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ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) – Missouri Residents may soon be paying more for electricity. Amid a tremendous heat wave, Ameren Missouri has asked for a 14 percent increase.
Customers are livid after receiving a letter in the mail warning them about the increase. Many residents are already having trouble paying their bills, and the increase could mean tough decisions ahead.
“Oh my god. I had to decide if I’m gonna pay the light bill or if I’m gonna eat,” said resident Cheryl Stewart. “It’s awful.”
Stewart is already struggling. Each month she says her bill just keeps getting higher. And because she can’t afford to pay the full amount, she was told her power will be disconnected.
“They just say you have to pay,” she said. “They don’t really care about the people. They just care about the money.”
Now that Ameren has made the request, it’s up to the Public Service Commission to grant it.
News 4 spoke to the chairman of the P.S.C., Kevin Gunn, to find out what’s going on.
“We have the law we have to follow which requires us to do certain things and then we just try to do what’s best for the consumers in the state of Missouri,” he said. “We have to balance the needs of consumers with the needs of utilities.”
However, the deal is not finalized. The P.S.C. is holding several hearings where customers will have a chance to voice concerns.
Gunn says in the past the P.S.C. has made the increase only a fraction of what Ameren has requested; so public hearings can make a difference.
We have a list of public hearing locations here

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text: Slavonice used to be on main trading route from Bohemia to Austria. Most of the buildings in the historic centre are from this era. Then, merchants started to use different routes and Slavonice "fell by the wayside". Thanks in part to that, the historic centre is well-preserved. Before the Second World War the majority of the inhabitants of the town was ethnically German and mostly Lutheran.

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Day 1 : Marrakech - Tizi n’Tichka Pass – Tagdilt
We leave Marrakech and drive over the Tizi n’Tichka Pass towards Ouarzazate. After a picnic lunch we continue to Tagdilt (1670m) where we stay the night in a typical Berber house (gite) at the base of the Sahgro massif.
Day 2 : Tagdilt – Amda n’Oughyoul
We meet the mule team and load the mules. This is a day of easy walking – a total of 5 hours walking – taking us into the foothills of Jebel Sahgro. In the course of the day we cross two passes and a plateau before descending into a steep valley where we spend the night camping.
Day 3 : Amda n’Oughyoul – Igli
A day of 4 hours walking, with plenty of time for sight seeing, climbing over the Kouaouch Pass (2500m), before descending through spectacular cliffs and waterfalls to arrive at the small village of Igli (2200m) where we spend the night in a Berber house (gite).
Day 4 : Igli – Bab n’Ali
This is a longer day – about 6 hours walking – climbing up to a high ridge with superb views across the surrounding area. From here we follow a valley to the Berber village of Boulouze. Following the river, we reach our campsite at the foot of Bab n’Ali.
Day 5 : Bab n’Ali – Assaka - Ighazoune n’Oumlas
We set off crossing Bab n’Ali before descending through a gorge and fantastic rock formations. Through the village of Assaka (1800m) we continue to Ighazoune n’Oumlas where we camp by the river Taoudachte – a total of 5 hours walking.
Day 6 : Ighazoune n’Oumlas – Nkob
Following the river we walk through several typical Breber villages and arrive near Nkob where we stay in a Berber house (gite) – a total of abour 5 hours walking.
Day 7 : Nkob – Marrakech
We drive from Nkob to Marrakech, through the date palms of the Draa Valley over the Tinifift Pass, stopping for lunch in Ouarzarte on our way to Marrakech.


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Veterans for Veterans hosts nationally recognized event, spread suicide awareness
A small group of Veterans in Louisville, Kentucky, have come together to spread awareness of Veterans at risk of committing suicide.
Veterans for Veterans, a local group, hosted the Inaugural 22 Challenge 10k event Saturday morning at Cherokee Park.
According to the group, Veteran suicide claims 22 lives each day -- that suicide rate is double that of the general public suicide rate.
The purpose of the 22 Challenge 10k was to spread awareness of the issue.
The organization said they are not asking for money, but for the support of the community to help spread awareness in an effort to reduce the common number of suicides.
Veterans for Veterans said a military life exposes men and women to traumatic situations which can lead to depression, PTSD and other mental issues linked to the risks of suicide.
After the 22k hike, VETSTOCK 2015 entertained the crowd with live music, craft beer, and food trucks.
For more information about how you can help spread awareness visit the 22 Challenge Facebook page.

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Californian’s Desperate For Water
U.S. firm sues Canada for $10.5 billion over water
CBC News Posted: Oct 22, 1999 9:44 PM ET Last Updated: Jul 09, 2015 3:34 PM
Government statement on the status of the case
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UPDATED: Since this story was first published, the federal government has posted a status update on the case on the Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development website stating that despite the initial notice of intent to submit a claim for arbitration, a valid claim was not filed and no Chapter 11 arbitration occurred. There has been no financial settlement either, according to the government.
An American-owned water export company has launched a massive lawsuit against Canada for preventing it from exporting fresh water from British Columbia.
Sun Belt Water Inc. of California is suing Canada for $10.5 billion US, the Canadian foreign ministry said Friday.
The suit has been filed under Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Sun Belt says it has been “mistreated” by the B.C. government.
The clash over exporting water goes back to 1993, when Sun Belt and Snowcap Waters Ltd., a Canadian partner, sued the B.C. government for banning bulk water exports to California. Snowcap Waters agreed to a settlement of $335,000 (Cdn).
Sun Belt did not settle with the province. The company says the B.C. government’s banning of water exports from the province violates the terms and conditions of NAFTA.
The lawsuit has upset environmentalists who are angry that companies wanting to make money exporting water are using NAFTA to override environmental laws. Ottawa has 90 days to examine the Sun Belt lawsuit.
In a related development, at a hearing Thursday night in Montreal, groups concerned about exports of bulk water demanded the International Joint Commission include this recommendation when it reports to Ottawa and Washington early in the new year.
The IJC is the group appointed by the Canada and U.S. governments to manage the countries’ shared water.
The problem with NAFTA’s Chapter 11 is that it allows water to be regarded simply as a good or product that can be sold or traded between countries. If a country stops its export, the company proposing the commercial use could sue for compensation.

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All Stars started as a spark of an idea. I’m not sure where it even came from, but one day I found myself editing one of my family photos in an effort to animate them and to get them to move. Although I didn’t know it at the time, I was developing parallax animation and using the iPhone’s gyroscope to make a still image move.
The next jump from there was to decide what to do with the emerging technique. That really was a no-brainer. I was looking for some way of creating a digital collectible in app form and it seemed to me that the parallax animations would be a great choice and would bring still images to life.
Initially, I called the idea Moveables, because it was based on a gentle rotation of the iPhone. I created several prototypes, the largest of which was based on Harry Potter and is discussed at length here.
In due course, my attention shifted on to sports teams, and in particular I wanted to aim at Premier League football teams. As a result, I did prototypes based on Liverpool and Tottenham. The idea was to bring together a team’s current and former players into a single app based on building a collection through in-app purchase. If you’ve ever collected football cards from Topps and Panini, essentially this was the digital equivalent.
I called the concept All Stars and I massively increased the level of collectibility and features in the app. In addition to the parallax animation I added simple gameplay based on tile puzzles and an extensive football simulation game where users could use the players in their collection to form their own All Star team and play it against fictional teams from around the world.
There were a number of barriers to success and at the top of the list was the ability to licence suitable images to process and include in the apps. Although there are photo agencies that could provide all of the images, any commercial app needed a licencing agreement with the individual football club. As expected this proved to be very difficult to negotiate. These deals all require a minimum guarantee and when you’re launching a completely new concept it’s difficult to make that commitment.
As a result I worked with two business partners to target a more approachable test opportunity in the form of the Welsh Rugby Union. The idea was to create an All Stars app for the Wales rugby team, learn from the experience and move on to football clubs having gathered some useful data.
The Wales All Stars app was launched in November 2014 at the start of Wales’ Autumn international series. It was a chastening experience.
Shortly before the app was approved by Apple they rejected the concept of users being able to trade “cards” via the local peer-to-peer connection that they had introduced into iOS, which meant that we lost a major feature. The marketing that I organised for the launch, via the WRU and on social media proved largely ineffective and despite some excellent user feedback, it quickly became apparent that we could not afford to continue to lose money on the product.
In hindsight the choice of the Wales rugby team as a test subject was also a big mistake. Although fans are passionate, the team plays very few games a year and interest revolves around just a few months of the year. By contrast, football fans are engaged with their team nearly all year round. It would have been better to skip the test and gone straight for the bigger prize, but that’s hindsight for you.

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Tooth sensitivity after having fillings put in or replaced is a common thing.
Some sensitivity is normal after any tooth has been worked on, especially if there has been tooth decay. Decay irritates the tooth, and working on that tooth irritates it further, to where it can develop into a painful sensitivity.
If this is the only cause, expect the tooth to gradually get better, usually within a couple of days, but it can last for several months. As long as the tooth gradually improves, there should be no cause for concern.
The decay could have been close to the pulp of the tooth. In this situation, some bacteria will always be present in the thin porous dentin between the filling and the tooth. With the tooth being irritated from being worked on, it creates a situation in which the tooth can easily become infected. If the sensitivity persists, it indicates that the tooth is not recovering from this tooth infection and will need a root canal. This is fairly uncommon however, but still important to be aware of.
If the tooth is sensitive to biting down, it may need only a simple bite adjustment.
With composite fillings, there is an unusual kind of sensitivity that sometimes occurs. With this sensitivity, the tooth is not sensitive when you clench your teeth together but will experience a sharp pain when food is chewed.
When it occurs, either adjusting the bite where the filling was placed or replacing the filling with another composite filling usually eliminates the sensitivity. If left untreated, the sensitivity may go away over a period of several months, or it may get worse.
There are other possible causes for sensitivity or pain after new fillings. A dental examination may be required to discover another source of the problem.
Bottom line is if you have any kind of sensitivity after a filling is placed well after giving it time to adjust, see your dentist!

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Had some decent chances from Palace to save and saw Puncheon fumble on the ball for one of them, giving him chance to position himself and parry the ball away. Could get nowhere near the second which was superbly struck.
Came second best against Puncheon on a number of occasions in the first-half, letting him dart past with ease. Grew intot he game as it progressed and linked up well with Albrighton.
Brought back into left-back after he was dropped in defeat to Stoke, he linked up well on the left-hand side where most of their early play came from. Struggled at times against Bolasie and allowed him to put far too many balls into the box.
Aggressive and strong in the tackle but brought the Palace coaching staff off their feet after his challenge on Jerome, earning him a yellow. Didn't look comfortable with the ball at his feet however.
Perhaps the most experienced of the back-four starting today but didn't stand out. Looked tidy on the ball and controlled the it well but a bit shaky at the back, as the defence were on whole, whenever attacks came down the left.
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Filled the role of Ashley Westwood in his absence, he put in some timely challenges on the ball although never really had a foothold on the midfield - but his team didn't either.
Lively into the game and made some bright runs as he looked to find the cross, but, as positive as his play was, he didn’t always play the right ball. Direct and made a real impact in their strong spell at the start of the second-half.
Returned from his one-match suspension but, despite trying, he dwelled on the ball far too long at times which he couldn't do against a five-man midfield. Settled into his game as it grew but then backed off Gayle for his goal.
Never the most mobile but did win a number of aerial challenges for his teammates to latch onto. Had a fine chance to set his teammates up after Delaney mistimed the flight of the path but played it to nobody. Later taken off.
Drifted towards the wings going forward and looked the most likely to make something happen, but didn't see the ball when on the back foot. Lost his role in the second-half as well but got into the right positions.
Fffered effort without ever making an impact but later presented with a fine chance from a Delph pass only to scuff his shot, then hit another glorious chance over the bar. Missed the best two chances, which was costly. Later taken off.
Should have been tested more, particularly with Weimann's effort on goal but was fortunate he scuffed his shot into the ground and straight at him. Didn't have many worries otherwise against the lowest scorers at home.
Replaced Moxey at left-back and had a decent all-round game with Albrighton his main threat throughout.
Nearly made to pay for mistiming the ball but was let off the hook by Kozak who again couldn't capitalize. Put his body in the way a number of times and made some timely aerial headers.
Had a bit to deal with down the right early on but coped well and looked strong in the challenge. He wasn't afraid to venture forward either, which was encouraging, and in the second-half the threat was nulified against Agbonlahor who faded.
Played in midfield alongside Bannan and worked hard for his side, covering ground well. Like Jedinak, he seemed suited to the midfield battle.
One of two central defenders who could have seen their errors lead to goals when he slipped on the ball high up, but Kozak was too slow to break away. In general, formed a strong back-four, particularly with the ball in the box.
Hopped past Lowton as it he wasn't there at times, making runs down the line and cutting inside. Had the perfect chance to open the scoring but trod on the ball in his shot and then had a similar chance on goal missed before taken off.
Returned to the club he graduated at and always showed for the ball while making a positive contribution at both ends of the pitch. Nearly found the net too but saw his shot tipped onto the post by the gloves of Guzan in goal. Fine display.
Provided good balance to his side and was perfectly suited to these sorts of games, slipping in behind the midfield and offering protection to the back four. Strong in the tackle and his positioning was always good.
Got himself into some decent positions inside the box but was never found, but created space for his teammates as he pulled defenders away. Didn't ever challenge himself however and was later taken off for Gayle.
In for the suspended Marouane Chamakh and it was an interesting match-up against Luna, who he ran at throughout the game. Looked lively and a handful as a result, laying on their best two chances of the game, both spurned.
Entered the game in place of Luna in a straight swap at left-back, probably to offer more strength against the runs of Bolasie. Gave away a foul against him straight away but that threat did wean as the game went on.
Brought on in place of Kozak late on in a straight swap and saw his late header tipped just over the bar by Speroni.
Brought on for Puncheon midway through the second-half, which, despite his misses, was surprising given his contributions to the game. But he helped out defensively and the midfield looked more stable as a result.
Entered the game as a second-half substitute in place of Jerome with just over 20 minutes of normal time remaining. Looked like he wasn't going to make an impact but then hit a wonderful strike on goal for the winner in the last minute.

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Hiram Man Christian Ruiz Arrested in Sexual Assault
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Police arrested a Hiram man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman.
The Paulding County Sheriff's Office says a 21-year-old woman told deputies that a man armed with a knife, sexually assaulted her in a minivan Monday evening.
Investigators say additional information from the victim led them quickly to 29-year-old Christian Ruiz.
He is being held without bond.


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Austin, Texas (PRWEB) December 13, 2007
What do our homeless, hungry fellow citizens living in the streets have in common with burgeoning technological companies? Not a lot - that is unless you consider the generous efforts of one world renowned search engine optimization company to bring about a positive impact in its local community.
ArteWorks SEO has committed to sponsoring 1000 meals per month to feed homeless fellow citizens of its Austin Texas community by promising valuable funding for Church Under the Bridge, a multi-church effort to combat hunger in Austin's homeless population. Additionally, ArteWorks SEO has provided 100 sleeping bags to the homeless to keep them warm on cold winter nights.
The Church Under the Bridge initiative is spearheaded by Mission: Possible, an organization aimed at connecting believers with people in need and establishing a connection with the Body of Christ through serving and empowering those individuals in need.
In accordance with the organization's mission, volunteers for Mission: Possible congregate weekly to share in the love of God by providing blankets, clothes and 1,600 hot meals per month to disadvantaged citizens. "Corporate sponsorships are vital to our ministry as they allow our volunteers to get involved in relationships that have a lasting impact on participants serving and being served," said Tim Pinson, Sr., Executive Director of Mission:Possible.
In its 15th year of operation, Mission: Possible is a faith based nonprofit organization which since inception has been focused on connecting to at-risk youth as well as empowering homeless individuals who are pursuing positive changes in their lives by providing a venue through which they can worship and express their faith.
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Viceland is hitting the reset button on its prime-time lineup with a big commitment to live programming. The channel announced plans this week to roll out “Vice Live,” a nightly two-hour prime-time show premiering Feb. 25.
The show will be built around a panel of co-hosts described by Viceland as “sharp, funny, pop-culture-obsessed polymath panelists, each with their own distinct and authentic points of view.” Rapper Fat Tony will host the panel, which will feature comedian and actress Marie Faustin; writer, comedian and Internet provocateur Zack Fox; and comedian, director and photographer Sandy Honig.
The program will air four nights a week from 9-11 p.m.
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Impact of the COVID-19, Whether it is life, work, study, we can not live without WiFi. WiFi is playing an irreplaceable role. More and more people work from home and more and more online courses. The COVID-19 has changed the world; WIFI allows everyone to stay at home, office, class, etc.
WiFi also plays a pivotal role in the smart home sector. With the development of 5G and technology progress, more and more manufacturers are transforming the cross-border IoT smart home industry. To achieve home intelligence, remote control, etc., you need to use WiFi modules. In this article, We will take a look at the role of WiFi in the smart home.
What is the WiFi module applied in the field of the smart home?
WiFi module belongs to the IoT transmission layer, built-in wireless network protocol IEEE802.11b.g.n protocol stack and TCP/IP protocol stack, can be converted from serial or TTL level to WiFi wireless network communication standard embedded module. WiFi module can be divided into general WiFi module, router solution WiFi module and embedded module three. Many traditional devices that can be networked are embedded modules that have an intelligent role.
WiFi modules are electronic components, but the price is very competitive. Simply embed WiFi modules in traditional devices, a second to transform into a smart home, to achieve device networking and remote control.
Compared to Zigbee modules, WiFi modules have a low R&D threshold. Therefore, from the perspective of manufacturers’ R&D and cost, smart devices embedded with WIFI modules can be completed in a short time and put into the market.
How does WiFi work in smart home?
WiFi full name Wireless Fidelity, its biggest advantage is the high transmission speed, can reach 54Mbps, in addition, it has a long effective distance, its main characteristics are: fast, high reliability, in the open area, the communication distance of up to 305 meters; in the closed area, the communication distance of 76 meters to 122 meters, easy to integrate with the existing wired Ethernet network The advantages of WiFi technology, with a lower cost of networking, are.
One, the radio wave coverage is wide, and WiFi radius is up to 100 meters, the office since needless to say, is also available in the whole building.
Second, the transmission speed is very fast, up to 11mbps, which meets the needs of individuals and society.
The main advantage of WiFi is that it does not require wiring and can be used without the limitations of wiring conditions, so it is ideal for mobile office users and has a broad market prospect. It has already expanded from traditional healthcare, inventory control and management services to more industries and is even starting to enter the home and educational institutions.
How to transform traditional home products into smart home products?
WiFi modules have become the key to unlocking the path to intelligence for traditional manufacturers. For example, traditional sockets, refrigerators, light bulbs, etc., can be implanted in WiFi modules to achieve a certain degree of intelligence.
For example, smart light bulbs, WiFi LED controllers, smart LED floodlights, etc., are embedded WIFI modules. Using LED light APP , one-to-many control can be grouped control. 16 million kinds of color adjustment, built-in 20 kinds of dynamic mode, while supporting Amazon Alexa, Google Home voice control. Inject new functions into the traditional devices to provide us with a smarter life.
The WIFI smart light bulb does not need to be paired with a smart bridge and can be used after installation and connection to WIFI. Whether at home or in the office, you can remote control the light bulb in your home through your cell phone. You can set the smart light bulb color and time of turn on/off.
It is foreseeable that the future of smart homes will not be limited to remote control of home appliances, lighting, etc. Embedded intelligent terminals, wireless WIFI technology, and the widespread use of the Internet will undoubtedly make home control more automated, intelligent and humanized. They will certainly change the mode of the traditional smart home and push the smart home to a stage of rapid development.
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Former detective tells of gangster kill threat
A former organised crime squad detective told a trial today of his terror on learning that a notorious gangland criminal planned to murder him.
Giving evidence at the County Court trial, Ben Archbold, who left the Victoria Police in April last year after nine years' service, told the jury he discovered that notorious Melbourne criminal Nick Radev was trying to find out his home address.
"I was terrified because I had been told Radev wanted to murder me," Mr Archbold said.
Mr Archbold was the first witness to be called in the trial of 47-year-old Helmut Kirsch, of North Melbourne, who has pleaded not guilty to perverting the course of justice.
The court has heard that the then senior detective Archbold was investigating Radev and another standover man, Housam Zayat over an attack on a man at an hotel in May 2001.
The court heard the man was held in a room for eight hours and dangled by the ankles over a ninth storey balcony by Radev, Zayat and others, who were trying to make him hand over $100,000.
Both Radev and Zayat have since been murdered, the trial was told.
Today, Mr Archbold said that Radev was a "very violent man" who had spent about 20 of his 21 years years in Australia in jail.
Kirsch is accused of trying to influence Mr Archbold over his investigation into Radev and Zayat, both personally and through an associate, Aly Aydin.
Mr Archbold told the jury that he met Mr Aydin, an articled clerk working for the law firm Yianoulatos Lawyers, who were acting for both Radev and Zayat, at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on July 4, 2001.
Kirsch had been a managing clerk at the firm.
Mr Archbold said Aydin told him that "in our cultures, if someone threatens to kill you, you kill them first".
Crown prosecutor Andy Moore has previously told the court that at the meeting Mr Aydin made threats against Mr Archbold.
Aydin had told him Radev was trying to find out his home address.
Kirsch has told the court that he had not planned with Aydin to threaten Mr Archbold,
He has stated that so-called threats he made in person, were not improper threats but statements made designed to prevent the police from doing anything illegal in connection with the court appearances of Radev and Zayat.
The trial, before Judge Michael Strong, is continuing.


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The United States Attorneys serve as the nation's principal litigators under the direction of the Attorney General. There are 93 United States Attorneys stationed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. United States Attorneys are appointed by the President of the United States and are confirmed by the United States Senate. The United States Attorneys serve at the discretion of the President of the United States. Each United States Attorney is the chief federal law enforcement officer of the United States within his or her particular jurisdiction.
The United States Attorneys have three statutory responsibilities under Title 28, Section 547 of the United States Code:
- the prosecution of criminal cases brought by the Federal government;
- the prosecution and defense of civil cases in which the United States is a party; and
- the collection of debts owed the Federal government that are administratively uncollectible.
The United States Attorney's Office conducts the majority of the criminal prosecutions handled by the Department of Justice. We receive criminal referrals from federal investigative agencies, state and local investigative agencies, and occasionally from citizens. After careful consideration of each criminal matter, the U.S. Attorney decides the appropriateness of bringing criminal charges and, when deemed appropriate, initiates prosecution. We investigate and prosecute a wide range of criminal activities and handle a diverse workload of criminal matters. That caseload includes violent crime, child pornography and exploitation, complex drug and money laundering activities, civil rights violations, public corruption, complex financial institution fraud, computer fraud, identity theft, tax fraud, environmental crime, organized crime, and cases involving multiple defendants and international organizations.
We also conduct the majority of the civil litigation handled by the Department of Justice. Our work in the civil arena entails the initiation of civil actions, or affirmative litigation, to assert and protect the interests of the United States. We also defend the interests of the government in lawsuits filed against the United States, referred to as defensive litigation. Our office handles other civil cases, such as when the United States is a third-party plaintiff or defendant, a creditor, or an intervener.
Finally, our office pursues the collection of debts owed to the Federal government. In this regard, we investigate, identify, and pursue financial assets that are subject to forfeiture or otherwise can be used to satisfy outstanding obligations. As a result, our office collects significant sums, which often exceed the operating costs of our office, and which are returned to the public fisc.

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Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth, Inc. announced today the launch of a new recycling initiative for unsellable donations.
Items that do not sell in Goodwill’s 20 area store locations are now broken down into commodities including metals, cardboard, paper and other recyclable goods that will be recycled.
“We have always promoted green practices and strive to maximize the value of donations we receive from the community,” said David Cox, president & CEO of Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth. “If there is a way to keep an item out of the landfill, we do it – whether by recycling or reusing it.”
Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth receives 21 million pounds of donations annually, goods which might otherwise end up in landfills. “We were green before green was cool,” said Beth Reneau, director of donated goods. “Now we’re taking it to the next level with the new recycling initiative. Eventually we don’t want to even say the word ‘trash’."
Along with the impressive local environmental benefits, Goodwill’s retail stores help fund a number of community job training and placement programs that help thousands of Tarrant County residents every year.
Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth also accepts donations of computers and electronics. Goodwill’s Computer Works Program tests all computers donated and any computer that works is resold in the Computer Works location on Campus Drive. Those that don’t are disassembled and are responsibly recycled, keeping computer parts out of landfills.
Goodwill of Fort Worth promotes recycling year-round by providing an outlet for unwanted goods to be donated and providing stores for customers to purchase quality items at discounted prices. For more information, and a full list of donation centers, please visit http://www.goodwillfortworth.org/donate/find-a-donation-center/.
About Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth, Inc.
Goodwill is a nonprofit leader in providing education, training and career services for people with disabilities, such as physical or mental disabilities, lack of education or work experience and homelessness. Last year, Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth helped place thousands of people in jobs.
Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth, Inc.’s, 20 retail locations provide not only affordable goods and services, but also jobs for those in need and revenue to support Goodwill’s charitable mission. Goodwill also provides Tarrant County with nine career centers, equipped with job-search experts, computers, Internet access and telephones. Goodwill believes that work has the power to transform lives by building self-confidence, independence, creativity, trust and friendships. Everyone deserves this chance. For more information on Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth, please visit www.goodwillfortworth.org.


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And Holyrood MPs on the cross-party Scottish parliamentary group on Oil and Gas were last night given a preview of the new jackets.
Les Linklater, Team Leader of the Aberdeen-based Step Change In Safety group, said: “The new life-jackets will help improve helicopter crash-landing survivability.
“The new jackets have double inflation tubes and have less chance of snagging during emergency exits. They also have high-visibility always-pressurised emergency breathing kits which just require wearers to unhook the mouthpiece to activate.
“Giving workers more time in emergency landings equates to greater survivability.”
The new jackets – which are priced at around £1,000 per vest – were developed by a private sector manufacturer as part of a £1.4 million investment in offshore safety wear.
Before the formal launch of the new, improved emergency life-jackets, industry safety groups and trade union safety reps will prepare training and familiarisation courses for up to 60,000 offshore workers over the summer.
Offshore trade union safety representatives also told MSPs who attended last night’s Oil and Gas cross party group annual meeting that the new maximum ‘people size’ limit of 17- inches by 14-inches dimensions of helicopter windows-cum-emergency escape exits is ‘causing a lot of concern by workers who fear they may lose their jobs’ as a result of literally being too big to get through these hatches in an emergency.
These measures have been developed following the deaths of 20 people in a space of North Sea helicopter crashes over the past five years.
As part of new Civil Aviation Authority safety rules, workers who are too big to escape through the 17 14-in emergency ‘push-out’ window exits will be banned from flying and, from April 2016, there will be a ban on offshore flights unless all passengers wear emergency underwater breathing systems.
And from June, 1 helicopter trips in ‘the most severe sea conditions’ will be banned.


text: Metal contact allergy is a common problem in the general population. Diagnostic and therapeutic medical-surgical procedures in which metals can be responsible for eczema are diverse. Endovascular aortic surgery is still an experimental but less invasive technique. A generalized eczematous dermatitis elicited by metal of an endovascular prosthesis is presented. An abdominal aortic aneurysm was diagnosed in a 79-year-old woman. Endoluminal repair with a straight Vanguard endograft was successful. 3 weeks later, she suffered a severe episode of erythema and eczema on the legs. Since then, she complained of continuous pruritus with eczema and excoriated papules. The dermatitis and also the patch test pathology showed eczema. Patch testing was positive to nickel sulfate and cobalt chloride. An endograft semi-quantitative metal analysis was performed with plasma-induction joint mass-spectrometry. The self-expanding metal stent was mainly composed of nickel (approximately 55%) and titanium (21%) with reinforcing thread of platinum. Antimony was detected only in the polyester textile. These results are consistent with Nitinol composition. The need for preoperative patch testing for metals is controversial. Enquiry about metal allergy is recommended before endoluminal surgical procedures. In the near future, the design of endografts must take into account the possibility of this sort of reaction.


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Watch Tommy Lee Party With Post Malone in Rapper’s ‘Motley Crew’ Video
UPDATE: Motley Crue's Tommy Lee indeed guest stars in Post Malone's music video for the rapper's "Motley Crew," a new song — Malone's first of the year — released on Friday (July 9). Posty manager Dre London shared a behind-the-scenes clip from the set earlier this week.
The vid also features appearances from fellow rappers Big Sean, French Montana, Ty Dolla $ign, Tyga and stock car racing drivers Bubba Wallace and Denny Hamlin. Read more about the lead-up to the tune and video below, and watch the clip near the bottom of this page.
That's according to the NME, which this week took a look at the Instagram account of Dre London, a manager for the rock-indebted rapper. In a post from Sunday (July 4), London revealed the release date for "Motley Crew" and shared word of the single's accompanying music video, reported by HipHop-N-More to involve Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee.
The manager's update included a behind-the-scenes clip from the video set that contains a snippet of the song as it plays the background.
"Happy Birthday my brother [Post Malone]," London said. "I tell u all the time you are 1 of the realest Americans I ever met!! So of course your day is today! This week we celebrated by shooting a MOVIE!! I'm excited to finally announce new single 'Motley Crew' dropping Friday!"
Per the reports, Lee pointed to his participation in the video on his Instagram Story. London's clip from the set shows a celebratory scene at the winner's podium after a stock car race as revelers pop bottles of champagne and a person who looks to be Posty holds a large silver trophy.
The song itself, however — at least the portion heard in the teaser — doesn't sound much like Crue or even the entertainer's Hootie & the Blowfish cover. It instead stays in one of Malone's usual sonic lanes — that is, it's a smooth, vocoder-colored slice of R&B-tinged hip-hop.
Still, Malone is no stranger to rock collaborations, and the rapper previously saluted Lee by naming one of his previous songs after the Motley Crue member. He's also worked with (or jammed with) Ozzy Osbourne, Jared Dines and Metallica's Robert Trujillo in the past.
Last year, Malone named a song after Lee — it also featured the drummer.
The term motley crew predates the band, but with Motley Crue's enduring popularity, some may assume the band name came first.
NEW MUSIC PLAYLIST: Keep up with each week's new songs by following Loudwire's 'Weekly Wire' Spotify playlist, featuring 50 tracks with updates each Friday.


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District 3 incumbent, Jay Musleh, is hoping to serve his first full term as an Ocala City Council member.
Musleh was elected to the position in a special runoff election in 2012 and served a one-and-a-half-year term. Musleh is campaigning to win a full two-year term in Oct. 15’s general election.
A lifelong Ocala resident, Musleh is the senior vice president and senior credit officer of Gateway Bank of Central Florida.
Musleh said his job isn’t done yet.
“I found out that there’s a lot to learn in studying a city’s finances, and studying a city’s operations and the little nuances of how things work,” Musleh said.
Musleh said he learned a lot from his time as a council member and feels it has prepared him for this election.
According to Musleh, Ocala’s biggest issues are finances and economic development. During his time in office, the city made pension reforms to cope with rising pension costs that were becoming more difficult to fund. Musleh said he wants to continue in that direction.
“Our pension costs were escalating beyond our ability continued to fund it,” Mulseh said. “During this last year we did have pension reform for the general employees and I would like to see that moved on to our fire and police collective bargain units with the different pension funds.”
Musleh is also pushing the issue of economic development. The FedEx plant was approved during Musleh’s time in office and he believes the plant will help solve some economic issues and provide more jobs for Ocala residents.
“Our economic development continues to do good,” Musleh said.
A long time volunteer for the Ocala Code Enforcement Board and University of Florida graduate, Musleh said his experience and roots in the community give him the upper hand in the election.


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Found a way. Use an empty ringtone and notification mp3 sound file. Also, set the phone to not vibrate on calls and notifications. This way the phone plays the sound but it just plays the empty ringtone and the watch vibrates - Singe point of indication!!!
I personally just use the do not disturb function and then get no interruptions.
This is a Ford/Sync problem. I've had my 2015 Fiesta serviced three times since July for Synch bluetooth failures. Once was a hardware failure of the bluetooth module; the other two (and a fourth failure I was able to resolve myself) were exactly what you experience. Ford considers it standard procedure to disconnect the black battery cable for five ...
So an update for anyone who's stumbled across this question in future; I think I've managed to solve the problem. Connection restored and music is playing no problem, I've yet to test phone calls and texts yet though. It would appear the problem was with SYNC and my text messages, I was using the Google hangouts app previously which is notoriously ...
In my OnePlus 2 running OxygenOS 2.2 (Android 5.1.1) the problem was solved by removing .nomedia in the root of the SD card, copying the audio folder from the media folder to the root of the SD, and then moving it back to the media folder. Don't ask me why but it worked again.
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I found the solution. It ended up not being in Smart Connect as @jkenneth suggested; though I did check that and find everything disabled. The issue was a setting within PowerAmp itself that was turned on called "audio on headset connect". I disabled that and it fixed my problem. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!
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— First-in-human trial studying LMN-201 enteric capsules underway in Australia
Seattle, WA, September 1, 2021 – Lumen Bioscience, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing biologic drugs for highly prevalent diseases, today announced the start of a Phase 1 trial of LMN-201, an orally delivered investigational biologic for treatment and prevention of recurrent C. difficile infection (CDI). The first trial participant was dosed at Coral Sea Clinical Research Institute (CSCRI) in Mackay, Queensland, Australia.
The open-label, exploratory trial at CSRI is evaluating the delivery of LMN-201 via enteric capsules in the gut in healthy volunteers with mature ileostomies. The capsules are designed to release the proteins at or before the terminal ileum, the earliest point in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract where CDI become established in most patients. This study will give the researchers information about if these capsules release the LMN-201 therapeutic proteins at the end of the small intestine as intended. Preliminary data from the trial are expected by December 2021. Lumen Bioscience is currently planning a Phase 2 trial to study the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of LMN-201 in preventing CDI recurrence.
“This is an important study given the progression of some intestinal diseases despite the best therapies currently available,” said Dr. James Daveson, a gastroenterologist who is a lead investigator for the study at CSCRI. “Lumen’s technology may offer a new treatment approach, and we are pleased to be involved in this initial research.”
“We are excited to harness Lumen’s unique biologics platform to take on recurrent C. difficile infection, an urgent health threat associated with significant morbidity and mortality worldwide,” said Brian Finrow, Lumen’s co-founder and CEO. “Our technology is the first to allow for the cost-effective manufacturing of therapeutic proteins at a global scale, and we’re pleased to have this opportunity to study a potential new way to prevent recurrence of this terrible disease.”
LMN-201 is a cocktail of two class of therapeutic protein expressed and delivered within whole spirulina biomass, a type of blue-green algae widely consumed as a nutritional supplement. The first class is comprised of three antibody-like proteins that bind and neutralize the bacterial toxin that is the main cause of the diarrhea and other severe symptoms of CDI. The second is a single enzyme protein that destroys the cell wall of the C. difficile bacterium itself without perturbing the patient’s healthy GI microbiome. Rather than treating CDI, which today can be easily cleared with common antibiotics, LMN-201 is intended to be delivered orally alongside standard-of-care antibiotics to prevent CDI recurrence, a common side effect of antibiotic treatment.


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A librarian named Joe Murphy is suing two female librarians for $1.25 million for claiming he sexually harasses women at library conferences. As sex scandals go, that’s pretty mild, but the standards for scandal are lower in libraryland.
You can go give them a donation or sign a petition asking Murphy to drop the lawsuit if those are your kinds of thing.
I haven’t seen a corresponding Support Joe Murphy’s Lawsuit website or petition, but if there is one someone can post it in the comments.
He’s also suing them in Canadian court, even though as far as I can tell both he and one of the defendants are Americans. Canadian libel laws are more friendly to plaintiffs, it seems, whereas American libel laws tend to favor something librarians are supposed to favor, free speech. So he’s a cunning little fella, you have to give him that.
I’m seeing the story pop up in more and more places, so it looks like Murphy has a growing reputation among librarians.
Special to USA Today: Librarian of the year, man of RWA, aspiring cover model … these were just some of the names Sean Gilmartin was called while attending this year's Romance Writers of America conference in San Antonio.
"I (Gilmartin) was very close to adding car thief" to the list but luckily I can leave that out. Apparently, when a driver is holding a sign that clearly states Barbara Samuel, who just happens to be a seven-time RITA winner and RWA Hall of Famer, that vehicle is not for you. Needless to say, I didn't steal her ride from the airport but ironically was only a few hotel rooms down from her. Barbara, if you're reading this, I promise I wasn't stalking you at the conference; we really just kept running into each other. By coincidence. A lot.
That was the start of my RWA and the launch into my hashtag on Twitter: #SeanDoesRWA. I intended for it to be a way for family and friends to easily follow my escapades, but it actually turned into my best communication tool. People all over the conference were saying hello and despite not having met in person, we were chatting daily. I would then run into someone, standing in line for a book signing or whatnot, and we would actually meet. It was a surreal and incredible experience that lessened the fear deep inside of me that fueled my preconceived notion that as a librarian I would not fit in. It didn't matter that RWA has a special award for librarians — no, I was certain that I would feel isolated in the midst of 2,000 romance authors. I could not have been more wrong, and people could not have been more friendly, kind, and gracious to me every single day of RWA.
From Shelf-Awareness a report on author James Patterson's address to conference participants:
"Amazon seems out to control shopping in this country. This ultimately will have an effect on every grocery and department store chain and every big box store and ultimately put thousands of mom and pop stores out of business. It sounds like a monopoly to me. Amazon also wants to control bookselling, the book business and book publishing. That's a national tragedy. If this is the new American way, it has to be changed by law if necessary."
Listen to host Manoush Zomorodi* of NPR determine people's opinions about Google Glass (affordability, issues of privacy). Have you tried it out? What do you think? I saw a few folks wearing Glass at ALA-MW.
(*Finally figured out how Ms. Zomorodi's name is spelled).
As libraries grow increasingly digital and technically complex, how will the gender inequities that are also prevalent in the information technology field impact librarianship? The field of librarianship is largely made up of women, and yet women are significantly underrepresented in leadership positions.
This summit will convene a group of dynamic, invested, and creative people from varied backgrounds and types of libraries to discuss these issues and examine how we might build a future for libraries and librarianship free from gender bias. We hope to inspire practical, actionable approaches for a brighter future. What is the library community doing right? Where can we improve?
The LTG summit will provide the opportunity for focused attention on a big challenge for our profession. It is the organizers’ intent to include thoughtful library professionals at all levels of the field and regardless of gender who wish to participate in a dynamic set of conversations about leadership, technology and gender in libraries and related fields.
Mark your calendars for March 19-21, 2014 in Austin, Texas. This event will immediately follow the Electronic Resources & Libraries conference with overlapping workshops focused on coding and project management skills.
Hack the Library!
This is your chance to share your ideas!
Deadline is September 16, 2013
Information Today, Inc., a key provider of technology conferences for more than thirty years with Internet Librarian and KMWorld, is pleased to announce the 29th annual Computers in Libraries - the most comprehensive North American conference and exhibition concentrating all aspects of library technology.
Our theme, Hack the Library!, highlights the creative solutions, technologies and practices that those working with computers in libraries or libraries in computers are dealing with today. Libraries are changing - building creative spaces with learning commons and makerspaces; engaging audiences in different ways with community managers and embedded librarians; advocating for learning and literacy in new and exciting ways.
The focus of the conference is on leading edge technology that allows us to engage with, and bring strategic value to, our user communities. It provides the latest information and practices for you to make informed choices for your community -- whether it is an academic, corporate, non-profit, public, or school library community.
If you would like to participate in Computers in Libraries 2014 as a speaker or workshop leader, please submit a proposal as soon as possible (September 16, 2013 at the very latest).
Digital Repositories workshop at the NYLA Annual Conference, Wednesday, September 25, 2013, Niagara Falls, NY
Sponsor: Academic and Special Libraries Section
Half Day PM Program 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
This workshop addresses key issues surrounding the creation, maintenance, and cultivation of digital repositories. Drawing on the latest literature, case studies, and personal experiences, speakers lead a discussion that covers planning the digital repository, selecting a methodology for its establishment, populating it with content, marketing it to the library's constituencies, and meeting the various challenges and questions along the way. Participants have the opportunity to bring their own experiences to bear, as well as engage in group discussions regarding how to get the most out of a digital repository.
Jim DelRosso is the Digital Projects Coordinator for Cornell University's Hospitality, Labor, and Management Library, where he is responsible for such projects as DigitalCommons@ILR, the digital repository for Cornell's ILR School. A digital librarian since 2009, Jim is also the President for the Upstate New York Chapter of the Special Libraries Association, and has served as the Communication & Social Media Chair for the SLA's Academic Division.
Amy Buckland is the eScholarship, ePublishing & Digitization Coordinator at McGill University Library, where she is responsible for scholarly communication, publishing initiatives, and making rare items from special collections available to the world through digitization. She loves information almost as much as Fluevog shoes, and thinks academic libraryland is ripe for a revolution. You can find her online at informingthoughts.com and in most social networks as Jambina. -- Read More
Registration is available for the 2013 LITA National Forum, “Creation, Collaboration, Community,” held Nov. 7-10, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Louisville, Ky. Visit the LITA Forum Web page to register.
Keynote Sessions anchor the event and include speakers Travis Good, Nate Hill and Emily Gore. On Friday Travis Good, contributing editor for MAKE Magazine, will kick off the Forum with the Opening General Session, “Making Maker Libraries.”Saturday, Nate Hill, assistant director at the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Public Library will present the general session. Emily Gore, director for content at the Digital Public Library of America will close the Forum on Sunday with “The Digital Public Library of America: A Community Effort.”
More than 30 concurrent sessions and a dozen poster sessions will provide a wealth of practical information on a wide range of topics. Two preconference workshops will also be offered. Starting Thursday afternoon and concluding Friday morning, Rosalyn Metz of Wheaton College will present “Managing Projects: Or, I’m in charge, now what?” The session covers several aspects of project management, including planning, budgeting and implementing. Also spanning Thursday afternoon and Friday morning will be “IT Security for Librarians,” presented by Blake Carver of LISHost. This workshop will give in-depth coverage of ways to stay safe online, how to secure your browser, PC and other devices you and your patrons use every day, in addition to tackling common security myths, passwords and network security, as well as hardware and PC security. -- Read More
We’re thrilled to announce that registration for Access 2013 in St. John’s Newfoundland is now open! Full details are on our registration page. [http://accessconference.ca/registration/] As with most things on the East Coast, the conference is a little smaller, so be sure to register early! We have a stellar program lining up and we will post full details soon!
The registration alludes to the Louis-Mathieu Paquin Memorial Fund. This fund is set up in memory of our young colleague Louis-Mathieu Paquin who left a lasting impression at the University of Ottawa Library, Concordia University Libraries, and University of Alberta Libraries, as well as at the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Salzburg. The proceeds will sponsor a librarian new to the profession who is interested in attending the Access 2013 Conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland and intends to participate in Hackfest. New librarians attending Hackfest will be given asked to identify themselves on the registration form, thereby entering their names for the fund. More details on contributing to this fund will come shortly.
Don’t forget to check out the details on hotel and travel information. If you’re booking your flights, we recommend that you come a day early if you can, just in case the fog rolls in.
Do you make experimental music? Will you be at (or near) ALA Annual in Chicago this year? Then be a part of "Librarians Like Noise", a night dedicated to... well... librarians who like noise. We're looking for performers! If you think you might be interested, email Steve Kemple, Music Reference Librarian from the Cincinnati Public Library, at firstname.lastname@example.org.
The event will most likely be on the evening of Monday July 1 at a yet-to-be-determined Chicago-area venue.

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Sundt’s recently completed project for the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) underscores why student housing has become one of the company’s areas of specialty. The $26.6 million Muir College Apartments are two, nine-story structures that were built in less than 21 months on a tight, densely populated site with very little room for equipment setting, storage, or delivery of materials. The project team contended with close proximity to existing residences and academic buildings, and a very busy dining operation within footsteps of the construction site. They also dealt with frequent rains, as well as vehicle and pedestrian traffic on a road that bisected their work area. Despite these challenges, the project was finished on time and within budget, and it is expected to exceed the owner’s original LEED Silver goal by achieving LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
One of the keys to the project’s success? Building Information Modeling (BIM). Heavy rains early in the project caused flooding and delays during excavation. Using BIM, the team made up the time later in the schedule by re-sequencing certain activities and adjusting timeframes allotted for tasks where possible.
“BIM played a significant role in the schedule and making things go smoothly overall,” said Project Manager Jamie Frye. “For example, there were many utilities in the concrete decks, so the subcontractors utilized data from BIM for their surveying equipment to locate all of their insert points in the decks. It was much quicker than if they had laid out everything by hand from grid lines. BIM probably cut that part of the project schedule in half.”
The cast-in-place concrete buildings can accommodate up to 275 students from the university’s Muir College in an apartment-style living environment. This was Sundt’s second student housing project for UCSD. The first, called One Miramar Street, was an 800 bed/800 parking space complex for single graduate students. It was completed in 2007.


The growth of this Internet inside the 1990s opened up doors to new business options, but connection also brought along hotter cyber risks. Hackers wreaked chaos, infiltrating computers and taking information. Email accounts, fiscal info, passwords and private employee information were pretty much all at risk.
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- Sports finances
Rooney, Hamilton among world's best-paid athletes
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney and Mercedes F1 driver Lewis Hamilton were among the world's top 25 highest paid athletes over the last year.
Three footballers featured in the top five, with Cristiano Ronaldo edging Lionel Messi for second place behind Floyd Mayweather, who earned $73.5 million dollars in the past 12 months.
Real Madrid's Ronaldo earned $50.2m in salary and prize money, a mere $100,000 more that Barcelona's Messi, while fifth-ranked Zlatan Ibrahimovic earned $35 with Paris Saint-Germain.
The data, compiled by ESPN Magazine and Sporting Intelligence, excludes earnings from endorsements. Of the top 27 names on the list (three are tied for 25th-richest), 19 ply their trade in one of the major US sports: eight in the NFL, 10 in baseball and one from the NBA - Kobe Bryant, the eight-highest earner with $30.5m.
Wayne Rooney's earnings at Old Trafford, including bonus payments, brought in $26m last year, making him the 15th-highest earner on the list - but not the best-paid British athlete over the same span.
That honour falls to Hamilton, whose move to Mercedes netted him $27.5m, making him the joint-highest earner in Formula 1 alongside Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. The duo rank 12th on the overall list.
Mayweather has fought twice in the past year. He defended his WBC welterweight title against Robert Guerrero and claimed $32m in the process last May, before taking a majority decision against Saul Alvarez in September to add the WBC light-middleweight title to his WBA (super) belt taking home $41.5m.
Taken in Isolation, Mayweather's fights would have placed him sixth and third on the list respectively.
WBA, IBF, IBO and WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, the only other boxer to appear on the list, is ranked 20th after earning $24m from his two victories over Francesco Pianeta and Alexander Povetkin.


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How long the duo has been engaged is unknown, but Hayes set off speculation earlier this week during an appearance on CBS' "The Talk," where he sported a band on his left ring finger.
Hayes' representative told RumorFix, "Sean Hayes and Scott Icenogle have been together for eight years. They are not yet married, but they have been engaged for quite some time."
Hayes, who is best known for his award-winning work as Jack McFarland on "Will & Grace," came out in a 2010 interview with The Advocate.
Hayes made his Broadway debut in the revival of Promises, Promises, earning a 2010 Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. He was also seen in the City Center Encores! summer production of Damn Yankees.

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It has been 54 years since President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Many eyewitnesses who were on the scene heard multiple gun shots, some of them coming from the “grassy knoll” at Dealey Plaza. One expert eyewitness at Parkland Hospital ER, a surgeon, has testified many times that he saw a small round entry wound in the front of the neck and large exit wound in the back of his head, which contradicts the official “no-conspiracy” “single shooter” theory.
“’Conspiracy theory’ is a term that at once strikes fear and anxiety in the hearts of most every public figure, particularly journalists and academics. Since the 1960s the label has become a disciplinary device that has been overwhelmingly effective in defining certain events as off limits to inquiry or debate. Especially in the United States, raising legitimate questions about dubious official narratives destined to inform public opinion (and thereby public policy) is a major thought crime that must be cauterized from the public psyche at all costs.” – Professor James F. Tracy
Ever since that fateful day, every attentive, alert, non-distracted, truth-seeking American patriot who wants and needs to know the truth of the matter has been asking questions and doing independent investigations because they don’t believe the official, approved story and have no reason to believe the conclusions of the Warren Commission. With every deceptive, dismissive or untruthful answer, these patriots know that they have been duped.
Being treated as ignoramuses or loony “conspiracy theorists” has a way of energizing intelligent folks who have seen through official attempts at obfuscation, which is why more and more inquiring people are losing confidence in our nation’s over-privileged and often sociopathic, serially-lying elites, politicians, corporatists, multibillionaires, militarists, talking heads, media celebrities and other so-called leaders.
I also have been energized to find out the truth about what were the institutions or who were the individual conspirators that behind the obvious, censored-out plans to assassinate JFK, MLK, RFK and orchestrate the many false flag operations (which, by definition, are conspiracies in that more than one conspirator has to have been involved in planning a false flag op.
Two of the most obvious false flag ops that justified recent US wars were 1) the Gulf of Tonkin incident that justified the massive bombing campaigns against North Vietnam and 2) the controlled demolitions of 9/11/01 that justified the illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq (for simply planes hitting skyscrapers wouldn’t have done it by itself).
Being treated with disdain by elites who can punish whistle-blowers (and their paid trolls) is why 9/11 Truth-seekers are such committed tellers of unwelcome truths.
The examples of false flag operations from history are legion (google “The Ever-Growing List of ADMITTED False Flag Attacks” for scores of examples of US military and/or intelligence service false flag ops).
Over the 50+ years since the JFK assassination (which could rightfully have been considered a coup d’etat) many honorable, patriotic and independent investigators have uncovered a plethora of documented proof that has directly contradicted the “no conspiracy” theories about 1) the “lone gunman” Lee Harvey Oswald, 2) the “lone gunman” James Earl Ray” (MLK’s falsely accused killer), 3) the “lone gunman” Sirhan Sirhan (one of RFK’s assassins) or, for that matter, 4) the “lone gunman” James Holmes (the ‘Batman shooter’ of Aurora, CO who undoubtedly did not act alone), or 5) Stephen Paddock (the alleged ‘Las Vegas shooter’ who, it appears, may have been only a patsy rather than the “lone gunman”. Thus each of those history-altering events actually were conspiracies. as has been documented by many expert observers who have examined the evidence and connected the dots).
Every attempt by independent, courageous, non-brain-washable investigators to establish documentary proof that contradicts official secret service agency stories provokes studied outrage and vigorously attempts to discredit the whistle-blower or otherwise tries to debunk incriminating information.
The same type of attempts at pseudo-scientific debunking happens all the time when corruption in Big Business is exposed. Every Big Business has full-time lobbyists that are well-placed in positions of power. These lobbyist/trolls are – as part of their job description – supposed to try to obfuscate or contradict any unwelcome information that weakens their paymaster’s profitability or credibility.
Such “trolls” have often carefully developed cozy relationships with politicians, bureaucratic agencies and the mainstream media, which gives them powerful control over any message that gets past the censorship and manages to get out to the public. The same thing happened with my medical clinic offices, when Big Pharma’s sales “reps” used to wine and dine me in order to get me to listen to their sales pitches. This time-honored technique has been used by snake oil salesmen, political lobbyists and legitimate salespersons from time immemorial. The professional lobbyist reality explains how it is that pro-corporate legislation gets such favorable treatment by politicians whose corporate paymasters, behind closed doors, demand a return on their “investment” (AKA demanding pay-back for their campaign bribery/donations). He who pays the piper, calls the tune.
Peace and justice activists have learned similar lessons about clever sales techniques as well, having to endure spooks, cunning FBI agents or secret service “agents provocateur” who infiltrate their groups in order to spy on them or to get them to engage in dubious activities that could lead to legal charges and destruction of the group.
Last week the Trump administration tried to OK the lawful release of some of the previously top secret, censored-out Warren Commission papers that were sealed from public scrutiny after their infamous hearings had been completed. The release of the censored-out documents had been legislated to occur after 25 years had passed. But the scheduled releases had been repeatedly delayed by every subsequent administration since the 1980s. As has become obvious, the CIA and FBI have been very selective in what documents were released. Knowing the nature of the Deep State that is in control of our alleged democracy, we will probably never know everything that needs to be known in order to make sense of America’s conspiratorial history.
Planning and executing secret conspiracies is what all spy agencies do. and the CIA and FBI are no exception. Keeping secrets and planning conspiracies is their nature and the justification for it is in their founding documents and traditions; and since they refuse to talk and reveal what those conspiracies are all about, the duty of every patriot who is a seeker of justice is to investigate the secrets. Hence being a conspiracy theorist is an honorable endeavor, especially when the conspirators may be performing unethical activities or cover-ups of crimes.
The Warren Commission was charged to investigate the JFK assassination, but the appointed individuals, especially the arch-spook Allen Dulles, were all rabid Cold Warriors. The decision to regard certain testimony as top secret national security issues came about because the members of the commission felt that we naïve and simple-minded taxpayers couldn’t handle the truth. Instead, fearful of incurring the wrath of their own CIA or FBI operatives (or risking assassination themselves?), the commission criminally conspired to hide the hideous truths about those agency’s involvement in the JFK assassination.
Knowing the track record of the many covert operations that American intelligence agencies have orchestrated around the world ever since World War II, there are no politicians that have dared to oppose the power of the CIA or FBI (or the Mafia, for that matter). JFK, MLK, RFK and Paul Wellstone were the last ones to try. JFK famously proclaimed that he was going to “smash the CIA into a million pieces and scatter it to the wind” and every politician who similarly wanted to “drain the swamp” at Langley or the Pentagon has learned the lesson about who is really in charge in DC. RFK was going to expose the real conspirators, especially the Mafia, when he became president, and Wellstone was going to investigate 9/11 when he was re-elected Senator.
I end this column with a recent piece about the JFK Assassination by Paul Craig Roberts. Roberts has also written about many of the events mentioned above. Specific references can be found in my biographical notes further below.
The Kennedy Assassination
By Paul Craig Roberts – October 28, 2017
Dear Readers, some of you are pushing me to continue with the Las Vegas shooting story (ballistics evidence proving multiple shooters using different weapons at different locations – GGK Note) while others are asking to know what to make of the release of files pertaining to President Kennedy’s assassination. I appreciate that you are interested and are unsatisfied with official explanations.
My answer is that we already know, thanks to exhaustively researched books such as James W. Douglass’ JFK and the Unspeakable (Simon & Schuster, 2008), far more than is in the released files.
My answer is also that it doesn’t matter what we know or what the facts are, the official story will never be changed. For example, we know as an absolute indisputable fact that Israel intentionally attacked the USS Liberty inflicting enormous casualties on US Navy personnel, and the US government continues the coverup that it was all a mistake despite unequivocal statements to the contrary by the Moorer Commission, led by Admiral Tom Moorer, former Chief of Naval Operations and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
My answer also is that time is better spent in trying to prevent conspiracies in the making, such as the endless stream of lies and accusations against Russia that are turning a friendly country into an enemy and renewing the risk of nuclear armageddon. Indeed, the biggest conspiracy theory of the present time is the one issuing from the military/security complex, the Democratic National Committee, and the presstitute media that Russia in collusion with Donald Trump hacked the US presidential election.
The Russian government knows that this is a lie, and when they see a lie repeated endlessly now for one year without a shred of evidence to support it, the Russian government naturally concludes that Washington is preparing the American people for war. I cannot imagine a more reckless and irresponsible policy than destroying Russia’s trust in Washington’s intentions. As Putin said, the main lesson life has taught him is that “if a fight is unavoidable, strike first.”
If you really want to know who killed President Kennedy and why, read JFK and the Unspeakable. Yes, there are other carefully researched books that you can read.
Douglass concludes that Kennedy was murdered because he turned to peace. He was going to work with Khrushchev to end the Cold War. He refused the CIA US air cover for the Bay of Pigs invasion. He rejected the Joint Chiefs’ Operation Northwoods, a plan to conduct false flag attacks on Americans that would be blamed on Castro to justify regime change. He refused to reappoint General Lyman Lemnitzer as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He told US Marine commandant General David Shoup that he was taking the US out of Vietnam. He said after his reelection he was going to “break the CIA into 1,000 pieces.” All of this threatened the power and profit of the military/security complex and convinced military/security elements that he was soft on communism and a threat to US national security.
The film of the motorcade taken by Zapruder shows that the bullet that killed Kennedy hit him from the front, blowing out the back of his head. You can see Kennedy’s wife Jackie reaching from the back seat onto the trunk of the limo to recover the back of his head. Other tourist films show moments before the shot the Secret Service agents being ordered off of the presidential limo so that a clear shot at Kennedy is possible. The film shows one Secret Service agent protesting the order.
The medical “evidence” that Kennedy was hit from behind was falsified by medical doctors under orders. Navy medical corpsmen who helped the Navy doctors with the autopsy testified that they were dismayed by orders from Admiral Calvin Galloway to ignore entry wounds from the front. One of the corpsmen testified “all at once I understood that my country was not much better than a third world country. From that point on in time, I have had no trust, no respect for the government.”
Dr Charles Crenshaw, one of the doctors forced to lie, later broke his silence with a book and was rewarded with a fierce media campaign to discredit him.
Lt. Commander William Pitzer, director of the Audio-Visual Department of the Bethesda Naval Hospital, filmed the autopsy. The film clearly showed the entry wound from the front. Pitzer was found shot to death on the floor of the production studio of the National Naval Medical Center. It was ruled a suicide, as always.
- Edgar Hoover and the FBI knew that Oswald, who Douglass believes was on the payroll of both the CIA and FBI, was sent to Cuba by the CIA in order to establish the story for the patsy role Oswald was unaware was being prepared for him. However, Hoover, along with LBJ, Earl Warren and the members of the Warren Commission understood that it was impossible to tell the American people that their president has been assassinated by the US military and US security agencies. At a dicey time of the Cold War, clearly it would have been reckless to destroy Americans’ trust in their own government.
Finian Cunningham presents a summary of much of the accumulated evidence. All experts long ago concluded that the Warren Commission report is a coverup. https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/10/28/jfk-files-cover-up-continues-president-assassination.html
I am not an expert. I have not spent 30 years or longer, as has Douglass, investigating, interviewing witnesses, tracking down unexplained deaths of witnesses, and piecing together the available voluminous information. if you want to know what happened, put down your smart phones, close your video screens, and read Douglass’ or a similar book.
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(To read the original CIA Document 1035-960, that is the origin of the term that weaponized the term “conspiracy theory, go to: http://www.jfklancer.com/CIA.html)


Young designers to watch in 2017
Nina Dunn, 37
Towards the end of The Mountaintop, history began to unspool. Nina Dunn’s handsome, greyscale projections for the Young Vic flickered through America’s last half-century: everything Martin Luther King missed. Images enveloped the theatre – mugshots and logos, headlines and skylines. As they gained speed, whirred into a blur, your emotions took flight. An era of injustice and more flew by in under a minute.
If 2016 was a quiet year professionally for Dunn – she had her second child – it still yielded some fine work. Alongside Katori Hall’s play, Dunn set trees rustling over No Man’s Land, and brought Caravaggio’s canvases to life in The Seven Acts of Mercy.
A designer with a real feeling for space, as her site-specific work on Alice’s Adventures Underground and Secret Cinema proved, Dunn also has a rare sense of scale. Working in opera has led to a clean and commanding style that is never overbearing. Her New Jersey shipyards were eerie in Arthur Miller’s The Hook; the cartoon landscapes of Usagi Yojimbo, cute and playful.
This year the designer is going back to graphic novels and New York. Dunn leads on Diary of a Teenage Girl at Southwark, then brings the backstreets of Broadway to the same space in Cy Coleman’s Tony-winning musical The Life. Before then, there’s the small matter of remaking Moulin Rouge on the sly somewhere in London.
Georgia Lowe, 33
Above all, Georgia Lowe’s designs are dynamic. She can animate a stage as well as anybody, even with an apparently rather still image. It was Lowe who had Alistair McDowall’s Pomona circle around a storm drain. She also caged the young pups of Anna Jordan’s Yen in a climbing-frame flat.
Lowe had a strong 2016, with debuts upstairs at London’s Royal Court and downstairs at Manchester’s Royal Exchange – a stage that demands designers step up. Her stark industrial set for The Night Watch was filled with soft, pastel costumes.
Lowe has a real understanding of bodies and light. Both came to the fore in Nina Segal’s In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises), with two new parents squished under PAR cans, surrounded by stuff that only spawned more stuff.
Increasingly, you see the influence of her large-scale work outdoors or on-site. Her images impress themselves: lovers bungee together, stretched out of their skin; Frida Kahlos swarm over a funeral pyre; an electric heater is strung up, aglow.
Classics dominate Lowe’s 2017: Othello with Richard Twyman at Bristol’s Tobacco Factory, Death of a Salesman in Northampton with Tim Pigott-Smith and Ian McDiarmid in Faust x2 at the Watermill in Newbury.
Jack Knowles, 29
Less than a decade after leaving the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Jack Knowles is fast establishing himself as one of the most inventive lighting designers around. He’s never one to shirk a challenge, be it the human fish tank of Mike Bartlett’s Game, the conveyor-belt snake of Leo Butler’s Boy or the flooded room of Katie Mitchell’s environmental reading of Happy Days.
Knowles came to the fore as one of Mitchell’s core collaborators, delivering video shows and exacting naturalism. The Forbidden Zone got subway strip lighting and watery shadows. Cleansed contrasted a soft institutional glow with shards of crisp, cold daylight breaking in from outside. In 2017, they return to Kane: 4.48 Psychosis in Hamburg.
Knowles’ work has a delicacy of tone. Kenny Morgan was cast in vintage sepias and The Skriker bathed in electric candlelight, but it’s with Mike Longhurst that he’s really pushing forwards. Carmen Disruption at the Almeida was lit like liquid gold.
There’s deconstruction ahead, work with Ramin Gray (Winter’s Solstice) and Sam Pritchard (Pygmalion), before Headlong’s first musical: Jack Thorne’s Junkyard.
Fly Davis, 30
A tiny toy kitchen on a slow spin cycle announced Fly Davis’ emergence. Her design for I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep Than Some Other Arsehole was one of the most innovative London’s Gate Theatre had hosted. The piglets hogged the limelight, but the clinical set, scattered with children’s toys, deftly infantilised Steffan Rhodri’s frustrated father.
Since then, Davis has emerged as a bold, conceptual designer, capable of encapsulating a play in a single gesture. Her stripped-back design for A Streetcar Named Desire put Maxine Peake’s Blanche on the green baize of a poker table, the flat being Stanley’s domain. She also dressed Laura Wingfield in an orange jumper to suggest a goldfish in a bowl, another animal trapped in glass.
With debuts on two of Britain’s biggest stages to come, Davis could well break through for good this year. Before then, Shakespeare with two regular collaborators: Max Webster’s The Winter’s Tale in Edinburgh and Ellen McDougall’s Othello at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Jean Chan, 28
Jean Chan provided one of the images of 2016: The Grinning Man’s grin. Blood seeping through a bandage, an open wound from ear to ear, it made the grisliest smile you’ve ever seen. Or rather, not seen. The smartest thing about Louis Maskell’s costume was that it prolonged the big reveal. Chan gave us a striptease towards a smile: a bandit scarf, a bandage and only then, the full maw; gums and gnashers; the skull beneath the skin.
Maskell’s wasn’t the only imaginative outfit. From Julian Bleach’s bitumen-black, droopy-capped jester, to Gloria Onitiri’s towering Georgian dominatrix, Chan pulled together a full-bodied fantasy world.
She’s worked on Dahl adaptations and Complicite’s staging of Zizou Corder’s Lionboy, which wheeled from London’s docks to a Wild West circus. The Linbury Prize winner’s flair showed itself again in the Lyric Hammersmith’s last panto: a dame dressed in austerity chic, with a ballgown made of plastic bags.
Back in Hammersmith next Christmas, and with The Grinning Man plotting a possible London life, Chan’s next project is Plastic with Matthew Dunster at Bath’s Theatre Royal.
Joshua Pharo, 28
Few designers would think to flush a piece located in an immigration detention centre with hot pinks and mint greens. Instead of the drab institutional setting, Joshua Pharo turned the Yard’s musical Removal Men into a space where sex clubs dissolved into the workplace and where working men dissociated into daydreams.
Only six years out of Rose Bruford, Pharo is a designer with real daring. Having worked on the fringe scene with experimentalists Dead Centre and Foxy & Husk, he’s pulled an edgy aesthetic through into more mainstream work. He shot a rusty orange burr through a murderous Julie at Northern Stage last year and turned a baby doll into an emergency siren in the Gate’s newborn drama In the Night Time. Like Lee Curran, Pharo incorporates lighting into the very fabric of a staging – the mark of a close collaborator.
Fast becoming a go-to designer, Pharo will be working with winners of the Genesis, JP Morgan and JMK awards in 2017. Two productions that should give him plenty of room for manoeuvre are How My Light Is Spent at the Royal Exchange and Years of Sunlight at London’s Theatre503.
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