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California State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, introduced a state bill Thursday that would allow children ages 12 and older to get Food and Drug Administration approved vaccines without the consent of, or a notification to, parents.
"A minor 12 years of age or older may consent to a vaccine that is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration and meets the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention without the consent of the parent or guardian of the minor," the proposed bill reads.
In a press release announcing the legislation, Weiner said the bill gives those children "autonomy" to get vaccines that could save their lives.
"Giving young people the autonomy to receive life-saving vaccines, regardless of their parents' beliefs or work schedules, is essential for their physical and mental health," said Sen. Wiener, who represents District 11, which includes all of San Francisco, Broadmoor, Colma, and Daly City, as well as portions of South San Francisco.
"COVID-19 is a deadly virus for the unvaccinated, and it's unconscionable for teens to be blocked from the vaccine because a parent either refuses or cannot take their child to a vaccination site. So many teens want to be vaccinated so that they can lead a more normal life — participating in sports or band, traveling, going to friends' homes — but they're prevented from doing so due to their parents' political views or inability to find the time.
"Unvaccinated teens also make schools less safe and threaten our ability to keep schools open. In states like Alabama and South Carolina, teenagers are already allowed to get vaccinated without parental consent. Young Californians should also have the right to keep themselves healthy and safe."
According to the release, a quarter of the state's youth population, or almost 1 million young people in the state between 12 and 17, currently cannot be vaccinated against COVID but could seek vaccinations for sexually transmitted diseases under current state laws and forms a "barrier" when the parents and children hold conflicting views.
In addition to COVID, the bill also encompasses diseases including measles, which parents could block children from getting unless they consent, the release said.
"In my view, this change in California policy is so important because it's not only for COVID, it's for all vaccines that protect us," Nyla, a seventh grade student in San Francisco said in the release. "I can't think of a good reason why laws shouldn't let people my age choose to lower our risk of getting really sick. And vaccines not only make us safer, they keep our friends and family safe, too."
According to the CDC, 210 million people, or 63.3% of the United States, are currently "fully vaccinated" against COVID-19 and have received either one or two doses of the three available vaccines.
Almost 14 million children between 12-17 are fully vaccinated, representing 6.6% of the vaccinated population in the country, the agency said.
In California, 27.3 million residents ages 5 and older are fully vaccinated (72% of population), including 3.1 million (63.7% of the 12-17 age group), and another 3.3 million of the total population of 38.9 million have received at least one dose, according to the state.
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Long known as Hitsville USA, the museum is home of the world-famous Studio A, where The Temptations, Marvin Gaye and countless others recorded with the Funk Brothers. Group rates available for 20 or more visitors.
The Motown Museum Experience
The Motown Museum is a museum tour unlike any other, so be ready to sing and dance while you learn about the Motown greats. From the second you walk through the front door, you'll be greeted with the voices of Motown, and you won't want to leave without stopping in the gift shop to buy a greatest hits CD. You will walk through the actual recording studio where Motown artists recorded some of the greatest songs of all time.

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Then Minister Papikyan was presented with the possibilities of the recently opened reading and foreign language development center in one of the buildings of the military unit.
The Defence Minister also attended the solemn event of servicemen who successfully completed an 18-week training course at the training center. The servicemen who have received qualification certificates will go to the places of permanent deployment in a few days and will be appointed as squad commanders. Congratulating the conscripts who received certificates, Suren Papikyan emphasized that the knowledge gained during the course is important for the junior commander's mission.
During the conversation with the servicemen, the head of the Defence Department also spoke about the progress of reforms being implemented in the Armed Forces.
Later, there was a discussion on the modernization of the educational process, as well as programs that will be implemented in the near future.
Minister Papikyan also visited one of the training centers and followed the shooting training of servicemen of the sniper school.

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From the ticket booth a courtesy bus takes us along the river to the foot of the crane.
A recorded voice, which a fellow visitor identifies as actor Bill Paterson, describes our surroundings.
At the crane there is a smart little gift shop with souvenirs and coffee.
A lift takes us to the top, from where the views are spectacular.
If you are of a slightly queasy disposition it is best not to look down at your feet, as the floor is of a lattice or open grid construction which allows you to see the ground far below!
There is a guide up here – Mary, on the day we visited - who is available to talk about the history and construction of the crane, and to point out the landmarks in the surrounding countryside, but equally happy to leave you to explore alone.This leaves her free to watch the police launch check the river banks for whatever police launches check river banks for.
Inside the wheel-house you can inspect the machinery close-up, and view the photographic exhibition detailing the history of John Brown’s shipyard.
The Titan Clydebank Crane is a 150 foot high marvel of Scottish engineering.
It sits on the north bank of the River Clyde, in the town of
The crane was built by Arrols of Dalmarnock,
It is the oldest crane of its type in the world.
The cantilever is 240 feet in length, the long arm being 150 feet and the shorter one 90 feet.
It sits on a tower of four columns pitched 40 feet apart at the base and tapering to 35 feet at the top, and revolves on a live-ring and steel rollers 124 feet from the ground.
The Titan was equipped with two hoists.
The main hoist could lift loads up to 150 tons, and operated at very slow speeds – maximum 5 feet per minute.
The auxiliary hoist handled loads up to 30 tons, at much increased speeds.
In the 1950’s a high speed 5 ton ‘jigger’ hoist was added.The Titan was electrically powered throughout, although at that time steam-powered cranes were still being built.
Electricity meant that the crane was entirely controlled by one man, the driver, although a ‘greaser’ also worked on it, keeping the machinery fully lubricated.
The foundations consist of 4 steel cylinders each 10 feet in diameter, but belled out to 13 feet at their base.
They were sunk to a depth of 75 feet.
Only 60 Giant cantilever cranes were built world-wide, and as of 2007 14 remained.
Five of these are on the
The ViewsThe crane provides a fascinating insight to the historical significance of ship-building on the River Clyde, as well as panoramic views to Dumbuck Quarry in the west, the Kilpatrick Hills to the north and
In the intervening years, many great ships were built here.
A few examples:
1968 QE2, the Queen Elizabeth 2, flagship of the Cunard line from 1969 to 2004
1967 Intrepid, took part in the
1953 HMY Britannia, the Royal Yacht of Queen Elizabeth II
1949 Destroyer Diamond, John Brown’s first all welded ship (not riveted), served in
1942 HMS Indefatigable, aircraft carrier, present at formal surrender of Japanese in
1936 RMS Queen Elizabeth, luxury liner, served as troop carrier in WWII
1934 RMS Queen Mary, luxury liner, Cunard flagship and Blue Riband holder
1931 RMS Empress of
1918 HMS Hood, the last battlecruiser to be built for RN, sunk by German battleship
1916 HMS Repulse, battlecruiser, sunk by Japanese in 1941 off
RMS Queen Mary from Wikimedia CommonsPhotograph by David Jones from
As a point of interest, immediately prior to the acquisition of the Titan, John Brown in 1906 launched RMS Lusitania.This record-breaking ship was en route from
Public outrage on both sides of the
In 1941 the shipyard was targeted by the German Luftwaffe.
The blitz of 13 and 14 March largely destroyed the town of
Records show that 528 people died, 617 people were seriously injured, and hundreds more were injured by blast debris.
The shipyard escaped any serious damage.
4,000 houses were completely destroyed and 4,500 severely damaged, leaving over 35,000 people homeless.
Out of a total of 12,000 houses, only seven remained undamaged.
Attached is a map showing the damage caused on those dreadful nights.
Well, it is time for a wee plug.
John Logie Baird (1888-1946) – inventor of television, from Helensburgh
Henry Bell (1767–1830) – pioneer of steamship development, notably The Comet
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) – inventor of telephone and much more
James Watt (1736-1819) – developed the steam engine and the concept of horsepower
John Dunlop (1840-1921) – developed first inflatable tyre
Kirkpatrick MacMillan (1812-1878) – the bicycle
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) – electro-magnetism
Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973) – radar
John Loudon Macadam (1756-1836) – roads
Thomas Telford (1757-1834) – roads, bridges, canals
Steve Conway (1959-) – Channel Tunnel
Robert Stevenson (1772-1850), and his sons and grandsons - lighthouses
And, of course,
Note: This is in no way an exhaustive list, just some personal favourites. Apologies in advance for any omissions.
In 1972 the shipbuilding era came to an end.The regeneration of this area is now, at long last, underway.
This visit was inspiring and saddening, but most of all thought-provoking.
A unique insight to
Well worth a look when you have a couple of free hours.

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Healthy diet is very important, especially when we are sick. Whenever we are sick, doctors prescribe us medications as the only solution. But, they often have side-effects and don’t make us feel better. Therefore, people turn to natural solutions, which are much better alternative.
So, what changes should we do in our nutrition?
We should create a daily menu which will be consisted of a variety of healthy foods and use all the nutrients. Spices and herbs should also be part of our everyday diet. One of the most beneficial herbs is oregano.
It is a very common culinary ingredient, but did you know about its high nutritive value? Once you read about its numerous healthy benefits, it will become your favorite spice.
What are the benefits of the oregano?
- It cleanses your body.
- It reduces inflammation.
- It improves your memory and concentration.
- It is good for your skin.
- It can be considered as a natural anti-aging treatment.
- It has potent anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties.
- It strengthens your musculature and bone structure.
- It improves digestion.
- It is very useful when it comes to treating intestinal spasms.
- It also helps against burps.
- 300 ml of water
- 3 tablespoons of fresh oregano or you can also use 1 tablespoon of dry oregano
Method of preparation:
Start with boiling the water. Once the water boils, put it into a cup with the oregano. Next thing you should do is covering the cup. Leave it to rest for 10 minutes. After that, strain and you can sweeten the tea. It’s up to you.
When to use it?
Consume this tea once a day, at least 3 times a week. Here’s one suggestion: on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

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“The last time the Earth was as warm as it is now was over 11,000 years ago. Oceans covers 70% of our planet, and it takes a lot of energy to heat up that much water, not to mention the air and land. So a two-degree increase in the average global temperature means that temperature increases across the board are a lot more than 2°C.”
28 February 2018
Will a Warmer Earth Really be a Drier Earth?
According to a recent Popular Science video and article, a 2⁰C increase in temperature will cause the Earth to be a lot drier Earth, but one which also will have increased “extreme precipitation” events, such as the National Climate Assessment says has occurred “in every region of the contiguous states since the 1950s.” It claims that “droughts and heat waves have also intensified, as is evident in California, which in recent years has seen less rain, drier soil, and the spread of wildfires.” The United Nations ascribes to this same viewpoint.
It fails to note that for a few hundred years prior to 200 years ago, California was also drier than it has been in the last couple hundred years. It does note that the world’s surface is 70% ocean. It fails to note that a 2⁰C temperature increase would cause more water to evaporate from the oceans, which has to be cycled back to the surface as more rain and snow. It fails to note that much of the warmer land on the Earth’s surface is covered with rainforest, which is hardly dry. It fails to note that the driest land areas on the Earth are those in very cold regions near the poles. Is it not logical that warming the polar regions might make them less dry? And one must not forget that this is the water planet with 71% of its surface covered with water, both ocean and fresh water.
The video and article state that:
This statement ignores the Medieval Warm Period, the Roman Warming, and the Minoan Warm Period, which were as warm, or warmer, than the present moment -- a moment brief as yet compared to those much longer periods and one not yet clearly established as climate rather than just weather. It was not observed that when California was previously drier than in the last couple hundred years, the Little Ice Age was underway.
And what does that foolish third sentence in the quote above mean? The average is the across the board temperature. Yes, if the Earth were to warm, the warming would be greater in some areas than other areas. There is a tendency for the warming to be greater over land areas and to be greater where the temperature is colder than where it is warmer. The tropics would not warm up as much as would areas of land at higher latitudes because water evaporation tends to limit the temperature increase. However, the third sentence in the quote does not say this. It is nonsense.
There are many natural cycles that cause the climate to change. As I have shown in numerous articles on this blog, the physics used to claim catastrophic effects due to man-made global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions is very wrong. There is as yet no empirical or experimental evidence that further increases in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will cause significant global warming. It may well actually cause an insignificant cooling for reasons I have discussed a number of times.
What we do know for sure is that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will greatly aid plant growth, making it easier for us to feed a growing human population. Unlike many of the anti-human proponents of the idea that man is destroying the Earth, I think a growing human population is a good thing, at least if we can see to it that most of them are free to use their minds and free to be productive.
Apparently, the increased rain events noted in this foolish article and video are to be the precipitation of anhydrous water, which will create terrible droughts.
Is it perhaps the case that part of the reason the Industrial Revolution got underway when it did is because the Little Ice Age was ending? Warming on Earth is usually a good thing for mankind, not a bad thing. But note that those hawking alarmist and catastrophic man-made effects on climate love to start the reference clock at the end of the Little Ice Age. We are still warming as a result of the end of that cooling period primarily due to the large heat capacity of our oceans.
Thanks to Prof. Howard “Cork” Hayden for bringing this article and video to my attention.


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I left the lovely Boulder Creek RV Resort at around noon today. I would have left earlier, but I did a short workout when I woke up, and had to take a nap to recover. The drive up to Reno was pretty, but fairly uneventful. I stopped at a tiny BBQ joint in an even tinier town called Lee Vining. It’s a tourist stop across from Mono Lake. The tri-tip sandwich was almost as uninspiring as the service.After lunch, I headed north on the 395 toward Reno, hoping to reach the city by about 8pm. Unfortunately, that wasn’t to be the case. After crossing over into Nevada’s Douglas County, I hit a huge line of traffic. After about 30 minutes of listening to the AM station for traffic updates and waiting for information from passing cars, I found that the 395 was closed due to fire evacuation. So, I turned around and headed south to meet up with the 208. From the 208, I took Alternate Route 95 up to Fernley. Fernley is situated at the junction of the A95 and I80.
Along the way, I was fortunate enough to see some beautiful landscapes... cool mountain streams meandering through open pastures, and shallow creeks cutting through deep canyons with sheer cliff faces on either side. As I've said before, things happen for a reason. I was also treated to a fiery sunset on my way in to Fernley.
I only had another 35 miles to Reno, but it was already 9pm and my eyes were getting tired. (That’s what 9 hours of driving will do to you.) So, I pulled into a rest stop off I80 and settled in for the night. I’d rather not stay in a rest stop, but between the three big rigs parked here, my multitude of alarms, locks, and security stickers, I feel well protected from any kind of theft or vandalism while I’m here.
Tomorrow, I should make it all the way to Redding.

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text: To expound upon the Baker Bro. thread, any ideas for good, healthy salads in the Richardson/Plano area for lunch. I'm extremely lucky that I work in midst of the best ethnic food in town, but too much PHo, Indian, Afrah buffet, noodles soups can be rough on the waist line. I am having a difficult time finding good, fresh, healthy salads in the area. Souper Salad doensn't count. Any help would be appreciated.

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President Joe Biden has said he wants to use foreign policy to advance the interests of working people, approaching global affairs as an extension of domestic policy. But the administration faces criticism it is attempting to formulate policy to address its top political aim at home: to reach voters in the hotly contested industrial base.
Biden’s idea of a foreign policy for the middle class “takes us back to the Trump campaign in 2016,” said Kiron Skinner, director of policy planning at the State Department during the Trump administration and now a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
“It was Trump who in those 30-odd flyover states dipped down into middle America and talked about burden-sharing and NATO and commitments around the world and our national interest,” said Skinner, who is also a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and Hoover Institution. “Many campaign experts, many foreign policy experts said this will never play in Peoria. But it helped get him elected.”
Former President Donald Trump won Ohio in 2016 with this focus on trade and drew again from this base of support to win the state in 2020. His capture of the traditional “blue wall” states was a reckoning for Democrats. Former President Barack Obama received the most votes ever by a Democratic presidential candidate in the state’s history in 2008 and returned to win the state four years later.
Trump railed against the multilateral trade policies of recent decades that many people hold responsible for cratering the American industrial base and decimating jobs.
“One of the problems with the traditional, you can call it traditional Democratic [policymaking], whether it's Clinton administration, the Carter administration, and some of the Obama administration, was investing in supporting free trade using the neoclassical simple models of economics of saying, the benefits from free trade outweigh the costs, by a feather maybe, and we should do it because economic benefits are better than economic costs,” said Edward Hill, professor of public policy and public finance at Ohio State University who helped author a report on U.S. Foreign Policy for the Middle Class alongside top Biden aides, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, and director of policy planning Salman Ahmed.
“Structure makes a difference,” Hill said. “If that abandoned mill is sitting there for four years, raising the risk of investing in that community … and their kids think their only future is to leave, what you're saying is, ‘You are not part of America's economic future.’ That was the cost of lazy laissez-faire thinking. And what Trump did is he shone a spotlight on it.”
The purpose of what the administration calls “foreign policy for the middle class” is to promote the interests of working people, moving away from policies that privilege corporations and the country’s wealthiest, according to supporters and officials.
“We will fight for every American job and for the rights, protections, and interests of all American workers,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said earlier this year. “Our trade policies will need to answer very clearly how they will grow the American middle class, create new and better jobs, and benefit all Americans, not only those for whom the economy is already working.”
One Ohio Democratic strategist called Biden’s messaging efforts “long overdue.” But she said that in her state, Republicans running for office are still trying to “out-Trump Trump,” a sign of his continued hold on statewide politics.
This person praised Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, an effort Trump spearheaded and for which he was criticized by some in Washington as hasty and politically driven.
Justin Logan, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and an expert on U.S. foreign policy, said he viewed the message as one largely designed to target voters.
"It always struck me that this was more of a domestic political slogan than a serious strategic orientation,” Logan said. “It's good if foreign policy can win support from the middle class since they have pretty significant bearing on American elections. But as a sort of strategic doctrine, I always thought this left a lot to be desired.”
Logan questioned how far the Biden administration is likely to go in pursuing a foreign policy that appeals to the working class, whose interests tend to be more limited than officials in Washington.
“If you want to go to the American middle class and say, ‘We're spending $70 billion a year trying to run the Middle East for you,’ they're not likely to think that that's a great use of their money,” Logan said. “Or if you say, ‘We're the primary provider of security to Western Europe, and we're doing it for you,’ people might say, ‘How is that for me? What does that do for me?’”
He continued: “If you look at the popularity of the various centerpieces of the American approach to the world, being the primary security provider to Western Europe, for example, is not super popular. Donald Trump made some hay out of whether this is a good transactional arrangement for the United States, and I think a lot of middle-class voters thought that was a fair question.
“The peacetime commitment to the Middle East costs about $75 billion a year. Is that the best use of American middle-class voters' money? I bet they could come up with different ways that they might like to use that money.”
Biden’s "foreign policy for the middle class" “was always a weird way to cast it, given that, to the extent middle-class voters paid attention, they might ask him pertinent questions,” Logan said.
Supporters of Biden’s middle-class outreach on foreign policy said it shouldn’t be read as doctrine.
“There's been a tendency to see it as more grandiose than its authors intended. It's not meant to be a new ideology or a new, stand-alone kind of grand theory of politics,” said Dan Baer, a senior fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “It's just about practicing discipline as policymakers, and that discipline is thinking about ‘how is this going to affect people who, you know, a single working mom in Lexington, Kentucky, or working-class family outside of Detroit?”
Baer, a senior Obama administration appointee, said this lens has been missing in administrations of both parties in the past.
While Biden has attempted to draw a line under the prior officeholder, the president returned from Europe with Trump-era steel tariffs in place. Though criticized as ineffective, the tariffs remain popular with some people in the U.S.
“A lot of economists will ask their own impertinent questions about how exactly American foreign policy can ‘protect American jobs.’ But those tend to be things that the public rank highly in terms of their foreign policy objectives, not dampening security competition in Western Europe, or fine-tuning the balance of power in the Middle East,” said Logan.
Of the steel tariffs, Logan said, “You may say that that's their populist aspect of their foreign policy.”
For now, the tariffs serve as leverage in negotiations with trading partners and in developing a longer-term strategy to counter China, another pillar of the Biden administration's focus.
“They're using the removal of those tariffs as a way of improving access of domestic companies to global markets and vice versa,” said Hill.
“The largest source of surplus steel, when the economies go south, is sitting in China, so I think there's a pragmatic response to saying we are reengaging in China with a different set of trade negotiations,” Hill said. Biden’s “not going to give away the chip, and, to give Donald Trump credit, he's the person that made the chip.”
Tying together Biden’s trade policy and domestic priorities, Hill said Biden’s infrastructure bill would be a boon to the steel industry at home.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - Protesters in Oakland came out in force to decry the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. and while the demonstration started off peacefully, police say later in the night some people began breaking windows and setting fires to cars, businesses and the outdoor steps of the Alameda County Superior Courthouse.
Police said a crowd gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza, but within an hour had swelled to as many as 600 people. After midnight, Oakland police said that people took part in what they described as "violent & destructive protests."
Damage included dozens of windows from 21 businesses being smashed. In addition,many windows of a 100% affordable residential housing complex on Grand Avenue were damaged, police said.
Authorities reported that some protesters threw objects at officers, but none was hurt. There were no other injuries reported.
Several arrests were made. However, police said none of those arrested were Oakland residents.
Hours earlier, authorities reported that demonstrators briefly overtook Interstate 580, but then exited the freeway from the Grand Avenue off-ramp.
Police on Twitter asked "agitators" to stop throwing items and using laser pointers against officers near police headquarters.
In addition, they reported illegal fireworks were being set off. As the night wore on, things seemed to escalate. Shortly before 10 p.m., police said the "agitators" within the crowd had attempted to set a business on fire at 8th and Broadway streets, but that officers and the fire department had intervened in time to prevent further damage.
Multiple fires set at downtown Oakland demonstrations. (Photo: Oakland Police Department)
Demonstrators marching at Broadway and 17th in Oakland.
By 10 p.m., police said there were broken windows and garbage cans set on fire along Broadway.
Several businesses, including Luka's Tap Room & Lounge on Broadway at W. Grand Ave., had just removed plywood from their windows following the unrest from the George Floyd protests back in June.
A nearby Target store had recently reopened after being ransacked during those same demonstrations.
In Wednesday's destruction, Whole Foods Market, Bank of the West, and Modern Times Brewery were also targeted. Whole Foods was open on Thursday.
"The intentions of the protesters were not peaceful but deliberate; through their words and actions they demonstrated their focused and targeted intentions to destroy and damage our already vulnerable business community," OPD spokesperson Officer Johnna Watson said in a statement issued Thursday.
Watson added that some residents attempted to deter protesters in their neighborhoods, but were met with "threats of violence and destruction."
The 19th St. BART station issued a tweet just before 10 p.m. to say the station was closed due to a civil disturbance. BART has ended its service at 9 p.m. since the pandemic began.
Sgt. Ray Kelly, a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff's
Office, said damage to the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse at 1225 Fallon St., including from a small fire, will cost $200,000 to repair. The cost of repairs after vandalism at the courthouse several weeks ago also amounted to $200,000, Kelly said.
The protests in Oakland were sparked after an officer, who has since been identified, shot Blake seven times in the back on Sunday in Kenosha.
Blake, who is Black, may be permanently paralyzed from the shooting, but was listed in stable condition at the hospital.
Oakland police had indicated they supported demonstrators' rights and reached out via Twitter to allow organizers to facilitate a safe space for the demonstrations.
A policewoman's voice could be clearly heard telling people to step back from the barricades and stop vandalizing objects. From video at the scene, it appears that Oakland police did not resort to tear gas.
Earlier this summer, a federal judge granted an injunction against OPD in how they conduct crowd control policy. As part of the ruling, tear gas, flash bang grenades and other less-than lethal projectiles like rubber bullets are effectively banned, with exceptions for cases where police need to prevent injury or substantial property damage.
OPD, clad in riot gear, had controversially deployed tear gas on a group of Floyd protesters near police headquarters back on June 1. The group was an offshoot of an earlier youth organized protest that gathered and marched from Oakland Technical High School.
The department said some in the group were throwing rocks and bottles at officers and preparing Molotov cocktails. They used the gas just ahead of an imposed curfew. It was not clear if the youth had evacuated the area in time, although OPD maintained they did.
It was not clear who the organizer or organizers were for Wednesday evening's events. On Thursday, OPD's Watson said the event was promoted by a group called #yayarearevolution.
A flashpoint in Kenosha was reached Tuesday, when during a third night of unrest, a 17-year-old boy seen toting a semi-automatic rifle from multiple vantage points on social media videos, shot and killed two demonstrators and injured a third.
Kyle Rittenhouse of Antioch, Illinois was taken into custody Wednesday on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide.
Bay City News contributed to this report.


Synonymous with the spooky celebration, Winona Ryder’s weird and wonderful roles over the years still rank highly as some of our favourite characters today.
So to celebrate all things spooky, I’m revisiting the Halloween Queen’s best roles over the last twenty years and taking a closer look at how you can recreate some of those incredible costumes.
Lydia – Beetlejuice (1988)
Winona’s first major feature film Beetlejuice is the one that framed her as Halloween’s poster child for years to come.
Husband and wife, Adam and Barbara die suddenly, but they’re not quite ready to hand over their wonderful home to the obnoxious Charles and Delia. To help them scare away the new inhabitants, the couple recruit the equally as obnoxious, Betelgeuse (pronounced “Beetlejuice”). Winona plays Lydia – daughter of Charles and Delia. Noticeably ‘different’ and seemingly mortified by her parents’ mere existence, Lydia is the only one who can see the ghostly spirits of Adam and Barbara and offers to help them.
Tim Burton’s vision paired with Winona’s raw talent is a match made in heaven – with realms of quotable dialogue, memorable mise-en-scène and hilarious musical numbers.
As Halloween films go, it’s one of the best and is still being shown in cinemas in 2018 – long live loveable goth Lydia and her witchy ensemble.
Lydia Deetz costume:
- ankle-length black dress
- black veil
- huge black hat
- black boots
- a camera
- The Handbook for the Recently Deceased
Heathers – Veronica Sawyer (1988)
“I just killed my best friend.”
“And your worst enemy.”
Fresh off the back of Beetlejuice, Winona threw herself into something completely different, but ultimately just as unique and strange. Box office flop turned cult success, Heathers is a high-school horror story with dangerously dark subject matter.
Straight A student, Veronica Sawyer is desperate to rid herself of the Heathers – the awful, bitchy girls (coincidentally all named Heather) she’s found herself stuck with, day in day out. Ironically, in order to regain her good-girl status, Veronica teams up with new bad boy J.D and plots to kill the cool kids. But what starts out as hypothetical fun, turns into a spree of Heather-killing, leaving you questioning, who’s the bad guy after all?
At its heart, Heathers is a killer comedy with a wicked edge. Famous for its quotable dialogue (Did you have a brain tumour for breakfast?), enviable and symbolic costume design and its knack for tackling subjects such as suicide, murder and sex deftly, Heathers is rooted firmly at the top of the comedy/horror genre.
Like every role she takes on, Ryder acts as if she was born to play Veronica Sawyer. And arguably, it’s difficult to imagine anyone else doing it justice. It’s also worth noting, Ryder had just turned 16 while filming but gives the performance of someone with decades of experience. Denise Di Novi, producer of Heathers talked about Ryder’s skill: “Winona was so smart. She was fifteen, she turned sixteen on the movie. She was a prodigy. From a very young age, she was an old soul. She really got the words and the imagery. She had watched tons of old movies. She was really sophisticated intellectually. She had the beauty of Veronica. She had the intelligence. She was just the perfect anti-Heather.”
Proving to be everyone’s favourite cult classic, Heathers was turned into a successful musical across America in 2010 and is now a West End show too.
Veronica Sawyer costume:
- grey cardigan
- black crop top
- blue skirt
- black/blue tights
- blue scrunchie (crucial)
- a pack of Marlboros
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) – Mina Harker (née Murray) / Elisabeta
Favoured for its costume and set design over a frankly, weak narrative, Bram Stoker’s Dracula sees Ryder play both an English rose and gothic vampire – seemingly, what she does best. Starring alongside a stellar cast of Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves and Richard E. Grant, on the drawing board, it should have been perfect. And if we’re talking about authenticity it was – Francis Ford Coppola’s creation won three Academy Awards: Best Costume Design, Best Sound Editing and Best Makeup. But when it comes to accents, acting and story, it fell flat – with the casting of Keanu Reeves being a sticking point for most.
Interestingly, the atmosphere on set was supposedly sour – Coppola confirmed Ryder and Oldman had ‘fallen out’. Ryder would then go on to say of Oldman’s demeanor: “Maybe it’s his way of working, but I felt there was a danger.”
Whether it was the frostiness of the working conditions, the casting of Keanu Reeves or the poor translation of novel to film, it seems that as of 2018, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is nothing but a guilty pleasure.
And why shouldn’t it be?
Ryder plays both Mina Murray and Elisabeta wonderfully, proving herself against the intimidatingly-good Oldman. Plus with the level of intricate, beguiling mise-en-scène, costumes and sheer smolder throughout, who needs story?
Mina Harker (née Murray) costume:
- an extra af, long, blood red dress
- silver pendant
- vampy makeup
Stranger Things – Joyce Byers (2016)
Legend has it, if you chant ‘Winona Ryder’ three times while looking into a mirror, she’ll appear before you, open her mouth and bellow…
Stranger Things entered our lives in 2016 and it’s hard to imagine what we even watched before it. Set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, we follow a group of friends and trusted adults searching for missing local boy, Will Byers. Doused in mystery with dollops of 80s pop culture and a healthy serving of sci-fi, Stranger Things was an instant hit and fans are already eagerly awaiting season three.
Winona plays Joyce Byers, mother of Will and Jonathan. Joyce is a single mum who just manages to make ends meet each month. But no matter her struggles, one thing’s for certain: she loves her kids and will do literally anything to make sure they’re safe – including alienating everyone around her and destroying the family home.
Stranger Things acted as Winona’s acting resurrection – her last memorable feature was Black Swan in 2010 and arguably before that, Girl, Interrupted. Her decision to take on the role of Joyce saw her return to her sci-fi/horror/thriller roots, of which she fits perfectly. Her ‘new-found’ fame in ST was coined by Marie Claire as the ‘Winonaissance’.
Winona shines as Joyce because it seems she’s not too dissimilar – she uses her maternal instincts and sheer determination to get Will home. Noah Schnapp who plays Will told The Guardian: “She’s amazing, she’s like my second mother.”
From her emotional scenes with her son’s friends to her suggested admiration of Hopper, we could watch Joyce Byers all day. Luckily, she’s confirmed to be featured in season three and we can’t wait.
And if you’re wanting a low maintenance Halloween costume, look no further.
Joyce Byers costume:
- khaki jacket
- stripy top
- an axe (please make it plastic)
- a string of fairy lights
Realising people would dressing as her every October, Winona said: “I keep hearing that people are dressing up like me. I’m like, ‘What?'”
Still wearing the gothic crown 30 years later, Winona Ryder’s career is like Halloween itself: unpredictable, haunting and different – but ultimately, incredible.
by Shannon Watson
Shannon is a creative writing and film & television graduate. She loves lists (take a look at her Letterboxd profile), cats, Cillian Murphy and going to the cinema. When she’s not watching films, she’s writing about them on her website or over on Twitter @shazzzzakhan.
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text: This past weekend, Cute Stuff was having it's 12th birthday celebration and I had to go down to check it out. Here's the birthday card I made to give for the occasion. Lucky thing I had this image already colored cut and ready to go. Made the card making process a little easier! This card uses the same layout like the snowman card I made the other week using white on white. Adding color gives it a different look don'tcha think? Supplies: So Saffron and Tempting Turquoise cardstock. Can't remember what the DP was from (sorry!).

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Validation of a lower radiation computed tomography enterography imaging protocol to detect Crohn's disease in the small bowel
Version of Record online: 1 JUN 2010
Copyright © 2010 Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America, Inc.
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Volume 17, Issue 3, pages 778–786, March 2011
How to Cite
Siddiki, H., Fletcher, J. G., Hara, A. K., Kofler, J. M., McCollough, C. H., Fidler, J. L., Guimaraes, L., Huprich, J. E., Sandborn, W. J., Loftus, E. V., Mandrekar, J. and Bruining, D. H. (2011), Validation of a lower radiation computed tomography enterography imaging protocol to detect Crohn's disease in the small bowel. Inflamm Bowel Dis, 17: 778–786. doi: 10.1002/ibd.21364
- Issue online: 13 FEB 2011
- Version of Record online: 1 JUN 2010
- Manuscript Accepted: 22 APR 2010
- Manuscript Received: 20 APR 2010
- Crohn's disease;
- CT enterography;
- radiation dose
The purpose was to validate a lower radiation dose computed tomography enterography (CTE) imaging protocol to detect the presence of Crohn's disease (CD) in the small bowel using two different reference standards and to identify a prediction model based on CTE signs for the presence of active CD.
This retrospective study included patients with known or suspected CD who underwent CTE between January and October 2006 according to a lower radiation dose protocol. Two gastrointestinal radiologists blindly and independently classified each CTE as being active or inactive. Reference standards included ileocolonoscopy ± biopsy and a comprehensive clinical reference standard (retrospectively created by a gastroenterologist, also including history, physical, follow-up course, and subsequent endoscopy, imaging, or surgery). Logistic regression was used to identify CTE findings that predicted the presence of active CD based on the combined clinical reference standard.
In all, 137 patients underwent CTE and ileocolonoscopy. Using an endoscopic reference standard, the sensitivity of CTE to detect active CD for the two readers was 81% and 89%, respectively. Using the clinical reference standard, the sensitivity of CTE to detect active CD was 89% and 98%, respectively. For both readers the sensitivity of CTE increased by 8%–9% when using the comprehensive reference standard. Multivariate analysis showed that a combination of mural thickness and hyperenhancement best predicted active CD (area under the curve [AUC] = 0.92–0.93, P < 0.0001).
Lower radiation dose CTE exams are sensitive for the detection of active small bowel CD. The combination of mural thickness and hyperenhancement are the best radiologic predictors of active CD. (Inflamm Bowel Dis 2011;)

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Cloud delivery platform Akamai Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:AKAM) on Monday said it will soon start receiving enough power from the Seymour Hills Wind Farm to meet the demand of its Texas area data centre operations.
The 12-turbine wind park of 30 MW, owned by Engie North America, is mechanically completed, says the press release. Commercial operations will begin in the coming weeks.
Akamai will be sourcing enough electricity from the park in northwestern Texas to offset the demand of its Texas data centre operations, which represent about 7% of its global power load. More specifically, it will use 8 MW of the wind farm’s capacity, getting up to 192 MWh of electricity per day.
Noam Freedman, Akamai’s senior vice president, networks, said that the company is to reach 45 MW of renewables capacity by the end of 2019, with one other wind farm and a solar array coming on stream.
“It used to be that only large companies could purchase renewable energy. But now, widely distributed organizations like Akamai can buy renewable energy in amounts that suit their needs,” Freedman noted. The company’s investment in the project supports its goal to reach 50% renewable power for its global network operations by 2020.
The Seymour Hills wind park is connected to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the same grid that powers Akamai’s operations in the Dallas metro area.


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Don't you just love the phrase "I want to do it!"? Sometimes that phrase can be wonderful to hear, especially when kids are learning something new and they're so excited about it. Other times... Not so much. Like when your child wants to help cook dinner, but you're short on time to get it ready and you know you can do it faster and more efficiently but your child starts...read more
It's that time again. Time to sharpen those pencils, strap on the new backpacks, and tie those shoelaces. It time to go back to school. This new change can be stressful for both kids and parents. Here are a few tips to stay cool and have back to school be easier for both parents and kids.
Children sometimes believe that they are the rulers of the world. Especially those tiny toddlers. They are at the stage where they think they are in control of not only themselves but of everyone around them. And as adults, we at times will give in to their “demands” and end up being the one controlled in a situation. If you are having a difficult time with your children, below are...read more

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Is it all over for Boris Johnson? UK PM loses two key ministers
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting for his political survival on Tuesday after finance minister Rishi Sunak and health minister Sajid Javid abruptly resigned over the latest scandal to blight his administration.
Finance minister Sunak and health minister Javid sent resignation letters to the prime minister within minutes of each other.
The resignations came as Johnson was apologising for what he said was a mistake for not realising that a former minister in charge of pastoral care was unsuitable for a job in government after complaints of sexual misconduct were made against him, the latest embarrassment to have engulfed Johnson’s government.
So far, they are the only two ministers in the prime minister’s top Cabinet team to resign, with other senior figures expressing support for Johnson. Foreign minister Liz Truss, considered a leading contender to replace him if he is forced out, said she was “100% behind the PM”.
The resignations come after months of scandals and missteps, with Johnson so far weathering criticism over a damning report into parties at his Downing Street residence and office that broke strict Covid-19 lockdowns, several policy U-turns and an ill-fated defence of another legislator who broke lobbying rules. Read full story
He has also come under fire for not doing enough to tackle a cost-of-living crisis, when many Britons are struggling to keep up with soaring inflation leading to rising fuel and food prices, and economists saying the country is heading for a sharp slowdown or possibly a recession.
Both Sunak and Javid had formerly publicly supported Johnson, but in their letters they said enough was enough.
Sunak, who had reportedly clashed with the prime minister in private about spending, said: “For me to step down as Chancellor [of the Exchequer] while the world is suffering the economic consequences of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and other serious challenges is a decision that I have not taken lightly.”
“The public rightly expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously,” he added. “I recognise this may be my last ministerial job, but I believe these standards are worth fighting for and that is why I am resigning.”
Javid said many legislators and the public had lost confidence in Johnson’s ability to govern in the national interest.
“I regret to say, however, that it is clear to me that this situation will not change under your leadership – and you have therefore lost my confidence too,” his letter said.
The pound fell on the resignation of Sunak but economists said Johnson’s removal could bring needed stability and offer a boost to sterling and the markets. Read full story
The resignations came just minutes after Johnson went on television to apologise for appointing legislator Christopher Pincher to a role involved in offering pastoral care in the Conservative Party, his latest public expression of contrition for his mistakes.
Pincher’s resignation last Thursday triggered days of a changing narrative from Downing Street over what the prime minister knew of the deputy chief whip’s behaviour and when he knew it.
Earlier on Tuesday after a former top official accused Johnson’s office of lying, the prime minister’s spokesperson was forced into a quick about-turn to say the British leader had been briefed in “some form” about the case but had forgotten about that last week.
For many in the governing party, another allegation of lying and the explanation of a loss of memory only heightened their frustration with the Johnson administration, which some legislators say is paralysed by having to deal with scandals.
Some Conservative legislators are trying to renew attempts to unseat him, just a month after the prime minister survived a confidence vote, while others earlier appealed to his Cabinet ministers to move against Johnson.
“He’s finished,” said one previously loyal Conservative legislators on condition of anonymity. “He shouldn’t prolong the agony. It’s disrespectful to his colleagues, his party and his country.”
Another previously loyal legislators agreed: “It is all over. I would be amazed if he lasts until the summer now.”
But some party veterans said Johnson, who according to his closest aides relishes a fight, could stay on, and hope to yet again reset his administration.
Opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer said those who had backed Johnson were complicit in how he had performed his job.
“After all the sleaze, the scandals and the failure, it’s clear that this government is now collapsing,” he said.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Piper, Alistair Smout and Andrew MacAskill.)


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This blog is a place to communicate ideas for the community engagement project entitled "From the Field to the Table." The project is being created within the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies Department at UC Berkeley with the acclaimed Urban Bush Women Company!
Moments of community, collaboration, and food sharing were captured during our visit to Tenderloin National Forest on September 22, 2012. Videography by Rosa L. Navarrete. Music by Grant, "Earth in Hindsight."


text: (1824, London, United Kingdom - 1862). A. Solomon studied at the Bloomsbury School from 1824, under Sass and then Cary. In 1839 he entered the Academy Schools. He was a successful Victorian painter specialising in contemporary social scenes and in other genre. Many of his paintings are illustrations of literature, historical and contemporary, and tend to have long, meandering descriptive titles.


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Akon Cops A Guilty Charge
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Akon has been found guilty of harrassment. The Hip-Hop star threw a teenage fan off stage during a concert and ended up in court.
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They are all beautiful, exquisitely dressed and insipid foreigners who have wandered into the Moroccan desert to spend a weekend of debauchery in “The Forgiven”.
Regardless of their marital status, sexual orientation, or country of origin, these people are horrible without exception. There isn’t one redeemer in the group, none you’d want to spend time with, well maybe Christopher Abbott, because he’s the hardest to pin down, so the dire traits of him aren’t as pronounced. He also looks quite handsome in a tuxedo. It’s that kind of party, at least until they start making lines of coke on the coffee table.
Writer/director John Michael McDonagh wants us to feel contempt as he lampoons the racism and classism of wealthy Westerners who exploit the Middle East as an exotic destination. They don’t see the locals as human beings, as a deadly accident will reveal, and they don’t have much time for Moroccan sentiments or traditions. They are simply dipping a toe into this world and ignoring the damage they have left in their wake. And McDonagh, in adapting Lawrence Osborne’s 2012 novel, uses his direct dialogue as a cudgel as if his actions alone weren’t enough. There may not be much to these people, but they are constantly declaring their emptiness in the most articulate of ways.
“I like it here,” says Abbott as Tom Day, a financial analyst in New York. “It feels like a country where a useless man could be happy.” Or as a famous Moroccan novelist played by Imane El Mechrafi says: “People disappear here. they just disappear.”
But in the character of Ralph Fiennes, McDonagh presents the possibility of evolution and even redemption. By then, however, it may be too late.
Fiennes’s David and Jessica Chastain’s Jo are a miserably married couple who have traveled from London to visit an old friend of theirs: Richard (a mocking Matt Smith), who is renovating a sprawling villa four hours from Tangier with his American partner, one day. -drunk named Dally (Caleb Landry Jones). We can quickly tell that their marriage is fraying from their bored expressions and the way they discreetly bicker when David finishes a bottle of white wine at the hotel. There is no spark in this fight: he just feels like a habit. (This is a very different husband-and-wife dynamic from the one Fiennes and Chastain shared in “Coriolanus.”) So when they find themselves lost and confused on the long overnight drive to Richard’s remote estate, they accidentally run over an impoverished teenager who sells fossils on the side of the road, killing him instantly; the trauma will surely make that crack worse.
But first, David and Jo have a soiree to attend where they have to pretend everything is okay. Other guests include Abbey Lee as an Australian party girl who jumps into the pool in her sequined gown; Marie-Josee Croze as a sanctimonious French photographer who makes sweeping generalizations about Americans; and Alex Jennings as a late-arriving British lord with a group of pretty, much younger women in tow.
They are careless people, to paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, until the boy’s father shows up from his town to make David worry, at least. Ismael Kanater plays Abdellah in a performance that at first seems bravely calm and stoic, almost stereotypical, but eventually reveals a sadness and simmering rage. Abdellah insists that David return with him to his house to help bury the boy, named Driss, as is his custom. David’s immediate reaction reveals his intolerance: “For all I know, they could be fucking Isis.” But he finally relents, intending to leave overnight and begrudgingly pay this family for his trouble.
From here, McDonagh (brother of Martin McDonagh, the writer of “In Bruges” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) alternates between David’s journey toward forgiveness and drunken antics in the village. As the guests exchange sly jokes between sips of their cocktails, and Jo enjoys a fun and sexy flirtation with Tom while her husband is away, David learns of his exposure to this family and begins to accept the error of his ways. .
However, one situation is as superficial as the other. There is very little to either of these characters, so the possibility that they could change due to this traumatic series of events seems unearned. Chastain is cool and glamorous as Jo, who had the foresight to bring multiple pairs of designer sunglasses for this weekend jaunt to the middle of nowhere. And having worked with the likes of Aaron Sorkin, Chastain clearly knows how to handle this kind of muscular dialogue. But beyond her impeccable appearance and the fact that she was the author of children’s books, we know nothing about her. There are no stakes when it becomes clear that Jo’s whole life is about to change; she is more of a passing curiosity, like her flirtation with Tom.
McDonagh’s film is well-crafted throughout, but ultimately has nothing new or insightful to say about the ugliness of white privilege. It’s like attending a weekend bacchanal and forgetting what happened once Monday morning arrives, or maybe not wanting to remember.
Now playing in theaters.

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THUNDER KATANA BLADE is a historic object of the second world war (WW-II) in the pacific and southeast asia. According to the myth of this blade in the WW-II era was used by a japanese imperial army officer. The myth states that for anyone who holds this katana blade, will have a long life, if this blade is used to kill. Isue circulated that this katana blade is hidden somewhere in the wilds of southeast asia. Due to the myth, the katana blade is the target of many parties. Especially from groups of international criminal organizations as well as collectors for personal enjoyment. In anticipation of adverse effects, if the katana blade is owned by irresponsible parties, then THE FORECASTER duty to track the existence of katana blade, as well as placing it in the museum of international standard, so useful for science and history education.


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Thursday, May 03, 2007
Ahhhhh! I'm BACK!
I know, I know, I haven't posted in forever and a half years, but I am now DONE with school for the summer and I am HOME in Massachusetts, where there are CATS and RED SOX and.... MORE CATS. And JONATHAN PAPELBON. And DAISUKE MATSUZAKA. And HIDEKI OKAJIMA (whom I secretly love more than Matsuzaka, mainly because of that "I am willing to be a hero in the dark," quote, which is so Cyrano de Bergerac [if Cyrano was, you know, Japanese] that I can't STAND it).
In fact, here is an example of how good it is to be home.
I am watching the local news right now, and there is a WHOLE SEGMENT where they took a photo of Tom Brady wearing a Yankee hat around to various people around Fenway and filmed their reactions.... which ranged from confusion, to disbelief, to disgust, to horror. This is NEWS. PRIME TIME NIGHTLY NEWS. Massachusetts is completely insane, and I love it.
I must admit that I have been a bit baseball-distracted lately. The new baseball overlord over at MVN likes us to write every day, so I've been posting a lot at Roar of the Tigers. I also went to a bunch of Michigan baseball games, because that's probably the best time it is possible to have.
College baseball games.... ah, you can get so close to the action, get all kinds of fun photos, and when the ballpark is within easy walking distance of your apartment, it's even better. In fact, that was one of the few things that saddened me about leaving Ann Arbor for the summer: missing out on the rest of the Michigan baseball season. (I don't have the same reaction about moving away from Detroit Tigers on TV, because we have a dish at home and were thus "allowed" to purchase the Extra Innings package. So now it's just a matter of flipping back and forth on days when the Tigs and Sox play at the same time. Which I will cheerfully do.)
It was a very baseball-ish year art-wise too. My huge year-long project had to do with baseball, and you'll be hearing more about that near the end of this month. I also did some paintings; that's what the photo heading this post is of. 'Tis Fenway. It's a pretty small painting, only about 5x7", maybe a little larger, and an inch and a half or two inches thick. I just wanted to mess around with rendering a ballpark in black and white like this.
Here's a detail shot.
And here you see the 3D nature of the canvas.
Not the only baseball painting I did this year, but the only one of Fenway, so.
Anyways. Although I probably won't be able to post every day over here (it's more than enough 'work' keeping RotT going on a daily basis), I will be posting much more often. There are things to be said about the Lions' draft, posts to be made about Michigan baseball, and of course the Red Sox. There are roster photos to be made fun of. If anyone is still reading this old thing ('tho I'll be writing even if you aren't, o invisible readers), it's good to be back with you guys.
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by Brandon Schatz As the whispers from last week’s Diamond Retailer Summit turned into audible noise, it quickly became apparent that the rumours were true: after 28 years with the company, Bob Wayne would be retiring from DC Comics when the company moves across country early next year. By all accounts, Wayne was and continues […]
Along those same lines, DC’s Burbank office is totally ramping up — although not in editorial, where the biggest defection is coming. and in some pretty big jobs — a VP of Development, a VP of publicity (possibly the position Alex Segura’svacated when he went back to Archie?) Even interns if you want to […]
When DC announced their move to Burbank, I was told the first name on the list of people who weren’t going was SR VP of Sales, Bob Wayne. Wayne was already near retirement age, and had been dealing with some health issues. Plus he pretty much invented everything that we know about the current direct […]
Greetings, sales charts fans! It’s time once again to look at DC’s sales figures.
DC take five of the top ten spots on the Diamond sales charts, all of them Batman-titled books thanks to the debut of the weekly Batman Eternal. However, DC fall to their lowest Dollar Share and Unit Share in quite some time due to a combination of Marvel’s relaunch of Amazing Spider-Man (with a boatload of order incentives and variant covers leading to over a half million in sales) and their own inability to get out many of their bestselling titles on a consistent schedule—Forever Evil, Sandman Overture and Superman Unchained) didn’t ship this month, with Forever Evil’s lateness causing a ripple effect through other titles like Justice League of America.
All-Star Western #34 cover by Darwyn Cooke, who also draws the innards. I didn’t get a chance to run DC’s August Solicitations yesterday, but they announced that six books were getting canceled: All-Star Western, Superboy, Birds of Prey, and Batwing are all original New 52 books, ending with issue #32. Trinity of Sin: The Phantom […]
IGN has the details on a weekly Digital First Wonder Woman series, Sensation Comics, named after the 40s comic that prominently featured the Amazon warrior. It’s doubtless both a trademark win (when trademarks are abandoned others can use them) and a win for the oft left in the corner third leg of the DC Big […]
After some squawking over forcing retailers to order September’s “Future’s End” event comics blind due to the time needed to manufacture the lenticular covers, DC has revealed all the lineups and even a few covers. It’s the usual blend of mainstays, with a few yeoman back-ups. In other words, you must be reliable. As for whats in the stories, you can rely on a full array of face sewing, limb chopping, insect-leg attaching action as you like it!
There was a time, early on, when Vertigo was considered more of a horror and dark fantasy line. Swamp Thing, Hellblazer and Sandman all being prominent parts of the first wave. Vertigo’s widened its doors considerably since then to include straight up crime and science fiction titles, as well as fantasy with a lighter tone. It’s […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnXsnR-2AvU Looks like he’ll be running…and FAST. Seriously, this is a fine trailer. And I don’t even like the Flash. And the Arrow crossover possibilities are endless. Grant Gustin will be playing the title character, Barry Allen, and he’s evidently a jolly sort who likes his powers. The Flash previously appeared in a one season […]
The first three minute look at Constantine, the upcoming NBC series based on the Hellblazer comics, has been released and there is good and there is bad. I liked the callouts to actual comics, like the insect covered call of the very first issue, and the angel winged Mannym as played by Harold Perrineau. OBviously […]
I shot this with my @Leica_Camera M Monochrom. #Batman #Batmobile #Gotham http://t.co/WPHKLxgBLM pic.twitter.com/p5DEf6fLzJ — ZackSnyder (@ZackSnyder) May 13, 2014 Over on twitter Batman vs Superman director Zack Snyder has helpfully passed along a photo with some lens information to help you get that moody gritty look. Another aid in getting just the right note of […]
Wow what a week for DC’s tv properties! iZombie, The Flash and Constantine have ALL been picked up for series commitments! The Flash, which is a spinoff of Arrow, will air on The CW, as will iZombie, based on the Chris Roberson/Mike Allred Vertigo book of the same name. And NBC has ordered Constantine, based […]
I think this statement from the family of Bill FInger, the long uncredited co-creator of most of the Batman mythos speaks for itself. The long memories of comics aren’t just for issue numbers, people. During a recent WonderCon Anaheim panel for Batman’s 75th anniversary, an audience member asked panelists for opinions about the fact that writer […]
Fox and WB just released the very first trailer for this falls GOTHAM tv show! With great hesitation and uncertainty, I would tag this as “Nolan-esque.” And why not? The Christopher Nolan Batman movies are the benchmark now. Gotham has been ordered for a full season this fall on Fox, and it’s billed as “an […]
DC’s final C2E2 panel focused on Superman featuring the talent line up of Greg Pak, Aaron Kuder, with Scott Snyder and Charles Soule coming in a little late. Much of Superman’s 2014 was discussed along with Scott’s heart felt goodbye to Superman Unchained.
First up was Action Comics with Greg Pak and Aaron Kuder. The scene in issue 30 was shown where Doomsday kills polar bears. Pak went on to talk about how much fun he’s having writing Action and that issue 30 was a prelude to the “Doomed” storyline. He promised in the upcoming storyline we’d see “enormous comic book fights like you’ve never seen before.”


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Recently, we had the opportunity to sit down with Mr. Jack Rinkers, CEO of Wilgro Services. In business since 1972, Wilgro Services is one of the strongest non-union HVAC service leaders in the greater Delaware Valley, currently servicing 300 maintenance agreements for a diverse array of commercial markets. We were pleased to have the opportunity to sit down with Mr. Rinkers and discuss how 48 Factoring has been able to assist him with his business funding needs.
Can you tell us a bit about why you decided to apply for funding with 48 Factoring?
Basically, the new economy change. Banking regulations are so strict. It's an issue of getting funding when you need it. Speed is everything. The biggest difficulty we have is getting paid from our clients. You must have a credit line in place.
What has your experience been like working with banks in the past?
It was terrible. It's so hard to deal with banks today. It's just not the same as it was, five, six, seven years ago. Not versatile at all anymore. It takes two months just to do anything.
What has your experience working with 48 Factoring been like?
Smooth as possible. I wouldn't work with anybody else. They hear your needs and wants and adjust accordingly. You develop a rapport with them so they are great partners. If I need something, I can get it within a day or two.
What would you say has been the best benefit of working with 48 Factoring?
They stick to their word 100%. You can count on it. I'm so busy and if they say they are going to do something, I know they are going to do it and I don't have to worry about it. Reliability.
How has the capital you have received help you to grow your business?
With the revenue that we have been able to receive, we have been able to stay on top of paying our bills. In turn, that has allowed us to get the best discounts, making it possible to be more competitive when we bid on jobs. We've also done some more hiring because we are able
to be more competitive.
Headquartered in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Wilgro Services has technicians located throughout the greater Delaware Valley and offers fast, reliable responses to any type of HVAC problem. The company takes great pride in the ability to transform problems into solutions.
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Even in 1992, Ito was finding stories where other people might not think to look – in the fear that you are always exposed and there is nowhere to hide.
I think this might be the most hotly anticipated release on this site since HELLSTAR REMINA. This is Junji Ito at his absolute best and worst, with an amazing, atmospheric idea told well … that frustratingly leaves us starving for more. Even at seventy pages, it wasn’t enough. More than any of his short stories so far, this one deserved to be an entire volume.
Tell us what you thought. My review in the first comment.


Fullington sweeps first round state playoff series against DEA
Published 4:12 pm Tuesday, April 30, 2019
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The Fullington Academy Trojan baseball team (8-13 on the season) moved into the second round of the GICAA division 1-A state playoffs with a double-header sweep over David Emanuel Academy by scores of 2-1 and 8-4 on Monday afternoon in Pinehurst.
Trojans 2, DEA 1
DEA took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning of game one, but that run would prove to be their only score of the contest, as Fullington starting pitcher Blake Worley did not allow another run over the remainder of the game.
Fullington scored their two runs in the bottom of the fifth when Josh Hendrix hit a two-run single to centerfield that scored Hunter Hughes and Brooks Hendrix.
The Trojans maintained the 2-1 advantage over the final two frames to hang on for the victory.
Worley earned the win on the mound after seven innings of work, in which he allowed just the one run on eight DEA hits while recording eight strikeouts.
Hughes led the Trojan offense in the game with three hits and one run scored. Josh Hendrix, Carson Godfrey and Shiloh Kehayes all had one hit during game one.
Trojans 8, DEA 4
Game two featured more offense from both sides, but Fullington came out on top to finish off the series sweep.
The game was scoreless after two innings of play, but the Trojans scored at least one run in the final five frames. Their biggest scoring output came during the top of the seventh when they pushed across four runs to build an 8-2 lead. DEA tacked on two runs in the bottom half of the seventh to get back to within four runs of the Trojan lead, but Fullington pitcher Chase Smith got the final two outs of the game to eliminate any further threat of a comeback.
Godfrey started game two for the Trojans and pitched six innings and a third while allowing four runs on 11 hits and striking out five.
Hughes was again the catalyst for Fullington, with three hits, two RBIs, and two runs in game two. Jack McLeod finished game two with a pair of hits and three RBIs, while Avery Scarboro also added two hits plus an RBI.
The Trojans will play at Central Fellowship Friday in the second round of the GICAA state tournament at 2 p.m.


Accounting for the effect of horizontal gradients in limb measurements of scattered sunlight
- 1Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, J.J. Becher Weg 27, 55128 Mainz, Germany
- 2Institute of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy, University of Latvia, Raina Bulv. 19, Riga, 1586, Latvia
- 3Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Abstract. Limb measurements provided by the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectrometer for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) on the ENVISAT satellite allow retrieving stratospheric profiles of various trace gases on a global scale, among them BrO for the first time. For limb observations in the UV/VIS spectral region the instrument measures scattered light with a complex distribution of light paths: the light is measured at different tangent heights and can be scattered or absorbed in the atmosphere or reflected by the ground. By means of spectroscopy and radiative transfer modelling these measurements can be inverted to retrieve the vertical distribution of stratospheric trace gases.
The fully spherical 3-D Monte Carlo radiative transfer model "Tracy-II" is applied in this study. The Monte Carlo method benefits from conceptual simplicity and allows realizing the concept of full spherical geometry of the atmosphere and also its 3-D properties, which is important for a realistic description of the limb geometry. Furthermore it allows accounting for horizontal gradients in the distribution of trace gases.
In this study the effect of horizontally inhomogeneous distributions of trace gases along flight/viewing direction on the retrieval of profiles is investigated. We introduce a tomographic method to correct for this effect by combining consecutive limb scanning sequences and utilizing the overlap in their measurement sensitivity regions. It is found that if horizontal inhomogenity is not properly accounted for, typical errors of 20% for NO2 and up to 50% for OClO around the altitude of the profile peak can arise for measurements close to the Arctic polar vortex boundary in boreal winter.


Bakey - Take It Further EP REPRESS
12" EP on ORANGE SPLATTERED VINYL
London based producer Bakey has been steadily gathering attention whether it be via his appearances on Rinse FM or club fuelled edits via his Bandcamp. His first vinyl outing ‘Take It Further’ EP is a slice of UKG goodness featuring five tracks of groovers and movers, best played loud.
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Cost of living in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands compared to Al Mawsil al Jadidah, Iraq
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Celebrating 20 years of Rural Health in Alabama:
Partnering with Resilient Communities
April 10-11, 2019
Bryant Conference Center
The Institute for Rural Health Research is pleased to announce the dates for the 2019 Rural Health Conference. This will be the 20th Anniversary of the conference, and you won’t want to miss it!
Each year, the Rural Health Conference brings together health care professionals, community leaders, researchers, government officials, policy-makers, and representatives of faith-based organizations to share knowledge about the health disparities that impact rural Alabama and discuss novel solutions to address those disparities.

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MP3 Yalepo - Yalepo and the Caribbean Rock Party
A cross-over of Caribbean rhythms and Rock music. The Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana kind of influence.
10 MP3 Songs in this album (45:58) !
Related styles: ROCK: Modern Rock, LATIN: Latin Pop
Yalepo and the Caribbean Rock party is about the genre he’s influenced by. A
cross-over of Caribbean rhythms and Rock music. The Jimi Hendrix, Carlos
Santana kind of influence. Yalepo was born on Aruba. At this moment he
lives in the Netherlands. “Yalepo is the only Artist I’m going to focus on this
year because it is different and I love his music.” That is what Cat Anderson,
who is an music promoter based in the Blackpool area in the UK, said the
other day when Yalepo was talking business with him.
At this moment Yalepo is working on a new Album for the Caribbean Rock
Party band due to come out in the beginning of 2010. Also he is working on his
Rock Opera. You can find all promotional topics for the new work in the e-zine
Yalepo is putting out on the net in the near future.
Yalepo works with freelance musicians. I’m only talking about those who
where involved in this particular recording. When I’m on stage you may see a
different line-up of other pro’s. I played the guitar for them in other bands,
we know each other for a long time. Amsterdam has a good music scene and
we often play on stage at the jam sessions in the well known Clubs. On track
1,2,3,5,6, and 7 whe have on drums Jacob Jacobs. With him and Louis
Heijmans I started the serious rehearsals for this band to perform live. On
track 4 Louis on bass. On tracks 4,8, and 10 we have on the drums Gus
Genser. He is also taking care of all the percussion work on all tracks, some
additional rhythm guitars and backing-vocals. I know him from several bands
and session line ups. We had loads of fun on stage. He used to play the drums
for Herman Brood. On track 7 aditional lead vocals also done by Gus. On track
1,2,3,5,6,7,8 and 9 we have Henk Schutteon bass and backing vocals. On
track 2 he is also on the rap. I met Henk often in those days at the beginning
of the new millenium. Louis Heijmans had left the band to play with the John
Haze Project so I asked Henk if he was interested in playing the bass for me.
Fortunately he went for it. He is now playing for an Dutch blues artist. On
track 10 we have Jeroen on bass. Jeroen also played with various known
Dutch Artists. He was so kind to play the bass for me on this particular
track. Stan the Man agrreed to play additional guitar on the track “Get
ready”. He is also a well known musician in the Amsterdam music scene.
Rhythm guitars, sologuitar, backing vocals and lead vocals by Yalepo.
Yalepo is my Indian name given by my grandfather, an Caraib indian and
a medicine man in Surinam, who goes by the name of Johannus van der
Waals. Also his Indian name is Yalepo. The people there know him as Todo.
We promote this band on the net and in real life. This music of Yalepo is to
help the Caribbean Indian Spirit and the language because it’s fainting away
as so many other Indian Cultures do. They know about the Mother Earth and
the rain forest of the Amazon where timber is hard to find these days.


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California has a state travel ban for several Big Ten states. Here's what that means for UCLA...and everybody else
Good morning, and thanks for your continued support of Extra Points.
June 30 was a weird day in California.
It was, after all, the day the news broke that UCLA and USC were leaving the Pac-12 to join the Big Ten. After spending the better part of the last 100 years playing west coast schools on a regular basis, the two biggest brands in the Pac-12 would now begin playing the majority of their conference games against Midwestern teams.
That same day, the state of California quietly expanded a state travel ban policy to include Indiana:
Those aren't the only four states currently under a state-funded travel restriction. In fact, a whopping 22 states now under restriction, including Big Ten states other Big Ten states Iowa and Ohio, along with most of the South. Utah and Arizona, of course, are in the current Pac-12 footprint as well.
USC is a private school, so California HB 1887, the legislation that allows for these bans, doesn't apply to them. But UCLA is a public school, and no matter how 'creative' the Big Ten is able to get with scheduling logistics, there's no way around the fact that UCLA is going to need to make trips to Iowa, Indiana and Ohio.
So what happens now?
Getting anybody to talk about this policy has honestly been a big challenge. I reached out to the California governor's office, but was told to direct my questions to the Attorney General. Multiple requests for comment or clarification to that office were not returned. I reached out to the office of Dr. Michael Drake, the head of the University of California system, but my calls were not returned either. I left messages with UCLA's athletic department and university-wide PR department. I even called the office of Indiana's governor.
UCLA was the only entity to get back to me. An athletic department spokesperson sent over the following statement:
So not only can state athletic departments not use state funding to travel to restricted states, but employees cannot be required to travel to those states, and athletes, as non-employees, would be given the option to not travel without penalty.
UCLA football is scheduled to travel to Arizona State on Nov 5, and will travel to Arizona and Utah in 2023. UCLA is also scheduled to play a road game at LSU in 2024, and Auburn in 2028. Arizona, Utah, Louisiana, and Alabama are all states on the ban list.
So what would be considered 'state funds?'
This is a good question, and I'm told it's more complicated than you might think.
When I reached out to UCLA for clarification, a spokesperson told the following:
I also reached out to senior administrators at three other public California athletic departments, all in different mid-major conferences, for additional insights into how they define it. For schools that aren't UCLA, 'state funds' may mean something different.
All three of the mid-major administrators told me that "state funds" would absolutely include any direct institutional support. "All the funds that the school directs to the athletic department would be state funds," one Big West school administrator told me. At the mid-major level, those distributions make up huge percentages of the operating budget.
But what about earned revenues? I'm told this can be more complicated, depending on internal accounting practices. Another school administrator told me that their stadium concessions are technically operated by a third party, and that revenue generated there would not be considered state funding, since it shows up as a vendor payment. Whether conference revenue distributions, gameday revenues, and other non-donor earnings would fall under 'state funds', depends, I'm told, in large part on internal accounting practices. Things could get messy.
Two of the three mid-major administrators told me that their schools use donor and philanthropy money to pay for restricted state travel, rather than earned revenues or any other athletic department funds. Multiple administrators also told me that in practice, figuring out what money can be used for what travel expense, or what becomes defined as a "travel expense", can be a bigger issue than you'd think.
In the Big Sky, for example, California teams would need to travel to Montana, Idaho, Arizona, and Utah, all on the restricted travel list. That's a significant lift, even before anybody goes on a single recruiting trip.
It's even an issue in the Big West. Every school in the league but Hawaii is in California, and Hawaii is not a restricted state, so on the surface, that doesn't seem like a big deal. But almost every school in the league needs to at least occasionally travel to Arizona, Utah or Texas to recruit, travel that they would then need to pay for with donor money.
"Plus, if we're playing an NCAA Tournament event in one of those states, an event that we never scheduled or asked for, that still falls under restricted travel," another administrator told me. With most states in the South falling in the restricted list, it's hard for any sport that competes nationally to avoid traveling to a restricted state.
Not to mention all the conferences and conventions that might happen in restricted states. The NCAA, after all, is headquartered in Indiana. Texas and Arizona are hotspots for conferences and meetings as well.
Still, will UCLA be able to pay for this? Yeah. And it makes one wonder...what exactly is the point of all this?
UCLA, even with significant athletic department debt, will be making plenty of money from future Big Ten revenue distribution checks. Three million dollars a year is a drop in the bucket for a department that historically brings in more than $100 million in revenue. The raw dollars and cents, for a school like UCLA, aren't the issue.
But complying with this directive may cost extra man-hours, as the school will need to track down exactly where each dollar came from, and it might require the school to use donor or third party money in a less efficient way. But certainly, UCLA will be able to comply. Even the more cash-strapped mid-majors are able to comply, even if it's a bigger problem for them.
I can't help but wonder...what, exactly, is the benefit of enacting these bans? If California's government was hoping to demonstrate that they strongly disapproved of legislation they felt harmed the LGTBQ community, announcing these moves the same day that the state's flagship athletic program announces they're gonna travel to these states more often completely undercuts the message you're trying to send. What would be more impactful, telling some bureaucrats that they can't go to a paralegal conference in Dallas, or anything UCLA basketball does?
If all the state's athletic departments are still regularly traveling to restricted states, does requiring them to do more paperwork, or direct donor money away from athlete services, do anything to stick it to the ol' Republicans? Or does it just create more work for the sake of creating more work?
And shoot, it doesn't even appear California's governor takes the ban particularly seriously.
I'm not saying that I personally approve of the legislative choices made by several of the states on California's list. And I also understand that I am but a college sportswriter, and may not be appreciating what such a directive means at other levels of California's massive public bureaucracy. Perhaps there are use cases or components that I am not considering.
But after making calls and digging into this, I can't see how this policy actually helps many people, or serves as an effective instrument to encourage policy change...at least as far as athletic departments are concerned.

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