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Ice Super Chexx operated with coins originally only available in Arcades and commercial game rooms throughout the country and can be played with 2-4 players. This game has now been brought to many homes, businesses and institutions for hours of multi-player pleasure. This is an extension of the foosball with the mastermind of hockey men in the dome who tries to print each other. ES Super Chexx currently has a control computer that you can set the unit on "free games" or for units to take coins or dollars. This unit has interactive sound, automatic eject puck, and electronic scoreboard and timer. This is an original unit by the original manufacturer and appreciated like that.
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Taking a page from competitive kayak anglers, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is going to allow a tournament during the bass spawn, under certain conditions.
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I have been thinking it was time to go to Lake Ferry again.
And it was beautiful. It was warm with a slight breeze.
After the sea the first thing I saw was an amazing structure on the sand.
It looked loke a Druid Circle and I begah to think about who might of built it and why. It was quite recent, surely more than one person was involved in the construction. From the landside it was on a rise sloping down to the sea but when I turned and looked the other way some of it's magesty had shrunk and it didn't look so big against the hills.
I walked on down to the sea. The tide was coming in, rushing up over the sand and I watched and listened to the rhythm of the sea as the waves built up in silence and then broke over the sand
And then came up over the sand like fast changing lace and returned to the sea. The breaking waves are never the same. Each one is slightly different and each one moves up the beach differently.
I had thought I might find some tangled nylon and/or some bones from fish or birds but no. Then I was distracted looking at the rocks and pebbles on the beach and thinking about them and my drawings and paintings.
They were so much more varied compared to my own work. And I began to think about artistic licence and composition and what I needed on my wotk. I am hopeful that I might have a bit more variation this week.
As i walked I temembeted seeing anothet construction the last time I was here. Very different from my giant circle.
A sort of a shelter I guessed and I wondered about the need to construct and build. As we turned and wandetef back up the bech I saw another construction, another sort of a construction. Do they have a purpose? Or are they just part of a need to make and do
It was a thinking/ wondering sort of a day and as I walked up towards the cliffs I saw huge tree truncks and imagined the power of the sea and the tree trunks being blown and tossed way up high onto the sand in a storm way beyound the sea.
I have never been here in really bad weather. Once it was generally impossible to stand in the wind, but it was fine and the sea wasn't rough. I would love just to see a storm rolling logs and rushing them up the sand.
Further up from the shore I could see the layered orange cliffs and from closer there were caves and marks from four wheel drives trying to get up the almost verticle grassed slopes. I found a slip and put some broken rock in my bag to bring home to try and make paint. Maybe a sort of ochre colour I hope. By now Maggie Mae was pretty tired and getting under any sort of shade she could find.
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The Gripnail PowerPinner™ meets the demand for consistency, reliability and speed.
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Two weeks ago, a Nigerian high school was raided by armed militants from the terrifying Islamist group Boko Haram. These terrorists kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian girls—allegedly to sell them as brides for about $12 USD each. It’s a devastating case of human trafficking, but the girls’ distraught families say their pleas for governmental assistance in recovering their stolen daughters have fallen on deaf ears.
After a failed attempt to rescue their daughters themselves, the families went public with their story. Disturbingly, the story did not gain the instant traction with the news media that it should have—another reminder of the fact that the media tends to overlook cases of abducted girls of color. Studies have found that white girls who are stolen in “stereotypical” abduction scenarios (such as that endured by Elizabeth Smart) receive disproportionate media attention: Nearly 800,000 children are reported missing every year in the U.S. alone, of which only about 115 are stereotypical. Yet black girls’ stories—and those of other girls of color—are rarely reported on.
But now, finally, in the case of Nigeria, the world is listening. The girls’ dead-of-night kidnapping has made mainstream international news, and public outcry is visible across social media channels. For example, a Change.org petition has gathered nearly 150,000 signatures calling upon the Nigerian government to stop their political posturing and bring these girls home.
Simultaneously, I can’t help but think of their case in the context of another situation, which I learned about this week at the White House Research Conference on Girls, held by the White House Council on Women and Girls. At a discussion during the conference, several attendees spoke to the need for increased national attention to the plight of black girls in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, where reports indicate that about 200 girls go missing every month—victims of human trafficking who are essentially sold, like the Nigerian high school girls, into sexual slavery. Yet this crisis in Atlanta is also flying below the national radar.
We have a moral obligation to defend all people’s basic human rights of life, liberty, and security. For any child to be trafficked, for anyone to be sold into slavery, is unfathomable—and yet it happens every day, all around the world, and yes, even at home in the U.S.
200 black girls disappeared from their high school in Nigeria two weeks ago; 200 black girls in Atlanta, Georgia, go missing every month. How many others are out there, victims of child trafficking, out of sight and out of mind? According to Unicef, the answer is devastatingly large: 5.5 million.
This is a staggering problem, making it one we must tackle it together. Here are a few things you can do:
- Attend or plan a local rally on behalf of the Nigerian girls.
- Learn the signs of child trafficking, in case you can save a child near you.
- Download and read the End Trafficking Toolkit from Unicef, and share it with others.
Do you have other suggestions or resources to recommend? Please share them in the comments below. Thank you.
Rebecca Hains is a media studies professor at Salem State University. Her book, The Princess Problem: Guiding Our Girls Through the Princess-Obsessed Years, is now available for pre-order from Amazon.
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200 girls kidnapped, 200 girls missing. Let’s help bring them home.
This is really a serious issue. We must act together.
You’ve hit the nail on the head, again!
If only a small fraction of this country’s attention could be shifted away from Justin Bieber and the Kardashians and onto the plight of MILLIONS of victims of sex trafficking, that would be a start.
But focusing on those allows us to live in denial about the serious issues!
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It’s funny what constitutes a real concern isn’t it, I should imagine that this blog will be one of the least commented on…and yet it is one of the more powerful. Why is this?
Is it because it is too much for our fragile psyches to deal with?….Throughout the world their are many suffering, I do not care about gender, I am not that shallow, we are all sons & daughters in my eyes.
I see anger, hatred. pain, sorrow & grief equally and it is not owned by any one gender or race,….no one has a monopoly. equally no one has a monopoly on love, peace, kindness, joy & compassion. Fear ultimately is the hidden killer for us all, fear to love, fear to act, fear to live & fear to forgive.
When all is good in our own little microcosm in the world its amazing what constitutes a major concern for us. For others to live just another day whether through lack of food or war limits their scope but it also broadens their meaning of life. Often those who have suffered terribly hold little resentment having been given a distinctly clearer meaning of life…..I often wonder who is more fortunate?
Peace be with you,
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At the very least the attention on these 234+ Nigerian girls will open our eyes to the scale of the problem of human trafficking. 200 girls a month in Atlanta, GA USA?! How is this not big news?! Thank you for sharing this.
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All the reports I have seen on Atlanta sex trade is 400 12-14 yr old girls disappearing every month…thats almost 5000 a year!! Unbelievable that it goes on and we don’t hear about it. Actually the Atlanta problem is much more massive than the Nigerian problem. Wonder why the national talking heads dont talk about it?! An Irish man did portraits of girls murdered in Juarez…I was thinking a similar project might shed light on this terrible problem happening in one of my favorite towns two hours from where I live…and I am sure alot of those same girls sadly turn up here during Masters Week in Augusta GA.
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Read this now, and help bring back our girls.
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This should never happen in a ‘developed’ country. As for Nigeria, sadly the problem is not limited to girls. https://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/missing-men-and-boys-nigeria-s-unfolding-tragedy


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Golf & Guitars Event Raise £11,391 For The Mary Peters Trust
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TOP OF THE PUTTS: (L-R) Maurice Jay, Andrew Hollywood of GolfNow, Michael Rafferty of Duffy Rafferty Communications and Dame Mary Peters celebrate the success of Golf and Guitars, which raised £11,391 for the Mary Peters Trust. The event, which took place in May, saw the sporting and music worlds collide with musicians teeing off at Holywood Golf Course, music-themed holes and a concert to round the night off, all to raise funds for the Mary Peters Trust. Well-known names taking part on the day included Brian McFadden and Keith Duffy of Boyzlife who were amongst over 120 golfers and musicians competing.


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Hello NY: A Guidebook Graphic Novel About New York City
Most people who live in New York come from all over the world, but not artist/writer Julia Rothman. The native New Yorker was raised in the Bronx and now resides in Brooklyn, and she’s not leaving anytime soon. “Sometimes I’ll be at a party talking to a fancy person and they will tell me how they’ve lived in Berlin and then Mexico City for a year,” she writes on her blog. “Then they’ll ask me about the places I’ve lived, and I will chug my wine, and excuse myself for another. Maybe I’ve been too scared to move anywhere unfamiliar or felt too much guilt about the idea of leaving my family, or maybe I just really, really love this city. I like to believe it is the latter.”
Rothman shows her love for the city in her part guidebook/part memoir Hello NY: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Five Boroughs. The book is full of personal stories, interviews, and highlights of little New York oddities (like Orchard Corset, Rotham’s favorite lingerie store that’s run by Hasidic Jews). But probably the best thing about the book is the quirky illustrations of New York staples, like street food favorites and little corner bodegas. In a time where New York’s high cost of living is starting to drive people away, it’s a nice reminder to know the city’s charm is sometimes worth its price tag.
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Entrepreneurship in the Khyber Pass
The project was designed to share and build knowledge with colleagues at IM Sciences in Pakistan, a business school located in the Khyber Pass region at Peshawar.
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The project objectives were to examine social enterprise in this region, reflecting what is already known about western social enterprises and micropreneuring in poverty. The turbulent history of this mountainous region offers a rich context for the study. The data collected by the Peshwari team has rich accounts of institutional voids, remote locations and scarce resources. Yet there are also stories of authentic social responsibility and determination to improve lives and livelihoods.
The current task is to analyse these data to developing theories which help explain the uniqueness and practices that bring about small successes or petty failures of local social enterprise in these particular circumstances which are so very different from those in west.

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Luxury fashion brand Gucci is about to turn 100. Selling Xbox Bundles of the X series with individual, laser-engraved Xbox Series X, two Xbox wireless controllers, an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, and a Gucci and Xbox branded hard case. The limited edition bundles are expected to appear in select Gucci stores around the world on November 17th.
“The collaboration consists of 100 numbered sets, each of which includes a black Xbox Series X console with laser engraving of the GG pattern, two wireless controllers with the web strip and a hard case inspired by Gucci’s archive luggage,” Gucci describes the collaboration in part. “On the underside of the case are the words ‘GOOD GAME’, a motto that is reminiscent of the lucky coincidence that GG stands for the characteristic motif in Gucci’s decorative vocabulary – the initials of the company’s founder, Guccio Gucci -, but also as an acronym for this formula is used athletically by players to opt out at the end of online multiplayer competitions. “
Gucci has a couple of official sites to learn more about the collaboration, but you can also check out what the various items in the bundle look like in official images below:
In the company’s centenary, Gucci and @Xbox come together to celebrate their respective anniversaries by creating 100 numbered Xbox Series X sets. The bundle appears in images from @HYPEBEAST @hypebeast with @EmeraldRose and @KojeyRadical. #GucciXbox pic.twitter.com/SkNdUfPSqV
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As mentioned above, Gucci’s custom Xbox Series X sets with various Gucci-themed expansions, known as the “Xbox by Gucci” bundle, will only be available in select stores in Beijing, Berlin, Beverly Hills, London, on November 17th. Mexico City, Milan, New York City and Tokyo. The price included with the bundle is $ 10,000. The Xbox Series X itself has traditionally been available anywhere such things sell for $ 499, assuming you can find them in stock. You can check out All of our previous coverage of Xbox in general here.
What do you think of Gucci’s lavishly customized Xbox Series X? Is this the kind of Xbox collaboration you’d more or less like to see? Let us know in the comments or contact me directly on Twitter at @rollinbischof to talk about everything related to gaming!

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Japanese Mustard Pickled Eggplant
3 or 4 small Japanese or Italian eggplants
1 tablespoon dry mustard powder
3 tablespoons shoyu
3 tablespoons mirin or a dry sherry
1 tablespoon sugar
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Slice the eggplants crosswise ito 1/8-inch slices and salt, allowing to
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Mix the other ingredients together and add the drained eggplant and
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Bring ½ cup vinegar (white wine) to boil with: 1 tablespoon sugar; 1
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tarragon. After boiling, set aside and allow to cool.
Cut the small florets from one head of cauliflower. Toss with a large
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The Funniest (and Dirtiest) Sounding Towns in New Hampshire
My favorite part about primary season is seeing reporters in fancy suits and blouses go on TV and say “Dixville Notch.” In fact, I was thinking of the Notch just recently, as I penetrated another humorously named township – the lovely Hampton Balls.
It’s unmistakable, the curl of the lip from even the most seasoned journalist. It’s just a funny name. “Dixville Notch” sounds like a club Yosemite Sam would’ve run in the infamous Combat Zone.
It never ceases to be funny seeing the graphic “THIS JUST IN FROM DIXVILLE NOTCH” and saying, “I bet it is!” After all, Dixville Notch sounds like an after-hours establishment at Plymouth Plantation.
Another fun go-to is hearing how Dixville Notch has a small population and saying, “What is it, 69?” And why not, as Dixville Notch sounds less like a town and more like a store that would open at Eaton Plaza in Seabrook (a.k.a., the real Mall of America)?
Truth is, Dixville Notch isn’t actually a town. It’s actually a section of Dixville, a township which sounds perhaps even more hilarious. According to the 2020 census, it is home to a foursome, specifically, the four people who live there.
It’s also close to Dixville Notch State Park in Colebrook, one of the Granite State’s most acclaimed destinations for a New England getaway (you can plan your visit by checking out its official site).
You might want to think about visiting next spring during the 2024 solar eclipse. That’s right, you can take in a moon from Dixville.
But if you think the funniest New Hampshire town (or township) name is Dixville, you’re selling us short.


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Registration Deadline for FY 21 CIP Virtual Public Hearing Extended
Published on June 25, 2020
The deadline for pre-registering for the County Board's virtual public hearing on the Manager's Proposed Fiscal Year 2021 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) has been extended to 8 p.m. Tues., June 30 -- the night of the public hearing.
The proposed $277.5 million one-year CIP is the County's funding plan for infrastructure and facilities.
Online registration is open now. Pre-registration is required to provide comments at the hearing.
The hearing will begin at 7 p.m. on Tues., June 30. To register to speak, visit the County Board website
. The public hearing will be live-streamed on the County website
and Arlington Television's YouTube Channel
and broadcast on Verizon FiOs Channels 39 and 40 and Comcast Xfinity 25. There will be no in-person participation.
To submit a written comment on the Proposed CIP, email the County Board at firstname.lastname@example.org
. All comments will be made part of the public record for the Proposed CIP and will be considered by the County Board during its deliberations.
The Board held a joint virtual work session with Arlington Public Schools on the Proposed CIP June 23. The Board will hold a work session with the County Manager on the Proposed CIP at 3 p.m. July 9. The work session will be live-streamed on the County website and Arlington Television's YouTube channel and broadcast live on Verizon FiOs Channels 39 and 40 and Comcast Xfinity 25.
The Board will adopt the FY 2021 CIP at its July 18, 2020, Regular County Board Meeting. The 2021 Fiscal Year will begin July 1, 2020.
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Moraz Alban Project
This collaboration brings together Patrick Moraz, a prestigious progressive rock keyboardist who played with Yes and the Moody Blues, and American drummer Greg Alban, a skillful drummer and financial adviser.
Patrick Moraz performed some of Yes’ most spectacular keyboard work in the album “Relayer”. You’d think that this album would be loaded with state of the art progressive rock. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. MAP is a mixed bag, with a few outstanding pieces that will please the progressive music fans and then some forgettable smooth jazz and cheesy tracks that should have been left in the drawing board.
The best cuts are the opening jazz-rock piece “Jungle Aliens” where Moraz delivers an avalanche of fabulous keyboard solos, set to a heavy jazz beat; the fusion piece “Jazz in the Night” where Greg Alban demonstrates his admirable drum technique; the self-explanatory “The Drums also Solo”; the best cut on the album, a progressive rock composition with Indian influences titled “Mumbai-Antra” where Moraz’s keyboards and Alban’s drums are joined by Patrick Perrier’s creative bass lines; and the spacey, dreamy final track, “Alien Species.”


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Aisle 5 in Little Five Points was the place to be for some good old southern rock on Saturday night with Maradeen. Maradeen is a Nashville-based rock ‘n’ roll quintet that describes it’s music as flavors of blues, Southern rock, Americana, and jazz improvisation. At first I wondered how jazz improvisation could possibly find it’s way into Southern rock but then I heard how Maradeen created fresh melodies over their song’s cords. THAT jazz like improvisation is what makes for a great live show. Maradeen took all of the detail and magic of there studio recordings and made them even better by freely transforming the music based on the moment and the energy of the crowd.
Maradeen’s set started with “Always Want What I Can’t Have” from their debut EP Mirage. The set ended with “Restless” also from their debut album. Sandwiched between these two songs was nothing but pure rock and roll with a southern twist. Songs like “Livin’ for the Weekend” and “Deal with the Devil” show the band’s diversity. “Livin’ for the Weekend” is a fun very danceable song while “Deal with the Devil” is a gritty blues rock song. It’s always great to hear a band make a live experience a uniquely memorable one.
Maradeen’s improvisational style gave Maradeen and the crowd at Aisle 5 a unique experience as we enjoyed tunes from Mirage and Maradeen’s second album, Above the Horizon. You can learn more about Above the Horizon, in our review here.
Q&A with Kaitlyn Connor of Maradeen
Before the show at Aisle 5 I had a chance to talk with Maradeen’s keyboard player and vocalist Kaitlyn Connor.
Where did you learn to play piano?
Kaitlyn – I started playing piano when I was four years old. My parents were really into classical music and got me started into piano lessons. I grew up listening to and playing a lot of Beethoven, Bach and other classical music. When I was in High School I met a group of people that had a garage band and I would watch them play after school. This went on until one of my friends said “Hey, you have been playing longer than all of us why don’t you come jam?” I didn’t know how to do anything but read music so I was really nervous at first. My friend, Chris, and I started on some Grateful Dead songs and some really other easy stuff. I then got bit by the improv bug. Until then I hadn’t realized that you could create something on the spot.
I had been playing music for so long but I didn’t REALLY learn how to play until that moment in high school.
What’s in your touring piano rig?
Korg Khronos X, Nord C2D organ and a Sequential Prophet-6.
How did your music career get started?
Kaitlyn – In college I studied classical piano performance and performed a band call Afro which was a jazz fusion funk band. We were jammin’ one night at a house party and there had to be at least 500 people there. As I looked out on the crowd, I knew that music was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
You have gone from classical, to jazz fusion to southern rock. Is where you are now home or is there more to your musical journey?
Kaitlyn – I don’t really know. There is so much going on with music, especially in Nashville. I am always discovering new types of music. Every day when I sit down to practice it is almost overwhelming. There are so many things I want to learn and so many styles, I feel that my musical journey will never end. I love playing rock and roll and playing before a crowd. As long as my journey allows me to do that I’ll be happy.
Looking at your tour schedule, I see that you are making your way through the south and then a run up the coast through Philly, D.C., Connecticut and New York. Do you see any differences in the crowds as you go from state to state?
Kaitlyn – Definitely! We hit the southern market a lot. People here are a lot more rowdy. They like to dance, get drunk and head bang. I noticed up north, especially in places with a lot of musicians like New York City, people like to stand watch. In the south we are use to getting a lot of energy from the crowd while up north it takes a few songs for us to get them warmed up. Up north it’s inviting in that people are often out to hear us because it’s not what they would typically hear.
Maradeen released Mirage in 2015 and Above the Horizon in 2016. Shall we see another EP in 2017?
Kaitlyn – When we originally formed the band we set a goal to put out an album a year. We have seen that many of the songs from Above the Horizon are still coming into themselves and evolving here on tour. I believe that the goal of the year may be a live album. Stay tuned to find out.
In that year between Mirage and Above the Horizon how did the band change between those two studio experiences?
Kaitlyn – When we put out Mirage we had only been a band for about 8 months. Each of us had lots of experience in other bands and some of us had known each other for 6 or 7 years. It still took us a while to find our sound. This is something we are still working on. One thing we talked about before we did Above the Horizon was that some bands have a lot of different styles of songs but have one collective sound. We wanted any song that someone heard from the album to sound like “Maradeen.”
What are your thoughts on how music can be used for social change or to impact your audience in their daily lives?
Music is always something that makes me feel better when I’m frustrated. I have been listening to a lot more music than usual with all that has been going on the past few weeks. Music should be a platform to lend people an escape when they need one. Hopefully our music can be a fun distraction during trying times.
Q&A with Maradeen
What was the first album that you added to your personal music library?
Kaitlyn Connor: The Beatles Abbey Road. I don’t remember my parents listening to much music around the house while I was growing up except classical music, but they were both huge Beatles fans and this was the first album my dad ever gave me.
Whit Murray- Lead Guitar/vocals : NIrvana – Nevermind
John Rodrigue- Drums: Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits– When I was around 7 years old, my parents had their vinyl collection stashed in the closet of the living room of our house. We didn’t have a working turntable, but I remember I used to love to look at the cover art and read the liner notes and put faces to the people I heard on the Baton Rouge rock station my dad would always play. I remember flipping through one day and there was Love It to Death by Alice Cooper and I immediately wanted to play an instrument and have long hair. My mom had Columbia House and I asked her to order me some Alice Cooper. Remember, they would only have a selected discography of each artist and Greatest Hits was one of the few they offered.
Thomas Galloway- Rhythm Guitar/Vocals: Presidents of the United States of America self-titled album was my first purchased CD, however I was always borrowing my father’s albums.
What was your most recent addition to your personal music library?
K– Someone played Anderson .Paak Malibu and I had to get myself a copy. It has a bit of a pop vibe but it reminds me of Outkast and other Atlanta hip-hop that I enjoyed in high school.
W– I just discovered Wu-Tang Clan and started by listening to Enter the Wu-Tang.
J– Lucero: Live from Atlanta. These guys are my favorite band around today. Everything about them from their music, lyrics and their work ethic is just awesome. I’ve been lucky to see them twice now and wanted a document of their live show.
T– Honky Tonk Heroes by Waylon Jennings
What was your first live music experience? Which venue and which artist(s)?
K-The Beach Boys at Chastain Park in Atlanta, GA when I was about 5 years old
W-The Who for their Quadrophenia Tour at Walnut Creek in my home town, Raleigh, NC.
J– It was the band of the guy my older brother was taking guitar lessons from called Mr. Mambo Matrix at the La Petit Theater in my hometown of Houma, LA. I don’t remember much about the show except for the fact that they had a song called “Life’s a Piece of Shit” (I was in 3rd grade) and my dad taking me and my brothers to McDonald’s afterward. Then in 5th grade, I was in school band and we went on a field trip to see the Louisiana Philharmonic at the Orpheum in New Orleans and when we got back to Houma, my parents picked me up and drove me back to New Orleans to see Kansas play. That was an amazing Saturday.
T– Widespread Panic NYE run 2001 at Phillips Arena in Atlanta, Ga
If you could cover one album in your music library which would it be?
K– Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy. I have this memory of my dad playing Led Zeppelin and thinking “This rocks so hard!” I have always been drawn to rock music ever since. This is an album with such a strong beginning and end that you don’t want to stop listening to once you start. I’m a keyboard player and realize that there is no keyboard in Zeppelin but when I listen to it I ponder what I would add to what they are doing.
W-Talking Heads Stop Making Sense.
J– Dr. John: Desitively Bonnaroo just because I think it’d be so much fun.
T– Workingman’s Dead by The Grateful Dead or Sweetheart of the Rodeo by The Byrds.
What artist do you wish more people had in their music library?
K– Blitzen Trapper
W– George Harrison on All Things Must Pass.
J– The Band Music From Big Pink. This will be probably be my favorite album for as long as I’m on this earth. Seriously. I think the instruments they used on it should be in the Smithsonian and the Dylan painting for the cover should be hung in the Louvre. If somebody asked me to make them a soundtrack to America I would just give them this album. It should be right there with Kind of Blue and Sgt. Pepper as one of the most important albums ever made.
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Offenses against language and sensibility come with the social activity known as fundraising. This is true of fundraising for political purposes and it is true of fundraising for philanthropic purposes. Attention is paid to those who have money and little or no attention is paid to how they came about their wealth. Those who give – more accurately, those who are asked to give – are called public servants, humanitarians, community leaders and they are extolled in language that often comes as news to those who best know these newly-anointed saints, including their family members and close friends. Money does talk.
Because the six-million American Jews have what seems to be a nearly equal number of organizations and causes to support, a good part of our communal creativity and energy is devoted to ferreting out those who might part with some of their riches. They are targeted by shnorrers, aka directors of development. We have an incredible number of fundraising events. While they do little for Jewish continuity, they are a boon for plaque-makers, caterers, printers and many other entrepreneurs. On occasion, a meaningful sum is left over for the cause that is the cause of it all.
It is probably true that there is little harm in all of this. False praise, ostentation and a shvitzer ambience are a small price to pay to keep our communal enterprises afloat. There’s nothing terribly wrong when we barter fleeting moments of ersatz glory for charitable contributions. For all of the obvious organizational fundraising excesses, they are insignificant when compared with what goes on in the political world where contributors seek to purchase access and influence and do not care about being given a plaque or any other honor. As public recognition is a key component of philanthropic fundraising, stealth is the hallmark of its political counterpart. With some exceptions, political contributions are not intended to promote good government but its reverse. The intention is to leverage gifts by obtaining governmental benefits worth many times more than what is being contributed.
The political process is tailor-made for contributors whose motives veer between the unethical and the illegal. Politicians often serve as the willing dupes of those who know how to exploit the need for campaign funds for personal gain. There is something pathetic, even comical, about politicians as they hustle to do the bidding of contributors. What isn’t funny are the consequences for the fundraising process. There is corruption galore and favoritism rules. Ethnic and religious groups are particularly hurt when operators claiming to represent them gain access. Orthodox Jewry in New York has been hurt by the eagerness of the Guiliani administration to embrace hustlers who cannot pass even the most attenuated spell test.
The already celebrated Marc Rich affair represents the unholy union of the evils of political fundraising and the excesses of philanthropic fundraising. American Jews have been embarrassed by the cupidity and stupidity of influential persons who should have known that what they were doing was far outside the pale of propriety.
For all of the fall-out from this affair and other cases of fundraising abuse, there is little reason for optimism that it will be possible to rein in practices that sully both philanthropy and politics. Where money is the prey, rectitude does not have a prayer.
Congress may enact, as it should, McCain-Feingold or some variation of what they propose. When this happens, there are certain to be hymns celebrating a great victory against fundraising abuses. When the dust clears – and it won’t take long – the no-goodniks will be back at their old influence-peddling stand, figuring out the loopholes and using money to purchase access and favors. It’s a good bet that politicians of all stripes will be eager to accommodate them.
We ought not forget that the current reform movement seeks to undo certain reforms enacted after Watergate, reforms that are now believed to have contributed to a worse situation than what previously existed. A generation hence, there will be a Senator Water and a Senator Gate who will introduce legislation seeking to undo abuses resulting from legislation enacted in 2001.
When I played courtyard basketball as a kid, my timing was invariably off. It’s apparently even worse when I write about basketball, thanks to Charlie Ward who immediately repaid my kind words about his religious commitment with a flurry of anti-Semitism. I feel like I was deliberately fouled, but while I perhaps should not write about basketball and find Ward’s remarks entirely offensive, I continue to believe that religious commitment is admirable.


The company “O Ultimo Momento” was created in 2004 by João Pereira Dos Santos (Portuguese acrobat) and Guillaume Dutrieux (French musician). In 2005 they created their first show in Strasbourg called “Peut-être”. This show was performed more than 50 times across Europe and South-East Asia. The last performance took place in 2009.
In 2006 the company also created a show called Contigo; this was a solo project co-written by João Pereira Dos Santos and a famous Portuguese choreographer named Rui Horta. This show successively toured over 100 times in Europe, Asia, Africa, Northern and Southern America, and keeps on touring today.
In 2015, João created a new project with Elsa Caillat: “Abril”.


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After releasing a string of bright and uplifting indie-pop ditties around this time last year, London-based singer and songwriter Martino Gasparrini aka Parachute Words now makes his eagerly-awaited return with the release of his bold and summery new offering ‘Sunshine!!’
But while things may seem bold and uplifting on the surface, ‘Sunshine!!’ is more of a call to recognise the global warming disaster that is on the horizon. Wrapped up in a light and euphoric indie-pop bubble, the lyrics make us think more about the state of our planet and what we really need to pay more attention to.
Speaking about the new offering, he said, “In many ways Sunshine!! is a very personal song, even though it does not have anything strictly autobiographical in it. The song is about global warming. It might not seem obvious at first, but that is the point. The idea that the sun is shining bright is usually taken as a good thing, with it meaning that it is a nice warm day outside. The sarcastic chorus “The sun is shining always brighter” is a play on that, since with climate change the fact that it’s actually getting hotter is a rather alarming thing.”
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The Kiwanis Club of Ambler held its annual carnival at Wissahickon High School July 3 to 7, with a fireworks show lighting up the night sky July 6.
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BUNDY PREPARED: BoM revises wild weekend forecast
UNSTABLE weather conditions have the Bundaberg region gearing up for a wild weekend with threats of heavy rainfall and flash-flooding.
At noon, The Bureau of Meteorology reduced its original Sunday forecast from a maximum 200mm downpour to 60mm after results of the systems predicting Cyclone Owen's movements changed dramatically.
BoM meteorologist David Crock had warned of the potential change this morning, after the tropical cyclone had lingered in the Northern Territory for longer than expected yesterday.
The original figure was influenced by Cyclone Owen's predicted journey south along the east coast, but the region could still cop more than 100mm of rain over a three-day period.
He said multiple runs of BoM's atmospheric models over the past 24 hours had revealed drastic changes to the cyclone's predicted movements compared to previous results that had remained consistent over a number of days, assuring the cyclone would move south.
"(Cyclones are) very fickle things to forecast, and this one is certainly living up to that," Mr Crock said.
He said Cyclone Owen was likely to cross the coast tomorrow morning and "then decay into a tropical low" and said that until yesterday, they expected it "to track down much of the east coast, so that's why there's a lot of really high rainfall totals".
"There is still a chance that it will do that and bring a lot of rain to Bundaberg and areas around there, but there's also a chance that heavy rain could stay up near Cairns and not really impact the east coast further south," Mr Crock said.
"It will still be a pretty stormy weekend, so there's a lot of moisture around and a lot of instability in the atmosphere - there will be showers and storms around, it's just whether or not that really heavy rainfall makes its way south or if it stays a bit further north."
Flood watches were put in place this afternoon for catchments from the Gulf of Carpentaria all the way down to Rainbow Beach, which would encompass our region.
Mr Crock said there was "a lot of uncertainty in the forecast at the moment, which is pretty frustrating" but there could still be severe storms with heavy rainfall and the potential of flash-flooding.
Just over a week since the region battled raging bushfires, the community has begun making preparations for the wild weather.
SES Bundaberg Unit Local Controller Kieran Galey said the team has spent the day checking gear and helping the community brace for the potential storms.
"We have crews out in the field that are currently running sandbags around, dropping them off to residents that require them," he said.
"We're going through making sure all our equipment is operationally ready - our boats are on standby in case of any potential flooding.
"We've also made sure that all our chainsaws, pulse saws and any of that sort of equipment is ready to go just in case it's required for any of the strong winds."
He said the local SES encouraged any residents who needed sandbags or help to ring 132 500 or download the Queensland Assistance app on a smart device and lodge a job.
"It'll automatically come through to us and they can monitor their process in the line for our crews to get out there," Mr Galey said.
Bundaberg Regional Council said there had been no changes to its recommendations since Wednesday when disaster management officer Matt Dyer updated the press on weather conditions at the time.
"The biggest rainfall for Wide Bay will start maybe Saturday night, that's when we see the rainfall start to ramp up," Mr Dyer said on Wednesday.
"Flash flooding will definitely be an issue ... the rainfall type is forecast but may change."
Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service is urging the community to stay safe in the coming days.
The service's chief executive, Adrian Pennington, said it was vital that patients who needed clinical support had a contingency plan for the risk of flooding or temporary access problems caused by the rain.
"It's important for people to check their medication supplies and ensure they have enough to get through the next few days - and to contact their GP, pharmacist or other health professional if they have any concerns," Mr Pennington said. "We're also individually contacting all our vulnerable patients, including those who may have renal dialysis or oxygen supplies at home, to discuss their needs and their care options.
"And generally, we'd like to urge the whole community to stay safe.
"As always, our emergency departments are ready to meet the needs of our community, but we certainly want people to be prepared and have contingency plans in place to avoid coming to us unless requiring emergency care."
He asked residents to avoid driving unless it was safe to do so, and not to undertake any outdoor activities that could be made riskier by bad weather.
Keep up to date with Cyclone Owen here.


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The event was attended by 167 people, including the Deputy Minister of Communication, and was MC'ed by Carte Blanche's Bongani Bingwa.
It was a resounding success. Says Microsoft: "Everything went so well and the execution was flawless. [We] just wanted to congratulate you all on a job very well done."
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Categories: Ship, Het, Episode Tag
Characters: The Doctor, Romana
Spoilers: The Waters of Mars (November 15, 2009 Special)
A/N: Written on a whim.
Credits: Screencap courtesy of time-and-space.co.uk
Disclaimer: Today we're stealing from BBC Wales.
"I fixed it." She sat down beside him, so close that if she'd been real, he could have felt her thigh brushing up against his.
The Doctor almost fancied that he could. If he looked at her, she'd no doubt fade away. Just his mind having a laugh before coming unhinged. No less than he deserved. Time Lord victorious. This was his guilt then. For years he could count all too well, the weight of those deaths -- all of their deaths, her death -- had defined him, and in that moment when he'd gone too far, he'd made those deaths an abstraction. This was his reminder. There was no victory in any death, much less hers.
Fix it. He needed to do that, before the unhinging. Human civilization could not pay the price for his renewed bout of survivor's guilt.
She laid a hand over his. It felt warm and soft and real. Real.
So too late on the unhinging, then. Let the last of his sanity be swallowed in this moment. Maybe he could even imagine her smile, just for a bit. Selfishly, he turned to her.
No smile. She looked worried. And also oddly dressed. He'd have asked about that, if she were real. Her hand still felt warm over his, and the slight breeze stirred her hair.
"You're not . . . you're not real?"
She nodded and gave him the slightest hint of a smile.
He quelled the instinct to crush her in a hug. "But how?"
"Rose Tyler's dimensional cannon."
"What?" Suddenly he believed in this vision of Romana sitting beside him, even with that ridiculous tee shirt. His astonishment proved it to him.
"She's not here," Romana added. "That's quite a responsibility you dropped on her. I'm astounded that she still thinks well of you."
He scolded himself for wanting to ask about Rose before asking about the other. She was here about the other, he knew that much, because he knew her. "You fixed it?"
"Adelaide Brooke dies on Mars. Her granddaughter leads the deep space mission. The great and bountiful human empire is saved."
"Thank you," he said. "I mean, I know you didn't do it for me, but -- "
"I did do it for you," she said.
He nodded, grateful. "The cloister bell . . . "
"Led you here, to this desolute rock, and then stopped?" She smiled more fully. "Really, Doctor, you didn't think moping would repair a tear in the fabric of space-time, did you?"
He hugged her then, fiercely, and laughed in relief. "I don't deserve you."
"Then you're in luck," Romana said. "Nobody ever gets what they truly deserve." She drew back, and her hand curled around his his jaw. "I rather like this regeneration. I hope it lasts a good long while."
"I hope so too." Hope. He could hope again. He leapt to his feet and dragged her into the TARDIS. "Where to, then? I seem to recall owing you a trip to the beach."
"No beaches." She slapped his hand away from the controls. "Too cold and gloomy. Perhaps you should just let me drive?"
And he did.
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Im trying to figure out what is that purple rice? I want to try and cook it. Does it come like that or do we add extra ingredients to it..help please..ive been wondering for awhile now..and if it comes like that what is the name of the product?
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I'm headed to Florida to visit my parents for a few weeks. I've arranged a good deal on a road bike rental, which I'm excited about. Gonna be nice not to worry about the weather for a spell. My question: should I bring my helmet? They offer helmets with their rentals but I'm sure they're not going to be as good quality as mine (and of course they won't fit as well). It's light but it does take up space in my suitcase so I'm trying to decide if it's worth taking or not. Any thoughts?
Any other advice in terms of what else I should bring besides the usual (clothing, gloves)?


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Since the beginning of 2017, six countries and territories of the Region of the Americas reported confirmed cases of yellow fever: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, and Peru. The number of human cases and epizootics reported in the Region of the Americas during this period is the highest in decades.
In Brazil, yellow fever has a seasonal pattern, based on historical analysis of human cases and epizootics due to yellow fever in the past 20 years, with two different periods: higher transmission occurring between December and May (seasonal period) and lower or interrupted transmission occurring between June and November.
In the last 3 years, there has been an expansion of the historical area of transmission of yellow fever in the country. In 2014-2015, transmission that initially occurred in the North Region spread from east to south, and in 2015-2016, it mainly affected states in the Central Western Region. From the end of 2016 until June 2017, there was a large outbreak that mainly affected the states in the Southeast Region, with 778 human cases including 262 deaths and 1,655 epizootics due to yellow fever. A second wave of transmission was reported the following year during the same period (end of 2017 until June 2018) which also affected the Southeast Region though with higher transmission in the state of São Paulo; there were 1,376 human cases reported, including 483 deaths, and 864 epizootics. The reported cases in both periods, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018, exceeded what was reported in the last 50 years.
Aedes albopictus naturally infected with yellow fever virus has been reported in Brazil, during the peak of the 2017-2018 outbreak, mainly as a result of overlap in the distribution of both primate and mosquito populations in areas with active transmission. However, its involvement in the transmission of the virus to humans has not been established.
Given the size of the outbreaks that Brazil has faced during the last two years, the country has had to modify its vaccination policies for yellow fever, increasing the number of areas with recommended vaccination from 3,526 municipalities in 2010 to 4,469 municipalities in 2018, and to the entire country starting in 2019. In addition, the vaccination scheme shifted from two doses in children under 5 years and a booster after 5 years of age, to a single dose scheme from 9 months of age. The use of fractional doses to respond to outbreaks, especially in large cities, was also adopted. This strategy was implemented in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Bahia.
As of EW 39 of 2018, preliminary results of the mass vaccination campaign against yellow fever indicate that 13.3 million people in São Paulo, 6.5 million in Rio de Janeiro, and 1.85 million in Bahia states were vaccinated, which represents vaccination coverage of 53.6%, 55.6% and 55.0%, respectively.
- Michigan reports 1st Acute Flaccid Myelitis case in Wayne County child
- Fiji reports typhoid outbreak in Naitasiri
- West Virginia hepatitis A outbreak tops 2,000 cases
- Australia: NSW health issue cryptosporidiosis warning
- Infectious disease news: Top 5 posts for the week Dec. 1- Dec. 7
- Enterovirus D68, Acute flaccid myelitis and some of the research
- Meningococcal meningitis: Researchers develop improved methods to test for the bacteria

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Today, Tuesday, the Iranian Ministry of Health called on all citizens to stay in their homes with the spread of Corona virus, revealing that 34 new people were infected with the virus and two deaths, according to what was published by Al-Arabiya in a breaking news. The head of the University of Medical Sciences in Iran, Abbas Nick Roche, announced The results of the analyzes of two dead people in the city of Sawa in the north came positive for Corona disease, bringing the number of deaths due to the new Corona virus in this country to 16, while about 61 were infected, according to the Iranian Ministry of Health.
Abbas Roche said that one of the deaths was an 82-year-old woman, who was suffering from heart, lung and kidney disease, and she died after she was hospitalized a day and her son was visiting the city of Qom (the epicenter of the virus outbreak in Iran), while the second case was a woman from the city of Qom 87 Years old.
The Iranian official added that the reason for the delay in announcing the deceased cases with the disease itself is the time it takes for the analyzes to obtain the confirmed results.
The spread of Corona in Iran is accelerating and extends to student housing in universities. Abdel Majid Khoshnoud, Assistant Student Affairs at Khawaja Naseer Tousi University in Tehran, revealed that a student at this university in Corona was injured, and he is now subject to quarantine, and he stressed the evacuation of all student housing for this university and subject Those in contact with him in his quarantine room.
Commenting on the rapid spread of the disease in his country, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, “Fear should not be raised in the hearts of people and there must be interdependence,” pointing to the presence of beneficiaries who are exploiting this disease in Iran to monopolize gags and sterilization materials, saying, “It is very dangerous to take advantage of This disease is for personal use. “
Iranian health faces accusations of covering up the disease until it is spread in various cities, and Iran remains the second country after China in the danger of the spread of this deadly virus and a possible focus for its spread to neighboring countries in the Persian Gulf, after confirmed cases of infection announced by the Gulf countries that came from Iran.
Previously, the official at the Iranian Ministry of Health, Meno Mahraz, said the virus “may have come from Chinese workers working in Qom and have traveled to China,” without elaborating..
In turn, the assistant head of the Iranian Hajj and Visitation Organization, Muhammad Azad, announced the suspension of religious trips and visiting holy places with Iraq due to fears of the spread of the new Corona virus, according to Fars Agency..
The deadly virus caused panic among the Iranians, and the Iranian authorities sterilized public transport in the capital, Tehran, amid panic among the Iranians from the new Corona.
For its part, the World Health Organization expressed its concern about the spread of the virus inside Iran. Dr. Tedros Adhanum Gebriusos, Director-General of the World Health Organization, said, “We are concerned about the spread of Corona in Iran and South Korea, where 6 special delegates were appointed to advise countries on Corona.“.


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April is Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Awareness Month! What is childhood sexual abuse? Any sexual act between an adult and a minor or between two minors when one exerts power over the other. Forcing, coercing or persuading a child to engage in any type of sexual act. It also includes non-contact acts such as exhibitionism, exposure to pornography, voyeurism and communicating in a sexual manner by phone or Internet. It is a crime punishable by law. Child's safety is an adult's job. Children are often taught how to keep themselves safe from sexual abuse and that's important for them to learn but it's no substitute for adult responsibility. We make sure children wear seat belts. Why, then, would we leave the job of preventing child sexual abuse solely to children? Imagine how difficult it is for a child to say "no" to a parent, a teacher, a coach, youth group leader or older friend. Even the adults we trust to protect children can't always be trusted. Yet, a large percentage of those who groom children with affection and attention, then sexually abuse them, are from this group. Predominately, people we know hurt our kids. This is why programs that focus on adult responsibility are essential. Find a training in your area to attend, to increase your awareness and protect our children.
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18 Nov Grape harvest 2015 in Priorat: with our grapevine adopters (video)
What implications do our grapevine adoptions have? One of the main features are wine tourism activities for grapevine adopters’ club members.
In September, 2015, our adopters were lucky to participate in a grape harvest master class topped off with a wine tasting at our old vineyad, in the shadow of an old almond tree, enjoying the company, wines, and marvellous panoramic views of the Monstant mountain, Gratallops and El Lloar villages… Vine adopters came from everyplace: Catalonia, Finland, Russia, Poland, Belgium… They really enjoyed our Rocapoll 2012 and particularly when tasting it straigtaway at the vineyard where grapes were harvested for this wine.
On that day, our grapevine guardian Yolanda helped us a lot with filming some moments of the grape harvest master class, where the main part was given to vines and their sponsors. The film was recorded with a GoPro, an iPhone and iPad and intended to get you closer to Priorat vineyard farming… Do you feel like blending in? Besides, Yuletide is round the bend, and grapevine adoptions could be a great gift idea for Christmas, New Year or Three King’s Day.

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With more news breaking this week about Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s ongoing battle with cancer, DrexelNow checked in with George Ciccariello-Maher, an assistant professor in Drexel’s Department of History & Politics and a leading expert on Venezuela. He has not only studied the nation closely, but also lived and taught there.
In an interview on Tuesday—the same day that Chávez underwent surgery in Havana—Ciccariello-Maher addressed Chavez’s apparently serious health issues, what is known about his potential successor and what new leadership in Venezuela could mean for the nation, the region and the world.
Can you start by setting the scene for us? What is the current situation in Venezuela with President Hugo Chávez and his battle against cancer?
As some folks may know, Hugo Chávez has been struggling against an undisclosed form of cancer for nearly two years. He has access to some of the best cancer treatment in the world, in Havana, Cuba, and has traveled there on and off for surgeries and stints of radiation and hyperbaric (oxygen) therapy. In the summer of 2011 the situation looked quite dire, with Chávez disappearing unexpectedly for weeks, but since then the surgeries seem to have worked and he has been visibly healthier. However, his return to Cuba last week for urgent surgery on cancerous cells raises serious concerns.
How much is known about Chávez’s illness? And how much has been known previously? Were voters aware of the illness prior to the most recent election?
The form of cancer has never been disclosed, although officials have said it was located broadly in the pelvic region. Many have speculated that it is actually colon cancer, but it is difficult to tell. In a country as politically polarized as Venezuela, even the smallest details become arguments. For example, last year many opposition spokespersons were suggesting that Chávez was on his deathbed, which of course proved not to be the case. Voters were indeed aware of the illness, and while the anti-Chávez opposition attempted to capitalize on it by suggesting Chávez was unfit to continue in power, this claim found little traction, and ultimately Chávez won the elections by a sizable 11-point margin. Now that he has returned to Cuba, the opposition is again attempting to take advantage of the situation: in the case of a “permanent absence,” the Constitution requires new elections within 30 days, and they are arguing that Chávez’s current visit should be counted as permanent. In response, Chávez supporters have called them “vultures” and “hyenas,” arguing that they have not even waited for Chávez’s death before attempting to take power.
Chávez has stated that should anything happen to him, he wants Nicolas Maduro to take over as president. What is known about Maduro?
To be precise, Chávez did not need to specify who would take over if he dies suddenly: it’s in the Constitution that the vice president (in this case, Maduro) takes over until elections are called. More important was Chávez’s suggestion that Venezuelans then elect Maduro as president. This is his first statement on who would succeed him, although many have been awaiting some indication.
Maduro is a former union leader and high-ranking Chavista who has long been close at Chávez’s side, most often in foreign relations, which he has managed for many years as foreign minister. Politically, however, the naming of Maduro as his successor raises more questions than it answers. He plays his cards very close to his chest and has never spoken out of line, which makes it very difficult to tell whether he will turn to the right (embracing Diosdado Cabello and his military loyalists) to the left (with Elías Jaua as his vice president perhaps, someone closer to social movements and with a radical history), or attempt to stay the course by balancing different social forces as carefully as possible.
Should Chávez die or fall out of power, what would this mean for stability in Venezuela and in the region? Is the U.S. watching this situation closely?
It all depends on how and when Chávez dies. If he had died suddenly without word of a successor, things would have been up for grabs and much more conflictive. Now he has named Maduro, but significant challenges remain. Specifically, Chávez won handily in October, but his margin has decreased significantly, and there’s no telling whether the considerably less charismatic Maduro will be able to galvanize Chávez’s poor base. If the Chavistas lose power, we could see the possibility for a civil war, since people have moved so far forward over the past 14 years that they will be unlikely to want to move backward.
The U.S. is of course watching closely. While rhetoric changed when Obama was elected, not much else has, and the Obama regime has sent more aid to the anti-Chavistas than even Bush did. Despite their best efforts, however, Chávez has remained popular, and while they would like to see him out, it is unclear whether they consider this worth a civil war that would certainly disrupt oil supplies.


Today is the beginning of MND week 2018 and this year we are pleased to announce the launch of Make Aged Care Fair – a new campaign that calls on the Government to make sure people diagnosed with motor neurone disease when aged 65 or over have access to the right care, in the right place at the right time. We need your help to make sure our decision makers listen.
The current system means that people diagnosed with MND when aged 65 and over do not have access to the NDIS and are forced to rely on Aged Care services designed to support people who are frail aged, not people with rapidly progressing complex conditions like MND. We know Aged Care is failing people with MND and many are being pushed into financial hardship or residential aged care earlier than they wish.
Many people with MND are waiting for a Community Aged Care Package or have been assigned a lower level package that does not meet their needs and many are also facing stressful and unnecessary reassessments.
MND Australia and the MND State Associations believe this is wrong and unfair and that’s why we are calling on our decision makers to Make Aged Care Fair for people living with MND. Join the campaign and help make sure that everyone with MND has access to the right care, in the right place, at the right time, irrespective of age.
Check out our brand new MND Action website to find out more information and join the campaign to make sure the voices of people with #MND are heard.
Act now and join the campaign to Make Aged Care Fair for people with MND diagnosed when aged 65 and over.


With roughly a month to go until Election Day, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is trailing her Democratic opponent Theresa Greenfield by a whopping 12 points in a new poll of the Iowa Senate race.
According to RABA Research, Greenfield has the support of 51 percent of Iowans, while Ernst clocks in at just 39 percent.
Greenfield (D) 51% (+12)
Ernst (R-inc) 39%
— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) October 1, 2020
As Josh Barro pointed out on Twitter, the results seem to indicate that the Republican effort to ram through an anti-choice Supreme Court nominee before the election is negatively affecting GOP Senate candidates.
The move is particularly toxic for Republicans in Iowa given the fact that they need “pro-choice non-college whites” in their corner if they want to be successful in November.
I guess there have been a few news events but that’s been a big one, and Trump’s coalition in Iowa is unusually reliant on pro-choice non-college whites. Nobody talks about trade or immigration anymore, not even him.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) October 1, 2020
Iowa is now firmly in the toss-up column
When this campaign began, Iowa wasn’t even on the radar as a potential battleground state. After all, Donald Trump carried the state by nearly 10 percentage points against Hillary Clinton four years ago.
But with one month to go before ballots are finally counted, both the presidential and U.S. Senate races are firmly in the toss-up column. A slew of new polling shows Biden tied or even narrowly ahead of Trump in the state. The same goes for Theresa Greenfield in her bid to unseat Joni Ernst.
There is no question that these races are still close and could go either way, but the fact that Republicans have to worry about Iowa at all shows just how much damage Donald Trump has done to the party over the past four years – and how ready the American people are to turn the page on him and his enablers.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.


Landscape fabric applied around shrubs provides a natural weed barrier that will last for years. This synthetic material is easy to install and can make backbreaking and difficult weeding in cramped spaces a thing of the past. Here's how to apply the fabric around shrubs.
Step 1: Measure
Measure the area where the landscaping fabric will be applied. The material is sold in rolls of varying widths and lengths, but the most common are:
- 3x50-foot rolls
- 3x100-foot rolls
- 4x100-foot rolls
- 3x250-foot rolls
- 4x250-foot rolls
- 6x250-foot rolls
Costs range from around $10 for the smallest size to about $76 for the largest rolls of landscaping fabric.
Step 2: Ensure Right Type and Size Mesh
Make sure that the landscape fabric is the right size mesh to meet the requirements around your shrubs. The mesh should be as small as possible to prevent weeds/lawn/rhizomes from growing through, but it must be large enough to permit necessary air and water to get through to nourish the shrubs.
Appropriate landscape fabric also permits fertilizer to make its way through to the shrubs. It is also permanent—as long as it is covered from sunlight—and it works to control unwanted soil erosion from rain and sprinklers.
The best type of landscaping fabric for around shrubs is thermally spunbonded. This is proven to be the most effective at controlling weeds, rather than the more loosely needle-punched or woven landscape fabrics.
Do not use plastic sheeting for the purpose of controlling weeds. While it will prevent weeds from growing, it will also make it impossible for air and water to permeate into the shrub.
Step #: Prepare Soil
Remove any weeds, grass or unwanted plants around the area of the shrubs. Then rake away any small rocks and pebbles that, if not removed, could eventually penetrate the landscape fabric and defeat the purpose by allowing weeds to grow through.
Step 4: Cut Notch to Accommodate Shrub
Lay out the landscape fabric in a straight line. When the fabric reaches the area of the shrub, cut out a notch large enough to accommodate the shrub’s base. Adjust the notch size so that the landscape fabric encompasses the base of the shrub.
Continue laying out the fabric, repeating the notching process with each shrub in the area.
Step 5: Secure Landscape Fabric
Once all the fabric has been laid, secure the material with the appropriate landscape pins, pegs or staples. Make sure to use sufficient number of fasteners at no less than 5 feet apart, and closer around shrubs.
Step 6: Cover Fabric With Protective Material
Since landscape fabric can not be left exposed, the last step is to cover it with some type of protective material. The best choices are tree bark, mulch or stones.
When spreading the mulch/bark/stones over the area, use caution to ensure the tines of the rake don’t penetrate the landscape fabric.


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For a man who spent the vast majority of his playing career in the upper echelons of the Premiership, Neil Back makes a good job of sounding genuinely enthused by the prospect of returning as a head coach with a relegation dogfight. The Leicester institution has been spending most of his time away from his wife and children up the M1 for well over a year, having accepted the challenge with his former Tigers colleague Andy Key of re-establishing Leeds in the top flight.
Gaining immediate promotion from the Championship was achieved comfortably enough, but Back concedes that was the easy part. On Sunday they begin the task of succeeding where Leeds failed miserably two seasons ago, with a home game against a Newcastle team who some expect to be among their relegation rivals.
"We know it's a huge challenge for us," said the 40-year-old, cheerfully acknowledging that his team are widely expected to go straight back down. "I'm happy for people to say that, because we'll just quietly get on with our job with huge belief. We're not going to win every game, but we want to make it difficult for teams to play against us, and show that we play an expansive and exciting game that hopefully will bring us success in our objectives this year."
Leeds have lost their first-choice full-back, Leigh Hinton, for two months after suffering a shoulder injury in pre-season, while the American prop Mike MacDonald and two of their new signings – Fosi Pala'amo and the former New Zealand rugby league wing Henry Fa'afili – are yet to arrive after visa complications. But it is off the field where Back believes they are much better-equipped to compete than in Leeds's last Premiership campaign.
"One of our key signings last year was Steve Nance, our performance director," he said. "We've got a lot more manpower in our management team, and that's all about getting the players to fulfil their potential. There were some fantastically talented players here the last time Leeds played in the Premiership, but the level of sports performance meant they were relegated. I've spoken to people who were here then and they agree. The players knew they were short, that they lacked the ability to do it for 80 minutes. I'm happy physically that they're ready where back in the Premiership last time they weren't."
Back and Key have employed some unusual techniques to boost that physicality. "We've had a fantastic pre-season, given the players a lot of variety in our approach," he said. "We've introduced boxing and judo, and had the players working with a guy called Wayne Lakin who Andy and I met when we were at Leicester. We've used the skills associated with judo in the contact area, because that's going to be one the key areas for us to adjust from where we were in the Championship."
For a Leicester man who retains strong family links with the Premiership's best-supported club, Back is bullish about Leeds's ability to compete off the field. "When I came here I had a perception, then I looked around and thought this is a sleeping giant, it's got everything to become a great club of the future," he said. A 22,500 capacity, the excellent training facilities and also the unique relationship with Leeds Met University and access to the sports science there. That's why I'm here."
Leeds made one more addition to their squad today when they snapped up the Fijian three-quarter Seri Rabeni who recently failed a medical at Gloucester. He will not be considered for the Newcastle match but six of the club's summer signings will make their debuts including the former England scrum-half Andy Gomersall.


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Engine Deals Reveal US Wants to Maintain Three Warplane Makers
But the multibillion-dollar deals raise questions about just how far along the Next Generation Air Dominance program is.
The Air Force plans to invest billions of dollars to develop new combat fighters—and the military engines to power them—over the next decade.
The plan shows Air Force leaders’ desire to keep its three large airplane makers—Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman—as well as engine makers General Electric and Pratt & Whitney, viable to build aircraft for years to come.
The five companies on Friday received identical contracts “for technology maturation and risk reduction activities through design, analysis, rig testing, prototype engine testing, and weapon system integration.” The deals are part of the “execution of the prototype phase of the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion program and [are] focused on delivering capability enabling propulsion systems for future air dominance platforms and digitally transforming the propulsion industrial base.”
The Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion effort is supposed to produce an engine for what the Air Force calls the Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD: a new fighter jet that has been secretly under development since at least the latter part of the Obama administration. Air Force leaders in September 2020 revealed that they had secretly built and flown a NGAD prototype.
Because the planes were designed using digital computer technology, “We've got significant design maturity in our earlier stage then would traditionally be the case,” Andrew Hunter, the head of Air Force acquisition, said during a June briefing.
But Friday’s contracts, which could pay each company up to $975 million between now and 2032, also raise questions about the maturity of the plane, or planes, that have already flown.
Air Force leaders have refused to name the company or companies behind the prototype, citing the program’s top secret classification.
“Either they've made a decision [on a contractor’s design], or it's not that advanced or, incredibly, there are three players with an advanced state of maturity,” said Richard Aboulafia, managing director for AeroDynamic Advisory, an aerospace consulting firm. “Two of these must be lies—one of them must be the truth.”
The Pentagon in 1996 chose Lockheed Martin and Boeing to build proptypes for what would eventually become the F-35. It awarded Lockheed the F-35 contract in October 2001. The first F-35 didn’t fly until 2006, and the first plane didn’t see combat until 2018.
In late spring of this year, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said NGAD was in the engineering and manufacturing development phase of acquisition, which is Pentagon-speak that means the plane was still being designed and was not ready for mass production.
In 2020, Will Roper, then head of Air Force acquisition, characterized the prototype as a “full-scale flight demonstrator [that] has already flown in the physical world.” He said the aircraft has “broken a lot of records in the doing.”
As things stand now, Lockheed Martin has the only active stealth-fighter production line, and Northrop Grumman has the only stealth-bomber production line, which its CEO has characterized as a sixth-generation military aircraft. Boeing makes new versions of the F-15 and F/A-18, plus a new pilot training jet.
In 2019, a senior defense official said the Air Force would buy new F-15s in part to keep two fighter makers viable into the 2020s.


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Hey loves! Get ready to pull out those chunky sweaters and boots and sip the pumpkin spice lattes y’all love. Fall is back like it never left so y’all know what that means…….BOOKS. Lots and lots of books.
A couple of y’all might know that reading is one of my favorite things to do, so I figured I’d put together yet another reading list. A fall inspired reading list. I’m not sure what makes any of these books “fall-ish”, but I plan to read all (well most) of these this season so I guess that’s reason enough! My picks as of late have been a mix of self-help and fiction, but I wanted to explore other genres to close out the year. Also, here’s a little news: I went ahead and decided to make a book Instagram ("#BOOKSTAGRAM) to document all of my literary interests. Make sure to follow that account here if you’re book-obsessed or if you just need some book inspiration every now and then. I gotchu!
Now, on to the reason you came here. The reason you clicked this post…
-EXIT WEST BY MOHSIN HAMID: This is the one I’m currently reading. So far so good but I’ll be back soon with updates!
-CALYPSO BY DAVID SEDARIS: Y’all, last week I finished reading Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and I loveedddd it. That book was a hilarious page-turner so I’m ready to read more work by him.
-WE AS FREEMEN: PLESSY V. FERGUSON BY KEITH WELDON MEDLEY: I actually met Mr. Medley at a wine tasting event I went to this past Friday. Though my TBR pile runneth over, I couldn’t pass up the chance to get a signed copy of this interesting read. Stay tuned for my thoughts on this one as well!
What are y’all reading this fall?!
peace and blessings,