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63.8 Offset Arrangements
In simple terms, when the MRCC proposes to pay a benefit to an employee with claims accepted under the DRCA (or its predecessors) and the VEA (and its predecessor), contact is made with the Disability Compensation Payment and if appropriate Income Support areas of the respective DVA State Office.
Standard Letters are available for this purpose.
As a general rule, if MRCC makes incapacity payments or pays a lump sum for permanent impairment, any payment made under the VEA for the same condition is limited. The actual amount by which payments are affected varies and any information on impact of MRCC payments should be provided by the appropriate delegate in the Disability Compensation Payment area of DVA.
VEA: Chapter 63
- Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 as amended by the Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget and Compensation Measures) Act 1997 (No.157/1997)
- DCA 83 : Declaration of Peacekeeping, Hazardous and Operational Service under the VEA


I guess I missed the memo but Monday was Good Samaritan Day here in the states and Burger King did something super wild to celebrate.
The fast food giant decided to get in on the action with a super clever way of rewarding good samaritans.
Burger King set up a car that looked like it was on fire on the side of a highway and waited to see if anyone would stop by to see if they could help.
The catch was that underneath the hood of the car the engine wasn't on fire.... there was a grill cooking Burger King patties!
Most people kept it pushing but the ones that did stop got to grub on some free Whoppers. A spokesperson for said: “Sometimes a simple gesture can be a reminder of how great it feels to do good.”
Watch the full video below to see how it all went down:


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Finally, the 28nm GPU generation has arrived for laptops. Nvidia has officially announced the new Kepler generation of graphics cards as part of the new GeForce 600M series. However, only some cards of the 600M series are based on the Kepler architecture while some are still of the Fermi generation. More information after the break.


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Brenda Cossman is the Director of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. She teaches courses on family law, gender and law, and law and film. She writes extensively in the area of law and sexuality. Her most recent book, Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging, was published by Stanford University Press in 2007. Additionally, Cossman coauthored Bad Attitudes on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the Butler Decision (University of Toronto Press) and Censorship and the Arts (published by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries). Brenda is actively involved in law reform, particularly in the area of same sex couples and definitions of family. Recently, she authored reports for the Law Commission of Canada and the Ontario Law Reform Commission on the legal regulation of adult relationships. She is also a frequent commentator in the media on issues relating to law and sexuality. She served as a memeber of the Pink Triangle Press Board of Directors for ten years, working as a frequent contributor to Xtra!
Doug Kerr is a consultant and longtime community activist in Toronto. He has been involved in Pride Toronto’s Human Rights Program since 2008 and is currently Co-Team Lead of WorldPride’s Human Rights Program. Doug has been involved in LGBT community activism for over 15 years with leadership roles at Community One Foundation, the LGBT Giving Network and Sherbourne Health Centre, one of Canada’s largest organizations providing health services to LGBT communities. Doug runs his own consulting practice with an expertise in nonprofit management and collaboration. He teaches nonprofit strategy at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work and global citizenship and social justice at Centennial College. Doug lived in Taiwan for six years and speaks Mandarin Chinese.
Current work includes research and consulting support to a variety of clients, including The Ontario Trillum Foundation, The Kiwanis Foundation, Toronto Community Housing, United Way Toronto, the University of Toronto’s Cities Centre, and many community-based social agencies. He is a member of the Progressive Consultants Network of Toronto.
Doug is an active volunteer on a number of Boards and committees and has contributed his time and expertise to organizations such as Sherbourne Health Centre, the Toronto Enterprise Fund, Community One Foundation, the LGBT Giving Network. He is passionate about innovation, diversity and the future of civil society in Canada. Doug also spent six years living in Taiwan and speaks Mandarin Chinese.

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TORONTO — An attack on a mosque in Chakwal, Pakistan, has led to calls for an investigation in Canada over allegations a Toronto-area man was part of a group that vowed “extreme measures” against the place of worship.
A mob of about 1,000 surrounded the mosque belonging to minority Ahmadiyya Muslims, according to Pakistani newspapers The Nation and Dawn, as well as social media posts, some showing video of the damage.
The incident Monday reportedly came after locals filed a petition with police claiming “infidels” were illegally occupying the building and unless action was taken “we will be forced to take extreme measures to liberate this mosque.”
One of the names near the top of the petition was Haji Malik Rashid Ahmed, whom Ahmadiyyas say is a Canadian. A news website that reports on the Ahmadiyya community, Rabwah Times, said he had spoken about the issue at mosques in the Chakwal area. A video posted by the site appears to show him talking to police in the aftermath of the attack.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Canada, which represents Canadian Ahmadiyya Muslims, raised the issue at a meeting with Global Affairs Canada, said Asif Khan, the organization’s director of public relations.
Khan said he informed federal officials that a Canadian was possibly involved and sent them the relevant documentation. He also asked whether Global Affairs would inform the RCMP, or if his organization should do it.
“We don’t want stuff like that here,” Khan said Tuesday. While violence against religious minorities is commonplace in Pakistan, he called the conduct “un-Canadian” and said he hoped whatever laws applied would be enforced.
I know him because he comes to our mosque in Mississauga. … He’s not a violent guy. He’s not a bad person
In Pakistan, Ahmadiyyas are prohibited from “indirectly or directly posing as a Muslim,” publicly declaring or propagating their faith, building mosques or referring to them as such, and making public calls to prayer, according to Human Rights Watch.
Such intolerance, together with regular attacks, have prompted many Ahmadiyyas to resettle in such countries as Canada, but they still face a degree of stigmatization from those who do not recognize them as genuine Muslims.
The Canadian who allegedly signed the petition concerning the Ahmadiyya mosque in Chakwal has lived in Canada for at least 40 years, said Imam Syed Soharwardy, who chairs the organization that runs the Mississauga mosque the man attends.
“I know this guy very well,” he said. “I know him because he comes to our mosque in Mississauga. … He’s not a violent guy. He’s not a bad person.” Soharwardy said he did not know what had happened in Chakwal “but in Pakistan people do these things. They should not be doing it.”
On Dec. 5, the Ahmadiyya community in Chakwal wrote to the local government asking for security at mosques. The letter said Muslim scholars “from outside” had “incited to violence,” vowing “to take forcible possession” of Ahmadiyya places of worship on Dec. 12.
On Monday, the attackers threw stones and bricks, and reportedly fired shots in an unsuccessful attempt to seize the mosque from the Ahmadiyyas. Worshippers locked themselves inside until police arrived to disperse the crowd.
The government of Punjab wrote on Twitter that “a misunderstanding developed between the two groups” and that it was “vigilantly following up.” In a Twitter post, the Canadian High Commission in Islamabad commended the Punjab government “for undertaking to hold mob leaders in Chakwal to account.”

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The Farm Story
In the movies, a hard-working farmer and his family endure hardship but always come up all right in the end. What do they do if they're not in a movie?
The gunshots cracked all day, from when the sun blazed into the blue above the eastern pasture, beyond the rusting frame of the old windmill that had been the fortress of so many childhood imaginings, to when it fell, casting a thickening bloody light over the wheat field, whose upward grade made it seem a vast expanse extending to the horizon.
The ripeness of that ugly stunted rust-ridden wheat and its seeming immensity under that sun, were lies. Hollow betrayals of light and land.
The gunshots woke me. a distant, dry cracking. As dry as the hot wind rushing over the fields of dead wheat.
I pulled on my jeans and boots and ran through the kitchen, grabbing a piece of toast from Margaret's hand as I passed, before she had time to slather on any butter. She gave me a stern motherly look, her eyebrows rising.
"Grandad said not to. He'll be livid!"
But I had kicked open the screen door and was running, for what I thought would be the last time, to my tower.
I clambered up the iron frame and sat on the wooden platform below the rust-eaten triangles of the blades. I could see Grandad, a small figure in white beside the tractor. The dust-red Hereford herd, their white faces like skulls, milled around before him. Grandad pushed up his hat and dabbed at his brow with a bandanna. Then he tied it around the barrel of the .33 Winchester slung over his shoulder, took bullets from a box on the nose of the tractor, began thumbing them into the breech.
I stared, stunned, as he lifted the butt to his shoulder, took careful aim, and pumped bullets into the heads of the calm and lowing cattle.
A red star exploded on the white skulls. The cows lost their dung and dropped. I could imagine their eyes rolling with surprise and momentary pain as they staggered and fell heavily on their sides, raising a burst of dust. Some would kick their legs a little, searching for the hard earth, before they were finally still.
Occasionally a beast would meander away from the herd. Then Grandad would whistle a particular way and Petersen, our black-and-white Collie, would leap around and bark and nip at its ankles until it returned.
When a dozen or so were dead, Grandad would climb into the tractor, kick over the engine with a spurt of diesel exhaust, and then reversed, using the grader on the back to push the carcasses into a ditch.
From my tower I watched Grandad's methodical labor. When half the herd lay dusty in the ditch and the sun was a rage of gold high in the sky, I returned to the house.
Grandad came in with the dusk. From the front room, among the suitcases and packed cardboard cartons, Margaret and I heard his boots clump heavily up the steps. We turned from the television to watch him through the screen door.
Sweat ran down his arm, trickled over his fingers and steamed off the barrel of the Winchester. He made a circling motion with the rifle, so that the bow of the kerchief tied around the end of the barrel licked the dust off the floorboards. Then he dropped it. A shot rang out the evening, with a certain finality, and Margaret clutched Zebediah, her toy horse, tighter in her hands.
Grandad's eyes were rolling, then staring, bloodshot and mad. Had he not been such a hard man, they probably would've been filled with tears. He seemed not to have heard or noticed the shot at all. Eyes rolling and staring into the blackening night, as mad as Margaret's pony Old Bent Back's were the day he'd eaten jimson weed and gone wild.
We'd had to shoot Old Bent Back. It looked like we'd have to shoot Grandad too. Margaret cried for a week when we shot Old Bent Back, until Grandad had made a small bedraggled unicorn out of wire, straw, glue and some of Old Bent Back's mane. Grandad had carved its horn from a steer's cropped horn. Old Bent Back's soul was in that unicorn, Margaret said. She named it Zebediah and that had quieted her.
There were speckles of blood dried to black on Grandad's shirt and on his moleskins. Moths and gnats and mosquitos and iridescent beetles flickered around his head. He chucked off his hat, brushing at the insects which swarmed around his hair. He stomped through the front room without barely a nod at Margaret and me, and went down the hall to shower.
He was mad yesterday. Today he was crazy.
It wasn't the drought that had ruined our earth, like it had so many others. Grandad was canny. He'd used the last overdaft to stock up on cattle feed. Said he could smell a dry season coming on the breeze from the west. The government had deregulated the market, though. Imported beef from Asia was cheaper than our dust. It cost more to truck the herd to auction than what we'd get for it. South West Queensland Beef and Dairy owned the trucking. They owned the auction yards. They owned the abattoir, the estate agent and the bank. We were shafted.
The bank delivered the foreclosure notice and posted the auction signs. A South West Queensland Beef and Dairy subsidiary would buy our farm, our cattle, like they had so many others, and razor a profit while we yet owed them our labor and our blood.
Grandad wouldn't even let the suit from the real estate borrow a shovel to dig the post holes. Perfectly within his rights, Sheriff T. Jackson-Flynn said. The bastard had to drive the 127 kilometers back to Windorah to get a shovel.
As soon as the sheriff and the bankers and the estate agents had gone, Grandad took a can of gas, doused the Auction: Foreclosure signs and set them blazing.
"Bastards. Sweating, collared men," he spoke with derision, "with narrow eyes and small minds. The suits hang on their crooked shoulders like the hunched wings of carrion birds. Vultures, let them profit and feast on carcasses." He didn't curse much, especially in front of Margaret, so when he did you knew he meant it.
Margaret just said how pretty the flames looked, all halloween orange, burning triangles within squares "livid against the dusk."
Me, I said nothing. I knew it was futile. I just could smell the burning in the air. It seemed to herald... something special, like Christmas Eve and the last day of school and the day after the finish of harvest put together. An expectancy of something new -- change and freedom -- yet also an ending. Everything complete, but not quite, and everything about to start again, but not quite yet.
After dinner of greens and carrots and lamb roast that Margaret had put on in the afternoon, a dinner at which no said as much as "Pass the salt please," Grandad sat on his wicker chair on the porch drinking straight from a bottle of Johnny Walker he'd been keeping for a celebration. He'd given that bottle to Dad ten years ago when Margie was born. Mum and Dad died a month later in a car smash.
I was four then, so although I remembered a lot about them, the smell of Mum's perfume and Dad's rough chin, and the sound of both their voices, Grandad had always been there too. That bottle had sat on the shelf ever since. Yeah, tonight Grandad was celebrating.
We did the washing up and Margaret helped me with my algebra homework; she was good at that sort of thing, but I never had the patience. Then we watched TV for a while, a program set in the lush English countryside. I couldn't bear it, the taste of dust still dry on my tongue, so I went to bed.
The moon lifted huge and yellow over the fields out my window, and I was too restless to sleep. There was a smell, heady on the warm breeze, like when we'd drive into Windorah along the highway, past the abattoir.
As I turned my mind to what the city'd be like (we'd be going in just under a month, after the auction, to stay with Aunt May in Brisbane) and began finally drifting into dreams, I heard Grandad go out into the night, the creak of the barn door, and then, like the breaking of clock whose mechanism yet refused to fail completely, the rustle and twang of bailing wire, extolling some purely imaginary hour.
Margaret woke me earlier than the sun and said she couldn't find Grandad. She'd cooked a big breakfast of sausage and egg and fried tomato, and had made both tea and coffee. But when she went to wake him, he wasn't there.
"And I'm absolutely livid!" she added, (she'd heard the word livid on TV and had been applying it liberally ever since) pointing at the breakfast, now cooling, laid on the best Gingham cloth, with Zebediah clutched in her hand. Her cheeks were flushed as she held her face tight against the welling tears.
I went outside and looked for him. Grandad had let the chickens out, and Petersen had killed a whole mess of them and was chasing the rest around.There were feathers and bloody chicken carcasses scattered around the yard. The rooster, escaped into the lower branches of a scraggly gum by the coop, crowed mournfully.
Petersen was barking and chasing a chicken that he'd half-mauled so it was running with its torn off head, held by one or two gory tendons, dragging a trail in the dust. The dog was well on its way to becoming wild. There was blood on his white bib, and he gave me barely a glance as I shouted his name.
Then under the crystalline blue of the shadowless pre-dawn, we saw something glinting, moving in the wheat field. Margaret, standing by me on the porch, pointed with Zebediah clutched in her hand, its horn piercing.
The glinting, shimmering as the sun licked it, made a twangy chimey music as it dashed through the wheat. It raised a dust haze as it ran, kicking the earth and crushing the heads to powder. It swung something into the air, a crooked stick, a scythe that caught the sun and arc on its blade.
It was Grandad. I could see tufts of his ashen hair through the wire cap on his head. He'd wrapped himself in baling wire and was hacking at the wheat with the scythe like some madly animate scarecrow. He'd leap and twang and chime and slash a mighty slash out of the dead dry wheat. In the gusts of powder, he looked like some emaciated Michelin Man, like the one on the paint peeling sign at Murray's Tire and Gas in Windorah.
He seemed to tire. I wasn't sure if he'd noticed us. He stuck the handle of the scythe into the earth and let go of it as he dropped to his knees, vanishing but for a gleam amongst the chest-high stalks. The scythe bent over him like some curious long-necked, silver-beaked bird, and as Grandad sobbed the wire jangled and twinged like tinny bells.
He grabbed handfuls of the cut wheat, its heads turned to dust under the pressure of his hands. He just sat there, suddenly still, the dust running through his clenched fingers and the sun gleaming on his armor of wire.
Margaret, tears wet on her face, suddenly ran forward. Blubbering, she prised open his hands, taking the bundles of straw from his fist and pressing Zebediah into them.
"Don't be sad because you had to shoot all the animals, Grandad," she said. And with her little hands she bent the thin sheafs of stalk around each other, so they looked a rough straw doll of a beast. "We can make more, like you made Zebediah, and they'll be even more pretty and their spirits will wander the fields of heaven with Zebediah."
Grandad's head sprang up all of a sudden, like he'd heard a shot. He stood, all ajangle and glowing silver in the risen sun, and said, "These fields forgotten. This earth has forsaken us, but that is the way of earthen things. I love you kids. Let's forget this earth and have a celebration." He put his silver twined arm around Margie, smiling as they emerged from the wheat, and we walked back to the house.
"Steven," said Grandad as we finished wolfing down the now-cold breakfast, "your father's black suit, the one he wore to Grandmother's -- bless her soul -- funeral, in the brown trunk, I think. Margaret, wear your mother's satin party dress. We'll rustle the best damn herd anyone's ever seen, and watch those duffers from the bank's faces when they come to auction off the beasts."
So I dressed in my father's black suit, which smelled of camphor, and Grandad found, rummaging in a box, Great Grandad's harness-racing silks, so over the top I wore a harlequin vest. Then Grandad tied a green-and-blue polka dot tie around the neck of my red shirt, and pinned his father's war medals on my chest.
Margie strolled out, beaming, in Mum's emerald satin party dress, too loose around her thin shoulders. So she tightened it up with sashes of silk around the waist, and a gold clasp that bunched up the baggy bosom, and draped herself in Mum's and her own jewelry so she glittered with chains of gold and brooches and pearls and rings, loose on her fingers.
Grandad strung his wires with the pull-tops of beer cans, brass washers, Christmas tree ornaments, bells, fridge magnets the shape of fruits and Disney characters and smiley faces, ribbons of aluminum foil, my old toy matchbox cars, keys, and other bright metallic and jangling odds and ends, and finally stuck our Christmas star in his cap.
Margaret put on her straw hat, and I donned my wide brimmed Akubra. Grandad pulled the brim so the hat sat at a jaunty angle and said, "Now we're ready." He took his camera and set the timer, so it trapped a photo of us together on the end of the porch, with the scattered bodies of chickens and Petersen leaping about behind us.
We pulled on our gumboots, and Margaret said, "We look positively livid!" I had to agree. We were dressed for the maddest Halloween costume party ever.
Then Grandad, with a jangle and a magician's flourish, held up the tractor keys.
"Mow the wheat field, Steven, my boy. Mow it all." He had never let me drive the tractor by myself alone before, though I'd driven it a few times when he'd been out in Windorah. I grabbed the keys and ran for the barn, waving my hat in the air and hollering.
"I want a good-sized stack, ya hear?" he shouted, then laughed.
I climbed into the cabin, adjusted the seat downward and forward, put in the key and pressed the starter. The engine kicked and I revved the engine so it spouted exhaust. I snapped on the stereo to a rock station, raised the harvester blades and roared out to the field.
I raised a hell of dust, both ocher red chaff and the brown of cracked earth, as I carelessly churned the wheat. The dust rose and drifted for kilometers, turning the sky to red. The tractor roared, I bellowed and the music blared. I was inscribing my bitterness, my anger, into the earth that I had loved and that was no longer mine.
When the field was reduced to stubble, carpeted in straw, I lowered the hay grader and reversed, inscribing a star from points to center, pushing the wheat into one enormous stack. The scythe, I realized, had been forgotten in my storm. Like the proverbial needle, it was lost in the depths.
Then I mowed the wild straggle that edged the field, the Paterson's curse. Mum had planted it when she'd kept an apiary, and I remembered the distinctive taste of the honey from those purple flowers. Mum had caught me, my fingers sticky, sucking the sweetness from them. But all she said was how the scrubby, purple flowered weed was also called Salvation Jane. Then she dipped her fingers in the jar too.
When the sun was middling in the sky and the dust clouds had mostly settled, Grandad and Margaret drove out in the Ford pick-up, a tangled jigsaw of wire jangling, teetering and towering in its bed.
Grandad waved a gleaming arm and I cut the tractor engine.
"Come on, Steven!"
"What do you think, Grandad?" I said with a nod toward the mountain of hay, edged with Paterson's purple tangles, that rose like some monstrous dusty bloom, as high as the house over the stubbled field.
"A veritable Himalaya, Steven my boy. An Ulluru of straw! The biggest mountain of hay in the world."
"It's absolutely livid!" said Margaret.
Grandad was excited. He was crazy excited. "We'll unload the pick-up and then have our picnic lunch."
He let down the tailgate and rolled a tar drum off the back of the Ford. Then we lashed some rope among the tangle of wire. We pulled at it, straining, and it rolled off with a flutter of petals like some enormous tumbleweed. It came to rest by the hay mountain.
The bottom of the pick-up's bed was deep in flowers -- irises, violets, chrysanthemums, marigolds, angel's trumpets, and posies. It was every last flower from Margaret's carefully tended garden. We shoveled them off and the perfume crashed out of them. They sat, a small brightly-colored hillock by the hay.
Margaret had spread a sumptuous picnic lunch out across a lurid quilt of patchwork paisley. While we feasted, Grandad spoke of the city, of dynamic ribbons and globe symbols. Of white noise and chaos. Of bleakness dressed in rainbows. Of how the city was a palace of mirrors, how the reversals of mirrors are lies. Of glass houses full of stone-throwers.
And we knew he was mad, but both Margie and I listened in rapture to this man of wire and leather whose raucous laughter shook his body and rang the midday with jangling and tinkling and twangs and chimes.
"And now to work!" And we stood, brushing the crumbs from our finery.
Grandad and I started untangling shapes from the tumble of wire, while Margie packed away the luncheon. We stood wire skeletons of cattle all around. With a long-handled brush, Grandad began ladling tar over the frames, and when he'd finish one, Margie and I would stick sheafs of the hay, tangled with Paterson's curse, to the beasts. Then Margaret stuck a red chrysanthemum to the end of each muzzle as a mouth, and violets as eyes, and tied stiff straw tails to their rears.
By three in the afternoon, a magnificent herd of fat straw beasts stood quiet on the sun-blasted pasture. Tufted with straw and spattered with tar, we looked like a trio of scarecrows.
That night, I dreamed I was soaring away from an unremitting turbulence.
At dawn I ran out to my tower for the last time. Below me, Grandad had taken his silver wire wrappings, my father's black suit, and mother's emerald dress, our fine costumes of yesterday with regalia, and made three scarecrows. They were curious shepherds overseeing the herd from the height of wooden crosses.
Fleshed in straw and thistle and Paterson's curse
Crimson-mouthed and violet-eyed
When the farm died
After the scorching months
We shot the herd
Took a thousand miles of baling wire
A thousand miles of rust-flaked baling wire
and tied a hundred head of cattle
and three fine horse
and three fancy farmers
They stood proud, our golden calves
Then the rains blew in
And scattered them
And they rotted in the sun
Shake a nativity under glass and snow falls. A wind blew, smelling fat with rain, and the beasts bristled against it. The dust raised and swirled. The shadows of our quivering beasts grew, and they seemed to move in fear, golden calves before some coming wrath.
A storm as black and immense as the onslaught of a winter's night swept over the horizon. I clambered down and ran back to the house. The rain came, slow at first, the heavy drops kicking up spurts of dust. Then a sudden hammering, scattering our beasts, tumbling them, stampeding them. The storm knocked them down, ate away their flesh of straw, plucked out their eyes and mouths. They floated away.
It thundered and flashed for only half an hour, We watched from the porch, distraught, this hell lit in lightening flashes. Then the sun came out, smeared over the slick earth. Quickly drying, glinting on the bent and tangled skeletons. Muddy clumps of straw began to ripen and rot.
Grandad seemed transformed to his usual taciturn self, but we knew he wasn't. He was hurting, as if cursed.
We took our cases and odds and ends and put them in the pick-up. Margie clutched Zebediah in her hands. Grandad had an old and browning family photo in his lap.
The last I saw of the farm as we drove for Windorah was a few lonely, bedraggled beasts of tattered straw and Paterson's curse, the scythe, glinting, somehow still planted in the earth, and we three fanciful scarecrows beside it.
Our flowered eyes were weeping; our flowered mouths were laughing.
A year or so later, in a southern suburb of Brisbane, in an ordinary life in which we walked to school rather than studying by relay satellite, Margaret wrote a poem that won a school competition, and was published in a local paper.
People asked me about the poem. Teachers, a journalist, Aunt May. What did Margaret mean by it?
So I wrote this story.
Steven Thorn (firstname.lastname@example.org) was born in Sydney, Australia in the mid-'60s, and grew up on the outskirts of New South Wales country towns, in industrial cities between sea and desert, on the streets of Sydney, and on many roads in between.
InterText stories written by Steven Thorn: "21st Century Dreamtime" (v5n2), "The Farm Story" (v5n4).
InterText Copyright © 1991-1999 Jason Snell. This story may only be distributed as part of the collected whole of Volume 5, Number 4 of InterText. This story Copyright © 1995 Steven Thorn.

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Longtime Ruff Ryders producer Dame Grease has said that the late DMX has more than a few songs still unreleased. DMX, born Earl Simmons, passed away on April 9, and his posthumous album Exodus was released in Late May. That project was near completion before X's death, but Grease says there's way more never-before-heard music.
Posting on Instagram, Dame says there are close to 50 unreleased DMX songs.
“Yall Ready? @dmx #Amen Produced By @damegrease129,” he captioned the post.“I’ll give the masters to @defjam only … New album coming! The legacy continue. The Passion and Soul Recorded at my house with 50 more songs!”
Exodus has been well-received by fans and critics; and the project featured a who's-who of major guest stars; from Usher to The LOX to Bono and Alicia Keys.
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text: English Transcript: It’s difficult to express the way life happens now. Hello everyone, and welcome to an unfortunate edition of Me Talking. A lot has happened over the last few days, and it’s taken a lot to gather my thoughts on the recent events in Paris and the recent events that have effected myself and my family, and the majority of this post will be about what atrocities transpired that can’t and will not be forgotten. I apologize to anyone effected by this tragedy, but that is all I can really say. I have lost friends and family to violence, but I cannot say I have ever lost someone when they did nothing to earn their eternal punishment. Those who died in Paris were people like you and me. They were soccer fans, music enthusiasts, daughters, sons, fathers, and mothers just trying to enjoy life for what it really was, and to have a group of people come in and rip those small spots of “happiness” from them is something that cannot be expressed nor fixed through advice or poetry or a written letter of condolences. All I can do, not just as a writer or artist, but as a friend to several of the French descent, is tell you all that there will come a day where this threat will pass. The French people have always opened their arms to those in need of a physical and cultural home, but the threat of terrorism has shaken the very foundation to which the French people view other cultures and ways of life. I don’t apologize much for I feel all I do is done through a lack of impulsiveness, but believe me when I say I’m sorry for all that’s happened, and I offer my condolences. With all that being said, I will have to postpone the sneak preview of “PEREZ: THE FILM” until December 5th, due to personal reasons. I apologize for the delay, but I know all of you reading this will understand the reason why I’ve decided to make this decision. To be frank, too much shit has happened and I need a moment to think, and I believe at a time like this, some good thought for once is just what the world needs. Thank you.


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In recent years developers putting up a forest of residential towers have been accused of turning the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront into Miami-on-the-East-River. With his new plan for the 11-acre Domino Sugar refinery in Williamsburg officially unveiled on Sunday, Jed Walentas has crafted something that might better be described as Dubai-on-the-East-River.
Not only does the plan look dramatically different than what had been proposed for the site in 2010 by its previous owners, but it looks like nothing else anywhere in the city.
In another major departure from his developer peers, including his predecessors at Domino, Mr. Walentas is proposing to carve out a big piece of his project as office space—630,00 square feet worth, or roughly one-fifth of the 3.3 million-square-foot project. That will be on top of 2.3 million of residential space—enough for 2,284 apartments—and 79,000 square feet of retail space.
In some ways the mixed-use project he envisions draws on the approach his family has put to good use in Dumbo. There a mix of commercial and residential conversions of former industrial buildings by Two Trees, the family's development company, helped forge a 24-7 community that has become one of the borough's hottest neighborhoods.
To design its plan for Domino, Two Trees has hired SHoP Architects, whose recent projects include the Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn and the East River Esplanade in Manhattan. The plan is dominated by a striking pair of twin towers topping out at 590 feet that are linked by a bridge on the 35th floor. The largest of the building is shaped like a gigantic 500-foot "O," with apartments on all sides and a school in the base. Next to that is a hybrid apartment-office tower, again with a huge cut-out in the middle.
All of these cut-outs are meant to provide a visual connection between the community and the waterfront, allowing people upland from the complex to literally look through the towers to the river and Manhattan beyond.
"We wanted to avoid the buildings that have become so common on the waterfront in Brooklyn and Queens," said Chris Sharples, a principal at SHoP, "Buildings that wall themselves off from the community rather than drawing the community in."
The proposed new buildings are considerably taller than the 30- and 40-story towers approved in 2010, when developer CPC Resources controlled the site. That plan took years to win all the necessary approvals, a fate that could now await Mr. Walentas' proposal when it enters the public review process in May.
The development team argues, however, that while the towers are taller they are no bigger than their predecessors. The density is the same, but now it is spread out vertically—and by maintaining that density, it means that Two Trees can maintain the key promise made by the previous developer to build 660 units of affordable housing. Beyond that the only binding commitment that it appears that Mr. Walentas has inherited is one to build at least 440 additional residential units, when he bought Domino last year for $185 million. While CPC had promised to build more, Two Trees was under no obligation to go beyond the 440 units.
"This is something we are committing to do under this plan," Mr. Walentas said.
Taller buildings also allowed Two Trees to improve the open space within the plan. By building up, the developer can shift the bulk of its towers off the ground and away from the waterfront. That shift increases the open space by 2 acres, to a total of 5.25 acres. The developer is also leaving one of its development sites empty, directly south of the old refinery building, and turning it into a public plaza called Domino Square.
River Street will be extended into the site, furthering the public feel of the space by separating the apartment towers from the new park. "It makes the space feel less like a backyard for the apartments, like you get at some of the other developments," Mr. Sharples said.
Another major change is coming to the old red-brick refinery building itself. CPC had struggled to figure out what to do with the building, but Two Trees is basically giving it the Dumbo-treatment, turning it into lofty office space for the kinds of creative and technology firms.
"All the cutting-edge thinking on the next generation of manufacturing is here in Brooklyn," Mr. Sharples said. "(Those firms) are begging for a place to set up shop in the neighborhood."
Overall, Two Trees is sacrificing about 160,000 square feet of residential space, along with some retail and 501 parking spaces, to make room for its 630,000 square feet of office space, spread between the refinery and the mixed-use building. It is a savvy move because the refinery, with its large floorplates, makes for poor residential space. In the case of the mixed-use building, at the northern end of the site, it is close to a power plant, meaning the building cannot have operable windows due to a zoning restriction, though building codes require all residences to have access to fresh air.
Mr. Walentas maintains he could make more if he turned all the available space into apartments. Instead he insists the goal is to create a vibrant community with activity day and night—which bolsters retail and residential rents.
"This is a long-term play for us, so we can look at this project differently than some developers," he said.
The community, even those who had struggled with the project in the past, even agree that Mr. Walentas is a different breed.
"I was blown away by the difference," Councilwoman Diana Reyna, whose district neighbors the project said. "They've made some significant chances, especially with the commitment to the neighborhood, in inviting them into the space and helping create jobs."
Councilman Steve Levin will have the most sway over the project as it is in his district. "My first reaction was that it's definitely interesting," he said. "But there are still a lot of questions that remain to be addressed."
He was especially pleased by the inclusion of more office space and the reduction in parking spaces. "Those were two very big concerns within the community," he said.
Mr. Levin also commended Two Trees for meeting with the community before they began designing the project.
"Jed's style is very engaging and open and considerate, which is always welcome," he said.

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The city of Oran is a beautiful coastal city that, when constructed, was inspired by the seaside resort of France’s Nice. It is one of Algeria’s most important cities, as it has much cultural, commercial and industrial importance, as well as being one of the country’s most visited cities. In the past, the city was used for trading purposes until it was ruled by the French.
Oran features a long boulevard that is lined with restaurants, cafés, and ice cream parlours. It also boasts fantastic views of the coast, the magnificent surrounding cliffs and the harbour. The city also has numerous other facilities and amenities for tourists, including a few luxury resorts. There is much to see and do in and around the city, which makes it a very appealing destination. Here are the 15 best things to do in Oran.
1. Walk around the city centre
Oran’s city centre is filled with numerous impressive French-built buildings. It is quite interesting, and like taking a trip back to 1940s France.
One of the buildings you will see on this walk is the Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d’Oran, which was the first French cathedral built in the country. The cathedral is now home to a library.
You will also stumble upon Place du 1er Novembre; Oran’s main square. The square features a lovely fountain and monument that is surrounded by buildings, like the town hall.


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Comment: Our real role models are drunks, failures and lunatics
The young much prefer an eccentric like Robbie Williams to Lady Jay's approved pantheon
Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter, Philip Hensher was among Granta 20 Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. The author of six novels, a collection of short stories and an opera libretto, he has won numerous prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award and the Stonewall Journalist of the Year. His 2008 novel, 'The Northern Clemency', was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Prize. A regular presence in the British media, alongside his Wednesday column for The Independent, he writes for The Spectator and Mail on Sunday.
Friday 13 November 1998
Your eye may have slid over the last-but-three of the Government's idiocies, as mine certainly did. But apparently, a week or two back, the Minister for Women, Lady Jay, started going round saying that what young women needed was positive role models in life, to stop them going off the rails into a hell of motherhood, powerlessness, and, no doubt, reading novels in the mornings and eating too many violet creams while doing so.
What they needed, in short, even if they hadn't realised it until that moment was a Women's Unit, stuffed to the gills with bright-eyed clones of Lady Jay and inspiring models for the young such as, er, the portly teenage idol Billie and the suddenly ubiquitous Ginger Spice. And - this is the fingerprint of Lady Jay, the unmistakable moment when she goes one step too far and lands herself in the mire of her own frightful enthusiasms - the actress Emma Thompson.
Unfortunately, nobody had troubled to ask Ms Thompson whether she wanted to have anything at all to do with anything called a Women's Unit or to be bossed about by Lady Jay, or, indeed, whether she wanted to be anybody's role model.
Thompson is a national treasure without a doubt, a Margaret Rutherford for the next millennium, with her unfailing knack of saying the honest, intelligent and deeply eccentric thing about any subject under the sun, and what she said made you want to stand up and cheer.
She was, she said, "rather pissed off" at the notion. "It's very nannyist. I wasn't asked if I'd be a role model. I found out when a friend rang me to jeer at me. My immediate response was an overwhelming desire to go out and score a load of cocaine in rebellion. Because when I was young my role models were Mick Jagger and Marlon Brando."
If Emma Thompson hadn't been a role model before, she instantly turned herself into one with this excellent and admirable outburst. The idea that anyone would be the better for the daily contemplation of government- approved role models is one worthy of wonder. All this "role model" rubbish is, I think, American-inspired psychobabble. Rapists on Rikki Lake these days are always claiming that their crimes are due to the lack of a "positive male role model in the home environment".
Personally, I think the more useful thing for the growing child is a negative role model in the home environment, or elsewhere, pour encourager les autres. How many of the successful women of today have got where they are by looking at their mothers, doing the washing-up, and thinking, Please God, let me not end up like that?
It shouldn't be underestimated as a means of stimulating people to do their best. I remember, when I worked in the Journal Office of the House of Commons, every day looking at my boss and saying to myself, That's what's lying in store for you if you don't get your finger out.
And I don't think that's unusual. I've certainly got my own heroes, but they're an odd, ramshackle bunch, and, like everyone, I came to them on my own, and not because anyone told me they were the sort of people I ought to admire.
Henry Green, a novelist who spent the last 20 years of his life in a drunken stupor, would never be approved by Lady Jay for any kind of list. Others, like Alexander Burnes, the great Afghan administrator, or Marco Pantani the cyclist, are a bit more orthodox, but the point is that they're my heroes, and not ones which the Government has suggested to me. And they are certainly not there for behaving better than most people, but, usually, for behaving rather worse. I was always rather keen on Jarvis Cocker, but he wasn't a hero of mine until he unforgettably Spoke For England by waggling his bum at the appalling Michael Jackson.
One of the nicest features of the English has always been the fact that they much prefer heroic failures to more conventional role models. The great national role models tend to be drunks, lunatics, and, rather than the people who discovered DNA or conquered India, a man like Captain Scott, who got to the Pole second and whose expedition ended in disaster. And the young are no different, much preferring an eccentric like Robbie Williams to the squeaky-clean blameless spectacle of Lady Jay's approved pantheon.
Teenagers, as everyone knows, have a limitless contempt for adults. Rather than work against it by telling them the sort of people they ought to emulate and the sorts of heroes from history that they ought to revere, perhaps the government ought to go with the flow, and propose role models who can be the recipient of boundless amounts of contempt, ridicule and contumely.
Let the Government hold up Michael Winner as a fine upstanding example of what you might become if you work hard. Let them appoint Tara Palmer- Tomkinson to the Women's Unit; let a photograph of Barbara Cartland in a baseball cap be affixed to the wall of every classroom in the country; let the biographies of the Duchess of York and the novels of Edwina Currie be set for the GCSE in English; let the young, in short, have their laughing stocks. And when they stop laughing, they will, at least, feel relieved to be themselves, and start to find their own role models.
Actually, now I come to think of it, I might have hit on the reason Lady Jay was appointed to head up the Women's Unit in the first place.
musicReview: Culture Club performs live for first time in 12 years
Children's bookseller wins The Independent's new author search
Arts & Ents blogs
- 1 Revolutionary lost Caravaggio painting 'Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy' identified
- 2 McKamey Manor: This 'extreme' haunted house is the stuff of nightmares
- 3 Russell Brand says he will 'probably' give up acting to focus on his revolution
- 4 Watch what happened when food critics were unknowingly served McDonald's
- 5 David Beckham's Haig Club whisky is exactly what’s wrong with the Highlands
This is what a film sex scene actually looks like on set (mostly awkward)
Revolutionary lost Caravaggio painting 'Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy' identified
Pottermore: JK Rowling writes new Harry Potter story featuring 'greying' 33-year-old wizard
JK Rowling to publish new Harry Potter story online for Halloween
Fury, film review: Brad Pitt stars in visceral and brutally ugly drama that reminds us war is hell
Of course, teenage girls need role models – but not like beauty vlogger Zoella
Cameron is warned 'no possibility' of UK reducing immigration and that bid to bring in quota on migrant workers would be illegal
Support for EU membership 'at highest level since 1991' with most Brits wanting to stay 'in'
Thousands with degenerative conditions classified as 'fit to work in future' – despite no possibility of improvement
Tony Blair 'says Ed Miliband will lose 2015 general election'
Putin: The US is to blame for almost all the world's major conflicts

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Who am I? But God, through His Son Jesus has called me to Himself. I follow. I desire to see Him worshiped by every culture in every aspect of culture. Will you join me?
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GRILLED CHICKEN WITH FRESH HERBS
4 to 6 servings
Combine the first 8 ingredients together in large bowl or 13 x 9 x 2-inch glass baking dish. Place chicken in marinade, coating each half well. Cover and refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours. Baste chicken with marinade frequently.
Place chicken halves, bone-side or inside-down, on highest level of grill. Grill over slow charcoal coals (very ash gray and glowing) or gas grill set at low to medium temperature for 20 to 25 minutes, basting frequently with marinade. Turn chicken halves (over), skin side down, and continue grilling 10 minutes, basting frequently. Turn chicken halves (over) again and continue grilling 15 to 20 minutes longer or until fork tender and done, basting frequently with marinade. Season chicken with salt and pepper to taste after chicken has browned. Be careful not to burn chicken. Garnish each serving with a sprig of fresh basil and thyme.
Oven Method: Arrange chicken pieces, well basted with marinade, bone-side down in a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish. Bake, uncovered in a preheated moderate oven (350 degrees F.) for 25 to 30 minutes. Turn chicken halves (over) and continue baking an additional 20 to 30 minutes or until done, basting chicken halves frequently. Garnish as previously directed.
Note: With a sharp knife, split chickens in half lengthwise, cutting through the center of the breastbone and back.
Note: May use any desired chicken pieces (chicken breasts, wings, thighs, or drumsticks), if desired, in place of the split-in-half whole chickens.

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Make Your Own Magic Wand
Magic wand craft kit by Cotton Twist.
Create the magic wand using the cut out pieces. Perfect for three years & upwards, children can colour the star cut outs with their chosen pattern, then it's time to construct their wand. Once the stick & ribbons are taped on, the stars can be stuck together, ready for the self adhesive gems. Time to spread some magic with your very own fairy wand.
Perfect quick craft and party bag item.
Cotton Twist design and assemble each kit in the UK and aim to banish single use plastic consumption from a young age.

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SD governor calls on college board to ban drag shows and eliminate ‘preferred pronouns’
PIERRE, SD (AP) — Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has opened a hotline for complaints about South Dakota colleges and is calling on the state’s Board of Higher Education to ban drag shows, a announced Noem on Friday.
In a letter to the South Dakota Board of Regents, Noem said the states allowed “liberal ideologies to poison their colleges and universities.”
“On campuses across the country, students have learned the importance of diversity and equity and have had access to ‘safe spaces’ instead of learning to tolerate disagreement, discomfort and dissent. they’ll experience in the real world,” Noem wrote.
She called on the colleges’ board of supervisors to increase graduation rates, remove references to ‘preferred pronouns’ in school materials, cut administrative costs and ensure universities don’t accept money from China.
Noem presented the hotline to the Regents as a way to “hold our institutions accountable – and to ensure that we are all aware of what is happening at our taxpayer-funded colleges and universities”.
She added that information gathered from the hotline will guide policy changes.
“As I work with our Board of Trustees and Technical Education Council to chart our path to higher education, we are giving students, faculty and parents this tool to help them voice their concerns so that ‘they can be resolved,” Noem said in a statement.
In December, the Board of Regents ordered a review of college campus events and its policy on minors attending after a drag show at South Dakota State University was criticized by lawmakers. conservatives for being advertised as family-friendly.


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This book of historical anecdotes is set in the Northwestern Lake Superior region. It is fact filled, fast moving, humorous and witty with identifiable human faces. You will get to know the people who made America what it is today; fur traders, Indians, voyagers, lumberjacks, robber barons and homesteading pioneers. Travel through history on the Brule River of Wisconsin and along the shore of Lake Superior. Take note of the howls of the timber wolves, the war cries of the Ojibwe and Sioux, and the tales of the lumbermen.
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Jane’s historical astuteness was inherited from her father, Ed Pearson, a civic minded, public spirited community leader and dedicated historian with a cynical sense of humor. Jane was made aware of Northern Wisconsin’s unfolding history by visiting ancient Indian hunting camps, battlefields, voyager outposts, logging camps, and early homestead sites with her father as a guide. Jane and her father expanded their knowledge through reading, research, and interviews, and correspondence with old-timers of the area. Jane and her husband John have actively pursued a life of adventure while broadening their education. Going to school three nights a week, Jane and her husband kept active exploring the rivers and waterways of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Their favorite places were the Brule River (they canoed the Brule every month of the year except December and even canoed its largest tributary from Lake Nebagamon), the Apostle Islands of Lake Superior, and the expansive St. Louis River separating Minnesota from Wisconsin with its boundless maze of tributaries; the wild rice harvesting grounds of the Indians were their frequent sanctuaries. Fifteen years of their young lives were spent sailing and exploring with their home built 46-foot boat Dursmirg. Home based in Florida, they took up residence in Melbourne, Miami, Marathon, St. Petersburg, and St. Augustine. Jane and John took to the road by camper van and bicycle. Canada, Mexico, the U. S., and Europe were some of the places they explored. They live in Merida, Yucatan, in an ecology concept home of their own design. Their jungle sanctuary gives them a place and the inspiration for writing of their adventures and history.
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Book Description CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. 180 pages. 10.00x8.00x0.41 inches. This item is printed on demand. Bookseller Inventory # zk1492235989


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Apple has announced the casting of its global drama 'Pachinko' which will include Korean heartthrob Lee Min-Ho as one of its lead.
"Pachinko" which will start its production from October 26, will be an eight episode series. The drama will follow the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family, reported by Variety.
The plot will focus on the tales of war, forbidden romance, peace, love and triumph amidst the journeys between Korea, Japan and America. The story will be told in Korean, Japanese, and English.
The "Boys Over Flowers" star Lee Min Ho will play the character of Hansu, "a rich and powerful merchant with ties to organised crime."
Hansu's character is a mysterious one who hides a secret and pursues a forbidden romance which can lead him to dangerous situations.
Variety states that apart from casting Lee Min Ho, the project also includes popular actors such as Jin Ha (FX series 'Dev', Hamilton), Anna Sawai ( Fast and Furious 9), Soji Arai ( Cobra Kai and Legacies), Kim Min Ha and Kaho Minami in prominent roles.
Soo Hugh will be the main writer and executive producer of the show while Kogonada and Justin Chon will each be directing four episodes.


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Today completes one full year of blogging for me, and at the same time this is also my 100th blog article. In one year I have blogged about toilet paper three times, dead cats two times, poor eyesight four times, and made fun of myself countless times. But 100 posts doesn’t necessarily mean I’m a good writer, it just means I don’t have a life.
WAY TO GO JOSH YOU MADE IT A YEAR!!
Keep up the fun blogs we all love to read and give us a smile.


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A new release of pjsProfileBars for NinjaTrader 8 has been made available. You can upgrade by downloading the latest version from the pjsProfileBars and importing it to your Ninjatrader.
To view the changes in this release, please see the release notes.
There are quite a lot of new features and improvements in this release. Please check out the discord channel for many examples.


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Head back in time with us as we check out the inaugural Rocky Mountain Nationals from the stands at what was then called Budweiser Motorsports Park, now Rad Torque Raceway in Edmonton Alberta. Catch elimination action from Alcohol Funny Cars, Mountain Motor Pro Stock and period correct commercials! (KN)
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Indian actress Dia Mirza was spotted attending the Gallerie Angel Arts curated exhibition ‘In an Artist’s Mind’ held in Mumbai on August 14. For the event, the actress chose to wear a dark teal colored dress splattered with bold floral prints. A pretty outfit as such needed less accessorizing and thus, Dia decided on a single statement necklace. With her hair done in curls, she completed the look with nude strap pumps and embellished chain handbag. A pretty and elegant look!
Dia Mirza attends exhibition In An Artists Mind curated by Gallerie Angel Arts
A premium boutique art service, Gallerie Angel Arts is co-owned by Reshma Jani and Shwetambari Soni who both believe in selling modern contemporary Indian art with sensibility and thorough research. Besides Dia Mirza, many Indian celebs also chose to attend the exhibition.
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Dia Mirza 2015

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I joined the January Challenge 2022 this year. I create a portrait every year and this year as part of the January Challenge prompt I decided to mix it up and use traditional and digital techniques.
I learnt how to draw a portrait in a class with Peter Keegan about 4-5 years ago. Before that if you had asked me to draw a portrait the results would have been very unsettling, maybe even abstract.
When using digital medium I have to start with a sketch and import that into whatever program I am using and in this case it was Procreate.
Learning how to mix layer transparencies and layer interactions is probably the hardest part of digital media.
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Free agent Larry Allen is reportedly close to signing with the Cowboys.
Despite two recent injuries to their starting guards, the 49ers have not "renewed their interest" in free agent G Larry Allen.
Coach Mike Nolan revealed Monday that free agent Larry Allen called OL coach George Warhop last week to express interest in rejoining the 49ers.
49ers coach Mike Nolan put the chances of free agent OG Larry Allen rejoining the team at less than 50 percent Monday.
Veteran G Larry Allen's status remains a mystery to the 49ers.
NFL Network's Adam Schefter reports 49ers G Larry Allen will retire.
49ers G Larry Allen doesn't plan to retire this offseason.
49ers G Larry Allen is fully expected to report to training camp.
49ers left guard Larry Allen (knee) practiced in pads Thursday for the second straight day and will start on Sunday.
49ers OLs Larry Allen (knee) and Jonas Jennings (hand) are expected to play in Week 8, according to the Associated Press.
Larry Allen is among the San Francisco inactive players.
49ers G Larry Allen (doubtful, knee) practiced fully on Friday.
G Larry Allen (knee) practiced Thursday for the second straight day.
49ers G Larry Allen (doubtful, knee) practiced fully Wednesday.


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These lyrical ceramic pins are handcrafted by Northern California artist, Lynn Wood. Their simple shapes and bright rooftops remind us of cottages at the coast and cabins in the woods. Lynn's work is featured in galleries throughout California.
Glazed roofs in red and blue. (Sorry, lime is no longer available).
One Size: 1”w x 1½”h


Hunting with a bow is often considered a challenge for hunters, but hunting deer is an entirely different matter. You should be well prepared before you set out for hunting deer. It is always good to consult with a deer biologist or other expert in the field. You may even want to purchase a deer rifle.
While there are many common attributes of a bow and arrow, there are unique characteristics to every hunter. There are different bows for different purposes. And the more you practice, the better you become at shooting accurately. But with proper bow hunting deer in Victoria, some tips can help you become an expert.
Beginners often think that a bow is a cross between a spear and a bow. In reality, they are two completely different types of weapons. A spear is basically a slender, short-bladed weapon that has the sharp end jutting into the body of the animal, while the bow has the broad end forward and usually covers the entire width of the animal. The bow draws back on a bar that moves when you pull back on the string. This allows the hunter to draw back slightly to allow the arrow to properly penetrate the prey.
If you are new to bow hunting deer in Victoria, the best place to start is with a beginner’s guide. These guides will cover the basics of how the bow works, the arrows, how to release the bow and retrieve it, how to aim, and what your target might look like. Next, find a spot where you feel comfortable and safe enough to shoot. Practice in your own yard or out in the field for several days before heading to a deer season.
An arrow will need to be drawn back by using a pulley, which is similar to a mouse trap. The drawer and weight of the arrow are a part of the drawer. The arrow should also be relaxed in the puller so that it does not get caught on the handle. A puller that is too heavy may cause problems. Once the arrow is in place, the bow should be put on a stationary platform, such as a tree stump, a rock, or anything else that will provide it with support.
Deer hide out during the day, when they feel the effects of the temperature and humidity. At night, they are camouflaged against their surroundings, making them less obvious to hunters. The hide also provides them with protection from both cold and heat. When the archer starts shooting, the draw should be loose so that it doesn’t rub the hide or cause it to move.
The bow and arrow should not be pointed directly at the prey. You can use your rangefinder or device to help you aim. You can also practice this by aiming at a tree or other obstacle to practice aiming at moving targets.
With practice, a bow and arrow can be very accurate and much more effective than a spear or other hunting equipment. Before you head out to hunt deer, make sure you have been properly trained with a bow hunting deer in Victoria.


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Vineyards Walk Wine Tasting (optional) and Countryside Hike
As September is the peak of the Wine growing season, it's a good time to do this hike. Due to social distancing, the wine tour inside the winery no longer operates (for Protected content there are options to do wine tasting (outside) if you so wish, please see details at the bottom.
Walk through the UK's largest Vineyard
Pass one of England's most famous stately homes
Traverse a variety of picturesque woodlands
This is an amazing walk through Surrey countryside and vineyards.
The walk offers several fantastic viewpoints, and despite being relatively close to London, a deep rural tranquility. It will take you through a landscape of hidden valleys, woodlands, and gentle pastures and to the biggest British vineyard - Denbies Wine Estate, set in Protected content .
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LUNCH: Bring a packed lunch and water
Hike Pace: Medium
Trains: From London Victoria
Hike route: Boxhill station to Polesden Lacey to Denbies Vineyard to Boxhill station
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Hike fee: £5
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The meeting is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. This initiative comes close on the heels of the Indo-US tie up for clean coal technologies and also for the nuclear energy.
The Central government sources told FE: The European Commission has been financially supporting technical and economic research relating to the production and use of coal, and to occupational safety in the coal industry. A focus on clean coal technologies would enable coal to maintain its important contribution to secure and competitive energy supplied for Europe. India can benefit from European Commission and member countries in deploying clean coal technologies to improve efficiency and curb pollution. It is quite clear that India will have to largely depend upon coal for the capacity addition of 66,000 MW in the 11th plan.
Indias initiative deserves importance as according to International Energy Agency, India and China would account for nearly half of total world coal demand by 2030, up from 40% in 2003.
Moreover, IEA has projected that over 30 years, about $560 billion in incremental costs would be needed to build integrated gasified combined cycle (IGCC) in place of conventional coal in India and China. This represents an average of $18.6 billion per year for 30 years. Against this backdrop, the Centre and the private sector in India strongly feel the environmental consequences of this reliance on coal could be severe unless new technologies are successfully deployed to minimise emissions.


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Covington Associates Closes Three Transactions
Covington Associates, LLC, a leading Boston based investment bank serving middle-market clients spanning the healthcare, business services, consumer & industrial, and technology sectors, is pleased to announce the closing of three healthcare transactions in the past three weeks. Covington continues to see significant M&A activity within the middle market, as strategic buyers and financial sponsors continue to search for platform or add-on acquisition targets.
Walden Behavioral Care, LLC, is one of the first treatment facilities in the country to specialize in eating disorders and provide a full continuum of care for patients – inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient care – as well as inpatient programs for psychiatric patients. To further serve patients Walden has expanded to seven locations throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. Walden was recapitalized by Seacoast Capital, a PE fund focused on mezzanine debt and equity investments in lower-middle market businesses.
Location: Lawrenceville, GA
MedAllocators, Inc., a leading Medicare compliance and complex claims services company, and parent company, Ability Services Network, Inc., a leading provider of case management and technology services, were acquired by ExamWorks. The ASN and MedAllocators acquisition expands ExamWorks’ ability to provide cost containment solutions, adds case management capabilities and resources for workers’ compensation and disability clients.
Southeast Medical, Inc., a provider of urological medical supplies, was acquired by ABC Medical, a one-stop shop with a comprehensive line of medical supplies that includes catheters, ostomy and wound care supplies. Southeast Medical and ABC Medical have joined forces with a unified mission to provide their customers and healthcare professionals with unparalleled customer service.
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About Covington Associates
Covington Associates is an investment banking firm offering advisory services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions (“M & A”), capital raising, strategic advisory, fairness opinions, and valuations to middle-market companies across the Healthcare, Business Services, Consumer & Industrial, and Technology verticals. Founded in 1991 with offices in Boston, Chicago, and New York, the vision for Covington has been to provide clients with the highest caliber of senior-level attention and to remain an advice driven and results focused organization. Since its inception, Covington Associates has completed more than 200 transactions globally for both private and publicly traded companies totaling over $15 billion.
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Using Renewable Energy to Increase Access to Potable Water
- Jun 15, 2021 4:52 pm GMT
There is a longstanding connection between low-income regions and limited clean water accessibility. Flint, Michigan, is a notorious example of a potable water disaster, causing community-wide adverse health effects. President Biden’s Build Back Better policy increases environmental justice while expanding the clean energy industry.
We may utilize renewable energy, developing clean water extraction and generation devices that align with national infrastructure alterations. Increasing drinking water accessibility sourced from solar, and wind power can also decrease our carbon footprint. Limiting localized pollution may conserve natural resources and protect struggling communities.
Rising Access Challenges
Nearly 2.1 billion individuals lack access to safe drinking water. Part of the problem derives from limited resources and maintenance education. Rising energy costs also significantly affect potable water extraction and generation.
The water sector accounts for 42% of global energy consumption. A significant portion of power generation derives from fossil fuels. The greenhouse gas emitting fuel cost rises each year, limiting a region’s ability to support potable water processing financially.
Another accessibility challenge is the increasing global population. It expands by 1.05% each year, limiting our ability to distribute drinking water equitably. Though sea levels are rising, our freshwater resources are decreasing.
Water covers over 71% of the planet. The oceans contain nearly 96.5% of the total resource, leaving limited freshwater resources. As the global temperature rises and ice caps melt, sea levels rise rather than freshwater sources.
Fortunately, renewable energy-driven devices are increasing communities’ accessibility to potable water. Environmental scientists and engineers developed production and extraction systems, generating enough potable water to secure basic human needs.
Rising sea levels may increase our clean water accessibility when filtered through a solar desalination system. Solar panels convert light into electricity at a 20% efficiency rate on average. The remaining heat absorbed by the device is considered a waste.
Scientists developed a conversation technique, utilizing excess heat for the desalination of seawater. They produced a three-stage distillation system connected to the backside of a panel. Excess heat causes ocean water evaporation.
The desalinated water rises into collection chambers for further treatment. Researchers found the seawater conversion system generated three times more potable water than traditional solar stills. It additionally utilizes zero energy when in use, significantly reducing the cost of freshwater extraction.
Another solar-powered potable water device converts brackish water, contaminated freshwater and seawater into a drinkable resource. Similar to the apparatus discussed above, a team of researchers developed an evaporation extraction solar device. The system converts all water sources into a potable substance, eliminating toxic runoff and generating drinkable solutions
A highly efficient photothermal feature extends on the non-potable source’s surface. It generates heat from sunlight through a solar panel above, evaporating and collecting freshwater. As a result, the device loses zero energy during processing and generates additional power from the water source.
Together, the solar and water source create 170% non-emission energy. The solar filtration device is ideal for inland communities that live by polluted ponds or lakes. It is also useful for regions without water sources.
Solar filtration systems can convert wastewater into a potable solution. Renewable energy devices can extract freshwater from treatment facilities, increasing a community's accessibility to drinking water and reducing traditional chemical pollution from processing methods. The solar device exposes wastewater to heat and light, destroying microbial threats.
Wind Extracted Water
Vici Labs, UC Berkeley and the National Peace Corps Association developed a renewable energy-driven clean water device called the WaterSeer. The system uses a wind turbine, extracting moisture from the air. Then, it filters the water into a chamber six feet underground.
The community above can pump the potable water into their homes for drinking, bathing, irrigation and more. It generates 11 gallons of water a day on average. In addition, WaterSeer prices its devices at $134, creating global accessibility.
Other condensation extraction devices use fossil fuel-driven energy and chemical treatment, creating potable water and pollution. The WaterSeer systems generate zero emissions and organically filter drinkable substances. The National Peace Corps Association will use the device, delivering clean drinking water to struggling communities.
The Future of Water
Our current potable water extraction and generation methods exploit natural resources and create greenhouse gas emissions. We can expect to see an integration of renewable energy into the water sector in the coming years. The green technology aligns with Biden’s Build Back Better policy and the Paris Agreement.
Expanding clean energy-driven potable water production can reduce resource scarcity and shrink the global carbon footprint. It may also increase low-income communities’ accessibility to drinking water. Over time, our adoption of renewable energy can enhance resource conservation and climate change prevention efforts.
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Tiny Steps of Love: Heartwarming Baby Footprints Poems
Welcome to our collection of Baby Footprints Poems! Here at 1LovePoems, we know that babies have a special way of leaving their mark on our lives, and what better way to celebrate that bond than through poetry? From heartwarming and sentimental to lighthearted and humorous, our range of poems on this topic will surely capture the joy and love that comes with welcoming a little bundle of joy into your world. So take a stroll through our page and enjoy the footprints left behind by these tiny miracles.
1. “Tiny Toes”
Tiny toes, so soft and new
Leaving marks, just for you
Little feet, so full of grace
A precious reminder in every space
2. “First Steps”
First steps taken, wobbly and unsure
Guided by love, with each foot on the floor
Growing stronger, day by day
Walking towards a bright, new way
Tiny feet, oh so sweet
Leaving behind a trail of memories complete
From crawling to toddling, to running free
These moments are cherished, forever to be
With every step, a new journey begins
And a new adventure around the bend
Baby feet lead the way, exploring anew
Guided by love, and the world in view.
Tiny toes and chubby feet,
Wobbling steps down the hall.
A journey of discovery,
As baby learns to stand tall.
Stumbling and tumbling,
Little hands reach out for aid.
But with the passing of time,
Strength and balance are gained.
Each step a triumph,
A milestone to be proud.
A journey that begins with these,
Little steps, nothing too loud.
Mark of Love
A symbol of hope,
Of love and of joy.
A miracle from above,
A new life to employ.
Memories etched onto paper,
The prints of their tiny feet.
A mark of love to treasure,
A memory that’s oh so sweet.
Framed and kept in sanctuary,
A timeless work of art,
The mark of love created,
A forever love in heart.
A rhythm in their step,
A beat for all to hear,
A wondrous love of music,
A passion we hold dear.
Little feet move and mimic,
Every beat and every tune.
Where did they learn the rhythm?
Seems innate, perhaps, a boon.
A lifetime of dancing,
Lies ahead in wait.
Those tiny feet an indicator,
Of a love that won’t abate.
So let them dance and revel,
In this music of our world.
For their little feet are but,
A dancing flag unfurled.
The Little Footprints of Our World
Tiny little feet that leave a mark,
Innocent and pure, with each step embark,
On a journey that’s just begun,
Their little footprints shining like the sun.
As they grow, their steps get bigger,
Their footprints start to change and figure,
Out the path that they will take,
Their little feet, a choice they will make.
These footprints on the ground,
Are proof that they are always around,
Even when they’re grown and gone,
Their little prints linger on.
Whether they’re playing in the sand,
Or walking in a foreign land,
Their little feet will leave a trace,
Of the love that helped them find their place.
With each step, they leave their mark,
On our hearts and on the dark,
They light the way for us to see,
The beauty that lies ahead, the journey that’s free.
So cherish every little print,
For they’re the ones that helped them tint,
Their world with joy and love,
The little footprints of our world above.

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I bought a XEON E3-1275 v6 for a freenas build/upgrade but I got the wrong MB. As the MB I got was newer I decided to put a cheap i3-9100 in and stick with the newer platform. But now I am stuck with a xeon that owes me AU$500.
Does anyone know where I can find a MB to suit this cpu? I can only find one available and it isn’t cheap!
To use all Xeon functionalities you need a C236 chipset if I remember correct.
For a reasonable price (being from Europe) I found the Supermicro x11ssh-f for example. New for about 200 € (320 AU$). But if you check the used market (I do not know your customs, tax and import restrictions) you could get a bargain. Sometimes buying a used (could fit in a HP Z240) workstation or server could help you, good hunt. On aliexpress I found many motherboards with a C236, but check yourself and double check with the MOBO-Vendor (compatibility).
You should check at Intel`s ARK if the C232 chipset would an alternative to expand the numbers of possible boards.
Btw: Idk why you like to stick to an (your explanation, 500 AU$… on eBay total workstations with that chip are not much more…) much too expensive quadcore. Have you considered to sell it and the old mobo/cpu etc. to buy sth. else like TR4 or AM4 would be also a way to go.


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An AWIU Conversation with Dr. Rita Nyampinga
International Woman of Courage Dr. Rita Nyampinga has been busy since returning to Harare, Zimbabwe from her stateside visit in 2020 to collect her IWOC award. On June 18th, she shared what she’s been doing with women recently released from prison in a Conversation with AWIU members and friends.
Known for her advocacy on behalf of female prisoners, Dr. Rita is the recipient of two awards for her activism: “Female Human Rights Activist of the Year” by Alpha Media House in 2014, and two years ago, the International Women of Courage award. She is currently the Social and Economic Justice Ambassador for Zimbabwe’s Coalition on Debt and Development.
Dr. Rita explained that she is using the IWOC grant she received from AWIU to fund a mushroom farming project for 15 former female prisoners. For the 35-year activist, it’s all about providing these women with the capability to control their own lives through economic empowerment. Says Dr. Rita, “Without money, someone else controls your life for you.”
It was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she visited a women’s prison, that Dr. Rita dreamed up her program of economic empowerment. “In Zimbabwe, when women come out of prison, they are ostracized by their families and friends,” she explained. “Many of these women were imprisoned for public demonstration, which you cannot do without police clearance.” Having been imprisoned herself, Dr. Rita was well-acquainted with the prison system and the aftermath of rejection and despair when she came out.
In the 18 months since the start of the mushroom cultivation project, 15 women have reintegrated into their communities via mushrooming and gardening. “I provided the equipment they needed, engaged a trainer, and got them started,” she said. They work in groups of five, and have received business training to learn accountability for the funds they raise from selling mushrooms.
The women also receive psycho-social counseling, a critical service in Dr. Rita’s eyes. “Our process is about reintegration, rehabilitation, reconciliation, and restoration,” she said. “Restoration occurs when the women work and generate income. Once this happens, they are accepted by their families and communities.”
A success story close to Dr. Rita’s heart: “One of these women started growing tomatoes. She has built a house and sent eight children to school on the proceeds. She is head of her family and an accepted member of the community now.”

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“These Are The 13 Rules Of Gunfighting Everyone Should Know”
The average response time of a 911 call is 23 minutes, the response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second.
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If you need any proof at all that governments in this very country intend to use gun registries as a
This is so unconstitutional and it is outrageous behavior from Obama, the ATF and our government. If this ban stands,
Kansas has now passed the strongest pro-gun law in America. The bill nullifies any attempts by the federal government to


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What happens now that a number of permits are released - for those in the six regions of Pennsylvania who were granted a permit and for those who did not? Hear from individuals most involved in medical marijuana developments here in Pennsylvania and in the nation.
• Next steps and options that exist for applicants not accepted in the initial round of permits
• Federal interplay under the Trump administration for medical marijuana
• Forfeiture of real or personal property
• Banking and revenue
• Scams and frauds to avoid

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Hostagentd may log the following errors on startup every ten seconds for up to a couple of minutes for each deployed guest on each slot: err hostagentd: 01820004:3: Failed to create directory (/var/run/vcmpd/guest1/json): (2, No such file or directory). err hostagentd: 01820004:3: Failed to ensure JSON dir (/var/run/vcmpd/guest1/json) for guest (guest1) is writeable. Not fetching health status.
None. This is a cosmetic issue.
The system is provisioned for vCMP and has guests in the deployed state when the system is starting up.
The cosmetic issue in which hostagentd logged 'Failed to create directory' on startup has been fixed. The fix eliminates any directory creation race conditions where one daemon attempts to create a directory whose parent directory is created by one of the other daemons.


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Omarosa Manigault Newman is in the news again, this time for talking about President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump's marriage on Lorraine. In Omarosa's 2018 book Unhinged, she dished on some of the president's personal life, or what she saw of it after meeting the president on The Apprentice and eventually becoming Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in 2017. But her most recent comments offer an even more bizarre view of the president's marriage.
For what it's worth, President Trump's legal team allegedly tried to block Unhinged from being published in the first place, per Daily Mail. In October 2020, Trump's campaign even went as far as to suggest that Omarosa pay for campaign ads as a "corrective" measure, suggesting that Omarosa's statements in the book were not true but could have cost Trump voters, per The New York Times. Eric W. Rose, a crisis management expert, wrote in a proposal for the campaign's case: "If corrective ads are not placed, voters may continue to hold beliefs about the president as a result of Ms. Manigault Newman's statements." He also claimed that Omarosa violated her confidentiality agreement.
Once Trump's legal and PR teams hear what Omarosa had to say about the president's marriage, they will likely be even more unhappy with the former aide.
Omarosa called Donald Trump's marriage "strange"
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Omarosa Manigault Newman had a lot to say about President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump's marriage in an October 2020 appearance on Lorraine, via The Daily Mail. She said, "It's a very strange marriage. I'm very cautious to comment on the dynamics of a marriage because you never know what goes on behind closed doors. But I have known this couple since they were dating, they got married a year after The Apprentice aired." She added that the "strange" dynamic was on display when Melania seemingly pulled her hand away from Trump at the final presidential debate. There are also other videos in Melania seems to rebuff her husband's affection. Omarosa continued, "What I have observed in the last 17 years would make your head spin. Sometimes they like each other but sometimes she is repulsed by him."
Although Trump's team has tried to block the promotion of Omarosa's book Unhinged in what the former aide has called a "crazy journey," per the Daily Mail's report, she continues to stand by her comments. American voters may never fully understand what goes on between the first couple in the White House, but it all sure does make for good gossip.


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New body armor to boost officer safety
The Moon police department is replacing almost all of its protective vests, after the manufacturer said the vests may wear out faster than expected.
Police Capt. Leo McCarthy said he placed the order for 22 new vests Friday from Second Chance Body Armor Inc.
The company, based in Michigan, recently acknowledged that its lightweight Ultimax and Ultima protective vests may break down under high heat and moisture, and has offered upgrades to existing vests for free or replacement vests at discount.
“Officers have been in jeopardy,” McCarthy said. “Almost weekly, one of our guys is taking a loaded gun off someone. It may be a traffic stop or a domestic call, but luckily none of us have gotten hurt. We want to get these vests as fast as possible.”
Forest Hills police Officer Ed Limbacher was wearing a Second Chance Ultima on June 23 when a .40-caliber bullet pierced the vest during a drug arrest. The vest, purchased in January, is being tested by the Allegheny County crime lab and the National Institute of Justice.
McCarthy said all departments that use the vests were offered either free inserts to upgrade the current vests, or discounts on Monarch vests with higher anti-ballistic capabilities.
The Monarch normally costs $1,100, but the Moon department will pay $350, which includes the discounted vest priced at $309 and additional inserts costing $41.
Moon police will order the 22 new Monarch vests, and two sets of the free insert upgrades for two officers who are retiring at the end of the year. The department has 30 full-time officers but the remaining six officers are either on disability leave or use a vest by a different manufacturer.
The vests will be paid for through each officer’s $250 yearly clothing allowance.
McCarthy said the department asked Moon supervisors to allow police to use this year’s clothing allowances, and to withdraw $100 from the 2004 allowances to make up the difference. Supervisors agreed.
McCarthy said he does not know when the vests will arrive.


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"Pro-regime forces initiated hostilities with artillery pieces (howitzers). Additionally, Syrian pro-regime forces maneuvered T-55 and T-72 main battle tanks with supporting mortar fire in what appears to be a coordinated attack on Syrian Democratic Forces approximately 8 kilometers (5 miles) east of the Euphrates River de-confliction line in Khusham, Syria," Veale said.


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Section V and NYSPHSAA Golf Tournaments
Only appropriate golf attire will be allowed at the tournaments. Jeans and t-shirts will not be allowed. This is not a Section V or NYSPHSAA rule but the rule of the clubs where our tournaments are played. Please respect this rule or you will be asked to purchase items in the pro shop or local retailer, go home and change into appropriate clothing, cover up the inappropriate clothing with appropriate golf attire, or asked to leave the event.
Cell phones, pagers, and other electronic devices are NOT ALLOWED on the golf course during play.
The use of motorized golf carts is NOT PERMITTED.
Parents, relatives, and friends are permitted to follow the competitors (in the rough area and away from the tee). There will be NO COMMUNICATION permitted at any time.
There will be NO COACHING of the competitors by coaches or spectators during the round of play. Any player communicating with or receiving coaching may be penalized two strokes or disqualified from the tournament.
Keep cheering positive and encourage other spectators to participate in the spirit of good sportsmanship. There should be no profanity, degrading language, or gestures towards a competitor in offensive nature.
Show appreciation of good play by all competitors, treating them in a manner in which you would expect to be treated.
Learn the rules of the game in order to be a better informed spectator.
Accept the judgment of tournament officials.
During inclement weather, when the horns sounds, spectators
should take the following precautions:
Move toward parking lots
Seek shelter in automobiles, buses, or the clubhouse
In all circumstances, avoid the following:
Hilltops and high places
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Return to Team Championship Page
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While pulling a favorite sweater over your head, you inhale a hefty dose of body odor. Perspiration seeps into fabric fibers, gripping the threads with unyielding force. Force out the funky fragrance from your fave sweater with odor-destroying cleaners.
Cut two lemons in half and squeeze the liquid into a closed sink. Place the sweater into the sink.
Add enough cool water to the sink to cover the sweater. Swish the clothing around to distribute the liquid throughout the material. Leave the sweater to soak in the lemon fragrance for 30 minutes.
Drain the sink and gently squeeze out the excess liquid from the sweater. Avoid wringing the material as you could stretch the fabric.
Wash the sweater normally with 1 tbsp. liquid detergent. Remove the sweater from the washer and dry outside on the clothesline or inside on a drying rack.
Fill a clean bucket with tepid water. Mix in 1/2 cup baking soda. Stir the water with your hand to dissolve the soda completely.
Dunk the sweater in the bucket. Move the sweater in the water to disburse the baking soda evenly. Leave the sweater soaking for 30 minutes.
Take the bucket to the washer and place the sweater inside. Launder normally with 1 tbsp. liquid detergent. Dry the sweater according to the care label or on a drying rack.
Dry-Clean Only Sweaters
Lay a towel on an outdoor table. Place the sweater on the towel.
Sprinkle baking soda lightly over one side of the sweater, then turn over and sprinkle it on the opposite side. Leave the sweater in the sun for 2 to 3 hours. The sun kills any bacteria, while the baking soda absorbs the odor.
Shake the sweater to remove the baking soda from the material. Have the sweater dry-cleaned at the next opportunity.
Clean sweaters soon after body odor invades the material to reduce the chance of lingering odors.
Test a small segment of the fabric with the lemon or baking soda before treatment to make sure it does not affect the dyes in the material.