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Thomas Jefferson is the most researched, most written about, most referenced, and most quoted of our Founding Fathers. And yet, somehow, he remains the most stubbornly inscrutable. His life is a seemingly impenetrable thicket of contradictions: he enshrined the words All Men are Created Equal, and yet was a lifelong slave-owner; he was simultaneously a man of the people and the personification of the Virginia aristocrat; he was a die-hard American revolutionary who was also a dedicated lover of European culture and art; he advocated ruthless fiscal responsibility as president, yet his own finances were mired in debt.
Embrace and celebrate the third president s complicated life and legacy in the two-hour HISTORY documentary, Jefferson, the story of a national icon who remains, in historian Joseph Ellis memorable phrase, a great American Sphinx.
Not done that well. It gives very few of Thomas Jefferson's quotes and beliefs. I missed that.Published 4 months ago by ozone

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I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM
by Ross Sharp
“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.”
“Andrew Bolt is Australia’s most prominent and controversial commentator. In this second book of columns and reflections, Bolt is again in the front lines of our most urgent political and social debates, from Islam and immigration to the green movement and the rise of the slacktivist. But he also reveals his more personal side – the experiences that have shaped his values and love for this country.”
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
“Macbeth” (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28), William Shakespeare.

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*Apparently Charlie Sheen is still not over his very public spat he had with Rihanna back in 2014. He went in on her via his Twitter account for supposedly refusing to meet his then fiancée, Scottine Sheen (formerly Brett Rossi) during a dinner date at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica.
He sent a request to Rihanna’s table to ask if he could introduce Scottine that was declined, citing too many paparazzi outside.
A miffed Sheen later tweeted: “oh and [Rihanna], Halloween isn’t for a while. but good on you for testing out your costume in public. it’s close; a more muted pink might be the answer, as in: none.”
He continued, “See ya on the way down (we always do) and actually, it was a pleasure NOT meeting you. Clearly we have NOTHING in common when it comes to respect for those who’ve gone before you. I’m guessing you needed those precious 84 seconds to situate that bad wig before you left the restaurant.”
READ RELATED STORY: SOULJA BOY DETAILS HIS BEEF WITH CHRIS BROWN: IT STARTED OVER RIHANNA (WATCH)
Flash forward to when Charlie put in an appearance Wednesday night (01-11-17) on “Watch What Happens Live” he asked about the feud with Rihanna. After pausing for a sec, Sheen, 51, shot back with this bullseye:
“Oh, that bitch. Umm. No, she abandoned common courtesy and common sense,” Charlie said.
Dayuuuum. Still hurts, huh, Charlie?
Meanwhile, Rihanna, who used to be thin-skinned like Donald Trump and would be backatcha in a heartbeat, is no longer like Trump and has so far ignored Charlie’s latest diss. Good for her. But, we shall see.
In the meantime, if you haven’t already, check out Sheen’s snippy comment above.


Tommy Charles Webb Jr.
By Joe Johnson
An Athens man on Monday was charged with murder in connection with the shooting deaths of two people whose bodies on the side of a road last month in Walton County, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Wednesday afternoon.
The suspect, 19-year-old Tommy Charles Webb of Epps Bridge Parkway, was in custody for a parole violation at the Clarke County Jail when served with the murder warrant, the GBI said.
The investigation began early the morning of May 15, when Social Circle police responded to a report of a man and woman deceased on Thurman Baccus Road, according to the GBI.
Both victims had been fatally shot.
They were identified as James Robert Evans, 27, and Jaymine Whitlock, 32, both of whom were characterized by the GBI as transients.
“What we can say about where these victims are from is that Evans had connections to Hoschton in the past. Whitlock may have had some connections to Gainesville at one point,” GBI Director of Public Affairs Nelly Miles previously told Classic City News.
“They have been described to us as transients in recent months, and we know from our work that they were staying in Walton County” for several days prior to their deaths, Miles said.
The GBI called the double-homicide investigation “active and ongoing,” and urged anyone with information about this case to contact Social Circle Investigator Michael Jett at (678) 243 - 8680 or the GBI at 1-800-597-8477.


The House overwhelmingly approved a bill today to increase the security of the nation's borders and to toughen enforcement of immigration laws, clearing the measure for President Bush, who has said he will sign it.
The vote was 411 to 0, with 2 House members voting present. The Senate passed the bill 97 to 0 on April 18.
House members said the bill would close gaps in security revealed by last year's terrorist attacks.
''Since Sept. 11, we have learned how deeply vulnerable our immigration system is to exploitation by aliens who wish to harm Americans,'' said Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the Wisconsin Republican who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee and chief sponsor of the bill.
The legislation would increase the number of immigration inspectors and investigators, require universities to keep better track of foreign students and heighten scrutiny of visa applications from countries listed as sponsors of terrorism.
Under the bill, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency would have to share more information with the State Department, which issues visas. The government will meld certain databases of federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, to help in screening visa applicants and foreigners entering the United States.Continue reading the main story
The American Civil Liberties Union said the new storehouse of information must not be used as the basis for a national identification system. In monitoring foreign visitors, it said, the government must not compromise the privacy rights of Americans or harass people who ''look foreign'' or are members of racial minorities.
Civil liberties advocates were alarmed at some early proposals, including one that might have required noncitizens to carry identification documents, but these ideas were dropped after bipartisan negotiations.
Under the bill, a presidential commission will examine use of the electronic data system to see if it infringes on privacy rights.
Angela M. Kelley, deputy director of the National Immigration Forum, an advocacy group for immigrants, and Cecilia Muñoz, vice president of the National Council of La Raza, a Latino civil rights group, said their organizations supported the bill in its final form.
The federal government would have to issue machine-readable, tamper-resistant visas and travel documents imprinted with identifiers like fingerprints or retina scans.
The hijackers responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks entered the United States on tourist, student and business visas. Hani Hanjour, identified as the pilot who flew a jet into the Pentagon, came here to study English in California but never showed up for classes. Two men who crashed jetliners into the World Trade Center, Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, entered the United States on tourist visas, then studied at a Florida flight school while they waited for student visas.
Under the bill, the Justice Department must establish an electronic system to track the acceptance of foreign students by American schools, the issuance of visas to them, their admission to this country and their enrollment in schools here. Schools must notify the government if foreign students drop out or do not enroll.
Representative George W. Gekas, Republican of Pennsylvania and chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, said: ''No longer shall criminals come to our colleges and thwart our immigration laws by hiding in the halls of learning. We will know what college they attend. We will know when they leave. Terrorists like Mohamed Atta will be caught when they try to convert our education system into a terrorist hideout.''
Victor C. Johnson, a lobbyist at the Association of International Educators, which represents foreign student advisers, said his group supported the bill.
''It strikes an appropriate balance, tightening visa controls and student monitoring while maintaining our openness to foreign students and scholars,'' Mr. Johnson said.
The border security bill is the latest legislative response to the events of Sept. 11. Congress has provided billions of dollars of emergency aid to New York. In October, President Bush signed an antiterrorism bill that gave law enforcement agencies vast new powers to conduct surveillance, detain suspects and attack money laundering. In November, he signed a major aviation security bill. House and Senate negotiators are working on a bioterrorism bill, passed in different forms by the two chambers.
Despite the lopsided votes on the border security bill, Congress had difficulty deciding how much to tighten immigration policy.
In March, just before Mr. Bush visited Mexico, the House approved a proposal that would have made it easier for thousands of Mexicans and other illegal immigrants to obtain permanent resident visas, or green cards. This provision was not in the bill passed today. But lawmakers, eager to court Hispanic voters, said it was likely to be approved as a separate measure later in this election year.
A similar provision, enacted in 2000, expired in April 2001. On Thursday, the Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota, plans to introduce a bill to reauthorize the program, widely known by its legal citation, Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, introduced a similar bill last year. The 30 co-sponsors span the political spectrum from Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts.Continue reading the main story


Rep. McClintock points out that Pres. Obama, like Julius Ceasar crossing the Rubicon, crossed a very bright constitutional line. That line was the line that required the president to get approval from congress before initiating military action that doesn’t directly protect our country.
The more I look at the Libya action, the more I realize what is going on here. This is another opportunity for Pres. Obama to destroy the constitution, the same way his heroes FDR and LBJ did so long ago. He’s trying to create the presidential office he wished he had, which is nothing short of a tyrant who can do what he likes to the world and the American people.
Republicans in the house must send a message to the office of the presidency that such military action is not tolerated by impeaching Obama. This will send a message to future presidents that no matter how badly they want to through our military assets around, they have to get approval from congress first, just like the constitution says. If we allowed Clinton the same privilege in invading Kosovo, then we need to ensure we take dramatic action now to end the pattern before it is set in stone.
Make the impeachment solely about crossing this one line, and ensure that future generations won’t live under a tyrant like Julius Caesar.


Australian Volunteers for International Development program
Under the Federal Budget released on 12 May, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has been allocated an estimated total budget of $39.6 million for the Australian Volunteers for International Development (AVID) program in 2015/2016. This is a reduction from funding in 2014/2015.
Australian Red Cross is one of three partner organisations funded under this budget to deliver the AVID program.
DFAT is exploring how the budget reduction may affect the number of new volunteers to be sent overseas in 2015/2016. To manage this impact, all partners have been asked to delay the recruitment and selection of new volunteers for 2015/2016.
What this means for new volunteer assignments
We are unable to recruit for AVID assignments until further notice. If you have recently applied for an assignment you will be contacted by our recruitment team to discuss options.
We remain committed to the AVID program and our partners in the field. We will provide further information as soon as the impacts of the budget are confirmed.
For volunteers in the field or due to depart before June 2015
It is our first priority to ensure that volunteers now in the field can complete their assignments. We are also committed to deploying volunteers who have already been selected for 2014/2015.
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NY Fines Deutsche Bank For Letting Russians Launder $10B
By Cara Bayles (January 30, 2017, 9:41 PM EST) -- Deutsche Bank AG and its New York branch will pay a $425 million fine for their role in a money laundering scheme to move $10 billion out of Russia, according to an agreement reached Monday with the New York State Department of Financial Services.
The consent order also calls for an independent monitor to review the bank's anti-money laundering compliance programs, which failed to implement procedures that might have caught the "mirror trades" that "had no discernible economic purpose" other than converting rubles into dollars held by offshore companies.
In a statement, Financial Services Superintendent Maria T. Vullo said the state...
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St. Mary’s Swormville Chowder Chase & Beer/ Wine Social
July 19, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm
RACE DAY: Friday, July 19th, 2019 7 p.m.
Chowder Chase 5K Run/ 3K Walk
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- $28 through July 17th, $33 July 18th to Race Day Discount given to runners 14 and under.
- Registration includes Chowder Chase T-Shirt( guaranteed to first 300 runners), Coors Light for runners, pizza and chowder voucher!
- Race category awards: 1st Place Overall Male/ Female Cash Prize, 1st, 2nd and 3rd place Male/ Female awards across age divisions.
After Race Event Open to All
6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
- Come and enjoy the celebration! Must be 21 years of age and over to attend.
- Wine & Beer Garden presented by Wild Horse Wine & Spirits
- Nevada Bingo and 50/50 Split
- Craft Beer, Food Trucks: J & L BBQ, Mineo & Sapio Street Eats, Sassi Cakes!

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Your example of strength comes in your powerful ability to be vulnerable.
Our relationship hasn’t always been an easy one, though I think we both wanted to be closer from the beginning. Something about the series of events that crashed our worlds together made it seem like we should be instant friends, but our lived experiences made us both hesitant.
We tried, but not willingly, to figure out how to live peaceably.
It was difficult. So, so difficult.
So many tears were shed.
And then something magical happened.
You decided to call it like you see it. You decided to take the first step and open the door to vulnerability.
Our first real conversation happened years after we were in each others’ lives. It was vulnerable and raw and beautiful.
And I’m SO grateful to you. I’m so grateful for your courage. Your strength. Your vulnerability.
Because of YOUR vulnerability, you gave me space to be my truest self.
Because of your vulnerability, my life changed.
Because of your vulnerability, we have a relationship that I am constantly grateful for.
And it’s opened up the door to a friendship I only imagined possible.
Your vulnerability gives space for future generations, too. To friends, to family, and to the kind of family you create.
Thank you for your vulnerability. Thank you for showing up raw and allowing me the space to show up vulnerable, too.
Your strength comes in your vulnerability. And your vulnerability lends itself to your strength.

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Publication: Multivariate hierarchical analyses of Early Jurassic
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Palaeobiogeographic patterns of Early Jurassic ostracods from the northern and southern hemispheres (96 sections located in Europe, North Africa, Western Australia and North and South America) based on 243 species-level records document global patterns of distribution that can be compared to those previously published on ostracods from the European Epicontinental Sea and Tethyan and South Panthalassa areas. All described records of ostracods from both hemispheres spanning the Hettangian to Early Toarcian have been compiled and verified, and their patterns of origin and distribution have been interpreted. Jaccard coefficient of similarity was used to asses similarities among European, American and Tethyan ostracod shelf faunas. The numerical analysis shows a progressive longitudinal gradient in provincialism through the Early Jurassic, consistent with the northward drift of Tethyan ostracod faunas towards the European Epicontinental Sea and the southward movement of European taxa into Tethys and Panthalassa oceans. The spread of cosmopolitan species and extinction of endemic species, allied to the disappearance of geographical barriers, warmer climate conditions and rising sea levels can explain the reduction in ostracod diversity and the east-west provincialism throughout the Early Jurassic. Interchange between hemispheres, including bipolar distributions, are recognized from the Sinemurian time, pointing out that for most of the studied period, the climate worldwide was warm and tropical.

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||Colon; derived from metastatic site: left supraclavicular region
||Dukes' type C, grade IV, colorectal adenocarcinoma
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||LoVo was initiated in 1971 from a fragment of a metastatic tumor nodule in the left supraclavicular region of a 56-year-old Caucasian male patient with a histologically proven diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the colon.
||This cell line is a suitable transfection host.
||Yes, in nude mice.
||Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) 908 ng/10 exp6 cells/10 days
||F-12K Medium (Kaighn's Modification of Ham's F-12 Medium) contains 2 mM L-glutamine and 10% of fetal bovine serum.
||Volumes used in this protocol are for 75 cm2 flask; proportionally reduce or increase amount of dissociation medium for culture vessels of other sizes.
Remove and discard culture medium.
Briefly rinse the cell layer with PBS without calcium and magnesium to remove all traces of serum that contains trypsin inhibitor.
Add 1.0 to 3.0 mL of Trypsin-EDTA solution to flask and observe cells under an inverted microscope until the cell layer is dispersed (usually within 5 to 15 minutes).
Note: To avoid clumping do not agitate the cells by hitting or shaking the flask while waiting for the cells to detach. Cells that are difficult to detach may be placed at 37°C to facilitate dispersal.
Add 6.0 to 8.0 mL of complete growth medium and aspirate cells by gently pipetting.
Transfer cell suspension to centrifuge tube and spin at approximately 125 x g for 5 to 10 minutes.
Discard supernatant and resuspend cells in fresh growth medium. Add appropriate aliquots of cell suspension to new culture vessels.
Place culture vessels in incubators at 37°C.
NOTE: For more information on enzymatic dissociation and subculturing of cell lines consult Chapter 12 in Culture of Animal Cells, a manual of Basic Technique by R. Ian Freshney, 6th edition, published by Alan R. Liss, N.Y., 2010.
|Subculturing Medium Renewal
||2 to 3 times per week
|Subculturing Subcultivation Ratio
||1:3 to 1:10
||Atmosphere: air, 95%; carbon dioxide (CO2), 5%
||95% FBS + 5% DMSO (Dimethyl sulfoxide)
|Thawing Frozen Cells
||SAFETY PRECAUTION: Is highly recommend that protective gloves and clothing always be used and a full face mask always be worn when handling frozen vials. It is important to note that
some vials leak when submersed in liquid nitrogen and will slowly fill with liquid nitrogen. Upon thawing, the conversion of the liquid nitrogen back to its gas phase may result in the vessel exploding or blowing off its cap with dangerous force creating flying debris.
1. Thaw the vial by gentle agitation in a 37°C water bath. To reduce the possibility of contamination, keep the Oring and cap out of the water. Thawing should be rapid (approximately 2 minutes).
2. Remove the vial from the water bath as soon as the contents are thawed, and decontaminate by dipping in or spraying with 70% ethanol. All of the operations from this point on should be carried out under strict aseptic conditions.
3. For cells that are sensitive to DMSO is recommended that the cryoprotective agent be removed immediately. Transfer the vial contents to a centrifuge tube containing 9.0 mL complete culture medium and spin at approximately 125 x g for 5 to 7 minutes.
4.Discard the supernatant and Resuspend cell pellet with the recommended complete medium (see the specific batch information for the culture recommended dilution ratio).
5. Incubate the culture in a appropriate atmosphere and temperature (see "Culture Conditions" for this cell line).
NOTE: It is important to avoid excessive alkalinity of the medium during recovery of the cells. It is suggested that, prior to the addition of the vial contents, the culture vessel containing the growth medium be placed into the incubator for at least 15 minutes to allow the medium to reach its normal pH (7.0 to 7.6).
||Drewinko B, et al. Further biologic characteristics of a human carcinoembryonic antigen-producing colon carcinoma cell line. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 61: 75-83, 1978. PubMed: 276641
Drewinko B, Yand LY. Restriction of CEA synthesis to the stationary phase of growth of cultured human colon carcinoma cells. Exp. Cell Res. 101: 414-416, 1976. PubMed: 964319
Drewinko B, et al. Establishment of a human carcinoembryonic antigen-producing colon adenocarcinoma cell line. Cancer Res. 36: 467-475, 1976. PubMed: 1260746
Trainer DL, et al. Biological characterization and oncogene expression in human colorectal carcinoma cell lines. Int. J. Cancer 41: 287-296, 1988. PubMed: 3338874
Keesee SK, et al. Nuclear matrix proteins in human colon cancer. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91: 1913-1916, 1994. PubMed: 8127905
Drewinko B, et al. Response of exponentially growing, stationary-phase, and synchronized cultured human colon carcinoma cells to treatment with nitrosourea derivatives. Cancer Res. 39: 2630-2636, 1979. PubMed: 445465
Miranda L, et al. Isolation of the human PC6 gene encoding the putative host protease for HIV-1 gp160 processing in CD4+ T lymphocytes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93: 7695-7700, 1996. PubMed: 8755538
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This country park is a wonderful place to walk around. It's a hilly place, but delightful to stroll through the trees, meadows and down to the River Blyth in the valley bottom. It is very popular with local dog owners. I really wanted a picture of a Bedlington Terrier here but didn't see a single one!
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Visited March 2015, wet and muddy but an enjoyable walk after a morning in Morpeth. Good paths near the car park but, as it had been raining the night before, a bit slippery near the river. A nice walk well worth a visit if you are I the area.
Edited: 18th January 2022. The details of this listing may have changed, and though the Driving with Dogs team do our best to confirm the accuracy of every listing, we cannot guarantee that the details are fully up to date and accurate.


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By Jeffrey Epstein
The Selectmen heard opinions about the proposed dog park in a listening session Monday night, June 18. Some 60 people turned out for the session in Town Hall’s multipurpose room, most of whom delivered comments against the suggested dog park site.
The ad-hoc Dog Park Task Force, which considered several different locations for a dog park, had previously delivered its recommendations to the Selectmen on May 29 (https://www.thebedfordcitizen.org/2018/05/two-dog-park-options-presented-to-selectmen/). It ultimately suggested only one site, the so-called “Site A-Alternate” in Springs Brook Park.
Another site, near municipal garages close to the VA Hospital, was included in the original task force report, but has since been rejected by the task force and therefore is not before the Selectmen, said Chair William Moonan. This led to some confusion among the many people objecting to the dog park, some of whom did not realize the municipal garage site was not on the table.
In addition, at least one family’s stated concern involved a pending real estate closing on a property abutting a different site in the park, known as “Site D” and previously eliminated by the task force. As a courtesy to this family, the Selectmen voted unanimously to formally refuse that particular site.
The objections to the site at Springs Brook Park generally involve concerns over the safety of children; the noise from dogs, cars, people, etc.; and the environmental impact to the park, such as the possible loss of trees. The comments at the meeting were similar to a letter sent to the Selectmen on May 26 and published in The Citizen on June 13, https://www.thebedfordcitizen.org/2018/06/letter-to-the-editor-june-13-2018-residents-opposed-to-locating-the-dog-park-at-springs-brook-park/.
A few people who spoke raised concerns over other matters, such as the operating costs of the dog park. The task force did consider certain possible costs in evaluating sites. However, there is not even a formal proposal in hand, so operating costs and other factors are not known. The task force only investigated possible locations where a dog park might work.
The Selectmen, considering the task force report and the comments of the public, will eventually decide how to proceed with the concept. Moonan did remind the meeting, however, that they are also trying to get in much work before summer vacations, including interviews with candidates for the new Town Manager, and ultimately filling that role.
Town Manager Richard Reed is scheduled to end his service August 17.


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The American Civil war and its devastating consequences were not confined to the United States. The conflict also had repercussions in the cotton districts of North West England, where there was a dependency on supplies of raw cotton from our southern states. When the supply was interrupted there was real hardship.
This situation led to the fear of civil disturbances in some towns, including Hyde in Cheshire, and authorities swore in special constables to help keep the peace.
The following document comes from a series containing more than 26,000 boxes and files from the British National Archives:
“I Joseph Little of Hyde in the County of Cheshire, Deputy chief constable, upon my oath, do say that I have reasonable grounds for apprehending and do apprehend that there will be this day a tumult and riot in Hyde aforesaid; and upon my oath aforesaid I further say that great numbers of people are tumultuously assembled in the public streets of Hyde and at other places and have done much damage to private property and have endeavoured to induce the rest of the inhabitants to join in the tumult by intimidation and violent means that I apprehend such offences will continue to be repeated and that the inhabitants of Hyde and neighbourhood labour under grat fear on that account; that the ordinary constables appointed for preserving the peace in Hyde aforesaid and in Godley, Newton, Werneth and Matley Townships wityhin the division of Hyde in the said County are not sufficient of efficient in number for the detection and discovery of the offender or offenders, for the preservation of the peace or for the protection of the inhabitantsand the security of the property in Hyde aforesaid.
Sworn before us four of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said County of Chester acting in and for the division of Hyde aforesaid this twenty third day of March 1863. Joseph Little
J Sidebottom Thos Ashton John Sidebotham Thomas Thornely”
The document (Ref HO 45/7523) can be found by clicking on National Archives, It lists the names of the special constables who were sworn in. Some of the names list occupations in the trades.

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The name psilocybin mushroom roots from the psilocybin content of the fungi. Psilocybin is a psychedelic compound that is present in nature. Psilocybin mushrooms are more popularly known as magic mushrooms, thanks to its hallucinogenic effects. Other common colloquial names for psilocybin mushrooms are “shrooms” and “mush.”
Psilocybin Mushrooms in the Field of Medicine
Magic mushrooms have been used for therapeutic purposes. They have been discovered to be effective in alleviating mentally related problems such as headaches, anxiety, depression, OCD, and even addiction. Plenty of medical studies on how to maximize the use of psilocybin mushrooms in the medical are ongoing.
A Historical Background on Psilocybin Mushrooms
A scientific study in the Sahara desert implied that the human civilization began using Psilocybin Mushrooms about 7000 years ago. Several prehistoric arts found in different geographic regions around the planet portray the role of these mushrooms in human history. Their primary uses in the past have been strongly associated with religious ceremonies and rites of passage. Based on the portrayal of psilocybin mushrooms in caves and walls and historic sites, we can concur that these magic fungi had enough influence in various aspects of prehistoric culture.
Psilocybin Mushrooms and its Effects
While some people crave for the psychedelic effects that they trigger, others are merely curious. The wide usage of Psilocybin mushroom is mainly credited to the feel-good sensation that it causes and the out-of-body experience that it induces among the users. In terms of addiction, there is very little risk in getting hooked on “shrooms” as they are categorized to be non-addictive. However, it is easy to build up a tolerance to these fungi, and taking them in large quantities may have adverse effects on the human body. Anything that is taken in excess can cause harm.
Psychedelic Mushrooms: Where to Find and How to Identify Them
Although mushrooms basically grow almost anywhere, magic mushrooms require certain climatic and ecological conditions in order to grow. They thrive and are commonly found in a fertile, humid, and moist environment.
There is no one definite rule for identifying the different kinds of hallucinogenic mushrooms. However, there are certain characteristics of psilocybin mushrooms that set them apart from non-hallucinogenic and poisonous mushrooms.
A mushroom with a purplish – brown or purplish – black spore print with a flesh that turns bluish or bluish-green when bruised is almost for certain a psilocybin mushroom. For safety purposes, when identifying whether or not a mushroom contains psilocybin or not, both of these characteristics must be present.
Psilocybe cubensis is commonly called Golden Top. It is one of the most popular species of hallucinogenic mushroom because it is fairly easy to find and has a high potency. It is prolific and can be found in manures of animals, mostly during the spring and summer seasons. Psilocybe cubensis is hat-shaped. Some varieties have a nipple-like print in the center while others don’t.
Psilocybe stuntizii is also a very prolific type of psilocybin-containing mushroom. It has the characteristics common among psilocybin mushrooms: a spore deposit that is purplish – brown in color and a flesh that turns bluish – green when bruised.
Psilocybe pelliculosa is a species of magic mushroom that is found mostly in woodlands, often sprouting along hiking trails or conifer woods. It has a mild potency and does not always turn bluish when bruised.
Psilocybe semilanceata, more commonly known as Liberty Cap is another popular species of hallucinogenic mushroom that has gained the interest of many. It is small and grows in great numbers. This species grows in fields and is the easiest of all psilocybin mushrooms to recognize. Its cone-shaped head and a nipple on the top characterize the Liberty Cap. It usually grows during the fall season. Despite its size, the Liberty Cap is a potent psilocybin mushroom.
Reminders and Caution
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Bira national membership manager Julie Holden said: “DYHS is an ideal platform for our members and we’re proud to work in partnership with DYHS to provide an opportunity for bricks-and-mortar retailers to embrace online sales in a simple and affordable way.
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DYHS ceo Dan Whytock added: “As the co-founder of DYHS (and a former market trader), the relationship we have formed with Bira brings me great excitement, as we are able to work with Bira’s 100-plus years of experience to make sure our independents are looked after and supported in the best way possible. In the current retail climate, this is more important than ever before.
“Our relationship started with a common interest in driving awareness to the UK high street and we can proudly say that together we have now achieved that with our first joint success story. Fashion boutique Artichoke in Swaffham signed up to DYHS through Bira and went on to sell hundreds of products and gain TV exposure, producing a brand new revenue stream to help keep the shop open on the high street. We look forward to a long-term relationship with Bira, supporting retailers all over the country.”
Sarah Simmonds, owner of Artichoke, attended the event. She said: “I received an email from Bira which brought my attention to DYHS and its promotional offer for Bira members. I signed up and in my first month on the platform, our shop was featured on national TV and we achieved almost 350 online sales. My contact at DYHS has been very helpful and understands the entrepreneurship of owning a shop, so it allows us to creatively work together for on and offline sales.”
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Rural Lens Review of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
The Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill was published and given its first reading on 12 May 2022.
The Bill, “as well as delivering against some of the ambitions set out in the Levelling Up White Paper, it also incorporates some of the proposals for planning reform outlined in the earlier Planning for the Future White Paper (August 2020), where they support our (the Government’s) approach to Levelling Up”. It is stated that “in broad terms changes to planning procedures will begin to take place from 2024, once the Bill has Royal Assent and associated regulations and changes to national policy are in place”.
Alongside the Bill a Further Information Document was also published which is the main document the RSN is commenting on in this Rural Lens Review.
At a glance our key observations are as follows:
- The RSN will press for changes to the Metrics as we consider that those in the White Paper collectively fail to consider rural disadvantage.
- If England’s rural communities were treated as a distinct region, their need for levelling up would be greater than any other – based on the government’s own headline metrics. Focusing on targets at a regional level fails to address the inequalities within regions.
- The RSN and other rural interest groups should strongly press that the Statement and the Annual Report should include information on rural as though it were a Region – progress (or lack of it) on meeting the objectives of the Missions will be lost in regional averages if this is not done. This is a fundamental Rural Proofing point.
Local Democracy and Devolution
- Creating a combined population of at least 500,000 (referred to in the White Paper but not specified in the Bill – it probably will be in regulations) will mean either enormous geographical areas or rural areas being combined with predominantly urban areas. Neither of which make sense for any concept of local. This minimum 500,000 population relates to “any tier of devolution”
- The bigger the geographical area for which a body has responsibilities the greater the number of very different types of communities within them. Combining rural areas with urban areas has, historically, meant rural losing out as it is almost always easier (and less costly) to achieve performance targets in densely populated areas than more sparsely populated rural areas
- It remains vitally important that in rural areas District, County and Unitary authorities receive a fair share of national government funding to support local government services. The determination of that fair share must fully reflect the additional costs of service delivery across rural areas and that is much more than just the costs of travel/travel time.
- Those areas which choose not to go down the CAA route must not be penalized financially through finance distribution formula for that decision
Planning and Regeneration
- The proposals are hugely detailed and technical. The RSN will wish to consult with its Planning Authority Members before commenting in any great detail. This Part 3 of this Rural Lens Review is therefore, at this stage, quite a high- level review of some of the main points as expressed in the FID (with some of the wording from the Bill in some cases) as we see them at this stage.
- We are concerned about the capacity of rural planning authorities to fully use the powers set out (regarding High Streets and Town Centres, for instance).
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The free event will start at 11am and include stilt walkers, games, a sausage sizzle, history displays and a puppet show from The Amazing Drumming Monkeys.
Mother of two Cherie Pilkington regularly attends the playground with her children Lilly, 5, and Jacob, 3.
"I remember coming here with my parents and now bring my own two kids here," the Gawler resident said. "It's great to see all the play equipment still here - there aren't many playgrounds like this around."
Salisbury Mayor Gillian Aldridge said the playground was an icon of the area that had been enjoyed by families for generations.
"The 30th birthday is a chance for the community to come together and for many to relive those memories with their own children or grandchildren," Ms Aldridge said.
"The playground is an important part of our region as it attracts thousands of people each year to enjoy the facilities on offer.
"It also provides them with a chance to see what else we have to offer, including the St Kilda Mangrove Trail."
St Kilda Playground 30th anniversary celebration, is on Sunday, November 11, from 11am-3pm, Fooks Tce, St Kilda. Details: salisbury.sa.gov.au/stkildabirthday
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Social distancing measures due to the coronavirus pandemic have not prevented The United Methodist Church for All People in Columbus from continuing to provide support and hope to its community.
The All People’s Fresh Market has distributed free produce to more than 2,000 households every week for over 10 years, and after adapting its delivery methods to adhere to current health recommendations, the market is busier than ever. In fact, it is the largest distributor of free food in 19 counties of Ohio, and one of the top 20 in the nation.
Thanks to its status as a community developer for the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries, the church received help from the mission agency in 2018 to purchase an abandoned drive-thru beer store across the street.
“It’s a drive-thru all over again, but now all the coolers that used to hold beer have eggs, fruit and vegetables,” said Katelin Hansen, the church’s music minister and director of operations for Community Development For All People, the church’s nonprofit organization.
Hansen pointed out that disadvantaged people want to eat healthy, even if their budgets often don’t allow.
“When groceries are hard to access and you may have to carry it home on foot, it’s always cheaper and easier to buy a bag of chips or a packet of Kool-Aid than a sack of potatoes or a gallon of milk,” she said.
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Volunteer Elyssa Bollinger packages gleaned sweet potatoes for distribution during a Society of St. Andrew “potato drop.” Photo by Michael Binger, Society of St. Andrew.
Food-related ministries, a mainstay of United Methodist mission work, have provided a way for the church to respond to food access problems created by the coronavirus pandemic and the continuing economic effects of the crisis.
In addition to its relationship with Global Ministries, Community Development For All People is also a National Mission Institution — United Methodist Women’s community outreach program. Both agencies support the church’s Thrive To Five program focused on the well-being of babies and new mothers. Through Thrive To Five, the church is providing formula and diapers.
When Columbus area schools closed, the church had to stop its afterschool program housed in one of the schools, so that staff was moved to the market and made sure the families of children who may have depended on school meals were still getting food. They’ve also helped deliver tablet and laptop computers to children who may not have a computer in the home, so they can access online schoolwork.
Hansen said when the economic effects of the pandemic hit, the church was able to pivot the day-to-day nature of its work.
“Because of COVID-19, all sorts of people are now on even tighter budgets,” she said. “It’s all the more reason to double down on providing access to healthy goods so kids and families can stay healthy.
“During this time we can either turn inward and focus on ourselves only, or we can turn outward and focus on our community,” church director of engagement Mike Premo said in an interview with Columbus’ WSYX ABC 6.
“Our motto is, ‘There’s never been a better time to be the church,’” Hansen said. “We’re committed to being the hands and feet of Christ.”
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A 13-0 run by the Blue Hose erased a one-point deficit and helped the Presbyterian College men’s basketball team pull away from Johnson and earn the 107-87 win in action Saturday evening at the Templeton Center in Clinton, S.C.
KNOXVILLE, TENN. – Tennessee used a strong first half to open the 2017-18 season with an 88-53 win over the Presbyterian College men’s basketball team Friday night at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tenn. Davon Bell led the Blue Hose with a career-high 20 points, with Francois Lewis making his PC debut with 10 points. Both finished with a team-leading five rebounds apiece.
Clinton High School senior Destini Robinson was recently recognized for countless hours of service to the community during a Modern Woodmen of America member event.
Presbyterian College and head men’s basketball head coach Dustin Kerns announced the signing of guards Jordan Gibson (Bristow, Va.) and Kody Shubert (Maiden, N.C.) to join the Blue Hose in the fall of 2018.
The Presbyterian College baseball team will once again take on tough schedule in 2018, playing six games against ACC and SEC opponents and four against 2017 NCAA Tournament teams. The schedule, announced by head coach Elton Pollock on Monday, features 24 games at the PC Baseball Complex and 13 others in the Palmetto State.
WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. – The Presbyterian College football team (3-6, 0-3 Big South) went in to halftime tied at 14 with 24th-ranked Monmouth but the Hawks (8-1, 3-0 Big South) used 21 third-quarter points to claim a 42-21 victory on Saturday afternoon at Kessler Stadium in West Long Branch, N.J.
SENECA – The difference between Seneca and Clinton in the first round of the Class 3A football playoffs was the bookends.
The Presbyterian College football team will play its first road game in 65 days on Saturday when it takes on Monmouth at Kessler Stadium in West Long Branch, N.J. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. on ESPN3.
The Clinton Red Devils' offensive line was named the GoLaurens.com/GoClinton.com Players of the Week for their play in the Red Devils' 41-21 win over Woodruff on Friday night.
The Clinton boys and girls cross country teams both qualified for the state AAA cross country championship for the first time in school history after successful runs at the Upper State Championships on Saturday.


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Jackson Hole Fire/EMS Chief Brady Hansen was tentative when he asked county commissioners and town councilors for a bit of padding for his department’s 2021 budget.
“You have to set the bar, and we will follow the recommendation,” Hansen told officials. “But I wanted a chance to tell you that I was really feeling challenged.”
Last year the fire department slashed its budget, reducing training and maintenance to a minimum and pausing construction of Fire Station 1 to help the town and county deal with the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the department was busier than ever, Hansen told officials at last Wednesday’s joint town and county budget meeting.
Looking for a way to keep the budget flat and operate a second year with reduced funding was proving difficult, he said, describing how he’d already combed through the numbers in detail with Alyssa Watkins, administrator for the Teton County Board of County Commissioners.
“We’ve sat down and pored over these numbers,” Hansen said. “I’m fearful that in good faith I’m not able to stay flat.”
The number of calls for service has increased each year over the past decade, with a 30% jump since 2017. So far, the chief said, 2021 is on track to be even busier.
In order to meet demand Hansen asked the town and county to approve a $58,500 increase to the proposed 2021 budget. That funding would support critical training and maintenance projects, he said, and allow the department to hire a full-time wildland fire prevention specialist.
That position is common in other departments and came to Chief Hansen as a direct recommendation from Grand Teton National Park, the Bridger-Teton National Forest and the Teton Conservation District. The Conservation District also offered to support the position financially with a $45,000 stipend.
Town Councilor Arne Jorgensen supported the budget increase and the new hire. Teton County has been “dodging the bullet,” Jorgensen said, when it comes to wildfires.
County Commissioner Greg Epstein also supported the increase, saying it’s “not a big ask.”
The most pushback from commissioners came over the proposed addition of two new pickup trucks to the fire department’s fleet. Commissioner Mark Barron asked for them to be compressed natural gas vehicles, while others asked if it was possible to get by with only one new truck.
But the chief said one of the current vehicles is “very much on its last legs” and needs to be replaced, while the other new truck would free up a current vehicle to be handed down to Jackson Hole Community Pathways so it doesn’t have to purchase a new one.
“I don’t know the urgency behind that hand-down,” Hansen said, adding that it came as a request from Watkins.
The board didn’t discuss progress on Station 1, but Hansen told the News&Guide it is on budget and on schedule to be completed by the end of the year, thanks to “major changes” and a restructuring of the contract.
He also said he was pleased with the overall response from town and county leadership at Wednesday’s presentation. They will meet a few more times in May before finalizing department budgets.


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State Rep. Bill Hembree, chairman of the House Industrial Relations, confirmed that his committee this morning passed out SB 469, which would ban union pickets at private residents and require union members to confirm the dues check-off on their paychecks on an annual basis.
Also passed by the committee, which met with less than an hours notice granted to Democrats, was SB 447, the bill to repay $780 million borrowed by the state for unemployment benefits — largely by reducing future benefits.
On SB 469, Hembree said the only change made to the bill, sponsored by Sen. Don Balfour but written by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, was language added to emphasize that the ban on home demonstrations only applies to unions.
That’s one way of looking at it. Another way: The bill establishes a new “right to quiet enjoyment” of one’s residence – but that right will only apply to business executives required to deal with labor organizations.
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Zdenka Willis, the Director of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) Program Office will be retiring in January 2017 after more than a decade directing and guiding the U.S. IOOS Program. NOAA has opened a national search for a Director. The full position announcement can be found at USA Jobs. The deadline for applications is September 4, 2016. The U.S. IOOS Program Office is housed in NOAA's National Ocean Service.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Shine Coconut Moon-- Neesha Meminger
September 11, 2001. New Jersey. Fear, racism, fear, aggression, fear.
Samar is a 17 year old Indian-American girl. She was raised to be American, and knows almost nothing about her culture and family. Her mother separated herself from her strict parents and wanted to avoid the racism and pigeon-holing dark skinned people receive in the United States, so she raised Samar to be American through and through. Samar has only white friends, a white boyfriend, and lives a happy lilly-white life... until a man in a turban shows up on her front steps and changes everything.
Set just after the 9/11 attacks, Shine Coconut Moon tells the story of Samar, a girl who has longed for a big jovial family her whole life. After the attacks, her Uncle Sandeep reaches out to Samar and her mother, begging them to contact their family again and to put the past behind them. After 9/11, Samar's classmates begin to look at her differently and some even react violently to Samar and her uncle. But meanwhile, Samar finds solace in learning about her roots, making Indian friends, and exploring what it's like to have a family.
There's a lot of good stuff in this book. My only gripe is the author was so heavy-handed in the way she wrote about actions and emotions... don't tell me about it literally, describe the scene so I get the feeling without it being so in-my-face. This is Meminger's first novel, and I bet she will improve with later work. All in all, it's a good but not excellent book that describes the horrible fear and violence that occurred for many nonwhite people after the 9/11 attacks. I would recommend this to girls who want to read about other cultures, especially India, or who enjoyed Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier (which I loved).


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The girl is 11 and the boy is 8. The parents left me money to buy them food and they are paying me $1000 to watch their kids. It is my cousins kids. What do kids these ages enjoy? What is a good bed time and awake time for them? What activities do they enjoy?
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TAMPA, Fla. -- Pat Toomay has had enough.
For more than three decades, the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers set the modern standard for NFL futility by going 0-14. Now, Toomay would just as soon let someone else -- the Detroit Lions, for example -- finish winless and spend the next 30 years answering questions about sheer ineptitude.
"The luster wears off," said Toomay, a defensive end on the expansion team that was shut out five times and outscored 412-125 in the franchise's inaugural season.
"I would like the torch to be passed," he added. "At the same time, you don't want to wish that on anybody."
Several teams have flirted with winless seasons since the Bucs, wearing creamsicle uniforms and helmets bearing a winking pirate logo, were trounced by an average of almost three touchdowns a game.
The 1980 Saints were 0-14 before winning in the 15th game. The Colts went 0-8-1 during the strike-shortened 1982 season and were 0-13 on the way to finishing 3-13 in 1986. Several other teams have won one game since the NFL adopted a 16-game schedule in 1978, including last year's Miami Dolphins.
The '76 Bucs, playing in the AFC West, which eventual Super Bowl champion Oakland dominated with a 13-1 record, had a number of close calls, including a pair of three-point losses to Miami and fellow expansion mate Seattle.
They lost to Kansas City by nine the following week, then dropped their last six games by an average of nearly 30 points.
Defending Super Bowl winner Pittsburgh pummeled them 42-0 in Week 13, and Toomay will never forget the scene in the players' parking lot before a season-ending 31-14 loss to New England.
"By the time we got to the last game of the season, we had so many injuries that we didn't feel we had much of a chance. Everybody was so sick of the season that they showed up packed and ready to get out of town," said Toomay, now a freelance writer living in New Mexico.
"It looked like a bunch of Oakies fleeing the dust bowl. ... I was living in Dallas at the time, and I know my goal was to be out of the state by midnight."
Richard Wood, a hard-hitting linebacker who played for John McKay when the first Bucs coach was building an impressive resumé at Southern California, has been following the Lions closely because he knows Rod Marinelli from the Detroit coach's days as an assistant in Tampa Bay.
Wood began his career with the New York Jets in 1975 and was acquired by the Bucs in a trade at the end of training camp.
McKay won four national titles at USC and annoyed some NFL players and coaches with brash comments about the prospect for success in the pro game.
"It was a brand-new organization. Who cared about us? They wanted to devastate us, beat us in the ground," Wood recalled. "And with coach McKay coming from college, they wanted to maybe even play us a little harder."
But unlike Toomay, who has mixed emotions after whether to root for Detroit against Green Bay this week, Wood hopes the Lions don't finish 0-16 and won't have to live with the humiliation of being on the wrong side of history.
He remembers turning on the television late at night, wondering what Johnny Carson would have to say about the Bucs, who also lost the first 12 games of 1977. The 26-game losing streak is still the longest in NFL history.
"I always felt we could win. That was just the type of player I was. I never went into a game where I didn't think we could win, even in '76," Wood said. "As impossible as it was, looking back on it, I still felt we could surprise somebody."
He has empathy for the Lions, but still finds it amazing that during this age of free agency and high salaries that a club is on the verge of supplanting an expansion team as the measuring stick for futility.
Although there were some recognizable names on the '76 Bucs, such as Heisman Trophy winner Steve Spurrier and future Hall of Famer Lee Roy Selmon, who was a rookie, the Bucs were mostly a collection of castoffs in the twilight of their careers.
"I'm not saying the Lions aren't fighting," Wood said. "I know they're working hard. But come on, guys. You've got to finish. You can't just talk about it. You have to go out and do it."
Toomay points out that Spurrier is a successful college coach, that Selmon and Wood were important components of the defense that helped Tampa Bay reach the NFC Championship Game in the franchise's fourth season, and general manager Ron Wolf built a Super Bowl winner around Brett Favre in Green Bay.
Toomay also had his best season as a pro, leading the AFC in sacks after being traded to Oakland the following season.
The lesson the Lions can take out of that, he said, is that players who persevere and play hard to the often bitter end eventually will prosper. He also thinks he and other members of the '76 Bucs are stronger because of the experience.
"It gives you perspective on winning, losing, life -- what it is really about. It was invaluable in that respect," Toomay said.
Count Spurrier is among those rooting for the Lions.
"I want that record," the South Carolina coach said during a recent visit to Tampa for an Outback Bowl contract signing ceremony.
"I think they'll win a game. I'm pulling for them, sure," Spurrier added. "That's the American thing to do, isn't it?"


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The invention described herein may be manufactured, used, and licensed by or for the Government for governmental purposes without the payment to me of any royalty thereon. This invention relates in general to a method of etching titanium diboride and in particular to a method of dry etching a thin film of titanium diboride that has been deposited onto a substrate and patterned using photolithography. Titanium diboride has become of interest in laboratory research because of its resistance to change or degradation at high temperatures. It also shows promise in acting as a diffusion barrier to other metals.
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In this episode, we discuss board games with our special guest, Kristos.
Kristos talks about making his wife cry, which is related to board games. Chris mentions nun rape, which isn’t related to board games. Lyal does sound effects, which, oddly, is related to board games. Wayne threatens to “get started” on Toys ‘R’ Us (again), which, while related to board games, would have been cut (again).
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There seems to be an automatic noise reduction or filter that removes some of the audio but introduces very ugly audio artefacts. This affects videos but also voice messages. When I do not want this processing applied for videos I can use OpenCamera and select “unprocessed” for audio (automatic audio ducking in videos but for example with audio messages using a chat app (Signal, Threema) there is no such option and I’m left with this processing and the ugly artefacts in the recording. Is there an option I am missing or some workaround?
As you’ve no doubt seen, I’ve been having the exact same issue. While the Open Camera solution for standard videos is useful, the level of the audio recorded is still quite quiet. I’ve been speaking to a member of the Fairphone team directly and they reassure me that they’re looking into the issue, so hopefully a fix/update will be issued in the coming months.
Why do you not trying to use another ROM?
How do you mean using another ROM, and which one would you recommend? Would this solve the problem?
I bought the FP4 with e/OS/ specifically because I want to reduce dependance of Google and because it is (hopefully) less of a PITA than LineageOS et. al.
I was just doing some videos outdoor with the noise of a small river in the background, the videos are either unuseable because of the audio-artefacts (settings Camcorder etc.) or extremely quiet (setting unprocessed). For later video-editing unprocessed is fine for me, but I fear most of the users want to send their videos to friends via their mobile phone and then this presents quite an issue.
@Jonboyh21 which contact did you use from the fairphone-team?
Agreed, and I’ve noticed the same when taking a short video for something like Instagram using the unprocessed setting on OpenCamera. Audio is noticeably quieter than it would be when using the default camera app. I have zero understanding of mobile phone architecture (hardware or software), but I find it hard to understand why it’s not possible to simply increase the input level of the microphone and employ some gentle dynamics (e.g. compression and limiting) to ensure there’s no clipping. Like you, I tried to record the sea around Xmas time without realising there was an issue with the audio encoder causing unpleasant noise reduction. The sound of the waves literally vanished into thin air after less than a second of video playback, It’s a highly annoying bug and one that absolutely needs to be addressed.
Support contact form:
As for the Fairphone team, I simply used the main contact form for the support team and someone got back to me a few days later. They asked me to perform all sorts of tests, such as launching my FP4 in safe mode, running the self-diagnostic command etc but the issue has persisted.
I’m having the same issue as well, I believe it started a month or so ago. I’m a musician and regularly record myself playing piano on my phone to send to other people, but now the recordings are unusable (if I play a note on the piano, the audio cuts out after about 1 second as the sustain fades away, so any slow songs are unlistenable).
I’ve tried multiple recording apps, and all seem to have the same problem. This is something I use my phone for every week, and really upsetting that something so simple and essential doesn’t work for me anymore because they seemed to add some noise reduction in the software or something.
Same problem here! The audio quality of recordings donr with FP4 is very disappointing
I’m a musician and I like to use my phone to record spontaneous ideas and snippets of sessions, as well as videos for my social media accounts and students, but the sound quality is very disappointing to unusable.
Honestly, the audio recording app that came with the phone is completely unusable, because the quality is so extremely low.
I’ve tried simplemobiletool’s audio recording app, which is a bit better, but still rubbish when it comes to loud environments i.e. a session. Also volume is really low.
I’ve tried the OpenCamera app for video recording and while the unprocessed audio quality is much better, it is extremely low in volume.
I would really appreciate some help here or a patch, since good quality audio recordings should be standard for modern smartphones. I really hope the team is working on a solution!
I feel like the microphones are technically good, it’s just that the software can’t access them or processes the recordings to death.
You should not hope but contact them to make them aware #contactsupport
Just remind its a user forum and there is no public bug tracker, so the only way to infrom FP about issues is the support Team. And it helps to speed up fixes when they have various information from different user
Although the volume level of recorded audio is quite low, I recommend using Open Camera and changing the audio source to Unprocessed in the video settings of the app. There’s no ugly noise reduction, you just have to make sure the source volume (playing an instrument etc) is loud enough to compensate for the low input level of the Open Camera app when audio source is set to Unprocessed.
I contacted the support about this, until now there is no new information.
Message from support:
“Currently, the experts in our Software Team are investigating the issue and are liaising with the manufacturer to find the quickest possible solution. I appreciate your patience and cooperation so far.”
About time. They denied it was an issue for more than a year.
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President Trump’s Asia trip highlighted the difficulty in reducing barriers to entry for American companies to key Chinese sectors. American innovation in the electronic payment services sector, for example, places the US’s leading finance companies on the cusp of a breakthrough into the coveted Chinese marketplace.
But, China’s unfair trading practices threaten to turn an enormous growth opportunity into a costly economic problem for US companies and a probable security problem for American consumers.
The global payment cards market now totals 14 billion cards with a billion new cards issued last year alone. The fastest growth is in the Asia-Pacific region, with China contributing disproportionately to the rise in card holders.
Visa, Mastercard, and UnionPay, a Chinese company, account for 80 percent of all cards. According to RBR’s “Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2022” study, rapid expansion of the Chinese cards market has helped UnionPay to increase its share of cards globally to 43 percent in 2016, and to extend its lead over Visa and Mastercard.
Not only have Visa and Mastercard lost global market share to UnionPay, but UnionPay is consolidating its position as market leader by exploiting Chinese access to external, including Western, markets. UnionPay is positioning itself as an alternative to Visa and Mastercard in a number of foreign markets, especially Russia and several Asia Pacific nations.
UnionPay is seeking external markets in anticipation of domestic competition from the likes of Visa and Mastercard once these American companies obtain domestic licenses to operate in China. But, UnionPay’s concerns about counteracting competition in its home market are overblown, as the Chinese government remains committed to securing the best of both worlds for Chinese payments companies.
China is the prime example of a national government seeking to slow down the global growth in the payments sector. They are doing this, principally, by erecting barriers to American companies’ prospective entries into the Chinese marketplace.
The fact that China has not played by international rules regarding e-payments is well documented. China permits only a Chinese entity (i.e. UnionPay) to supply electronic payment services for payment card transactions denominated and paid in renminbi in China. Other service suppliers can only supply these services for payment card transactions paid in foreign currency. China also requires all payment card processing devices to be compatible with UnionPay’s system, and that payment cards bear UnionPay’s logo.
The US has longstanding objections to these Chinese restrictions and requirements pertaining to electronic payment services for payment card transactions and the suppliers of those services.
Following a formal American complaint filed in 2010 with the World Trade Organization, on July 16, 2012, the WTO issued its report in the dispute over Chinese measures affecting electronic payment services. The WTO required China to open up its payments industry to foreign competition.
Yet, China is still not playing by international rules. China has not yet opened her domestic market.
Allegedly, that will change. The Chinese government regulator recently announced that it will allow, belatedly, American entry into China’s payments marketplace. However, the Chinese have supplemented their apparent lowering of protectionist barriers with significant regulatory caveats.
Regulatory guidelines allowing American companies to begin the licensing process suggest the Chinese do not intend to permit “full and prompt market access” anytime soon. American companies may submit an application for a license, but they cannot begin operating in the Chinese market.
Furthermore, companies such as Visa and Mastercard will be forced to build new data centers in China. All these companies’ data processing for the Chinese marketplace must be performed domestically on the Chinese mainland.
Compliance with such onerous regulatory demands will result in a huge increase in Visa and Mastercard’s annual overheads. This increase in costs will come at the expense of new jobs for would-be additional Visa and Mastercard employees back in America.
But, China’s over-regulation of her domestic payments market is not simply an economic problem for American companies and workers. American payment companies’ unfair treatment by the Chinese could have other, far more damaging results for the American people.
For example, Mastercard’s global payments network and research operate via central switches. Once the company’s data processing center is operating in mainland China, it may be prey to cyber attacks either by, or at the behest of, the Chinese regime.
There would be enormous security concerns related to the Chinese being given the veritable keys to Mastercard’s payments kingdom. With unfettered access, the Chinese government potentially could see all of Mastercard’s customer data, including the confidential financial records of untold millions of Americans.
More formally, and ominously, the likes of Mastercard must submit to a “national security review.” This security vulnerability was heightened by the new e-commerce treaty signed this summer between China and Iran.
Hopefully, Trump administration officials impressed upon their Chinese counterparts that the payments sector, a uniquely American innovation, can be a win-win for both nations’ economies if U.S. companies are greeted by a rational Chinese regulatory environment.
Patrick Basham is founding director of the Democracy Institute, a Washington-based, politically independent research organization.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of NTD.tv

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Having a cat as a pet:
Different people have different ideas about what it means to have a cat as a pet. Some people want a cat that will cuddle with them and sit on their laps, while others are happy to live with a cat that is very independent and spends most of its time outside and doesn’t want to spend much time with people.
Dehydration in cats:
When a cat is dehydrated, it means that she has lost too much water from her body. It also means that her body has lost too many important minerals, like potassium and sodium. When water and electrolytes in the body are out of balance in this way, it can hurt everything from digestion to how well the blood flows. In some cases, losing a lot of fluid can even kill you, so be very careful. Dehydration in pets is always a serious issue in days of summer.
Symptoms of Dehydration in pets:
It is important to know the signs that a cat might be getting too little water. With knowledge, you can stop cases of dehydration from getting worse. Look out for shortness of breath, sagging skin, dry gums, loss of appetite, drowsiness, dry mouth, fast heart rate, sunken eyes, constipation, and a mood that isn’t like you. If you notice any of these signs, you should take your cat to the vet right away. If your cat shows any of these signs, it may lead to severe dehydration in pets or be on its way there.
Cats can get dangerously dehydrated from a lot of normal things. For example, a cat that lives outside and spends too much time in the hot, humid July sun could become dehydrated. Many small problems, like diarrhea and throwing up after eating too fast, can also cause you to lose a lot of fluid. Also, if a cat has diabetes, she may urinate a lot, which is a common sign of the disease. Unsurprisingly, cats can also lose a lot of fluid quickly if they go to the bathroom too often.
A lot of cats don’t like to drink water, so they get most of their water from wet canned food. But it’s also important to make sure your cat has easy access to clean, fresh water. If your cat only eats dry food, it’s even more important to give it fresh water. When it comes to your pet’s health, you should never be lazy. Water is very important for the health of your cat so just take care about the symptoms of dehydration in pets.
When a cat is severely dehydrated, it is very important to get it to a vet right away. In these serious cases, veterinarians usually replace lost water by giving it through the veins or under the skin. Most of the time, tests are also done to see if the fluffball has any health problems that could be causing it to be dehydrated. Dehydration is a fairly common sign of pancreatitis in cats.
Having a cat can fill your life with unconditional love and companionship. Having a cat friend can also help you relax and improve the health of your heart. Having a cat can be a very rewarding thing to do.

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