Volkswagen confirms ID.3 battery warranty
Volkswagen is promising the lithium-ion batteries in its upcoming range of ID. electric vehicles will retain 70 per cent of their capacity for eight years or 160,000km.
That puts the German giant in line with the likes of Tesla and Nissan, both of which warranty their battery packs for eight years and 162,000km.
Although their warranty matches the industry's best, Volkswagen won't be trying to take down Tesla with its DC charge speeds. The ID.3 will charge at 125kW when hooked up to a suitable fast-charge station, comfortably faster than the just-updated Renault Zoe (50kW) and Nissan Leaf (46kW) but slower than the Tesla Model 3 (200kW).
When it launches, the Porsche Taycan will lead the industry with its 350kW charge capability, allowing owners to replenish 80 per cent of range in just 20 minutes.
Of course, most people will do the majority of their charging on AC connectors, not public DC infrastructure. Volkswagen is estimating 50 per cent of all charging will take place at home and 20 per cent will be done at work, and will offer an 11kW wall box to cater for it.
Australian buyers won't see the ID.3 until 2022 at the earliest, with Volkswagen blaming our lagging local emissions standards.
Volkswagen Australia managing director, Michael Bartsch, says Australia is "in danger of losing its place in the queue for EVs because this country's automotive regulations have fallen behind the first-world norm".
The VW ID.3 will make its public debut at the Frankfurt motor show in September.


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Fairfax County Chamber takes a regional identity
After describing itself for 15 years as the “Voice of Business in Northern Virginia,” the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce is starting the year with a new name — the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce.
“The chamber has been talking about this for decades,” says Jim Corcoran, the organization’s president and CEO. “We’ve been serving the wider area for a long time.”
Thirty-five percent of the chamber’s membership is based outside of Fairfax County in areas throughout Northern Virginia. “We are regional already,” Corcoran says. “We need one chamber to represent the voice of the business community, elected leaders and others in Northern Virginia.”
Mitchell D. Weintraub, the Fairfax Chamber’s chairman, says the renamed organization would “seek to complement, not compete with, the other chambers.”
The initial reaction from local chambers in the region was cautious. Some told the Washington Business Journal they are concerned about possible confusion in the business community about the roles each group plays.
Regional chambers are not new in Virginia. The Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce, for example, represents Richmond, Ashland and the counties of Charles City, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent and Powhatan. The region for the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce includes Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach.
The Fairfax Chamber says it will be the largest regional chamber in the commonwealth in terms of employment. Its members have more than 500,000 employees. The group says it also is following Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s call to work regionally. “That is the hallmark of his administration,” Corcoran says.
The chamber hopes to collaborate with other business organizations and chambers not only in Virginia, but also in Washington, D.C., and Maryland.
The organization already hosts a number of regional events, including the annual Greater Washington Government Contracting Awards (in partnership with the Professional Services Council in Arlington), which draws more than 900 people, and the Greater Washington Innovation Awards.
“We also have partnered with other chambers when it comes to hosting debates and town hall forums in the past,” Corcoran says.
In examining a possible rebranding and restructuring of the group, Fairfax chamber members studied other business groups across the nation, an exercise that reinforced the idea that “regionalism is important for economic success everywhere,” Corcoran says. “It’s hard for one place to do it alone.”
“I think the saying ‘United we stand, divided we fall’ says it all,” he adds. “If we all work together as a region, we all grow.”

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The House on Paradise Street is the début novel by Sofka Zinovieff. Of Russian descent, she grew up in London and moved to Greece in 2001. She is the author of two non-fiction books, Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens, and Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life.
The House on Paradise Street is set inAthens, where an English-born researcher,Maud Perifanis, lives with her journalist husband, Nikitas, their teenage daughter Tigand stepson, Orestes, in an apartment above the childhood home of Nikitas’s aunt,Alexandra.
When Nikitas died in a car crash in 2008, Maud contacted his mother, Antigone, who left him behind as a child for life in Soviet Russia.
Her return to Athens, and the yielding of long-held secrets, forms the other half of a dual narrative.
The story veers between Antigone’s past, dating back to the German occupation of Greece during World War II, when she and Alexandra were teenagers.
While Antigone and her brother, Markos, joined the resistance, Alexandra’s involvement with a policeman, Spiros, pre-empted her sister’s rift from the family.
During wartime, Greek rebels were supported by the Allies. However, after 1945, the English switched loyalties to the right-wing factions that had previously collaborated with the Nazis. A bitter civil war ensued, leaving ‘patriots’ like Antigone marginalised.
But the conflicts aren’t all in the past, as the next generation becomes embroiled in protests that have dominated headlines since Greece fell into ‘permanent recession’ five years ago. With the Debt Crisis still very much in the news, The House on Paradise Street has an edge over most historical fiction.
‘We Greeks are all movement,’ Antigone says of her people’s intrepid spirit. As Maud grieves for Nikitas, she notes that ‘there’s not even a word for privacy in Greek.’ Her husband’s philosophy could best be summarised as ‘The more people you know, the richer your life will be.’
This creed shaped their happiest times: ‘”spontaneous” is a defining word in Greek,’ Maud observed, ‘and Nikitas was loyal to the principle.’ She also speaks of ‘opposites existing together,’ though not always harmoniously.
Recalling their turbulent past, a family friend comments, ‘In a civil war, everybody loses. And Greeks know better than anyone how to put out their own eyes.’
Maud’s sense of identity comes from an incomer’s perspective. While her early years of marriage were a ‘Hellenic idyll,’ her distrust of politics contrasted sharply with her husband’s passionate engagement. ‘I suppose my outsider’s innocence ceased to be refreshing to Nikitas,’ she admits.
When the story’s female narrators first meet, Antigone detects a ‘terrier-like tendency’ beneath Maud’s English reserve, as she tries to solve the mystery of her husband’s childhood abandonment – and also, perhaps, his demise.
‘I believed that the English were philhellenes,’ says Antigone, evoking their romantic attachment to Greece which nonetheless ended in betrayal. But Maud is determined not to be ‘stereotyped with my nation’s characteristics’.
‘Beware of grand schemes,’ warns Aunt Alexandra, whose stolid conservatism Maud finds somehow reassuring. Antigone retains her youthful radicalism (‘We’ll all go back to Marx’), though her own journey is nearing its end. ‘Ideals and dreams are all very well for the young,’ she muses, ‘but at the end we yearn for the soil and roots from which we came.’
The elder generation were shaped by their experience of war. ‘The order we take for granted can vanish like theatrical scenery,’ Antigone notes, while Maud’s English grandparents ‘had valued peace for its own sake.’
As she attempts to mediate between the estranged sisters, Maud learns that ‘dehumanising the other side had always been the first rule of war.’ For the next generation, staying neutral may not be an option. ‘Did she think life is fair?’ Tig asks, incredulously.
‘You can throw a black stone behind you,’ a friend tells Antigone, ‘but sometimes it calls you back rather than keeping you away.’ Nikitas describes himself as ‘the fly in the milk.’ The House on Paradise Street is full of unsettling images like these, culled from everyday speech and classical myth.
Many Athenian homes were built on ancient burial sites, and the Acropolis remains visible from every angle. Maud both embraces and resists the role of Greek widow, while Antigone follows her legendary namesake in trying to protect her fallen brother.
In this spellbinding novel, Sofka Zinovieff reveals herself as a modern-day Cassandra, suggesting that the past is both a foreign country and a psychic homeland to which we must all finally return.

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Lawyers for Sheriff Joe Arpaio will appeal a judge’s October order that a court-appointed monitor oversee the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, among other things.
A federal judge in Phoenix ruled in May that the sheriff’s office and Arpaio singled out Latinos and that deputies unreasonably prolonged detentions.
In October, the judge ordered the appointment of an independent monitor and a community advisory board to ensure compliance with constitutional requirements.
Arpaio’s lawyers in a motion filed this week say they will appeal the order.
The May ruling came after a small group of Latinos sued the sheriff’s office for violating their constitutional rights, saying they were being detained simply because of their race.
Arpaio’s office had opposed the appointment of a monitor, arguing it would undermine his authority.


Demand Media, an online content producer that has postponed a planned IPO, recently revealed some strange wrinkles in its accounting for writer expenses.
The company, which pays freelancers only about $15 for stories of several hundred words, spreads out the cost of expenses for those writers over five years, unlike most publishing companies, which book the expenses at once.
In the company’s most recently amended S-1 filing, Demand Media wrote, “Capitalized media content is amortized on a straight-line basis over five years, representing the Company’s estimate of the pattern that the underlying economic benefits are expected to be realized and based on its estimates of the projected cash flows from advertising revenues expected to be generated by the deployment of its content. These estimates are based on the Company’s plans and projections, comparison of the economic returns generated by its content of comparable quality and an analysis of historical cash flows generated by that content to date.”
Regulators are starting to question the company’s accounting, according to All Things Digital.
Demand pays its 13,000 freelancers only about $15 per article or $30 for a video. Nevertheless, the company, which runs a battery of websites like eHow, LiveStrong.com, Cracked.com and GolfLink, and employs around 13,000 freelancers, had until recently insisted that it was running a profit. That is, until the company revealed in its IPO filing that it’s running a net loss of $6 million as of August 2010, and that it posted a net loss of $22 million in 2009, $14 million in 2008, and almost $6 million in 2007, according to CNNMoney.com.
As regulators start to take a closer look at Demand and its practices, the IPO may be a long time in coming.


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Health news: Atkins combats epilepsy, handwriting reveals heart disease and plaque-busting dental treatment
In our pick of top health stories this week, how the Atkins Diet could be used to fight epilepsy, doctors can detect heart disease in your handwriting, and a plaque-seeking dental probe.
Can Atkins help fight epilepsy?
The Atkins Diet, used by millions to lose weight, is being tested as a way to reduce epileptic seizures.
In previous studies, some patients were able to reduce their medication after being put on the diet.
The low-carb, high-fat diet causes ketosis - where the body burns fat instead of sugar. It seems ketone fats, the waste products left after the fat is burned, build up and inhibit seizures, although exactly how is unknown.
In a new trial in India, 100 epileptic children will be restricted to a carbohydrate intake of 10g a day. Fats such as cream, butter and oils will be encouraged, and proteins such as cheese, fish, eggs, chicken and soya products unrestricted. Calcium and multivitamin supplements will be provided.
However, experts warn that until proper clinical trials establish that this approach is beneficial, patients with epilepsy should not try it for themselves.
Heart warning in your handwriting
Could your handwriting reveal your likelihood of having a heart attack?
New research suggests that the writing of people with heart disease is visibly different. It's thought that these differences could indicate stress leading to heart malfunctions, according to graphologist Christina Strang. She compared handwriting samples of 61 heart patients with those of 41 healthy people at Poole Hospital.
When writing, we all rest the pen for milliseconds in the course of a stroke. Strang's research showed twice as many 'resting dots' in the cardiac group. She says this is because every disease distorts the basic rhythm in the way our systems function - even in the way we write.
The discovery will be developed into a tool to help cardiologists spot potential dangers.
Magic wand to save your teeth
A new dental probe can identify plaque build-up in the mouth before it is visible to the human eye. The toothbrush-sized device, which has a blue light at its tip, shows any plaque as a red glow.
It is hoped the probe, which can be used at home, will help people tackle plaque and prevent the need for dental work.
A number of different plaque-revealing tablets are available from High Street pharmacies. These contain a colour dye that stains any plaque left on the teeth after cleaning. However, these often stain the mouth and taste unpleasant.
The new device, developed by Liverpool University and produced in collaboration with healthcare developer Inspektor Research Systems, based in the Netherlands, has none of these side-effects.
Users must wear special red filter glasses, so they can spot the affected areas as they shine the probe in the mouth before brushing. It is not yet known when the probe will be available.
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A critical vulnerability in Instagram's Android and iOS apps could have allowed remote attackers to run malicious code, snoop on unsuspecting users, and hijack control of smartphone cameras and microphones.
The security hole, which has been patched by Instagram owner Facebook
, could be exploited by a malicious hacker simply sending their intended victim a boobytrapped malicious image file via SMS, WhatsApp, email or any other messaging service.
When Instagram is subsequently opened, a heap overflow would occur in the app's image-processing library allowing - according to a blog post
by security researchers at Check Point - attackers to spy on private messages, post and delete photos, as well as access the phone's contacts, camera and location data.
"In effect, the attacker gets full control over the app and can create actions on behalf of the user, including reading all of their personal messages in their Instagram account and deleting or posting photos at will. This turns the device into a tool for spying on targeted users without their knowledge, as well as enabling malicious manipulation of their Instagram profile. In either case, the attack could lead to a massive invasion of users’ privacy and could affect reputations – or lead to security risks that are even more serious."
According to the researchers, the most basic exploitation of the flaw would cause the Instagram app to crash - preventing users from accessing their account until the app is deleted from their device and reinstalled.
Specifically, the vulnerability was in the way that the Instagram app used a third-party JPEG processing library called Mozjpeg. Sloppily, Instagram
misused the open-source code when handling images opening a window of opportunity for remote code execution to take place.
Fortunately, the researchers who discovered the serious security hole believe in responsible disclosure, and worked with Facebook and Instagram to ensure that the vulnerability was patched properly.
It's notable that details of the vulnerability have only been made public now, some six months after a patched version of Instagram was first rolled out. That underlines just how seriously the security hole was regarded by Instagram and the researchers who found it.
Because of the significant risk that a sophisticated attacker - perhaps state-sponsored - might attempt to exploit the flaw to spy upon high-risk targets, public disclosure has only taken place now, when it is believed that the majority of users will have updated their Instagram apps.
Of course, if you haven't updated your Instagram app in the last six months or so then you really should take action now. Either remove the Instagram app from your smartphone entirely, or update it to the latest version from the official Google Play or iOS app stores.
Facebook confirmed that the security vulnerability had been fixed and that it hadn't seen any evidence of malicious abuse of the flaw.
More information about the vulnerability can be found in a technical blog post
published by the researchers.
Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in this guest author article are solely those of the contributor, and do not necessarily reflect those of Tripwire, Inc.

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by Patricia S. (Chicago, IL) The Tudor Secret
The Tudor Secret is C.W. Gortner’s first novel, although not his first published, which I got as an ARC from BookBrowse. It’s set in an interesting time in Tudor history, the tense period surrounding young King Edward VI’s death and his sister Mary’s successful bid for the throne. Most of the story focuses on Elizabeth, but there are scenes with Mary and Lady Jane Grey. The hero of the story, Brenden Prescott, a bastard foundling the Dudleys have raised, is brought to court as a squire for John Dudley, and quickly, almost too quickly, becomes involved in the spying and secrets of the court. I found Brenden interesting, but there wasn’t enough time for the story to be reasonable, in my opinion. In about 2 weeks or less, Brenden falls in love, becomes a trusted confidant of Princess Elizabeth and King Edward’s friend and body servant, is recruited by Cecil as a spy, becomes a secret messenger for both Cecil and Queen Mary, and discovers the secret of his noble birth. While I enjoyed the story, this was just too much to be believed. Who would trust such an unknown with such dangerous secrets? I also found some of the characterization unbelievable, especially the Dudleys. They were all such monsters, and given Elizabeth’s relations with Robert and her intelligence, I found it hard to believe he had no redeeming qualities, but this book shows otherwise. Between the broad characters and the breathless pace, it shows as a first novel. It is the first in a series, so hopefully, the others will improve. I found Gortner’s second novel, The Last Queen, much better and so am looking forward to the next one.
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by Elizabeth B. (Sunnyvale, CA) The Tudor Secret
This was a fun book to read. Having read both non-fiction and historical fiction of the Tudor period, I found this perspective entertaining, an imaginative perspective of some of the events and persons of this period of history. However, I would have preferred richer descriptions of the characters and less predictable plot development.
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by Mary D. (Claremont, CA) The Tudor Secret
A fast-paced look at Tudor England, after the death of Henry VIII. Very detailed in descriptions of the court, relationships, intrigue among people that are trying to hide the impending death of Edward VI. A good read for anyone interested in this period of English history, with a focus on Elizabeth as a young girl, whose place in the court is uncertain, while the powers behind Jane Grey put her on the throne and then Mary assumes her rightful place. And of course, the character of Brendan Prescott, whose familial line is not what everyone thinks!
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by Deborah J. (Rockville, MD) The Tudor Secret
I enjoyed this book and it's "what if" twist to the plot, which moved quite rapidly. In fact, one of my only criticisms is that it was difficult for me as a reader to believe the abbreviated time line in the book -- how so much could happen in such a short period of time was confusing, to say the least. It also did not lend itself to what I would consider adequate character development, especially for Brendan Prescott.
It was, however, a quick and enjoyable read. I have read a great deal of historical fiction and I think that anyone with even a moderate knowledge of the historical period involved would enjoy the "what if" twist of the historical events.
Rated of 5
by Deb Y. (Blanco, TX) Tudors - Love Them or Hate Them
I personally really enjoyed this book, another take on Elizabeth I and her history, written in the first person, purportedly by Brendan Prescott, an orphan reared by the powerful Dudley family, who has been sent on an illicit mission to the king's sister, the then Princess Elizabeth. I am a sucker for the Tudors, the first person narrative, and historical novels - hence, a hat trick for me in this book. Another don't miss it........
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by Deborah M. (Chambersburg, PA) Flawed, but Still a Fairly Good Read
I love historical fiction but am not a big fan of mysteries, so I wasn't sure how well I would like 'The Tudor Secret.' Overall, it was a fast and fun read, but the novel has many flaws that make it less enjoyable than it might otherwise be. The pacing was uneven, the narrative often repetitious, and Brendan's quick admittance into high circles was unbelievable. For example, the same day he arrives at court, having just been raised from his position as stable boy to valet, he strolls the garden alone with Princess Elizabeth. It just wouldn't happen. I also found the love affair weak: once minute Kate treats Brendan like a foolish boy and the next they are romping in bed. Worst of all for me was the two-layered "secret" as to why Brendan's parentage had been hidden. I know that it's fiction, but even fiction has to seem like it could be true. Neither what Cecil tells Brendan nor what he intuits for himself could ever have happened. (I can't say why without giving away the plot, but trust me, a scholar of the period: it just wouldn't have happened.) This wasn't a terrible book, just nothing I'd recommend to anyone who knows a bit about the period.
British Parliament asks Amazon to clarify why it pays $9 million in income tax on $23 billion of UK sales.(May 20 2013) Amazon will be called back to give further evidence to members of the British Parliament "to clarify how its activities in the U.K. justify its low corporate...

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Tags » Working Families
Wall Street Journal — If you’re not on a path to a secure retirement, the White House suggests it’s because an evil broker is ripping you off. 97 more words
Protesters from New York and New Jersey advocacy groups will meet Gov. Chris Christie at a fundraiser in New York City later today to hit him on paid sick leave policies. 142 more words
Flexible working is a pipe dream for many parents and carers, according to a report by charity Working Families.
In analysis of almost 3,000 calls to its legal advice helpline in 2014, Working Families said workers in low paid sectors such as retail, social care, catering and hospitality are employed on contracts that offer them little in the way of pay, guaranteed hours or job security. 336 more words

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Recent special issues and articles in Hispanic American Historical Review and Comparative Literature include studies of drugs and drug culture in history and literature.
An issue of Hispanic American Historical Review entitled “The New Drug History of the Americas” brings the study of Latin American drug trades and cultures into conversation with the region’s historiography. Special issue editors Paul Gootenberg and Isaac Campos argue for “a new drug history of the Americas:”
We argue here that the fetishization of drugs by prohibitionists and enthusiasts alike has been no accident. Whether due to the resemblance between drug-induced and spiritually inspired ecstasy, or the way that drugs can undermine the razón on which Western civilization has supposedly hinged, or their life-and-death medicinal implications, these are no ordinary goods. Thus drugs also possess, we believe, extraordinary potential for expanding historical study.
The issue includes articles by Valeria Manzano, Lina Britto, and Alexander S. Dawson on such topics as youth culture in Argentina, marijuana traffic in Colombia, and psychedelic psychiatry. Read the full introduction here.
In “Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Drug War: The Critical Limits of Narconarratives,” Oswaldo Zavala analyzes narconarratives, interrelated corpus of texts, films, music, and conceptual art focusing on the drug trade. He argues, “with the exception of a few Mexican novels, only a particular narrative trend of fiction and non-fiction published in the United States has been able to articulate a necessary, critical, and subversive view of the official discourse on drug trafficking and its related organizations in both countries.” Read an excerpt:
With their romantic focus on death as an ontological destiny and their emphasis on an imagined narcocultura that makes victims of the official institutions of justice, most narconarratives propagate an illusory enemy that the Mexican state relies upon in order to legitimize its actions in the drug war. In short, most of the narconarratives written during the last decade in Mexico reify the simulacrum of truth constructed by official propaganda. Only through the articulation of deliberately political counternarratives can light be shed on drug trafficking as one of the many dimensions of official power in both countries. To achieve this, critical narconarratives must abandon the exhausted myths of drug lords and their fantastic kingdoms and stop objectifying drug trafficking as a problem external to official power in Mexico and the U.S. and instead propose a careful historical revision of its place inside that power: drug trafficking as power itself.
To read the full article, made freely available, click here.


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Foam and medical cushioning are a match made in heaven. That’s because the right type of foam makes the ideal supportive and comfortable surface for dental treatment. However, not all dental cushions are created equal. While modern dental chairs have the minimum amount of cushioning required to make a patient not feel uncomfortable, they do little to enhance the patient experience.
The right type of dental foam cushions, when used in conjunction with standard dental chairs, can be a game-changer for your dental practice.
What is the Best Type of Foam to Use?
The foam inside your dental cushions is arguably the most important part of the product. It’s what provides stable support for patients while also helping them feel more comfortable during treatment.
What’s the best type of foam to use?
There’s only one type of foam that provides the right mixture of support and comfort, all while being antimicrobial and suitable for medical environments: open-cell polyurethane foam. This is the type of foam Crescent Products uses in its dental headrests and other dental chair accessories. What exactly is it? In short, it’s similar to memory foam in that the foam is viscoelastic (it easily returns to its original shape after pressure is applied to it).
The Importance of the Foam
Open-cell foam is a type of foam that has a low density, high tensile strength (it will not rip), and good shock absorption. This is because the cells within the foam are left open, allowing air to pass through them and making the material more malleable. For comparison, closed-cell foam is harder and denser, and while it still provides good protection, it’s not the most comfortable surface. Some examples of closed-cell foam are polystyrene (which makes up StyrofoamTM), neoprene (used in industrial gaskets), and silicone, all of which are not ideal for comfort.
You can learn more about the open-cell foam used in our memory foam headrests here.
Why Use Dental Headrests and Accessories?
Besides the added comfort they provide for patients, dental chair accessories also allow dental providers to properly position their patients for all types of treatment. They give you better access to treatment areas without you having to twist or body or hold uncomfortable positions for long periods. This can help reduce the strain on your body, prolong your career, and reduce the risks of developing musculoskeletal issues and disorders.
They are the perfect mixture of comfort and support for your patients.
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It’s got weed in it’s name and it’s in our Weeds of the West book, but it’s also in two of our wildflower books. So which is it, a weed or a wildflower? Maybe they’re not mutually exclusive categories. I guess I’m going with the wildflower book which says “Many chickweeds are troublesome weeds of field and garden and have small unattractive flowers. The field chickweed, however, is neither weedy nor unattractive.”
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Nice photo. Some of the flowers that I have in my native garden are considered weeds by “serious” gardeners. Like beauty, I think “weedness” is in the eye of the beholder and a matter of cultural defintion.
Thanks Jim. One of my books quotes a definition of weeds that says basically a weed is anything you don’t want growing on your land for whatever reason you chose not to want it. So by that definition, “weedness” status can in fact change as soon as you cross a property line. Oh, and just because you quite mowing your lawn three years ago doesn’t mean you have a native garden!

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An update from Elena, a senior majoring in corporate communications in Meadows School of the Arts and business in the Cox School of Business:
As a D.C. first-timer, I found that the Hilltop on the Hill experience exceeded all of my expectations. Communications majors fill a wide variety of positions around the city. Our group had the pleasure of interacting with highly ranked executives.
One of the people we met was Dave Levinthal, a senior reporter at the Center for Public Integrity. Visiting with him at the Center for Public Integrity reignited my belief in unbiased, fact-based reporting. Levinthal is an inspiration for any individual interested in news devoted to the truth. The Center for Public Integrity hopefully is just the beginning of a trend toward nonprofit, transparent reporting.


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Just Dance 2023 PS5 – Downloadable Code
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Use your smartphone to track moves with the Just Dance 2023 Edition Controller app – no additional accessories required!
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OHS reports hit list found in school
On Monday, Jan. 28, at about 4:30 pm, the Orange County Sheriff’s office was contacted by the assistant principal at Orangefield High School concerning suspicious circumstances.
Upon arrival at the school, deputies met with the OHS assistant principal concerning a hit list that was found in a restroom in the school. The list had several student’s names on it. OCSO investigators were able to locate the suspect in this incident and the 15 year old student admitted to writing the note. Officers were able to locate, and speak to all the kids whose names were on the note, as well as the kid’s parents, advising them of the situation.
The 15 year old suspect spoke with investigators and advised he did it as a prank, and was not planning to follow through with the threats. OHS suspended the students, and charges are pending and the investigation is ongoing.
OCSO has been providing extra security patrols and walking through all the schools in Orangefield, and other schools in Orange County, making sure the schools and students are safe.


Huawei brings cutting-edge innovative technologies to Middle East
Huawei Honor 9 officially launches in the UAE
The upcoming Huawei Mate 10 could turn everyone into a professional photographer
Smartphone manufacturers are all about bezel less displays these days, making their phones look futuristic with the edge to edge displays. Now, it looks like Huawei is joining in on the fun.
We already saw the LG G6 and Samsung Galaxy S8 launch with a bezel free design, and the iPhone 8 is set to be the same. However, reports suggest that the Pro variant of the Huawei Mate 10 will also include a bezel free display. One source suggests that Huawei is making the Mate 10 Pro with a 2:1 aspect ratio as well. On the other hand, Chinese website Zol claims that it might continue with the 16:9 ratio seen on the Mate 9.
Earlier rumors suggested that there would be both a Mate 10 and Mate 10 Lite, with a 6.1-inch and 5.8-inch screen respectively, so if this rumor is correct we may see those same size screens but with slightly different names. If a bezel free display is true, we might see the Pro with a 6.1 inch display, however, we dont know what screen tech the company will use.
The source also claims the normal Mate 10 will have a fingerprint scanner on the front of the device, like the Huawei P10, but the Mate 10 Pro will keep it on the back of the phone. Since it is a Pro variant, we might see some extra features as well.
We expect to find out all about the Huawei Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro at an event on October 16 in Munich, Germany.


GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. – Highway Patrol was investigating a three car crash on NC 68 Wednesday afternoon.
According to Trooper Knox, a Ford Explorer driven by Larry Gene Biggs, drove into oncoming traffic. The Explorer hit two other cars before driving into the railing of a bridge. The Explorer then flipped into the Haw River.
Oaks Ridge and Stokesdale Fire Departments as well as dive units found Biggs dead on the scene.
The drivers of the other two cars hit were not injured.
The accident happened near East Harrell Road in the Oak Ridge/Stokesdale area. All lanes of NC 68 reopened around 7:10 p.m.
Highway Patrol said they do not think speed or alcohol was involved, but they are looking into why Biggs crossed into oncoming traffic.


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With the siege of Ukraine escalating with more invading troops, live ordnance, and machines of war rumbling forth, a technology trench is emerging that may reshape the digital landscape many industry-watchers thought was on the horizon. Companies such as Intel, SAP, Oracle, and AMD stopped shipments of their technology to Russia or halted their operations in that country as President Vladimir Putin pushed his forces farther into Ukraine. Meanwhile, cybersecurity concerns have also escalated as fears of hackers who may have already targeted Ukraine might turn their attention to other nations that opposed the war.
Sanctions to restrict international financial transactions and other commerce with Russia have already been put to work. Now that country faces the loss of certain technology services and resources as more tech companies seek to decouple themselves from the aggressor state.
As the grim war on the ground wages on, new lines of demarcation emerge in response across the digital world. The future of greater connectivity may look drastically different than expected, says Raj Shah, head of tech, media, and telecoms for North America at digital consulting firm Publicis Sapient. The first globalization was supposed be a singular, interconnected world, he says, but China emerged as a challenger to the United States and other economically allied nation states. Now Russia’s actions may further fracture the dynamics of the digital landscape. “There does appear to be this fragmentation that’s going to start to happen,” Shah says. “It does not appear that the idea of one truly, globalized world is going to happen.”
There may be some interchanges of information in buffer zones, he says, where some technology and commerce from opposing geopolitical spheres can intersect, but there will also be cordoned-off spaces. “Two or three years ago, we may have been focused on whether there would be a Facebook or Google version of this,” Shah says. “Now we’re talking about political viewpoint versions of these types of worlds.”
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By Alex Pithua
According to the traditions of the Acholi people of Northern Uganda, when you cut down the “Yaa” trees, the rain will disappear. The “Yaa” more commonly called the Shea tree is well-known for its oil-rich seed from which Shea butter is extracted. It grows naturally in the wilds of the dry African savannah belt. Trees like it and other species such as the Mahogany tree grew abundantly once in the region but years of conflict during the LRA insurgency and later the resettlement of the land have caused changes in the landscape where these indigenous trees once flourished. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, more than 1 400 tree species are assessed as critically endangered and in urgent need of conservation action. Since 1990, it is estimated that 420 million hectares of forest have been lost through conversion to other land uses.
Research has shown that during times of war, forests are used as cover for fighting, they become danger zones where few are likely to venture if they’re not involved in the fighting. That also often means these forests are less likely to be logged or hunted in. When the fighting ends the forests are no longer seen as danger zones and an influx of people coming back to the forested areas after the conflict results in unplanned development and settlement. Forest sector manager Aswa range Jimmy Ouna says the trend of deforestation is shocking in Northern Uganda starting from the time people left IDPs camps in 2008. As people rebuild their communities the trees become a valuable resource for reconstruction as well as an income source. The once protected trees started being traded as timbers and charcoal and along with it came the uncontrolled exploitation of these natural species.
Globally, illegal logging is the leading cause of forest degradation resulting in higher levels of soil erosion, flooding, landslides and other natural disasters due to increased deforestation. Similarly, in Uganda, loggers and charcoal dealers account for a large percentage of the deforestation happening. In addition to the unsustainable practices being used to maximize profits such as removing the roots of the trees and burning all the branches, the availability of electric saws has also led to larger numbers of trees being cut down compared to when traditional hand saws are used. The effects of the deforestation are already being felt in the communities of Northern Uganda where unprecedented floods have been a frequent occurrence. Harriet Oroma, a resident of Patwol village Lavor Omor prish Palaro Subcounty explains some of the problems being experienced in the sub-county saying that “this years floods are due to mass tree cutting which has contributed to the displacement of people from their home.” She further added that community members in Palaro are now fighting environmental injustices. “The ground is bare and exposed to rain water and the trees that use to absorb rain water and act as umbrellas have been destroyed. Water streams have been destroyed by cutting the trees and therefore water is not flowing well the way it used to be.”
(Several “Yaa” or Shea Nut trees cut for logging, photo by Willy Choowo: Studies conducted by Africa Natural Resources Institute indicate that in Uganda between 2005 and 2015 areas in Northern, South-west rangeland and Western mid-altitude zones saw the most deforestation. While the South East Lake Kyoga flood plain, and Afro-montane and Karamoja were the least affected. https://www.mwe.go.ug/sites/default/files/State%20of%20Uganda%27s%20Forestry-2015.pdf )
Today environmental activists, local authorities and traditional leaders are working together to combat the continued destruction of indigenous tree species. With the support of the National Forests Authority (NFA), 4000 mahogany seedlings have been distributed in the areas of Patiko, Pawel, Angany Pawel, Ayiga, Pukony, Paibona and Awach. Jimmy Ouna, the Regional forest sector manager Aswa range, has been pleased by some of the progress being made to replace and preserve these rare species. “The community have planted them and they are protecting them well and if you come to areas of Awach, Paibona, Pukony and others you will see these trees we have planted which are distributed by the NFA.” Christopher Opio Atekere explained that over the past year in Palaro, clan members have come together to reach common ground and find solutions to what activists have termed “environmental violence”. Leaders from different clans in the sub-county were elected to help control the tree cutting in their communities. Together with the resident district commissioner of Gulu, along with officials from the chief administrative office (CAO), sub-county and the army who also joined the effort, they came up with by-laws to protect the trees. Environmental activist Rubangakene Kenneth explains how this coalition came to be. “Our cardinal role and the reasons why we decided to form this group is because we wanted to combat massive environmental violence which was being perpetuated by people who are coming from different parts of the country and neighboring Kenya.” Realizing that there were big gaps, that needed to be bridged between the actors, technocrats, the political sphere and NGOs, they started by engaging political leaders.
In discussions with the district chairman of Gulu, Honorable Martin Ojara Mapenduzi they talked about how they could work together with the district to achieve conservation goals. Another important aspect of the discussions was engaging army leaders. Several army generals and commanders were known to be charcoal dealers and facilitators of some of the destructions. Environmentalists met with Brig. Gen. Emmanuel Kanyesigye, the 4th division commander and resident district commissioner of Gulu, Major Santos Okot Lapolo to chart a way forward on how best to handle the army officers involved in the deforestation. Following these initial meetings, little had changed which led activists to begin a new course of community meetings and to conduct site visits at several of the hotspots where the environmental crimes were being committed.
(Communities outreach in Omeda trading center, photo by Willy Choowo: In both low- and high-income countries and in all climatic zones, communities that live within forests rely the most directly on forest biodiversity for their lives and livelihoods, using products derived from forest resources for food, fodder, shelter, energy, medicine and income generation. http://www.fao.org/state-of-forests/en/ )
Opinions in these meetings have been mixed with community members being divided recalls Rubangakene. “I remember the first meeting in Palaro we also had the committers or perpetuators. They were also part of the meeting I remember during that meeting, one of the women from central Uganda said Our Trees We need Answers (OTWNA) is against massive trees cutting but argued that what they are doing is not even meeting half of the demand for charcoal in Kampala, people are looking for demand and demand comes with money. At the same time, another woman also said our people are very lazy and they are just clearing the land and they are helping us and question why we are advocating for environmental protection.” Despite facing some opposition, some progress is being made. Three days after a similar meeting in Awach, the community impounded a truck full of charcoal and disarmed police officer who tried to recover the impounded truck. Rubangakene. Community elder Christopher Opio Atekere of Awach sub-county spoke about some of the measures and penalties being taken to deter the illegal logging and charcoal dealing. “People are positive about conserving the indigenous tree species. If you cut Yaa you are taken to traditional chief and you are charged 400,000 shillings, a Goat and other charges are put on you by the traditional chief.” He urged that this joint approach to conserving tree species be encouraged. “We have to combine the government laws and the traditional customs to protect the remaining natural tree species.”
(Mounds of trees being burnt to produce charcoal, photo by David Okema: Rural people often participate in the value chains of forest biodiversity, for example by collecting wood and non-wood products from nearby forests for personal use or sale, or engaging in forest-product industries or value addition. http://www.fao.org/state-of-forests/en/
Long before the development of modern forest management indigenous communities managed forests that sustained their livelihoods and cultures, without jeopardizing the capacity of these ecosystems. Over centuries, locals have used Shea trees to help identify where there was water and the Shea nuts were harvested to provide cooking oil, used medicinally and in royal ceremonies. Activists like Jimmy Ouna are passionate about advocating for the use of indigenous knowledge to help manage the disturbing trends in deforestation and while many of the leaders recognize the failure to address the issue earlier, they do agree that it’s not too late and are optimistic that the community will be able to conserve the forests and use them sustainably. The hope is that through the combined efforts of community activism and education, political leadership and indigenous knowledge the species of trees will gradually be replenished and managed sustainably, preserving them for future generations.
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We first posted Joe Bonadonna’s sword and sorcery novelette “The Moonstones of Sor Lunarum” in December 2011, and it has proven to be one of our most popular online stories. We’re proud to re-present it here as part of the new Black Gate Online Fiction library.
Long before the legendary cities of Cush and Erusabad were destroyed by war, the graveyard was old. No one knew how old the graveyard truly was, for the carvings on its headstones and markers had been long worn away by the hands of time, wind, and weather. The cemetery crouched with its dead in a hidden vale in the dark heart of Khanya-Toth, land of shadows, black magic, and creatures of the night.
A tall, slim woman sat on the opposite side of the fire, close to the entrance to her bamboo hut. She wore a black robe, her face partially hidden within its hood.
“You’ve come a long way from Valdar to see me,” she said. Her name was Zomandra Chuvai, and she was a witch, one of the Kha Jitah. She lived alone in that ancient graveyard, with only ghosts and memories to keep her company.
“We’re the Blunker boys,” Ollo said. He was all skin and bone, with a sickly yellow pallor.
“I’m well aware of who you are,” Zomandra said. “Shall we talk business?”
“The Moonstones of Sor Lunarum” is part of Joe’s first published swords and sorcery collection, Mad Shadows: The Weird Tales of Dorgo the Dowser. Read more about Mad Shadows in “Dorgo the Dowser and Me,” posted on the Black Gate website here.
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It occurred to me recently that while I have written blog posts covering some of my favourite comedians, I haven’t written any such list of my favourite TV comedies. By TV comedies I don’t mean stand-up or sketch comedy, I mean shows with storylines (however vague those storylines might seem at times). I choose not to use the word sitcom because some people associate that negatively with comedy, which is silly because every comedy with a storyline, no matter where in the world its made or set, is a sitcom. But I digress.
This list will feature a mixture of British, Australian, NZ and American comedy, so it varies in style quite a lot. Here goes, in no particular order.
30 Rock – One of my favourite shows from the last decade, this award-winning show deserves all the praise it gets. Based on Tina Fey’s experiences as a writer for Saturday Night Live, the idea of a show focused on the behind-the-scenes of such comedy and entertainment shows is simple but effective. What really makes the show is the wide array of personalities in the characters, brought to life by some (surprisingly) great acting from the likes of Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan and others. Definitely one of the more intelligent comedies to come from America this last decade. It takes a few episodes to get into but it’s worth it ultimately.
Black Books – One of the biggest cult comedy classics to come out of Britain recently (well, a decade ago but that’s still fairly recent), Black Books introduced us to Bernard Black, the grumpy drunk Irish bookstore owner on the outskirts of London, as well as his best friend Fran and bumbling assistant Manny. Only eighteen episodes across three series, every episode is amazing in its own way and even more so if you watch it in a marathon with a few bottles of wine and some good friends. Unsurprisingly, both Dylan Moran (Bernard) and Bill Bailey (Manny) have enjoyed growing success in their stand-up comedy careers since this show. One for book-lovers (and wine-lovers) everywhere.
Blackadder – Rowan Atkinson’s other famous comedy series (Mr Bean being perhaps the slightly better known one), this showed off the man’s more sarcastic side of his humour. Each series was set in a different historical period, my two favourites being the Elizabethan England era and World War I. There was even a telemovie involving time travel made as a sort of reunion one-off back in 2000, and there’s a great parody of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (and a very clever parody, I might add). Atkinson was brilliant as the ever scheming Blackadder, but Tony Robinson as his dimwitted sidekick Baldrick was just as funny – it really does take a genius to play a total idiot well. Other notable regulars included a very young Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, as well as Miranda Richardson, Tim McInnerny and in the first series Brian Blessed.
The Mighty Boosh – This unusual British comedy is one of those shows that I first saw in Australia about ten years ago late one night. After a single episode, I was both utterly confused and totally entranced and wanting more. With each series, the storylines became increasingly twisting and daring, not to mention more and more surreal, as the settings change from a dysfunctional zoo, to an apartment above a shaman’s shop, to the shop itself. But, despite this, the characters grow and develop as time goes on and you’ll soon find yourself warming to them as you sing along to some of the ridiculous songs in each episode. If you haven’t seen this, watch it in order from the first series – the second is the best but it takes a while to get used to, I think.
The IT Crowd – While many people think of The Big Bang Theory when it comes to sitcoms about nerds, for me I’ll always prefer The IT Crowd. This recent British classic comedy wrapped up last year with a one-off episode that follows from four very successful series, and centres around two young computer geeks who work in the basement of the giant building for Reynholm Industries. It also centres around their boss, Jen, who knows nothing about computers, and the big boss of Reynholm (the boss changes from season two onwards to the “son” of the boss from the first season) who is constantly trying to sleep with Jen. The storylines are sometimes absurd, but that only adds to the charm of the show in my opinion. A must-see comedy from recent years, it was created by the same person who created Black Books, Graham Linehan, for a bit of extra trivia.
Danger 5 – This bizarre Australian comedy parodies the 70s spy genre in the most unusual way – Hitler is alive in the 70s, for no explicable reason, and the show centres around a group of spies who try to stop his various plans and fail to assassinate him at the end of each episode. Some of his plans include things like, you know, bringing dinosaurs back or kidnapping an entire country – normal stuff, basically. Despite seeming over the top, this series was actually really hilarious and a pleasant surprise. I’m hoping there’s a second series coming sometime soon.
Flight Of The Conchords – In real life, Flight Of The Conchords are a NZ music duo who write comedy and parody songs, and who are both immensely talented. In the television show named after their band, they play fictionalised versions of themselves as they pretend to try and make it in New York, with little success apart from one super creepy but hilarious stalker. The first series of this is much better than the second, as the first series was written after the songs, but the second series they had to write the songs and episodes simultaneously which loses some of the magic. Still, both series are well worth watching – this show is very cool, very awkward and very funny. One for music fans everywhere, and also for both Aussies and New Zealanders (as there are so many jokes in there about the relationship between people from the two countries).
The Simpsons – This might be stating the obvious, but really I couldn’t not put The Simpsons on this list. I have grown up with this show (I am barely older than it), and despite its low points I also think it has bounced back in recent years (but everybody is too jaded from when it got bad ten years ago to try it again – seriously, watch some new episodes, they’re pretty good again now). Some of the highlights of my day on Twitter are the quotes of the day from this show (with accompanying pictures). When a show has been around this long, it’s alarming how much you can relate to it – “it’s like on that episode of The Simpsons” is a phrase I probably use too much, but I don’t care. I will always love this show, end of story. (And no, I’m not comparing it to Family Guy which I also love because that is like comparing apples and oranges).
Fawlty Towers – In Monty Python (which, due to its sketch show nature I cannot include here) John Cleese became famous for his enormous height and lanky body which he could use to great effect in sketches such as the Ministry of Silly Walks and so on. He also became known for his anger (he actually had genuine anger problems back in the 1970s mind you), and so he managed to bring hotel owner Basil Fawlty to life in a mix of rage and slapstick silliness across the twelve (yep, there’s only twelve) episodes of this classic comedy. First shown on television in 1975, the same year Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released in cinemas, this show helped take Cleese’s fame to all new levels, and for good reason. If you haven’t watched this in a while, watch it again. Trust me.
Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law – This show features Harvey Birdman, once hero of classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons from the 1960s, as a laywer who fights cases often with his old enemies as the other attorneys. The clients also come from other characters from those old cartoons (one of my favourites is The Jetsons, who inform Harvey they’re from the future, from the year 2002, as he looks at his 2004 calendar on his desk in confusion). A very clever and witty reinterpretation of old characters, this show stayed interesting and hilarious across all three series and thirty-nine episodes, and I would consider it the best of all the Adult Swim cartoons by a long shot.
And there we have it! My ten favourite sitcoms of all time, and many of these have ranked among my favourites for a very long time already so this isn’t the sort of list that is likely to change easily, either.
So, what are some of your favourites? I’d love to hear from you in the comments!


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What do you get when you take an old badminton court, improvised badminton racquets and a perforated plastic ball? Pickleball!
At least that’s what happened back in 1965 when Joel Pritchard, a Washington State congressman along with friend and successful businessman, Bill Bell, brought all that together to come up with a game for their families to play one weekend. After tinkering with net height and crafting different paddles, the game took on a life of its own and soon Pickleball was taking off.
Fast forward some 40 years and you find that pickleball is more popular than ever. Our newest preserves to jump on the pickleball bandwagon are Florida’s Three Flags and Orlando preserves as both locations now have pickleball courts. And don’t forget that the courts at Oregon’s Seaside preserve are host to a pickleball tournament each September that is sanctioned by the USA Pickleball Association.
The game, which is a cross between tennis and ping-pong, is actually easy to learn but the fast-paced action has made it a favorite among tournament sport events. Other preserves that offer pickleball include Verde Valley in Arizona; California’s Lake Minden, Oakzanita Springs, Palm Springs, Pio Pico, Rancho Oso, Snowflower, Soledad Canyon and Wilderness Lakes; St. Clair in Michigan, Ohio’s Kenisee Lake, Oregon’s Bend/Sunriver, Pacific City, South Jetty and Whalers Rest; Bay Landing, Colorado River, Lake Conroe, Lake Tawakoni, Lake Texoma and Lake Whitney in Texas; Chesapeake Bay, Lynchburg and Williamsburg in Virginia; and Washington’s Chehalis, Crescent Bar, La Conner, Leavenworth, Mount Vernon, and Paradise.
Oh, and that plastic ball the gentlemen first used – the story goes it belonged to the family dog, Pickles!
To learn more about pickleball, visit www.usapa.org.

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As another legislative session ends, the General Assembly erred in their , which will probably be erected late next summer, 2013. I voted for a floor amendment to eliminate this budget article from the budget and against the final FY13 budget which included the Sakonnet River bridge toll.
For the past 14 years as your State Senator, I have fought diligently against tolls on the Mt Hope and Sakonnet River Bridge. Unfortunately, our local East Bay Representatives and Senators were outnumbered.
In my speech on the Senate floor last night, I spoke about this unfair tax on my Tiverton constituents, who go over the bridge for work, appointments and family obligations. This toll is a barrier for all East Bay residents. Make no mistake; this is a tax on the East Bay residents. The East Bay residents pay enough taxes without a toll on the Sakonnet River Bridge. This burden should be shared with all residents of RI. Thank you to all who e-mailed or called regarding your objections.
Residents will be taxed at additional $50 to $60 because they will need an E-Zpass transponder to stay in RI ($20.95 interior or $33.04 exterior) plus maintain a $25 minimum prepaid toll amount.
RIDOT has not even initiated or completed an economic impact statement on how this toll will affect businesses in RI. We are putting the cart before the horse. How will this effect tourism in Newport and East Bay businesses? What is the traffic impact through Bristol/ Warren Route 136 for those individuals avoiding the tolls?
This toll idea needs a through comprehensive economic impact study before implementation and the governor should eliminate this toll.
Walter S. Felag, Jr.
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Though recreational marijuana is legal across California, not all Californians can easily access it. There are large swathes of the state, known as “pot deserts,” where anti-marijuana legislation bars the sale of marijuana. But legislators are looking to change this. This week, lawmakers introduced a bill that would revolutionize cannabis delivery in California.
What is a Pot Desert?
Though the West Coast may have a rep for weed, not everyone can readily partake. The Sacramento Bee issued a report that found that 40 percent of the state is 60 miles away from a legal dispensary. Just like “food deserts”—areas where grocery stores are few and far between—”pot deserts” are parts of California where patients have to travel long distances to buy cannabis.
Food deserts are often due to real estate prices or population. Conversely, pot deserts occur when local legislation prevents dispensaries from moving in. Though Proposition 64 legalized recreational marijuana, it also gave local lawmakers the ability to ban it. Numerous parts of the state exercise this right.
The Majority of Californians Have Trouble Accessing Legal Marijuana
To figure out what percentage of California has ready access to cannabis, the Sacramento Bee looked at which counties issue dispensary licenses, and which do not. Up to March of 2018, the California Bureau of Cannabis Control gave out 284 dispensary licenses.
Most dispensaries are located in urban areas. Specifically, 30 percent of Californians are 30 miles or fewer away from at least one. This accounts for the Californians who live in San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Diego. In these areas, marijuana retail is very accessible.
An additional 20 percent of lives within 30 and 60 miles of a dispensary. But 38 percent, the majority of Californians, live between 60 and 120 miles from one. This is especially true of Eastern Californians, as most dispensaries are located along the coast.
Pot Deserts Mean Poor Access To Medical Marijuana
Not only is cannabis inaccessibility an inconvenience; it’s also a public health issue. California has some of the most advanced legalization legislation in the country. This means that people suffering from a host of conditions can and do use cannabis as treatment.
And for many, cannabis isn’t just one treatment option: It’s the only medicine that works. For instance, many parents argue that cannabis is the only effective treatment for children with autism. Unlike other medications with decreasing efficacy and negative side effects, cannabis helps children with autism socialize, maintain a healthy appetite and cope with anxiety.
The scientific community is making progress in cannabis research. But if people in states like California cannot access the medicine they need, why bother with legalization?
What Lawmakers Are Proposing
This week, Democratic State Senator Ricardo Lara introduced Senate Bill 1302. This legislation would permit licensed delivery services to transport marijuana throughout the entire state. As seen with Canadian legislation, people in rural areas of the state would be able to order marijuana and have it delivered anywhere.
However, this legislation might conflict with one of the tenets of Prop. 64. According to Californian law, counties and cities can prohibit cannabis delivery from outside areas, in addition to banning the sale of marijuana entirely.
This week, this legislation is headed to the Senate Governance and Finance Committee for discussion and approval.
Will California Resolve Its Pot Desert Issue?
Only time will tell. What we do know, so far, is that though most Californians voted for legalization, some areas are staunchly anti-marijuana. Hopefully, the needs of medical marijuana patients will outweigh the demands of those who don’t want marijuana businesses ‘in their backyard’.


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After becoming the youngest mountaineer to scale Mount Kilimanjaro last year, Hyderabad boy Samanyu Pothuraju has successfully climbed Australia’s highest mountain Mount Kosciuszko.
Pothuraju, 8, climbed Mount Kosciuszko along with five other members, including his mother and sister, on December 12.
The little boy, who set a world record last year after successfully climbing Africa’s highest peak, has conquered four mountains so far. He is now gearing up to climb Mount Fuji in Japan.
Read: Hyderabad’s Samanyu Pothuraju creates new world record by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro at the age of 7
So far, I have climbed four mountains and now gearing up for Mt. Fuji in Japan. I want to be a pilot in future, he said.
Earlier in 2017, Pothuraju claimed the world record after climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in 2,281 days, beating USA’s Montanna Kenney who accomplished the task in 2,284 days.
Pothuraju says his mother Lavanya and coach Thammineni Bharath are his biggest inspirations. He was accompanied by his mother and coach when he had climbed Kilimanjaro along with a local doctor, fellow mountaineer Shangabandi Srujana and another woman.
They started the journey on March 29 and it took them approximately five days to reach a height of 5,895 meters above the sea level on April 2.
Sharing his experience while trekking to Kilimanjaro, Pothuraju said, "It was a rainy day and the road was full of stones. I was afraid and had pain in my legs, but I took rest in between and reached the peak. I like snow a lot and that is the reason I went to Mt Kilimanjaro."


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In this specialty area of physical therapy it is difficult to find, but extremely necessary in the proper rehabilitation of the athletic population. A lot of clinics claim to do “Sports PT” but fall very short of the evaluative skills, applied Kinesiology, objective and research-based progressions, multi-discipline medical model and sport specific knowledge necessary to carry out efficient physical therapy for elite athletes.
Here at Kinematics we rehabilitate a range of athletes from recreational and weekend warriors to elite professionals on a regular basis. Some of our staff has been to the big leagues themselves, the majority of our staff has played at least the collegiate level, and worked in the professional medical model.
The education taken by the professional staff, via professional board certifications and continuing education, focuses on sport. More specifically, position-specific physical demands and tasks required by each athlete. For instance, the demands of a lineman compared to a wide receiver, or a pitcher’s needs versus an outfielder, are drastically different and if not specifically treated, will leave a void in their game.
Before each athlete leaves Kinematics with our “stamp of approval” they have to pass their respective sport/position-specific functional testing to qualify for return to play. We also communicate directly with coaches, trainers, doctors, etc. during your process here to make sure that the whole team is on board with the athlete’s status.


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Just in case I wasn’t aware that I very badly need to do more birding in the Southwest, a copy of Birding the Southwestern National Parks by former Park Service employee Roland Wauer arrived in my mailbox. Now I find myself checking plane fare to Las Vegas, El Paso, and Los Angeles. This may be one of the most expensive book reviews I’ve ever written.
Anyone heading to Big Bend National Park in Texas for the first time would benefit from a guidebook to suggest ways to enjoy the park, and Enjoying Big Bend National Park, A Friendly Guide To Adventures for Everyone moves you in that direction.
The National Park Service manages over fifty sites connected with the American Revolution or Colonial America, and they offer valuable glimpses into the birth of our nation. Whether you're a serious history buff or one whose memory on the subject is a bit rusty, odds are you've never read much on that subject from the British point of view. You can bridge that gap via an entertaining and enlightening book, The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760 – 1785.
Cooking delicious camp food can be a challenge, but it's a requisite if you're going to be surrounded by happy campers at the end of the day. If you're up for the challenge, and determined to master a traditional art of cooking over an open fire, invest in a Dutch oven and a matching cookbook.
Nature's patterns can be stark and amusing, stunning, and noble. And when you look at them in black and white, devoid of color, they actually seem stronger, more pronounced. That's the effect of David Gulden's grand new book on African wildlife, a book that captures your eye and starts you dreaming about a photographic safari.
If there aren't already enough choices to make when it comes to deciding where to go in the U.S. National Park System, along comes National Geographic with its Guide to the National Parks of Canada. It's akin to rolling out the pastry cart once you've already settled on the Crème brûlée.
Floating boats down rivers came to Amos Burg almost as routine as walking down streets came to others of his generation. But was it the thrill of adventure, or the desire to be a writer of adventure tales, that motivated the Oregon man to paddle the West's major rivers?
If you're hiking across the landscape at Arches National Park, following rock cairns across the slickrock, how would you know when to turn right or left? The answer is found within the pages of Cairns: Messengers in Stone, a wonderful little book that traces the history of these rock piles.


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Today’s Bible software includes incredibly powerful tools, ready for Sunday school teachers and seminary professors alike. Bible study software can be a huge investment–with costs ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Here, we’ll take a look at the five best Bible software options available on the market today. These all run on both Mac and Windows, although the last two use emulation software to run their Windows software on a Mac, so Mac users should probably focus on the first three options.
Logos Bible Software
Logos 7 came out in Fall 2016 and works as a basic search, reading and devotional tool for the average Bible student. However, the technical tools included will make study at a scholarly level easier. In other words, a Sunday School teacher or a seminary professor will love Logos 7.
The Logos 7 Guides often wow new users. They turned me into a Logos Bible Software user more than 12 years ago. These Guides will search your library for content related to a passage of scripture or a word/topic and organize them with links to open books right to the section about your verse or topic. The video below covers the Sermon Starter Guide, used to find tools to help teacher or preachers prepare a sermon using Logos.
Other guides will help you study a passage of scripture, do quick language study, search your library for a topic and do a language word study. Users can also create their own guide and have it search the parts of your library as you prefer. The guides are like having a research assistant that collects info from your library in seconds.
Other great features that make Logos 7 one of the best Bible study tools available include:
- New Sermon Editor – create your sermons right inside Logos 7 and make the searchable in the guides when you come back to a passage mentioned in your sermon.
- Courses – video training courses that bring seminary level training to your computer thanks to the great teachers they use in these series.
- Psalms and Proverbs Explorer – great study content about these two important books of the Bible.
- Great Custom Layouts – organize the panes of your favorite tools in a reusable layout that’s easy to reload or switch between whenever you want it.
- Excellent Visuals – great visual tools like images, atlas, graphs, etc.
- Logos Home Page – a home page that shows your prayer lists, reading plans, books in your library, tutorial videos and more (see image above).
Logos also includes great mobile versions for both iOS and Android. They offer a web version if you subscribe to Logos Now or Logos Cloud. Logos 7 Base Packages range in price from $294 up to over $10,000 depending on the amount of tools you want or need. It’s pricey, but powerful.
Accordance Bible Software
Accordance Bible Software offers Mac, Windows, and iOS versions of Accordance 12 with an Android app coming soon. It’s simple enough for the Sunday school teacher and powerful enough for the seminary professor too. It also gives users a kind of research assistant in the form of the Info Pane. Open it up and see all your commentaries, dictionaries and more. The new version adds some cool features like:
- Papers – an internal word processor that makes user created resources inside Accordance.
- Stacks – collect research kind of like you were taught to do with note cards in your English class and come back to it later to organize into a Bible study, sermon or paper.
- Custom Keyboard Shortcuts – create . your own custom keyboard shortcuts
- Upgraded Timeline
- Upgraded Bibliography Tool
- Research Analytics – the visuals, like graphs and charts offers some interactive features.
See search results in visual graphs and charts. As mentioned above, these now let the user interact by clicking to get more details about the results.
Get Accordance 12 Lite to try it out and then upgrade to one of the collections. Starter Collection starts at about $60. Others range from $200 to $30,000 for everything they sell.
Olive Tree Bible Reader
If you’re looking for a simpler Bible study tool that runs on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Kindle tablets, then look at Olive Tree Bible Reader. It’s the best mobile app available, since that’s where the company started back in the PalmOS days. Few people know there’s also a basic Bible Reader online.
The Olive Tree Resource Guide is another sort of research assistant, which puts all of your library’s tools in a quick to find user interface. It includes copies of other Bible translations, commentaries, dictionaries, media books and more.
Olive Tree shows original language details in popups with tagged Bibles. You also get the Quick Detail window in the lower left corner.
BibleWorks creators use a different philosophy than most Bible software makers. Instead of a large theological library, BibleWorks focuses on great tools for Bible research and language study. You won’t find a slew of commentaries, Christian life books and whiz bang features. It’s lean and powerful.
The user-interface has at least 3 columns with a search pane on the left, the Bible Browse window in the middle and the Analysis tool on the right. You can add a fourth pane to show a 2nd Analysis window.
The search pane has tabs, so you can do multiple complex and powerful searches and save. The Browse Window shows your Bible. Toggle between Browse Mode (shows one translation with a verse per paragraph like above) or Multiple Version Mode (shows one verse in multiple translations like below).
The Analysis Window shows all your study tools. It’s a tabbed interface where you see details about the passage in the Browse window. You get language tools, search tools, the Notes editor and a built-in word processor called Editor. This is where you can find cross references and the Resources tab, BibleWorks 10’s version of the research assistant the other programs offer. The analysis tool also loads ePub formatted eBooks.
BibleWorks offers the best study notes feature of any Bible study program available. The Notes editor works like a word processor and saves in RTF files so you can get your notes out of the program and use them in a word processor.
The full version of BibleWorks 10 with most of the books they offer goes for $398. They do offer a small number of module upgrades you can add to your library. BibleWorks also partners with WORDsearch to let users open some of their WORDsearch books in BibleWorks 10.
WORDsearch 11, which is powered by LifeWay, shows up last because it’s not as potent as the above tools. The simple user-interface has three tabs including a Home tab, Study tab and Library. On the Home tab you’ll see news and deals from the company with support links to the WORDsearch website. The Library tab on the right shows your installed books in either list or grid format. Click to open them in the Study tab. Open multiple books by unchecking the box above the library which reads Switch to Study tab after opening a book. Search for titles in the search box. See the video below.
Click the Study tab or open a book with the check box unchecked and it will take you to Study. The toolbar above the book panes gives quick access to tools. The panes show your book content. Each pane also has a useful toolbar.
One of the best features of WORDsearch 11 include the NoteStack feature, which keeps track of your research ready to use after you’re done finding all the pertinent info on a passage or topic. WORDsearch 11 also has a great notes feature and built-in word processor (see below). See other great features on their site.
Buy the basic program with a few books for $40 or try WORDsearch Basic to test it out first. However, most people will want to buy one of their Libraries that start for $100 for the Teach Library and cost as much as $2000 for the Preaching Library. Once you get a library of books, you can use the My WORDsearch Bible online site, the best online Bible study site in the business. Unfortunately their iOS and Android apps are some of the least useful of the mobile versions in this roundup.
No matter what Bible software you choose, you’ll be able to do far more than you ever could with a few books and pen and paper. It’s really amazing how you’ll be able to dig in and study God’s Word!

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Biting/hitting when excited?
My son is 2 1/2. I have had many issues with him since he turned a year old. He hit all his milestones within "normal" range, but I have always always felt like something wasn't right. I've spoke to the pediatrician but get blown off saying it's behavior and discipline. I even expressed my concern of sensory issues.
My son has no regulation of emotion. He is extremely active and cannot sit still. In public, he goes from extremely friendly to screaming melt down because someone looked at him or "it's too loud". Noise is HUGE. I can tell he's getting worked up because he'll hold my hand and start swinging himself, hanging on me. He won't wear clothes and often sits crying all.day.long. I could go on and on...
I know a lot of these could be SPD or high sensitivity but is biting and anxiety part of this too or is this something different? Is this not SPD at all?
I can't play with him because when he gets excited he will suddenly punch me in the face or bite me until I bleed. When he starts getting excited, he giggles and kicks and punches. He's not being mean, but it's almost like he's so full of emotion that he's got to get it out somehow. He bites his nails down until they hurt and he seems to worry about everything or everything bothers him, cue excessive crying!!
I'm so incredibly frustrated and tired of being told I need to discipline him more or need parenting classes. Someone please tell me I'm not crazy. That this isn't "normal" behavior...

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Patton, one of the key pieces in this offseason's trade for Miguel Tejada, has said that he'll listen to the doctor's advice before determining any final outcome. The Orioles knew about his injury before the trade and had access to his medical records but believed in his potential enough to take the risk.
Locked up: Baltimore manager Dave Trembley made his strongest comments to date in favor of swingman Brian Burres, who's vying for a slot as either a starting pitcher or long reliever. Trembley said before Monday's game vs. the Dodgers that he thought Burres would be on his roster in some form or another, and he reiterated the same thought afterwards.
"I would think with what he did for us last year, he's going to factor in there somewhere for us," Trembley said after the start. "I mean, he's definitely in the mix for some role."
Burres threw two innings on Monday, allowing four hits, one run and no walks. The left-hander is one of at least five candidates for the fifth-starter job, along with Matt Albers, Garrett Olson, Radhames Liz and Hayden Penn. If Burres doesn't crack the rotation, he would compete with Albers, Lance Cormier and a host of others for the long-relief job.
"[Burres'] velocity was good," said Trembley. "I thought his changeup was probably a little too hard. The two fastballs that he tried to two-seam, he probably overthrew somewhat. They flattened out on him."
Relief review: Trembley graded out a bunch of his relievers on Monday, assessing the performances of Albers, Greg Aquino and Randor Bierd -- each of whom threw a scoreless inning in Baltimore's 4-4 tie with the Dodgers.
"Albers had late life and he had sink," he said. "Aquino had a finish pitch, and Bierd has a swing-and-miss pitch. It's kind of a combination of a split and a changeup, but he throws it hard. It's good against left-handed hitters."
Bierd, a Rule 5 Draft pick, will have to make the active roster or be returned to Detroit's organization. Trembley said that Albers, who came over from Houston in the Tejada trade, was impressive on Monday. He also said that pitching coach Rick Kranitz has temporarily stopped Albers from throwing his curveball, forcing him to rely on his slider and sinker.
"It was better today because his arm speed was quicker," Trembley said of the right-hander's sinker. "That's the report that we got on him, that he's a ground ball late-life sinkerball pitcher."
Quotable "It's like I said before: 'If you hit, we're going to try to find a place for you.' And he's doing that." -- Trembley, on Scott Moore, who had three hits and a walk on Monday
Up next: The Orioles will return home on Tuesday for a game against the St. Louis Cardinals at 1:05 p.m. ET, and they'll start former first-round pick Adam Loewen against the road team's Anthony Reyes.