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Politics in 2018 is about finding the people you agree with. #MeToo. Everyone is balkanized into self-confirming echo chambers. The AI and the scripted media have managed to get people to self-segregate into congruous interest groups that demonize non-conforming ideas. These cliques can be seeded with highly charged or weaponized “yellow” information that whips them into a frenzy. Many of these groups have “dog whistles” or phrases known to rile them up so much more than any other group.
Law Enforcement Officers are balkanized behind their thin blue line, so while overall, police officer deaths on duty went down in 2017, law enforcement’s psychological posture is approaching utter paranoia, where they’re at DEFCON 1 and trigger happy, which in turn enrages over-policed racial populations who have endured decades of institutional racism compounded by elements of self-inflicted cultural suicide.
Middle-age, middle-class, mostly-white people have been told that they don’t matter and that they can’t say that they want to matter because of the passive bigotry they exude as a result of being born with un-sheddable privilege.
Employment Unions balkanize people into an “us” vs. “them” mentality, and the public employee unions are the worst at exploiting their low-information workers.
Churches balkanize people into sects, denominations, home groups, etc.
Instant entertainment on demand through SmartPhones has given rise to a whole generation who get their way (*all the time*).
1,000 channels of linear TV programming and unlimited VOD from YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, WorldStarHiphop delivered through personal devices issued to every family member with thumbs; have made it so that people never have to gather the patience and deference to tolerate a 60 minute TV show in the living room that may not be their pick… all because Dad wants to watch something different for a change.
Everything is personal and instant and everyone is special, so shared experience where kids defer to elders and tolerate each other is a dead concept. That should terrify all of us.
This is how it is in 2018.
But in another era, it was considered important and valuable to have a diversity of intellectual influences and a diversity of cultural or experiential inputs. Justice Clarence Thomas, in a rare interview granted to his former law clerk, Laura Ingraham, expounded upon the value of having a range of experiences and even wondered if it's that lack of shared experience that is causing "e Pluribus Unum" to lose it's "Unum".
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Nazis. I Hate These Guys.
Here's a couple of panels from a recent HALF PAST DANGER page. Yes, that flying wing is a blatant nod to Raiders, that's the kind of thing that makes my little brain giddy. Head on over here to see the full page if yer arsed.

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I'm Taylor, I'm twenty, and I live in Ohio. I'm going to school for graphic design. I like cats, food, Fall Out Boy, and Brand new. I just want to make people happy and make things pretty.
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Just putting this here again because it’s legit now. I’M JUST OVER HERE DROWNING IN MY FEELINGS

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This book offers a clear, practical and inspiring guide to dropping our personal and cultural conditioning and living more satisfying lives as our true selves.”
NAROOMA, Australia (PRWEB) July 25, 2015
When he realized the need for a practical and easily readable guide to escaping the bonds of the conditioned self, author Ray Field decided to pen his new self-help guide, “The Beautiful Essence of You: How to Stop Feeling Bad and Be Who You Really Are” (published by Balboa Press AU).
The “conditioned self” is defined as a state of being associated with automatic and repetitive patterns of thought, emotion and behavior that have been learned in the context of past experience. In “The Beautiful Essence of You,” Field offers readers clear, practical and inspiring guidance to dissolve this unhelpful programming.
Field’s book begins with an explanation of how the essence of each person is deeper than their body, thoughts and emotions. It explains how from birth people become mistakenly identified with their outer selves and become attached to all sorts of tangible and intangible things – money, love, achievement and much more.
The book suggests many practical activities that will help readers to dissolve conditioned attachment and become more conscious and “present” in each moment of their lives. Each of these activities, Field says, will help readers to feel more peaceful, authentic and satisfied.
“Most people find that contentment remains elusive all their lives,” Field says. “This is because most of our thoughts and actions come from our conditioning, rather than from our inner selves. This book offers a clear, practical and inspiring guide to dropping our personal and cultural conditioning and living more satisfying lives as our true selves.”
“The Beautiful Essence of You”
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Ray Field has had a lifelong interest in the human condition and human potential. He has been involved in personal explorations, professional work and formal study in the field for more than 40 years. These investigations have included award-winning doctoral research into the nature of human learning, knowledge and intelligence and the need for a new paradigm for the education of human beings. Field has had numerous writings published in books, journals and magazines.
Balboa Press Australia is a division of Hay House, Inc., a leading provider in publishing products that specialise in self-help and the mind, body and spirit genre. Through an alliance with supported self-publishing leader Author Solutions, LLC, authors benefit from the leadership of Hay House Publishing and the speed-to-market advantages of the Author Solutions self-publishing model. For more information or to start publishing today, visit balboapress.com.au/ or call 1800 050 315. For the latest, follow @balboapress on Twitter and “Like” us at facebook.com/BalboaPress.

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When the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) passed in 2020, many small businesses focused immediately on securing Payroll Protection Program (PPP) forgivable loans. But there was another, less well-known program introduced in the CARES Act called the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC), or the Employee Retention Credit. This refundable credit is available for employers who were impacted by the pandemic. It can be claimed when eligible employers file their quarterly federal employment tax returns. The rules have been amended twice since the CARES Act, resulting in more eligible businesses and higher potential credits.
Asure created this guide as a resource to help you determine whether your company is eligible to receive the ERTC and how to file for it. A high-level decision tree will help you work through many of the factors that can impact your ERTC decisions. We will examine the interplay of ERTC with other programs such as PPP and FFCRA paid leave. Finally, we’ll address five of the most common misconceptions and myths surrounding ERTC.
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For complete details about ERTC, visit the IRS website here: COVID-19-Related Employee Retention Credits: How to Claim the Employee Retention Credit FAQs | Internal Revenue Service (irs.gov)
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Fender Stratocaster U.S.A. Autographed by Eric Johnson "Mint" Cond. Collectable. This guitar is in excellent condition, looks brand new. Not a single scratch. It is signed by Eric Johnson, one of the most well respected guitarists on the planet. The guitar is "perfect" and all original, whammy bar and soft case included.
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Start your days off right with these whole grain breakfast options!
Follow these tips to stay healthy this holiday season!
Bring awareness to heart health this month!
Let’s eat more whole grains!
Three easy ways to include whole grains in your daily meals.
Tips for keeping grain products like bread, pasta, and tortillas, fresh and delicious.
Learn about the ideal serving size for different grain products, according to Canada’s Food Guide.
What to look for when choosing healthy granola bars.
Enjoy this beef and barley soup recipe on cold fall and winter days.
We know how hard it is to ensure you and your family are enjoying a healthy lifestyle that includes whole…

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Arnold Schwarzenegger was given the “Legend of the Century” Award at the German GQ Awards with a whole bunch of top celebrities, musicians, actors and actresses attending the glitzy bash.
Some 850 invited guests enjoyed an awards ceremony full of high spots with Arnie’s son, Patrick Schwarzenegger, seeing his dad, awarded the top honor for his unique career.
The German GQ Gentlemen’s Quarterly Magazine handed out the 19th “GQ Men of the Year Awards in Berlin with honors awarded in ten categories to leading personalities in international and German show business and music, as well as in sports and fashion.
Arnie can currently be seen in the action comedy Killing Gunther. Check out the behind-the-scenes footage below on the Official Celebrity WotNot YouTube Channel:
VIDEO: Arnold Schwarzenegger in Why We’re Killing Gunther – Behind The Scenes
An emotional moment was provided by the award to Philipp Lahm, who was honored both for his distinguished sports’ feats and his commitment to social issues.
A touch of glamour was provided by the onstage appearance of models Johannes Huebl (“Influencer of the Year”) and David Gandy (“Style Icon”), as well as Thom Browne, who won “Designer of the Year.” One special highlight of the night was the award to the film “Welcome to Germany.”
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Actor Clemens Schick who presented the category praised the humane, funny, and yet profound way it dealt with the subject of refugees.
The official partners of this year’s award ceremony are Hugo Boss Fragrance, Volkswagen AG, Outletcity Metzingen, Grey Goose, Thomas Sabo, I-Clip, John Reed Fitness Music Club, AlphaTauri, and the Hotel Regent, Berlin.
The awards show did not lack for top-class musical entertainment either. Germany’s pop meister Mark Forster opened the gala with his hit “Chöre,” and later took to the stage with his most recent title “Kogong.”
He won the GQ Award in the category “Music/national” for his musical success. Gregory Porter struck an entirely different musical note. The winner in the category “Music/international” presented a live medley of his jazz songs.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Trivia: Arnie was a soccer player when he was younger but chose to concentrate on bodybuilding at age 14!

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Artistic Form and Yoga in the Sacred Images of India
By Heinrich Zimmer | Contributed to by Campbell
This pioneering work now in English opened C. G. Jung`s eyes to the psychological and spiritual significance of the Indian Mandala, and it remains the clearest introduction to the essence of Indian art and Yoga for both the specialist and general reader. Translated from the German and edited by Gerald Chapple and James B. Lawson. Foreword by Joseph Campbell.
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It’s official: South Dakota corn growers saw record yields in 2020
Back in October, many of the state’s corn growers couldn’t believe the amount of kernels running through their combines.
Little did they know that South Dakota farmers were in the process of reaching a record corn yield for the state, harvesting an average of 162 bushels per acre, a statistic confirmed today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The 2020 corn yield squeaks past the previous record, set in 2016 when farmers averaging 161 bushels per acre according to Erik Gerlach, a state statistician with the USDA.
Corn yield for 2020 was projected to reach 165 bushels per acre in the November crop production report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. At its realized high, it misses that mark by three bushels, but exceeds 2019’s yield by 18 bushels.
All in all, South Dakota farmers harvested 4.50 million acres of corn in 2020 — up 16% from 2019. Based on year-end surveys, corn for grain production is estimated at 729 million bushels, up 31% from 2019.
Thanks to an early and dry planting season in eastern South Dakota free of the flooding that slowed 2019 production, most farmers were able to get their corn crop planted, said Jonathan Kleinjan, a South Dakota State University Extension agronomist, back in October. A continuing combination of timely rains and a buildup of moisture in the subsoil, the layer where most of a corn plant’s roots are, carried growth through to an early harvest.
Soybean and oil sunflower harvest also had increased yields from 2019, up 53% and 36%, respectively.
According to crop production reports for surrounding states, Iowa yielded an average of 178 bushels per acre, Minnesota averaged 192 bushels per acre and North Dakota averaged 139 bushels per acre.

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The Dead Sea is one of Jordan's main tourist attractions. Its high content of salt and other minerals make its waters not apt for marine life, hence its name.
In this region of Jordan there are other destinations worth visiting: Madaba, a small town famous for its mosaics; Mount Nebo, from where Moses witnessed the promised land; and Bethany, where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.
On the following pages I will give you information about how to get to the Dead Sea, about things to do, and about other sites to visit in this area.
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With its small size, this 3mm XILION sapphire bicone is a great way to slip a touch of blue into your designs. This bead is the smallest bicone to feature the new XILION cut from Swarovski. The cut has twelve upgraded facets for added sparkle and replaces the previous style of 5301 faceted bicones. Now known as the 5328 XILION cut bicone, the new design is sure to be a fabulous addition to your designs. Feel free to browse for other Swarovski bicones. This bead makes an excellent accent in seed bead embroidery and weaving projects.
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Bond reveal their highlights from this years Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat party conferences. They review some of the speeches, activities and events on international development and breakdown what was said. They will also release another article with highlights from the Scottish National Party conference later in the month.
“Under this government, we will continue to meet the international aid target, spending 0.7% of our GNI on international development. That’s not just because it’s good for Britain, but because it is the right thing to do.” Theresa May
Bond state that Theresa May’s speech ‘was perhaps the longest championing of UK aid in a speech that we have heard from a British Prime Minister in a long time. Usually we get the short “and that is why we are keeping our commitment to the world’s poorest through our 0.7% of GNI”. It was excellent to hear the Prime Minister speak so passionately about why the UK must stand tall and deliver UK aid and development. Perhaps, once and for all, she was trying to stop the ongoing debate about UK aid within her party.’
Bond is the UK membership body for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in international development. Read their full piece here.

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Pedro is an ex-repressor from the last Argentine dictatorship. He lives in freedom and defends his innocence in an interview about the case of Dina, a young woman who was kidnapped during the dictatorship.
Director and writer Eugenio Canevari
Original Music Joan Bramón Mora
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Baptist Global Response
BGR partners provided water filters for families in SE Asia whose drinking water became filled with bacteria and pollutants during monsoon floods.
A total of 1,353 children received education through BGR partners from January through May 2013.
BGR partners provided 300 primary school children in N Africa with their only access to material they could read.
Due to the escalating violence and turmoil in Syria, Syrians are fleeing to surrounding countries.

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Walter interviews the melodic punk hc legend from Sweden MISCONDUCT!
1. Hi guys, you’re welcome in FIRE ALIVE EXTREME WEBZINE!
Introduce your band to our readers, please.
Hi everyone! We are MISCONDUCT, a punkrock band from Sweden. The band consists of Fredrik Olsson
on Vocals/Guitar, Erik Ydlinger on Guitar, Simon Guidoum on Bass and Daniel Petri on Drums.
2. What’s new on “One step closer”? How would you describe the new album?
Well there’s a lot of things that are new on our new album. To begin with I think “One Step Closer” is by far the most diverse album that we ever made and there is definitely a song for everyone on the album. Production wise “One Step Closer” is a big step for us and we put a lot of time and effort into getting the great sound of the album. Also when I wrote the songs for this album I wrote all the music for two guitars instead of one guitar like all our previous albums. So there are a lot more harmonies in the music then ever before which makes all the songs more interesting. We’ve developed a lot as a band and also me as a songwriter and I think that we all really challenged ourselves on this album.
3. How was the experience in the recording studio? Tell us a “mini-story” about, please.
The recording of “One Step Closer” was a really great experience for us all and we worked a lot different on this album. For example we didn’t really take a break from playing shows when we did this album and I even wrote some of the songs on the album after we started the recording. So you could say that we went in and out of the studio during the whole recording process playing shows between the recording sessions which were very inspiring plus it made the whole recording a lot more fun and relaxed. Also working with producer Marcus Nowak who is also a good friend of ours was an important factor on making this album what it is today. And Marcus who is a very hard and demanding producer really got the best out of us as a band.
4. Are you guys viewed as being political, is that correct?
Well we don’t really consider us being a political band. We’re just a band with a lot of opinions. We’re not here to decide for people what to do but to inspire and maybe open up your eyes to things. We want MISCONDUCT to be a positive force and we wanna inspire people to be the best they can be.
5. What’s the responsibility of punk rock in today’s world? What’s your message about?
If you have the power to affect young people I think you have the responsibility to be a good role model and use your position to do good.
6. What’s a Misconduct show? Mosh, sing along, pogo…? Our readers want to know!
Misconduct is all about moshpit, stage diving, crowd surfing, pogo, circle pit and sing alongs. Violent style has no place at a MISCONDUCT show! The MISCONDUCT crowd is always looking out for each other like a family. Unity above all!
7. How’s going on the scene in Sweden? Are you guys spending still a lot of time in your Country or, at the contrary, are you always around the world?
We just did a very successful Sweden tour in April/May to promote our new album “One Step Closer” and all the shows were fucking amazing! In the past we haven’t focused that much on playing shows in Sweden but we are definitely looking to change that and we will tour Sweden again in November.
Every year we try to do at least two European tours, one Sweden/Scandinavian tour and at least one trip to North America but we are also looking to go to new places in the world like Japan, South East Asia, Australia, South America etc…
8. Have you ever been to the US for a tour? Tell us you thoughts about, please.
We been touring all over Canada 4 times but we’ve never done a solid US tour. However we are working on doing a US tour to promote the US release of our new album “One Step Closer”.
9. What are your plans for the near future? Do you have anything special planned?
Well we’ve just released our new album “One Step Closer” in Europe with I Scream Records so we will spend most our time this summer with playing festivals all over Europe. Basically we will play summer festivals in Europe from June to September and also a few club shows. We will also visit Italy this summer for a club show in Bologna on July the 1st. In October we will do our “One Step Closer” European Headlining Tour and play club shows all over Europe. In November we will tour all overSweden and the rest of Scandinavia.


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President Rodrigo Duterte called on fellow Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders to maintain “free” and “fair” trade to attain sustained economic recovery from the effects of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday afternoon welcomed Brunei’s Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah at Malacañang Palace in Manila, just hours before the formal opening of the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.
Malacañang on Thursday reassured the public that there was no cause for worry about the well-being of President Rodrigo R. Duterte following a survey, which showed that more Filipinos are worried about the chief executive’s health.
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BorsodChem TDI Plant, Kazincbarcika, Hungary
BorsodChem's toluene diisocyanate (TDI) plant is located in Kazincbarcika in the north eastern part of Hungary. It was built with an investment of €200m ($283m), and officially inaugurated in October 2011.
The plant has an annual capacity of 160,000t which can be increased to 200,000t depending on demand. With the opening of the Kazincbarcika plant, BorsodChem has become Europe's largest manufacturer of TDI.
TDI is mainly used in the production of flexible polyurethane foams. These foams are used in the manufacture of upholstery, mattresses and vehicle seats. Other products made of TDI include polyurethane elastomers and coatings.
The new plant, also known as TDI-2, is the second TDI plant at the site. The first plant, TDI-1, has a capacity of 90,000t. The TDI-2 plant operates with better efficiency than the TDI-1. It has increased the total capacity of the Kazincbarcika site to 250,000t.
The region is currently being affected by a drop in demand for raw material in key industries. This situation is expected to affect the margins in TDI in the future. BorsodChem is planning to idle the TDI-1 plant for some time in response to this situation.
Background to BorsodChem's TDI plant expansion
Construction of the new plant is part of BorsodChem's focus on growing its business and improving the quality of its products. BorsodChem is carrying out a debottlenecking operation at its methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) plant at the Kazincbarcika site. MDI is used in the manufacture of polyurethanes. The operation will increase the capacity of the MDI plant from 150,000t to 240,000t.
The Kazincbarcika site also includes a 365,000t/y polyvinyl chloride plant. It uses hydrochloric acid, a by-product of isocyanate production, as feedstock.
Wanhua's involvement in financing TDI-2
BorsodChem was initially struggling to fund the completion of the TDI-2 plant. In June 2010, China's Wanhua Industrial Group acquired a 38% share in BorsodChem for €140m ($198m). The acquisition provided the much-needed finance required for the construction of the TDI-2 plant.
The deal also included an option to purchase the remaining shares in BorsodChem. Wanhua exercised the option in February 2011 and became the majority owner of BorsodChem with 96% of the shares. The acquisition made Wanhua the third biggest isocyanates manufacturer in the world and placed BorsodChem in the league of Bayer and BASF.
Wanhua is expected to make further investments at the Kazincbarcika site to become the largest isocyanates supplier in Europe.
TDI-2's design and construction
Construction of the TDI-2 plant started in 2009. It was put into trial operation in July 2011. The new plant includes a toluene diamine (TDA) facility, TDA cooler featuring a tube heat exchanger with compensator, phosgene tank, remitter tank, condense tank, phosgene separator tank, expansion tank, and a gas washer tower.
The plant also includes various storage tanks including a MTD tank (750m3), CHW tank (275m3) and GLW tank (160m3). A used TDI tank and a waste water tank (70m3) are also part of the plant.
BorsodChem's TDI production technology
German-based polymer and plastics producer Bayer MaterialScience is planning to construct a new toluene diisocyanate (TDI) plant at its Chempark site in Dormagen, Germany. The company will invest about €150m in the facility, which will have a TDI production capacity of 300,000t a year.
TDI-2 uses BorsodChem's patented technology for production of TDI. The first step in the production is nitration of toluene using nitric acid to produce dinitrotoluene (DNT). The next step is catalytic hydrogenation of DNT to produce toluene diamine (TDA).
TDA is dissolved in an inert solvent and treated with phosgene to create a crude TDI solution. This solution is fractionated to remove any traces of phosgene, solvent and hydrogen chloride. It is then distilled under vacuum to produce TDI.
Donau Chemie chemical plant
In September 2011, BorsodChem signed a partnership agreement with Donau Chemie to set up a chemical plant at the Kazincbarcika site. The €6m ($8.5m) plant will utilise the excess hydrochloric acid generated at the TDI-2 plant.
Donau Chemie will utilise majority of the hydrochloric acid generated at the site to produce chemicals used in water management. BorsodChem, however, will continue to sell about 30,000t to 40,000t of hydrochloric acid annually to the CEE market.
The chemical plant is expected to be operational in 2013.
Contractors involved in TDI-2's construction
OTF was the general contractor for construction of the TDI-2 plant. Mensol carried out construction of majority of the components of the plant.
Meda Star was responsible for mechanical engineering, ironwork and other works at the plant.


Earlier today, Tity boi dropped his new album, Pretty Girls Like Trap Music, via Def Jam Recordings. 16 brand new tracks featuring the likes of Migos, Pharrell, Drake, Nicki Minaj and more.
One of the easy, easy, easy standouts happens to be track two, “Riverdale Rd,” produced by Chicago’s own Mano, and the living legend Mike Dean. This one has that sound. That feeling. It might could be my favorite joint on the album upon first listen.
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Consulting firm chosen to lead Harbor Point development
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UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - A consulting company has been chosen by the City of Utica to create the plan for redeveloping Harbor Point.
According to Utica Mayor Robert Palmieri, the Harbor Point Local Development Corporation Board of Directors has selected Elan Planning/Design/Landscape Architecture, PLLC out of Saratoga Springs to lead the creation of a plan for Harbor Point.
Palmieri says the plan will incorporate a market study of land uses including retail, commercial and residential; a feasibility study examining the potential relocation of existing Canal Corporation facilities; a public outreach/stakeholder involvement program; and the development of three alternative land use concepts.
"Harbor Point has momentum. What was once just an idea is on its way to becoming a reality," Mayor Palmieri said. "the city's greatest economic development potential lies in the revitalization of the Harbor and Harbor Point. The plan will lead to the private development of the 20 acres to be deeded from the State of New York to the Harbor Point LDC. The state's designation of Utica as the site of one of the three upstate casinos will drive the revitalization as well."
Elan will serve as the lead consultant, guiding a number of subconsultants, including Shumaker Engineering of Utica, The Paige Group of Utica, O'Brien & Gere of Syracuse, Harris Beach of Buffalo and The Williams Group of Old Greenwich, CT.
The contact cost is $209,432, which Palmieri states will be funded through a grant secured by the city in the first round of consolidated funding applications.
The plan is expected to be complete within six months.


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Today I’m posting a guest blog by none other than Scot Bolsinger, to whom I introduced you two posts ago when I committed to writing 1000 words a day for 90 days, an idea he inspired. Since joining his writers group, Scot and I have done a lot of back and forth by email. We share ideas and our philosophies of life, he metaphorically kicks my lazy writer ass, I get to kick his yoga butt, and we talk about surfing and how he needs to do it more and I less to concentrate more on writing. If you’ve checked out his website (if not, what’s stopping you!!), you will have noticed that Scot wears a lot of hats. And as I’ve mentioned before, it is in his role as editor, that he’s been invaluable to my writing process. The memoir I’m working on is challenging. It’s a lot like rolling over and showing my soft underbelly to a sharp-fanged, claw-swinging dragon. I’m scared shitless of what “you out there” might think of the approach I’ve decided to take. Yes, it’s about intimate relationships and yes, there’s a lot of S.E.X involved. While I’m still not ready to share a lot of details (in part because I haven’t even finished the first draft), I’m very interested in talking about the emotions and challenges one faces while writing a book of this nature. First off, I often wonder if I’m not being a total narcissist. But then I decide that the very fact that I worry about it probably means I’m not. And then I get anxious that I’ll be disowned by family and friends. Will they still love me if I hold up all my warts, psychological scabs, and zits to public scrutiny? But I have chosen to write this particular version of “my story” because I know I’m not alone in this world in having made the kinds of mistakes I’ve made and because it’s the most honest, most revealing (dare I say vulnerable?) version I can tell. In a recent email exchange the notion of where I reside along the monogamy – polyamory continuum came up. Yeah, we were actually trying to dissect “Who I am” where relationships are concerned. Heavy stuff. I was so impressed by one of the things Scot wrote, I printed it out and hung it in front of where I sit to write. I then asked him to write a guest blog for this site because of the profundity of what he wrote AND because everything I’ve ever read of his has made me laugh and think. That, my friends, in long because I know not the short, is how the following blog post was born.
I met a bank robber once. Not the run-up-to-a-teller-and-demand-a-drawer-full-of-money robber, but a stake-the-place-out-and-pull-off-the-mission-impossible-vault-break-in-kind of robber. Dude had brass ones and obvious intellect to boot. For years and years he swore he was innocent of the crime that earned him two decades in prison. We got to know each other because he wanted me to write a book about how he was innocent. We talked at length. I heard all the arguments. It would be a great book, I told him. But I had a condition. “You have to tell the truth,” I said. “I won’t write fiction and pretend it’s real.” He stared at me. “I think the title should be Guilty Enough,” I said, which also told him I didn’t believe he was innocent. He then told the truth, perhaps for the very first time. The reason he held on to his fiction for so long is he knew the government stumbled across him but couldn’t prove it (several other dozen successful robberies, they never got close to catching him). They fabricated the case against them. They played a hunch. The Feds don’t like unsolved bank vault robberies. It threatens our belief in the power of our money. If a random guy can penetrate that and steal our money, he steals our power. We can’t have that. Tremendous pressure to convict grew. Someone. Anyone. My friend was a good bet. Turned out their fabrication worked. He was found guilty. It still pisses him off. His pride as a bank robber was shattered by being caught, because he knew they lucked out. They could have pinned it on anyone. It was wrong, he insisted. I agreed. “Fucked up,” I said. “Really fucked up. But still, I can’t write a book that isn’t the truth.” The so-called moment of truth. The book talk died down. Like oh, so, many potential authors, that face-to-face stare-down with truth caused him to blink first. The idea of the book ended up on the shelf of good intentions instead of a bookstore bookshelf. Many people are told, “You should write a book about your life.” Few do it. Of those who do, many still struggle with the fundamental task of truth. First: writing a memoir requires being honest with yourself. Rigorously honest. If you haven’t tried it, it’s hard to explain how wrenching the process can be. Of all the lies we tell in life, we lie to ourselves the most. We live the script we write for our character rather than live our authentic self. Have you ever read a memoir by a former pro athlete or political figure or most famous people? They read like the characters they portray. They are books about the brand, not the person and they aren’t that great. But the best memoirs, the truly memorable ones compel us by their authenticity. Second: writing a memoir requires us to write that truth in a compelling way. Many of us write about our lives in journals. The emotional depth in a journal can be dramatic. It can be healing. It can powerful. But it isn’t something others would want to read unless you’re historically significant or naturally hilarious. Our journals are only interesting to us. They are not the stuff of a bestseller. So then, this second step is a tough one. We have to take our sordid, confusing, dishonest lives and make them compelling, understandable, readable and honest. We have to turn our lives into a page-turner. An honest page-turner, no less. Writing a memoir is not easy. Those who do it (and finish) are pretty few in my experience. Those who do it well make up a club more exclusive then the Knights of the Templar. I truly enjoy the craft of writing fiction. But I came to a point in my life where I felt compelled to write a memoir. I avoided it for years until the point came where I felt God would not let up until I started. I described it as my Jonah in the Whale moment. I had a choice. Either agree and be vomited Jonah-like onto the beach of my new life or be consumed into whale shit. Tough choice, but I took the vomit and started writing the book I believe God wants me to write. I love writing fiction, but too often I lived fiction. I lived the story I told, not who I really was. I allowed myself to believe the narrative about me rather than be me, for better or worse. I ran from my life right smack into a prison cell. I ended up in rehab in prison. Rehab sucks. Prison sucks even worse. Both at the same time, well, that’s sort of like a Far Side cartoon drawing of hell, only without the laughs. But that is where I rediscovered that we are not what we do. All that stuff is part of becoming. Thank God’s loving Grace that She doesn’t keep score of our behaviors. Some get it easier than others. I get it only through red-faced moments that sear my brain. I’m slow. But in figuring it out, I discovered I am human and I’m a person who is doing my level best in this crazy, stupid, wonderful, spinning existence called My Life. In that dark turn of my life I found it. I became honest. In writing the truth, I discovered the empowerment of a truthful life. Instead of saying “I am fucked up,” I began to admit “I fucked up.” In so doing, I became less so. If we are honest we become our better selves. If we are honest, we find the spiritual stuff that in the end is most real. Whether we write a book about it or not is, in the end, far less important. But for those who feel compelled to like I do, like my writing buddy Dawn does, then be courageous because when you succeed you will offer the world a rare gem.


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- Four try to extort Rs 5 lakh from sand mine lessee
VADODARA: A sand mining leaseholder was threatened by four persons living in Savli asking him to pay Rs five lakh as protection money if he wanted to continue his in in Natwarnagar village in Savli. Ranjit Vanzara, who holds the lease in Mahisagar River, registered a complaint of extortion and criminal intimidation at Bhadarva police station on Tuesday. According to police, on April 2 when Vanzara’s three trucks loaded with sand left from Natawarnagar, the four accused identified as Nareshkumar Mahida, Kiritsinh Mahida, Karansinh Mahida and Akaa Chhasatiya stopped the vehicle and took them in their custody. Vanzara’s nephew Deepak, who was driving one of the trucks, called his uncle on the the insistence of the four. When Vanzara reached there, the accused threatened him that if he would like to continue his business, he will have to pay them Rs five lakh every month. When Vanzara told them that he did not have that much money, they hurled abuses at him. In his complaint, Vanzara told the police that the four let his trucks go after he paid them Rs one lakh. Police said that after that day, the four accused used to go to his mining site and threaten Vanzara’s men. “They used to tell them that if they will not get Rs 5 lakh every month, they won’t allow Vanzara to run the business there,” police said. Earlier this week, the accused had also dug up the area around Vanzara’s lease following which he approached the police and got the case registered.
- Crocodile that killed a teen in Nareshwar caged
VADODARA: A 13 foot long crocodile was rescued from the banks of Narmada River at Nareshwar, 70 km from the city, early on Wednesday. Forest department officials of Vadodara and Karjan rushed to Nareshwar – a popular pilgrim site – after reports that the crocodile had killed one person and injured another since Monday. They placed two cages on the river banks to trap the reptile. “It was around 2.30 am on Wednesday that the crocodile got trapped and later it was caged. However, as the crocodile weight nearly 400 kg, there was no way that it could be lifted and put in pick-up van. Hence, we had to call in an earth mover with the help of which the crocodile was lifted and put in the pick-up van,” said Rakesh Wadhwana a wildlife activist. The crocodile was later handed over to Karjan forest department officials. On Monday, Kiran Rohit, a 19-year-old resident of Kareli village of Jambusar taluka, was taking a bath in the river with his friends when the crocodile dragged him. Rohit was saved but he had received severe injuries and rushed to a nearby hospital. However, he succumbed during treatment. On Tuesday, Ghanshyam Rajput, a 21-year-old resident of Mohammadpura area of Bharuch was also dragged into the river by the same crocodile which grabbed his left leg when he was playing with his friends on the river bank. Rajput was first shifted to Karjan public health centre from where he was brought to state-run SSG Hospital in the city for further treatment. After the spate of attacks, Karjan MLA Akshay Patel had made a representation before the forest department officials to rescue the reptile.
- India to invest more than 1 billion pounds in UK
The UK also intends to recruit a British cyber security industry expert to be based at the high commission in New Delhi, with a remit to share British expertise and connecting Indian private and public sector organisations with cutting- edge UK companies who can supply their specific requirements.
- 4 unnatural deaths in a day in Ponda
PONDA: Ponda police have registered four unnatural deaths between Tuesday and Wednesday, including that of a one-month-old infant who allegedly died while being given a bath. Police said that the baby was born premature and was weak in health since birth. While being given a bath, the baby stopped showing signs of life and was rushed to the GMC, where she was declared ‘brought dead’. In the second case, police retrieved the body of an elderly woman found floating in the River Zuari basin at Borim on Tuesday evening. Police said the unidentified woman must have died on Monday. The body has been preserved at the GMC morgue for identification. In the third case, Bishwambar Samal, 28, a native of Odisha, who was working as an electrician at Shantinagar, Ponda, died to electrocution on Tuesday morning while he was operating a drill machine in his room. The police said they retrieved his body and handed it over to them after conducting an autopsy at the GMC. In the fourth case, Guru Malgonde, 40, succumbed to his injuries at GMC after he fell while repairing the roof of his house at Usgao. Police handed over the body to his family after conducting an autopsy at the GMC on Wednesday. PSI Rahul Dhamsekar and Lady PSI Vibha Volvoikar are investigating into the respective cases.
- Two boys drown, mother rescued from river in Ujjain
INDORE: Two children drowned after they fell into river Khan with their mother in Ujjain district on Wednesday. Onlookers rescued the mother, but were unable to save the two boys. The incident took place when one Lalita Bai was moving along the banks of the river Khan with her sons, Krishna and Balram, in Navakheda village, Nanakheda police station in-charge OP Ahir told TOI. One of the boys lost balance and slipped into the river. He grabbed on to his brother, dragging him along into the river, the inspector said adding Lalita Bai jumped in to rescue them. Fishermen in the vicinity heard the cries of help and jumped into the water. They managed to pull Lalita Bai out of the water. The boys drowned. Their bodies were later fished out of the water and sent for a post-mortem.
- Hoardings removed, focus now on concrete foundation
NASHIK: Acting upon the order of the high court, the civic administration has removed hoardings from Nandini river but is yet to remove the concrete foundation on the river bed. Petitioner Rajesh Pandit has demanded these structures be removed from the blue line at the earliest. Pandit had filed a public interest litigation in which he held all the government offices responsible for river pollution. Environment activists in the city have been demanding that besides making the river and its tributaries pollution-free, concrete should also be removed from the river bed and the blue line. Recently, Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) removed all the hoardings and frame holdings on Nandini river but did not remove the concrete structures on the riverbed that held the hoardings. “As per the order of the high court on March 30, 2017 and the appeal in my letter (April 9) on removal of unauthorised constructions on the blue line, it has been understood that NMC has removed some unauthorised constructions like hoardings. However, when we visited the spot we saw the hoardings and structures for setting these were removed. The foundation where these were set up had not been removed,” said Pandit. He said the foundations were constructed with cement and concrete by digging 10-15 feet deep into the riverbed/blue line. “I have written to the district collector and will send copies to all members of the committee formed by the court to tackle river pollution. These include the municipal commissioner, the revenue commissioner and other members. As per NEERI’s suggestion, the district administration has mentioned in the report that it would not use cement and concrete in the river bed or on the blue line,” added Pandit. In the letter, Pandit appealed to the district collector to direct the civic administration and the water resources department to remove the concrete foundation so that the gene pools in the riverbed or blue line is rejuvenated and the order of the high court and the suggestion of NEERI is followed in the true sense. “All the unauthorised concrete structures on the river bed/blue line and its tributaries have to be removed,” said Pandit.
- Madhya Pradesh stares at water crisis as rivers go dry
With mercury crossing 40 degree-mark and peak summer fast approaching, many parts of Madhya Pradesh are reeling under water crisis. As of now, officially, only 132 tehsils in 18 districts are declared drought-hit. Districts in Chambal and Gwalior and Bunelkhand region are the worst-affected areas.
- 11-year-old boy falls prey to crocodile while defecating in open
KOTA: Defecating in the open cost an 11-year-old boy his life in Baran district on Tuesday. The boy fell prey to a crocodile in Parvan River and the dead body was recovered from the middle of the Parvan river following a rescue operation that went on for about five hours. “Aman Harijan (11), a class IV student was killed by a crocodile while he was washing his hands after defecating in open on the river bank,” sub inspector at Motpur police station Dalpat Singh said. He further said that Aman and his younger brother Ankit (9), residents of Acharava village, decided to stop on the Parvan River bank to defecate around 11.30 am today after having taken their annual exam at government school earlier the same day. After relieving himself, Aman went to the river to wash his hands when a crocodile jumped out of the water and grabbed his leg between its jaws, taking him into the deeper part of the river while the younger brother stayed sitting upside on the bank as he did not go to relieve himself. On the report of the mishap, police and SDM Artu rushed to the spot and started a rescue operation. The boy’s body was noticed in the middle of the river with two crocodiles fighting over it, he said adding the rescue boat was rushed to the spot and the body was recovered. “One of the legs of the boy had been eaten and the body bore deep wounds of crocodile teeth,” the S.I. said. The body was handed over to the family members after postmortem on the spot.
- State stares at water crisis as rivers go dry
Bhopal: With mercury crossing 40 degree-mark and peak summer fast approaching, many parts of Madhya Pradesh are reeling under water crisis. As of now, officially, only 132 tehsils in 18 districts are declared drought-hit. Districts in Chambal and Gwalior and Bunelkhand region are the worst-affected areas. Many rivers have gone dry, many shrunk to a dangerous level and there is a drastic fall in water table, due to which people in more than half of the state are not getting daily water supply. The situation is such in some parts that there is no water supply and the precious commodity is being transported by tankers. Water supply sources in 10 out of 16 municipal corporations have almost dried up. The situation is so grim that in 117 municipal bodies of the state, water is supplied once in two days and in 11 municipal bodies water is barely supplied twice a week, officials said. “People spend Rs 1,600 a week to purchase water from tankers as the municipal body is unable to supply water,” said Virendra Sharma of the Swaraj Sansthan, an organisation creating awareness for optimum use of water in rural Shivpuri. A 29-km-long supply pipeline from Manikheda dam is yet to be completed. Till then, the town has no option but to bear and grin water crisis. In rural Shivpuri, people travel 2 km to 5 kms to fetch water. Water is transported by tankers in most parts of the district because of scanty rainfall in the district, district administration sources said. In neighbouring Sheopur district in the Chambal region, largescale migration has taken place in search of jobs and water. Tribals from Vijaypur and Karhal have moved out in large numbers. “As the crisis deepens, people migrate in large numbers with their cattle to save their lives,” says Ranglal Gurjar of Kalmi village. Karhal tehsil, with a large population of Saharia tribe, is one of the worst-affected areas. On December 25 last year, the chief minister had announced that 3,000 single phase water pumps will be made available to lift water. They are yet to be supplied. Mahesh Bharadwaj, the representative of BJP MP in Karhal, said local administration did not follow the issue even after CM’s announcement. The chief minister had said that the single-phase water pumps can be used to dig more tubewells, or deepen existing ones. Public health engineering department minister Kusum Mehdele said that the govt had provided the pumps. “These pumps were supplied. There is no scarcity of funds,” she said. The situation is even worse in the Bundelkhand and Chambal region. Reeling from severe water crisis, people have to walk 1 km to 5km in search of water. Many risk their lives to fetch water from old dug wells. “This is yet another drought in Bundelkhand and almost all rivers have shrunk. Some of the rivers in Damoh have dried up leading to an unprecedented crisis,” said Ramkrishna Kusumaria, former chairman, Bundelkhand Development Authority (BDA). Unless we take care of rivers, problem will not be solved. In Damoh, ground water has gone down as there was no water in Vyarma, Gouraya and Sonar rivers, Kusumaria said. Besides Damoh, Sagar, Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh and Panna districts are also facing water crisis, sources in government said. District collector Damoh said, “All resources are being utilised to ensure that scarcity is minimised.”
- Now, hi-tech robots to monitor river pollution
Udaipur: The pollution level in major rivers across the country would now be monitored with the help of duck-shaped hi-tech robots. The union ministry for water resource has ordered to install 17 such robots in the first phase at industrial towns where major rivers like the Ganga, Yamuna etc pass through. Interestingly, the robots are being developed by a team of four scientists at IIT-Kanpur and Dr.Mangal Kothari who is one of the co-principal investigator, hails from Jhadol, a remote tribal settlement in Udaipur district. Kothari is presently working as an assistant professor in the department of aero-space engineering. “The cost of each robot is approximately 20 lakh rupees. It has the shape of a duck and its 80 percent body would be submerged in water,” he said. The robot would not only collect data but also send a complete report of the water quality to the control room through satellite. It will be equipped with tools to assess heavy metals,Chromium, Arsenic, dissolved oxygen, water velocity and Ph value in the water. According to Kothari, the impact of environmental change on riverine ecosystem requires sustained observations of the river system. Of all ecosystem impacts, the quality of water is a serious concern as it provides water security to billions of people. In the Indian subcontinent, cleaning and rejuvenating the health of the Ganges river ecosystem is the focal point of all river basin management plans. Currently, the scientific community faces challenges like insufficient skilled man-power for water sample collection and analysis, inadequate time-series resolution (absence of real-time data), absence of integrated data fusion, absence of on demand auto-sampling capability etc. The only way to address these challenges is to develop a state-of-the-art in-situ river monitoring observatory that can provide real-time data. Such observatories produce not only high-frequency data that can be used as early warning systems in case of environmental disasters, but also train local operators in state-of-the-art technology by making them responsible for the operation and maintenance of the sensing and sampling equipment. “The project aims at designing and developing low-cost, multi-parameter, water quality platforms that would consist of several in-house developed sensors and auto sampling capability for durable and reliable real-time monitoring,” the young scientist said. Prof Bishakh Bhattacharya, Indira Shekhar Sen and Ketan Rajawat are other members in the investigating team.
- Char Dham road: Dumping muck in rivers can lead to monsoon disaster, say environmentalists
Debris generated during construction of the all-weather Char Dham road is being dumped into rivers which could disturb their natural course and cause widespread devastation during monsoon, environmentalists have warned. The warning comes ahead of the Char Dham yatra which begins on Wednesday and will see lakhs of pilgrims from across the country visit the revered shrines of Gangotri, Yamunotri, Badrinath and Kedarnath from April to October.
- Morna river cleaning drive sets world record
NAGPUR: The 92-day-long ‘Clean Morna River’ campaign, a citizens’ initiative that began three months ago in Akola, has set a new world record of largest river cleaning initiative and largest women-driven river cleaning initiative. Akola district collector Astik Kumar Pandey informed that both the records have been conferred by the Golden Book of World Records, which is an international book of records. According to it, the district collector and Akola Municipal Corporation have jointly set a world record in ‘the largest river cleaning initiative in a city’. “During January 13- April 13, 2018, record-breaking number of people in Akola participated in the river cleaning drive and cleaned the banks of Morna river,” the book stated. The second record too has been jointly achieved by district collector and Akola Municipal Corporation. “On March 8, 2018, record-breaking number of women participated in the initiative,” the record stated. As reported by TOI, around 35,000 people, including senior citizens, housewives, NGOs, schoolchildren, youngsters and professionals from various fields, have been a part of the campaign. On March 8, around 6,000 women had participated in the river cleaning drive which was praised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on ‘Mann Ki Baat’.
- After court relief, anger in Cauvery basin as state denies river water for fields
MYSURU/ MANDYA: Tamil Nadu is wracked by protests over the Cauvery river water dispute but the issue is conspicuous by its absence in the poll discourse in the Cauvery river basin. Instead the anger on the ground is over Cauvery water not being given to farmers; ensuring drinking water is the government’s priority. The perception in Karnataka is that the apex court’s recent judgment holds some relief for the state and therefore, the issue is unlikely to impact the elections, stakeholders say. But they admit that there are many imponderables. The Supreme Court has set May 3 as the deadline for the Centre to come out with a draft scheme for implementing its verdict on sharing the Cauvery river water. The Cauvery river basin is spread over seven districts – Kodagu, Mandya, Mysuru, Chamarajanagar, Hassan, Tumakuru and Ramanagara. But it is Mandya that is the ground zero of any turmoil as most of the district is irrigated by the river. The river dispute was an issue in the 2004 assembly elections as two years earlier, the Supreme Court had ordered a reluctant Karnataka to release water to Tamil Nadu. The 2008 assembly elections too were impacted by a string of protests in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over the final award of the tribunal set up to adjudicate the matter. It did not figure prominently in the discourse of 2013 elections as the matter was in the Supreme Court. “There may not be any adverse court or tribunal judgment sparking off protests this time in the Cauvery basin. But the state government has not released water to our farmers even though there is enough water in all the dams of the catchment area. Farmers are upset,” said Kuruburu Shanthakumar, president of Karnataka Sugarcane Growers’ Association. Mandya has seen a spate of suicides by farmers in distress. The district reported 70 farmer suicides in 2016-17. In the first 90 days of 2017-18, there were eight suicides. Mandya MP and JD(S) candidate from Melukote assembly segment in Mandya CS Puttaraju said, “No CM has ill-treated Mandya farmers like Siddaramaiah. There is water in the dam. But Mandya farmers are in distress. This anger of the farmers will reflect in their vote.” But there are also those who believe that Cauvery is largely a no- issue in Mandya. Former member of KPCC TS Sathyanand says since 1991 no leader who has led or backed protests over the Cauvery dispute has won in any election. “Farmer leader G Made Gowda himself was defeated twice. So this issue will have very little impact on the election,” he said.
- Work on boundary marking of Kallayi River to start soon
Kozhikode: Officials of the district revenue department are set to mark the boundaries of revenue land in Kallayi river by demarcating the boundary using concrete. The demarcation process is expected to begin in a few days. Though the officials had plans to start the process on Monday, they could not go ahead with the work as people who have allegedly encroached the land presented a court stay. The officials are planning to move the court the next day to lift the stay. “We hope that we would be able to start the work soon as we have all survey records and other documents to substantiate our action,” said a senior revenue official. “This time, we are planning to mark the boundary by concreting the stretch as stones erected to mark the surveyed land was being removed by encroachers frequently,” the official said. According to figures available with revenue department, nearly 21 acres of poramboke land alongside Kallayi River was encroached by different individuals and groups. Besides, nearly 100 buildings have also been constructed illegally on the poramboke land by encroachers. According to special survey, large area of poramboke land was encroached at Nagaram and Kasava villages. The large-scale encroachment of the river has also affected the width and flow of the river. It was over six months ago that the revenue department had started survey activities along the river to address the long-pending pleas of environmentalist to revive the river. Kallayi River is facing threat of pollution and encroachment for the past few years. The district administration had come forward to protect the river, which was an inspiration to many, following protests by Kallayi river protection committee and other environment groups. The encroachment of poramboke land, illegal construction and dumping of waste have affected the flow of river. Water quality has also been affected owing to unrestricted pollution. “We have completed the survey and related works. We are in the process of recovering the land,” said the revenue official. We will also initiate activities to prevent encroachment in the future once the boundary is concreted, the official added.
- Engineering student drowns in Bhavani
COIMBATORE: A 20-year-old college student, who went to take bath along with his friends in Bhavani river near Sirumugai, drowned on Saturday afternoon. The deceased was identified as M Ranjithkumar of Thillai Nagar at Rathinapuri in the city. He was a second year BSc Electronics and Communication Systems student at the Sankara College of Science and Commerce. “He had visited Thirumalai Temple on Sirumugai Road with 10 of his friends on Saturday, on the occasion of the Tamil New Year. Later, they went to Alankombu area near Sirumugai to take bath in Bhavani river. The youths were planning to reach a rock in the middle of the river. Ranjithkumar, who did not know swimming, suddenly jumped in the water to reach the rock. Caught in the strong water current, he was swept away,” a police officer said. His friends sought help from the local residents, who alerted Sirumugai police. A police team along with fire and rescue services personnel rushed to the spot. Firemen retrieved body and sent it to the Mettupalayam Government Hospital for postmortem. The youths had ignored a warning sign board installed near the river bund about the danger, police sources said.
- Police, greens vow to protect Noyyal river, send strong message to sand smugglers
COIMBATORE: Vowing to protect Noyyal river, which holds abundant natural wealth right in their backyard, residents of Mathuvarayapuram near Alandurai on Sunday decided to form a team to check sand smuggling. Police and other government departments will help the villagers in the endeavour. Stating that rampant sand smuggling had caused environmental degradation in the region, deputy police superintendent Velmurugan Arumugham said that they wanted to send a strong message to the smugglers. “We have decided to form a beat that will comprise of village officials, revenue officials, police personnel and volunteers. We will go on a patrol every night. Eight spots have been identified where sand is being dug out frequently. We will seize the vehicles and arrest the men involved. We will ensure legal action is taken against them,” he told TOI. Social activists urged the officers to seize the trucks, donkeys and bullock carts used for sand smuggling. President of the Farmers’ Association Aruchamy said that most often donkeys, two wheelers and bullock carts were involved in the smuggling. “It is very difficult to identify the owners of donkeys as the owners wash their hand of when caught,” he said. Police and revenue officials assured that whenever animals and two wheelers involved in sand smuggling are seized, they will be auctioned off. The volunteers visited the spots where sand was smuggled and said they will provide full support to the officials to check smuggling from the area. “People here think since the river flows through their village, they own it and they can plunder it. They do not understand that it is a natural resource and that they need to preserve it. We will set up posters and also name a few people involved in the crime. We will meet the villagers and create awareness as well,” said V Sakthivel of Noyyal Paadhugaapu Kuzhu. The farmers said that the groundwater table had gone down from 200feet to 1,000feet, despite the river flowing through the area. “If we do not take steps today, the river will vanish in a decade,” said a farmer. The activists said that they will visit the homes of the villagers and create awareness among them. Various NGOs from Coimbatore city such as Kovai Kulangal Paadhugaapu Amaippu and Osai also took part in the meeting and assured support to the movement. Village administrative officers, tahsildhars, revenue inspectors and police inspectors also participated.
- Noyyal sand carted away under cover of darkness
Every day around 2am after ensuring that the last man awake in Alandurai too goes to sleep, dozens of bullock carts and donkeys march towards the Noyyal river bed. For the next two hours the river bed would buzz with action as dozens of men would start scooping sand and piling them up in sacks on donkeys. These sacks are later transferred to mini-trucks and trucks stationed outside the village and later transported to construction sites in and around Coimbatore district. Many of these trucks also travel to the neighboring districts. When the village wakes up all that would be left for them to see is the bullock cart tyre marks and a deepened river bed. As demand for sand in the state increases and after court ban on mining of sand from Cauvery, sand traders in the district have turned towards smaller rivers such as Noyyal. The public works department, mines department and the revenue department officials when contacted told TOI that they had not given any permission for sand mining in Noyyal. “What is happening is illegal,’’ said a revenue officer. “This has been happening here for more than two decades now. Earlier, sand was smuggled even during the day,” said Radha, an elderly woman in Alandurai. She added that the entire 12km stretch from Alandurai to Semmedu has been a hotspot. There is a spurt in quantum of smuggling, say activists. The donkeys and carts are owned by a few locals in the area who have formed a nexus with the sand truck owners. The locals are paid for smuggling the sand and the elderly turn informers to alert smugglers about movement of officials. State general secretary of farmers’ association P Kandasamy said the farmers in the area have raised this issue in several grievances meetings and had also given petitions to the district collector. “The collector only needs to take action,” he said. A few months ago, a farmer even assaulted one of the sand smugglers who was a repeated offender that created a stir in the village. Revenue inspector in Alandurai Rajendiran said, “We are aware of this and have taken various measures to curb it. We have dug trenches along river bank to stop bullock carts. We have also set up check posts and gates in three locations to stop the entry. But these gates were damaged and the locks were broken the very next day.” The officials also go on night patrolling on their two-wheelers. When caught, the villagers would claim that the sand was not for sale but for their houses being built under government scheme. “But once we seize their bullock carts, local politicians and sand truck owners come to pay the penalty,” said an official. Another official from the area said that they were extremely short-staffed. “Most of these smugglers are drunk and they are nearly 20 of them on the river bed. We cannot go alone and stop this. We need a team including police inspectors and at least a four-wheeler.” R Manikandan of Kovai Kulangal Paadhugaaapu Amaippu said that they have seen this happening near Kuniyamuthur also. “We are trying to create awareness among youngsters and create a team to stop this. Since locals are involved there is very little we can do,” he said. District collector T N Hariharan could not be reached for a comment.
- Sand smuggling impacts environment
Rampant sand smuggling in the Noyyal has impacted the environment of the villages around Alandurai immensely. The groundwater level has dipped and flooding happens every time it rains heavily. The farmers are the most affected and they have continuously petitioned the district collector regarding the issue. Also, lack of stringent laws and inadequate manpower in government departments has dissuaded locals from filing cases. “The police can book these repeat offenders under Goondas Act which will deter the locals from indulging in the crime. But the police have also formed a nexus with them,” alleged K P Palanisamy, retired deputy director, agriculture department, and a farmer in Alandurai. In Alandurai, eight bullock carts, six trucks, including four mini-trucks, and one earthmover have been seized in the past two years. But the extent of sand smuggling is much bigger. Every day, dozens of bullock carts, two wheelers, donkeys and even cars are deployed to transport the sand sacks to trucks. Every day, at least 100 tonnes of sand is smuggled. Officials said this cannot be stopped without a dedicated team in place. “There is no doubt that local politicians, district administration officials and the police are aware of what is going on. Lack of intent and will to take action will lead to losing another river in the district. Kousika River has already vanished. The Noyyal is on the brink of its death and if we continue to allow this, there will not be any river in the future,” said a farmer in Alandurai. He also alleged that the local men often bribed the policemen to smuggle sand. Whenever the bullock carts or trucks are seized, politicians and sand truck owners come forward to pay the penalty. “The locals only struggle for a month. Again, after a few weeks, they start the same routine. We need the police officials to take stringent action against the smugglers and the district administration should enforce stricter norms,” said a local. Unless villagers are sensitized about the various disadvantages of sand smuggling, this cannot be stopped, said Mahesh, a shopkeeper in Alandurai. “If there is a flood, this village will be worst affected,” he said.
- Rescuers find woman’s body, three still missing
WASHINGTON: A woman's body was found by rescuers in the US during the search of a missing Indian family of four who are feared drowned in a swollen river in California, officials said. An inter-agency search and rescue team in California on Friday also recovered some personal items and numerous parts of a vehicle from a swollen river in which the missing Indian family was travelling last week. Personal belongings of the four members of the family from Santa Clarita in California, who were believed to be travelling through Humboldt and Mendocino County on US-101while on a vacation, were also found by the team over a two-day period on Tuesday and Wednesday, officials said. Sandeep Thottapilly, 41, vice president of the Union Bank on Santa Clarita, and his wife Soumya Thottapilly, 38, were on a road trip along with their two kids -- Siddhanth, 12 and Saachi, 9 -- in a maroon Honda Pilot from Portland, Oregon to San Jose in Southern California, during which they went missing on April 5. Authorities, who originally had said the body was a child's, anticipate that an autopsy will be performed early next week. “Searchers located the deceased body of an adult female approximately seven miles north of the reported crash site (Eel River flows in a northern direction),” California's Mendocino County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. The body was found on Friday on an exposed terrain which appeared to have covered by the Eel River within the last few days as a result of a recent weather storm which brought heavy rain to the area. Searchers are looking for the missing family members and their vehicle which is believed to be submerged somewhere in the Eel River. Meanwhile, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office and the California Highway Patrol, Garberville Area Office, are continuing their efforts along the South Fork of the Eel River, just north of the town of Leggett California, to locate and recover a vehicle that was reported to have been submerged in the river at around 1:10pm on Friday, April 6. Between the two search days, the Swift Water Rescue Teams were able to cover approximately 12 miles of the Eel river, just north of the town of Leggett in California. PTI
- Hundreds of VAOs, retired officers observe fast for Cauvery Management Board
TRICHY: About 200 members belonging to the Association of Village Administrative Officers’ (VAOs) Development and Retired VAO’s Welfare Association along with members of government employees association from across the delta districts staged a day-long hunger strike at Uzhavar Sandhai grounds demanding the Centre to constitute the Cauvery Management Board (CMB). Meanwhile, hundreds of villagers formed a human chain along the Cauvery river bridge in Musiri. Addressing the gathering, chief coordinator of anti-methane project federation T Jayaraman alleged that the BJP-led Union government always acted against the interest of Tamils and farmers in the state. CMB was the only solution to safeguard the aggrieved farming community, he said. Meanwhile, hundreds of villagers from Kulithalai in Karur district formed a human chain along the Cauvery river bridge connecting Kulitithalai and Musiri in Trichy. A number of women, children participated in the human chain organised by the federation of students. The chain extended from Periyar statue and till the end of the bridge via Vaisiyan Street, Mariamman temple, Pajanai Madam, Periyandar Street, Peralamman temple and Kulithalai bus stand. Tension prevailed near Anna statue as some members of actor Arulnidhi’s fan club attempted to block traffic near Chinthamani in Trichy on Sunday morning. They suddenly went to the middle of the road and raised slogans against the Centre for not honouring the Supreme Court order. Police rushed to the spot, pacified and dispersed them from the spot.


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Moments ago a message appeared on Bethesda Softworks’ Twitter account. It reads simply, “Full Trailer on 11/5” and offers the image you see embedded above. That’s not much information to go on, but Skyrim fans are dogged when it comes to the pursuit of new information on their favorite game, and the online consensus seems to suggest that this trailer will be an official announcement of the upcoming Dragonborn downloadable content pack.
If that name doesn’t immediately ring a bell, you should take a look at this article we published a few weeks ago which details a treasure trove of goodies discovered by fans in the source code of the latest Skyrim patch. According to these findings, the Dragonborn DLC will include a host of new features. Most prominently the update will offer players the ability to cast spells while riding horses, and the chance to travel the vast expanses of Tamriel on the back of a dragon. Further, the DLC will supposedly allow players to explore the Solstheim region, an island off the coast of Morrowind (which served as the setting for the aptly named The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind).
Now keep in mind that none of these features have been confirmed by Bethesda. When these elements were discovered in Skyrim’s source code, the company refused to offer any sort of comment either confirming or denying the existence of this Dragonborn DLC. That said, given today’s vague teaser, we have to assume it’s related to this DLC if only because we have no other leads to go on.
We’ve attempted to contact both Bethesda Softworks and its parent company ZeniMax Media and both firms offered a polite, succinct “no comment.” That’s not terribly surprising given the apparent joy these companies feel at keeping their fans guessing as to what they might do next. It seems that we’ll simply have to wait until Monday, November 5 to find out what Bethesda has planned. Try not to let the anticipation interfere with your otherwise dreary, overcast weekend plans.


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It’s going to be an AudreyxOnce-ler fiction but one of them is a time lord that was stuck in a different dimension.
How many of you would actually read it?
[WARNING: CHEESY DIALOGUE AND SHALLOW INTERPRETATION OF A SERIOUS TOPIC]
I actually read some random lorax AU ideas one afternoon and one of my favorites was “What if Audrey was raised by Once-ler”, I could only see drama and hilarity and then this comic was born. I think I was really crazy when I made this because it didn’t make sense to me and Audrey shouldn’t be a living human being during the fall of his empire.
I almost cried. So sweet. And I keep telling you people that one of them is a Time Lord… Gosh! XDSource: chikimambo


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From the New York Times bestselling author of Dealing with Dragons comes this timeless fantasy, about an ordinary girl who discovers she's the heir to a dark throne, and must find her place between her life on Earth and her magical inheritance.
"A heart-stopping, unique adventure for all!" —Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Kayla is just an ordinary girl . . . or so she thinks. When a day at the state fair is interrupted by the news that she’s the daughter of a “Dark Lord,” she and her family are quickly whisked to another world—one that’s chock-full of magic but lacking in technology!
As her family encounters fantastical creatures in place of their Earthly gadgets, Kayla must prepare for the unpreparable: meeting her father, the Dark Lord himself, for the very first time. All Kayla wants is to go home, but she must learn magic to do so. The catch? For the Dark Lord’s daughter, the road to mastering magic is filled with evil traditions.
As she ventures closer to her father, Kayla must decide whether to accept her birthright. Is she destined for darkness? Or can she become a new kind of Dark Lady?
About the Author
Patricia C. Wrede is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. She wrote the beloved Enchanted Forest Chronicles, as well as the Mairelon series, the Frontier Magic series, and, with Caroline Stevermer, the Cecelia and Kate novels. She lives near Minneapolis. Find her online at pcwrede.com.
"An amusing story of finding one’s place amid the unfamiliar. Its fantasy-world-incompatible technology-turned-familiars are particularly memorable." —Publishers Weekly
"A fresh, engaging fantasy." —Booklist


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I love Little Women. It’s one of those dear books that is all sweetness and light, and even its most tragic moments are filled with grace. March is a horse of a different color.
Based on the experiences of Mr March, that ever-absent father to whom the ‘little women’ are always sending packets of letters and mended clothing, March is more deeply concerned with the harsh realities of the civil war. A vegetarian pacifist (?) in his middle years, Mr March nonetheless sets out to chaplain himself to death – or at least very near. Brooks follows his many ill-fated escapades in the war-riven South, flashing periodically into the past to fill in March’s backstory, including his liaison with a stately slave woman (scandalous! Or did he? Or didn’t he? I’ll never tell…).
Some men write women very well. And some women (I imagine…I can’t think of a good example) write men very well. Geraldine Brooks just isn’t one of those women. There is something consistently off about Mr March’s voice, and it isn’t just that he’s a pacifist vegetarian. It’s that he sounds like a woman. Not like ‘a woman’ in the general sense, but like a specific woman. About two thirds into the novel, the point of view changes from Mr March’s to his wife’s, but THE VOICE DOESN’T CHANGE A BIT! Mrs March is just as unfortunately prosy as her husband, but it sits better on her. A little. Not at all.
I found myself slogging through most of this novel. A well-written book, even if it tramps all over my favorite fictional characters, will still bring me willingly and furiously along for the ride. A shoddy book, even if it shines more light on all those fake people I love so much, is a waste of time.


On April 9th at 5:00pm the new bridge in the town of Dillsboro opened to the public.
Officials from the Town of Dillsboro, the N.C. Department of Transportation and Wright Brothers Construction were in attendance along with local citizens and business owners.
The new plan also shaved $3 million off the $14 million value of the contract with half of the savings going to the contractor. Wright Brothers officials passed pass $452,500 of the savings to the Town of Dillsboro.
This plan — first examined more than five years ago during development of the project — includes directing traffic to U.S. 23/74 while closing Haywood Road (U.S. 23 Business) for nine months started on Tuesday, July 7th, 2020.
The previous three-year plan included lane closures and daily delays on Haywood Road, and required extra components including the construction of a temporary bridge on Haywood Road. Instead of concluding in 2022, construction is now officially finished.
NCDOT Division 14 Engineer Brian Burch said. “We believe the cost savings to the taxpayers, as well as the reduction in the length of traffic impacts, to the area of Dillsboro outweigh the short-term inconveniences for motorists.”
Pedestrian traffic is also open on the bridge. The Town of Dillsboro welcomes everyone to enjoy the newly constructed bridge.


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We’ve pointed out since March that predictions on mortality rates related to the China Coronavirus were garbage. Now we know without a doubt that the much of the coronavirus data is garbage as well.
We now know that the catastrophic mortality rates sold to the American public by the WHO, Dr. Fauci and later by Dr. Birx were a massively flawed.
We were first to report that the Director General of the WHO on March 3, 2020 set off the global panic with his highly flawed anaysis that the coronavirus had a 3.4% mortality rate:
While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity. That means more people are susceptible to infection, and some will suffer severe disease.
Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.
Doctors Fauci and Birx were next to push ridiculous and highly exaggerated mortality numbers related to the coronavirus and taken from Imperial College study that 2.2 million were going to die in the US from the virus.:
** Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx used the Imperial College Model to persuade President Trump to lock down the ENTIRE US ECONOMY.
** The fraudulent model predicted 2.2 million American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic
** The authors of the Imperial College Model shared their findings with the White House Coronavirus task force in early March
** Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx then met with President Trump privately and urged him to shut down the US economy and destroy the record Trump economy based on this model
** A new critique of the Imperial College Model finds the study is “completely unusable for scientific purposes” — The Imperial College study is a complete sham
** Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx pushed a garbage model on the White House and the American public and destroyed the US economy
Now we have evidence that the current data behind the China coronavirus is garbage as well.
We have reported that the actual data related to the coronavirus is questionable in many ways. Today we provide more evidence to back up out statements.
For starters we know the data reported by the media is garbage because it has consistently reported 20,000 more cases in the US than the CDC is reporting. We also know that the CDC includes all deaths in their reporting that are even suspected of being linked to the China coronavirus. This adds a huge number of deaths to the coronavirus numbers.
But when analyzing the data used by the media for reporting on the coronavirus, we see many questionable and clearly inaccurate numbers included in their totals. The media uses the data coming from one of a few sources. One of the sources is the Worldometer coronavirus reporting. This site is managed by a company from China.
The worldometer reports the following as of this morning, June 4th, 2020, for the top 50 countries in number of cases reported:
Here are some observations on the data reported to date:
1 The total number of deaths as a percent of world population is less than 0.001% – this is nowhere close to the death rates of the Spanish flu in the early 1900’s.
2 There is no estimate of the number of individuals who have captured the coronavirus but who haven’t been tested. The 6 million reported with the virus is only those that have been confirmed. Like the flu, the number of individuals who have caught the coronavirus but who have not been tested is likely in the millions. This type of estimate has taken place in parts of the US where the mortality rate when including these projections is close to that of the flu.
3 The number of individuals who still have the coronavirus after being tested is clearly not managed in the US. There has been an effort to only capture cases and record deaths. Clearly, the number of individuals who still have active symptoms of the coronavirus is not over a million, based on reasonable observations.
4 The US has 28% of recorded deaths worldwide but only 4.25% of the world’s population. Clearly the US is over-reporting and the rest of the world is likely under-reporting. We know this because the US has much better health care than any country in the world, but especially compared to countries like Indonesia or Pakistan. Their number of deaths are at 0% of the number reported worldwide which is clearly not accurate.
5 The US clearly is doing more testing than any other country by far. Only Russia has more than 10,000,000 individuals tested other than the US (19,000,000).
6. China’s numbers are total garbage. They had more than 70,000 cases identified in February but only have 80,000 cases identified as of today which is very suspect. China also reports only 4,600 total deaths. These numbers make no sense.
7. Overall, the Western countries have many more tests, cases and deaths reported than the rest of the world. Is this accurate? If it is, it would indicate that at certain temperature and humidity is where the coronavirus thrives the most (the green area below). This indicates that China’s numbers are incorrect and the coronavirus will die out in the warmer and drier summer months in the Northern Hemisphere. But no one is reporting this:
8 Data is not provided worldwide on the ages of individuals who have died and on the number of co-morbidities those who died suffered from at death. We know that this was a pandemic that attacked the old and sickly and yet this was rarely, if ever, communicated to the public. This led to policies that impacted entire populations and not those most at risk. (Aside from New York’s murderous policies of sending covid infected individuals into elderly homes.)
The predictions and reporting on the China coronavirus are so flawed that it almost seems that there was an effort to create panic and not share the truth about the real ramifications of this pandemic.
This should be investigated further as millions of good people around the globe forfeited fortunes in efforts to comply with recommended practices, which we now know were exaggerated, dangerous and not risk based.
Hat tip Hank


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House of Vans
October 18, 2010
This past Saturday night Vans opened up their new skate park/ event space, “House of Vans” in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to a packed house and a pre-party skate sesh that included the likes of Steve Caballero, Omar Hassan, Tony Alva and Curren Caples, who killed every inch of the bowl. Mike Giant threw up a sick mural, and Cardiel and Alva spun sets before special guests Public Enemy.
http://www.dqmnewyork.com/images/news_uploads/Thanks to Vans and we look forward to many more events and skate jams in the future.
Photos by Aaron
Posted by Staff on October 18, 2010 at 02:31 PM 3 Comments


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This intensive three-day course will provide participants with the basic knowledge and skills to bind their own books, with the minimum of tools. The course will focus on the sewing of the sections, the glueing of the spine and the making of a cover.
No previous expertise is required.
The presenter is conservation specialist Johann Maree, who trained at the Swiss Centro del Bel Libro and at the Austrian National Library, and worked at the University of Cape Town Libraries as Head of the Department of Paper and Book Conservation for 28 years, before retiring in 2008. He has presented numerous courses on bookbinding and paper conservation nationally and internationally.
Need to know
- Dates: 26 - 28 June 2012
- Venue: Afrikaanse Taalmuseum, Paarl
- Cost: Participants have a choice between a course fee of R1 850 (tools and material included) or R1 650 (own tools). Light lunch and tea/coffee will be provided.
- More information: Contact Amira Clayton at tel. 021 863 4809/0543 or email@example.com.
Use the workshop as a great reason to book a mini break in the Cape Winelands.
Stay at one of our luxury Paarl accommodation places and the rest of the family can explore Paarl while the book maker gets to grips with this fascinating skill.


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Help local businesses by shopping small on Saturday | News
COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM)- According to the National Retail Federation, almost 150 million people are expected to shop in stores and online this weekend.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of the busiest shopping days of the year, but local leaders are asking you to not forget small business Saturday.
Small Business Saturday is a national initiative that marks a day to support local businesses in our community.
Some local leaders gathered at ride on bikes in Columbus Monday to encourage people to use the Saturday after Thanksgiving to say thank-you to local businesses for creating jobs and boosting our local economy.
"When you shop local, 68 cents of every dollar stays in your community and is reinvested in your community," said Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson. "When you shop at national chains or on the internet of course, much, much less, a fraction of that stays in your community."
Small Business Saturday started in 2010 and was founded by American Express.
Last year, more than 100 million people across the country participated and created a 28% up-tick in sales at small businesses nationwide.
Small businesses around town will have special offers for you on Saturday.
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