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At “Books at Berlinale” on February 16, film producers will be able to discover eleven new literary works with outstanding potential for adaptation to the big screen. The selected novels will be presented in a pitching session at the Berlinale Co-Production Market. At the get-together following the pitch, invited producers will have the opportunity to get to know the rights holders – respected, internationally active representatives of publishing houses and literary agents – to network or to directly negotiate the film rights options for the featured works.
Around 130 books from more than 25 countries were submitted this year for consideration for presentation at “Books at Berlinale”. The eleven books selected for 2016 are represented by publishing houses and agencies from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Turkey, France and Sweden.
The final selection includes exciting new releases, bestsellers and award winners, all with great potential for cinema adaptation.
The spectrum of themes, genres and protagonists on display in the selected works, which also include a graphic novel (Guy Delisle’s “Run Away”), is very broad, ranging from an extended Georgian family and desperate hooligans to canned kids and grumpy magicians. Themes of current high relevance, such as a young Syrian woman’s experiences as a refugee in Meltem Yılmaz’s novel “Soraya”, are presented side-by-side with fantastic scenarios and visions of the future, such as “A Robot in the Garden” from British author Deborah Install, which investigates what artificial intelligence has to tell us about what it means to be human.
Since its inaugural edition in 2006, “Books at Berlinale” has been organised by the film festival in co-operation with the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Festival Director Dieter Kosslick: “Together with the Frankfurt Book Fair, we have established this platform as an important event for active exchange between the worlds of publishing and film, which has enabled us to support collaborations between publishing houses, literary agents and film producers.”
Producers who are active or interested in the field of literary film adaptations as well as publishers and literary agents may register before February 10 at .
“Books at Berlinale“ will take place in the Berlin House of Representatives within the scope of the Berlinale Co-Production Market. Its main partners are the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and Creative Europe – MEDIA, a programme of the European Union.
The Berlinale Co-Production Market is part of the European Film Market (EFM).
The following literary works have been selected for “Books at Berlinale” 2016: (listed in alphabetical order according to the companies presenting them):
“A Robot in the Garden” (Deborah Install), Andrew Nurnberg Associates, United Kingdom
“Spy Toys” (Mark Powers), Bloomsbury Publishing, United Kingdom
“The Ice-Cream Makers” (Ernest van der Kwast), De Bezige Bij, The Netherlands
“Der Trick” / “The Trick” (Emanuel Bergmann), Diogenes Verlag, Switzerland
“Hool” (Philipp Winkler), Elisabeth Ruge Agentur, Germany
“Das achte Leben (Für Brilka)” / “The Eighth Life (For Brilka)” (Nino Haratischwili), Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Germany
“Poppyseed Lemon Cake” (Cristina Campos), Grupo Planeta, Spain
“Soraya” (Meltem Yılmaz), Kalem Agency, Turkey
“Run Away” (Guy Delisle), Mediatoon, France
“The Eyes of the Lake” (Jessica Schiefauer), Nordin Agency, Sweden
“Konrad oder Das Kind aus der Konservenbüchse” / “Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy” (Christine Nöstlinger), Oetinger Filmrechte-Agentur, Germany
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Dinosaurium [Junior Edition] written by Lily Murray
Illustrated by Chris Wormell
Welcome to Dinosaurium.
This museum is open all hours. It will transport you millions of years back in time to discover the largest and most ferocious land animals that ever lived - the dinosaurs. So where did the T.rex live? What did Brachiosaurus eat? Could dinosaurs swim and fly? And why did they die out?
With specially written text for younger readers, step inside to explore the incredible world of the dinosaurs.
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Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the photo accurately depicts the condition of the book, the colour and imperfections may vary slightly from the images.
Acknowledgement of Country
Little Modern Reader acknowledges the Gadigal people of Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land where we work and live. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We celebrate the stories, culture and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Elders of all communities who also work and live on this land.

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Update: One more person killed in firing near encounter site in south Kashmir’s Bijbehara area: Police.
Update: Two terrorists including Lashkar Commander Junaid Mattoo have been eliminated in the Kulgam encounter by Indian Army, SoG and CRPF.
Update: The victim was identified as 34-year-old Mohammad Ashraf Khar died of bullet injuries.
Srinagar: Encounter underway between security forces and terrorists at Idgah Mohalla in Kulgam’s Arwani village, Jammu and Kashmir.
Reportedly 3 terrorists are trapped in a building, heavy firing is going on at Idgah Mohalla in Kulgam’s Arwani village. Cordon and search operation began since morning at Kulgam’s Arwani village as security forces suspected the presence of terrorists in the area.
A cordon and search operation was started at Arwani village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Friday after security forces received intelligence inputs about the presence of suspected terrorists in the area.
On Thursday, terrorists attacked a police patrol party in Srinagar’s Hyderpora area and injured two policemen.
On the same day, Pakistani troops violated a ceasefire in Naushera Sector along the Line of Control (LoC) and the Indian Army retaliated strongly and effectively.

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ABBEVILLE, La. (KLFY) — Abbeville Police arrested one man after he allegedly fired shots in the parking lot of Walmart yesterday night, Nov. 17.
Abbeville Police Lt. Jonathan Touchet said the gunshots came after a fight broke out between two men in the parking lot. Christian Green, 20, then allegedly stepped out of a vehicle and fired shots toward the ground. Officers contacted Green by phone, and he agreed to turn himself in.
Green was booked into the Vermilion Parish Correctional Center on two counts of illegal discharge of a firearm. The gun was recovered and placed into evidence.


Florida's transportation landscape is poised for a revolution, as German aerospace pioneer Lilium sets its sights on Orlando International Airport to establish a cutting-edge vertiport. This strategic decision comes in support of Florida House Bill 981, which seeks to designate the greater Orlando area as a testing ground for advanced air mobility (AAM).
A Leap into the Future: Lilium's eVTOL Vertiport at Orlando International Airport
Lilium's ambitions extend beyond merely creating a presence in Orlando. The company plans to construct a full-scale electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vertiport at the airport. This innovative infrastructure will not only elevate regional mobility and connectivity but also serve as a critical network hub for AAM.
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The partnership aligns with Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, an ambitious plan to diversify its economy and create a more sustainable future. By investing in advanced air mobility solutions, the kingdom aims to position itself as a leader in the global transportation market.
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As Lilium works to redefine air travel, Universal Orlando Resort is making strides in ground transportation. The resort has submitted paperwork and allocated 13 acres for a commuter rail station, aiming to connect Orlando International Airport with the tourism district.
The proposed station, situated at the Orange County Convention Center, is slated to be operational by 2030. This development is part of a broader initiative to enhance transportation within the region, making it more convenient for travelers to access the main tourism areas.
In conclusion, the convergence of Lilium's advanced air mobility solutions and Universal Orlando Resort's commuter rail station promises to transform Florida's transportation landscape. By embracing innovation and prioritizing sustainability, these developments will undoubtedly create a more seamless and eco-friendly travel experience for both residents and visitors alike.


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Michael Phelps indulges in cake and girls at Las Vegas pool party
RECORD-breaking Olympian Michael Phelps laps up the attention from busty bikini-clad beauties as he celebrates his retirement in Las Vegas.
The swimming legend was presented with a huge cake, adorned with edible medals and an American flag, during a lavish bash at the Encore Beach Club.
Wearing a pair of spotty board shorts and shades, Michael looked uber relaxed with the weight and expectation now lifted from his broad shoulders.
Ever since calling time on his remarkable career after his gold-littered London 2012 Olympics performance, Michael has enjoyed trotting across the globe with his pals.
But on his latest pit-stop in Sin City, Michael didn't take much persuading to get back into the pool.
After mingling with the beauties in the sun, Michael reportedly got very lucky on the gambling tables.
TMZ have revealed that he took part in the cash poker game and ended up winning $100k.
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The first of many large nights, we expect.

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Well, summer might be over but if there's one bright spot for fall it's that the Brooklyn Bazaar is up and running and hosting good times. What's better than swinging through for some ping-pong or seeing some music? How about eating all the free food from the Brooklyn Star you can stuff in your face? That's probably better—and you can do that tonight.
As a way to celebrate their new spot in the neighborhood, the Brooklyn Star's Brooklyn Bazaar location (150 Greenpoint Avenue) is inviting the public to come hang out tonight from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. to eat a bunch of free food from their menu. Fried chicken, corn dogs, chili Frito pie and more will be served up, all for the low price of free ninety-nine. All you need to do is RSVP and then show up, but I would show up early as a way to hedge against Bill Murray-in-Greenpoint-esque crowds.
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Dome of Sant'Ambroglio
View looking up toward a the painted dome showing Saint Ambrose giving a blessing.
Saint Ambrose (Milan)
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1 week later: Hi there! Things are going great and there is no more limping...and shes REALLY wanting to play..YAY!!!! Thanks for checking on us!! The power of chiropractic! Ella/Stefanie, Oakland, CA.
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3) Dr. Robles is a conscientious and dedicated healthcare provider. Her initial assessment during our first visit was thorough and took into account many factors that I didn't realize could have been contributing to my discomfort. The treatment she provided seriously alleviated my problems. Great work! Brain, San Francisco, CA.
2) Alejandra Robles has an intuition about how to work with her patients that is unsurpassed, and brings compassion and great care to her work. I always feel like she is completely present with me and is really tapping into her highest purpose when she is adjusting me. I am so grateful for her healing hands and heart!
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Omg Dr. Alex what a change in Ella! She seems so much like her old self. She was still limping last night but definitely much happier... I did notice she was still hesitating to sit down... Like there was something wrong with her hips..... But overall better for sure!!! See you later today!
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Along the Delaware Day 4: An interview with Andy Kricun, U.S. Water Alliance, the Water Center and Moonshot Missions in Camden, NJ
Faces of Rivers: A profile series from American Rivers
This interview is part of the American Rivers’ Along the Delaware tour. Day four of the tour was in Camden, NJ.
American Rivers: Integrating green infrastructure practices into water infrastructure management is becoming the norm thanks in part to the innovative approaches of the Delaware River’s cities. How important do you think green infrastructure is to the successful sustainability of urban water management in these cities?
Andy Kricun: First of all, our focus on equity including water equity needs to be sharper. Between Covid and George Floyd, equity needs to be at the forefront of everything including water.
As for green stormwater infrastructure (GSI), I think it’s necessary and essential but not sufficient. That’s especially true for CSO communities like Philadelphia, Camden and Chester. When you have combined sewer it’s critical to minimize the stormwater going into these grossly undersized, anachronistic pipes. In Camden on a dry day there are 10M gallons in sewage, a good hard rainstorm generates 100M gallons a day and that means backups into basements and streets and rivers.
So GSI was a critical part of our plan to reduce those overflows, and in PHL is the main component of their green city clean rivers plan. But in most cases you need green and gray infrastructure combined. It’s hard to accomplish with green only. But if you’re doing gray only, you’re making a mistake because you lose the triple bottom line benefits for communities, like green spaces and green jobs, as in the PHL and Camden PowerCorps programs where we leverage Americorps funding to hire at risk youth to maintain GSI.
AR: When we talk about sustainable water management today, we aren’t just talking about successful water treatment and delivery, we are including financial stability, affordability, equitable service and resiliency in the face of changing climatic conditions. How important have these factors been in cities like Camden where you led the city’s clean water programming?
AK: Given what’s going on with Covid-19 and the significant economic backlash that’s coming where utilities are already projecting 25–30% losses in revenue, and unemployment is higher than in 80 years, the idea of water affordability and equity is more important than it ever was. And given what’s going on with Mr Floyd and the national protests, the idea of equity is more important than ever.
During my time in Camden I learned that clean water utilities should be both clean water champions and anchor institutions in their communities. That’s my guiding principle, and it’s especially true in economically stressed communities. There’s a big difference between meeting your permit, and seeing meeting the permit as the floor and optimizing effluent quality, and doing as much good as you can in the community as you do so.
If you’re a public agency, public service is key. You have to stay within your legal lanes, but I believe you can intentionally widen that lane to accomplish your mission.
So for example, the City of Camden sewer system is owned by the city, not by the utility. So technically we had no obligation to maintain the sewers. But my view was if our aim is to maximize environmental and public benefits, we should take steps to minimize sewage overflows.
How can we say we’re a successful utility with regular sewage overflows? How can we say we’re a successful country with this kind of poverty and injustice? So in Camden, there’s a nexus. The sewer system is connected to the treatment plant, so anything we did to reduce flows also reduced the burden on the treatment plant. So we had a legal nexus to build GSI and green spaces, and for maintaining them, and for creating a program where youth from the community are hired to maintain them. It all starts with the intention: to accomplish a mission of being an environmental champion and and a community anchor institution.
So all that is important, but affordability is just as important. If you can do public good without raising rates, the barriers are much lower. Everyone loves to come to a ribbon cutting if there’s no rate increase. So I adopted the strategy of maximizing operational cost efficiency, accomplishing these things without raising rates. Over my time at the utility, we actually reduced rates 40% when adjusted for inflation. That can be done by becoming more efficient. We did that by using federal loan programs and improving our internal performance. We also lowered rates for the community that hosts the treatment plant. That’s about equity: if they are hosting the plant, they should pay a lower rate.
On climate change, we know our water infrastructure is not up to managing the big storms we get now. So even if you don’t believe in climate change, we have to improve our infrastructure, and if the climate gets worse, even more so. It’s only responsible to prepare for that. In a CSO community we have to plan for more sewage overflows and more flooding and address that with GSI and improving our gray infrastructure.
The other thing that’s important is to make sure the treatment plant is more resilient against power outages. That’s a good idea from an energy efficiency perspective, from an emissions reduction perspective, and from a resilience perspective. Now, the treatment plant is off the grid and runs entirely on solar and biogas generated from the solid waste it treats. During Hurricane Sandy, when some plants were out for weeks, we were online, which is just another way to protect the Delaware River and our communities.
AR: Implementing green infrastructure programs requires integrated planning and community engagement. In Camden, who (what departments, organizations or leading individuals) have been critical to successful water infrastructure management?
AK: The most important thing is for water utility leaders is to believe they’re public servants, and to understand that their utility has a great power to affect the community for ill or for good. When I first started at the utility, the treatment plant was 100 yards away from residences and had no odor control. So that was indifference. We put in odor control and went from indifference to doing no harm. So that’s the first step. But that didn’t do good. So we worked to be a good neighbor by implementing local projects, and leveraging our power to bring good to the community. All the intentionality needs to go toward community and environmental benefit, and you have to be efficient along the way. And of course that’s a learning curve.
The second thing that’s so important is sincerity and transparency. Once you decide you want to be an anchor institution, you need to be out in the community to hear the problems and address them. There’s a lot of low hanging fruit, like offering to be an outpost of government in the community.
In any community, even an affluent one, it’s not easy to get through to the roads department or the power company. But as the leader of utility, I can pick up the phone and reach someone immediately about a power outage or a road issue. We can be an advocate for the community getting its needs met. That’s how we go from hosting the wastewater treatment plant being a hardship to being a benefit. In Camden I gave out my cell phone number, and no one ever abused it. All that was our sweat equity and no cost, but really important. Once you decide your mission is to be an anchor institution, good things will come from it.
Another example is with poverty and unemployment. With boomers retiring, 30–50% of utility workers are eligible to retire. So we worked to create an employment pipeline from the community to the utility. The growing edge there is doing more training so community members can come in at a higher level than through our Americorps program. That will take more doing. But utilities across the country are doing it, from Buffalo to Seattle to Cleveland and many more. My new work at US Water Alliance is focused on making that approach the rule rather than the exception.
AR: What are the best take-a-ways and model programs that have evolved from your work in Camden and the programming in other key Delaware River cities that can serve as valuable lessons learned for cities across the nation?
AK: My first takeaway is based on a quote from George Eliot: “the greater good of the world is largely due to unhistoric acts of dedicated men and women.” I love that quote now, especially now as history is being made. It’s the common courtesies and people going the extra mile for their communities. If you are doing that, your work matters more than you will ever know. That’s an article of faith of mine.
Second, clean water utilities can and should be environmental champions and anchor institutions, that’s what we were created to do and should do.
Third, partnerships are so important. We have natural partnerships in the environmental and community service worlds, we should look to them to work with us, so they can see us as natural partners too. In Camden we created the Camden Collaborative Initiative of 60 environmental and community non-profits, from national to local. We all worked together to make up for Camden’s lack of institutional capacity, so with grantwriting, getting playground equipment, addressing illegal dumping, and working together on GSI and park projects. You can do so much more together than separately.


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Informal draft guidelines have been released to address ambiguities about new accountability requirements for transit agencies to access state budget funds for operations and capital project funds. The Association is ensuring that membership needs are met when final guidelines are released in September.
On August 19, the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) released informal draft guidelines for the General Fund-supported Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program and new Zero-Emission Transit Capital Program, authorized in the 2023-24 State Budget. The guidelines, when adopted by CalSTA on September 30, will govern access to this critical funding, which may be used to address operations funding challenges and capital improvement needs. The guidelines will also advance key accountability requirements furthered by the Governor and Legislature in the transportation budget trailer bill SB 125, with feedback from the Association. SB 125 and the guidelines build on the accountability framework initially developed by the Association during the 2023-24 State Budget negotiations.
“When we initially developed our framework, we wanted to make sure that Association members could provide legislators and the Governor’s Administration relevant information they wanted. At the same time, we were careful to ensure our members wouldn’t be overburdened with resource-intensive, difficult-to-fulfill new requirements,” said Sharon Cooney, CEO of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, Vice Chair of the Association's Executive Committee and Chair of the Association’s Transit Operations Funding Subcommittee. “These informal draft guidelines confirm that ultimately – and with ongoing active engagement from the Association during the comment process – eligible agencies within our membership will be able to access those critical funds and stay responsive to riders.”
During the 2023-24 budget negotiations, the Association submitted to the Legislature a reasonable framework intended to reassure policymakers that the $5.1 billion in funds they were allocating would be used transparently. At the same time, the framework aimed to protect Association membership from onerous requirements and helped ensure that transit agencies would be able to continue to serve their communities without dramatic cuts to routes, services, or staff. The accountability requirements, signed into law in SB 125, are significantly more favorable to agencies than initial suggestions.
In advance of the release of these informal draft guidelines, Association members raised questions about ambiguities that had remained in the budget bill language as passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the Governor – and CalSTA has been responsive.
“We’re so appreciative that CalSTA has worked actively and sincerely with the Association in developing these informal draft guidelines. The guidelines reflect our initial feedback, and they offer important clarity on how transit agencies can comply with the accountability requirements from the start. The Association will continue to voice the needs of our members during the comment period while CalSTA finalizes the guidelines,” said Michael Pimentel, Executive Director of the Association. “Once the guidelines are finalized, we urge the Legislature to codify the clarifications to SB 125 that are being made during the drafting process.”
Now that these informal draft guidelines have been released, here’s what transit agencies need to know.
What’s in the updated draft framework?
SB 125 guides the distribution of $4 billion in General Fund money through the existing Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program (TIRCP), which agencies will have flexibility to use for transit operations or capital improvements; the measure also includes $1.1 billion in the newly created Zero-Emission Transit Capital Program (ZETCP). In addition, the measure created the new Transit Transformation Task Force to look beyond the end of the “fiscal cliff” crisis and make longer-term policy recommendations for ridership, rider experience, and transit operations.
SB 125 governs access to the funds through its newly created accountability program. Because it was signed into law with some ambiguities surrounding the review and approval process, key definitions, potential transit agency expenses, and other issues, the draft guidelines are being issued to provide clarity to agencies who wish to become eligible for the funds, as well as other stakeholders.
The Association identified several main priorities for CalSTA to address in the guidelines to be adopted. As a result of the Association’s targeted communications with CalSTA, the agency addressed two of these major issues in the informal draft guidelines: First, the guidelines confirmed that CalSTA’s review and approval of mandated short-and long-term financial plans will be limited to a review of responsiveness to SB 125 requirements and project eligibility; and second, they clarified the definition of “transit operator” for the purposes of operations funding eligibility and scope of plans, with a specific reference to State Transit Assistance (STA)-eligible operators (as established in the Public Utilities Code).
For TIRCP, the informal draft guidelines provide additional information about project eligibility and data collection. Project eligibility will be tied to the eligibility in the previous cycle, including existing and new projects, as well as project development. Eligible projects must demonstrate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions, although there is no minimum threshold for these reductions. Finally, the state will collect data on investments in Disadvantaged Communities (DAC); again, there is no minimum threshold for these investments.
Similar to those of TIRCP, the informal draft guidelines for the new ZETCP require a demonstration of investments in GHG emissions reductions and the state will collect DAC investment data, and there is no minimum threshold for investment in either. Of note, Zero-Emissions Vehicles and Zero Emissions infrastructure projects are eligible across modes of transit.
Finally, eligible transit operations are expected to maintain or grow service relative to what would be possible in the absence of funding.
What is the timeline, short and long-term?
CalSTA released the informal draft guidelines on August 19. The release of informal draft guidelines prior to the release of formal draft guidelines is a departure from the norm; typically, draft guidelines are released just once prior to their adoption. Fortunately, this public release of informal draft guidelines has provided two weeks of advance notice to stakeholders of CalSTA’s plans for SB 125 requirement clarifications.
The Association has already communicated initial priorities to CalSTA and key legislative committees, and it has responded with a comment letter.
On August 31, CalSTA will release the official, “formal” draft guidelines covering TIRCP and ZETCP. The formal guidelines are expected largely to reflect the informal draft guidelines; however, the Association will follow up and continue to engage with CalSTA with additional discussions, public comments, and direct lobbying.
On September 30, CalSTA will adopt the formal draft guidelines, which eligible Association members will follow as they develop allocation packages to access the funds.
On December 31, the initial allocation package submittal for agencies is due to CalSTA, as is regionally compiled transit operator data. Requested funding will be allocated to approved agencies no later than April 30, 2024.
Looking further ahead, transit agencies that wish to be eligible to receive TIRCP grants in 2026-27 or beyond must submit a long-term financial plan to CalSTA by June 26, 2026.
A detailed timeline can be found on CalSTA’s SB 125 website.
What is next?
Between the release of the formal draft guidelines on August 31 and their adoption guidelines on September 30, the Association is engaging with CalSTA through public comments and direct lobbying to ensure that Association priorities remain clearly reflected in the finalized guidelines.
While the informal draft guidelines have provided an Association-supported interpretation of SB 125 on many points, a key near-term outstanding question remains on whether or not the guidelines establish a reasonable set-aside for administrative expenses related to Regional Transportation Planning Agencies (RTPAs) development of short- and long-term financial plans. The Association continues to advocate for this much-needed update.
Beyond the adoption of the guidelines, the Association is taking the lead to emphasize the need for clarifying “clean-up” legislation. Such legislation is introduced by a legislator as one or more bills, but will likely be introduced in the second year of session beginning in December 2023. To be supported by the Association, such legislation would need to codify the clarifications established by the draft guidelines.
In addition to advocating for the codification of the guidelines in statute, the Association will work to move clean-up legislation that would include the decoupling of SB 125 requirements from base TIRCP funds, and to make small but significant technical amendments for dates and code section cross-references.
What can Association members do to support these efforts?
Association members can lend support to the draft guidelines by coordinating comments with the Association to ensure a strong, unified message to CalSTA, the Legislature, and the Governor’s Administration. When clean-up legislation is announced, members can work with the Association to lend formal support to the measure. Be sure to watch for updates and calls for action in Association communications.


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At about 1:10 a.m. on the night of July 29, 1976, Donna Lauria, a young woman of 18, was sitting with her friend Jody Valenti, 19, in Valenti’s parked car in the Pelham Bay area of the Bronx, talking about their night at a discotheque. When she opened the car door to leave, she saw a man rapidly approaching. The look of anger on his face alarmed her, but before she could do anything, he took a handgun out of a paper sack, crouched, braced one elbow on his knee, aimed his weapon with both hands, and fired. One bullet hit Lauria and killed her instantly; a second hit Valenti in the thighs; a third missed. The attacker, having spoken not a single word, then quickly walked away.
Jody Valenti survived the attack and described the killer as a white male in his 30s with short, dark, curly hair and a fair complexion, about 5 feet 9 inches tall, and weighing about 160 pounds. Neighbors reported seeing an unfamiliar yellow compact car cruising in the area for hours prior to the attack. Ballistics tests identified the murder weapon as a Charter Arms .44 caliber Bulldog model, a five-shot revolver meant for use in close quarters. The police speculated that the murderer might be a spurned suitor of Lauria, or, since the neighborhood had recently witnessed mob activity, that the shooting was a case of mistaken identity.
|A Charter Arms Bulldog|
On the night of October 23, 1976, Carl Denaro, 25, and Rosemary Keenan, 28, were sitting in Denaro’s parked car in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, when the car windows were suddenly shattered. Denaro quickly started the car and sped off for help, unaware that he was bleeding from a bullet wound in the head; Keenan had only superficial wounds from the broken glass. Neither had seen the attacker.
The police determined that the bullets embedded in the car were .44 caliber, but too damaged to be linked to a particular weapon. There was no apparent motive for the crime, nor was it linked to the previous shooting in another borough. They later noted that Denaro had shoulder-length hair and might have been mistaken for a girl.
Shortly after midnight on November 27, 1976, Donna DeMasi, 16, and her friend Joanne Lomino, having walked home from a movie, were chatting on the porch of Lomino’s home on a quiet residential street in the Bellerose section of Queens, when a man in military fatigues approached and in a high-pitched voice began to ask for directions. But then he whipped out a revolver, shot each girl once and, as they fell to the ground, fired several more shots that struck the apartment building before he ran away. Hearing the shots, a neighbor rushed out and saw a blond man rush by, a pistol in his left hand.
DeMasi had a shot in her neck but survived. Hit in the back, Lomino was hospitalized in serious condition and became a paraplegic. The police produced several composite sketches of the blond shooter based on the descriptions given by the victims and their neighbor. Once again, the bullets were .44 caliber but too deformed to be linked to a particular weapon.
Early in the morning of January 30, 1977, an engaged couple, Christine Freund, 26, and John Diel, 30, were sitting in Diel’s car in the Forest Hills section of Queens; having seen a movie, they were planning to go to a dance hall. Suddenly three gunshots ripped into the car. Terrified, Diel drove away for help. He had only superficial wounds, but Freund had been shot twice and died several hours later in a hospital. Neither had seen their assailant.
The police now acknowledged that this crime resembled the earlier shootings and might be the work of the same attacker. All the victims had been shot with .44 caliber bullets, and young women with long, dark hair seemed to be the preferred victims. Composite sketches of the black-haired Lauria-Valenti attacker and the blond Lomino-DeMasi attacker were released to the public, with word that the police were looking for not one but multiple suspects.
At around 7:30 p.m. on March 8, 1977, Barnard College student Virginia Voskerichian, 19, was walking home on a quiet street in Forest Hills, Queens, only a block away from where Christine Freund had been shot. Suddenly she was confronted by an armed man. In desperation she placed her textbooks between her and the man, but he fired a shot that went right through them, struck her head, and killed her.
No one had witnessed the murder, but a neighbor reported seeing a chubby teenager sprinting away from the scene. Others reported seeing both a teenager and an older man loitering separately in the area an hour before the shooting. The media repeated police claims that a “chubby teenager” was the suspect. This crime differed from the preceding incidents, in that the other victims were couples and were shot on weekends.
By now it was clear: a serial killer was on the loose. At a press conference on March 10, police officials and Mayor Abe Beame announced that the same .44 caliber revolver had killed Lauria and Voskerichian. That same day saw the launching of the 50-man Operation Omega task force, charged solely with investigating the .44 caliber murders, with Deputy Inspector Timothy Joseph Dowd in charge. Baffled by the lack of an obvious motive, the police speculated that the killer had a vendetta against women, possibly resulting from social rejection, but viewed the “chubby teenager” as a witness and not a suspect in the Voskerichian murder.
A task force of 50 officers to track down a single killer: this case had assumed major proportions. The New York area media discussed it daily, and the world press carried many of the reports. For the city, burdened already with a high crime rate and a mounting fiscal crisis, word of a serial killer seemed to dramatize a city in desperate straits. Newly established in our apartment, my partner Bob and I had window gates guarding all the windows, and a police lock on the door, and Bob, returning home one night from the opera, narrowly escaped being mugged in the vestibule downstairs. But for us in Manhattan, the .44 caliber killer off in the outer boroughs seemed remote.
Early in the morning of April 17, 1977, Alexander Esau, 20, and Valentina Suriani, 18, were sitting in Esau’s parked car near her home in the Baychester section of the Bronx, but a few blocks from the scene of the Lauria-Valenti shooting. Suddenly, about 3:00 a.m., another car pulled up beside them, shots rang out, and each of them was wounded twice. Suriani died on the scene, and Esau died several hours later in the hospital without being able to describe the assailant.
This crime was obviously similar to preceding ones, and the police declared that the .44 caliber weapon involved was the same as in the earlier attacks. They continued to assume that the chubby teenager of the Voskerichian case was only a witness, the suspect being the dark-haired man of the Lauria-Valenti case.
What the police didn’t tell the public was that a lengthy handwritten letter had been left by the killer at the site of this attack. Written mostly in capital letters, the rambling letter was addressed to Captain Joseph Borelli of the task force and began by protesting that the killer was not a “wemon hater” but a monster, the “Son of Sam.” Father Sam, it explained, abused him when drunk and ordered him to “Go out and kill.” “To stop me you must kill me,” the writer insisted. “I love to hunt,” he added; prowling the streets, he looked for “fair game.” “Blood for papa.” He ended by wishing everyone a Happy Easter, then added these words:
I SAY GOODBYE AND
POLICE: LET ME
HAUNT YOU WITH THESE
I’LL BE BACK!
I’LL BE BACK!
TO BE INTERRPRETED
AS – BANG BANG BANG,
BANK, BANG – UGH!!
Selections from the letter were soon leaked to the press, and the .44 caliber killer was quickly rechristened “Son of Sam.” The case was now receiving frenzied attention, being reported worldwide. The New York Post, recently acquired by Rupert Murdoch, offered sensationalist coverage, but the story appeared also in the Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano, the Israeli Hebrew-language newspaper Maariv, and the Soviet Izvestia, which probably cited it as further evidence of the decadence of capitalism. Son of Sam was known worldwide, and his warning “I’ll be back!” haunted everyone.
Psychologists who were consulted explained that serial killers derive great satisfaction from manipulating their pursuers and exercising control over the media, the police, and the population generally. The police then released a psychological portrait of the suspect, describing him as a neurotic probably suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and believing himself to be a victim of demonic possession.
On May 30, 1977, Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin, who had written about the case, received a handwritten letter from someone claiming to be the .44 shooter. Neatly printed on the back of the envelope were the words
Blood and Family
Darkness and Death
The letter inside said “Hello from the gutters of N.Y.C. which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine and blood,” then went on to inform “J.B.” that he appreciated his interest in the killings, but that Sam was a thirsty lad who wouldn’t stop killing until he got his fill of blood. Wishing all the detectives on the case the best of luck, he promised, when captured, to buy each of them a new pair of shoes.
Breslin informed the police, who, noting the difference between this more sophisticated letter and crudely written first one, speculated that it came, not from Son of Sam (as it was signed), but from someone with knowledge of the shootings. A week later, after consulting the police and agreeing to withhold certain portions of the text, the Daily News published the letter, along with Breslin’s plea to the killer to turn himself in; over 1.1 million copies of the issue were sold. As a result, the police received thousands of useless tips, and women with long, dark hair began cutting their hair short or dyeing it a lighter color, and there was a run on beauty supply stores for wigs. For many it was a reign of terror, and the tabloids stoked their fear.
Early on the morning of June 26, 1977, another couple, Sal Lupo, 20, and Judy Placido, 17, having left a discotheque in the Bayside section of Queens, were sitting in their car when, at about 3:00 a.m., three gunshots ripped through the car. Though both were wounded, their injuries were minor and they survived. Neither had seen the attacker, but witnesses reported a tall, stocky, dark-haired man running from the scene.
By now the police had questioned the owners of 56 Bulldog revolvers legally registered in the city and tested each weapon, but none of them proved to be the weapon in question. On orders from Mayor Beame, the police were chasing couples from known lovers’ lanes. Detectives were patrolling the Bronx and Queens in unmarked cars, and female officers with long, dark hair sat as decoys in cars outside discos and singles bars. But the detectives assigned to Operation Omega were serving long hours that resulted in frayed nerves and put a strain on relationships with their families. Cots were installed at the headquarters so they could get a few hours of sleep before resuming the search. With a madman running loose, the city was in a frenzy and the police were desperate.
The police were focused on the Bronx and Queens, but the next shooting, near the anniversary of the first, came in Brooklyn. At about 2:35 a.m. on the night of July 31, 1977, Stacy Moskowitz and Robert Violante, both 20, were sitting in Violante’s car, parked under a streetlight near a park in the Bath Beach section. They were kissing when a man approached, fired four shots, and disappeared into the park. Both were hit in the head; Moskowitz died several hours later in the hospital; Violante survived, but with the loss of one eye and limited vision in the other. This crime was a departure from the others, since Moskowitz had short, curly blond hair, and the shooting occurred in Brooklyn.
This time there were witnesses. A young man parked with his date nearby saw the crime in his car mirror and described the criminal as a man 25 to 30 years old with shaggy dark blond or light brown hair that looked like a wig. Another witness, a woman sitting with her boyfriend in a car nearby, saw a white male wearing a “cheap nylon wig” dash out of the park, get into a small auto, and drive away. Other witnesses mentioned a yellow Volkswagen leaving the area with its headlights off. Informed of the incident, the police at once set up roadblocks in the area and questioned drivers, but without results. Inspector Dowd observed that the case was complicated because of the lack of an apparent motive; his job was to “prepare to be lucky.”
Finally he was. Four days later a resident of the area contacted them. On the night of the shooting she had been walking her dog, when she noticed the police ticketing a car parked near a hydrant. Moments later a young man holding a “dark object” in his hand walked past her from the vicinity of the car and seemed to study her with interest. Alarmed, she ran home. Once inside, she heard what might have been shots in the distance. The police then checked every car ticketed that night in the area and discovered a yellow four-door Ford Galaxy belonging to a postal worker named David Berkowitz living in Yonkers, who they at first thought might be a witness. Not until August 9 did a New York detective contact the Yonkers police about Berkowitz. Because of reports coming to them from neighbors, the Yonkers police had already begun to view Berkowitz with suspicion.
On August 10, 1977, several New York City detectives investigated Berkowitz’s car parked on the street outside his apartment, and in it observed a semiautomatic rifle. Then or later (accounts differ) they also found a duffel bag filled with ammunition, maps of the crime scenes, and a threatening letter addressed to Inspector Dowd of the Omega task force, all of which confirmed that Berkowitz was the perpetrator.
The police decided to wait till Berkowitz came out, so as to avoid a violent encounter in the building’s narrow hallway, and to give them time to obtain a warrant for searching the car. The warrant still had not arrived when Berkowitz came out at 10:00 p.m., carrying a paper bag. As soon as he got in the car the police surrounded him, and one of them put the barrel of his gun against Berkowitz’s head and shouted, “Freeze!” Berkowitz turned quietly toward them and smiled.
“Well, you got me. How come it took you such a long time?”
In the paper sack on the seat beside him they found his .44 caliber handgun.
Berkowitz’s apartment had Satanic graffiti on the walls, and diaries he had kept since age 21 meticulously recording the hundreds of fires he claimed to have set throughout New York City. He was soon transferred to the police precinct in Coney Island where the Omega task force was located. Mayor Beame himself came about 1:00 a.m. and, after a brief and wordless encounter with Berkowitz, announced to the media, “The people of the city of New York can rest easy because of the fact that the police have captured a man whom they believe to be the Son of Sam.” CAUGHT! screamed the New York Post headline the next day, with a picture of the killer.
And whom had they caught? A pudgy 24-year-old postal worker who had a boyish face, short black hair and eyebrows and sideburns, and full, sensual lips and an impish grin. Expecting a sadistic monster, the detectives were amazed to find a wimp: a calm, courteous, mild-mannered man who seemed emotionally detached from the horror of his crimes, and who, far from offering resistance, cooperated from the very start. One recalls Hannah Arendt’s comment about “the banality of evil.” But this was a troubled man, a loner with grandiose fantasies and a persecution complex.
|Berkowitz's mug shot at the time of his arrest.|
Interrogated for a half hour early on the morning of August 11, 1977, Berkowitz confessed the shootings, claiming that a neighbor’s dog possessed by a demon had prompted him to kill. Arraigned in Brooklyn in a courtroom that was packed to the rafters, Berkowitz was quickly sent to the Kings County Hospital psychiatric ward, where the staff reported that he seemed surprisingly untroubled by his confinement. Declared unfit to stand trial by reason of insanity, on June 12, 1978, he was sentenced to 25 years to life for each of his six murders, to be served consecutively in the state’s maximum security prison at Attica.
In a 1979 press conference Berkowitz retracted his claims of demonic possession, calling them a hoax. He told a court-appointed psychiatrist that he had long contemplated murder to be revenged on a world that had rejected him, and out of anger over his lack of success with women. Stalking and shooting women had sexually aroused him, and afterward he would masturbate. This could well be, but whether his earlier belief in demonic possession was simply a hoax seems doubtful.
While at Attica there was an attempt on his life that left a long scar on his neck, but he refused to identify the assailant. Though his parents were Jewish, in 1987 he became a born-again Christian and asked to be referred to no longer as Son of Sam, but as Son of Hope; his conversion seems to be profound and sincere. Transferred to the Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg, New York, he has shown little interest in his parole hearings and remains there to this day. His good behavior has been noted, as well as his completion of a two-year state university program and several prison rehabilitation programs, and his expression of remorse for his crimes. In a 2012 interview with the New York Daily News, Berkowitz, now white-haired and balding, declared, “Society has to take the glory out of guns.”
Years after his arrest Berkowitz claimed that other members of a Satanic cult shared responsibility for some of the killings attributed to him, but the New York police remain convinced that there was only one gunman, since when Berkowitz confessed immediately following his arrest, he remembered all the shootings, giving details that only the killer could know. And what is one to conclude, when he keeps changing his story? Did he really think he was demonically possessed, or was it a hoax from the start? Did he act alone or with others? Even now he seems to be a victim of fantasy and illusion.
|Berkowitz's mug shot, 2003.|
In 1977 New York State passed a “Son of Sam law” to prevent accused or convicted persons from profiting from their crimes by speaking or writing about them, and directing that any such profits, if realized, be used to compensate victims. The law was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1991, but a new law passed in 2001 has to date survived constitutional scrutiny. Similar laws have been passed by 41 other states and the federal government.
The Son of Sam murders have also inspired a novel, a film, and several songs, but without Berkowitz’s consent or approval. And Berkowitz has a website of his own, “Arise and Shine with David Berkowitz,” where he shares his testimony of God’s forgiveness, stressing that if God can forgive the Son of Sam killer, he can forgive anyone.
What is a serial killer? A serial killer feels a compulsion to kill, then after a killing experiences a feeling of relief until, as time passes, the compulsion builds up and makes him kill again. (It is usually, but not always, a “him.”) Those who have studied the phenomenon include these traits:
· Lack of normal family life in their childhood
· Lack of remorse or guilt
· Sensation seeking
· A need to exercise control
· A need for attention
· A mask of sanity hiding a psychopathic nature
· Resentment at having been bullied or socially isolated in their childhood or adolescence
· A belief they are driven to crime by some imagined entity such as God or the Devil
To what extent did David Berkowitz exhibit these traits? He was born in Brooklyn in 1953, to a Jewish mother, Betty Broder, and an Italian-American father, Tony Falco, who separated before he was born. When the mother became pregnant with her new boyfriend’s child, and the father threatened to abandon her if she kept it, she put the infant up for adoption, listing Falco as the father. The infant was adopted by Pearl and Nathan Berkowitz, a Jewish couple who ran a hardware store in the Bronx and, being childless in their middle years, wanted a child. Though of above-average intelligence, Berkowitz had a troubled childhood and lost interest in school; neighbors and relatives remembered him as difficult, spoiled, and bullying. When, at age 14, he lost his adoptive mother to cancer, he was devastated and became depressed, imagining that her death was part of a plot to destroy him. When his adoptive father remarried in 1971, David and the new wife didn’t get along, and the couple moved to Florida, leaving him behind. That same year, at age 18, he enlisted in the Army and served for a time in Korea, during which he became an expert shot with a rifle. But his only sex experience was with a Korean prostitute who gave him a venereal disease.
After receiving an honorable discharge in 1974, Berkowitz located his birth mother and was greatly disturbed to learn from her that he was illegitimate. More and more he experienced isolation, fantasies, and paranoid delusions, and apparently began setting fires that he later boasted of. He held a series of blue-collar jobs and at the time of his arrest was working as a letter sorter for the U.S. Postal Service.
In November 1974 he wrote a letter to his father in Florida, saying that people he didn’t even know hated him and spat and kicked at him on the street. Later, after his arrest, he would tell how on Christmas Eve of 1975 his demons made him attack one woman and then another with a knife, though the police were unable to verify the first attack. When the barking dogs of his neighbors disturbed his sleep, he turned their barking into messages from demons ordering him to kill. Moving to a new address in Yonkers, he came to believe that his neighbor Sam Carr’s dog was also possessed, and then that Carr himself was possessed by a demon named Sam, and so was born the name “Son of Sam.” By now he was deep into a world of demons howling for blood, and only a killing could – for a while – bring him relief.
If one combines this brief account of his early years with his behavior as Son of Sam, it seems that Berkowitz exhibited, at least to some extent, all the traits mentioned above and therefore was a classic example of the serial killer. Why some people exhibiting some or all of these traits become serial killers and others do not is a mystery that forensic experts and others are still trying to solve. But the fact that serial killers suddenly emerge, terrifying whole populations and often eluding capture for weeks, months, or years, is as frightening as it is baffling.
Coming soon: Al Sharpton: champion of his people or rabble rouser? From agitator on the streets to insider invited to the White House. And after that, great hotels of the past and present, including one where mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano might have rubbed elbows with an ex-President and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
© Clifford Browder 2015


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A few months ago, I was feeling physically unproductive. I would work out once in a while, but nothing too strenuous. My training schedule was lacking and I was beginning to feel tired all of the time. When I didn’t even have the energy to go on a hike with my friends, that’s when I knew that I had to change something in my lifestyle. Not wanting to go on a hike is not like me at all. I love hiking and being active.
I’m in my mid-twenties and have always been quite sporty. Martial arts has always been something that I’ve been interested in. I used to watch Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan films all the time as a kid.
Okay… so I guess you’ve caught on that I’m a bit of a nerd!
After talking to some of my siblings, we decided that what I probably needed was a bit of challenge. And as I said, I’ve always kind of liked the idea of doing martial arts.
I started doing kung fu two months ago and so far, I’m loving it. Joining kung fu is probably the best thing that I could have done for my fitness. My energy and motivation have improved so much.
But besides the fitness benefits, there were actually other reasons for why I decided kung fu was the best fit for me.
Here are 5 reasons why I joined kung fu
1. Finding Commitment
Commitment is a big part of any relationship. And let’s for a minute look at it as if you had a relationship with your body. Like any other relationship, you’re only going to get out of it what you put in. I wanted to become strong and improve my overall physical and mental fitness. If I devoted myself to going to classes, then with time I would see the changes in my physical and mental state.
In the past, I used to jump around between different workout routines and exercises, trying out new things sporadically. But this is not what to do if you actually want to improve your fitness. What I needed was something more regular and stable. I wanted to nurture my body so I could grow as a stronger person.
For me, kung fu was a challenge. I put on my training suit and decided to attend classes regularly twice a week. I have committed to practice at home everyday and learn the same three forms until they have been mastered before moving on to the next.
As I said about relationships, you only take out what you put in. This means you have to know what you want. I wanted to see progress in my development.
2. Seeing Progress
It drives me mad when I join an activity or a club with the intention of improving on something and after months of practice, the results are the same. When I joined kung fu, I wanted to see and feel the change.
Progress is gradual. There’s no cutting corners or cheating. There is only a small measure of control you have over it. Progress is dependent on your own effort. That’s why I decided that I would train as hard as I could every chance I could. I pushed myself to perform the forms over and over. It’s been two months and my muscles have hardened only a bit and the forms haven’t been mastered, but I do feel the improvement.
What I like about kung fu is that even though I’ve set a goal for myself, one that hasn’t been reached yet, I am still able to see some progress each time. There are just small changes in my form that show how I’ve improved. This feeling that I’m growing in small steps makes me feel strong.
3. Feeling Powerful as a Woman
I grew up with four brothers, and while I never felt inferior to them, the difference in strength is noticeable. Here’s the honest truth, men and women are biologically different. The average man is built stronger than the average woman. This is a fact that has stung me ever since I was a kid and competing against my brothers in wrestling matches. I’m competitive and I don’t like to lose.
Kung fu is a male dominated form of martial arts. But believe it or not, there are a number of kung fu styles that were developed by women. In fact, one of the five ancestors’ styles from Ngo Cho Kun was developed by a woman. Kung fu was mainly designed for people with smaller statures. I like to use my smaller frame to my advantage to catch my brothers off guard and throw them down.
As a young woman of average build, it is important that I know how to defend myself. Although I’ve been in kung fu a short time, it has given me confidence and strength.
4. Learning focus and discipline
I’m gonna be honest. I’m an overactive girl with no focus and very little discipline. I don’t much care for practising, especially when it’s the same thing over and over, so why did I think kung fu would be right for me?
The basis of kung fu is to achieve mastery through your own hard work. To do this, you must focus on the basics and repeatedly practice the simple forms over and over until you become a master at them.
“I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times.” – Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee had a point there. If you practice one punch 10,000 times, then that punch will become habit. In a fight, you don’t have much time to think, you need to rely a lot on natural reflex.
5. It’s Fun!
Since joining kung fu, I really look forward to going to training and getting sweaty. I always get a kick of adrenaline when I get to learn a new technique or apply break dancing in my forms. Kung fu is something I love to do because I have so much fun doing it.

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Featured Image : Regent Bowerbird.
Well…Surprise..Surprise, still no polish on the van. The Showgrounds here at Toowoomba are very open and it’s blowing a gale. This morning we woke to the dreaded Drizzle plus it’s so much cooler here than on the coast. We were deciding what we were going to do for the day and Voila……the sun started peeking out just a little bit 🤩🤩
So we had to make an executive decision,,, off to Redwood Park we went.
It’s about a 20 minute drive back down the range so we didn’t want to waste our time if it was going to be raining.
We have never seen the park so dry, and were very worried about the wildlife there, as the little creek that we thought was maybe spring fed had also dried up, and has been for quite some time.
We didn’t hear much birdlife either, but as we came past the picnic area we saw a couple of flowering trees….and lots of bird activity around them.
Thank god the little birdies have got something to eat.
The first bird Anthony spotted was the Regent Bowerbird, we just couldn’t believe our luck, and feeding on the nectar of this beautiful flowering type of Coral Tree. Lucky Lucky us 😃😃
Press Play to view Stephanie’s Snippets from today
Featured Image : Blue-face Honeyeater in Jacaranda.
Today was our last chance so we visited the Noosa Botanical Gardens which is only about 10 minutes drive from here. We visited here back in June when we were heading north but there wasn’t that much birdlife around.
Press Play to view Stephanie’s Video Snippets of the Gardens and wildlife
Well today it was just teeming with birds 😁😁 We did a morning shift and then after a break and a snooze we went back this afternoon, just fantastic. We saw a few new birds and the big carpet python laying on the banks of a small pond was an added bonus. It looks like he must have eaten a large bird or maybe a bat as you could see something sticking out on his side….maybe the legs of something….
This Blue-faced Honeyeater was very photogenic with the Jacaranda Backdrop
Juvenile and Immature BF Honeyeaters (Below)
Australian Emerald in motion.
So we have had a great time in this area and would love to stay a bit longer but work is calling so we have to keep moving on closer to Stanthorpe.
Tomorrow we will head up the range to Toowoomba Showgrounds for the weekend and catch up with the last of our maintenance jobs. We are praying that the weather is nice to us as we really need to get a coat of polish on the van. A huge job that we have been putting off for a while. We are also hoping to visit Redwood Park again, our favourite birding place while in Toowoomba. So please enjoy the pics and video.
Cheers Steph and Anthony.
Featured Image – Parked up in the prime spot.
Well as you will see by the pics and video, the Wanderingeagles have plonked themselves in absolute bird heaven 😁😁
We are so glad on deciding to drive a little bit further south to Childers.
We have picked avocados in this area quite some years ago and always liked the surrounds here.
We stayed at a different caravan park then but we had heard of this amazing park/ retreat, with a big lake at its doorstep so we we’re pretty keen to have a look.
Lake Redbrook Holiday Retreat is incredible.
The owners have created this beautiful oasis in amongst the surrounding sugar cane and other farms so it seems that any bird in this area would surely want to visit here.
They allowed us to park our rig on the marquee site…..usually reserved for weddings etc, which is the prime spot only about 10 metres from the lakes edge.
So while we are enjoying our morning and afternoon cuppochinos we have this amazing birdlife show going on outside our dinette window.
It’s been great waking up to their sounds and we love the frogs chirping away as we go to sleep at night.
A pair of Cotton Pygmy Geese
Press Play to view Steph’s Snippets of this Birder’s Paradise
More Residents of the Lake
We did manage to pull ourselves away to visit one of our favourite beaches.
Woodgate Beach is around half an hours drive from here. We didn’t see many birds but it was low tide at the estuary and all the little soldier crabs were out and about en masse…..it was incredible to watch.
We have never seen this before, I took a small video of them. They kept us amused for quite some time.
Press Play to view Steph’s ‘Soldier Crab’ Snippets
We leave tomorrow and head down to the Sunshine Coast which will be very very busy, a big change from the beautiful serenity here.
Please enjoy Anthony’s amazing photos, and check out my videos,
Bye for now Steph and Anthony.
Featured Image : Buddy …. The newest member of the Family.
We were so busy though the whole weekend that we really didn’t have much chance for birding. We did see quite a few different shore birds at low tide and Anthony missed out on photos of the Red – tailed Black Cockatoo. There wasn’t much scenery either for videos so I haven’t got much to show either.
Press Play to view Steph’s Video Snips
A couple of Dragonflies from the Botanical Gardens at Rocky
Rajah Shellducks at Cape Palmerston
Brahminy Kites at Rocky
Pelicans at the Botanical Gardens, Rocky
We are on the road again tomorrow but haven’t decided yet how far south to go….have to ponder over some maps first and see where we want to be for a few days. So please enjoy the photos and snippets we did manage to get.
Bye for now, Steph and Anthony.

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Sure, Madison Square Garden was awesome. As was being on the first UFC card in New York. Both were a “dream come true” moment for Chris Weidman, despite losing to Yoel Romero.
But there’s a bigger moment to be had for the former UFC middleweight champion born and raised on Long Island. A bigger dream, even if venue capacity, marketing appeal and general glamour are slightly smaller 30 miles or so east of “The World’s Most Famous Arena.”
For Weidman, born and raised in Baldwin, there’s the Nassau Coliseum. He grew up going to Islanders games there. The circus and pro wrestling events, too.
“Madison Square Garden is what the world knows as one of the most historic arenas in the world, but for me as a Long Islander, Nassau Coliseum is our home. This is like our pride and joy. Nassau Coliseum, for me, there’s nothing bigger.”
Weidman will be the main event inside the newly renovated Nassau Coliseum when he fights Kelvin Gastelum at UFC Long Island on July 22.
“To realize I’m gonna be in the center of this place and this place will be sold out and focused attention on me is a dream come true. It’s gonna be pretty crazy.”
Weidman was a two-time All-American wrestler at Nassau CC, across the street from the Coliseum. He was a two-time All-American wrestler at Hofstra, across the other street from the Coliseum. His gym, Longo & Weidman MMA, is a few blocks away on Commercial Avenue.
“This is the dream place to be able to headline, Long Island. I have a lot of pride being from here.”
Tickets for the event, which airs on Fox, go on sale to the public Friday morning.
“Long Island, it’s weird, it’s a hotbed [for MMA],” Weidman said. “It breeds toughness somehow . . . For some reason, Long Island people are tough guys. We all support each other. A lot of us are all at different gyms, but we all have each other’s back.”
Weidman (13-3, 9-3 UFC) enters UFC on Fox 25 on a three-fight losing streak. His last fight, a controversial loss to Gegard Mousasi, still is under appeal with the New York State Athletic Commission.
Gastelum (13-2, 8-2 UFC with one no contest), the Season 17 winner of “The Ultimate Fighter,” has won his past three fights. However, that third fight, a first-round stoppage of Vitor Belfort in Brazil last March, later was turned into a no contest. Gastelum tested positive for marijuana metabolites and agreed to a 90-day suspension by the Brazilian MMA Sports Court.
That positive test resulted in Gastelum being pulled from a scheduled bout against Anderson Silva at UFC 212 on Saturday in Brazil. Now he gets another former middleweight champion in Weidman.
“I see him as somebody who’s backed up against the wall,” Gastelum said. “He’s a fighter, so his initial reaction when somebody’s up against a wall is to react, right? So I think this is his time to react. This is his time to win, and so I feel like this’ll be the most well-prepared Weidman there is. Nobody wants to lose four in a row, especially in your hometown.”
Weidman knows the doubters are out there. They were there when he was the undefeated champion. They’re there now — and louder — amid his three-fight losing streak. And this summer, he carries that into his home arena filled with family and friends.
“I put enough pressure on myself, there’s no room for additional pressure,” Weidman said. “As a competitor, I’m so fueled and I have a fire burning in me that really can’t go much higher.”
UFC Long Island fight card
Middleweight: Chris Weidman vs. Kelvin Gastelum
Featherweight: Dennis Bermudez vs. Darren Elkins
Light heavyweight: Gian Villante vs. Patrick Cummins
Bantamweight: Jimmie Rivera vs. Thomas Almeida
Welterweight: Ryan LaFlare vs. Alex Oliveira
Welterweight: Lyman Good vs. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos
Lightweight: Chris Wade vs. Frankie Perez
Featherweight: Shane Burgos vs. Godofredo Pepey
Featherweight: Kyle Bochniak vs. Jeremy Kennedy
Heavyweight: Damian Grabowski vs. Christian Colombo
Middleweight: Rafael Natal vs. Alessio Di Chirico
Heavyweight: Timothy Johnson vs. Junior Albini

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Jennifer and Nuno contacted us in February 2012, because they would need help for organising and coordinating their wedding in August. They were living in Ireland and they would like to get married in Portugal, so they needed help preparing all the details for their Destination Wedding.
In terms of destination, Cascais was their preference for the wedding. Cascais, is a small town in the coast, so excellent for a holiday too… very close to Lisbon airport, Cascais was their favorite location for the time that they would spend with their guests for celebrating one of the most important day of their lives. The ceremony was in Cascais’ Church and the wedding reception at Villa Italia 5* Hotel.
Please find some of the pictures of their wedding below. Also, you can see more pictures at Pedro Vilela Photographer’s Website.


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Chemical composition, antioxidant and antibacterial activities of extracts obtained from the roots bark of Arbutus andrachne L. a Lebanese tree.
Keywords:Arbutus andrachne L., Ericaceae, roots bark extracts, antioxidant activity, ntibacterial activity
Context and purpose of the study: The leaves, fruits, barks and roots of Arbutus andrachne L (A. andrachne), have been adopted to have high therapeutic value resulting from the presence of antioxidant compounds such as flavonoids, phenolic and tannins. In the present work, three extracts obtained from A. andrachne roots bark were evaluated for their antioxidant and antibacterial activities .The total phenolic content, flavonoid, condensed tannins and anthocyanins were determined in order to correlate them with the antioxidant activity of extracts. Main findings: The highest amounts of phenolic and tannins were found in the ethyl-acetate, while the anthocyanins ones were highly observed in the methanol-water extract. The lowest IC50 values for DPPH (0.6 µg/mL), and metal chelating assay (13.45µg/mL) were recorded in the ethyl-acetate extract and the methanolic one respetively. Gram positive bacteria (S. aureus and E. faecalis) were more susceptible to the antimicrobial potential of the methanol extract, while E.coli and P. aeruginosa as Gram negative bacteria turned out to be more resistant to the same extract. The ethyl-acetate extract was more effective on E. faecalis than on S. aureus; while E. coli and P. aeruginosa were the most resistant to this extract. Brief summary and potential implications: An appropriate dose of antioxidants derived from A. andrachne bark of the roots extracts in the human diet can help to avoid the risk of contracting diseases where ROS are involved in the pathogenesis. In fact, phenolic compounds in these extracts are among the natural antioxidants being studied by the scientific community due to their biological properties, e.g., antioxidant and antimicrobial activities.
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The owners of new Vancouver restaurant Assembli have taken a different approach to advertising outside their spot on Cambie.
With the help of ad agency One Twenty Three West, they’ve plastered their windows with a poster apparently screaming “NEW CONDO DEVELOPMENT.”
Or so it seems until you read the small print.
The poster actually reads, “This is not a new condo development. Unless you want to live in a salad and pizza joint. In which case, welcome home.”
The new Assembli restaurant could be open by the end of April, at 2325 Cambie Street at 7th, previously a third location of Hubbub sandwiches.
But One Twenty Three West CEO Scot Keith told Daily Hive the innovative, award-winning ad agency thought they’ve have a little fun in the meantime.
“Everywhere you look in this city – there’s a new condo going up,” said Keith. “We thought this would be a fun thing to put up because of the condo fatigue on Cambie and everywhere in Vancouver.
“By just doing something fun and unique, people in the area love it and talk about it.”


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(Natural News) In order to enter the United States from China beginning on January 5, travelers will have to show a “negative” covid test result, thanks to a new policy from the Biden regime.
Doing the exact same thing he previously criticized Donald Trump for doing, accusing the former president of “fanning the flames” of “hate, fear, and xenophobia,” fake president Joe Biden has decided that Chinese people are the only ones who need to keep playing the covid game into the new year.
In what appears to be another attempt at launching a worldwide scamdemic, communist China has ended its “covid zero” policy. We are told that hundreds of millions of Chinese people are testing “positive” for covid as a result.
The headlines now circulating are similar to those that started swirling around the internet toward the end of 2019 just prior to the official launch of the first covid plandemic. Is the next one now in the works?
Travelers to the U.S. from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau will soon be required to get swabbed, presumably in the nose (though at one point communist China was doing anal swabs), in search of covid germs. (Related: Remember when Biden wanted to deploy an army of brownshirt-style medical fascists to go door-to-door jabbing people for covid?)


Distributed Control of Triangular Formations with Angle-Only Constraints
Systems & Control Letters, 2010
This paper considers the coupled formation control of three mobile agents moving in the plane. Each agent has only local inter-agent bearing knowledge and is required to maintain a specified angular separation relative to both neighbor agents. Assuming the desired angular separation of each agent relative to the group is feasible, then a triangle is generated. The control law is distributed and accordingly each agent can determine their own control law using only the locally measured bearings. A convergence result is established in this paper which guarantees global asymptotic convergence of the formation to the desired formation shape.


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The hotel offers high speed Internet Services to all our guests allowing them to remain connected while they are enjoying their holiday.
The hotel offers Private parking for all their guests who are staying at the hotel.
The hotel's family rooms are perfect for guests who are looking spend their holiday with their families or loved ones.
Several elevators are found in the hotel for the guests' convenience while they are staying with us.
Our guests can stay fit and enjoy many of the facilities offered by the hotel like our Outdoor Swimming Pool during their holiday.
Our hotel strives to offer all the guests with top notch service by providing them with a 24-Hour front desk service.
We know that being active is an important part of our guests’ daily life so we pride ourselves on offering all our guests with amodern fitness centre.
Facilities for our disabled guests are offered throughout the hotel, especially our functional rooms which are well equipped for the convenience of guests with physical impediments.
All the rooms and common areas of the hotel are equipped with air conditioning in order to create a comfortable atmosphere for all the guests.
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This apartment features 1 bedroom with 1 king bed, 1 bedroom with 2 queen beds and 1 bedroom with 2 double beds. It has a seating area, air conditioning, cable TV and a balcony with sea views. The kitchen has dining area, kitchenware, microwave and fridge, and the 3 full bathrooms come with shower.
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