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As you review the past year, it’s easy to get caught in the numbers trap, in which you compare your ending numbers against your goals, your starting numbers, or against last year’s achievements.
You might even do all three. Put all into a spreadsheet and compare them. Calculate the percentage growth or decline, or how close you were to your target.
The numbers themselves are fairly meaningless; what matters is the story we tell about them.
We love to make up stories. And the great thing about numbers is that we can generally find a way to present the numbers so that they support the story we want to tell.
That story is shaped by our beliefs, which are influenced by the dominant forces in our culture — unless we push back.
The dominant forces at play in our culture want us to believe that the only way to measure progress is through quantifiable metrics. In business, we generally look for an increase — more income, a bigger list, more sales. In health, we typically look for a decrease — lower weight, lower blood pressure.
Whether the numbers reflect progress is not absolute. It’s a matter of perspective.
Losing weight can be a sign of progress, unless you lose too much weight, in which case it’s a sign of a problem.
At first glance an increase in income looks like progress in your business, but if your costs increased too, then that income doesn’t result in higher profits. If you’re in a service business that depends on you providing the service, and the increase in income comes at the expense of your health, then you’ve got illusory gain that won’t be sustainable.
The numbers don’t matter nearly as much as you think they do.

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*editor's note: in the following paragraphs there is a suggestion that the arrival of the Swainson's Thrush is concurrent with the spring equinox. As this is undoubtedly true for some parts of the world, the approximate arrival dates for this bird in Washington State are mid-late April. The first songs are heard a couple of weeks later, generally. However, the weather is so shitty here on and around March 21st that I would argue that Relative Spring comes much later...say, around the time that Swainson's show up and start belting it out. Apologies for the incongruity. Forgiveness is begged.
Winter solstice has come and gone from these northern latitudes. The spent champagne corks of New Years Eve have all washed out to sea. The Nativity scenes that once graced lawns across the city have been broken down and stored away for the season; the 3 Wise Men stacked, crotch-to-nose, beneath the teats of the Holy Cow, among the winterized mower and moldy badminton set. Baby Jesus, pinned to the garage wall by string and a roofing nail, floats above the bovine head, his angelic face mustachioed and left arm missing, blasphemous modifications from a merry band of vandals that swept through the neighborhood on the eve of His birth. Joseph, for his part, stands alone in a corner, behind the golf clubs, while his virgin wife sits fireside within the comfort of the house, her soft gaze fixed on the brandy-breathed homeowner arrayed at her feet. A halo of spent nitrous-cartridges surround them, his weeping wetting the cradled plastic foot in his hands.
Here, tucked just south of the 49th parallel, our solar rations grow a little larger each day and though we are still firmly in the icy grips of Deep Winter, we are allowed to dream a little. With caution we cultivate small embers of hope. Meager longings are given longer leash. Thoughts of what the spring will bring forth, if it should ever come again, are again permissible. In the low angled light we venture out, bundled in earth toned rags and loud stocking hats, seeking the sparse rays that occasionally, miraculously penetrate the gray gloom.
The other day, as we shuffled through the brown slush beneath the witch fingered trees that line our charming, burnt out downtown sector, an esteemed colleague of mine, Scout Kremlin, Master of Owls and of Irredeemable Real Estate, received a call. He has for his cellphone ringtone the song of the Swainson's Thrush.
It is difficult to approximate the ecstasy I felt upon hearing that unearthly ringing escaping from his pants. The rising, spiraling thermal of broken glass sent me into a reverie that left me huddled against a brick wall, eyes watering, mumbling incoherently to myself. A passersby lobbed some coins at me. I came out of my trance, purified, awestuck, 37 cents richer.
The Swainsong has always had a time-travelling effect on me, sending me back to the first time its beauty was brought to my attention. Tall Paul, renegade handy-man, flyfishing wizard and dirtbag naturalist, his Pall Mall trailing smoke, following the Swainsong skyward, taught me my first bird songs and rudimentary IDs. The dark-eyed junco wears a Darth Vadar helmet, its song a phone ringing. The fire-eyed towhee calls like a cat. Red-breasted nuthatch sounds like a truck backing up.
Everytime I hear the Swainson's, there I am, dumb-ass teenager, wounded, spiteful, pissed at the world, the same world whose beauty is just beginning to melt my cold, boreal heart. Tall Paul looms large in the memory, lighting his next smoke with the previous one's cherry, a circle unbroken, wiping out the old fire on his pant leg. The spent ciggy butt is inserted into his pants pocket, for Tall Paul doesn't litter.
Fused with this memory are all subsequent springs that the song has ushered in, a helix of sonic stasis, of time suspended. The bird's vibrating syrinx a unifying conduit of an Equinox Eternal. An ever-expanding moment, a floating world that materializes out of the mist only to rise up and disappear into the ether.
I had to know if the Swainsong had the same effect on others. Surely, even among non-birders, the song had to elicit Deep Feelings. Maybe some would hear it as an inquiry into the Great Mystery. Perhaps it would unsettle some bowels, a naturally-occurring Brown Note, the infamous tone sought after for centuries by clergymen and other weirdos.
A recording of a Swainson's Thrush song was played for individuals as encountered at St. Andrew's Assisted Living Community, Blackbird Coffehouse and Franklin Elementary School. A lackluster hacky sack circle at the community college was also sampled. The subjects were asked to describe the song in whatever language came to mind, however florid or plain. The following list catalogs these descriptions.
Raspy ascending yodel
A toilet being flushed
A warble unraveling
It's doing spirals!
As if water is flowing upstream
I think it could be the last sound, as everything we could ever know
is spun down a cosmic drain into a black hole.
The sound my head makes as it spins upward in the forest, looking for a secret
Some elf dude, really high, playing, like, a flute
A tornado that makes harmony instead of chaos
Window into eternity
The piper at the gates of dawn
Swirling cascades of mist
Waterfalls made of clouds
Kinda like when Mario eats a mushroom in that old Nintendo game
Exuberant spirals of metallic bubbles
A pretty chicken
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Northleaf Capital Partners has announced that it has held the final closing for its second OECD-focused pooled infrastructure fund, Northleaf Infrastructure Capital Partners II (NICP II), at its US$950 million hard cap.
NICP II, which was launched in 2015, will focus on direct investments in small to mid-sized infrastructure assets in developed markets. It has already completed its first two investments: a portfolio of bulk liquid storage assets in the United Kingdom and a portfolio of wind and solar assets in the United States. More recently, NICP II committed to acquire a stake in Northwest Parkway, a highway that forms part of the ring road around Denver, Colorado.
Northleaf’s US$2.5 billion infrastructure program is focused on direct, long-term investments in OECD countries, providing investors with stable, consistent cash flow from assets that deliver essential services.
Northleaf now manages US$9 billion in capital commitments on behalf of more than 70 institutional investors, and the firm’s global investment portfolios include more than 200 active investments in 14 countries.
Stuart Waugh, Managing Partner of Northleaf, said:
“We are delighted that NICP II was oversubscribed, with strong support from both new and existing investors. Our successful track record and consistent focus on conservatively-positioned small to mid-sized infrastructure assets in developed markets clearly resonates with investors and asset consultants.”

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Not so long ago Mark Trumbo seemed headed for a breakout season, making the All-Star team on the basis of a huge first half and hitting .307 with 27 homers, 16 doubles, and a .988 OPS in 85 games through July 20.
And then he just stopped hitting.
Since then Trumbo has played 43 games, batting .194 with three homers, zero doubles, and a .499 OPS while striking out 65 times compared to 11 walks.
He’s been so bad for so long that manager Mike Scioscia has recently been semi-regularly benching him in favor of Vernon Wells, who’s sporting a .227 batting average and .701 OPS after being incredibly unproductive last season.
Here’s how Scioscia explained the situation to Mike DiGiovanna of the Los Angeles Times:
There are a finite amount of games right now. With a guy like Trum, it’s a Catch-22. He has to go out there and swing, and right now, his struggles are taking some at-bats away from him. When he finds it, he usually keeps it, and it can come quickly for him. We need him, and we’ll definitely give him enough chances to get there with the option of spotting Vernon or some other guys to give us a little boost if he continues to struggle.
Here’s the thing, though: Dating back to mid-July, when Trumbo started slumping, Wells has hit .190 with four homers and a .696 OPS in 25 games. That’s better than Trumbo, sure, but it’s still really, really bad. If Scioscia is going to bench Trumbo for someone he ought to think about it being Peter Bourjos, because at least then the Angels will be getting amazing defense.
The Mets have begun working outfielder Jay Bruce and second baseman Neil Walker at first base as potential insurance in the event Lucas Duda continues to experience back discomfort, Mike Puma of the New York Post reports. Duda has been sidelined recently due to back spasms and missed all but 47 games last season as a result of a stress fracture in his lower back.
Manager Terry Collins spoke about Bruce’s work at first base on Sunday, saying, “I liked everything I saw today. “It looks like he’s got the athleticism, he’s got the hands, he’s got the arm angle. He made some throws in our drills that you wouldn’t expect an outfielder to be able to make, but yet he does. If that’s where we have to go, I think we’ll be fine.”
Bruce has only three games’ worth of experience at first base at the major league level, but still has high expectations for himself. He said, “I am going to work at it. I want to give myself a chance and the team a chance. I am not going to go over there and be a butcher. It’s just not the way I go about my business on the baseball field and it wouldn’t be fair to the team if I wasn’t capable to do it, so I am going to work at it and we’ll see what happens.”
The Mets made Bruce available via trade over the offseason but didn’t get an offer that whet their appetite. As a result, Michael Conforto appears to be the odd man out in the Mets’ crowded outfield.
Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis has been diagnosed with a strained rotator cuff in his right shoulder, MLB.com’s Jordan Bastian reports. Kipnis has received a cortisone shot and will be shut down from throwing for the next four to five days.
There’s a lot of spring left, so it’s perfectly sensible for the Indians to play it safe with their star player. The club already had Kipnis on a shoulder strengthening program.
Kipnis, 29, helped the Indians to the playoffs after batting .275/.343/.469 with 23 home runs, 92 RBI, 91 runs scored, and 15 stolen bases in 688 plate appearances during the regular season last year. He then helped the Indians reach Game 7 of the World Series against the Cubs, where they were eventually stopped, as he provided a .741 OPS including four homers and eight RBI in 15 playoff games.


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Evaluating the Rural HIV/AIDS Planning Grant Program
While the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in largely urban areas in the U.S., it has become increasingly prominent in rural communities during the last decade. In 2018, 21% of HIV/AIDS diagnoses occurred in rural areas. There are regional disparities to consider, as well, with highest rates (15.6 per 100,000) and most diagnoses (51%) occurring in the South. Further, racial disparities in HIV/AIDS rates mean that the burden of this disease is borne disproportionately by Black Americans.
The many thousands of rural residents living with HIV/AIDS need consistent access to timely, high-quality health care in order to manage their symptoms and live full lives. Given the reality of consistently documented barriers in access to care for rural individuals, additional support may be needed for small, rural organizations to effectively provide healthcare services to those in their communities living with HIV/AIDS. One source of support comes from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, which funds and administers the Rural HIV/AIDS Planning Grant program. This program targets seven states with a disproportionate number of HIV/AIDS diagnoses among rural residents and assists grantees in the development of an integrated rural HIV health network for HIV care and treatment.
It is important to examine the unique geographical context of a spectrum of vital services (from physical to mental health) provision to those living with HIV/AIDS in rural areas. Our specific purpose was to understand any barriers or facilitators to success among the 2020 cohort of grantees. Understanding these may be key in planning for future grants and may also inform future policies and programs aimed at addressing rural HIV/AIDS.
Evaluating the Rural HIV/AIDS Planning Program
University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
The purpose of this policy brief is to understand the overall experiences of the first grantee cohort (2020-21) of the Rural HIV/AIDS Planning Program. We pay particular attention to any barriers to or facilitators of successful grant implementation, and the sustainability of programs and acquisition of future funding.

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It’s mid-September and ex-Whiskeytowner Ryan Adams’ second solo release, Gold, isn’t even out yet. However, on various music listservs, disagreements continue to flare over whether the radio-aimed, less than startlingly original album represents either a misstep or a step up to the Big Time or, somehow, both. In simplest terms, some folks dig Gold, and a slightly larger group (or more vocal, anyway) thinks it bites. Either way, Adams will still be doing lunch with Elton John next week and could surprise everybody with an album of Chicago blues in six months. So why debate?
Because this isn’t religion or politics; this is something that matters: music. And Adams is widely recognized as a talent promising enough to keep discussions heated. First some givens: Gold isn’t Faithless Street, the near-worshipped full-length Whiskeytown debut that was the sound of punk rockers discovering a stack of Gram Parsons and Merle Haggard records. Jump ahead five years, and Gold also isn’t Heartbreaker, Adams’ Dylan-influenced debut from last year that used stark musical arrangements to pick at fresh wounds. Musically and lyrically, Gold isn’t as raw, courageous, or compelling as either of those. The perceived abundance of borrowed ideas and warmed-over guitar licks is one of the meatiest bones of contention on the lists.
But the bottom line is that Gold is an immensely listenable album, a description that’s not intended to damn with faint praise. Leading off is “New York, New York,” a musical second cousin to Stephen Stills’ “Love the One You’re With” and a no-brainer for his upcoming Late Night with David Letterman appearance. On the folk-rocking “Firecracker,” Adams blows his harmonica with the enthusiasm of a kid blessed with a toy trumpet on Christmas morning. “Answering Bell” is informed by revered ancients The Band and Van Morrison, while Adams’ confident vocals share the spotlight with a warm, recurring guitar riff–part Wes Montgomery, part Ennio Morricone–on “La Cienega Just Smiled.” All of that precedes the backing gospel choir that kicks in on “The Rescue Blues,” and it’s before Adams pins your heart to the wall with the “there ain’t no way I’ll ever stop from loving you now” chorus of “Somehow, Someday.”
It’s also just before the need for an editor becomes apparent. A good start would be to cut “Nobody Girl” in half, transforming it into a bargain at four minutes and 45 seconds. Then goodbye, toothless “Enemy Fire.” And later on, dull “Wild Flowers,” with a few others to follow. Trimming Gold down to 12 songs from 16 would tighten things up considerably.
So yeah, those hell-bent on getting the masterpiece they expect from Adams will have to wait for his next album or the one after that. Or maybe the one after that. In the meantime, I’ll be giving Gold plenty of spins.


President Nana Akufo-Addo has refuted claims by a section of the public that his government is set to introduce Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender agenda into the Ghanaian society through the controversial Comprehensive Sexuality Education.
Being categorical in his statement, the President said no student in Ghana will be taught contents that offend our culture and values as a nation so long as he remains the Leader of Ghana.
Speaking on the controversial issue that has been the most topical in Ghana in the past one week for the first time while addressing the congregation of the St. Cyprian’s Anglican Church in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, President Akufo-Addo stated that his objective is rather to widen access and provide quality education through the Free SHS policy and but not to teach Ghanaian children concepts that offend our sensibilities as a people.
“In the past few days you’ve all heard the discussion on the media my government and I want our teachers to introduce our children to things that are frowned upon by us as a people. I introduced the Free Senior High School so that the country will be strengthened so that our children will all have the opportunity to learn to ensure that Ghana develops to the level where we all want it.”
President Akufo Addo added, “I didn’t bring it for our children to be taught inappropriate content. So as long as I remain the President of Ghana and being a Christian, it will never happen that I will agree for inappropriate things to be taught in our schools so please don’t be worried at all, there’s no truth in what is being put out there.”
It is expected that the President’s statement will settle the raging debate over the CSE.
News of the introduction of the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) has been met with massive public uproar against the sex education initiation with some Ghanaians calling on the education ministry to withdraw it.
There are fears that the introduction of the CSE will indoctrinate children to accept homosexuality and other awkward sexual behaviours.
The government has stated that the policy has been suspended but the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council and other critics alike have insisted suspending the policy alone is not enough and must be completely withdrawn.


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Carbon stored in the world's soils more vulnerable to climate change than expected
The response of soil microbial communities to changes in temperature increases the potential for more carbon dioxide to be released from the world's soils as global temperatures rise, scientists have revealed.
The potential for global warming to stimulate decomposition rates in soils, and thus release large quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, has long been considered to be one of the potentially most important positive feedbacks to climate change. However, the results from more recent studies have suggested that responses within microbial communities could greatly reduce, or even eliminate, the potential for soil carbon losses under global warming.
This key idea was tested using soils collected from a thermal gradient from the Arctic to the Amazon rainforest. The results, published in Nature, show that, contrary to expectations, microbial community responses resulted in an overall increase, rather than a decrease, in the effects of temperature on rates of carbon dioxide release from soils.
Dr Kristiina Karhu of the University of Helsinki, and lead author of the paper, said: "Because soils store more than twice as much carbon than the atmosphere, changes in rates of decomposition and carbon dioxide release from soil could be very important. Our findings suggest that warming will increase the activity of soil microbes to a greater extent than was previously expected, which could have implications for future rates of climate change."
Responses were not found to be equal in all soils, and differed between geographical regions and ecosystem types. Managed agricultural soils stood out, being the only soils in which microbial community responses reduced the effects of a temperature change on rates of carbon dioxide release. On the other hand, the greatest stimulation was observed in the soils with the greatest carbon content and from boreal and arctic ecosystems, which are warming most rapidly. This indicates that the observed responses could increase the vulnerability of some of the world's most important soil carbon stocks to climate change.
Dr Iain Hartley, of the University of Exeter's College of Life and Environmental Sciences, added: "It is only relatively recently that we have recognised how important it is to understand soil microbial community responses to changes in temperature. Big advances have been made in recent years, and there are now models that simulate key microbial processes. We have a great opportunity to really advance this subject, and improve predictions of rates of carbon dioxide release from soils under global warming, but there is still a huge amount that we need to understand better."

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A latecomer to the music business she has sung all over the world including the Montreux Jazz Festival. I also found out about her love of dogs the voluntary work she does to save then. Listen back to find out more and hear a some of her great music.


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Removed by Spanish authorities, the head of the Catalan government, Carles Pujdeme commented on the results of the early parliamentary elections that took place yesterday in Catalonia. He appealed to his supporters, being in Belgium, reports AFP.
“This is the result, which nobody can dispute. I think we’ve earned the right to be heard”, he said.
Putteman said that the result of yesterday’s vote is “a slap in the face” to the Prime Minister of Spain, Mariano Rajoy, who called early elections after the removal of the part of the politicians Generalitat in connection with the illegal referendum on independence for the region.
“The time has come not only (Prime Minister Mariano) Rajoy, but to many other people to take note. So, tomorrow, when will begin the work of the Ministry, article 155 should be abolished, prisoners should be released, we need to go back,” said Putteman at a press conference, says the Russian propaganda online RIA Novosti.
Topic of the day: Why Catalonia is seeking independence
Earlier it was reported that, according to the calculations of the CEC 97.5% of the votes in the parliamentary elections in Catalonia, which took place on 21 December, the majority of the votes received by the party advocating for the secession of the region from Spain. Three separatist political forces together get 70 seats in the 135-seat regional Parliament, and can demand the right to form the government.
October 1, 2017 in Catalonia was the so-called referendum on independence. In defiance of Madrid not without clashes with police the vote was held. On the illegal referendum with a turnout of 42.3% for the independence of the region spoke 90,18%.
27 Oct for secession from Spain voted by the regional Parliament, and the next day Madrid deprived Catalonia autonomy and took control of the regional government.
Read analyst: Defiant Catalonia: what will turn the Declaration of independence

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Watha Cultural Festival
The breathtaking sunrise beckoned to all dwellers of the semi-arid landscape of Bondeni in Taita Taveta announcing that the day was here. The yellow branches of the beautiful tall acacia trees swayed in the cool South-Easterly winds as it blew ushering all to attend one of the 1st ever biggest event to take place among the Watha People of the villages around Mt. Kasigau in Taita Taveta.
The Watha Festival had finally arrived! Eager to begin the festivities, hundreds of men, women and children poured into Itinya Village, next to Maungu town along the Voi-Mombasa highway excited to see what the day would bring. The festival drew about 200 people in total including 10 representatives invited from each Watha community from 5 locations around Taita Taveta County, namely: Birikani village, Kajire village, Itinya village, Kisemenyi village and Shirango/Makina village.
Other notable attendees were 9 Watha elders who serve as advisors for the mini-festival and 8 members of the organizing committee drawn from Waldena – the umbrella Watha Community Development Committee. Both the festival advisory and the organizing committees work under the auspices of the Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW).
The Watha people are a rare Cushitic tribe regarded by anthropologists as ‘hunter-gatherers’. Recent testimonies indicate that the Watha are more “bushmen” than hunter-gatherers. The Watha once occupied the vast region now under the jurisdiction of Tsavo East National Park and Tsavo West National Park. The tribe is legendary for hunting of elephants with the most powerful traditional hand-made bows in the world.
Unfortunately, wildlife managers and conservationists have largely ignored the unrivalled Watha Cultural reverence for pristine wilderness areas, their unmatched respect for wildlife, and their deep indigenous knowledge of and practices for nature conservation.
The event aimed at revitalizing and reinvigorating the Watha Culture and heritage as intricately linked to wildlife and nature. The mini-festival was set up as the first exhibition of Watha cultural ways of life. All traditions incompatible with laws and codes of public behaviour were excluded without compromising the authenticity and originality of the Watha culture. Further, discarded practices due to persecution, victimization and stigmatization of the Watha since the aggressive anti-poaching campaigns were rekindled at the festival.
The objectives of the festival were:
- To demonstrate authentic Watha cultural lifestyles such as cookery, food preservation and storage, dress codes, poetry, songs and dances, weaponry etc.
- To review a conversation about the need to review the current state of Watha culture, Watha people and Watha heritage in the Tsavo region and create an inclusive roadmap for promoting the welfare of Watha people and culture.
- To invite stakeholders in the public service, wildlife, social services and political fraternity in Taita Taveta County to the festival for a Watha cultural experience and consequently obtain their consensual buy-in for promoting the Watha culture as a factor of community integration in the county from then henceforth.
The images below demonstrate the different stages of the festival from the opening prayer to the closing prayer well demonstrating the culture of the Watha people.
Sessions: Invocation Ceremony-(Arrival, Prayers and Lighting Fire); Identifying social belonging; songs and dance; cookery and consumption; bow & arrow competitions; speeaches and thanksgiving.
|Both Young and Old arrive at Itinya village for the festival||Elderly persons join in solidarity as they arrive for the festival||Watha, men and women burst out in jubilation as they arrive at the festival||Watha women join in the entry dance to venue|
|Participant to event bows in prayer||Watha Elder leads in Prayer||Watha Elder leads in Prayer||Watha Elder leads in prayer|
|Watha men prepare to make fire using elephant dry dung||Applying friction on stick and dung to create sparks of fire||Directing the lighted small flame towards wind direction||Dung beginning to smoke|
|Dung lit and ready for placement on the ground||Positioning the lit dung on the ground||Adding firewood to increase the flame||A ready Watha fire in readiness for cooking|
|Watha identifying their different social belonging-clan||Elder identifying clan members||Bondeni Watha People’s Dance||Men joined by women in a Watha dance|
|Elderly Watha tries his hand on the bow and arrow competition||2nd Elder tries his hand on the bow and arrow competition||Members of Watha watch in wait for their chance in bow and arrow competition||Winner of bow and arrow competition jubilated by members of his clan for the win|
|Waldena leader gives a speech during the closure of event||Local leader gives a vote of thanks during closure of event||Nominated MCA gives a vote of thanks during closure of event||Josphat Ngonyo (ED-ANAW) gives speech and vote of thanks|
Songs & Dances:
Watha Culture is coded in a wide variety of songs and dances expressing worship, lamentations, lullabies, mockeries, seduction, triumphs, fertility, crisis and calamities. During the festival, 5 villages competed in singing the following songs and dances: Gerarso, Soghor, M-apira. The winning village, Bondeni, was awarded a full set of Watha Culture uniform of Bondeni.
Watha people are meat specialists and therefore experts of preparing, preserving and storing all types of meat. The festival demonstrated different methods of preparing, preserving and storing meat for either short term use or to last fresh for at least 3 years without refrigeration. Participants tasted different kinds of unique Watha meat foods such as: Fon goghes, Fon jido, Fon wado and Fon jida of dada. They also had an opportunity to drink bulbula after the meal.
Watha people are synonymous with bows and arrows. The Watha are prohibited by National Laws from harvesting wildlife for food, especially by use of bows and arrows. However, the Watha are renown archers with “in-born” marksmanship. These skills were demonstrated at the festival. Watha marksmen from 5 villages competed for the bull’s eye (Garra), the heart (Shiro bupha) and the flank (lukha) trophies at the festival. The Gerarso song from Bondeni (the winning village) was sung by all participants as the closing anthem of the festival.


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(WKTV) - Otsego County residents are being warned of a deed scam targeting property owners.
County Clerk Kathy Sinnott Gardner and Sheriff Richard Devlin Jr. have been contacted by several local residents who have received what appears to be an official letter from a company called Record Transfer Services, which is supposedly out of Sioux Falls, S.D. In the letter, the homeowner is urged to send $83 to the company for a copy of the property owner's deed.
Sinnott Gardner and Devlin warn against the scam and the state attorney general's office has been contacted.
"While this notice appears official, it was not issued by any government agency in New York State," State Sen. James Seward said. "The company may be offering an actual service, but it isn't necessary and isn't worth the fee being charged.
"I will be contacting New York State Attorney General Schneiderman in regard to this solicitation," he said. "In the meantime, my advice: Shred the notice and throw it out."
Sinnott Gardner says the property owners who are in need of a certified copy of their deed can obtain one from the Otsego County Clerk's Office. The maximum cost would be $10, with a minimum cost of $1.
Sinnott Gardner asked anyone who receives such a notice to contact the Otsego County Clerk's Office at (607) 547-4276.


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Average rates for 30-year contracts dropped from 3.71 percent to 3.66 percent with 0.7 points. Thirty-year mortgage rates averaged 4.5 percent the same week of 2011.
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A year earlier, rates on 15-year contracts stood at 3.69 percent.
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Kandis Williams, "Belladonna Atropos. On the one hand, the plant appears to withdraw from a human economy of desire and hovers at the limits of our affective identification. But it also produces profound effects on us, including setting in motion our imagination. This oscillation is not only a defining characteristic of vegetality but functions as a key trait of speculative literature, giving this genre a power and agency that is inherently linked to the vibrancy of plant matter. can all the tight pussy gals step forward?" (2020)
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Writing, and the weight of words, are at the heart of Kandis Williams’s artistic practice, as is mythology, whose imagery she uses in her many anthropological collages. The founder of Cassandra Press, an educational and activist platform run by artists, Williams was born in Baltimore in the mid 80s, and lived for a while in Europe before settling in Los Angeles and Trinidad, now dividing her time between the two. Her transdisciplinary oeuvre – she makes both films and installations – focuses on the body as a place of experience, her performances and choreography exploring the mixing of social interactions, be they desired or imposed, conscious or unconscious (such as “being a young Black female artist today”), and setting these concepts in dialogue with imagery from dominant popular culture. Recently she devised the dramaturgy and scenography for Virgil Abloh’s autumn/winter-2021/22 Louis Vuitton Homme runway show, soon she will unveil a project at Luma Westbau with Cassandra Press, and hers will be the inaugural exhibition at the new David Zwirner gallery in New York, whose team and program will be entirely Black. We’ll be seeing her shortly in Paris too, since she’s just joined the list of artists working with the new Fitzpatrick Gallery. For Numéro, she chose to answer our questions through quotations from other artists or public figures, a way of tackling the conceptual idea of the interview to produce a collage of citations that echoes her art practice.
NUMÉRO: What’s your background? How did the context you were raised in influence you?
OAN DIDION: “It is a difficult point to admit. We are brought up in the ethic that others, any others, all others, are by definition more interesting than ourselves; taught to be diffident, just this side of self-effacing. (‘You’re the least important person in the room and don’t forget it,’ Jessica Mitford’s governess would hiss in her ear on the advent of any social occasion; I copied that into my notebook because it is only recently that I have been able to enter a room without hearing some such phrase in my inner ear.) Only the very young and the very old may recount their dreams at breakfast, dwell upon self, interrupt with memories of beach picnics and favourite Liberty lawn dresses and the rainbow trout in a creek near Colorado Springs. The rest of us are expected, rightly, to affect absorption in other people’s favourite dresses, other people’s trout.”
Do you remember your first encounter with art? What made you want to become an artist?
HENRI MATISSE: “From the moment I held the box of colours in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.”
DAVID HAMMONDS: “I was born into it. That’s why I didn’t even take it in school. All of these liberal arts schools kicked me out, they told me I had to go to trade school. One day I said, ‘Well, I’m getting too old to run away from this gift,’ so I decided to go on and deal with it. But I’ve always been enraged with art because it was never that important to me. We used to cuss people out: people who bought our work, dealers etc., because that part of being an artist was always a joke to us. But, like someone told me, ‘Art is an old man’s game, it’s not a young man’s profession.’ Most people can’t deal with all the loneliness of it. That’s what I loved about California though. These cats would be in their 60s, hadn’t had a show in 20 years, didn’t want a show, painted every day, outrageous stamina. They were like poets, you know, hated everything walking, mad, evil; wouldn’t talk to people because they didn’t like the way they looked. Outrageously rude to anybody, they didn’t care how much money that person had. Those are the kind of people I was influenced by as a young artist. Cats like Noah Purifoy and Roland Welton. When I came to New York, I didn’t see any of that. Everybody was just grovelling and tomming, anything, to be in the room with somebody with some money. There were no bad guys here, so I said, ‘Let me be a bad guy,’ or play with the bad areas and see what happens.”
You’ve developed an artist-run publishing platform called Casandra Press. What’s the intention behind that?
KANDIS WILLIAMS: Cassandra Press is a non-profit, artist-run publishing and educational platform producing lo-fi printed matter, class-rooms, projects, artist books and exhibitions. Our intention is to spread ideas, distribute new language, propagate dialogue centring ethics, aesthetics, femme-driven activism and Black scholarship.
What were you looking at as a child and what do you look at today?
DIANA ROSS: “Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.”
What are the main image sources in your work?
WEB DU BOIS: “But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows beauty, that has music in its being and the colour of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance too.”
You work with collage, video, writing, installation, watercolour, performance etc. Is there a medium you prefer among these?
TONI MORRISON: “I thought of myself as like the jazz musician – some- one who practises and practises and practises in order to be able to invent and to make his art look effortless and graceful. I was always conscious of the constructed aspect of the writing process, and that art appears natural and elegant only as a result of constant practice and awareness of its formal structures. You must practise thrift in order to achieve that luxurious quality of wastefulness – that sense that you have enough to waste, that you are holding back – without actually wasting anything.”
WOLFGANG TILLMANS: “The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the intentions behind the camera.”
How important is the idea of hazard in your practice?
VIOLA DAVIS: “I worked in television; I’m the failed pilot queen, I’ve done so many television shows, pilots, theatre ... When you do it for so long, I’m telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what’s available for a number of reasons. It’s just an occupational hazard.”
FREDERICK DOUGLASS: “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
You’re not attached to a particular style – you seem very free.
KEHINDE WILEY: “My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you’re looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.”
GEORGE S SCHUYLER: “What mattered such little things when the very foundation of civilization, white supremacy, was threatened?”
How do you install your works? Is the display important to you?
MARVA COLLINS: “Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”
MAYA ANGELOU: “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
How do you choose the titles for your pieces?
LISA FRIEDUS: “I believe that titles are the accessory to a painting as a piece of jewellery is to a glorious outfit. Captions add appeal, intrigue and sometimes amusement to the painting and are a subtle wink from the artist.”
Where do you see your work in the history of art?
DIEGO RIVERA: “Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.”
Have you ever felt yourself associated with a particular community or some kind of movement?
TSCHABALALA SELF: “Still, I’m very sceptical of the fetishization of Black artists that’s consumed the current moment. I do not feel comfortable, for example, with my works being up for auction. It’s entirely inappropriate and unnecessary to auction work, especially mine: I’m a Black American artist, and I paint Black bodies. I’m a descendant of slaves in this country, so it’s unfathomable that people could come to me, with glee, to ask if I’m excited about seeing my work, which shows Black figures and bodies, being auctioned. That shows me that people have no real understanding of Black American history, and they don’t understand anything about me and the specificity of my ethnicity as a Black person in America. It’s over their heads.”
Is there anything you would like to make people conscious of through your art in these special times?
RENEE COX: “I’m trying to create my own propaganda for the enhancement of Black folks. I’m focused on people who look like me. That’s why I’ve returned the gaze: to let my people know that they don’t need to have this subservient slave mentality. Returning the gaze is natural for me but there’s a radical nature to it, too. A lot of artists don’t want to talk about it because they’re afraid. Some are comfortable with the monies and the accolades. As far as I’m concerned, they’re not doing anything for the race. And they’ll say, ‘Well, I don’t have to. I’m just an artist. I’m not a Black artist, I’m just an artist. I’m not a Black woman artist, I’m just an artist.’ What are you talking about? When I walk into the room, they see I’m a Black woman artist. When they look at the work, they assume it wasn’t Muffy in New England who made the work. Why are we running away from who we are? For whose benefit? I’m Black and I’m proud, and as a woman I’m all-powerful. I am the giver of life. Put my ass on a pedestal.”


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It’s the feeling that got me into travelling in the first place, it’s the feeling that time and time again has instantly recharged my travelling batteries and made me just want to cry out at how beautiful and amazing the world is.
As I gazed out in awe at the visage of Mexico’s Copper Canyon, (think Grand Canyon, only bigger and with more drug cartels…) it felt just as if I was watching a scene I had seen before. The sun rise on a deserted sand-dune in the Moroccan desert 8 years ago, the haunted surreal space that is Buzludzha, the Aya Sophia, gazing out from a train at the Kazakh desert at twilight, the majestic mosques of ancient Bukhara in Uzbekistan, the hauntingly spiritual Mausoleum of Iman Asim at Hotan in China, the terrifying beauty of Halong Bay observed whilst clinging onto a rock with not a soul in sight, the unsurpassable sunsets of Burma/Myanmar, gazing out into the ocean and realising land is 1,000’s and 1,000’s of miles away. Each time I see something truly breath-taking it seemingly gets added to a highlight reel that plays out again in front of my eyes. And as I soak up the majestic canyon scenery for as long as possible, I know, for all the photographs I take, it will slowly start to fade into memory before the Earth’s next surprise will bring it back into focus again.
This was my second attempt to get to the Copper Canyon proper, at the look-out-point and adventure park at Divisadero . The attempt the previous day had been abandoned after it transpired that the roads were closed until well into the afternoon to allow a rally race to take place – which I have to admit, was pretty low on my list of possible reasons why I thought my trip might be delayed. The Copper Canyon is located between Chihuahua in the East and Los Mochis in the west. Neither of these towns has much to interest the visitor (although Chihuahua does have a few charms) and their main interest for the visitor is likely to be as a way into or out of the canyon. Inside the canyon most people seem to base themselves at Creel. Well I say most people, but the truth is there really weren’t many people around. A smattering of domestic tourists and a few, mostly American, retirees and a lot of empty accommodation. The north of Mexico has, probably deservedly gotten a bit of a bad reputation, what with the drug violence and cartels knocking two bells out of each other and whoever gets in the way or seems to upset them. And they are present in the Canyon with some of the more remote villages are put over to the cultivation of crops the US Government probably wishes they weren’t. But despite this I would say that in my experience this shouldn’t put you off. Obviously you should never take travel safety advice from a one time blog post, but having now been to several places that aren’t assumed to be tremendously safe by most people, I’ve come to the conclusion that unless you are deliberately putting yourself in danger or actively trying to interfere with bad people, bad things are fairly unlikely to happen to you. Obviously a read of the BBC’s Middle East News pages will throw up a few examples of where this theory doesn’t really hold… But for Mexico, in my experience, and the experience of others who I have met, some of whom actually came across cartel people in person in the Canyon, it has. And if nothing else, if you take “El Chepe” Mexico’s last remaining passenger train to the Copper Canyon from either Los Mochis or Chihuahua, you will have the company of armed guards to give you reassurance.
Anyway, all of this is really a long-winded way of saying, if you get the chance, come to the Copper Canyon. Not only does it have the amazing views that my photography skills are trying their best to demonstrate in this blog, but it is also home to a network of ridiculously long, fast and damn-high up zip-lines. They certainly aren’t cheap thrills, but you do seem to get a good bang for your buck, although I would advice against anyone paying the 1,000 Pesos stand alone price for the ZipLiner. It’s fun but over in 2 minutes, it feels slightly more reasonable when its part of a multi activity ticket. There are three activities, the first is just a bit of rappelling, 40 metres down a cliff face followed by what amounts to a bit of a high rope course, climbing up various ladders, along cables and up steps stuck to the side of the cliff face in order to get back to where you began. With that out of the way, the fun can then really begin…
The best value activity, and the one you should go for if you don’t have enough time to do them all, is the 7 part zip-lining course, which sees you hurtled through the air, in my case, at terrifyingly high speeds through gusts of wind that I’m sure would have closed any similar adventure park in the US or Europe. Part of the terror for me was the fact that I was having severe difficulty in braking as I came into “land” at the other ends of the zipwires. In part this might have been because the process was explained to me in Spanish, which I don’t speak, but my general incompetence may also have played a hand. Certainly it seemed to be a minor concern for the two guides who were with me (no one else was doing the course at the time) who offered to do the longest zip-line, around 1,200 metres in length, as a tandem, in order, they said, to allow me to film it with my camera, although I felt they were likely to have been equally as motivated by a desire to not have to scrape me off the other side. Which turned out to be a reasonable fear as on my last zipline, a modest 700 metres, buffered by wind I managed to completely miss the wire as I reached back to brake and ended up almost sideways as I hit the braking blocks at the other side at speed, gashing my knees against the wire in the process. I of course claimed I was fine and acted as if nothing happened in an effort to regain some manliness points.
Finally, having taken a cable car back to the start, (delayed by the high-winds that for some reason weren’t considered a reason to not let me zipline incompetently back and forth…) I went to what the park bills, (price wise at least) as the main event. It’s basically another zip line, although this time your are harnessed into something that is more like a fabric chair than dangling back in a more traditional harness. Its long. 2,545 metres long in fact. And you descend some 450 metres and reach speeds of around 135 kilometres per hour. I’m not convinced that its worth it as a stand alone activity, but it was certainly a great way to round off the day.
The adventure was not yet over though, as I had, (because I had made no effort to look it up), missed the last bus back to Creel by the time I had finished and left the park. So, given my previous hitching experience only took me a few kilometres between Aktau port and the town of Aktau, I got ready by the side of the road to do some proper hitching, which looked like being easy as I had seen plenty of trucks passing through. And it was easy, as barely had I reached what looked like a good spot to flag down a passing truck, then a car had pulled up and waved for me to enter. Excellent, a car would be twice as quick I thought, and I was proved right. The only issue was it turned out to be driven by one of the two guides who had taken me on the Zip Lining course.
I put my bag over my knees to cover up the blood seeping through my trousers…


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Fall is approaching. I love the cool air, colors, food, and the decorating! Today's post inclues some simple decorating tips for fall. There are so many beautiful and creative ways to decorate this time of year. Here are some of my favorites....
I love incorporating texture no matter what time of year it is! But, in fall l think texture plays a huge role in making a room feel warm and inviting. Texture can be found in your pillows, baskets, window treatments, centerpieces, rugs, and even your furniture. My favorite texture is wicker. WIcker is timeless and visually stands out amidst any color or decor scheme. I love finding different varieties of wicker in thrift shops. I don't think I have purchased a new basket in ten years! I almost always walk out of a thrift store with a unique piece of wicker decor. Here are some examples of textured items I love:
Using artificial (or real) fall foliage is a very easy way to decorate for fall! You can find artificial leaves and other arrangements in any store that sells home decor. Or, better yet, look for foliage in your yard. Sunflowers make beautiful fall arrangements. Even a single sunflower arranged with twigs in a vase is a classy way to add a touch of fall to any room. Twig wreaths can also be used to add that rustic, outdoor feel to your decor.
Fall colors go a long way. Traditionally we think of oranges, golds/yellows, and reds in fall. If you have those cool summer colors out, now is the time to replace them with warm hues of fall. This simple tip can change the mood and feel of a room! But, you don't have to use the traditional fall colors we often think of! I love the orange and pink combination in the photo below. Try a new hue, or choose your favorite fall color as your accent color in a neutral room.
Rooms that incorporate natural wood tones are especially beautiful in fall. I paint furniture, but, some wood pieces should be left alone! I like to mix it up by combining painted pieces with wood pieces in their original rich wood tones. Besides furniture, other ways to incorporate wood tones might include crates or trunks, wood framed mirrors or photos, bowls, candlesticks, and books/magazine racks.
With September nearing the end, it is time to start thinking fall. What simple changes can you make in your home, or with your decor, to create that fall feel in the air? The purpose of my blog is not only to share my ideas, but to inspire and invite you to share your ideas as well! Is your fall decor out yet? I'd love to see it! To share your idea, you can post your photo here: www.facebook.com/novodecorco
I hope some of my tips were useful for you and that you enjoy the new season ahead. Happy fall decorating!


The inaugural Intertraffic Mexico 2016
The first edition of Intertraffic Mexico has just wrapped up, with the Mexican capital putting on a spectacle. Mexico City is at a cross road with public pressure and policies. While the community demands better transport options, the government lags on the implementation. The city is embracing smart technologies, but “85% of its budget for transportation infrastructure is spent on projects for private automobiles”.
The Intertraffic presentations focused on road safety, Intelligent Transport Systems, cycling promotion and infrastructure, and innovative approaches to mobility. While road safety is a global concern, countries like Paraguay and El Salvador suffer extremely high road death rates, above 20 per 100,00 people per year.
Presentations focused on road safety, ITS, cycling and innovative approaches to mobility.
With a strong commitment to improving safety and preventing accidents, Lic. Manuel Alejandro Martínez Badillo, Undersecretary for Traffic Control of the Ministry of Public Security of Mexico City, has encouraged the usage of technology for understanding and managing traffic.
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MetroCount offers world leading solutions for understanding traffic conditions. Our systems provide accurate data on volumes, class, speed, road capacity, etc. This is one of the reasons why our Intertraffic stand was crawling with visitors from all over the world. The common thread, a need to record accurate traffic data across road networks.
The latest generation of tube counters, RoadPod® VT, received plenty of interest due to its remote access capabilities. An excellent standalone traffic counter, the RoadPod VT can be extended with the FieldPod® remote access services, to enable data download and system status checks over the mobile data network.
The enthusiasm around our bike counters has highlighted South America’s rising interest in cycling. The portable RidePod™ BT system and the piezo-embedded RidePod™ BP both collect axle data, resulting in highly accurate data on volume, speed, class and direction with the ability to count bikes travelling in clusters.
Overall, our Mexican adventures left us optimistic about the future of traffic monitoring in Latin America. We are very excited about the region’s potential and willingness to improve their road networks and we look forward to contributing to this change.


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A person familiar with the decision says the Cleveland Browns have fired their head coach, Pat Shurmur, and general manager Tom Heckert. Shurmur and Heckert were informed Monday at the team's facility, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the team has not yet announced the moves.
The dismissals come one day after the Browns lost their season finale 24-10 in Pittsburgh, completing a 5-11 season. Shurmur went 9-23 in two seasons with the Browns, who have undergone almost constant change since their return to the NFL as an expansion franchise in 1999. Heckert infused Cleveland's roster with talent during three years with the team.
Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and chief executive Joe Banner will try to turn around a franchise that has lost at least 11 games the past five seasons.
The New York Jets have fired their general manager, Mike Tannenbaum, but confirmed that coach Rex Ryan will be back next season. The Jets finished 6-10 and were in constant turmoil from the moment they acquired the quarterback Tim Tebow in a trade before the season.
Jets owner Woody Johnson said in a statement Monday that "like all Jets fans, I am disappointed with this year's results." Tannenbaum, who signed off on Tebow trade, has two years left on his contract. Tebow was brought in as a backup for Mark Sanchez but was expected to play a key role in certain offensive schemes. It never worked out.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have also fired their general manager, Gene Smith, after four disappointing seasons, including the worst year in franchise history. Owner Shad Khan made the announcement Monday. Coach Mike Mularkey could be next. Khan is waiting to decide Mularkey's fate until he hires a new general manager, which could happen this week.
Mularkey failed to make the Jaguars (2-14) better in his first season and Jacksonville set a franchise record for losses, dropping eight games by 16 or more points. Smith had been with the team since its inception in 1994, working his way up from regional scout to general manager. He was the architect of the roster since 2009, compiling a 22-42 record and failing to acquire a single player who made the Pro Bowl.


Winky D’s new drummer and friends pay tribute to Scara the Drummer in a relay set drum roll: Vid. Winky D’s new Drummer Simbarashe Chimanga, Prince Dhiwalidzuwa who plays for Ammara Brown and Zimpraise’s drums and Ngoni_slickbeatz a Tamy Moyo, Minister Mahendere and Janet Manyowa’s drummer had a relay set and drum roll of respect paying tribute to Scara The Drummer.
Scara — who was considered one of the foremost instrumentalists in the country — succumbed to heart complications on Sunday morning. He was 29. His funeral brought together the entertainment industry, a testament of the impact he had in showbiz. Winky D, Stunner, Vokal, DJ Iroq, Bridges Chimanga, Layaan and other prominent figures were in attendance.
Drummer Delroy “Scara” Maripakwenda was laid to rest at Warren Hills Cemetery yesterday at a funeral attended by top names in the arts sector. At the time of his death, he had just finished setting up a music collective known as Tha NuVyb in which he was the drummer, working with DJ Burtler and Mc Tatts.
Watch the tribute by the drummers below
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In other news – Lady Squanda escapes jail time
Lady Squanda escapes jail time. Lady Squanda, real name Sandra Muchaneta Gazi, was on Monday arrested together with her accomplices Rodney Gwasira, Denzel Tanyaradzwa Chiwenga and Raphael Chidhoza in a robbery case where the complainant lost his cash, laptop and cellphone in Zengeza.


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Judge finds Texas officer immune from manslaughter charge
A 126-year-old court ruling that protects federal officers from state prosecutions for official actions
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge dismissed a manslaughter count against a former Austin police officer Thursday, ruling that an 1890 U.S. Supreme Court ruling shielded the ex-detective from prosecution for the fatal shooting of an unarmed man during a 2013 bank robbery investigation.
In a 30-page ruling filed Thursday in Austin, U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel concluded that Charles Kleinert, who at the time of the shooting was a detective with the Austin Police Department, should be considered in court a federal officer because Kleinert was assigned to an FBI-led task force at the time of the shooting. Yeakel said that means the 126-year-old court ruling that protects federal officers from state prosecutions for official actions applies to Kleinert in this case.
That 19th-century ruling found that the fatal shooting of a suspect in California by a specially deputized U.S. marshal was immune from a murder prosecution because of the "supremacy clause" of the U.S. Constitution. That clause holds that the Constitution and federal laws trump any state law and ensure that states do not "retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control" the execution of federal law.
Kleinert has said his gun discharged accidentally when he killed Larry Jackson Jr. in July 2013. Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg expressed dismay over the ruling.
"With this federal court action dismissing the case, it appears that an Austin Police Department officer can be assigned to a federal task force and avoid prosecution in state court," Lehmberg said in a statement. Lehmberg said it was not yet clear if there are grounds for appeal.
Meanwhile, Adam Loewy, an attorney for Jackson's family, said he will ask the Justice Department to assign a prosecutor to begin a federal civil rights investigation and prosecution.
At the request of Leinert's attorneys, Yeakel took the case from state court in May as a series of graphic videotaped encounters between citizens and police focused national attention on police use of lethal force.
Authorities have said Jackson tried to enter the locked doors of a bank on July 26, 2013, while a robbery was under investigation. Security video shows Kleinert questioning Jackson briefly before the 32-year-old Jackson tried to flee. Kleinert, who is white, chased Jackson, who was black, on foot and grabbed his T-shirt with one hand. The gun in his other hand discharged, killing Jackson after a struggle.
Kleinert retired from the police force in October 2013 and was indicted on a manslaughter charge by a Travis County grand jury in May 2014.
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He was known simply as “Mr. Pistol.” But this U.S. Marine lieutenant colonel wasn’t always a sharpshooter. In fact, when he was a young private first class in 1946, it was his lack of pistol training that led to him being assigned to the only rifle sentry post in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. As he was the only Marine at Marine Barracks not qualified with the pistol, it was the only post he could stand.
His time on that lonely post quickly came to an end, though, as the private soon began pistol training. He quickly discovered he was a pretty good shot, and spent much of his spare time practicing. By 1952, he was accomplished enough to compete in the Olympics, and would go on to compete in every Olympic Games save one through 1976. In 1978, the Marine Corps established a shooting trophy in his honor.
Click here to learn more about the sharpshooting legend of “Mr. Pistol,” and see one of the guns he used in competition. His is just one of the many great treasures found at the NRA National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Va.

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FA Cup sponsorship deal with Emirates is 'commercialisation gone mad', says former sports minister Richard Caborn
- FA Cup is set to be named Emirates FA Cup as part of sponsorship deal
- It is understood FA have agreed a three-year sponsorship deal with Airline
- The agreement is due to be rubber-stamped on Thursday and will be worth at least £10million-per-year
- But former sports minister Richard Caborn called it 'commercialisation gone mad' and labelled the decision 'crazy'
Moves to re-brand the world's oldest knock-out football competition as the Emirates FA Cup has been labelled as 'commercialisation gone mad' by former sports minister Richard Caborn.
The Football Association insists no sponsorship deal has been finalised for the FA Cup but a proposal is expected to be submitted to a board meeting on Thursday.
The controversy surrounds re-naming the competition as the Emirates FA Cup - previously its main sponsorship deal was referred to as the FA Cup with Budweiser.
Arsenal won last season's FA Cup competition, which will be rebranded the Emirates FA Cup
Former sports minister Richard Caborn has labelled the deal 'commercialisation gone mad'
Aston Villa will face the holders Arsenal in this season's final at Wembley Stadium
The FA say all the money it raises is ploughed back into grass-roots football, but Caborn says the governing body should protect the name of the FA Cup and go back to the drawing board.
Caborn, who is also on the Football Foundation board of directors, told Press Association Sport: 'This is absolutely crazy. It's commercialisation gone mad. You have the greatest name in football that has so many memories for so many people and you are just selling it off.
'It is the FA's greatest brand and they should protect it. For people like me, who walked down Wembley Way with grandad, the FA Cup is something very special.
'It is not like the Premier League - it's something different to people who love football, and to take that away would be mad.
'If it is about getting extra money for the grass-roots, then I think the FA needs to go back to the drawing board and have another look at this.'
An announcement will bring an end to a frustrating time for FA commercial chiefs who have seen the FA Cup run for an entire season without a main sponsor.
The competition has been without a main sponsor since the previous deal with Budweiser expired but according to reports a £30millllion three-year deal with the airline Emirates has been agreed.
An FA spokesman said however: 'We remain in discussion with a number of parties in relation to FA Cup partner opportunities.'
Villa beat Liverpool in their semi-final to deny Steven Gerrard (centre) the chance of a final trophy
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After a 1-0 defeat to Borussia Dortmund in their opening match of the International Champions Cup, Manchester City will look to achieve the first victory after the end of the season, as they are looking to take on Liverpool at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford. Although Pep Guardiola decided to exclude almost his entire starting-eleven for the match against the Black and Yellows, the Citizens have demonstrated they have an established game system no matter what players are on the field. As for the Reds, a 3-1 loss to Dortmund was their first grave test this summer, as they previously featured in four low-quality friendly contests against some teams from English lower leagues.
These two sides played against each other three times this year, with the Merseysiders securing all three wins over the current Premier League champions, including two impressive victories in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Manchester City will be without almost all first-team members except for Leroy Sane and Riyad Mahrez who should both start the match from the first minute, while Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri who arrived at Anfield this summer might begin from the bench. Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane are also on the list of travelers, with only Roberto Firmino earned an extended break due to his commitments in the World Cup.
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Nearly 20 fire crews fight Fredonia fire
Nearly 20 fire departments helped tame a large fire in Fredonia Tuesday afternoon that resulted in significant damage to a machine shed.
The shed, at N5271 Kay-K Road in the Town of Fredonia, caught fire around 4:30 p.m. after sparks from welding ignited nearby oil, according to a news release from the Ozaukee County Sheriff's Office.
No one was injured in the fire.
The Fredonia Fire Department, with the assistance of 18 area fire departments, extinguished the fire.


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Yes, even though blogging is now officially paying me more than my day job ever did, I will be budgeting in self-employment. Specifically, I really dislike the idea of irregular paychecks.
My Plan’s Beginning
You may have noticed in my weekly savings updates that I have been building up a blogging income account at ING. My hope was to get it to $10,000 by the time I quit my day job so I’d have more than enough padding on months that I don’t bring in enough. I made it to $9200 as of July 15th and it looks like it will definitely be at $10,000 or more before I receive my last day job direct deposit on August 3rd.
I will be paying myself a biweekly paycheck directly from this accout so we never experience a budget crunch at all. In order for this plan to work, I have decided to pay myself $1500 every two weeks.
From that biweekly paycheck of $1500, I will be transferring $400 directly into our tax account. I know that is only looks like about 27% set aside for taxes, but based on my monthly spending for blogging, it will actually come to about 30%-33% of my profits. Plus we already throw an extra $150 a month into the tax account just in case there are any nasty surprises in April (now quarterly), which there hasn’t been since we started doing that 4 years ago. In short, I am 99.9% sure that our taxes are covered with $400 from each of my biweekly contributions.
Of the $1100 left, it looks like we’ll be spending about $125 with me on my husband’s insurance plan. That $125 biweekly should cover my health insurance, dental insurance, vision plan, and a basic life insurance policy. It’s not a fantastic plan – the deductibles aren’t great – but we have enough in our emergency fund to more than cover them.
I will know all of the details for sure in a few weeks. If I’m right based on last year’s info, then I should have about $975 left out of the original $1500 every two weeks. I was taking home $970 every two weeks at my day job, so I’ll have a $5 raise! Woot! Hahaha.
If my the numbers from the past couple of months are any indication, there is a great chance that I will be bringing in more than $1500 every 2 weeks. All of my blog income is transferred into my blogging income account, which I want to keep above $10,000. If I have paid myself all of my paychecks in a month and there is more than $10,000 left, we plan on dividing up the extra similarly to our normal monthly extra. The only difference will be taxes.
In short, this is how we plan to break the extra in the blogging income account down: Taxes (30%), Emergency Fund/Savings account (15%), the Extra Cash for Investments account (25%), the Vacation account (15%), and our two individual Fun Money accounts (7.5% each).
This is all tentative until I have some hard numbers, but you know me, I like plans.
What do you think? Is there a big hole I’m missing?

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General aspects of vegetable open field production and greenhouse.
Osman Cifuentes Agricultural Institute of science and technology. ICTA Guatemala
• Guatemalavegetable production is an economic activity is distributed throughout the country and represents an activity that generates income and promotes the development of new jobs in rural areas.
• Fromacross the country, are grown over 49 species of vegetables, with a view to marketing. However, a large number of native vegetables whose purpose is the family consumption are also grown.
•Vegetables that are grown with commercial approach, approximately 77,380 hectares are sown. These vegetable 32,356 hectares are sown in association with maize.
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• 6 Most important vegetables that are grown by the amount of sown area are in order of importance: potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), Melon (cucumis melo L.),tomato (Solanum esculentum L), broccoli (Brassica oleracea L. var. italica), onions (Allium cepa L), and the carrot (Daucos carota L.), that together joined 27,308 hectares. That represent approximately60% of the area sown at the national level with vegetables.
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• With respect to the local economicimportance that represent the sowing of vegetables in Guatemala, the most important crops by the number of farmers who cultivate them and benefit from the planting are: Potatoe, which is cultivated by26,984 farmers.
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• Cultivation of tomatoes is sown by 5,398 producers, 4,098 farmer carrot and onion and the Chinesepea are sown by approximately 5,000 producers for each crop. Is to say that the planting of these crops charity directly to at least 100,000 persons who are employed in agriculture and live in...