push the boundaries of pizza offerings with creative and innovative concepts.
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3. Casual Dining - Casual dining restaurants can tap into the popularity of unique and indulgent pizzas to create a memorable dining experience for their patrons.

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Indeed, it is almost enough to open a medieval manuscript in any region, to look carefully at a fresco or to contemplate sculptures to realize that the child is everywhere. Simple spectator, it is also found in the center of many compositions.
In terms of the Euro-American tradition, the main periods are captured in the bipartite division, Modernist literature and Postmodern literatureflowering from roughly to and to  respectively, divided, as a rule of thumb, by World War II.
The somewhat malleable term of contemporary literature is usually applied with a post cutoff point. Although these terms modern, contemporary and postmodern are most applicable to Western literary history, the rise of the globalization has allowed European literary ideas to spread into non-Western cultures fairly rapidly, so that Asian and African literatures can be included into these divisions with only minor qualifications.
And in some ways, such as in Postcolonial literaturewriters from non-Western cultures were on the forefront of literary development.
Technological advances during the 20th century allowed cheaper production of books, resulting in a significant rise in production of popular literature and trivial literaturecomparable to the similar developments in music.
The division of "popular literature" and "high literature" in the 20th century is by no means absolute, and various genres such as detectives or science fiction fluctuate between the two.
Largely ignored by mainstream literary criticism for the most of the century, these genres developed their own establishments and critical awards; these include the Nebula Award sincethe British Fantasy Award since or the Mythopoeic Awards since Towards the end of the 20th century, electronic literature developed due to the development of hypertext and later the world wide web.
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded annually throughout the century with the exception of, and —the first laureate being Sully Prudhomme. The Lord of the Rings was also voted "book of the century" in various surveys.Drama film is a genre that relies on the emotional and relational development of realistic characters.
While Drama film relies heavily on this kind of development, dramatic themes play a large role in the plot as well. 23 themes Conflict One big conflict – 12 angry men arguing over a case – different backgrounds, views etc. Case itself is obviously result of conflict. Defendant . The s were a period of literary creativity, and works of several notable authors appeared during the period.
D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was a scandal at the time because of its explicit descriptions of sex.
James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, published in in Paris, was one of the most important achievements of . The play Death of a Salesman greatly portrays a specific ideology in regards to values, dreams, goals, and success in our consumer-driven society. It helps showcase the American dream that society tends to strive for even in the early ’s (the play is set in the ’s).
The plays of Oedipus the King and Hamlet, although written in different time periods concoct the same form of tragedy.
The definition of a tragedy as stated by Aristotle includes a characters hamartia or tragic flow, the reversal of the situation, recognition, suffering, natural means, as well as pity and fear. The Odyssey by Homer is an epic poem that has survived thousands of years!
It is the story of Odysseus, the crafty king of Ithaca, whose Trojan Horse idea helped win the war with Troy. Following his victory in Troy, he encounters many trials that delay him from reaching his home, Ithaca, and his queen, Penelope.

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Been a while since I played Graviteam Tactics: Mius Front. Started a German campaign for the Borki operation (Fateful Strike DLC), and had a couple of battlegroups defending the town of Ryabuhino which immediately came under attack from east and west.
The attack on the east side was not terribly eventful apart from a Soviet KV-1 heavy tank which managed to break through my lines and cause a bit of havoc before wandering in front of an 88 flak gun… the attack on the west was one of the more vicious battles I’ve yet fought in the game.
One battlegroup defending against three. I put my first infantry platoon in some trenches just west of the town, the second in trenches and buildings to cover the north road and the third dispersed in buildings elsewhere to try to cover other approaches. My AT guns were placed to ambush any tanks coming through town on the road, and my two 88s were dug in south of the town to cover the plains.
The Soviets attacked in several waves over two hours, and my platoon dug in west of the town took the brunt of the attacks. Despite being shelled by tanks and mortars and losing half their men, they still took out over 100 enemy soldiers.
I’ve typically had poor luck with infantry taking cover in buildings, where either their sightlines are poor or they all get killed by a direct artillery hit. The squad in this house had neither issue, and left a rather awful trail of destruction on the fields.
The 88s didn’t quite have ideal sightlines over the plains, but this one took out three tanks, two guns and just about saw off an infantry assault.
Under intensive enemy mortar fire, the phone cables between the platoons kept getting cut and the company wire squad diligently relaid them each time. It was surprising they didn’t get exhausted or take more casualties than they did. The guy in this screenshot was lucky a T-60 tank down the road hadn’t noticed him before one of my AT guns took it out.
In the end I lost 62 men and the Soviets lost 227 men, which worked out to be a 30% casualty rate for both sides and a draw overall. At least Ryabuhino was denied to the Soviets for a while longer.

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Damien Dante Wayans - World Premiere of Universal Pictures' 'Straight Outta Compton' held at The Microsoft Theatre - Arrivals at Microsoft Theater - Los Angeles, California, United States - Monday 10th August 2015 (1 Picture)
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Next Damien Dante Wayans Slideshow: - - Monday 14th January 2013
All I Want For Christmas is widely regarded as one of the best festive tunes every year
Pearl Jam announced 14 dates in the UK and Europe in June and July 2018.

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Year 4 Trip to Formby 2017
On the 10th of July our new Y4 classes had a trip Ainsdale beach, just north of Formby on the north-west coast.
We believe that all our children should have the opportunity to go to the beach, build a sand-castle and climb sand-dunes, as reflected in our 'MCPA opportunities' commitment. So that is exactly what we did!
We arrived in time for lunch, so we sat down and ate our sandwiches before they became sandwiches, then we played on the beach. The children (and staff) enjoyed digging holes, building sand castles, burying their limbs and playing sports.
Once we'd had a good run around on the beach we went to explore the sand-dunes, there are some fantastic dunes at Ainsdale made of light golden sand, they are a challenge to climb but a real treat to slide down! We were mindful of sticking to the path so as not to disturb the habitats of any wildlife.
By the time we'd finished exploring there was just enough time to dust ourselves off, tip the sand out of our shoes and hop-on the bus back to MCPA.
For 7 of our Y4s this was their first ever experience of visiting a beach, now they want to know when we're going back!


My first substantive post as a front page writer for Blogging The Boys, on September 5, 2016, asked: How close is America’s Team to getting back on top?
It re-told the story of the last 50 years for the Cowboys, broken into two periods.
The Dallas Cowboys’ Great 30 Year Run
For three decades — from 1966 to 1995 — the Dallas Cowboys had a championship run to rival any team in any sport.
Five Super Bowl wins: 1971, 1977, 1992, 1993, 1995.
Three more Super Bowl appearances: 1970, 1975, 1978.
16 NFC (or NFL) Championship game appearances: 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995.
20 consecutive winning seasons: 1966-1985.
A won-loss record of 378-227, or .624, during those 30 seasons.
Top five scoring offenses 15 times (in 30 seasons).
Top five defenses in points allowed 11 times (in 30 seasons).
The Cowboys’ Last 20 Years
Unfortunately, since the Cowboys last Super Bowl victory, at the end of the 1995 season, things have not gone as well. Over these last 20 seasons — 1996 to 2015 — the Dallas Cowboys have managed:
No Super Bowl wins or appearances.
No NFC Championship game appearances.
Nine winning seasons, with the longest stretch spanning five years from 2005 to 2009.
Eight playoff seasons, but only two playoff victories.
A won-loss record of 156-158, or .496, 128 points below their previous 30-year run.
Top five scoring offenses 4 times (in 20 seasons).
Top five scoring defenses 5 times (in 20 seasons).
Of course, none of this counted the amazing 2016 season, when rookies Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott led the Cowboys to a 13-3 record, best in the NFC. But the glorious year ended with another heartbreaking playoff loss one game short of the NFC Championship game. No one expected that kind of year after Tony Romo went down to injury once again in preseason.
Yet, in December, I wrote an article in this Championship Quest series: How did we get here so fast? I gave eight answers:
- Dak Prescott’s amazing best-ever rookie season for a quarterback;
- Zeke Elliott breaking even the lofty expectations he entered the year with;
- Sean Lee playing every down;
- Cole Beasley emerging as a huge receiving asset;
- The defensive line doing its part;
- Anthony Brown helping hold the secondary together after Orlando Scandrick and Mo Claiborne suffered injuries;
- Ron Leary keeping the offensive line humming; and
- The coaches doing an incredible job.
That leads us to the start of another year, and the question: is this the year the Cowboys finally break through?
To get at that question, I wrote another series of articles this offseason looking at real quarterback rating differential, a stat developed by Cold Hard Football Facts that highly correlates not only with winning in the NFL, but, over the last five years, demonstrates the best teams in this stat are the ones most likely to reach the Super Bowl. I asked how the Cowboy might improve on their fifth-place finish in this stat, which was driven mostly by their 23rd ranking on defense (compared to third on offense).
I remain convinced that is the crux of the matter. Keep a very high real quarterback rating on offense (real quarterback rating incorporates the rushing stats of quarterbacks, along with their fumbles, so it’s a more comprehensive number than the more commonly used quarterback rating) while dramatically improving the rating against opposing quarterbacks on defense. It seems like that’s exactly the plan the Cowboys have tried to implement this offseason.
One reason to make a big change on defense is that the Cowboys defensive quarterback rating has been steadily bad for the last five years - 27th (2012), 28th (2013), 23rd (2014), 22nd (2015), 23rd (2016). Clearly, keeping the secondary was unlikely to lead to any improvement. So the Cowboys let Brandon Carr, Barry Church, J.J. Wilcox, and Morris Claiborne go, and brought in Nolan Carroll, Chidobe Awuzie, Jourdan Lewis, Bene Benwikere, and Xavier Woods, to go with a healthy Orlando Scandrick and a second-year Anthony Brown. They also overhauled their defensive line, and have Jaylon Smith on the field.
Will it be enough to improve the Cowboys’ defensive rating against opposing quarterbacks? At the moment, the Cowboys defense is still a mystery. But there’s hope. Certainly, one should expect fairly steady improvement over the year as the defense plays together and starts phasing in the rookies.
To start the season, everyone is guessing how things will fall out. My own sense is that the Cowboys have a chance. Perhaps a very good chance if things fall their way and they aren’t derailed by surprise injuries.
On the offensive side, I expect Dak Prescott is going to be better. Dez Bryant will be back. The offensive line will be rock-solid. Zeke will get to play while his suspension fight is played out in the courts. The team has some new weapons in Ryan Switzer and eventually Rico Gathers.
On the defensive side, I believe the defensive line will be better, the linebacking will gain with Jaylon Smith’s presence, and the secondary will have growing pains, but will end the season better than the group was last year.
Meanwhile, Dan Bailey and Chris Jones will do their jobs, and the return game will improve with Ryan Switzer on board.
There will be stiff competition from the Seahawks, Packers, and Falcons, and NFC East games will not be easy. But at the end of the day, the Cowboys should repeat as division champs, and could get a bye and a home game again, which means they will need only one victory to advance further than they have in 21 years.
I think the Cowboys will finally end their drought, and make the Super Bowl, where they are most likely to face off against the New England Patriots. Go Cowboys!


The Uganda Revenue Authority and a number of banks have expressed concern that businesses are preferring to transact in cash rather than use the banking system.
The stronger revenue collection measures adopted by the authority last year have scared several businesses and inspired elusive tactics that include accumulation of substantial cash in their premises, a trend that has affected tax collections and growth of bank deposits while undermining local production, experts say.
The practice seems common among small and medium sized taxpayers. Stiff measures dominated by the use of agency notices — a legal option that allows URA to recover outstanding taxes from stubborn taxpayers through blocking their bank accounts and attaching available funds till the tax liabilities are fully cleared — have been cited as a possible key motivator for businesses to shun bank deposits in order to escape the tax net.
The use of agency notices against defaulting taxpayers is often preceded by numerous reminders from the tax agency to pay outstanding taxes before the close of the financial year. Other punitive actions include shutting down defaulting businesses, confiscating cargo containers and prosecution of errant taxpayers.
Increased cases of huge cash stocks held by some businesses have resulted in frequent cash payments to suppliers and other parties, growing use of mobile money services for execution of financial transactions and purchase of physical goods, sources claim.
Fears of other prying eyes
Though some businesses have been hit by the hard times, as demonstrated by rising loan and tax default levels, other firms with long experience in the informal sector are still coming to terms with mounting enforcement pressures by Uganda’s taxman leading to poor compliance habits, observers say.
The flight from banks to reliance on the risky option of keeping hard cash is attributed to fears of other prying eyes like the Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA). According to Inspector General of Government Irene Mulyagonja, the corrupt are hiding their money in real estate.
A Bank of Uganda directive that all money transactions above Ush20 million ($5,875) be transacted by cheque and a related requirement that for a purchase of property above Ush50 million ($14,688), the source of money be declared, have all gone unheeded.
Widespread investments in idle, physical assets deprives the economy of valuable resources needed to support viable productive ventures, particularly in the services sector by keeping interest rates high — a scenario that amounts to limited economic growth, economists argue.
Consequently, revenue collections have suffered in recent months while banks have experienced slower deposit growth, a challenge reflected in aggressive deposit promotion campaigns carried out by leading banks since March.
Total revenue collections for the first nine months of 2015/16 stood at Ush8, 139.06 billion ($2 billion) a deficit of Ush194.62 billion ($57.9 million), an outcome largely blamed on negative economic conditions and the side effects of the General Election.
For example, Pay As You Earn (PAYE) returns recorded a shortfall of Ush19 billion ($5.7 million) between July 2015 and March due to weak cash flow in the telecommunications sector and a slowdown in business activity the oil and gas and banking sectors, URA data showed.
Financial analysts claim the overall tax revenue deficit rose to Ush300 billion ($88 million) last month; a factor that has put pressure on the taxman to bridge the revenue gap with less than a month left to the close of this financial year.
Total deposits held by Ugandan commercial banks grew by 12.1 per cent in 2015 compared with 14.9 per cent growth posted in 2014, latest Bank of Uganda data shows. Shilling deposits increased by 1.8 per cent to Ush8.52 trillion ($2.5 billion) in 2015 compared with a 13.8 per cent growth during the previous year.


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Say Benghazi and everybody in America sees Hillary Clinton, at a congressional hearing, asking plaintively, desperately, angrily, in reference to the truth: “What difference at this point does it make?”
Good question. Let’s have a look.
That matter, that Benghazi matter, has since been settled — at least, in the minds of the left. A House report didn’t reveal any bombshells, a wrongful death suit filed in federal court against Clinton was just dismissed this May.
And even though questions still linger — this, “Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Debacle: Arming Jihadists in Libya … and Syria,” from a National Review headline in August 2016 — fact is, Clinton seems to have skated on the responsibility factor of Benghazi.
But the former first lady-turned-secretary-of-state didn’t become the face of Scandals Filed, But Not Forgotten for nothing. She’s got more curious connections than Baby Swiss does holes.
Twenty Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee recently asked the Justice Department via letter to appoint a second special counsel to look into actions taken by Clinton, former FBI chief James Comey and ex-Attorney General Loretta Lynch during the 2016 campaign season. Their concerns?
They say special counsel Robert Mueller’s look at Russian election interference is too narrow and that the investigation ought to expand to cover the time frame of Barack Obama’s administration, focusing particularly on Comey’s handling of Clinton’s email server scandal and the hush-hush impromptu meeting and chat between Lynch and Bill Clinton at a Phoenix airport.
“[W]e are not confident that other matters related to the 2016 election and aftermath are similarly under investigation by Special Counsel Mueller,” the letter states. “The unbalanced, uncertain and seemingly unlimited focus of the special counsel’s investigation has led many of our constituents to see a dual standard of justice that benefits only the powerful and politically well-connected.”
In layman’s? Watchdogging and bulldogging President Donald Trump while lap-dogging Clinton and her around-the-clock team of supporters strikes as biased.
Then came this, from Sen. Chuck Grassley, on behalf of the Senate Judiciary Committee: Dear Justice Department — can we get an investigation into Clinton?
In a late July letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Grassley wrote: “Are you investigating the Ukrainian government’s intervention in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of the Clinton campaign? If not, why not?”
That was after Trump himself publicly pondered why his supposed friends in high political places — the GOP, the ones in his own Cabinet — were standing silently by as the left donned one tin foil hat after another to find a Russia collusion connection.
“Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump campaign — ‘quietly working to boost Clinton,’ ” Trump tweeted, alongside a handle to Sean Hannity of Fox News. “So where is the investigation A.G.”
Let’s not forget the Clinton Foundation, and its role in taking in dollars and doling them out for perceived political purposes, all at the same time Clinton was serving in the Obama administration. Books could be written about the possible improprieties and illegalities there. Books have been written about just that, in fact.
And now this, from Judicial Watch, just this week — a headline on a press release that reads: “Huma Abedin Emails Reveal Transmission of Classified Information and Clinton Foundation Donors Receiving Special Treatment from Clinton State Department.”
Roughly 1,606 pages of just-released documents to the watchdog group from the State Department reveal emails “from the unsecure, non-government account of Huma Abedin, Clinton’s then-deputy chief of staff” that indicate Clinton and her staffers “expressing interest in visiting Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez and North Korean dictator Kim Jung Il,” Judicial Watch reported in the statement.
The watchdog went on to write: “A number of emails show the free flow of information and requests for favors between Clinton’s State Department and the Clinton Foundation and major Clinton donors. … Other emails show a lax attitude toward the security of communications.”
That aside, what’s also clear is that Clinton never did turn over all her emails to the State Department, despite a court order compelling her to and despite her statements to the contrary — that “as far as she knew,” she had taken all the emails from her private, home-based server and given then to her former government employer.
The weeds are deep. Scandal is Clinton’s middle name.
So here’s the takeaway, for the average American watching the ongoing media-fueled frenzy to find collusion between Russia and Team Trump on the election trail: That investigation’s gone nowhere.
No facts, no evidence, nothing concrete to show.
But there sits Clinton, red flags piled high. How about some critical eyes being thrown her way? And not just from the conservative media — from mainstream news outlets, from Congress, even courts if necessary.
‘Lest we forget: Hillary’s past haunts. The Republicans in Congress, in the majority in both houses, are in position to do something about it. The Justice Department, led by a conservative, backed by a Republican, has the standing, and the ability. And the American people are willing for the investigations to commence. So let’s kick it into high gear and let’s get as watchdoggy on Clinton as Democrats are getting with the White House. Guaranteed, an investigation or two into Clinton won’t turn up the same nothing-burgers as they do for Trump.


Robotics Plus is a Tauranga company focusing on the development and use of robotic technologies for horticulture and other primary industries. Their QuadDuster for artificial pollination of kiwifruit is being used by 25% of New Zealand orchards.
There are a number of challenges for New Zealand’s horticulture sector. Among these are finding and retaining seasonal labour, ensuring consistent pollination, guaranteeing quality in picking and packing, and safeguarding traceability.
Tauranga-based company Robotics Plus is proving that automation in horticulture can be engineered to improve systems and reduce costs.
My interest in robotics really was – I have vertical ownership right through the chain, from owning orchards, to leasing orchards, to orchard management company, all the way into ownership in post-harvest – and what I like to do is really look at where we’re going to be in 5 to 10 years’ time and what sort of things would impact us.
So, in terms of the kiwifruit sector, I can see labour is obviously going to be a threat to all of us, whether it’s kiwifruit or apples or any of the horticultural crops. Labour costs will keep rising, people today don’t want to do those hard physical jobs, so we’re becoming more reliant on RSE workers, and anyone that’s run large horticultural operations knows how difficult it is to get consistency with staff. So we sort of saw robotics as a future way of mitigating some of that risk.
I guess it really started around our pollination company, and we were looking at how we could automate pollination. During that process, that’s where I met young Alistair, who we then hooked up with and helped him through his PhD. But when we started looking at pollination, we thought that the goalpost of robotic pollen application was too far stretched, and we decided that maybe looking at kiwifruit harvesting was actually a more attainable opportunity. So being a sort of entrepreneur investor, I decided to hook up with that and have a crack at that, and we started that journey, I think, in about 2009, as part of Alistair’s PhD, which actually was to build a prototype kiwifruit robotic harvester.
Obviously now with the resurgence of G3 in the industry and the increase in crops, and we’re now – this will be the biggest kiwifruit crop ever harvested in New Zealand – you can start to see the pressures that are coming on with labour. So the level of interest is starting to ramp up. So we’ve probably been harder to get that interest in terms of kiwifruit, but in terms of what we’re doing with robotic apple packing technology, I’d acknowledge Compass Packhouse for being someone that was thinking forward as well and allowed us to form a relationship to actually test robotic apple packing. And as a result, we’ve got six commercial machines going into their packhouse very shortly, which will be a great result.
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We’re working in an innovation park, we’re a park that’s set up for fostering innovative companies. A lot of it’s around that food, agriculture, horticulture industry. We’re in our development space as part of Robotics Plus, where we are building our first commercial run of our apple packing machines.
They’re designed to drop onto a standard grading/sorting machine that the industry has really widely adopted, the likes of the compact sorting equipment. So these machines take pre-sized and sorted apples, they run them through the machine, and all the apples get oriented. So, we rotate them, and we control their rotation in a very specific way, so they lie horizontally. Once they lie horizontally, our machine comes forward, picks them up – up to four at a time – scoops them back and then places them nice and gently into the trays. They’re all in the same orientation.
There’s a lot of positive feedback around the concept and around the ability we’ve got now. They’re sort of saying that we are equivalent in performance to about two and a half people from our throughput, but we’re getting a better presentation. So our packing quality is better, and our handling is better and more consistent too, which is a really promising, nice little step for us for that commercial deployment.
Well, we’ve had one unit running in a packhouse in Nelson for – we had it running in there for a couple of months – where we just had one machine doing a small trial. We were pretty happy with that. We’ve packed about 1.4 million apples through one machine. It’s not their peak time of the season, so it wasn’t getting some of the throughput it normally would, but it’s quite a promising start. Within about an hour of them seeing the machine running, they were like, “Where’s our next nine or 10 machines? Come on, when are they available?” type scenario. So it was a really nice step to really see that fast adoption of wanting to utilise the technology.
This our mark 2 version of our harvesting arm for kiwifruit. We developed our first prototype a few years back, which we trialled and had a lot of learning from, and we’ve now taken that learning in developing the new technology. We’ve still got a little bit to go with some of the picking hand and bits and pieces. We’re refining that and narrowing it down to make it suitable for harvesting kiwifruit in a commercial operation.
About a year and a half ago, we were fortunate enough – Robotics Plus is the commercial partner in a MBIE, which is Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, high-value manufacturing rounds, where we put in a bid with Auckland University, Waikato University, and Plant & Food Research. So we are driving from a commercial standpoint, making sure there’s a commercial focus to that research, making sure there’s end-user engagement in that research.
The other part with that is Callaghan Innovation, another government agency, has been fantastic in sponsoring that project from an early stage and allowed us to really ramp up our development process to get to market faster. You know, without that, we really would have been a lot longer, I think. Bringing more expertise into our team, which that allowed us to do, has really refined our development, because my skill set is rather broad and same with some of the other team members. So being able to get some defined precise skill sets in behind some of what we’re doing has been really valuable.
One of the hardest things is getting people to adapt to technology. So if we’re to build technology and then go out and sell it, we’d have to sell at a price that most people would go, oh, question whether it will work, whether they want to invest that sort of money. So essentially, the model we’re looking at is, if you take apple packers in a packhouse, we have an install cost, and we service and maintain it, and you just pay per apple packed. But that model is based on what it costs you currently to have labour packing. So in fact it’s not costing you any more, but you’ve got a 24/7 reliability.
And then the same would go with harvesting. If currently growers pay $30 a bin to pick a bin of fruit, our target is that that’s what they’ll pay for a robot to pick a bin of fruit. So, everything we work on is from the ground back up, to look at those business models. And by doing it that way, it takes away that angst of buying a very expensive piece of technology. So, if it doesn’t work, they can remove it. It sort of just takes a lot of that decision-making process out. And we’ve trialled the model – we’ve got our kiwifruit QuadDusters that we do pollination services with. And that’s – again, what we did there was we produce pollen, we created some application technology, so our growers can subscribe in to have their application done for them. We currently apply pollen to about 25% of the New Zealand kiwifruit industry with the QuadDuster system. And that’s just proven that service model works. They don’t have to buy the QuadDuster, they can just dial in, let me know 3 o’clock today that they want their application tomorrow, and the bike arrives, does the job. So, it just makes it really simple.
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What, after all, are those strengths? Romney is thought to be well positioned as a candidate who can plausibly offer a different economic path from Obama’s. But that is now Rick Perry’s calling card, buttressed by a job creation record in Texas that Romney cannot match with any equivalent numbers in Massachusetts. And is Romney obviously more electable than other candidates? That, too, isn’t clear, as illustrated by the latest Gallup poll showing remarkably little differences in the performance of Romney, Perry, Paul, and Bachmann against the incumbent. Romney can raise a lot of money, but hasn’t shown so far that he can raise more than any of the other champion money-grubbers in the field. And while Mitt can try to make a more aggressively positive case for his candidacy, no one really believes that he can get excited conservative voters who dominate early contests snake dancing to the polls to put him over the top against carnivorous rivals like Perry and Bachmann. Romney is, at the very best, the New Nixon of the 2012 field—acceptable, but by no means lovable.
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As a result of our long-standing multifaith partnerships, JCRC recently helped launch a new coalition designed to encourage faith communities to play a more active role in encouraging their members to vote and complete their 2020 census. The non-partisan Multifaith Coalition for Civic Engagement will help connect, inspire, and organize people of faith to embrace exercising these critical civic duties
Event, Contact, Resource Submission Forms
The coalition wants to foster a network of faith leaders that can rely on each other and quickly reach out to each other. That is why we have decided to create three “living” databases for events, contact information, and resources through google forms. This is to ensure we are able to keep our information updated in real-time and without any gatekeepers. We ask both coalition members and general community members to regularly submit information to these forms and share them widely.
- Multifaith Coalition for Civic Engagement Event Submission Form
- Multifaith Coalition on Civic Engagement Contact Submission Form
- Multifaith Coalition for Civic Engagement Resource Submission Form
Event, Contact, Resource Databases
Using Google forms allows us to automatically populate your response to google sheets where our members and other partners can regularly check for new events, contacts, and resources. This is why is it is so important all members continuously submit more information! Below are the links to google sheets to see “live” updates in our coalitions database.
- Multifaith Coalition for Civic Engagement Event Database
- Multifaith Coalition on Civic Engagement Contact Database
- Multifaith Coalition for Civic Engagement Resource Database
Census Education & Engagement
The last date for the census is fast approaching. The census is important for communities to fill out because a lot of funding and grant opportunities are determined through the census. To build healthier neighborhoods we must fill out the census.
Social Media Toolkit
Need help to promote voter registration on social media then check out the national voter registration day social media toolkit! Feel free to use these social media graphics and text across your channels to promote voter registration before and/or on September 22! Be sure to use the official hashtags (1) #NationalVoterRegistrationDay and (2) #VoteReady.


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Hi everybody! Still at home. Still the flu. And rain outside. Phew. But here’s what I made this morning: A gemstone beanie! I purchased the simple black beanie some time ago, wondering what kind of vamp-up it should get. Flipping through Pinterest – as often – gives you the best inspirations. Gems are perfect for a winter accessoire make-up.
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And now: Just glue the gems onto the beanie. I didn’t arrange them first – I just glued them on the way as I was inspired by the colours. When you’ve finished, let the glue dry for about 6 hours. And then go outside and sparkle through the cold or mist or rain. Yay! Have fun and happy moments!


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People: Matt Betts' "weird and wonderful" approach to poetry
In a technology-driven world with so many forms of entertainment, the decision to engage audiences with the written word can be risky. However, it's a choice that Columbus poet Matt Betts has gladly made.
"I just love to tell stories," said Betts, who will celebrate the launch of his new collection, "Underwater Fistfight," at Destination Discount Books on Saturday, April 16.
So what inspired him on his path to becoming a poet? The work of Shakespeare, Walt Whitman and Lord Byron? Not so much.
"It was not something that really spoke to me," Betts said of the classic poetry that he was taught in school.
He wrote some poems in college, but didn't have much success "[because] the professors were not really interested in the subjects I wanted to write in," he said.
As a speculative poet, Betts specializes in science fiction, horror and fantasy. His cast of characters often comprises zombies, ghosts, robots and characters from old TV shows and movies. For example, Van Helsing and Mothra make guest appearances in his latest book. There is also a poem, "Ghost of a Beloved Children's Show Host," which "sort of references a giant purple dinosaur, but not by name," Betts said.
Betts hopes others will give speculative poetry a shot during National Poetry Month, which runs throughout April. At his event, he will discuss the genre and encourage attendees to create their own "weird and wonderful" poems.
One of Betts' early influences was"Jaws," which he saw on a 30-foot screen at a drive-in theater in his Lima hometown - at four years old. "Some of the horror stuff that I write probably started from that," he said.
As he got older, Betts sought out more entertainment that was on the scary side - a difficult feat in his rural environment. "There was one TV station," he said. "If you wanted to watch anything else, you had to struggle with the antenna. You could get stations from Columbus, and every once in a while you could get something out of Detroit or Cincinnati."
One of Betts' discoveries included a Detroit channel that aired a different monster movie every Saturday afternoon. "I would be struggling to get that antenna to bring a signal in so I could watch Godzilla … or whatever it might have been that weekend," he said.
Pretty soon, he found out other kids were doing the same thing. "They were trying to find something a little weirder, a little offbeat to check out, and we were all battling our TVs, messing with the antenna," he said. They became a "tight-knight group" in elementary school, and Betts learned about other movies and TV shows from his peers.
Betts was also influenced by comedies like "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Today, he cites humor as a significant part of his work.
After studying communications in college and working for a few radio stations, Betts moved to Columbus in 2000 and joined a writing group. His goal was to write fiction, which he still does (he has published a steampunk novel and an urban fantasy novel). He didn't even know what speculative poetry was until he attended "Context," a writer's conference once held in Columbus. "The more I learned about it that weekend, it was like, 'This is what I should be doing,'" he said.
Betts credits the writing groups, conferences and overall arts and literary scene in Columbus with giving him the support he needed to succeed. "I had lived in Cleveland a little bit, I went to school in Toledo and I lived in Lima, and I had just never had that [creative group] that was this large," he said. "We're all out supporting each other … it's just such a great community."
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Day job: Barnes & Noble and Columbus Creative Cooperative. "My primary day job is chasing down my two kids."
Hometown: Lima, OH
Current Neighborhood: South of Hilliard
Currently listening to: Regina Spektor, Foo Fighters
Favorite restaurant in Columbus: Mac's
Favorite movie: "Star Wars" (the original)
Favorite TV show: "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr."
What was the last record you purchased?First Comes the Night by Chris Isaak. "He's just got that unique voice and wonderful songwriting style."
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Aw, honey, so much is changing in your life, of course you will feel off! I am sorry you are going through this right now. Let yourself feel it. You seem to have a good perspective on what really matters, but your heart and mind want to feel different. Talk to people about it. try to figure out where it stems from. Are you nervous about being a Mommy? Worried about money? Sometimes figuring out what the biggest stressor is makes it easier to deal with. Sometimes our hormonal selves just get really down.
I do advise you speak to your doctor though if you really feel bad. I went through a terrible time with a pregnancy, and found out after several months that my thyroid was off and I had Hashimoto's disease. I went on the medication and felt 100% better. It is worth the blood test to have piece of mind that it is not thyroid-related.
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I am building a laser gun for pentathlon targets (also doing one). I would like to know how build a part of the gun and if I can count on a steady laser if it is attached to a motor.
The question is about the laser. I want it maybe attached to a small-(servo)motor to try to implement some cheat just for fun. Assuming the motor has a good torque, can I assume that the laser will not move (not the sightliest bit) when the motor is turned off? (I don't have any to test) This is for precision shooting, so small vibrations and a moving pointer would be really prejudicial. In case it does, what can I do to minimize the problem? Is it all about ordering the motor with the highest torque?
As you can tell, its sights are a fixed plastic point in the front, and an adjustable large back. There are two bolts, one on each side. One makes the sight higher or lower, and the other makes it point more to the right or left. How can such part be built with simple tools?


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This Project was in support of the development of the 10th episode of the "This Living World Series", entitled "Forests of Canada".
Objectives included documenting the progress of Canada’s forest sector, examining how those who work in the forest continue to develop new techniques of forest management, and compare the management of the boreal forests of Canada with forests in a number of other countries.
Filming of the 10th episode of the series was completed in December 1999 and premiered in January 2000 on CTV to an audience of approximately 3,000,000. This video examined the importance of Canadian forests and the progress being made in the management and conservation of these forests. It also examined the diversity and dynamics of Canada’s forests both in wilderness and urban settings.
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Former Eddie Stobart chief Andrew Tinkler has confirmed his intention to bid for Eddie Stobart Logistics (ESL) just hours after Wincanton withdrew from the fray and is warning that a rival bid from DBAY Advisors is not in the interests of ESL shareholders.
The confirmation came today in a Stock Exchange announcement from TVFB, a company controlled by Tinkler.
The statement confirmed that TVFB had submitted a bid to ESL which it described as "considerably more advantageous to ESL's shareholders and also its lenders" than DBAY's proposal.
TFVB is proposing an equity fundraising from new investors and existing ESL shareholders of up to £70m which it said would "deleverage ESL's balance sheet and restore liquidity, thereby immediately returning ESL to a much healthier financial position".
- Eddie Stobart Logistics questions Wincanton’s motives for pulling out of bidding race
- Eddie Stobart Logistics wins stay of execution on £200m loan
- Date set for Eddie Stobart Logistics shareholders to consider DBAY Advisors bid
It added that it had already garnered "significant commitments" towards the equity funding, which includes a "significant" amount from Tinkler and said it "believes it has identified and can fix the issues that have contributed to the profits decline seen in the core transport business in recent years".
"TVFB has prepared a detailed business plan, which shows the effect of various initiatives it proposes ESL should implement, and is confident that operating margins and growth can return to the levels last seen when Andrew Tinkler stepped down as CEO."
The company added that it had reviewed the terms of DBAY's proposals, and "strongly believes that these proposals are not in the best interests of ESL shareholders".
DBAY Advisors has offered ESL a £55m capital injection and will take a 51% stake in the company if shareholders accept its proposal. It is also offering a deal with ESL's bankers which would give it a six-month breathing space on repaying a £200m loan and more than a year's extension before it has to prove to its lenders it can service the debt.
TFVB said it is "continuing its discussions with institutional and other investors in relation to its alternative proposal".


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What is the best photo mosaic software?
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- Mosaically – Best online photo mosaic service.
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How do I make a photo mosaic for free?
Mosaically® lets you create your own photo mosaic using your own pictures. It also lets you share your photo mosaic and invite others to add their own photos. It’s free, fast, and easy. You just pick the big picture you want your mosaic to look like, and then add all the small pictures that make up the mosaic.
How do I make a photo mosaic on Mac?
photo mosaic is incredibly easy to use: drop in a picture, choose a tile source (e.g., an iPhoto event), press ‘Go’. A few seconds later you have a beautiful photo mosaic. photo mosaic is fully customizable – from the way tiles are processed to the way that colors are matched.
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How many pictures do I need for a photo mosaic?
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It supports high-definition video, Blu-Ray, 3D, tethered shooting, integration of video, audio, and still images, all the usual effects such as scrolling titles, pans, and fades, animations, speed changes, audio mixing, export to multiple formats and quality levels including YouTube and Vimeo, and tons more. It is under active development and has great community support. This may be the only video program you’ll ever need.
Pitivi has been around for a few years too. This video editor for Linux is a GNOME application and is designed to fit into the GNOME desktop. (I assume it will work just fine in KDE or XFCE too.) Installing it requires the use of Flatpak, but they give rather easy-to-use instructions on the Pitivi website, and I had no problems at all. Drag-and-drop seems to be well supported, and it first transcodes videos before they can be used, which takes a few minutes or seconds, depending on the size of each. But it appears the videos can still be used during this process.
Not knowing what you need it to do, it is hard to comment but it is very easy to use just for movies. You just open up the track you need and position it on the timeline thingy. You then put the next track on the next line. You can then add blends or whatever you want and you can edit each track right there in the viewer. When you are done just render it out. It is true that this bit of blender is just a small bit in a very big program but if you focus on just this little bit you can learn it in a few minutes.
The latest version of DaVinci Resolve features a dual timeline that allows users to quickly navigate the whole edit and trim without zooming and scrolling. There’s also a brand-new video editing engine that leverages machine learning to enable features such as facial recognition, speed warp, and others. All in all, DaVinci Resolve shows just how far Linux video editors have come over the years.
You’re missing the point; ‘nix has its place. Our servers run on it. My netbook runs it. My web development is done on it. Our databases run on it. But I don’t have time to “try” this bit of software or that software for video editing in the hope that it will provide the magic bullet. In any case, as I have stated elsewhere, every video editing program I have tried on linux has one or more severe failings in respect of the things I need to do. Attempts at creating robust video editing software on linux are, IMO, amateurish.
The developers of the Pitivi editor believe that a video editor should be flexible, and efficient. Users can choose from simple views, to a complex mode that allows experienced users to make finer edits to their project. Users get access to “hundreds of animated effects, transitions and filters”, great looking audio waveforms in the project timeline, and a timeline that supports lots of different video and audio codecs.
Regardless of whether you’re looking for a simple video editor to help you edit footage recorded on your last vacation or a professional solution fit for an aspiring filmmaker, there’s no reason to switch to a different operating system because the number of fantastic Linux video editors has never been greater. Best of all, most Linux video editors are available for free, so you can realize all your video-editing aspirations even if you’re on a tight budget.
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The Full Story Behind the Track: “Grease”
In 1978, Barry Gibb wrote the title track for the 1978 film adaptation of the popular stage musical Grease. Performed by Frankie Valli, who once exclaimed that “Grease’ was one of the biggest records I ever had in my career,” the song was number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts for two weeks. Barry Gibb can be heard singing backup vocals on the recording, which also features Peter Frampton on guitar.
The Bee Gee’s later performed the iconic song on their One Night Only tour from 1997 to 1999. Take a trip back in time and give “Grease” a listen here: http://spoti.fi/2uCGGxI

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YORK CITY, PA (January 6, 2016)—Members of the public are invited to attend a public meeting to learn about and provide input on a planning project for green infrastructure in the City of York. The meeting will be held on Thursday, January 28 at 7pm at Buchart Horn, First Floor Atrium, 445 West Philadelphia Street, York, PA 17401.
This will be the first in a series of three public meetings as part of the planning process for the City of York that will examine the extension of the Heritage Rail Trail through York City, the design of a “green” road through the Northwest Triangle, the master plan for Lafayette Plaza improvements, and the development of a Green Action Plan for the City of York. The program is funded through a planning grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and more than a dozen local stakeholders.
The first meeting on January 28 will explore recreational, environmental and multi-modal transportation opportunities in the area of the east bank of the Codorus Creek from Market to George Streets. The public will be introduced to the project area, learn about the overarching goals of the project, and will be asked for input on how those goals are to be achieved.
Registration not required.
Buchart Horn, First Floor Atrium
445 West Philadelphia Street
York, PA 17401
Directions: Access Buchart Horn First Floor between 150 & 160 Roosevelt Avenue (at Mural). Proceed straight toward Buchart Horn (BH) building. After access drive bears right, turn left into BH parking lot. Building access to the left of lot.


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This ping-pong robot is a delightful creation coming to you from Omron, a company that is better known for its high-tech healthcare products.
This demo contraption includes a full-sized ping-pong table that is essentially a display, and shows the predicted flight path of the ball as well as where you should be hitting it. This is not the first ping-pong robot from Omron, but it's the most powerful one yet because more processing power is needed to figure out where the ball goes once the robot hits it.
Don't get too excited and expect to get one of these in your home -- ultimately, this ping-pong robot is designed to showcase Omron's considerable skills in the world of automation.
This Ping-Pong Robot Features a Tabletop Display
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