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The Lonely Londoners was published in 1956, a time when Britain was beginning to close the door to Commonwealth citizens. Prior to the mid-1950s and after WWII, the British government encouraged immigration to help fill in labor gaps created during war; the mass immigrations during this period from Afro-Caribbean areas became known collectively as the "windrush generation." Selvon's text thus registers the disheartening arrival and subsequent experiences of immigrants coming after Britain was closing its doors. Selvon's characters are of working-class background.
The sequel to The Lonely Londoners is Moses Ascending.
The novel is narrated in third person, in a West-Indian inflected dialect of English. Though the third person narration enables focalizations of different characters throughout, it most closely follows Moses Aloetta, a rather jaded older man who has lived in London longer than any of the others. At the start of the novel, Moses goes to meet "a fellar named Henry Oliver" at Waterloo station who has just arrived from Trinidad. At the same time, Moses's friend Tolroy is at the station meeting his family who have just arrived from Jamaica (it turns out that more of them have arrived than he has bargained for). Tanty, Tolroy's mother, is an outspoken woman who from the moment of arriving, gets her way in having a reporter take a picture of her whole family when he had planned to just take one of her.
Upon his arrival, Henry Oliver seems overly confident about his prospects, and Moses thinks he is naive. Moses gives him the epithet "Sir Galahad" and offers him a place to stay for the night. Moses offers to help him find work, but Galahad, wanting to give off the impression that "everything all right," decides to go find work for himself. Once he sets off to the employment exchange, Galahad begins to feel out of place and confused: "Everybody doing something or going somewhere, is only he who walking stupid." He doesn't get far before he runs into Moses again and so Moses ends up going with him to the exchange, where Galahad obtains an unemployment card.
The next section of the novel introduces Cap, a Nigerian who came to London to study law but who ended up instead spending money on cigarettes and women. Cap manages to get along in London on his charm, at times getting into trouble and needing Moses to bail him out. Cap is dating an Austrian girl, who tells him he should try harder to get a job. Cap pretends that he gets a job at night, but instead he "went off to hustle woman as usual" and lies to her. At another point, he steals a watch from an English girl to finance a relationship with a German girl. He also ends up marrying a French girl, and borrowing money from his friend Daniel in order to take her out until fortuitously, she gets a job at a store. Sometimes, Cap gets himself into comical situations. In a particularly humorous episode, once Cap and Moses went out on Bayswater Road between the Arch and the Gate, and Cap accidentally takes home a "woman" who was actually a man. In short, Cap gets in all sorts of trouble, but "still Moses have compassion on him."
The following section tells about another character, Bart, in a similarly episodic manner. Bart, lighter skinned than the others, seems to have an easier time assimilating. He jealously guards his own money, and rarely lends it out. Bart gets into a relationship with a white girl and he is invited to meet her parents. Before Bart can tell the lie that he is Latin-American, the girl's father kicks him out because he "don't want no curly-hair children."
Meanwhile, in Tolroy's family, Lewis (Tolroy's sister's husband) finds work alongside Moses at a factory and imagines that his wife, Agnes, is unfaithful to him while he is away. When he returns home every night, he beat her and so eventually she left him. Tanty, shunned by her family for her naivete about London, actually scores some successes of her own: at a local store, she manages to get her way, insisting on paying on credit, and then later even setting up a system for other visitors to the store to do so as well. In another successful episode, Tanty rides the tube to retrieve a key from Agnes at her work.
Galahad is getting on better than might have been expected, and Moses looks on knowingly as Galahad revels in the dropping the names of landmarks in London (like "Charing Cross") to signal a sort of ownership over the city. Galahad manages to get a night job, and even take a white girl, Daisy, on a date to a movie and dinner. Afterwards, he has her over and though she's a bit prejudiced against his way of making tea and his West Indian English, Galahad tells Moses that the date has gone swimmingly.
Big City, also from Trinidad, likes to cuss a lot and to tell people that he is no small town fellow (hence his nickname). Big City has trouble with English forms after he gets into a car accident involving himself and a bus and needs help from Moses to "full" them up.
After this particular episodic character sketch, the narration switches into a lengthy passage in stream of consciousness without punctuation. This passage gives impressions of London nightlife in the summer, and tells of various adventures the men have (usually with women), including one in which Moses takes a girl home and is terrified of what the police will do to him when she seems to be getting sick under his watch. The narration's blurring and accelerated effects might be encapsulated in these final lines: "and Moses sigh a long sigh like a man who live life and see nothing at all in it and who frighten as the years go by wondering what it is all about."
The narrative then snaps back into character sketches, introducing a character from Barbados called "Five Past Twelve" because he is blacker than midnight itself. In this section, Harris who likes to think he is in the know as far as English customs go, throws a party at St. Pancras. At the party, Harris is embarrassed by his fellow immigrants, afraid that they will "make rab and turn the dance into a brawl." Tolroy brings his whole family including Tanty, and once again, Tanty is her outspoken self when she puts Harris in his place about his shame.
In a particularly bad season for work, Galahad's hunger reduces him to catching a pigeon in the park to roast. A white woman is horrified, and insensitively calls him a monster and calls the police. Moses and Galahad talk about their difficult lives in London, yet oddly once they've been there for a while, they don't want to go back to their home countries. They wonder if it has to do in part with the mistaken notion of London as a place of opportunity. In a "p.s. episode," Cap also catches seagulls from his windowsill for food.
The final scene is slightly more uplifting; the boys go to Moses's place every Sunday as if it were a kind of church, showing that in their talking over girls, the difficulty of getting work, and feelings of alienation, there is a kind of valuable community that coheres. The novel closes with Moses looking out upon the Thames and sensing a kind of sublimity while thinking about the vastness of London life: "it had a greatness and a vastness in the way he was feeling tonight, like it was something solid after feeling everything else give way." He even imagines whether he might ever write a book.
CRITICAL APPROACH/ANALYSIS: (A previous essay I wrote on print culture in The Lonely Londoners and its sequel, Moses Ascending)
As noted by James Procter in Dwelling Places, the characters in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners use the discursive power of naming (and re-naming) places in London to derive a sense of belonging. For characters like Galahad who are new to London, to be an Englishman in London is a matter of recognizing and using a number of sign systems in relation to categories such as “music and song, film, literature, conversation.” In this essay I wish to highlight the importance of one particular sign system in Selvon’s fiction, namely, the sign system of newspapers and print-journalism. With Benedict Anderson’s idea of print-culture’s power in the facilitation of imagined communities in mind, I suggest that Moses Aloetta’s eventual displacement within the house that he owns in Moses Ascending is paralleled by his resistance to newspapers and print-journalism and consequent resistance to imagined communities that are made available to him.
London’s vastness as a metropolis necessitates an imagined community; in The Lonely Londoners, West Indians with memories of tight-knit communities in their home nations are acutely aware of this necessity. To the new, West Indian Londoner, the metropolis “divide up in little worlds, and you stay in the world you belong to and you don’t know anything about what happening in the other ones except what you read in the papers.” Selvon’s boys recognize that newspapers allow strangers in the metropolis to form links with one another by way of a shared readership.
For the most part, Selvon’s characters in Lonely Londoners believe in the power of shared-readership as a means for gaining at least partial acceptance into the larger community. Big City tells his friends that he attended a party with “bigshots” that one would read about in the Evening Standard, thereby legitimating the very imagined community that would never print his name. Though Big City is aware of his own exclusion, he suggests that his involvement with a print-worthy event signifies at least partial belonging. The narrator’s description of how Harris, meticulous about significations of Englishness, dresses, with “bowler hat and umbrella, and briefcase tuck under the arm with The Times fold up in the pocket so the name would show” demonstrates newcomer complicity in legitimizing the power of print-culture’s signage in representing the dominant, white, literate, imagined community.
In Moses Ascending, however, Selvon’s boys become more critical of the white monopoly over print-culture and the imagined community which it produces. Galahad, more confident now in his place in the metropolis, has joined the Black Power movement, whose members aspire to produce their own newspaper to counter the “untruths” borne from the traditionally accepted, white newspapers. “You know these English papers does only have contorted views of the scene. If we get our own, we can tell people the truth.” What Galahad does not realize is that in supporting the new paper, he is merely complying in the creation of another imagined community, whose print-narrative may be as “contorted” as that of the white newspapers.
Moses demonstrates that he is critical of both representation white-London print and Black Power print. Of newspapers written by whites, Moses remarks, “The first crocus in the spring is seen by a black man, and he harks to the cuckoo long before all them other people what write to newspapers to say they was the first.” On the other hand, Moses wants nothing to do with Brenda’s Black Power newspaper either, preferring that his white man-servant appear on the front page instead of himself. Galahad tells Moses that in writing a memoir, he must report on “what’s happening” socially and politically, but Moses resists because he wants to write something “personal and intimate” which does not cling to the imagined communities of social and political happenings, the stuff of print-culture. To be sure, Moses is ambivalent—he proudly boasts about reading the Times, News of the World, and the Observer while his white man-servant reads comics and he also gives Galahad’s suggestion a try by taking his reporter’s pad to the Paki’s sheep slaughter and the Black Power rally. However, his ambivalence renders him unable to whole-heartedly embrace either the imagined community of white-London or that of Black Power.
Unfortunately, because he resists both imagined communities that are available to him, Moses ends up without a comfortable place in his own house. Brenda’s success in creating a new imagined community in opposition to the one of white-London by printing a newspaper for Black Power is followed upon by her ascension to a more desirable place in the house. Bob, who has gained acceptance into this newly minted imagined community by getting his picture onto the front page of the first issue, has also ascended in the house. Moses, who resists accepting the imagined communities made available (or partially available) to him, is “displaced” into the basement of his own home.
 James Procter, “Dwelling Places,” in Dwelling Places, Postwar Black British Writing (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), 52.
 Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (New York: Longman Publishing Group, 1985), 74.
 Ibid., 101.
 Sam Selvon, Moses Ascending (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1984), 13.
 Ibid., 7.
 Ibid., 42.


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E ditor’s note: First Bite is a new concept in restaurant writing. This is not a go-three-times, try-everything-on-the-menu report; rather, this is a quick snapshot of a single experience. We invite you to come along with our writers as they—informed, intelligent eaters like yourselves—have a simple meal at an area restaurant, just like you do .
When celebrity chef Bobby Flay visited Nick’s Cove last November for his television show, he compared the oysters served there to Viagra-on-the-half-shell. He also had this to say about the views of Tomales Bay, upon which waters the little restaurant literally sits: They “aren’t bad.”
Even if his words were hardly eloquent, it’s a conclusion that diners at Nick’s may find themselves repeating. Because as sumptuous as the setting is—smack on the shoulder of the skinny, winding Highway 1, framed by towering eucalyptus/redwood/rolling hills and with the lovingly and expensively renovated historic building sprawling out to pylons above the Pacific—the food can quickly overpower with its significant charms.
Indeed, a friend and I set the specific time of sunset to meet for dinner one recent evening, to take in the breathtaking light that drops from the western sky into a brilliant, pink-red-blue-gray curtsy behind the floor-to-ceiling windows spanning the back of the restaurant. We admired, awestruck, yet when our food came, we barely looked up from our plates again.
Fresh oysters ($2 each) are a specialty. Drawing from nearby Hog Island Oyster Farm and its neighbors, oft-changing selections might include Sweetwaters, Kumamotos or the Marin Miyagis and Preston Points we chose. Creamy, briny, demanding to be bit and savored instead of swallowed, the buttery meat didn’t need (but was wonderful with) accompanying classic Champagne mignonette and a highly appealing “hog wash” of vinegar and jalapeño. The ritual is elegant, plucking a shell from its perch atop a sparkly tray of ice, loosening the muscle with a tiny silver fork, then slurping the salty goodness.
Fish also shines. Local salmon being as precarious as it is right now, Nick’s has brought in Scottish ($24), which has the advantage of being some of the finest farmed variety in the world. It was advertised as coming bagna cauda (Italian for “bath,” essentially an anchovy sauce), though on my visit it was barely a splash over a bed of Peruvian purple potatoes and roast cauliflower. Nothing was missing, however, from Bodega Bay Dungeness crab cakes ($16) served as a trio of luxuriously meaty, golden-edged disks tinged with fennel and resting on a puddle of bright Meyer lemon aioli.
While Nick’s has a fine repertoire of non-seafood entrées—almond grilled Creekstone rib eye ($31) or apple sage stuffed pork loin ($19), for example—one of the most hugely satisfying plates is the cheeseburger and fries. It’s pricey at $16, but first-rate, the beef fresh-ground and hand-formed into a thick patty, layered with Spring Hill cheddar or Point Reyes blue and a scattering of housemade pickles.
This is also an important tidbit for a would-be diner at Nick’s to know: reservations are strongly recommended. Walk-ins are welcomed at the crowded bar or at the raw bar (full menu served), but landing a seat can be an awkward game of musical chairs. The fastest feet—or most virile appetite for oysters, perhaps—win.
Nick’s Cove. Open for lunch and dinner daily; dinner only, Tuesday. 23240 State Route 1, Marshall. 415.663.1033.
Quick-and-dirty dashes through North Bay restaurants. These aren’t your standard “bring five friends and order everything on the menu” dining reviews.

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text: After school gardening St Luke’s Community Centre, Central Street, is running an after school gardening club for local children every Wednesday from 25th September, 4-5pm, in its Edible Yard. Children will learn where food comes from, how to sow and nurture seeds and how to make art from nature. They can also meet St Luke’s resident worms and chickens. The after school gardening club is free to members of St Luke’s, and just £3 to non-members. Children are welcome accompanied by a responsible adult. Sessions will go ahead in rain or shine, as St Luke’s has a large heated greenhouse in its Edible Yard. Poppy Fishman from St Luke’s says: “We hope local families will pop into the garden on their way home from school to explore and learn new things, it will be a chance to get their hands dirty in the soil - if they want to! It’s rare to find such a thriving green space in the middle of the City, and we want locals of all ages to be able to enjoy it.”All residents living in the area are warmly invited to register as members of St Luke’s, whatever their age. Lifetime membership will cost just £5 and benefits include priority to join in our newly-expanded programme of free/low cost classes and activities. Registration is free for anyone under 18 years of age whose parent/carer is also registering.

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“Once upon a time, there lived a princess on the moon. She was a very beautiful princess and all who gazed upon her fell in love with her at once being male or female. The princess of the moon had the sweetest of hearts as well as the fairest of beautiful. Her hair was golden-like silver and that was natural for the royals of the moon. It flowed around like it was made of water. She was quite a sight indeed. Even her name blew the greatest of feelings to all who heard it. It was a name of pureness and beauty.
"In the near kingdom was a different princess. She was also very beautiful, but there was no one to admire her beauty for her kingdom was in the darkness of the new moon. Her complexions were darker than that of the full moon princess, but she was fairly beautiful as well. Her name was as dark as herself and her kingdom. her personality was as well the same, but she was nice despite her manners. Though she refused to show it to other people."
"The two princesses didn’t get along very well. Just as light and darkness can’t be one but are always fighting, there’s never one day when the two princess never fought mentally. Their thoughts were always traveling back and forth through the spaces and back and neither ever gave up trying to win over the other.”
“'Your highness, you have a message from your mother, the queen.'”
"he New Moon princess sat up from her throne of thorn black roses and listened to the message that was from her mother. She smirked when the maid finished relaying the message and stood up. Her princess black lace gown flowed around her legs like water as she moved down the stairs of her throne and made her way to the nearest door and went inside."
“'So,' she said looking inside the mirror at her dark reflection, 'its time already.'”
“'Your highness, I believe the time for admiring yourself is up,' a voice spoke from the mirror. The princess stared and smirked as the mirror fogged up and soon revealed a handsome face with one dark green eye and a light blue eyes. His hair was marvelously black and he was quite handsome for even the princess herself thought so. Though she refused to say so."
“'Jason,' she said. 'What a lovely time to come by.'”
“'Yes indeed.' The mirror boy smiled and the princess’s expression softened.'"
"'What brings you here?” she asked. “Could it be the... meeting that has gotten to you?'”
“‘Precisely. I’m using my brother’s mirror. I was wondering if you’d like to share a little secret with me.' He smiled his all so very smooth smile that always seemed to drive the ladies nuts. It actually annoyed the New Princess that the fairest of all princes she’s ever met was so admired by other females other than herself. Sometimes she wanted really badly to capture him from his own kingdom of Destruction and confine him so that he was never gazed upon again by another woman except herself. But, she was *too nice* to do that."
“'And what secret would that be?' she asked with hidden darkness."
“'You know exactly what secrets I’m talking about, princess of the new moon.' The prince smiled again and his eyes seemed to bore into the princess like sharp nails. She shuddered with amusement. It was indeed something she wanted to feel more of. She decided to tease him even more. She was going to ensnare into her web until there was no getting out. She smirked at her own idea without meaning to."
“'Something amuse you, princess?' the prince asked. He smirked the same and narrowed his different colored eyes slightly. The princess shuddered again at his gaze. It was amazing, the feeling. She wanted to feel it more often."
"'So tell me, princess. '"
"'I'm afraid I have no reason to tell you anything, dear prince Jason.' the princess smiled and licked her lips and smiled seductively. The prince grinned seductively back and his image vanished from the mirror and the princess turned to her servant. Her servant bowed as she understood what needed to be done and left the area."
"Hours later, the New Moon and Visible Moon Princesses were standing side by side in front of their parents the queens and kings of the new and visible moon. They were about to start in a journey that would last them the rest of their lives."
"'Daughter of the Visible Moon, please step forth and pick your new home planet,' the New Moon Queen said to the Visible Moon princess."
"The ever so vibrant moon princess smiled and curtsied before she placed her hands under the planet of her choice. The New Moon princes glared darkly at her but softened her gaze as she remembered she was in the presence of the entire Space Kingdom. She knew that no one really expected much from her since she was of the new moon, which was rumored to be the evil phase. She wasn't evil. At least, she didn't think she was."
"Daughter of New Moon, please step up and pick the planet of your choice.' The Queen of the Visible Moon said. She smiled gently, but instead of smiling back, the new moon princess curtsied and went to join the other princess at the Earth. They stared at each other each willing the other to take a new planet, but before they had a chance to change planets, the Earth model began glowing intensely."
"Before long, the two princesses were hibernating in crystal orbs of different colors. Their parents used all the magic that they could muster and sent them to the future. The two princesses were unaware that behind them, their lives had been saved by their parents. They would be expected to find the answers and more."
Raven: And they all lived happily ever after. The end.
You really thought I'd end there? Please. This is the story of the Princess of the new and visible moon. I'm not gonna stop my story there. Jump in next time when I tell you the actual beginning. Next time! Raven and the Boy Next Door I'm joking there. Oh heck I said once upon a time... that was a joke by the way.
Author's Note: The one who was narrating was Raven. Raven is also the main character as well as other surprising characteristics she has. At the end of some chapters, there's going to be some extras.

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Will Rhode Island’s Woke Social-Studies Standards Soon Infect Others States?
Originally published on National Review Online, by DAVID RANDALL February 10, 2023 as;
Rhode Island’s Woke Social-Studies Standards May Soon Come to Your State
The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) has just demonstrated how the woke operate by approving one of the worst social-studies standards in the nation. Read “Taken For a RIDE: How Rhode Island’s Social Studies Standards Shortchange Students,” just released by the Civics Alliance and the Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity, and you can see what woke education bureaucrats do when they can run roughshod over policy-makers and the public. RIDE used a secretive process to produce a bloated document that is vague; riddled with errors, distortions, and absences; and animated by radical identity-politics ideology to teach students hostility to groups such as whites, men, and Christians — and, above all, hostility to America.
Here are some of the “anchor standards” that guide the Rhode Island standards as a whole:
Students will act as informed citizens as they . . . argue how power can be distributed and used to create a more equitable society for communities and individuals based on their intersectional identities and lived experiences.
Students act as historians as they . . . analyze multiple sources to compare and contrast historical events through the lenses of identity, power, and resistance. (pp. 5-6)
Here’s what the standards draft includes:
Third wave feminism and its focus on intersectional feminism (e.g., redefinition of beauty standards, individual empowerment, Anita Hill hearing of 1991, “The Year of the Woman,” punk groups such as Riot Grrrl, Guerrilla Girls). (p. 167)
Ways that young students can advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights in their communities. (p. 173)
What is the United States’s own history of genocide? (pp. 258-59)
Here’s some of what it doesn’t include:
- Dedicated economics instruction.
- More than a shadow of America’s liberty, faith, prosperity, and common culture.
- England’s common law and parliament.
- Greek liberty.
- The Bible.
- Jesus of Nazareth.
Then there are the outright mistakes — not just the typos and incoherent sentences, which would shame a high-school student, but substantial historical errors. Rhode Island’s standards ask students to learn about events in the Persian empire between 700 a.d. and 1200 a.d. — when the Persian empire didn’t exist. It mixes up the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny. It thinks the Bolshevik Revolution happened before World War I. And it repeats in three different grades the myth that the governing structure of the Iroquois Confederacy had substantial influence on the making of the Constitution.
Rhode Island’s laws require curriculum, textbook creation, and professional development to follow its politicized, historically inaccurate, and shoddy social-studies standards. The standards will have an immediate and harmful effect on classroom social-studies instruction. In the long run, Rhode Island will suffer even more because its children will have been educated to hate their country.
The failure of Rhode Island’s standards is the failure of all woke social-studies standards. They do not teach our children what freedom is, nor where America’s ideas of freedom come from in the long history of Western civilization, nor how our ancestors achieved their freedom, nor how our republican institutions preserve our freedom, nor what they need to do to preserve their country’s liberty. They only teach a caricature of history to inspire and provide vocational training for radical activists, with holes the size of Greek liberty and the Bible.
The citizens and policy-makers of Rhode Island and America can secure social-studies standards that teach our exceptional history of liberty — and even just meet minimum professional standards — only if they fix the adoption process and the substance of each state’s social-studies standards. States and school districts should model new standards on “American Birthright: The Civics Alliance’s Model K-12 Social Studies Standards.” New statutes should require increased public review and comment in the standards-adoption process, increased power for the public and elected officials to veto the woke bureaucrats, and a guarantee to school districts that they can opt out from woke social-studies standards.
America’s citizens deserve excellent social-studies standards. American citizens and policy-makers should work at once in Rhode Island and in all the states to make all the statutory and administrative changes necessary to ensure that their education departments craft proper social-studies standards for their children — standards that educate America’s children to know and to love their birthright of liberty.

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This is the third edition of this guideline, first published in 2004 under the title ‘Thromboprophylaxis during Pregnancy, Labour and after Vaginal Delivery’ and revised in 2009 under the title ‘Reducing the Risk of Thrombosis and Embolism during Pregnancy and the Puerperium’.
Update May 2018: New evidence and guidance in this field were reviewed at the May 2018 Guidelines Committee meeting and it was decided that revision of this guideline would be deferred for 1 year (May 2019). The version available on the website and app will remain valid until replaced.
The aim of this guideline is to provide advice, based on clinical evidence where available, regarding the prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) during pregnancy, birth and following delivery. For the diagnosis and management of acute VTE in pregnancy, please refer to Green-top Guideline No. 37b: The Acute Management of Thrombosis and Embolism during Pregnancy and the Puerperium.
For anticoagulation for mechanical heart valves in pregnancy, read the chapter covering this within the proceedings of the RCOG study group on heart disease - a summary of the guideline for antenatal and postnatal thromboprophylaxis is given in Appendix I.


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To qualify for the Kentucky Derby, a horse must be strong. This year a local farm is hoping being Wicked Strong is enough to snag the $2 million purse.
Wicked Strong, a thoroughbred from Beverly’s Centennial Farms, was renamed to honor the Boston Marathon victims after last year’s tragedy. Don Little Jr., the president of the farm, thinks fate will have a role in bringing first place back to Massachusetts.
“Absolutely, totally, I believe in fate,” Little said in a telephone interview today. “There are things we don’t have control of, that are bringing us good energy.”
Little might be on to something. In the farm’s 32-year history, this is the first horse to qualify for the Derby. And not only did Wicked Strong qualify, he is ranked in the top five.
“I truly believe this is meant to be,” he said. “Too many coincidences have aligned.”
Little bought the horse at an auction in 2012. He was named Moyne Spun, but Little said he wasn’t crazy about that moniker.
“I was looking for something a little more forceful and catchy,” he said.
Last year’s tragedy inspired Little. He said he wanted to name the horse Boston Strong, but that was already taken. At a Boston Bruins game a few days after the bombing, his wife and her friends came up with the new namesake.
“They started texting me from the game, telling me the idea,” he said. “And it was perfect, it was so Bostonian.”
Wicked Strong, so far, has lived up to his name. Earlier this month, he took first place in the Wood Memorial Stakes, and hasn’t stopped training since, according to his trainer Jimmy Jerkens.
“He’s doing very well,” said Jerkens. “A lot of things have to happen for a horse to win, but I’m happy with how he’s doing.”
Jerkens has been working with Wicked Strong since last May. He’s a unique trainer, with a hands-on approach. He’s not usually one to buy into destiny and luck, but he says this year’s events have him believing.
“It’s amazing how fate seems to be working for us,” he said. “I never say we’re going to win because that will blow your chances. But I will say we’re quietly confident.”
The team plans to head to Kentucky at the end of this month to prepare for the May 3 race.
Of course, the city has rallied behind the horse with the sentimental name. But farm officials have also given people another reason to root for the thoroughbred.
To date 1 percent of Wicked Strong’s winnings have been donated to the One Fund, which was set up to raise money for those affected by the attacks. This has amounted to about $7,000, said Little. With the more prestigious races, Little said, he’s ready to up the ante.
Five percent of Wicked Strong’s earnings in the Kentucky Derby, and other Triple Crown races will be donated to the fund. With a winning prize of $2 million, this could amount to a large sum.
“We want to give back to Boston,” said Little. “With the name — and the donation.”Jacqueline Tempera can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on twitter @jacktemp

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Willingness to get vaccinated is 66% under travellersHalf of Dutch holiday-makers await vaccination before travelling again
More and more countries change their tourism policies in order to make going on a holiday easier for people who have received their vaccination. Meanwhile, Greece and Israel have said that vaccinated tourists are welcome without having to go in quarantine. About 66% of the interviewed will take the vaccine in order to travel abroad. Half of the interviewed even said to wait with travelling until they can get vaccinated.Â These findings are based on a questionnaire* executed by big online travel community Holidayguru, who asked more than 5.000 readers in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands about their opinion.
Two thirds of holiday-makers willing to get vaccination
The majority of the Dutch respondents (57%) are of opinion that holidays abroad should not only be possible for people who are vaccinated against the coronavirus. The main reason behind this, is that people want to keep their freedom of choice in taking the vaccine against the virus. Although, 66% of the interviewed said to take the vaccine if that is a condition to travel to certain countries.
Holidays abroad for everybody or only after all vaccinations?
There are daily discussions about the Dutch vaccination programme. An important part of the vaccination planning is the order in demographics in which the vaccination will be administered. Is it fair that people who have been vaccinated can go on a holiday abroad earlier than those who have not been jabbed? There is quite soem disagreement about that statement. Half of the interviewed said they do not find it fair that vaccinated people get to go on a holiday abroad before the entire of Netherlands is vaccinated. The other half does not have a problem with that.
Flying exclusively for vaccinated?
Now that the first few people are vaccinated against the coronavirus, the question remains what kind of measurements airlines will take to make international travel possible again. The CEO of Qantas Airlines stated in November that vaccination for international flights with Qantas will become obligated. Do other airlines also consider to introduce this measure? Sami Chouchane of Holidayguru does not think this will be the case. â€śAirlines invest a lot in hygiene to make sure people can travel safely during the pandemic. We do not expect people who are not vaccinated to be denied.â€ť
*In total more than 5.000 people were questioned, 417 were from the Netherlands.


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The option to travel to a Hold capital is available even if the player hasn't discovered it yet, making carriages a very useful method of transport early in the game. If attacked, he will jump off of his carriage and proceed to attack the Dragonborn. Attempting to steal from him will show nothing in his inventory. Only after being assaulted and killed can the Dragonborn take anything from him.
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (First appearance)

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CHILPANCINGO: Mexican authorities said on Friday that they were investigating local police in the capital of Guerrero state after the dismembered bodies of two young men were found inside plastic bags outside the beach resort of Acapulco.
State prosecutor Javier Olea said the young men had been arrested by Chilpancingo police last Saturday after a brawl at a Christmas fair and officers were suspected of later murdering them. Their bodies were found on Thursday. At least one other young man has disappeared.
State and federal police and military forces took over security operations in Chilpancingo on Thursday after more than 100 local police officers were suspended and put under investigation in the case, a state police spokesman said on Friday.
A growing number of criminal groups in Guerrero are battling over territory used to grow opium poppies for heroin production. Guerrero is one of the most violent states in Mexico. It is not uncommon for state, federal and military forces to replace local security forces suspected of corruption and ties to Mexico’s powerful gangs.
On Thursday, protests were held against local police and relatives of two missing youths told reporters they suspected police were involved in their disappearance.
In the nearby city of Iguala in 2014, 43 Mexican students were rounded up by corrupt police, who handed them over to a gang that burnt them in a nearby dump, according to a federal investigation.
Clashes between rival drug gangs contributed to a record high number of murders in Mexico last year. President Enrique Pena Nieto has pledged to get violence under control ahead of national elections this summer.

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Startup SKYFchain has partnered Docomo via participating in the NTT Docomo 5G Open Partner Program that started on August 3.
The partnership entails conducting test flights of the SKYF drones on the startup’s platform by using the NTT Docomo 5G communication technology.
5G tech brings multiple high-speed connections on board and opens up for more possibilities than LTE. Alongside other industries, the new element of communication should find major purpose in the fields like autonomous cars, vehicle-to-vehicle and road-to-vehicle connections, machine learning and more.
As per a report, an industrial ambition is to provide every car with the support to manage about 4 terabytes of data. This will make way for machines to send and receive large bundles of data. 5G technology can take care of the crucial data delay for the likes of autonomous vehicles and other industries.
The SKYFchain platform with Docomo’s technology can keep an unmanned vehicle in the system. In fact, multiple such vehicles can be kept under real-time control, and that includes the instances of the requirement of manual controls as well.
For SKYFchain, the 5G technology is not only an opportunity to implement the transactions and run operational control but also a real-time data collection and operations with big data. All these needs will arise as the unmanned logistic market grows. – Alexandr Timofeev, CEO SKYFchain
SKYFchain back on June 11 had its ICO achieve the Softcap of $5 million. It has been highly regarded by the established ICO trackers like ICOBench, ICObazaar, TrackICO, and many others. This alone ensures that Docomo being an established company has found an ideal partner in the startup for providing services on its 5G technology.


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Shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2010.
1844: When Josie O’Casey returns to London after twelve years in America, she is overjoyed to discover that her childhood sweetheart, Patrick Nolan, who she believed to be dead, is alive and well. But her happiness is short-lived – Patrick now belongs to another. When the couple are finally offered a glimmer of hope, their happiness is threatened by Ma Tugman and her criminal empire. But will Josie forsake everything for the man she loves ...?
When Josie O'Casey returns to London after twelve years in America, she is overjoyed to discover that her childhood sweetheart Patrick Nolan, who she believed to be dead, is alive and well. But Josie's happiness is short-lived - Patrick now belongs to another. Heartbroken, Josie vows to forget about Patrick and settle back into life in the East End. But the East End that Josie knew as a child is much changed. While Josie can remember only too clearly her poverty-stricken upbringing, her family's social standing has vastly improved since they've been away. And there are some who resent that Josie left behind the slums of London to return as a lady. Torn between two worlds, Josie is still drawn back to her childhood haunts - and to Patrick. When the couple are finally offered a glimmer of hope, their chance at happiness is threatened by the all-powerful Ma Tugman and her criminal empire. Now Josie must decide if she is willing to forsake everything for the man she loves...
'Underlying sexual tension and cleverly handled introspection make this a real page-turner.'
HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW
Publication date: 18/02/2010
Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) an imprint of Orion Publishing Co
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Jean Fullerton is a native Londoner and was born in the East End within the sound of Bow Bells. Until she was five her family lived in Wapping, alongside the Thames, and then moved to Stepney. She is a trained nurse and teaches healthcare and nursing. No Cure for Love won the 2006 bi-annual Harry Bowling Prize for a novel set in London and written by an unpublished author. Jean's husband is a Church of England vicar, and his parish includes the site of the 2012 Olympic Games. She has three daughters.More About Jean Fullerton


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You’re looking for a book that reminds you why you read in the first place. One written well and that will feel like it was written just for you- one that will make you think about things in a new way, or feel things you didn’t expect a book to make you feel, or see things in a new light. A book you won’t want to put down, whose characters you don’t want to tell good-bye. A book you will close feeling satisfied and grateful, thinking. Now, that was a good one. – Anne Bogel
Such are the books I always long to read, the ones that stay for a longer time and still refuses to go, the ones that overwhelm, influences, affects strongly and leaves its enduring impression. Books where I might find my prospect there, like it was written only for me, speaking close to what I feel, how I perceive things and people; books where l might get my answers like it knows how things are in my place.
But finding such books is an obscure task altogether, the books that completely resonates with your life and interests is not easy to look out for. I feel I’ve read good books till now, also few great books stand on my tbr, but even though it feels there are books I haven’t come across, reading them might leave me saying wow! that’s why I love reading. That is why I continue to follow all the great book recommendations and book clubs out there, making notes of all the recommendations, readers give out there, then extensively search for their blurbs and read them. Not all the books recommended are of my interest, well the majority of times, they don’t. Why? If you think. I contemplated and realized that the majority of the readers are recommending books that are either popular or ones that everyone is reading or books of their particular interest, which might not go well with other readers. Besides, I do not trust book reviews in newspapers or magazines or other periodicals. I don’t find them useful. I found them objective or too positive. Do you think so?
I choose books from the recommendations or book clubs as per my genre of interest, books whose synopsis gives an impression of the story I wish to read, not because it should be read or because everyone gives them a positive thumbs-up, I choose them even if it has negative reviews but the blurb sounds intriguing. I choose if I want to read on a particular subject; only if I would be able to understand the seriousness of the matter, I choose books that assure of joy, happiness, and entertainment and not only about war and despair. I choose by just browsing, by moving my fingers on the beautiful covers, by stumbling on them by some means or the other. I don’t choose if it’s a classic; I don’t choose if every avid reader is recommending it; I don’t choose if it’s an award winner. I choose only if I want to read the story, whose blurb, whose cover speaks to me.
How do you choose books to read? Of what to read next? Do you follow book recommendations? Have you simply picked if it is recommended by your favorite reader? What affects your reading decisions?


State Senator Fran Pavley is striving to create the conditions necessary for making a functional Liberty Canyon wildlife corridor possible. Chesebro Meadow would be an important component of that corridor that would provide access to the proposed freeway crossing. This is a key political and scientific event in a chain of related developments to keep the City of Agoura Hills from allowing the housing subdivision of Chesebro Meadow.
*More to come on this …. LVHF


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Just over a month ago, I wrote a piece about the ever increasing amounts of data collection happening. As I suspected would occur, the ID card debate has recently got another push along from the Australian government. At the same time, the British government’s plans for an ID card have been knocked back by their Upper House.
Suggesting an ID card is needed to fight terrorism sounds to me to have about the same value as plastic knives on an aircraft – to quote Amanda Vanstone, “to make people feel better as opposed to actually achieve an outcome.” Setting up a universal ID card system will also cost rather a lot more than a truckload of plastic knives and has much greater privacy risks.
My post last month also raised concern about the prospect of our governments having access to material such as Google search data. This seems to have come one step closer, with a story that the US Justice Department’s has subpoenaed Google for “data about every internet search during a one-week period.”
While it appears the immediate intent of the US government in this case – to try to protect children online – is laudable, I fear the wider consequences could be a huge negative. Internet users in places as diverse as Iran and China already know what it means to have governments watching all online behaviour. The negatives of our governments being able to trawl widely through that sort of information would far outweigh any positives.
ADDENDUM: As many readers would know, the Liberal Party that is currently considering introducing an ID card in Australia is the same Liberal Party (also led at the time by John Howard) that opposed the Australian Labor Party government’s attempt to do the same thing in 1987. In a good example of how politics can be very similar in different countries, I found this quote from 1995 by Tony Blair, then Labour Party leader of the Opposition in the UK:
“Instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands more police officers on the beat in our local communities”


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Order Sofovir Tablets 400 mg from Hetero Pharma
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Iris Johansen – Eight Days to Live
By SMW Staff
Eve Duncan and her adopted daughter, Jane Macguire, are pitted against the members of a secretive cult who have targeted Jane and have decided that she will be their ultimate sacrifice. In eight days they will come for her. In eight days, what Jane fears the most will become a reality. In eight days, she will die. It all begins with a painting that Jane, an artist, displays in her Parisian gallery. The painting is called “Guilt” and Jane has no idea how or why she painted the portrait of the chilling face. But the members of a cult that dates back to the time of Christ believe that Jane’s blasphemy means she must die. But first, she will lead them to an ancient treasure whose value is beyond price. This elusive treasure, and Jane’s death, are all that they need for their power to come to ultimate fruition. With Eve’s help, can Jane escape before the clock stops ticking?
Paris Day One
SHE WAS LAUGHING, Jack Millet thought, enraged. Even as Jane MacGuire had left the sidewalk café, a lingering smile had remained on her lips.
He had to smother the anger, remind himself that she would not be laughing for very long.
Eight days, bitch. Just eight more days, and I’ll send you to rot in hell.
He had watched her sitting there in the café, staring out at the Seine, and the seething anger had been building steadily within him. She had no right to look that serene and content.
He started after her, careful not to get close enough for her to know she was being followed. He knew where she was going. The e Denarve Art Gallery was only two blocks away and tonight they were exhibiting Jane MacGuire’s paintings and would probably be heaping praise on her.
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What happens when you put three national park wardens together and then add superb musicianship, haunting harmonies, and chilling tales from men who’ve spent their lives protecting and conserving the most rugged of places – the wilderness of Canada’s mountain national parks? You get critically acclaimed Banff folk/roots trio The Wardens. And they’re hitting the road and will be in Port McNeill at the Gate House Theatre Nov. 14!
ABOUT THE WARDENS
With performances equal to the mastery of the ranger trade, The Wardens’ mountain music – blending folk, roots and western styles – is a piece of Canadiana reflecting the pristine wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. The trio has released 2 full-length albums and 1 EP to-date with the most recent being their album Sleeping Buffalo, released in 2017.
THE WARDENS UPCOMING TOUR DATES
November 8 – Sayward, BC – Sayward Heritage Hall
November 9 – Port Alberni, BC – Char’s Landing
November 10 – Duncan, BC – Duncan Showroom
November 11 – Victoria, BC – House Concert
November 14 – Port McNeill, BC – Gate House Theatre
November 15 – Powell River, BC – Max Cameron Theatre
November 16 – Quadra Island, BC – Heriot Bay Inn.


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CHICAGO (September 24, 2012) – North Park Theological Seminary (NPTS) will host Christian scholars this week in two consecutive annual events.
The Nils W. Lund Memorial Lectureship on Wednesday and Thursday will focus on current developments in biblical studies and their relationship to the mission and ministry of the church. The Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture to be held Thursday through Saturday features presentations and discussion of “family” in the scriptural context.
Seminary faculty are organizing both events.
“The Conversions of the Emotions in Early Christianity” will be the topic addressed in Wednesday’s Lund Lecture by Stephen Barton, reader in New Testament (retired) at Durham University in Durham, United Kingdom.
“Old Testament Resources for a New Twenty-First Century World” will be the focus of lectures given on Thursday by Dennis T. Olson, the Charles T. Haley professor of Old Testament theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey.
Each speaker will present two lectures from 9 a.m. to noon in Isaacson Chapel in Nyvall Hall. The lectures are free and open to the public.
Each year the symposium gathers eight or nine scholars from various disciplines to reflect on what scripture has to say about an important theme or topic that relates to Christian life and the work of the church, said Stephen Chester, NPTS professor of New Testament and acting associate academic dean.
Registration is required. View the event website for more information.


As the famous saying goes, the past is a foreign country – and few directors have emphasised this in their work quite as much as Robert Eggers.
One of the most distinctive filmmakers currently working, Eggers’ two features to date (2015’s The Witch and 2019’s The Lighthouse) have been otherworldly period pieces, submerging audiences into a gothic past with zero concessions to a modern sensibility.
His latest movie, The Northman, continues this trend telling a revenge story set in 10th century Iceland, steeped in Norse mythology, with Alexander Skarsgård playing Amleth, a figure in Scandinavian legend who inspired William Shakespeare to write Hamlet.
It’s the director’s biggest budgeted project so far, boasting an A-list cast, expansive action sequences, and the promise of naked sword fighting on a volcano.
But more impressively, it’s a larger scale production that hasn’t remotely compromised his storytelling sensibilities. It plunges viewers into a detail-oriented reimagining of a long forgotten past, with extensive research undertaken to recreate the language of the era – historical detail coinciding with an unsettling gothic sensibility to create a distinctly alien experience.
Whilst Eggers may have tried his hand at different genres, from folk horror, to dark comedy, and now an action adventure, his approach to storytelling has remained the same: you will be immersed in the worlds he creates through sheer disorientation.
In the latest edition of our free digital magazine The Lowdown, we took a deep dive into his approach to historical storytelling to determine why Eggers is like no other director working today.


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6. Even after her eviction, Audrey wasn’t afraid to let her light shine.
During the chat, a fan wrote in with the following question: “Looking back, did you play too hard, too soon?” Without hesitation, Audrey answered, “Yes, abso-freakin’-lutely.”
Game play aside, there’s one thing Audrey has no doubts about: “At least my butt looked good on TV,” she said, laughing.
Watch the entire video of Audrey's sit down with Jeff Schroeder.

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This is a draft of the introduction to “Autumn in D.C. — A Sacred Journey. The book is tentatively sheduled to be released mid November, 2010…just in time for Christmas.
The old man shuffeled slowly down the concrete path. Around him were a group of school kids who hadn’t even been born when the old man made the steps from boyhood to manhood. To the school kids, Vietnam was something they read about in their history books. It was something they heard their grandfather speak about in hushed tones with his friends – if he talked about it at all.
He raised his eyes to the top of the panel and slowly counted down the lines. When he came to the 11th line, his vision slowly scanned to the right until his gaze was fixed on the friend he had left behind. The eyes which moments before were clear became moist. A tear formed in the corner. Then another. And another.
Unashamed he felt the tears stream down his cheeks as he stood fixated at The Wall, staring at all that was left of his best friend – a name etched into black granite. He was transported in his memory back to that day in 1967 and the last time he saw his buddy.
He had been afraid to visit this spot in 1982 when The Wall was dedicated. Each year since he struggled with the desire to make this pilgrimage and the fear of making this pilgrimage. At last he made it.
And he made a measure of peace with himself. Knowing that this would probably be his last chance to visit The Wall, he silently swore at himself for waiting so long. He softly spoke to his reflection in the polished surface and asked the unseen for their forgiveness in taking a while to visit..
The book you hold is his story in pictures. But not just his story, it’s the story of so many veterans who made that sacred journey to Washington D.C. one autumn day in 2010.

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Simone Price is an Assistant Director of Government and Community Relations for New York City Transit. She serves as the Queens Borough Representative for Community Boards 8-14 in Queens County. Previously, she was the Executive Director of the Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District (BID) where she increased the operating budget by approximately $700,000; witnessed Mayor Bloomberg sign legislation that increased the BID’s annual assessment into law; served on the Board of Directors for several organizations in NYC; and, received a Community Service Award from the National Council of Negro Women, NYC Council and NYS Senate.
Simone was born, raised and currently resides in Jamaica, New York. She is an alumna of United Way of New York City, Coro New York Neighborhood Leadership training program and Hofstra University, where she earned her B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies and M.B.A. in Management.
Simone founded UrbanCircle Thrive in 2017 as a response to a lack of exposure to success for young people within her community. Her greatest accomplishment and fear in college was obtaining her M.B.A. Shortly after college, Simone came to the realization that her degree was nothing to fear and that there was much more for her to offer the world. She wished that she learned this lesson younger, similar to her peers, as they seemed further along in their careers during that time. Simone believes that through career exposure, leadership workshops and travel, she can help young people become aware of their gifts and talents earlier in efforts to alter their outlook on life. She aspires to spark curiosity in young people that causes them to think outside of the box. She wants to build confidence in each cohort and show them endless possibilities.


“I’m holding up,” Inman said. “I’m just focused on each and every day with two main goals, and that’s to graduate and to win. And so when I get back, whether that’s the first game or the last game, if we’re winning and I’m making strides toward graduating, that’s all I’m really going to focus on because that’s what I’m all about.”
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — This is not the way JR Inman wanted to begin his senior year.Suspended. Injured. And patiently waiting for his chance to play. “It’s probably the toughest thing that I’ve ever had to deal with in my life because of the fact that it is my last year and I do have a lot of faith in this year’s team,” the 6-foot-9, 230-pound Inman said at Rutgers Media Day on Wednesday. “So it’s unfortunate but I always break it down to a scientific equation, two negatives equals a positive. Me and Jaron [Griffin] being out is a negative, but you combine it together, keep working hard and it can turn into a positive.” Head coach Fred Hill last month suspended Inman and Griffin, two of the team’s three seniors, “from game competition” for violating team policies. It remains unclear when they will be reinstated. “There is no timetable,” Hill said. “It’s when I feel they’ve done all the parameters I’ve put on them. As of this moment they’ve been outstanding. They’ve been great leaders, handled all business when they’re supposed to. They’ve been terrific ever since the decision came down.” Inman led Rutgers in scoring (12.2 points) and rebounding (7.2) last year, and Griffin averaged 7.5 points and 3.2 rebounds. The two are allowed to practice with the team, although Inman has been sitting out with an injured right knee. “It’s getting better every day,” he said. “It’s nothing serious, no surgery [or] tears, just a little stress from the amount of work I’ve been doing on it. [I’m taking] a couple days off. Certainly by the time I get back from the suspension, I’ll be ready to go and even before then.”Inman said he injured the knee during RU’s MidKnight Madness event earlier this month. “We were doing drills, dunk contests, stuff like that and I was jumping on it a lot afterward and it kind of hurt and then I got an x-ray and they just said it’s really stressed,” Inman said. “My bones aren’t fully developed. I’m still growing into my body so the stress that I put on it with my lack of rest really inflamed my right knee and so the next couple of days will help it quiet down a little bit so I’ll be ready to go.” Inman is highly optimistic about the team’s freshmen, especially former St. Anthony star Mike Rosario and former St. Benedict’s standout Greg Echenique. The 6-2 Rosario, who played for legendary coach Bob Hurley and won the New Jersey Tournament of Champions last year, reminds Inman of a certain former Rutgers star now in the NBA.“Sometimes I’m setting the ball screen and coming off and I think I’m still playing with Quincy Douby in terms of his physique and how he looks,” Inman said. “Obviously, he has a lot of work to do before he can fill those shoes. In the summer when we were playing, I’d say, You leave him open and I was screaming layup from 3 because he’s basically making it eight out of 10 times.” Inman also says the 6-9 Echenique is ready for the Big East right now. “I’m particularly surprised with Gregory,” he said. “I saw him play in high school and I thought he was a pretty good player. But it wasn’t until he came back from Venezuela when I realized how much of an impact he could have on this year’s team. A lot of freshmen you talk about what they can do in years to come, but when you talk about freshmen being Big East ready, I think that you’re talking about Gregory.”With so much young talent, you can see why Inman and others are excited to get the season started, even if the Knights are competing in a brutal Big East where seven teams were chosen in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ Poll.


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Today’s Rating: 2 Today’s Message:
Something unknown may make you anxious this morning, maybe work or finances. In the afternoon, it’s hard to maintain focus and you’d be happier pursuing a pastime than trying to be productive. Tonight, friends beckon, although visiting might not be totally stress-free.
Days are rated 1 – 5 (1 = most challenging; 5 = easiest)

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A Swiss biotech firm, Sophia Genetics, has chosen Aurora as the location for a new research and development facility.
The company, which doesn’t have any operations in the state, received $1.87 million in job growth incentive tax credits from the Colorado Economic Development Commission in January.
The company initially said it wanted to create 69 net new jobs over eight years at an average annual wage of $107,377, but now says it plans to hire more than 100 people by 2022.
“Their forecasted talent needs are quality jobs that align strongly with Colorado’s highly-educated workforce,” Michelle Hadwiger, director of global business with the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, said in a statement.
Colorado beat out Texas and Massachusetts for the new facility, which will be in Adams County.
The company has gathered patient data from more than 1,000 institutions around the globe and uses in a software platform to help health care providers better diagnose rare diseases and cancers and come up with more targeted treatments.
The company plans to host a recruitment event from March 30 to April 3. Those interested in applying can go to the company’s website.


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Introduction: Vacuum Line Swivel
...allows the vacuum line to rotate freely and to deviate nearly 40° side-to-side.
So, while the consensus online is that an external vacuum is a good idea, these random orbital sanders don't tend to come with adapters, so I had to make one, and being a huge fan of these swivel plugs for my pneumatic tools, I wanted to copy that functionality in my hose line adapter.
The linked pneumatic swivel plugs are two simple parts: a ball with a stick attached to one end, with a hole bored through for air flow, and an enclosed socket - a "cage" - that holds the ball... we could copy that design, but since we are connecting a vacuum line here, we can actually skip the "cage" bit, omitting half of the socket, and just use the low pressure to keep the socket on the ball. (A hollow peg then becomes necessary to keep the socket from rotating too far and blocking the vacuum connection.)
So far, I've been happy with the ability of the vacuum to hold onto the sander, but if I decide otherwise, it would be a fairly simple retrofit to complete the cage.
(Please note: the design I present here actually requires a lathe to make, but by substituting a 1" coupler for the fancy turned socket, and an oversized hole and some glue for the tapered bore, you could probably make a fairly good copy with only a drill, a grinder, and some hot glue.)
Step 1: Design
Design is pretty simple; set up a single 2D parametric sketch and figure out the best way to achieve the following goals:
- The largest possible opening for the socket, to maximize the area of low pressure which holds the swivel connection together.
- A mating angle of at least 20° per side between the socket and the golfball. (much less than that and they will jam together, in the same manner as a machine taper)
- A large amount of possible angular deviation.
- A reasonable wall thickness, both for the pin and the socket.
- General manufacturability
I ended up with the above design, based on a 1" coupler (further machined with fancy socket shapes) glued onto a bit of 1" pipe (which handily fits into my vacuum hose), with a pin made from 1/4" steel pipe turned down to .43" so that it press-fits nicely into a 27/64" hole.
Step 2: The Ball
A golf-ball gives us a slick surface for the socket to bear against, and a rubber core for the sander to mate with... and as a bonus, is actually surprisingly machinable:
- Find the dimensions for your sander's vacuum-in port. (mine was 0.85" min and 1.5° of taper per side)
- Chuck the golfball in the lathe... fairly gently. It is rubber, and you don't want to distort it too much.
- Drill a hole to a depth of about 1" into the golf-ball. Do this in multiple steps; something like 1/4" → 3/8" → 1/2", so as not to tear the golf ball out of the chuck.
- Finish the tapered bore in the golf-ball with a boring bar. You can use the outlet on the sander as a go/no-go gauge, enlarging the bore until you are happy with the fit.
- Flip the ball around and drill a 27/64" hole. With this Makita sander, some angular misalignment is preferable, as it allows the center of the allowable deviation to be set parallel to the workpeice, rather than angled upwards with the vacuum port.
- Turn down the outside of a bit of 3/8" pipe to 0.43", add a small taper to one end, and cut to a length of .7" or so.
- Press the pin (bit of pipe) into the golf-ball, leaving something like 0.125" protruding.
7 years ago on Introduction
At $.25 per ball at thrift stores, this is an excellent project. Nice lathe too!


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- Democrats who have key roles shaping energy policy also invest in energy companies.
- They reported holding or trading shares of Exxon Mobil, Dominion Energy, and Chevron, among others.
- The lawmakers often get accolades for their voting records on green issues.
Nearly two dozen Democratic lawmakers with gold-star ratings from a major environmental advocacy group have personal financial ties to fossil-fuel giants and petroleum-focused energy companies, federal financial-disclosure documents show.
Insider identified 22 House and Senate Democrats — all but one of whom scored at least 92% on the League of Conservation Voters' 2020 environmental rankings — who over the past year reported holding or trading stocks in companies heavily involved with petroleum, coal, and natural gas.
The tally is part of the exhaustive Conflicted Congress project, in which Insider reviewed nearly 9,000 financial-disclosure reports for every sitting lawmaker and their top-ranking staffers.
Several of these lawmakers wield power over the energy sector via their committees, including the House Appropriations Committee's energy- or environment-related subcommittees (three members), the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (two), the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (one), and the House Natural Resources Committee (one).
Electric companies and Big Oil
Sen. John Hickenlooper, who serves on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, reported owning up to $500,000 worth of Duke Energy stock during 2020. He sold up to $250,000 worth of Chevron stock in late October 2021, and he reported up to $1 million in capital gains from Exxon Mobil stock he no longer owns. Hickenlooper is the only lawmaker in this bunch without an LCV ranking, as the 2020 scorecard predates his arrival in Congress.
Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, who had an LCV rating of 92% in 2020 and serves as chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, reported owning up to $80,000 worth of energy-related stocks: up to $50,000 worth of Duke Energy stock he held on his own, up to $15,000 worth of Shell stock, and up to $15,000 worth of Chevron attributed to his wife.
A Carper aide told Insider that a financial advisor handled the family's investments.
"Over a lifetime of public service, Senator Carper is — and always has been — driven solely by a motivation to serve the people of Delaware and their interests," Carper's spokeswoman, Rachel Levitan, wrote in an email.
Levitan added that Carper had consistently worked to restrict offshore drilling, abolish government subsidies for fossil-fuel companies, and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
In 2020, Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, who had an LCV rating of 100% and serves on the Natural Resources Committee, reported owning up to $100,000 worth of energy-related stocks: up to $50,000 worth of Chevron, and up to $50,000 worth of Exxon Mobil.
Rep. Lois Frankel of Florida, who had an LCV rating of 100% and serves on a House Appropriations subcommittee governing energy and water, reported owning up to $45,000 in energy-related stocks: up to $15,000 worth of Exxon Mobil, up to $15,000 worth of Dominion, and up to $15,000 worth of ConocoPhillips. Frankel has continued this year to trade in oil investments.
Frankel told Insider that an independent money manager handled her finances.
"I keep it at an arm's length for ethical reasons," she said, adding, "I have an excellent environmental record and I stand by it."
Like most of Congress, Carper and Frankel have not established a qualified blind trust, a congressionally approved and independently managed financial vehicle that the Senate Select Committee on Ethics describes as "the most comprehensive approach" to "eliminate conflicts of interests and the appearance of them." but can be expensive and initially time-consuming to establish.
Rep. Susie Lee of Nevada, who had an LCV rating of 95% and serves on a House Appropriations subcommittee that controls federal spending on environmental matters, reported owning up to $100,000 worth of Dominion stock.
Lee is among 48 members of Congress that Insider and other media organizations identified as having violated the disclosure provisions of the federal Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, a law designed to promote transparency and defend against financial conflicts of interest among top government officials.
In a few cases, Democrats pinned their association with energy companies on deceased family members.
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Kaptur reported owning up to $100,000 worth of stock in Nutrien, a Canadian fertilizer company, in her most recent annual financial filing. Lake Erie has for years experienced algae blooms caused in part by fertilizer runoff.
The 20-term congresswoman inherited the stock in December 2020 from her brother who had died, a spokesperson, Chris Dalton, said.
"She does not intend to trade or cash out her deceased brother's gift," Dalton said. "Because the inherited shares are the first she has ever owned during her service, she will look at various options as she resolves the estate. Should other actions be necessary going forward, they will appear in the disclosures in subsequent years as appropriate."
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Whether a stock is a family memento or retirement-plan booster matters little to Joshua Silver, the CEO of the anticorruption advocacy group RepresentUs.
Silver said the outlook for environmental and other issues is dire — unless Congress gets serious about cleaning up its act.
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Article - Tax - Property
(a) (1) (i) The sale shall be held on the day and at the place stated in the notice by advertising.
(ii) The sale shall be held in the county in which the land to be sold is located.
(iii) If the sale cannot be completed on that day, the collector shall continue the sale as determined by the collector and announced to the bidders at the sale until all property included in the sale is sold.
(2) All sales shall be at public auction to the person who makes the highest good faith accepted bid, in fee or leasehold, as the case may be.
(3) (i) The collector shall retain any common law or other authority normally granted to an auctioneer conducting a public auction and may refuse to accept bids that are not made in good faith.
(ii) The collector may delegate this authority to an auctioneer.
(4) The conduct of the sale shall be according to terms set by the collector, and published with a reasonable degree of specificity in the public notice of the tax sale, to ensure the orderly functioning of the public auction and the integrity of the tax sale process, including requirements that potential bidders:
(i) establish their eligibility for bidding by presenting evidence of the legal existence of the bidding entity that is satisfactory to the collector;
(ii) limit their representation at a tax sale to no more than a single agent per bidding entity; and
(iii) refrain from any act, agreement, consent, or conspiracy to suppress, predetermine, rig, or fix the bidding at the sale.
(5) (i) If determined by the collector to be in the best public interest and included in the required public notice of the sale, the collector may solicit and accept bids from the highest bidder for any group of properties to be sold at the tax sale.
(ii) 1. Upon the request of any individual or group, the collector may remove any individual property or properties from a group of properties to be sold at the tax sale.
2. Upon the request of the property owner at least 15 days before the date of the tax sale, the collector shall remove any individual property or properties from a group of properties to be sold at the tax sale.
(iii) The collector shall provide notice to the potential bidders of any alterations to a group of properties at the time the bidders become known.
(iv) The collector may conduct the sale of a group of properties under this paragraph by a sealed bid process.
(v) Except in Montgomery County, the collector shall establish a high–bid premium under subsection (b)(2) of this section for all properties to be sold:
1. in groups; or
2. by sealed bid process.
(b) (1) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, property may not be sold for a sum less than the total amount of all taxes on the property that are certified to the collector under § 14–810 of this subtitle, together with interest and penalties on the taxes and the expenses incurred in making the sale, and the lien for the taxes, interest, penalties, and expenses passes to the purchaser.
(2) (i) The collector may establish a high–bid premium to be applied to all properties to be sold at the tax sale.
(ii) Except as provided in subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) of this paragraph, the high–bid premium shall be 20% of the amount by which the highest bid exceeds 40% of the property’s full cash value.
(iii) Except as provided in subparagraph (iv) of this paragraph, in Baltimore City and Prince George’s County, the high–bid premium shall be 20% of the amount by which the highest bid exceeds the greater of:
1. the lien amount; or
2. 40% of the property’s full cash value.
(iv) For property assessed under agricultural use assessment, the high–bid premium shall be 20% of the amount by which the highest bid exceeds the appropriate value determined by the collector.
(v) In addition to the amounts payable under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the highest bidder shall pay a high–bid premium if the collector:
1. determines that a high–bid premium shall be used for the tax sale; and
2. indicates in the public notice of the sale that the high–bid premium will be applied.
(vi) The collector shall refund the high–bid premium, without interest, to:
1. the holder of the tax sale certificate on redemption of the property for which the high–bid premium was paid; or
2. the plaintiff in an action to foreclose the right of redemption on delivery of a tax sale deed for the property for which the high–bid premium was paid.
(vii) The high–bid premium is not refundable after the time required under § 14–833 of this subtitle for an action to foreclose the right of redemption if there has been no redemption and if an action to foreclose the right of redemption has not been filed within that time.
(c) (1) Abandoned property consisting of either a vacant lot or improved property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation on a housing or building violation notice may be sold for a sum less than the total amount of:
(i) all taxes on the property that are certified to the collector under § 14–810 of this subtitle;
(ii) interest and penalties on the taxes; and
(iii) expenses incurred in making the sale.
(2) The collector shall establish a minimum bid for abandoned property sold under this subsection.
(3) The person responsible for the taxes prior to the sale shall remain liable to the collector for the difference between the amount received in the tax sale under this section and the taxes, interest, penalties, and expenses remaining after the sale.
(4) The balance remaining after the tax sale shall be included in the amount necessary to redeem the property under § 14–828 of this subtitle.
(5) In a proceeding brought by the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to foreclose the right of redemption under this subtitle, the complaint may request a judgment for the county or municipal corporation in the amount of the balance.
(6) The balance remaining after the tax sale is no longer a lien on the property when:
(i) a judgment is entered foreclosing the owner’s right of redemption;
(ii) the deed is recorded; and
(iii) all liens accruing subsequent to the date of sale are paid in full.
(7) The governing body of a county or municipal corporation may institute a separate action to collect the balance at any time within 7 years after the tax sale if the plaintiff is a private purchaser.
(d) (1) This subsection applies only in Prince George’s County.
(2) In addition to the sale by public auction required under this section, the collector shall conduct a sale by limited auction prior to the public auction of abandoned property consisting of either a vacant lot or improved property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation on a housing or building violation notice.
(3) The sale by limited auction required under paragraph (2) of this subsection shall be open to bids only from an individual who is:
(i) employed in a public school located in Prince George’s County;
(ii) employed by the Prince George’s County Police Department;
(iii) employed by the Prince George’s County Fire Department;
(iv) employed by the Prince George’s County Office of the Sheriff;
(v) employed by the Prince George’s County Department of Corrections;
(vi) employed by the Prince George’s County government in a position not included under item (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) of this paragraph;
(vii) employed by a federal government agency located in Prince George’s County;
(viii) employed by a municipal government in Prince George’s County;
(ix) a veteran of any branch of the armed forces of the United States who has received an honorable discharge and is employed in Prince George’s County; or
(x) a resident of Prince George’s County.
(4) The collector shall include the date, time, and location of the limited auction required under this subsection in any notice of sale at public auction required under this subtitle.
(5) (i) The limited auction shall be subject to the same requirements for a public auction under this section.
(ii) The purchase of property at a limited auction shall be considered the same as a purchase at public auction under this section and shall be subject to the requirements of this subtitle in the same manner as a sale at public auction.
(iii) The collector shall establish a system to verify that individuals placing bids on property at the limited auction are eligible to do so under paragraph (3) of this subsection.
(iv) A certificate of sale for property purchased at a limited auction shall be void if the purchaser was not an eligible participant under paragraph (3) of this subsection.
(v) If a certificate of sale is void under subparagraph (iv) of this paragraph:
1. any right or interest of the holder of the certificate of sale is void and any payment received by the collector at the sale shall be forfeited and applied to any taxes in arrears on the property; and
2. the property shall be listed at the next limited or public auction held if the property is still eligible to be sold under this subtitle.
(6) Property offered for sale during a limited auction that is not sold shall be offered for sale at public auction in accordance with this section.

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