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Víctor Fayad facts for kids
Víctor Manuel Federico Fayad (9 February 1955 – 7 August 2014) was an Argentine politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Radical Civic Union.
Fayad served as Mayor of Mendoza from December 10, 1987 through December 10, 1991 and again from December 10, 2007 until his death in 7 August 2014. Before being mayor of Mendoza, Fayad served in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies from December 10, 1993 through December 10, 2005.
Fayad was born in Mendoza. He was married to Marcela Pérez Caroli until his death in 2014. They had three children.
Fayad died in Mendoza, Argentina from mediastinum cancer, aged 59.
Víctor Fayad Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.

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OnePlus 5T review—An outstanding combination of specs, design, and price
After launching the OnePlus 5 earlier this year, OnePlus is back with an end-of-year upgrade for the device. The OnePlus 5T takes a winning formula—high-end specs with a low price tag and a metal body—and reworks the front of the phone to dedicate as much space as possible to the screen. This device has a new screen, a new button layout, a new fingerprint reader, and a new camera setup. It almost feel like a totally new device.
We liked the OnePlus 5 from earlier in the year, but, with the more modern design, OnePlus has fixed OnePlus 5's biggest downside. The result is something that is extremely compelling—a $500 phone that makes you question exactly why you'd give $800 to those other OEMs when this has nearly everything the more expensive phones have.


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Phoenix, AR (Top40 Charts/ M.I.L.)
The music industry will have their hands full this summer once they get a hold of independent hip-hop/ rap artist JAE E's newest hit single 'FAST MONEY' featuring the late Nate Dogg (from his debut LP Music
is Life). JAE E has been working diligently as an independent and has proved that he is ready to take the next step in his career. JAE E worked extremely close with Interscope Records producer, Fingazz and Saltmine Studio's music engineer Justin Salter, to create the perfect sound and feel for the summer. The Music
is Life project is just about complete after being under construction for last year and JAE E along music family feel that it is his time to make a lasting impression on music forever.
JAE E stated about his single, "It is truly a blessing to have this record on my debut album, I strongly believe that if people take a minute and listen, they would also agree with me that 'Fast Money' will be a summer hit!"
JAE E's debut LP MUSIC IS LIFE is scheduled to drop at the end of the third quarter 2011, which will feature top recording artist DMX, Motown/universal Record's Glasses Malone, and of course one of hip hop's greatest, Nate Dogg. Music is Life will be distributed through Warner Music Group.
M.I.L./Danny Boy Records out of Ontario, California have been the backbone throughout JAE E's growing process and strongly believe that has the tools to become something special in the music industry.
"Since JAE E has been working with M.I.L./Danny Boy Records he has been flawless in every aspect during his long haul to perfection. I have no doubt he will continue to excel as an extremely talented recording artist."
- Project Director, Jaime Avila
'FAST MONEY' is now available on iTunes!
For more information on JAE E's 'Fast Money' please refer to contact information at the bottom of this release.
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NEW CUMBERLAND, Pennsylvania –
Donnie Thompson, chief of deployments and training, DLA Distribution Headquarters has been awarded the Global Distribution Excellence David Ennis DLA Distribution Community Service Award for 2016.
Thompson was nominated and eventually selected for the award due to his selfless contributions, not just for the 2016 calendar year, but also for his many years of community service for homeless veterans and others. He exemplifies the perfect blend of dedicated civil service and community involvement. Additionally, he excels in his day-to-day work performance as the chief of deployments and training for Distribution’s J9 directorate.
“Donnie is an exceptional individual and relied upon by his community through his volunteer service as a promoter of information for veteran’s rights and benefits,” explains Ed Visker, director of Distribution’s Organizational Management and J9.
Many veterans, especially those who served in combat zones, leave the military with significant physical and emotional wounds, making the transition to civilian life difficult. Unfortunately, one of the largest groups of America’s homeless population is veterans. Thompson knows there are too many of our nation’s heroes living on the streets.
Every January, Thompson participates in a homeless veteran stand-down in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Local Veterans of Foreign Wars get together with the YWCA and the Veterans Administration and bringing veterans off the street from Friday to Sunday, feed them three meals a day and provide the opportunity to shower.
Throughout the year, Thompson participates in clothing drives and underwear and sock drops to stock up for this special weekend with the homeless vets. During the event, many veterans’ advocates are onsite to help the veterans with any issues they may have.
In July 2016, Thompson was approached to help veterans in the community of Steelton, Pennsylvania. He supported a Veterans Outreach Day at Beulah’s Baptist Church. The VFW Post 1620 from Middletown, Pennsylvania, provided the food for this event. Some state and federal veteran service officers and the PA Wounded Warrior organization were brought in to be available to any veterans struggling, or who needed to learn about their benefit entitlements.
Additionally, every December, Thompson volunteers to support the DLA Distribution Susquehanna, Pennsylvania Children’s Christmas Party. Susquehanna teams up with approximately 10 local school districts to gather names of children who come from less fortunate families. In 2016, there were over 70 children in attendance. The day is filled with activities such as face painting, games, coloring, clowns, a visit from Santa Clause and a pizza party. They also get the chance to write Christmas cards to troops who are deployed. Finally, the children are given a backpack full of gifts and escorted to their buses by soldiers and local fire fighters.
Furthermore, Thompson provided leadership, organization and action to his community for the past 12 years. Dedicated to America’s veterans, he assumed duties as VFW commander. Under his leadership, the VFW was recognized as the All American Post, which places them in the top seven percent in the nation.
“After working a full day in a very demanding position as a mobilization team lead, he spends his evening hours volunteering at his local VFW and leads the rebuilding efforts which require significant time and attention,” said Visker.
As a Gulf War veteran, Thompson considers his service and work within the community to be his purpose. He looks upon challenges as opportunities to learn and grow.
“Mr. Thompson is most deserving of this prestigious award. He is the epitome of selfless devotion,” said Visker. “He is a passionate person who constantly strives to improve the community for his fellow vets, while maintaining an atmosphere of fairness, cooperation, dignity and respect. His efforts truly represent the spirit of Mr. Ennis.”

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Blue and turquoise crystals stand out on a black leather background on this 1 1/2" wide Angel Ranch ladies' belt.
- Black gator print leather belt with silver tone studs
- Center strip contains various shades of blue crystals and turquoise colored stones
- Ball chain on edges
- Removable silver tone buckle set with clear crystals
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GLENDORA, Calif. (Feb. 7, 2014) – NHRA officials announced today that its legion of fans will have easier access than ever before to obtain live race updates, results, driver bios, schedules and more with the new release of the NHRA mobile app, set to launch today at 10 a.m.
The new app will be offered in both a 100 percent free version and a premium version. All of the features and capabilities are the same on both versions of the app, but upgrading from NHRA Mobile (free) to NHRA Premium will offer an ad-free mobile experience for the one-time fee of $2.99.
For fans who have the previous paid app, the NHRA Mobile Premium app will be updated free of charge.
The app, designed by Phunware, the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service™, will allow fans to be able to follow all of their favorite NHRA drivers as they compete for Mello Yello Drag Racing Series world championships. Fans attending one of the 24 NHRA Mello Yello Series events across the U.S. will be able to get all the information they need right from their phones – at their seats, in the pits or when they are exploring NHRA’s Nitro Alley.
Some of the great features of the new app include: live up-to-the-second timing of all head-to-head pro and sportsman races, real-time pro race results, the option of purchasing the live NHRA Audiocast as an in-app purchase, all the current videos from NHRA’s YouTube page, as well as a live feed from NHRA’s social media platforms, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The app also will display detailed NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event schedules, and make it possible for fans to purchase NHRA Mello Yello Drag Series event tickets, obtain NHRA news, articles and a full race recap from National DRAGSTER and NHRA.com. Fans can also browse pro driver profiles with career stats and driver specific news, check full updated pro points, get timely behind the scenes news and monitor driver blogs. In addition, special sportsman news updates from NHRA.com will be included, as well as an informative section called Inside the NHRA (About Drag Racing, History, Glossary & Info)
Phunware has developed mobile applications for NBC Sports, the NFL, NASCAR, Turner Networks, and E!, among others.
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), the only fully integrated services platform that enables brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime anywhere users worldwide. Phunware, The Software of Things™, has introduced category-defining experiences that challenge the outer limits of the most advanced connected devices for the world’s most respected brands and develops next-generation technologies and solutions that transform how the world interacts with and uses these connected devices. For more information, please visit http://www.phunware.com and follow us on Twitter @phunware.
Headquartered in Glendora, Calif., NHRA is the primary sanctioning body for the sport of drag racing in the United States. NHRA presents 24 national events featuring the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series and NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series. NHRA provides competition opportunities for drivers of all levels in the NHRA Summit Racing Series and the NHRA Drags: Street Legal Style presented by AAA. NHRA also offers the Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing League for youth ages 8 to 17. In addition, NHRA owns and operates five racing facilities: Atlanta Dragway in Georgia; Auto-Plus Raceway at Gainesville in Florida; National Trail Raceway in Ohio; Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis; and Auto Club Raceway at Pomona in Southern California. For more information, log on to NHRA.com, or visit the official NHRA pages on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
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Prime minister Theresa May has invited us to strengthen her negotiating position with Europe by voting for her in the UK general election on 8 June. But nobody really knows what her position is, still less how Brexit will position Britain in relation to Europe and the rest of the world.
As part of the Partitions film project, sponsored by the University of East London’s Office for Civic Engagement, UEL Journalism students are hosting, streaming and recording a panel debate on the consequences of Brexit: is it bound to be divisive, or could Britain’s exit from the European Union turn out to be constructive and inclusive?
A panel comprised of Greens, Liberal Democrats, Labour and UKIP representatives, together with East London creatives and a school governor, will answer questions posed by the student audience and by presenter Liam MacDevitt.
The full line-up is as follows:
- Paul Oakley, member of UKIP’s national executive council, barrister.
- Alan Craig, Former Christian People’s Alliance member, current UKIP member. Canning Town South Ward councillor.
- Anita Pollack, Former Labour Member of European Parliament. Author ‘New Labour in Europe: Leadership and Lost Opportunities’ . Chair Newham Fabians.
- Rachel Collinson, Green Party spokesperson for Business. General election candidate for West Ham. Board member: Unlock Democracy.
- Paul Reynolds, Liberal Democrats. Foreign policy & international economics advisor.
- Dr Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert, educator, writer, researcher. Governor at the East London Science School.
- Ana Elisa Baptista, Artist-Writer-Photographer-Videographer. Student at the University of Bedfordshire.
With such a mix of guests, the event is sure to create an interesting debate.
Everyone is welcome, so if you’re free at 6.30pm, Thursday 4 May, and you want to join a public debate on the biggest political issue in decades, come along to Room SD1.12 in the SportsDock at the University of East London, Docklands Campus.
Make sure to email Liam MacDevitt to secure your seats – places are filling fast.
The Partitions film project is a joint venture with The Samosa.

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Field Service Engineer – Switchgear and Controls Commissioning, Power Distribution – DC Area – Direct Hire
- Are you looking for a career opportunity in a very critical and stable industry - power distribution equipment?
- Do you have 2+ years of experience commissioning switchgear and controls (plc’s) in an industrial automation or datacenter environment?
- Are you able to work at customer sites up to 50% of the time in and out of the territory?
We are working with an international OEM of power distribution equipment that is searching for a Field Service Engineer on a direct hire basis in the Washington DC area that will work at the customer sites up to 50%. In this position you will perform installation and commissioning of power distribution equipment in industrial automation, industrial facilities and data centers.
Note: This position pays $35-$39/hr.; OT, full benefits, full expenses
Note: Relocation assistance to the DC area is available for the position
Main Job Functions:
- Perform the installation, maintenance and repair of mechanical, electrical and PLC components and subassemblies for the switchgear and controls for the equipment
- Commissioning of equipment on site within specifications
- Perform modification to programming of PLC’s for automation, protection or monitoring devices
- Provide preventive maintenance, field installations and repairs of the installed equipment
- Give technical product support and training
- Work with project management to select and coordinate the installation and replacement of parts
- Technical, vocational education/degree or related experience
- 2+ yrs. of experience working in a field service role with commissioning of electrical equipment
- Travel up to 50% of the time in the Washington DC Area; travel outside of the area, including international, may be required
- Must be willing to work evenings and weekends as needed
- Ability to read drawings, electrical schematics and wiring diagrams
- Experienced with switchgear and electrical controls system.
- Experienced with programming PLC’s or automatic transfer switch controls


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Don’t Be the A**hole Sports Parent
Do you ever read a news article where you’re legitimately embarrassed that it’s a real story, a real thing, and that this is something that happens on a widespread basis? You’re probably not surprised, though. There’s at least one a**hole sp0rts parent on every child’s sports team.
Honestly. Where are we as a society in North America, when our kids turn up to rinks and pitches to play a game and it’s the parents who are getting reprimands and consequences? Yet, that is exactly what is happening across the border with our neighbours to the South, to the point where, a few years back, South Carolina’s Youth Soccer Association has had to institute a ‘no cheering, no jeering,’ rule. It was so necessary to tell these parents to pipe down, that parents can’t even cheer their own kids.
And let’s not point fingers at our U.S. counterparts and feel a sense of pride that it’s not us. It is us. I’ve seen it. If your kids play recreational or competitive sports, you’ve probably seen it too. My friend shared a story on Facebook of a parent losing it on the soccer field at the coach because his kid was given a penalty. The child is seven years old. The parent reacted like a 6-year-old. The coach he yelled at, was a parent volunteer.
Get it together people!
In South Carolina, parents will get the boot from the field if they don’t smarten up and shut up. According to CNN, of the 1,200 referees in the state, over 500 are under the age of 17. In other words, almost half of the refs getting yelled at by parents, are kids themselves.
CNN went on to report that, while the number of kids wanting to play soccer continues to go up every year, the number of referees isn’t following suit.
“Those who’ve called it quits say the biggest reason is the heckling from spectators. ‘They don’t want to go out there for 20 bucks and get yelled at for an hour’,” Bob Correia, a 30-year soccer vet told CNN.
Is the answer a dead-quiet soccer field? That seems kind of depressing to this mom who loves screaming “Go Zach!” when my 6-year-old gets up to bat and enjoys cheering him on as he runs bases and yelling ‘good try!’ when he’s tagged out. Part of the fun of the game is being able to root for our kids. But if parents can’t control themselves, what is the answer? Security guards on site removing people every week?
What lessons do we want our children to learn when they are out in the field? I don’t think we want them to play in silence because their parents can’t be trusted to control themselves. But we certainly don’t want them to see 16-year-old coaches getting yelled at by a teammate’s mommy.
My kids are still young; my oldest is 8 years old. But I already see it. One mom stood behind a 6-year-old batter at my son’s game the other week, giving him a million pointers, yelling corrections at him, distracting the poor kid. When the coach tried to intervene and give his own pointers, she yelled back “I got this.” Then you coach the team! Otherwise, sit down.
These parents, the ones who would charge a field and yell at a teenager, need to remember that our kids are likely not heading to the FC or the NHL or the NBA. These games are supposed to be fun. The only thing less fun than not winning is having your parent humiliate themselves, and you, by losing their mind at the game.
Maybe quieting the field will stop the yelling, but it won’t teach anyone anything other than that. If adults can’t control themselves, someone will have to do it for them. It won’t speak to the root of the problem which is that an a**hole sports parent at these games seem to forget rules of decorum and decency.
This isn’t about sports. This isn’t about competition. It’s about adults needing to act like adults so that their kids can be kids.


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Bolivia Going to Laguna Hedionda
- Please to see the geo position & weather for this photo spot
The road that goes from Tayca del desierto to Laguna Hedionda is not easy but fascinating. The group of 4 lagoons, including Hedionda, gives many photo opportunities.
Pleaseto see the photography tips.
The road is very bad, only for 4x4 vehicles

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Another goodie! This is lovely! Both equally blueberry and pom without being tart! YUM!!!!!
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Organic white peony hand blended with whole blueberries and pomegranate essence.
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Mmm lovely. I was going to come on here and say I haven’t really tried any new teas, and it’s true. I’ve had this before but I haven’t written anything about it! I picked this up at the beach a few months ago, at a little tea and beer house I hope made it through Sandy. It was a cool place!
Anyway, this tea is delicious. Light and fruity with the white peony shining through, how I like my white tea. It’s gorgeous to look at as well. Probably very good iced! The pomegranate is the main fruit flavor, but the blueberry is definitely there. Not tart, lightly sweet. Very tasty, and I know it brews a decent second cup from experience.
Tea: about 3 teaspoons
Water: 16 oz

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Murano glass necklace, Venice/Murano, early 2005.
Length 47 cm.
Weight 100 grams.
Beads no.: 26
Necklace with rare satin Sommerso beads in 24 kt gold, made in Murano. Gold-plated silver hooks. Pandora beads are also gold-plated silver. Great idea for a gift. Shipped in its case.
Beads are handmade, each bead is unique in its creation. With manufacturer certificate.
With case. Ready for tracked shipping.
- Necklace with satin glass beads
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By Michael Flanagan
Hometown Weekly Sports Editor
Two Cinderellas met on the turf at Whitman-Hanson High School on Saturday afternoon as the No. 11 Walpole Rebels took on the No. 10 Westwood Wolverines in the Division II South semifinals for boys soccer.
The Rebels (7-6-4) entered the contest after knocking out No. 6 Oliver Ames, the same team that ended their 2017 season, with a 2-1 first-round victory. The win was followed by a thrilling 1-0 triumph over Milford, thanks to a late goal by senior captain Aidan Murray.
Meanwhile, the Wolverines (9-6-2) headed to Whitman-Hanson following a thrilling 3-2 win over rival Medfield in the first round, followed by a 3-2 win at top-seeded New Bedford in the quarterfinals.
Despite being in different conferences (Westwood resides in the TVL, while Walpole competes in the Bay State Conference), there was no love lost between these two adjacent rivals, many of whom grew up playing club soccer with or against one another.
Following a scoreless first half that saw each team play extremely conservatively, Murray drew first blood for the Rebels with a goal off of a corner kick less than two minutes into the second half. Walpole lead 1-0 with 38:09 to play.
Less than two minutes later, Conor McDonough doubled Walpole’s lead to 2-0 with a goal in transition following a big save and clear by Rebels senior keeper and captain, Dennis Crowley.
Following a Westwood timeout to settle things down, Kevin Lyons responded for the Wolverines, taking a pass from Mike TeDuits on a free kick and hammering home a goal upstairs with a right-legged boot to make it a 2-1 game with 30:18 to play.
With around 20 minutes to play, Joshua Morrison-Deutsch broke in for Westwood on a fast break and fired a shot destined for the left side of the cage. Crowley sprawled to his left, made the incredible save and covered the ball up to preserve the one-goal lead.
The game remained 2-1 until stoppage time, when Pat Sullivan headed home a goal off of a net-mouth scramble to deliver the dagger, giving Walpole a commanding 3-1 advantage. The clock hit zeroes and Walpole advanced to Monday’s sectional final with the 3-1 victory.
“It’s amazing just to see how far we’ve come,” said Murray following the thrilling win. “We needed to get five points in our last three games just to get into the tournament. We did that, and now we’re here, it feels awesome.”
Murray also have high praises to his fellow captain and Walpole keeper, Dennis Crowley.
“He’s shown all season long that he’s one of the best keepers in the state,” said Murray. “He comes up big for us every game with huge saves and he brings great leadership to the table. We’ve learned to expect big things from him and he showed why today with those saves late in the game.”
Walpole head coach Lee Delaney says he was impressed with his team’s response during the second half.
“I thought we were playing well in the first half, we just weren’t making good decision with the ball,” said Delaney. “The second half, we were a little more aggressive, we limited our mistakes, and found the back of the net three times with good execution. It was nice to see.”
Like Murray, Delaney also says that the success of Walpole’s throughout the regular season and postseason has been thanks, in large part, to the play of Crowley.
“Dennis [Crowley] is a rock back there,” said Delaney. “He was our rock all year long. The one constant for us was Dennis Crowley, best goalie in the league. He gave us an opportunity to put it away with some late saves and on that second goal he came up big, got it up the field, and the guys in front of him executed well to bury one to put us up two. That was a huge swing, because it could’ve just as easily gone to a 1-1 game instead of 2-0 if Dennis isn’t back there.”
On Monday in the South finals against top-seeded Nauset Regional (18-0-0), Walpole’s incredible run came to end with a tough 2-1 defeat, despite a 10-save effort by Crowley. John Brady had the lone tally for the Rebs.
For funny and incisive sports analysis, follow Mike Flanagan on his personal Twitter at @fLAno0.


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OUR STORY OF ORIGIN
Passion : Purpose
Our goal is to welcome all who feel the brave, wonderful and whole-heartedly, fierce call to say yes to adventure with Sacred Sojourn. We welcome into our little world of magic and heart. Take the leap, show up and be an incredible inventor among your life's pages as they turn and unfold.
We lead events around the United States, however we love exposing people to the greater world stage. Sometimes, we find the deeper we travel outside of ourselves and our comfort zones, the more we can welcome in all humanity has to offer.
We focus on bringing an incredible adventure of love, fun and mystery where each retreat experience can ultimately deliver a positive experience for all. This is intended to be life-changing, thrilling, heart-centered and the experience you have been dreaming of. Throughout these soulful quests, people are brought to deeper moments within themselves, which often requires a little digging and awareness.
As we dive deeper into ourselves, we come to the root and heart, the freshest part of who we truly, spiritually are. From this dynamic leap of faith into heart-centered living, we connect to others, we commit to our growth and learn to live in harmony with our surroundings. This is the way of the soul, safe to express, love and learn from all life's mysteries and teachings. When residing here, we have a chance to become incredibly aware of the things that light us up, that set us on fire and we become connected to our passion. When we are connected to our passion, we are connected to our purpose.
More about the Founder of Sacred Sojourn /
I am an artist, published author, speaker and coach, I have been honored and blessed to work on creative projects with people, businesses and organizations worldwide over the last decade. With a focus in connection, empowerment, mindfulness, and adventure, I devote my work to providing experiences that introduce others to the path of belonging and whole-hearted living. Passionate about bringing people together and the incredible art of sacred space-holding, it is my deepest intention to web soulful matter and pure heart into all my offerings.
- Adam Rumi


It’s a question, I guess, that anyone would ask, but it must drive bands mad: “how do you feel your new stuff differs from your other work?”
The fact is, that every band (yes, even Shinedown) tries to put out the best thing they can. And they are probably the worst people to critique it, given their close bond with it.
Yet, given that “Testify” is the first song from a new album, it’s the obvious one to ask: “Saving Grace….. has a more upbeat rock feeling than We Fly Free,” says Aaron Bond, one half of When Rivers Meet. “We were very conscious when we started to record this album that’s the direction that we wanted to move in, and it was exactly the kind of result that [we] wanted to achieve.”
He’s right, too. But he’s missed one crucial thing. The way it swings, the soul with which it grooves. On this one Grace Bond (the other of the unbreakable Bond’s as it were) is like a Fire And Brimstone preacher leading her congregation at the pulpit. She roars the last chorus, is if it were an instruction. “You’ll make God insane” she sings it seems, over a primal beat.
And speaking of that beat, the thing begins with a riff more akin to the Garage Rockers than the Mississippi Delta. A comparison with White Stripes would be lazy, of course, but lets just say it’d take a Seven Nation Army to hold this back….
The other thing about “Testify” is if you look for the track list of the new record, its in the middle. Unusual for the lead single to take up such a spot, but maybe it signifies that this is a centrepiece of the brave new(ish) world?
We’ll have to see I suppose, but make no mistake about this, “Testify” is a huge statement of intent.


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“So I do have an aspiration to make sure that we can increase the numbers of troops through the rotations. The air capability will be enhanced, our maritime capability enhanced, and certainly the force posture enhanced. And if that includes basing and includes the storage of different ordnances, I think that is in Australia’s best interest, in our national interest, at this point in time.”
With those words Defence Minister Dutton, standing with Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne, acknowledged that AUKUS was about more than submarines and technology transfers.
While Dutton spoke of ‘aspirations, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin was more direct: “…that will expand our access and presence in Australia” and while he and Dutton stressed that there was no quid pro quo arrangement, this was about as honest as the claim that AUKUS was not about China.
There are currently about 2000 US troops stationed at Robertson Barracks in Darwin. Recent upgrades and extensions have increased the size of the base to cater for an estimated 4500 troops and further upgrades are already in the pipeline in preparation for the increased troop numbers.
Both Dutton and Austin stated that Force Posture Agreement entered into by the Gillard Government in 2011 would be expanded: this means that there is no reason to believe that US troop deployments will be confined to Darwin, particularly with the aforementioned possibility of HMAS Stirling being upgraded to accommodate lend-lease LA Class SSNs.
Minister Dutton also spoke of hosting “different type of ordnance” in Australia, which is possibly referring to former US Defence Secretary Mark Esper’s comments about hosting weapons in the region. hypersonic weapons but may also be referring to nuclear weapons being based here.
It is worth noting that while all three nations have stressed that AUKUS would not include Australia developing nuclear weapons, not a word was said about Australia not hosting them.
The increasing storage of different types of ordnance, the increased visits of all kinds of aircraft and ships leans us towards the fear that Australia will openly host nuclear weapons in the near future. Currently the US policy of ‘neither confirm nor deny’ the presence of nuclear weapons on its ships and aircrafts is nothing more than an opening for plausible deniability. There is no way that a nuclear military will bring its platforms halfway round the world only to return home if and when they need nuclear weapons: we already allow nuclear weapons to pass through Australia as long as they stay on board US platforms, although we pretend to not know this; openly hosting nuclear and hypersonic weapons takes our engagement with a nuclear armed army one step further.

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LG making the next Nexus smartphone?
Each year, Google comes out with a new Nexus smartphone. That’s happened four times already, and there’s really no reason for us not to expect it to happen again in 2013. The big question, though, is this: who will make the Nexus 5 (or whatever else it will end up being called)?
So far, HTC, Samsung (twice), and LG have been chosen by Google to make the hardware for the showcase smartphone for Android. And LG could be in for a double performance, following in the footsteps of fellow Korean company Samsung.
At least that’s what The Korea Times reports today, in an article about Google CEO Larry Page and his recent visit to the country. Apparently LG is destined to make the next Nexus handset. That’s all the info we get right now. Of course, if this pans out, it’s big news as it looks like Google was so satisfied with the Nexus 4 that it demanded a sequel from LG.
LG also wants to cooperate with the Californian search giant in other spaces, most notably Google Glass and Web-connected TVs (running Google TV, naturally). The Korean company wants to work more closely with Google on ‘futuristic’ projects as well. The partnership may also result in a Google-ified OLED TV at some point in the future.
LG struggled to make a mark on the smartphone space for many years, but it’s on the right track now. As of Q1 this year, all its numbers are up and it seems like some healthy growth will follow. This will undoubtedly be helped by the manufacture of the next Nexus smartphone.


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During my tenure in Congress, the preservation of historically and environmentally significant land has been an important concern for me. My legislation to expand the Battlefield Acquisition Grant Program, which passed in the House, is awaiting action in the Senate. The bill would help organizations acquire funding to preserve Revolutionary War and War of 1812 sites in the United States. Hundreds of battlefields and associated sites need to be preserved, many in New Jersey.
|Rep. Rush Holt receives the Preservation Leadership Award from Jim Lighthizer, President of the Civil War Trust, and Civil War Trust Board Member Bill Vodra|
To hold these two relics from a key moment in our American story is to feel the weight of history and understand the need to protect our historical sites.
Common Sense Reform
Last week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he would be stepping down after almost six years as our nation’s top law enforcement officer. He has some important actions and positions to point to. During his tenure the Department of Justice has fought to uphold the civil liberties of LGBT citizens, has defended the right of all Americans to vote, and has protected immigrants from harassment. While I felt he could have done more on issues like the NYPD’s warrantless surveillance of Muslim Americans, he has “done much to make real the promise of our democracy” as he said when announcing his resignation.
Just this month, the Attorney General announced that for the first time in 34 years, the federal prison population has actually decreased by 4,800 inmates. While the United States encompasses five percent of the world’s population, we imprison almost 25 percent of the total global prison population. An important factor in this change has been the Attorney General’s efforts to reduce mandatory minimum sentences, which I have long opposed because they discount mitigating factors in crimes and are discriminatory towards people of color.
We must also take other sensible steps to reform our broken criminal justice system. Senator Cory Booker has introduced the REDEEM (Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment) Act to give individuals convicted of non-violent crimes a second chance.
The Most Powerful Instrument Devised By Man
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson said that "the vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice." September 23rd commemorated National Voter Registration Day. Here in New Jersey the deadline to register to vote in the general election in November is October 14th. If you have not yet registered to vote, I encourage you to click here.
We must all remember that our duty does not stop with registration. Voter turnout is about 14 percent lower in non-Presidential election years (like this one) than when the office of the President is on the ballot. I understand that citizens are often busy and distracted, and sometimes unsure or confused about the candidates, or just plain cynical, but we must try to get all to exercise the most basic part of citizenship. Also, we in government must work to ensure that all eligible voters have good access, and that all votes are counted reliably and verifiably.
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B.C. NDP candidate Spencer Chandra Herbert is calling on Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson to fire a candidate who voted against a rainbow crosswalk in Langley.
Chandra Herbert said, in a news release Tuesday, that if Wilkinson wants to live up to his promise that there is no room for homophobia and transphobia in his party, he should fire Langley East candidate Margaret Kunst.
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Kunst, who is a Township of Langley councillor, voted against a rainbow crosswalk at a Langley Council meeting last week.
Chandra Herbert says the crosswalk was supported by both the RCMP and the local school board as a show of support for vulnerable LGBTQ youth and the wider community.
“LGBTQ children and youth continue to face discrimination and harm, and rainbow crosswalks are a symbol for a safe and welcoming community,” Herbert said in his statement. “There is no way to justify voting against this project in 2020. Andrew Wilkinson needs to stand for human rights, and fire his candidate immediately.”
Kunst has not responded to a request for comment.
But Wilkinson, speaking at a news conference, said it was his understanding that Kunst was voting on a procedural issue, and she has committed to the party’s stance on homophobia and transphobia.
“There is no room in British Columbia, and certainly not in my party, for discrimination based on age or gender, sexual orientation, religion, race. Those things are wrong and they will always be wrong in my party,” he said.
Wilkinson said Kunst has told him that she shares the same view that there is no room for discrimination.
Wilkinson did not elaborate on what he meant by procedural issue, but a video shows councillors voting on a resolution “that permission be granted for the installation of a rainbow crosswalk on Township of Langley property, as necessary at the requested location of the existing crosswalk at 222 Street between SD35 and the RCMP detachment, at no cost to the township.”
Kunst and two other councillors raise their hands in opposition to moving forward with the rainbow crosswalk.
This summer, the Vancouver Pride Society threatened to ban the B.C. Liberal party from the virtual Pride Parade unless they took stronger action against advertising in a magazine regarded as homophobic.
The move was in response to a report in the Press Progress news service which said the Liberals had spent more than $1,700 advertising in The Light , a “Christian community lifestyle” magazine based in Langley.
The report highlighted how The Light ran an article sympathetic to conversion therapy, the notion that sexual orientation can be changed via methods discredited as unscientific and potentially harmful.
Wilkinson responded by saying that “there is no room in the B.C. Liberal party for homophobia, transphobia or any other form of discrimination. We are taking immediate steps to ensure our advertising decisions reflect those values at all times.”
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Timberlawn Behavioral Health System was founded in 1917. Over the years it specialized in treatment of mental issues at children and young adults.
Complaints has been public almost since the start of the common use of the Internet. In 2017 the state suddenly became aware that there was a problem and it led to the closure of Timberlawn in 2018. It could not have been fun to be there as a patient.
- ‘Immediate jeopardy’: How safe are kids at state-monitored Timberlawn psych hospital? (The Dallas Morning News)
- Dallas Timberlawn psychiatric hospital has run out of second chances (The Dallas Morning News)
- Timberlawn Mental Health System (UHS Behind Closed Doors)
Nichols School is located in Buffalo, New York.
An investigation is ongoing as it has been revealed that several teachers had improper relationships with students.
It cannot be fun to attend this school and not get the special attention of the teachers if you want it. It also cannot be fun to attend this school if you get special attention from the teachers and you do not want it.
- Nichols probe: Loophole doesn’t require private schools to report sexual misconduct (Buffalo News)
- ‘I was an immature girl with a crush’: Woman reveals how she had sex with her physics teacher, 48, when she was just 17 at exclusive $22,000 a year prep school where TEN teachers have been accused of sexual misconduct (The Daily Mail)
- TEN TEACHERS AT PRIVATE SCHOOL HAD ‘IMPROPER’ RELATIONSHIPS WITH STUDENTS OVER DECADES (News Week)
Beecholme Children’s Home was founded in 1879. For the last couple of years an investigation has been ongoing into possible abuse conducted against the children in the years between 1957 and 1974.
It could not have been fun to be there as a child.
- Beechholme (Wikipedia)
- HOUSE OF HORRORS Cops investigate children’s home ‘where at least 118 kids were beaten and tortured over two decades’ (The Sun)
- Institutional Child Abuse – Beecholme childrens home – Surrey (The UK & Ireland Database for crimes against kids.)
Seton Keough High School started as St. Joseph School of Industry in 1865. It was closed late 2017.
Father A. Joseph Maskell was a priest at the school in the 1960s and 1970s. For years he was able to secure abuse of girls by playing counselor. None questioned his work at the school. When evidence became too much, he moved on. In the end he had to emigrate to Ireland where he continued to work without any investigation done until he died a decade ago.
A lot of his former victims came forward. Some of the testimonies can be seen on the Netflix documentary “The Keepers”. As renaming a school is no longer a way to escape bad reputation the school closed in 2017 despite the fact that the present students sounded happy about their stay.
However the school never dealt entire with their past. For many years the abuse done by Maskell was covered up. The persons who did the cover-up remains to be investigated. It could not have been fun to be a teenage student there in the past.
- Before ‘The Keepers,’ My Mother Was One Of Father Maskell’s Victims (The Huffington Post)
- Did the Catholic Church Get Away with Murder? (Rape victims of the catholic church)
Kazenoko Gakuen also known as School for Children of the Wind, on Kosagi Island in Japan became known to the public when 2 students died of heatstroke after they were locked into a container as punishment for their behavior in school.
That is an awful slow way to die.
It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.
- STUDENTS PUNISHED TO DEATH\ TWO LOCKED-UP TEENS DIE OF HEATSTROKE (News & Record Greensboro, The associated press)
- Deadly discipline targeted (The Daily Reporter from Greenfield,)
In 2002 a number of teachers at this reform school was arrested due to allogations of violence conducted upon the teenagers contained at the facility.
One of the sources states:
One of them is suspected of showering a 17-year-old boy with cold water and forcing him to wear a paper diaper in front of his friends.
Another allegedly shoved a detergent container into the mouth of a 16-year-old boy, saying, “Swallow this and die.” A third allegedly hit a 17-year-old in the face, kicked him and then caused him to become incontinent by refusing to allow him to use the bathroom.
It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager
Ai Mental School was a the time of the sources placed in Nagoya, Japan.
The employees were arrested after a 26 year old man died after he was handcuffed and forced to the facility. Teenagers were found at the school which seemed to specialize themselves in confining people urged by the families of the victims.
It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.
- Nagoya NPO head held over captive’s death (The Japan Times)
- Totsuka Yacht School case illuminates the problem of reform schools: “Lord of the Flies” institutionalized? (Education in Japan Community blog)
Wellspring Academy in Sutherlin, Virginia was closed in 2003. The owner Bob Gluhareff shot himself after he was sentenced to prison
A local newspaper wrote:
And Bob Gluhareff, who had headed the now defunct Wellspring Academy in the Sutherlin community for disturbed youth, was sentenced to 30 months in jail and ordered to pay $500,000 in restitution. The sentencing came after Gluhareff had been charged with 53 counts of tax, wire, mail and bank fraud back in 2006. However, earlier this year, he had pleaded guilty to two charges of bank fraud and one each to mail and tax fraud.
It is safe to say based on the ruling in the court that it could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.
- Wellspring Academy, Bob Gluhareff, Cindy Thomas, Chris Chris (Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora)
- News and Record
Piedmont Behavioral Health Center is a residential treatment center in Leesburg. An article states that the facility is used as a store room for teenagers in the foster care system where teenagers are moved around without a long-term plan.
November 2017 a teenager was found dead at the facility. Something indicate that it cannot be a fun place to be as a teenager.
- Outsourcing Troubled Kids (The Washington City Paper)
- Admissions at North Spring health facility halted after resident’s death (Loudoun Times-Mirror)
Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch claims that they have changed over the years and that is good because it was a bad place in the past. Abuse – even sexual – among the children, violence committed by adults is just some of the issues, the teenagers in the past had to deal with.
Now they even want to name a dorm after one of the persons who was responsible for the violence. Was it not better that they named it after one of the persons who sought to that the place was regulated by the legislation ending the abuse?
Safe to say that it was not a fun place for a teenager to stay in the past.
- AGN EXCLUSIVE: Former Congressman Bill Sarpalius details suffering abuse at Boys Ranch (Amarillo Globe News)
- Amarillo-area Boys Ranch apologizes for decades of physical, sexual abuse of at-risk youths (Dallas News)
- Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch acknowledges, apologizes for decades of physical, sexual abuse (Lubbock Online)


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When I was 18 and in the Vietnam War, I couldn’t drink legally. I remember an editorial cartoon depicting GIs in a foxhole, bombs bursting in air, and one saying to the other, “If I couldn’t drink, then why am I here to die?”
The cartoon brought a brief, knowing smile to my young face, knowing well that, worse, I couldn’t vote myself out of the war, either. You had to be 21 to vote and to drink, yet most of my bros were my age or not much older. We knew the law, but we also knew how to get fired up while “in country." We all needed numbing to get through that unreal, and no one asked for our IDs back then, not that it mattered.
Years passed, and I moved on from Thunderbird -- the vintage of black choice in ‘Nam -- to Boone’s Farm, then onward to something with a cork. In between, there were some name brands as I grew toward sanity after a tour of the duty with Uncle Sam.
Strange how Election Day brings out the patriotism and memories in me. Today I wore my Vietnam veteran baseball cap while waiting in line to vote. I never said a word to my fellow Americans, except to the poll workers when required. I heard my companions banter about Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, same-sex marriage laws and legalized gambling in Maryland.
And I silently rejoiced. For I made their banter possible. I stood there, knowing they were free because I did what was asked of me when I was but a child. I enlisted in the U.S Air Force at exactly 17 years and 9 months old; I needed my parents’ signatures to enlist, and they grudgingly signed.
It was the best move of my life.
Back then, I began to learn how to survive in an unfair world. I learned how to communicate in spite of ignorant and intolerable rants from folks who thought themselves superior in rank, intellect, good manners and beyond. I learned about hate and rage and heroic acts that ultimately bested the former.
Reflecting on that young life brought forward through the crucible of war and a career in public service through the art of journalism, I understand the cries of democracy and the unrelenting forces that seek to mute it.
I remain a warrior for good thoughts and deeds. Today, while waiting in line, I changed my vote to allow children of illegal immigrants to receive low-cost college tuition. That’s because I saw a young Latino couple cradling their playful infant daughter. They too had come to vote.
They, too, are part of my America. I figured that out while waiting in line. I changed my mind because I can.
Because I am an American.


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Alimardani P, et al. (2004) SUT1-promoted sterol uptake involves the ABC transporter Aus1 and the mannoprotein Dan1 whose synergistic action is sufficient for this process. Biochem J 381(Pt 1):195-202
Abstract: Efficient sterol influx in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is restricted to anaerobiosis or to haem deficiency resulting from mutations. Constitutive expression of SUT1, an hypoxic gene encoding a transcriptional regulator, induces sterol uptake in aerobiosis. A genome-wide approach using DNA microarray was used to identify the mediators of SUT1 effects on aerobic sterol uptake. A total of 121 ORFs (open reading frames) were significantly and differentially expressed after SUT1 overexpression, 61 down-regulated and 60 up-regulated. Among these genes, the role of the putative ABC transporter (ATP-binding-cassette transporter) Aus1, and of the cell-wall mannoprotein Dan1, was characterized better. These two genes play an essential role in aerobic sterol uptake, since their deletion compromised the SUT1 effects, but individual overexpression of either of these genes in a wild-type background was not sufficient for this process. However, constitutive co-expression of AUS1 and DAN1 in a wild-type background resulted in sterol influx in aerobiosis. These results suggest that the corresponding proteins may act synergistically in vivo to promote sterol uptake.
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‘Grant Wood: A Life’ by R. Tripp Evans
Author: James Polchin
September 29, 2010
One of the most famous paintings of the 20th century is Grant Wood’s “American Gothic.” Since its unveiling in 1930, it has achieved an international status—both admonished and celebrated, dismissed and parodied.
The work is a dour portrait of a farmer and his daughter standing in front of a neo-gothic farmhouse in Iowa. The daughter’s sullen look is echoed in her father’s direct but blank gaze, pitchfork in hand looking not the least bit amused.
In the midst of the Great Depression, the painting quickly became an image for all things American—hardworking, simple farming folks—and has often maintained this status over the years by conservatives seeking to define American character.
Another intriguing quality of Wood’s painting is how, through its popularity and parodies, the portrait of father and daughter has been transformed into a tableau of matrimonial wholesomeness and heterosexual American-ness.
Yet, as R. Tripp Evans shows in Grant Wood: A Life, Wood was a reluctant artist for the values of mid-western heterosexual values. The life of Grant Wood has often been eclipsed by his paintings, leaving him a constant enigma in the history American art.
Evans unravels the strings of myth and invention that wrapped around Wood during his life and particularly after his death. As Evans shows, conservative critics of the 1930s, his sister Nan (who was the model for the daughter in “American Gothic”), and Wood himself fostered an image of the artist as a simple, farmer’s son, made up of one part folksy innocence, one part unpretentious farmer, and two parts masculine, heterosexual artist.
It’s this latter quality that Evan’s explores throughout the biography, considering the ways that Wood’s homosexuality was buried behind the personae of a man who painted in overalls and rejected any influence of European aesthetics (despite having lived and studied in 1920s Paris). As one critic wrote in an attack on European modernism, “Wood is calling us back to . . . simplicity, and even hardness.”
Evans does excellent work at interpreting the often unnoticed or ignored homoeroticism that permeates Wood’s paintings. He is a deft interpreter of Wood’s images that shows us new ways of looking at the work. At times, he strays too far into Freudian inspired readings of both the paintings and the life that distract more than they illuminate.
However, Evans is best as cultural historian, when he situates Wood in the battles over art and the artist in the 1930s that were often pitched as battles over national character, with gender and sexuality at the heart of these crusades. For decades, Wood’s paintings have been dismissed or celebrated as icons of conservative ideals, chiefly because of Wood’s involvement with the regionalist movement in the 1930s. As a backlash to a “sissified” art of European modernism, the regionalist movement, including Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and the art critic Thomas Craven, emerged as a nationalistic, albeit short lived, faux aesthetic.
Regionalism exposed a deep contempt for European art, for the gender bender decadence of the Left Bank, and called instead on a nationalist aesthetic that explicitly rejected the “hymns to homosexuality” as Craven called them, that “emasculate[d] American art.” Critics of regionalism condemned its conservatism in both art and social ideals. But a reluctant Wood found a national stage in this movement that valorized red-blooded, patriotic hardness against “hothouse aesthetes” and fostered in Wood an invention of himself that mediated private desires and public persona.
Indeed, as Evans argues, not only for Wood but also for Benson and Craven as well, regionalism “provided a convenient closet for artists or critics.”
What you won’t find in this biography that focuses on Wood’s homosexual desires is any actual homosexual activity. Any evidence of Wood’s desires for men remains in the suggestive, in the interpretation of his relationships, in the homoerotic imagery of his paintings. Though critics have questioned his sexuality from the beginning of his career, there are no letters or journals to confirm or deny Wood’s homosexuality.
Instead, Evans presents an artist whose homosexuality was an open secret that he feared and embraced throughout his life among his fellow artists, his colleagues at the University Iowa where he taught painting, and even his short-lived marriage in the 1940s to a widow 13 years his senior. But as so often happens with open secrets, their elusiveness becomes their most powerful reality.
In the end, Evans has given us a portrait of an artist that, like his famous painting, has been reinvented and misunderstood for decades.
by R. Tripp Evans
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Death of a Hero: Captain Robert Nairac, GC and the Undercover War in Northern Ireland, by John Parker, Metro, $29.95.
A journalist and author of SBS: The Inside Story of the Special Boat Services, John Parker has written a highly informative and interesting book about British army covert operations in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. It is a tale about a period that will go down in history as among the darkest days of violence and terror in the six counties of Northern Ireland governed from London. Parker relies primarily on extensive eyewitness accounts of participants to tell his story, a practice that seems to work well. Some unnecessary repetition in providing the background to the troubles in Ulster constitutes this reviewer’s chief complaint.
One of the most worthwhile facets of the book is the author’s running description of London’s complex intelligence system in Northern Ireland. By Parker’s reckoning, the British army had about three hundred of its personnel in Ulster performing agent handling, clandestine surveillance, and other undercover-type activities in 1977, the year Captain Robert Nairac was captured and later executed by the Irish Republican Army. These intelligence personnel were gaining information for use by both Britain’s 14,500 troops in Northern Ireland and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). Parker also describes the assignments of Britain’s MI-Five and MI-Six, the rough equivalent of America’s FBI and CIA, and he touches on the RUC’s own intelligence arm, likely the most effective of all these security services.
Another informative part of this book is Parker’s handling of Britain’s counterrevolutionary warfare doctrine. He sketches the legacy of colonial internal security and control methods, the initial period of trying to keep Northern Ireland’s streets safe in 1969-72, and the evolution of more sophisticated and effective methods by 1977.
Additionally, the author briefly describes technology that the British army used during these difficult years, including electronic surveillance equipment, night-vision gear, directional microphones, and the gallium arsenide laser with opto-electrical linkage, which could pick up conversations from voice vibrations on distant windowpanes.
The main thrust of this book, however, is its account of Nairac’s murder and the trials of the captain’s murderer and his accomplices. It is a fascinating, entertaining, and sad story.


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No good deed goes unpunished in Oakland.
The mercenary crew known as the Oakland Police Department raided the Victor Martinez People’s Library in the early hours of this morning, evicting the librarians on site and boarding up the building.
When a young man from my neighborhood was murdered a block from his house two months ago the police response was essentially zero. No team of squad cars, no cordoning off the site, no attempt at investigation at all as far as we can tell.
But when people in Oakland try to serve the community and open a public space that’s really public, dozens of cops descend immediately. City workers are woken at midnight and rushed to the site in order to board up the building under cover of darkness.
To borrow a phrase from Noam Chomsky, the people’s library presents the threat of a good example. If people see a community center opened outside of the law, without the intervention of the city or a church — then they might start thinking about what else they could do for themselves and maybe question why the city and the cops have so much power in the first place.
That’s why no good deed will continue to go unpunished in Oakland.
PS to Oaklanders: Meet outside the library (1449 Miller) at 10:00 this morning for a meeting about what to do next.

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Post Scriptum, The World War 2 Simulation Shooter is finally Available on Steam
After continuous updates and support by Periscope Games and Offworld Industries, it was time to announce the full release of Post Scriptum. During its beta phase, this game had quite a rough participation as not everyone was eligible to test the content. Well, now that everything is completely polished, the game is finally released on Steam.
After 2 years, we finally have the chance to experience Post Scriptum without any divide and enjoy the large-scale fights.
Post Scriptum is a first-person simulation shooter that provides WWII combat experience. It also focuses on historical accuracy, leaning towards a better gameplay experience.
As a celebration of the release, Post Scriptum has received a new launch trailer.


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In 2012, this intrepid reporter plans to watch, in chronological order, all of Walt Disney Studios' 52 theatrically-released animated features, one per week.
Walt Disney always intended for his concert feature, ultimately entitled Fantasia, to be a work in progress. As the years went by the film would be re-released into theatres with some segments removed and new pieces included. Unfortunately due to the lackluster response greeted the film's initial run in 1940, these plans fell by the wayside. Ideas for future segments were dreamed up now and again but it would not be until almost sixty years later that a new version of Fantasia would reach the big screen.
As much as The Lion King can be seen as Jeffrey Katzenberg's baby, Fantasia 2000 was the passion project of Walt's nephew, Roy E. Disney. When Michael Eisner took over as head of the Disney corporation, thanks in large part to Roy's manipulation of the board (which ironically would also become a huge part of Eisner's subsequent ouster), Roy was given a position overseeing much of the studio's animation department. No one was too keen on revisiting the experimental art of Fantasia but Roy was nothing if not persistent. Production was set in motion almost a full decade before the film's release, with pieces being worked on intermittently.
Fantasia 2000 opens with images from the original film floating through space, as we hear the iconic introduction of Deems Taylor, who explains the basic concept behind Fantasia. Beneath his floating visage we see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra tuning up in a gorgeous ethereal concert hall. Like Fantasia we are then shown the first animated piece, which in both films is the most abstract sequence. Here it is set to Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5 in C minor". This is the first glimpse of the real differences between the two features. The original Fantasia gave us truly outré images of bloated, rippling lines rumbling across the frame and twinkling shapes with no logical rhyme or reason. Meanwhile, Fantasia 2000 pretends to get abstract with a series of two-dimensional floating triangles but the scene feels all together more conventional. One cannot help but ascribe bird or butterfly-like attributes to the floating shapes. They feel like characters. Also, the choice of one of the most famous composer's most famous compositions, a piece that has been used over and over again in pop culture, brings with it its own freight of baggage, which makes it difficult to get wrapped up in the sequence.
In between animated sections Fantasia 2000 provides live-action introductions, but unlike the consistent guidance of Deems Taylor, here we get a panoply of celebrities, some more appropriate than others. All decked out in their best formal wear are Steve Martin, Quincy Jones, Bette Midler, Penn and Teller, James Earl Jones, and Angela Lansbury. The sections are brief and for the most part serviceable, although several of the jokes don't quite land. The best introduction is the first, by Steve Martin and violinist Itzhak Perlman. Perhaps it is Martin's long history with the company (he worked at the Disneyland Magic Shop in his youth) but his appearance is one of the least incongruous in the picture. Plus, Martin is just effortlessly funny. He segues into Perlman's introduction of Ottorino Respighi "Pines of Rome", which is set to a delightfully weird sequence featuring a legion of flying humpback whales. Those looking for the mind-blowing psychedelic experience associated with the original Fantasia will be most pleased by this section. Unfortunately, the sequence is marred by its heavy use of inadequate computer generated imagery. Apparently the section was one of the first completed, and the CGI actually predates the release of Pixar's Toy Story, so the crudeness is a bit understandable. That does not however make it acceptable. The whales all look too sleek, without a true sense of their weight and majesty. It is not a matter of one style of animation being superior to another. Surely Walt Disney, the visionary and explorer, would have been one of the true pioneers of computer animation, but he was also a consummate artist and perfectionist who would not have settled for something that did not achieve his exacting specifications. "Pines of Rome" could have been a truly transcendent piece of animation had it known what wasn't working.
Another interesting idea that does not quite reach its mark is the following marriage of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with a hand-drawn animation style in the vein of caricaturist Al Hirshfeld. The scene is 1930s New York, the height of the Great Depression. We follow four different dreamers going about their day, longing for escape of some sort. There is the construction worker who moonlights as a jazz drummer; an out-of-work man who longs for employment and purpose; a clumsy little girl, missing her parents while being shepherded through town by her nanny; and a sycophantic husband who just wants to be an animal, any animal. The section calls to mind another previous Disney piece, surprisingly not from Fantasia. "Rhapsody in Blue"'s swinging style is most reminiscent of the great "All the Cats Join In" section of Make Mine Music. The fluid line style of the animation set to a jazzy score makes for a potentially lively sequence. However, "Rhapsody in Blue" doesn't quite succeed. The marriage of the music and images sounds great in the abstract but the execution leaves something to be desired. It all falls a bit flat. The section is somewhat redeemed though by a fabulous final shot depicting the neon at night in Times Square.
After three sections that come up short in some capacity, Fantasia 2000 finally delivers a sequence that is a solid winner. The idea of animating Hans Christian Andersen's The Steadfast Tin Soldier had been kicking around the studio for years before an appropriate piece of music was discovered. Set to Dmitri Shostakovich's "Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major" we get a scene with genuine emotion, thrills, and pathos. A one-legged tin soldier falls for a ballerina who is terrorized by a mischievous jack-in-the-box. The soldier attempts to defend the ballerina only to be thrown into the sewers. He returns and valiantly overthrows the jester, who perishes by burning up in a stove. Like "Pines in Rome", this section relies heavily on CGI but as some of the earliest Pixar shorts as well as Toy Story proved, CGI on traditionally inanimate objects, in particular dolls and toys, works quite well. The plasticine look that was so detrimental to the aforementioned flying whales is a net positive here, giving a sheen to the graceful legs of the ballerina and the sneering visage of the jack-in-the-box. There is a fantastic action set piece in the sewers as the soldier careens through the pipes on a little toy boat. However the best artistry on display in the section comes from the lighting department who convincingly create an old-world coziness with the soft orange hues resting on the walls from the stovetop. Something so seemingly minor is subconsciously responsible for selling us on the entire world.
Fantasia 2000 is overwhelmed by the stature of its predecessor. The film cannot escape its forefather's legacy. In fact, the film almost feels at times more like a remake than a continuation. Many of the newer segments are directly inspired by sequences in the first film. "The Carnival of the Animals" scene featuring a goofy, yo-yo playing flamingo, is a direct descendent of "The Dance of the Hours". Donald Duck's showcase in "Pomp and Circumstance", is blatantly the new film's version of the Mickey Mouse vehicle "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", which is completely foolish and redundant because it immediately follows the inclusion of that original sequence. In fact, "Pomp and Circumstance" is the most egregious, incongruous piece in the entire film. Included at the insistence of Michael Eisner, the section is a tone-deaf retelling of Noah and the great flood. Donald Duck is charged with getting all of the animals onboard the sea-faring vessel. In his haste he is separated from his partner Daisy, who sneaks on the ship without Donald's knowledge. Both assuming that the other one did not make it aboard, they pine for one another, despite being a mere ten feet apart. It is a trite, sentimental section that is set to the dumbest piece of classical music one could imagine. Having Donald Duck carrying the emotional weight of the sequence is the worst decision of all. Donald is a character defined by ill temper and selfish motives. He is much more believable and entertaining being crushed by an exiting elephant than staring wistfully towards the horizon. Admittedly, the hand-drawn animation may be the most sumptuous of the whole picture. Too bad it is in service to the lamest piece of treacle one could dream up.
Fantasia 2000 wraps up with Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite", which details the life cycle of a forest. A wood nymph battles the eponymous avian beast, the latter laying waste to the natural setting, leaving nothing but char and ash. A stoic deer revives the nymph who then restores life and beauty to her surroundings. Not to sound like a broken record but once again the section harks back to the original Fantasia, this time containing elements of multiple sequences. The composer and the idea of a life cycle work as a continuation of "The Rite of Spring", while the demonic firebird and the elegiac aftermath recall the two halves of "Night on Bald Mountain" and "Ave Maria". The section does not really reach the loftiest moments of its influences but that is a rather unfair assessment. On its own, it works as a triumphal closure to the picture, with some very beautiful bits of animation, particularly in the creation of the firebird itself and the green restoration of a dormant volcano near the end. The section dips a little too deeply into unearned transcendence at the end but on the whole, it is the second most successful sequence of the new feature.
A succinct way of summing up Fantasia 2000's shortcomings is by noting that the only sequence from the original film placed in the program, the comparably middling "Sorcerer's Apprentice" is easily the best part of the new film. There is a life to it that is lacking throughout the rest of Fantasia 2000. The marriage of musical beats to animation here is otherwise unparalleled in the rest of the feature. There is an intrinsic, ethereal grasp of the potency of the music that is elegantly teased out in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". The art serves the music, and the music, although it was written long before the film, feels like a fluid and natural accompaniment. There is a power and energy permeating the screen that is lacking throughout much of the remaining picture. One could also note that despite a running time half its predecessor's length, Fantasia 2000 feels just as long. It is commendable that Roy E. Disney sought to salute one of the most audacious films in cinema history with a celebratory follow-up. But although he looked eerily like his famous uncle, he was not a great artist. The same could be said for his pet project.


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She is a strong woman. The strongest woman I’ve probably ever met. Her strength is in her joyful spirit and the kindness she exudes to everyone she meets…. She is my mother, and she has been quite the model of unconditional love, service, kindness, and sacrifice.
Nurse practitioner Danielle Blackwell reflects on the person who inspired her to become a nurse.
This essay placed third in the 2022 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest and was published in the October 2022 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at academicmedicine.org.


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I’m back in the writing space following some unpleasant medical issues. In the last three days, I’ve averaged two thousand words each. It’s delicious to feel like I’m moving forward, no matter how word counts fall upon the writing spectrum in regards to their importance. I didn’t plan any word counts but they’re proof of something happening, a minor validation that I’ve been doing more than daydreaming.
After some arguing with the muses, me interrogating them to explain every thread, decision, and insight, and them laughing at me, I followed their instructions to, “Just write.” Some of the writing could be permanent but some of it might be delicately sculpted away or blown away with heavy explosives. Doesn’t matter. What I’ve written before during other writing projects may not help me this time. Each time that I write another novel, it’s a new adventure in learning how to be a better writer. I must write to have the material to shape, an interesting cycle. Write, edit, write, re-write, write, revise…where am I?
Well, I’m on the novel-writing spectrum. I slide along, following paths, retracing, forging new paths, falling off cliffs, and climbing back up. So it goes until there’s finally enough coherency for a novel to take shape, and then, finally, enough satisfying story in a reasonable order arrives, and then, at last, I pick a place where it can be comfortably ended with reasonable reward for readers who ventured through my thicket of words.
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I’m permitted a cup of coffee a day. I apply my allowance to my writing.
Illness is depressing, not because I have it, but because of its limitations. Bending down to pick up a piece of paper, scratch a cat’s chin, or put on my shoes and socks is slow and tedious and brings a measure of stinging discomfort. Walking remains uncomfortable and difficult, but not impossible. Of course, I have a history of rushing the healing processes. Press on, regardless, right? When I had a broken neck on Okinawa and wore a halo device, I pushed to go back to work and ended up dislodging that metal mother twice, sending me back into hospital. Anyway, I wobble around at a slow and careful pace, watching the ground to find the threads and seeds that the muses leave, then trying to parse their guidance.
Yeah, just write, baby. Stop critiquing, doubting, wondering, fearing, worrying, and questioning. Just get ‘er done. Pitter-patter.
Done writing like crazy for at least one more day. Sloshy, my drain-collection bag resting against my calf, is filled. Time to wobble on and empty him.
I wrote about a new novel that came to me in a dream the other night (“Spinning Up”). One unmentioned aspect was the newly conceived novel’s cover. I saw it in the dream. The cover felt and looked so real and substantial to me that I was nonplussed. The title, April Showers 1921, was embossed gold letters on a silver cover. It seemed so real that I looked up the title to determine if that book already existed. Without surprise, I found songs, books, and short stories called April Showers, but none had the 1921 addition, and none featured silver and gold covers. I seem safe with it.
I’ve worked on April Showers 1921 some since dreaming about it, fleshing out characters, setting, and writing some scenes, but I didn’t throw myself into it. After two days of that, I wondered, why not? I realized that indecision caused by my greatest weakness, over-analysis, was paralyzing me once again.
It’s a familiar scenario. I overthink something. That drains my resources, and I stop making progress until I resolve what I’m overthinking.
Naturally, this paralysis is all founded on a writing issue, specifically — this time — finding an agent for the Incomplete States series. I think I’ve identified several potential agents. I narrowed my search to one lucky agent. I’ve written a synopsis and query letter. That’s where I stopped.
The Incomplete States series employs several styles. In terms of recent books, it reminds me of Cloud Atlas. My series science-fiction infused, but its mostly literary, except the first novel has a science-fiction military noir feel to it. Fantasy flares strong in another book, while yet another has the sensibility of historic fiction.
Yes, I enjoy genre B&B – bending and blending – whether I’m reading or writing it.
On a side note, the great and all-knowing Internet says, don’t mention any of the rest of the series when seeking representation and publication of the first book.
For grins, I hunted down the rejection records for successful writers. I’ve followed this path before, so it’s very familiar to me.
J.K. Rowling. Her Harry Potter series was rejected twelve times, you know. Dr. Suess was rejected twenty-seven times before he found a publisher willing to take a chance on his Cat in the Hat book. The author of The Martian, Andy Weir, had given up on being published, but kept writing and self-published. When The Martian found success, publishers came running. Kathryn Stockett, The Help, was rejected over sixty times. Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, had twenty-six rejections. Catch-22, Joseph Heller, twenty-two rejections. Twenty for William Goldberg, The Lord of the Flies. Carrie, by Stephen King, was rejected thirty times. Pretty amazing was that Still Alice, by Lisa Genova, experienced over one hundred rejections. After she self-published and had success, publishers came calling, and her novel was made into a movie starring Julianne Moore, who won an Oscar for her performance.
There was also Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, over five times, and Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, rejected one hundred twenty-one times.
Reading about these rejections is invigorating and inspiring. You gotta have hope, optimism, belief, and determination. You gotta keep writing for the love of writing.
Writing about my paralysis cleared matters up and broke the log jam. (I now have a featured image of logs floating through my mind.) I’m ready to submit. (Ha, ha, I love how that can have multiple meanings.) All they can do is say no, right?
The day is full of promise. I got my coffee. Time to submit, and then write and edit like crazy, at least one more time.


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Whitby residents want to see more investment in the community’s waterfront, beaches, parks, and open spaces, according to the first phase of engagement to develop a new Whitby Parks and Recreation Master Plan.
The results of this phase of engagement will be used to develop a draft Parks and Recreation Master Plan for additional community input later this year. When complete, the new plan will play an important role in defining a vision, as well as long-term goals and objectives, for how the town will continue to meet the recreational needs of our growing community well into the future, said a town statement.
Highlights of the first round of engagement:
- The majority of participants enjoy outdoor activities such as visiting the community’s waterfront, parks and open spaces, and walking or hiking.
- 92 per cent of participants agreed that parks and recreation opportunities should be a high priority for town council.
- Top outdoor investment priorities noted by participants include the waterfront, beaches, and new parks and outdoor spaces. This feedback aligns with what residents said are their top priorities for the Community Strategic Plan.
- Top indoor investment priorities noted by participants include multi-use sports facilities for all ages, with a pool and gymnasium for league sports.
- Top areas participants would like to see improvement include more facilities and programs (including evening and weekend programs) and increased promotion of available recreation programs in Whitby.
The engagement was carried out from last December until February. View the full results.


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: This engraved images is a portrait of General Francis Bates Pond (1825-1883), a Republican state legislator and Ohio attorney general.
Pond was born in Jefferson County, New York, and came to Ohio in 1841 to attend Oberlin College. He graduated with honors in 1846 and spent the next three years in Kent, Ohio, working as a teacher and a bookkeeper. In 1850 he moved to Harmar, Ohio, and taught classics at Harmar Academy. He studied law and was admitted to the bar 1852 at Malta, Ohio. Three years later was elected prosecuting attorney of Morgan County. In 1861 he enlisted in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In 1864 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel with the newly formed 62nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In August 1864 he was wounded at the Battle of Deep River and lost vision in one eye. He resigned his commission in November 1864 due to ill health. He was made brigadier general by brevet in 1864.
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Christie’s will be holding a sale of Russian works of art in New York on April 15th 2013. With over 160 lots and more than 60 antique works by Fabergé, the sale is estimated to total more than US$3.2 million. The auction will include Fabergé pieces from a distinguished private Midwest collection that have not appeared on the market for a number of years.
Highlights include an exceptional gold jewelled box made by Fabergé’s workmaster August Holmström in St Petersburg around 1890, estimated at US$40,000-60,000. It was a gift from Empress Alexandra Feodorovna to her sister Princess Irene of Prussia, née Hesse-Darmstadt (1866-1953) and later became the property of a German Royal Family.
The invention of photography resulted in the need for frames to display images of loved ones in the home. Fabergé duly obliged with ones made in a variety of materials from wood to gold. A jewelled silver-gilt and guilloché enamel example made by Fabergé’s workmaster Victor Aarne in St Petersburg during the period 1899-1904 is a superb example anticipated to sell for a sum in the region of US$40,000-60,000.
The whimsical appealed to Peter Carl Fabergé and also to his customers. A jewelled silver-mounted sandstone match holder in the form of a mouse, estimated at US$30,000-40,000, also demonstrates the range of materials that were used in the Fabergé workshops. The catalogue states the piece was made by Fabergé’s workmaster Julius Rappoport in St Petersburg around 1890.
During the era of Peter Carl Fabergé, gum was as essential as a pen and inkwell on a writing desk. The reason was quite simple: the postage stamps were not supplied with an adhesive on the back – the only way to stick stamps on an envelope, as well as the envelope’s flap, was with glue applied by a brush. The ways of disguising a pot of adhesive became quite ingenious. A bloodstone glue pot mounted with two colours of gold and further embellished with pearls and enamel, once part of the Forbes Collection, is likely to sell for US$20,000-30,000.
It was not just gum-pots that Fabergé turned from functional objects into objets d’art. A jewelled gold-mounted aquamarine hand-seal made by Fabergé’s workmaster Erik Kollin at St Petersburg in about 1885 is estimated at US$35,000-45,000.
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