text: The Bookworm presents -- with a wide grin -- the first book by Stefan Fähler. Its title, Zahntasia, inflects the name of Walt Disney's 1940 animated masterpiece with the German word for "tooth" ("Zahn"), and accordingly, it depicts a psychedental journey starring an anthropomorphic molar who suddenly gets popped out of his daily grind. Across 80 black-and-white pages, our toothy protagonist is whisked into a world of sticky indulgence, sweet romance, and confectionary hallucinations. Seeing as there's no text, the plot welcomes the viewer's own interpretation, but it seems that just like Dorothy, this displaced tooth finds the way back to his roots. Stefan Fähler created the images during an artist residency in Brazil, as well as in Belgium and his home base of Berlin. To complement his pencil drawings -- adding some extra texture where necessary -- he also utilized nail polish remover and a rickety, nearly obsolete Xerox machine. Although the story is told purely in pictures, Fähler's dentist has provided a written introduction emphasizing the importance of caring for your chompers. This book makes a charming addition to any waiting room, a trusty companion for your next acid trip, or the perfect gift for that magical wingèd lady who leaves cash under your pillow. Stefan Fähler is a freelance art director and illustrator working primarily in the music and film industries. He has designed gig posters for performers like Ariel Pink, Baths, Death Grips, Lætitia Sadier, Merzbow, Mykki Blanco, Mogwai, Wolf Eyes, and Shonen Knife and album artwork for Leslie Winer, Marina Gasolina, and Damo Suzuki. He painted the graphic titles for Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado's Oscar-nominated documentary about Sebastião Salgado, The Salt of the Earth, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival, 2014. He has directed music videos for the likes of Mediengruppe Telekommander and Heatsick, for whom he won an award for "Best International Music Video" at Leeds International Film Festival, 2014. Fähler's work can be seen in publications, exhibitions, and festivals around the globe including Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Cannes, Milan, Sydney, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, and Basel. 80 pages; paperback; 110mm x 171mm. Limited edition of 150 copies hand-numbered and signed by the artist.


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Chiropractic is 100% natural, and is a safe and effective method to help your joints, muscles and nerves function as well as they are designed to.
Daniel David (DD) Palmer performed the first chiropractic adjustment back in on Harvey Lillard, and a profession was born! Since then, influential research has underpinned the growth and awareness of this amazing profession to the where it is today – the third largest independent healthcare profession in the world. We here at The Cotswold Chiropractor are proud to be part of it!
Here’s How Chiropractic Works:
Your brain and body communicate via the spinal cord and nervous system. The nervous system controls all of your body’s processes- every organ, cell, gland, muscle, joint is instructed how to function trough messages from the nervous system. It’s like your body’s own wiring system!
If there’s interference with the wiring, these messages don’t get communicated so clearly and the signals don’t reach the intended body part, leading to pain and dysfunction. This can occur due to individual joints in the spine becoming restricted in their motion.
Our job as chiropractors is to examine your spine to locate these restricted regions and to use our gentle and effective adjustment techniques to restore proper motion again.
Causes of Joint Restrictions that lead to dysfunction and painful Symptoms:
Repetition of Movements – repeated patterns of movement using the same structures over and over agin over time at work, during exercise or leisure.
- Poor Posture – We are all at risk in modern life- we are required to sit a lot more than we were designed to! If your head is too far forward it puts a great degree of stress into the joints of the spine, all of the muscles attaching to the skull bone and most importantly, onto your spinal cord and nerve roots.
- Physical Trauma – Car accidents, slips on ice, falls, bicycle tumbles, sports injuries
- Stress – Emotional load like anxiety can cause tight muscles which cam lead to joint restrictions in the spine.
- Chemical – What you put into, or indeed onto, your body can increase the toxic load we bear and long term, how well we heal
How Chiropractic Care Can Help You:
We will examine your whole body to establish if there are spinal restrictions which may be causing poor patterns of movement, pain and interference with your nerves.
We use specific, gentle movements called ‘adjustments’ to improve the mobility, alignment and function in the restricted spinal segments.
Our techniques are low-force and gentle. We mainly use the sought after McTimoney method, famous for it’s swift, light and gentle whole-body approach. We often use the Activator adjusting tool, also very specific and again, low-force. Alongside the adjustments we also may use Western Medical Acupuncture (Dry Needling), the Kinnective soft tissue tool to help release knotty muscle, kinesiology taping for joint support and our fabulous Dr Graeme massager to release tension.
This approach gives you the best chance of reducing or eliminating pain, restoring mobility and function in your neck, shoulders, upper and mid spine, lower spine, hips, pelvis and extremities (your limbs!) Simple lifestyle changes and specific exercises unique to your problems will be sent via email. This gives you the chance to reach your fullest potential by staying mobile and strong, hopefully with a positive mindset.
Our bodies have an amazing ability to self-heal, and chiropractic adjustments will help to facilitate this healing potential.
We Commonly See And Help:
- General lower back pain (acute and chronic)
- Mechanical neck pain
- Cervicogenic headaches (caused by neck problems)
- Joint pains from osteoarthritis
- Muscle Spasms
- Rotator Cuff disorders
- Minor sports injuries

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USI Holdings Corp. has acquired insurance brokerage Holmes Murphy & Associates Inc.’s operation in St. Louis, USI announced Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for USI declined to comment on the terms of the sale.
Based in Des Moines, Iowa, Holmes Murphy & Associates established its St. Louis operation in 1995 and expanded it a year later with the acquisition of Corporate Benefit Strategies, USI said in a statement.
USI said the purchase was intended to broaden the Valhalla, New York-based broker’s footprint in the Midwest region and open new opportunities for growth in the middle-market employee benefits and commercial property/casualty insurance sectors.
“We are excited to have such an experienced group of professionals join us, and I look forward to leveraging their deep industry knowledge and exceptional client service to partner with existing and future clients,” Thomas Cassady, USI’s CEO for the Midwest region, said in the statement.
A spokeswoman for USI said the company plans to retain Holmes Murphy’s St. Louis-based staff, who will join USI’s existing operations in the city. The company’s timetable for completing the transition was not immediately available, the spokeswoman said.
Respectively, USI and Holmes Murphy are the 10th- and 26th-largest brokers of U.S. business, according to Business Insurance’s latest rankings.
London-based brokerage consolidator Towergate Partnership Ltd. on Wednesday said it had received approaches from parties interested in acquiring the group and is assessing those offers.

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I'm contemplating getting either the Kreg Jr. or the much more expensive Kreg jig kit. I'm not sure which one I need though.
I like the portability of the Jr. it seems like it would be easier to use without having the big, bulky clamp. The only thing leaning me towards the more expensive one is the fact that it has more adjustments to match the thickness of the wood you're using. I'm not exactly sure how to prevent the Jr. from creating a pocket hole right at the edge of the wood. I borrowed a non Kreg jig pocket hole jig from a friend and it also had no adjustments, so sometimes the head of the screw would blow through the face of the wood near the edge!
I'm hoping someone who has used the Jr. can maybe explain to me how to prevent that with it, as it seems to be very popular and more cost effective.
Thanks in advance!


And we were worried that the Olympic Games in London were going to be a last minute, panicked shambles. This week saw the official opening of the 2012 velodrome (a full 18 months before the Olympics begins) under budget and ahead of schedule.
Boris was effusive in his praise for the 6,000 seater venue. “This is just a breathtakingly beautiful piece of architecture and quite brilliant achievement of British engineering,â€? he said. â€œThe Olympic Delivery Authority has played an absolute blinder. This place will live and live, 60 years 70 years and more.
â€œThe velodrome will become a place of pilgrimage for cyclists and would-be cyclists to be inspired. It will be the crucible where future champions are forged. My spirits rise every time I visit the Olympic Park and venues like this. This is the most positive thing going on in Europe at the moment, an unambiguously successful and productive project.”
The Daily Telegraph reports that ‘the 250-metre piste consists of 54km of Siberian pine shipped in from Archangel and shaped by specialist craftsmen at a German sawmill, while 360,000 nails have been required to fix the track’.
Lord Coe, the chairman of the Olympics organising committee said the velodrome was “magnificent” whilst British cycling performance director Dave Brailsford said “They have taken the best bits of all the best velodromes around the world and the result is fantastic.”
â€œIt has been put together by people who really care about cycling and they have also taken the trouble to consult us along the way. One of the other things I like is that it is just 300 metres from the Olympic village. Itâ€™s a facility the nation can be very proud of.”


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If I’m not mistaken, these two come from a Hayao Miyazaki film…
I bet this costume took a while to make. The lady told me she made all her costumes herself. Great work.
The rear entrance hall seemed to be a point where cosplayers met because there were so many of them.
The first Cosplayers I found were busy doing things. Later, I found several who actually posed for me. Enjoy the costumes and feel free to share. The boys and girls put so much effort into their costumes that they’re quite happy to share them with the world.
Here are finally the photos. Today I’ll introduce the book fair itself, but from tomorrow on I’ll showcase cosplayers. I’ll round if off with a few celebrities (that some people will know others won’t).
In front of the book fair’s entrance, I found this beautiful rose:
Seems small, right? See the true size compared to a visitor:
The area of the book fair consists of a central glass hall, the congress center (that’s the smaller building front left beside the glass hall), and five halls with the booths. The additional buildings in the front are for administration purposes, and everything is interconnected with glass tubes. Here is a photo of the model in the entrance hall (the glass of the display case reflected strongly. I couldn’t take a better picture):
Once inside, you found the fair’s logo everywhere, even on the stairs (I blacked out the visitors’ faces for privacy reasons):
Those who managed to squeeze through to hall five Booth B302 found the Qindies (for me always the highlight of the day):
The booth of Qindie!
with Boris and two authors
BTW, Qindie is the German equivalent to the B.R.A.G. Medallion, and several of my books won both.
Sorry for the delay in posting about the final day of the book fair. When I sat down to write it yesterday, I opened my Inbox to 160 eMails with only a very small percentage of spam. Also, I had forgotten about an important meeting I had to go to in my lunch break. So instead of getting things done, I helped my kids with their appointments. Life happens.
Now to the book fair. The final day was less busy than the Saturday. Still, the book fair had a new visitor record. Two hundred and ten thousand people wanted to see what’s new. When I roamed the halls, I had the feeling that at least a third of them came dressed up, although I’m sure it only felt that way.
The Sunday was also the best day for selling books, especially since we were allowed to sell them without paying a commission to the mess after 3pm. Naturally, we didn’t sell quite as many books as we wanted or had taken along, but we did sell some. And more important, we were seen. I managed to give away more than 300 free eBooks (printed and signed, see picture). Since the idea of a printed eBook is relatively unheard of so far in Germany, I’m sure that most people will download the eBook and read it. I already see spikes in my download statistic. I just hope that the readers will move on to my other books as well.
Toward evening, the crowd began to thin out. I saw the best Cosplay costume (Mononoke Hime from the film Princess Mononoke) but couldn’t take a photo because I had left my camera at the booth. Sigh… Still, I can picture it in my mind and it was truly gorgeous.
I was extremely grateful for the two colleagues who stayed to the end with me and helped to empty the booth. We were done in record time and I was home before my kids went to sleep. That was a wonderful conclusion to a great weekend. I hope I’ll be able to repeat that next year.
Over the next few days, I’ll post a couple of the Cosplayers I photographed to showcase how much time and effort some people put into their costumes. I’ll also post the promised pictured of our booth, of Boris, and of my fellow German Qindie-authors.
There were so many people on third day of the book fair (Saturday) that the corridors between the stalls were choking. Sometimes, it was impossible to move more than one tiny step every other minute. I missed two of the three events I had meant to visit this way.
As recompensation, many people were bored waiting for the cues to move and stopped at our stall to talk, grab some flyers, and buy books. Thus, I’m considering this day as the most successful.
At one point, I thought all my flyers had gone but then found one more cardboard box in my car with more flyers. I was quite relieved knowing there were some more for the final day. I just wish I’d found a spare set of feet in my car as well…
It was a whirr of activity. Since more people came than yesterday, it became harder to get from one place to another. However, I managed to get some books I bought years ago signed by the author (Scott MacCloud, photo pending until I’m home).
I visited a lot of discussions about marketing but didn’t hear anything I hadn’t heard before. Essentially what people are saying is that they don’t really know which marketing works. Also, here in Germany, many suggest using traditional marketing tactics (readings, adverts, etc), and as any Indie can tell you, those do not work well online. When I suggested mailing lists, people looked at me as if I was crazy.
The best thing so far were the countless Cosplayer. I saw some fabulous costumes and will present the best ones I managed to photograph over the next week (as I said before, I forgot an important cable).
Now, I need to get breakfast, so I’ll have strength enough for the third day. It’s Saturday, so even more people than yesterday will come.
I arrived at the book fair with 250 copies of two fairy tale novellas in tow to give away. Hopefully that’ll build up the buzz in Germany a bit.
So far, the fair has been exciting. I surely walked several miles yesterday trying to get from one interesting point to the next. Unfortunately, I dropped my camera twice, now the display is cracked. Also, I forgot to take the cale along that I’d need to upload the fotos. Thus, you’ll get all the good bits on Monday earliest.
Today also sees the release of my newest fairy tale retelling: The King’s Mechanic. If you like The Beauty and the Beast you might want to check this out.
The Leipzig Book Fair is approaching fast; it’ll start next Thursday already. I’M already very excited. The books of several fellow authors from the German Indie-publisher platform Qindie have all arrived (as far as I can tell) and are waiting to be loaded into my car. Since we’ll start setting up our booth at 8:00am on Thursday, I’ll have to leave home by half past five latest. That means I’ve got to go to bead early on Wednesday.
If you’re in Leipzig, Germany, at that time and want to meet me there, I will be in Hall 5 Booth B302 with the Qindies. We’ve got a Meet and Greet on Saturday, 14th of March at 1:15p.m. in the Autorenlounge Hall5 Room B413. If you’re there, come by and say hello.
If possible, I’ll post something about the book fair every day here on my blog. Should I have problems getting access to the Internet, I’ll post a very long report after my return. Promised.

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Oil and gas producers are often seen as vulnerable to global efforts aimed at curbing climate change. But some European energy groups might become part of the solution to climate change rather than part of the problem.
The Climate Change Investing Challenge
Energy companies’ operations raise several important environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns. Extracting and producing oil and gas is carbon-intensive, while the polluting effects of oil spills and the risk of contributing to corruption in oil-producing countries are additional ESG risks.
Most major energy companies have raised their game in these areas in recent years. But the most pressing ESG issue for investors is climate change, since carbon-based fuels are a major source of CO2 emissions. There are two big issues for oil and gas companies: are their businesses sustainable in the long run, given the need to move to lower carbon energy sources? And are they doing enough to reduce the carbon emissions that they and their products produce?
Gauging the Risk of Stranded Assets
To answer the first question requires an understanding of how investors value energy companies’ assets and the cash flows they produce. Our research suggests that some European integrated oil companies currently trade at valuations that don’t fully reflect their discovered commercial reserves—oil and gas already connected to distribution infrastructure or which can be economically developed. In other words, investors are not ascribing value to future reserves whose long-term commercial potential is highly uncertain.
Could the discovered commercial reserves become “stranded”? If so, shareholders would have paid for assets without any commercial value as the role of carbon-based energy sources in the global economy diminishes.
Probably not. Take Repsol and Total, for example. Repsol has commercial reserves (proven plus unproven) which would last 18 years in total. However, our analysis suggests that the current share price only reflects cash flows from oil production for about half of this period. Total’s corresponding oil reserves should last 26 years, which presents more risk. But a similar analysis implies that the current share price assigns no value to the company’s oil production potential beyond 11 years from now.
This means that investors are taking a clear-headed view of the long-term challenges to oil production. Projected changes in fuel use suggest that oil demand will peak in the 2030s. This is based on expected efforts to meet targets for limiting the rise in global temperature agreed in the Paris Climate Change Convention. Of course, this depends on governments accelerating efforts to encourage renewable power and electric vehicles. Even after the peak, forecasters see oil products remaining in strong demand for several decades, particularly for aviation and marine fuels and petrochemicals. These trends—coupled with our valuation analysis above—suggest that shareholders of oil producers today are unlikely to see the current value of their investments wiped out by moves to meet the Paris goals.


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Extended follow-up after stopping mepolizumab in relapsing/refractory Churg-Strauss syndrome
K. Herrmann, W.L. Gross, F. Moosig
2012 Vol.30, N°1 ,Suppl.70
PI 0062, PF 0065
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PMID: 22512988 [PubMed]
Accepted : 02/03/2012
In Press: 10/05/2012
To report on the extended follow-up of relapsing/refractory CSS patients treated with mepolizumab with respect to relapse rates.
The follow-up consisted of regular clinic visits of patients who received nine infusions of mepolizumab (750mg IV) and switched to methotrexate 0.3mg/kg for maintenance of remission. Glucocorticoids were maintained as low as possible. Disease activity was measured using the Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score (BVAS). Disease states as remission or relapse were defined according to the EULAR/EUVAS recommendations. The serum eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) was measured regularly and concentrations were correlated with BVAS.
The follow-up of the study population under standard methotrexate maintenance therapy was extended to a median of 22 months. Three of nine patients were still in remission at the end of follow-up. During this time five major relapses in three and seven minor relapses in five out of the total nine patients were recognised. ECP levels were found to correlate stronger with the BVAS (r=0.38; p<0.0001) than other measures such as eosinophil counts.
After induction of remission with mepolizumab the majority of patients suffered relapses when switched to methotrexate maintenance therapy. These data suggest that patients with CSS may require long term treatment with mepolizumab. Future trials in CSS should use other doses or dosing intervals for patients in remission. ECP is a promising marker of disease activity in CSS.


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- Can vertigo symptoms last for months?
- When should you worry about vertigo?
- Can Vertigo be a sign of something more serious?
- Can earwax cause vertigo?
- What will a neurologist do for vertigo?
- What foods should you avoid with vertigo?
- What can cause long term vertigo?
- What are the 3 types of vertigo?
- Does chewing gum help vertigo?
- What happens when Vertigo doesn’t go away?
- Is Vertigo a sign of stroke?
- Is Vertigo a symptom of something else?
- Is bed rest good for vertigo?
- What is best medicine for vertigo?
- How do you reset the crystals in your ear?
- Can vertigo last for years?
- Can vertigo last 2 weeks?
Can vertigo symptoms last for months?
Depending on its cause, vertigo may last only a few seconds or last for weeks or months..
When should you worry about vertigo?
In rare cases, vertigo may be associated with a serious medical condition, so you should call 911 or go directly to the nearest emergency room if your sense of imbalance is accompanied by: Shortness of breath. Chest pains. Facial numbness.
Can Vertigo be a sign of something more serious?
The main difference is vertigo can cause nausea and vomiting — and may be a symptom of a serious balance disorder — while dizziness simply makes you feel momentarily unbalanced. That said, dizzy spells can range in severity from merely annoying to seriously debilitating.
Can earwax cause vertigo?
“The excessive amount [of earwax] can cause hearing loss or ringing in your ears. Some people experience vertigo, which increases the risk of falling,” said Jackie Clark, a board-certified audiologist who is president of the American Academy of Audiology.
What will a neurologist do for vertigo?
Neurologists treat dizziness that is a symptom of vertigo or disequilibrium. Vertigo makes you feel as if you or the things around you are spinning; disequilibrium is difficulty keeping your balance. Your primary care doctor can help you decide if your dizziness is severe enough to see a neurologist.
What foods should you avoid with vertigo?
Avoid These:Avoid consuming fluids that have high sugar or salt content in it such as concentrated drinks and soda. … Caffeine intake. … Excess salt intake. … Nicotine intake/Smoking. … Alcohol intake. … Processed food & meat are some of the foods to avoid with vertigo.Bread and pastries can even trigger vertigo conditions.More items…
What can cause long term vertigo?
The cause of your vertigo plays a big role in how long your symptoms will last.Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) BPPV is one of the most common causes of vertigo. … Meniere’s disease. … Inner ear problems. … Stroke or head injury. … Other factors.
What are the 3 types of vertigo?
What are the types of peripheral vertigo?Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) BPPV is considered the most common form of peripheral vertigo. … Labyrinthitis. Labyrinthitis causes dizziness or a feeling that you’re moving when you aren’t. … Vestibular neuronitis. … Meniere’s disease.
Does chewing gum help vertigo?
Repeated swallowing, from chewing gum or sweets, was judged to improve symptoms by 40% of the people who did the questionnaire. The symptom most improved was the feeling of fullness, followed in order by hearing, tinnitus, and vertigo.
What happens when Vertigo doesn’t go away?
If the symptoms are very severe and don’t go away, surgery on the vestibular system (the organ of balance) may be considered. This involves destroying either the nerve fibers in the affected semicircular canal, or the semicircular canal itself. The sensory hair cells can then no longer pass information on to the brain.
Is Vertigo a sign of stroke?
Isolated vertigo is the most common vertebrobasilar warning symptom before stroke11,44; it is rarely diagnosed correctly as a vascular symptom at first contact. Strokes causing dizziness or vertigo will have limb ataxia or other focal signs. Focus on eye exams: VOR by head impulse test, nystagmus, eye alignment.
Is Vertigo a symptom of something else?
Vertigo is a feeling of dizziness that occurs without any accompanying movement. It’s caused by your senses telling your brain that your body is off balance, even though it isn’t. Vertigo is a symptom of an underlying condition, not a diagnosis in itself. It can be a result of several different things.
Is bed rest good for vertigo?
It depends on the cause. Medical advice for vestibular neuritis is to avoid bed rest and get back to normal life as quickly as possible. This kick-starts the brain into compensating for the vertigo so it doesn’t become a long-term problem.
What is best medicine for vertigo?
Acute vertigo is best treated with nonspecific medication such as dimenhydrinate (Dramamine®) and meclizine (Bonine®). These medications are eventually weaned as they can prevent healing over the long-term, explains Dr. Fahey.
How do you reset the crystals in your ear?
Semont ManeuverSit on the edge of your bed. Turn your head 45 degrees to the right.Quickly lie down on your left side. Stay there for 30 seconds.Quickly move to lie down on the opposite end of your bed. … Return slowly to sitting and wait a few minutes.Reverse these moves for the right ear.
Can vertigo last for years?
Some cases of vertigo improve over time, without treatment. However, some people have repeated episodes for many months, or even years, such as those with Ménière’s disease. There are specific treatments for some causes of vertigo. A series of simple head movements (known as the Epley manoeuvre) is used to treat BPPV.
Can vertigo last 2 weeks?
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) may go away in a few weeks by itself. If treatment is needed, it usually consists of head exercises (Epley and Semont maneuvers ). These exercises will move the particles out of the semicircular canals of your inner ear to a place where they will not cause vertigo.


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PPP forum for Africa in partnership with the gorvenment of Malawi, and the PPP commission Malawi has organised a high level country specific event.
The conference will run from the 24th to 26th February 2020 at the Bingu International Convention Centre in Lilongwe.
The conference comes under the theme “Public Private Partnerships Malawi’s Next Big Thing” and will offer a unique platform to showcase Malawi’s PPP opportunities in key sectors such as Energy, Transport, Tourism and ICT.
The Conference will bring together PPP Practitioners and thought leaders across the globe into one room to think through solutions for infrastructure development in Malawi.
The three-day event will be dedicated to discussing issues pertaining to revolutionizing infrastructure development in Malawi through PPP arrangements.
The Conference will be structured as follows: the first day will involve pre-conference PPP training delivered by international PPP experts and the conference will follow on the remaining 2 days.


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First images of Treyarch’s Call of Duty 2024 Black Ops leak in Warzone Mobile files
The first images of Treyarch’s next Call of Duty game, which is set for a 2024 release, has leaked online after data miners found content in Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile’s closed alpha files.
RealiityUK, a Call of Duty data miner, got access to the Warzone Mobile Project Aurora’s closed alpha and went through the game’s files to find a variety of upcoming unannounced Call of Duty content.
Earlier, he leaked images of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer maps, including loading screens of the game’s Ground War maps.
Now, RealiityUK also found images of Treyarch’s Call of Duty 2024 game.
Call of Duty 2024 MP Map Images
The leaker has posted images of two MP maps that are part of Treyarch’s next Call of Duty game. The images appear to be concept art for the maps, as the game is still in early development.
First image shared by the leaker showcases the map ‘Stealth,’ which is a codename for the map. It appears to be taking place off of a USA military base in an unknown location.
The second image posted is for a map titled ‘Pillage.’ Just a few aspects of this map can be seen in the leaked image.
It’s not clear as to why Warzone Mobile’s closed alpha contains files for unreleased content, including for a game that is still two years away.
Call of Duty 2024 Details
While Activision has not officially confirmed it yet, Bloomberg reported earlier this year that Treyarch’s next premium Call of Duty game will release in 2024, making 2023 a off year for a major new premium Call of Duty title.
A delay on the game to 2024 will give Treyarch four years of development time with their last premium title being Black Ops Cold War in 2020. Treyarch has supported Vanguard’s development on Zombies and Ranked Play and is credited with supporting the development of Modern Warfare 2, although the extent to their work on the title is not clear.
This will result in 2022 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 potentially having two years of post launch support.
Details on what Call of Duty 2024 is are still scarce, with some rumors claiming it will be set in the ‘near future’ and keep boots on the ground.
Be sure to stay tuned for any news or updates on Treyarch’s next Call of Duty title.


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Treasury Secretary Yellen sent a letter to congressional leaders this morning (Sep. 8) indicating that the the Treasury will exhaust its cash and extraordinary measures “during the month of October”. This is in line with our expectations, though slightly sooner than the “October or November” timing that the Congressional Budget Office had estimated in a report in late July.
There are several ways the debt limit could play out. The most likely scenario is that Democratic leaders will attach a debt limit suspension to upcoming spending legislation to keep the federal government open past the end of the fiscal year (a “continuing resolution”) and to provide emergency disaster relief funding related to the fires in the Western US and storm damage in the East and South. As 46 Senate Republicans have indicated they will block a debt limit increase, there is a good chance this strategy will not succeed. That said, passage of short-term debt limit might be possible as several Republican senators represent states affected by recent disasters. One option Republicans might consider would be to vote against the bill but decline to filibuster it, allowing it to pass with only 51 votes in the Senate. This would likely require unanimous Democratic support in that chamber, which is possible but not certain.
If Senate Republicans block the spending bill later this month, Democratic leaders would then need to decide whether to force the issue and risk a partial federal government shut down, or to remove the debt limit suspension from the spending bill. If lawmakers end in a stalemate, a government shutdown might follow, though we do not see this as the base case.
If they are unable to raise the debt limit as part of a spending bill, they might consider using the reconciliation process to pass it with only 51 votes. However, this faces two challenges. First, it is unclear whether all Senate Democrats would vote for a revised budget resolution that increases the debt limit by several trillion dollars. if Democrats use the reconciliation process, Senate rules would probably allow them only to raise the debt limit by a specific dollar figure, which would lead to more politically problematic headlines, rather than suspend it for a period of time, which has become the norm over the last decade as it does not lead to a specific dollar amount at the time of passage.
Second, the current reconciliation process to pass as much as $3.5 trillion in new spending is already underway, with House committees already in the process of considering and passing their segments of the bill in committee. Revising the budget resolution, which governs that process, could interfere with consideration of that legislation, and would likely take at least a couple of weeks, if not longer. If Democrats wait until Sep. 30 to test support for a debt limit increase as part of the spending bill, they might not have sufficient time to go through all of the procedures necessary to revise the resolution before the debt limit deadline.


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ROSSIE, N.Y. (WWNY) - St. Lawrence County Public Health officials say a horse in the Rossie area has tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE).
This comes, officials say, after positive tests for four horses in Jefferson County in recent weeks.
In the meantime, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has cancelled an open house at the Perch River Wildlife Management Area because at least three of the Jefferson County cases were found nearby.
The open house was scheduled to open Saturday and run through August 30.
EEE is a mosquito-borne virus that can cause brain swelling that could lead to death in people and horses, although horses tend to be more susceptible.
EEE symptoms can include fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, behavioral changes, drowsiness, and coma.
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Bumi lender quits Standard Chartered
A leading Standard Chartered banker involved in making a $1bn (£620m) loan to the Indonesian chairman of the London-listed miner Bumi has quit after the bank struggled to get other lenders on board.
Samin Tan used the funds to buy a stake in the coal-miner only to see the investment plunge in value from $1bn to $230m as the board was rattled by rifts between key shareholders, including the financier Nat Rothschild and Indonesia's influential Bakrie group. More recently, Bumi launched an investigation into alleged financial irregularities at its Indonesian units.
The loan is secured, reducing the British bank's risk, but so far it has sold down just $230m of the loan, leaving $770m on its books.
Sources told Reuters Peter Kay, the global head of leveraged finance syndication at Standard Chartered, was pushed out of the bank. Valerie Tay, a spokeswoman for the bank, said he resigned last month to pursue other interests.
A senior source at Standard Chartered said Mr Kay would have been involved in, but not solely responsible for, the decision to extend the loan to Mr Tan.
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ABC News said todayit signed a deal with Facebook, which, as far as we can tell, basically entails ABC News-branded election forums where Facebook users can vent discuss politics. ABC News reports from the campaign trail will also be folded into Facebook's U.S. Politicsapplication.
Although financial details weren't disclosed, we can't help but wonder how much cash ABC News spent to get into Facebook's exclusive club -- the arrangement sounds suspiciously similar to deals signed with AOL and Yahoo back in 1999, when dot-com startups spent millions of dollars for real estate on the portal sites. And occasionally went bankrupt in the process.
A Facebook spokesperson wasn't immediately available to comment.
UPDATE: An ABC News spokeswoman informs us there are "no financial terms" and that no money changed hands.


FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — Gov. Beshear has signed an executive order stating that the wearing of masks in public will be mandatory in the state of Kentucky beginning Friday at 5 p.m.
"This is our moment to prove that we can beat the virus again," said Gov. Beshear.
This means all customers in retail facilities, grocery stores, anywhere indoors where people cannot stay six feet apart from each other, must wear a mask.
"When you go into a restaurant or a bar and you're waiting in line outside, you got to wear a mask," said Gov. Beshear. "If you're inside, until you're ready to eat, you're wearing one too."
Gov. Beshear said the three priorities for making this decision are the health and safety of the Kentucky people, restarting the economy, and opening schools.
"We're starting this early enough to where we have a real shot. Those that are out there that are nervous, they should be. But until they start seeing everyone wearing masks, following the rules and doing what it takes," said Gov. Beshear.
"If we could put those feelings aside and serve the greater good, and honestly folks, in the midst of a worldwide pandemic, wearing a mask makes a lot of sense and is it too much to ask? I don't think so," Gov. Beshear continued. "Our future in what we can do in this state how our economy rebounds, how safe our people are going to be. The health and the lives of Kentuckians all depends on our ability to wear one of these."
Restaurants and businesses can also refuse service to customers who refuse to wear a mask, and if businesses continue to serve people who aren't wearing them, they can be shut down by the local health department.
"If people do what they want to do and don't follow the restrictions, we will see more people get the virus, we'll see more people die, and we will have to roll back parts of our reopening and reduce capacity for different businesses," said Gov. Beshear.
He says the executive order will continue for 30 days and will be re-evaluated after that.


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Activist, thespian Quentin Colgan dies
Former Chico City Council candidate Quentin Colgan was found dead in his bed this past Monday morning, July 23. He was 54. The cause of death is unknown and autopsy results won’t be available for another month, according to the Butte County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office.
A longtime player in the local community-theater scene, Colgan (pictured) perhaps has been best known lately as a political activist/prankster (who once dressed up as the Mad Hatter to ruffle feathers at a Tea Party rally).
In 2010, he ran for council on a nonpartisan platform that espoused a desire to advocate for “ordinary working people.” A frequent contributor of letters to the CN&R, Colgan also, until recently, penned a political blog called The Uncomfortable Truth. A public memorial in his honor will be held at the ARC Pavilion on Sunday, July 29, at 3 p.m.


The Federal Department of Financehas released draft regulations that if adopted would, among other proposed changes, amend the pension investment restriction rules contained in Schedule III to the Pension Benefits Standards Regulations, 1985 (Canada) (“Schedule III”).
The changes, long awaited from the Minister of Finance’s October 2009 announcement that the pension investment rules would be modernized, apply not only to federally regulated pension plans but also to those plans whose governing provincial legislation incorporates Schedule III.
Currently, Schedule III prohibits the administrator of a pension plan from directly or indirectly investing or lending more than 10% of the book value of the plan’s assets in or to any one person, two or more associated persons, or two or more affiliated corporations. The proposed changes would limit investments to 10% of the market value of the pension plan’s assets. This is a welcome change as market value is much easier to determine.
One of the exceptions to the 10% book value limit is for investment in a fund that replicates the composition of a widely recognized index of a broad class of securities traded at a “public exchange”. The term “public exchange” is outdated and excludes many important exchanges – for example the Nikkei – while including some exchanges that no longer exist.
Under the proposed changes “public exchange” would be replaced with “marketplace” to reflect that plan investments may be bought not only on public exchanges but also through quotation and trade- reporting systems and other platforms through which buyers and sellers of securities and derivatives are matched.
The proposed changes would also address related party transactions. Schedule III currently prohibits the plan administrator from directly or indirectly lending moneys of the pension fund to a “related party”, investing moneys of the pension fund in the securities of a related party, or entering into a “transaction” with a related party on behalf of the pension fund. The proposed changes would remove certain exemptions, such as the nominal or immaterial transaction exemptions, and permit other exemptions, such as permitting the holding of an investment in the securities of a related party where the investment is made in an investment fund.
While the changes will prohibit the administrator from investing plan assets directly or indirectly in securities of the employer, the amendments now clarify that the administrator may engage the services of a related party for the administration of the plan, such as the hiring of a related party broker-dealer.
The proposed amendments will be released for public comment with official publication in the Canada Gazette on September 27, 2014. Plan administrators and investment managers who manage pension assets for Canadian registered plans should be reviewing their investment mandates including agreements and compliance monitoring systems to ensure that they are ready to implement these changes.


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Lydia & Matt really wanted their wedding day to be a celebration that all of their friends and family could enjoy. It took them a while to settle on a venue but they knew that Black Walnut was right when they first visited it, the grounds are amazing and the facilities made it so easy to plan their day. They really loved the glasshouse and wanted to have their ceremony in there and make it a real feature.
Planning the florals for these guys was made easy, with Lydia being a creative herself, she knew the look she and Matt were wanting to achieve. After the first consultation it was clear to me that attention to detail was needed for their day. This is something that hand-picked thrives on and excels at.
The florals and styling played an important role in every aspect of Lydia and Matt’s day. The look for their ceremony was an enchanted garden in an asymmetrical design using the most amazing spring flowers such as tulips, anemones, ranunculus, stock and foxgloves. The look carried over to the entranceway and then toned down to have a more minimalistic look for their reception.
Words from Lydia & Matt “We had such an amazing day, it did go really fast but the photographs really captured so much of what we may have otherwise missed. A lot of people have commented on how lovely the florals were from the photos and we definitely appreciate the way they were captured during the ceremony and reception”.
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Jan 16, 2019 | Alexandria, Virginia (USA).
It was a winter morning and time for my commute to work. I bundled up adequately and trudged in the direction of the bus stop, walking on the road to avoid the icy sidewalk. I passed many ice covered parked cars and the sun was peeking out from roof tops of the townhouses in my neighborhood, its light blinding, reflecting of the snow on the ground, and hoods and windshields of cars. This photograph captures the scene on one such hood of a car. I adjusted the angle of my phone camera to hide the houses, and all that remained was a small snow covered hill, the hood of the car and the light from the sun. The picture's orientation has been shifted 180 degrees to create the illusion of a star covered sky, and a sun rise.


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Why Everyone Loses in Apple’s Fight Against the FBI
I’ve felt conflicted about the struggle between the FBI and Apple over the iPhone. On the one hand, I am sympathetic to the government’s need to gather information and investigate the attacks in San Bernardino last year. I worked at the NSA for six years gathering and combing through all sorts of intelligence from foreign governments to learn about advances in weapons systems, nuclear proliferation and cyber actors. On the other hand, I know how important the integrity of platforms such as the iPhone are to the advancement of the Internet; and if Apple were to comply with the government’s request to unlock the iPhone, millions of devices would be compromised.
The FBI has acknowledged that it is working with third parties to unlock the iPhone. And on Monday, the U.S. Justice Department dropped its fight against Apple (AAPL), saying it no longer needs the company’s help to access data stored on an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.
The latest development might signal a victory for both Apple and the FBI, but there really are no winners here. Federal authorities’ efforts to gain access to private data through a third party highlights a thriving black market where companies sell information on software vulnerabilities to governments and non-state actors, including the United States. This is business as usual. But in its zeal to crack the iPhone, the U.S. government was actually taking a huge step backwards, letting down the tech industry and its own citizens.
What’s more, the FBI made a mistake in trying to force Apple’s hand. Setting up an unintentional iPhone hacking challenge isn’t in anyone’s best interest. Even though the agency didn’t directly seek help in unlocking the iPhone, they enticed security researchers to offer aid by revealing that they couldn’t hack it on their own. It’s not surprising that hackers across the globe have come out of the woodwork to lend a hand. Some are doing it for fame and others for money. An iPhone hack like this is worth millions on the black market.
This mad rush to hack the iPhone was more than just a PR problem for the FBI. It undermined the security of technology that people rely on every day. It put the public at greater risk of compromise and attack. And it sent a signal that the government prioritized the potential to get intel in one case over the security of the many.
In outlining his Cybersecurity National Action Plan last month, President Obama cited both the need for strengthening the U.S. government’s partnerships with the private sector to deter, detect and disrupt threats, as well as the need to do more to help empower Americans to protect themselves online.
The FBI-Apple battle is an unfortunate contradiction and reveals a surprising schism at the White House today. The President says he wants to strengthen the security of the Internet and has increased the budget for that. Yet the FBI is taking steps to counteract those policies. I understand the need to stand behind law enforcement, but people often don’t realize how interconnected these things are. Actions like these can destroy the secure fabric of the Internet — the platform that enables e-commerce and communications — which has transformed the economy over the last 20 years.
Instead of going to great lengths to break U.S. tech products, the government should be aligned with tech companies to create more secure products. It will be impossible for U.S. businesses to succeed in a world where public-private partnerships are compelled by court order. The FBI needs to get to work building relationships with the private sector. The government should do everything possible to encourage a safer and more secure Internet.
The United States leads the world in technology innovation and entrepreneurial know-how, which bolsters our ability to compete in the global marketplace. We need government and private companies to work together to improve the integrity of technology and the security of data to keep the bad actors out. Otherwise, we all lose.
Oren Falkowitz is co-founder and CEO of Area 1 Security, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company. Neither Apple nor the FBI are currently clients of Area 1 Security. Falkowitz does not own shares of Apple.


Towards forging a Filipino Town in Winnipeg
by Jon Malek
In June 2021, I asked why Winnipeg did not have a Filipino Town after sixty years of community growth. There are certainly potential sites or areas that could serve as a base for such an ethnic centre, such as sites of Filipino cultural performance, buildings where community groups have met (such as the old Filipino centre on Juno or the current PCCM on Keewatin, just for an example); areas that have seen Filipinos settle such as Notre Dame, the Maples, or Tyndall Park; or the formation of a new centre for the community, one that would house a cultural display, a Filipino library, and a space for activities and group meetings. Personally, I don’t think there is a lack of desire, but perhaps a lack of communication among community leaders. One individual or group could not establish this alone, as there would be many steps necessary, as well as significant funds, and overall community unity. But together, a unified push could make things happen.
I return to this again because I believe in its viability, its necessity, and because I’ve seen how energized the community has become. My new research project on Filipino food and culture has quickly exposed me to several trends of which I had not been aware, and I feel that the Winnipeg Filipino community has been going through a sort of a cultural renaissance lately. What started well before the pandemic, is once again blossoming as public health restrictions ease and society returns to some sort of a normal.
I’ll point out only a few examples, and their choice has not been an act of judging their merit. My first observation of this was the Manitoba Filipino Street Festival, whose first celebration I reported on in 2013. This was not the first Filipino festival, but it had a distinct flare to it and has gained a lot of attention in the community over the years. It has also reached out beyond the Filipino community to engage others in the Manitoban ethnic mosaic. Along these lines, Foodtrip Market has also showcased local Filipino culinary talents, given a fighting chance for new and established food outlets to showcase their offerings. The unique model of the Foodtrip Market, held three times this summer, is an innovative approach to the idea of collaboration and appears to show no sign of slowing down. The Kultivation Festival is another excellent example, one which received significant interest from the CBC. This brings together a dynamic and inventive group of Filipino entrepreneurs and creators to showcase the avant garde of Filipino culture in the city, and indeed the Filipino diaspora. It is, after all, at this Festival that its popular Halo-halo beer made its appearance (and let’s hope it shows up again, somewhere in the city). A final note to the semi-mysterious Manila Nights pop-up phenomenon that has pushed the boundaries of Filipino cuisine.
This past June saw several nights of Filipino performances that showcased the brilliant cultural talents of the community. Thinking beyond the Philippine Independence Ball – itself a time-honoured institution of the community – I focus on the cultural presentation of the Manitoba Association of Filipino Teachers, Inc. (MAFTI, of which I have been a board member since 2019), which showcased both youth and adult performers, or Musica: An evening of Kundiman & Philippine Art Songs held at the PCCM. This last event exposed me to a new segment of the community’s exceptional musical talent. The rendition of Sa Ugoy ng Duyan still echoes in my memory. This year also saw the rejuvenation of the Pinoy Pop Star competition in a final night of performances on August 26th that were amazing to watch. To say there was only one winner is a difficult statement to make, as every artist demonstrated exceptional skill. I’d also like to point to the Filipino Music & Arts Association of Canada, Inc., which has provided a further venue to Winnipeg’s Filipino musical talent. Each of these cultural outlets highlight a unique section of the community’s talent – it is not the same group of artists performing in different events, but rather a unique range of venues showcasing the variety of artistry within the Filipino community.
MAFTI has for long been a preserver of Filipino heritage in the city since its inception forty-five years ago. It introduces Winnipeg’s youth to Filipino culture through its after-school heritage program – which grew incredibly over the pandemic – and adult language classes, of which I have been blessed to partake. Most notably, MAFTI has also secured with the Winnipeg School Division (WSD) the introduction of a Filipino Bilingual program, starting in 2023-2024. This adds to that already offered by the Seven Oaks School Division, but the enthusiasm with which the WSD has supported the program is a sign of how much its administrators recognize the value of a Filipino bilingual program in Winnipeg, which is itself a testament to the decades-long advocacy of Filipino teachers in the division.
Finally, I’d like to point to the publishing activities of ANAK, whose hard work and collaboration with Filipino authors has created a dynamic library of titles that celebrate and explain Filipino culture.
These are only a smattering of events and activities, and this list is not intended to be definitive but rather representative. All of this is evidence of the enthusiasm of the Filipino community, and of an energy that comes from a belief in the value of the preservation and spread of Filipino culture. As a historian, I know that the community has long engaged in these activities, but at the same time I see new elements emerging. In particular, the engagement of Filipino youth – especially those who were born in Canada – is adding to the dynamism of the community.
I believe the energy to re-create a Filipino Town in Winnipeg is there, and it will come about with the coming together of Winnipeg’s various Filipino groups. There is much leadership, so much desire for change, and so much pride in Filipino culture in the community that there is no real reason it cannot happen. Given the per capita concentration of the Filipinos in Winnipeg compared to other cities in Canada, there is no reason Winnipeg cannot become a national leader and even an international centre of Filipino culture. I hope to see this happen, and to happen soon.
And why not? Let’s make it happen.
Jon Malek received his PhD from Western University and currently teaches history at the University of Manitoba. He is working on a book manuscript on the history of the Winnipeg Filipino community.
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Discussion in 'Kimber Mfg.' started by El Pistolero, Nov 22, 2007.
Post your Kimber pictures here
Here are a couple of my Kimbers.
The top one is a alloy framed Pro Carry. Very lightweight and easily concealable for a CCW.
This one is a standard Custom II with Larry Davidson's "Horned Lizard" grips. This is probably my favorite single stack blaster in the barn right now. Nothing pretty or fancy about it but it's always a big confidence builder when a pistol works 100% right out of the box.
Nice SP, very nice. Thanks for posting them.
I noticed we all use Wilson Mags lol
I have tried most all company mags and found the Wilson 47 to be top of the line and they also self lube, which is a plus Nice pistols Shooters plus
Thanks Vic. I use nothing but the WC magazines also. They cost a little more than some 1911 mags but well worth it in the long-haul in my opinion.
Oh - Thanks for the invite
I brought my last set of mags from you
You use the same Wilson parts I use and naturally the same mags.
Plus you are fast I received my order in 2 days. I will see if I need anything more tomorrow when I set up my TTT i think I have all the parts ready, my mom I brought to the airport so I will work on the pistol tomorrow morning and shoot it on Sunday. I know it will be a shooter
Nothing exceptional,just a stock TLE. Kimber rosewood grips are the only upgrade. After a few hundred rounds of break-in and some issues with Gold Dots,this .45 now has HD duty.
Sorry about the lighting,I can't take pictures too well.
Looks great 0TA.
Hard to knock the Kimbers
I think they work well even with MIM parts in them and looks , they are really hard to beat. It looks great does it hold a tight group when shooting?
To be honest,I'm not a great shot. If it's a morning shoot and I'm going for accuracy and I don't drink too much coffee on the way to the range,I can hold a fairly consistent 2" at 15 yards. 25+ yards,and I have nothing to brag about. I know the pistol can do better if I shot from sandbags.
Oops, I actually did install a steel msh just because I liked the way it balanced. Forgot about that. All the guts are still mim.
Zero; if you ever need any help on most any guns let me know I will help walk you thru any installing or disassembly of parts. 2'' group at 15 yards is a good group. I rarely shoot over 25yards in some Bulls eye matches I do and was thinking about the Aristocrat site so I just have 3 setting one for 40, then 25 yards then 50 yards.
Just to clear things up,how do you measure groups? I was taught to measure center to center of the two farthest shots. Measuring edge to edge would expand the group to 3".
Now bear in mind that I don't claim to be an exceptional shot (because I'm not!),but if I buckle down I can get some decent groups. Most of my shooting though is geared towards fast COM hits,and not towards sub-MOA accuracy.
Center to Center is the normal way to measure strings of groups.
Here's my Super Match and Pro CDP.
BAC1023, beauty to the eyes I have my eye on that Super match I own the Gold Combat ll, yet I can always get another. I was looking at Fusions pistols and the prices and will get one after the Holidays.
I highly recommend the Super Match. Its as accurate as any 1911 I own, including the semi custom stuff. Plus, I think the Super Match looks great.
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Only a handful of schools in South Carolina have won state championships in both baseball and softball in the same year.
The two squads at Lewisville High School are trying to add their school to the short list this season and legitimately could do so.
Neither has lost to 1A or 2A competition. State-ranked 4A South Pointe handed Lewisville’s baseball team two of its three losses. One of Lewisville softball's two losses came in a spring break tournament to a 6A school from Virginia with several college-bound prospects. Both squads' other defeat came against 3A Indian Land.
Pitching has been crucial to success on both diamonds. The baseball Lions' hurlers have thrown five shutouts so far and have allowed three runs or fewer 12 times.
“We've had some great teams but this is the best pitching depth we've had,” said coach Billy Keels, whose team has already progressed to its district championship game on Monday.
Before we go in every game, we expect to win. Because we grind out here every day. Winning state would be something we could look back on and tell our kids about.
Lewisville baseball senior Mike Hill
Their softball counterparts, whose pitching consists mostly of Chloe Thomas, have blanked 10 opponents. But Thomas does not feel pressure to do it all by herself.
“Our defense is 10 times better than in the past,” she said.
Thomas missed last year's playoffs after breaking her leg in a charity kickball event, but she says she will not be playing anything besides softball this spring. Her team opens postseason play Saturday at home against Blackville-Hilda.
The two teams try to match each other in winning streaks. The boys won 16 in a row at one point and are ranked No. 1 in the state, while the ladies started their season by rattling off 15 straight and are No. 3 statewide.
The two units not only are close in the numbers and how they have performed, but they are close off the field as well. Several of them said they keep up with how the other team is doing and rib each other about the results.
“We've got classes together and we see each other every day,” baseball player Garrison Hyatt said. “We'll say 'how'd y'all do last night?' We want to be just as good as them and they want to be just as good as us.”
I say it started two or three years ago. We've always had good teams and always been able to go far in the playoffs, so every year we try and see who can go the farthest. It's really a competition, honestly.
Baseball senior Drew Colvin, on competition between Lewisville’s baseball and softball squads
There are about five couples between the two teams that are currently dating each other. One of those couples is Thomas and fellow pitcher Trey Keels, both of whom wear No. 8 jerseys and call their head coach "Dad" away from the field. The two have known each other since sixth grade. They each threw a no-hitter this season, just days apart.
They have discussed what it would be like to both win state titles.
“The girls sports here don't really win a lot,” Thomas said. “So the boys walk around like they own the school.”
Getting down to business
For Lewisville softball coach Jerry Thomas, an alumni of the school, winning is as much a part of his roots as Richburg is. He played on state championship football teams under Jimmy Wallace and Bennie McMurray in the mid-1980s, so he knows what it takes.
"I try to put the school pride in them,” Thomas said. “It would be special for these ladies. There haven't been many female state championships here. It's always been a male dominated school. I tried to mold what I did when I played here, what Larry Davis did when he won his (basketball) state championship, and what Billy Keels has been doing. I've experienced it twice and there's not another feeling like it, knowing you're state champions. It's something they'll remember forever."
The big difference between Lewisville’s baseball and softball squads is state titles. The baseball team has won six championships, the most recent coming in 2010 under Keels.
"We've already been there and played for state, so the nerves are all gone," the younger Keels said. "It's just about getting down to business."
I told him a couple weeks ago that this isn't about me. I've already got a ring. So don't feel like you're going to let me down if you don't win it. But yeah it would be special.
Lewisville baseball coach Billy Keels, talking to his son about winning a state title
The softball Lions are 39-2 in region play with five championships in as many years, but have yet to crack through the Upper State tournament.
“We've been here since seventh grade and every year we've worked towards that and we get closer and closer to state,” senior outfielder Tori Ernandez said.
Could this be the year that both sets of Lions get sized for championship rings?
“We've been planning this with them the last three years,” softball catcher Emily Morton said. “I think this is the year we can do it. We're confident. But I think if you don't feel pressure then you're not in it to win it.”
Schools that won baseball and softball state championships in the same season
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The Tiwi Islands are one of the last regions in Australia with an intact mammal community, and they are home to several threatened mammals like the brush-tailed rabbit-rat and Butler’s dunnart. While the mammal populations on the islands have remained relatively intact compared to other areas of northern Australia, they may be showing the first indications of decline. As native mammals play an important role in maintaining healthy country and culture, this is a major concern for the Tiwi Traditional Owners. Hugh Davies, from Charles Darwin University, looks at what mammal surveys in 2000 and 2015 can tell us, and outlines new collaborative research which aims to help underpin recovery efforts.
Mammal declines in northern Australia
Over recent decades, numerous native mammal species across northern Australia have suffered significant decline. Worryingly, the species that have suffered the greatest decline across northern Australia are similar to the mammal species that were earlier driven to extinction throughout southern and arid Australia. If these declines continue, more species may soon be lost forever.
The decline of native mammals across northern Australia has been linked to predation by feral cats, the loss of traditional Aboriginal burning practices, and grazing by large, exotic herbivores (such as cattle, horses and water buffalo). However, as these drivers of decline interact in complex ways, uncertainty still surrounds both the relative contribution of each of these drivers to the decline of native mammals, as well as the best approach to remedial management.
A black-footed tree-rat. Photo Hayley Geyle.
Surveying mammals on the Tiwi Islands
My PhD was a collaborative project between the Tiwi Land Council, the University of Melbourne, the Northern Territory Government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and Charles Darwin University. Beginning in 2013, one of the main aims was to conduct a health-check of Tiwi Island mammal populations and see if there has been any evidence of recent decline.
As the Tiwi Islands still support high densities of native mammals compared to most of northern Australia, this also provided an opportunity to further investigate the drivers of mammal decline. In 2015, I re-surveyed 88 sites across Melville Island (the larger of the two main Tiwi Islands) that were previously surveyed between 2000 and 2002. At each of these sites, I repeated the original live-trapping survey method and conducted five weeks of camera-trapping.
Hugh Davies, Jose Puruntatameri and Colin Kerinaiua with equipment used during the fauna surveys. Photo John Davies
Bandicoot, tree-rat and rabbit-rat numbers down
The trap-success rate for the northern brown bandicoot, black-footed tree-rat and brush-tailed rabbit-rat were all significantly lower in 2015 (see figure). I found no significant change in trap-success for the common brushtail possum.
While this drop in numbers for three mammal species bodes ill, it is only based on surveys at two points in time. Surveys at other points in time will be needed to confirm the trend and rule out natural fluctuations in response to long-term variation in weather conditions. For example, the Tiwi Islands had experienced a number of dry years leading up to 2015. It remains to be seen if (and how much) populations will recover after a good wet season.
However, as these declines are similar to those recorded earlier on mainland northern Australia, they may also represent the first evidence of mammal decline on the Tiwi Islands.
Graph: Trapping success rates during mammal surveys in 2000 and 2015 for four mammal species.
Findings a call to action
The research results suggest that while the mammal populations of the Tiwi Islands have so far been more resilient than in other areas of northern Australia, they may be exhibiting the initial signs of decline. As such, these results should be a call to action. If nothing is done, these populations may continue to decline to the highly degraded state of those on the mainland. The loss of these animals from the Tiwi Islands would represent significant ecological and cultural loss.
Feral cats and fire: The usual suspects
The 2015 surveys revealed important findings: brush-tailed rabbit-rats were once more widespread on Melville Island but have now contracted to areas with a dense understorey where feral cats were not detected. Black-footed tree-rats were also largely found in areas with a dense understorey.
While the results of my PhD research suggest that feral cats are a significant threat to Tiwi Island mammal populations, they also suggest that a dense understorey may be beneficial. It appears that a dense understorey provides more cover for native mammals and makes hunting less efficient for predators such as feral cats.
A low intensity early dry season burn undertaken by Tiwi Land Rangers. Photo: Hugh Davies
Future research on mitigating cat impacts
Currently, we have no effective way of directly mitigating the impact of feral cats at the landscape scale. The next stage of this research will investigate how and why feral cat density varies across the Tiwi Islands and if we can reduce the impact of feral cats by using fire to promote a dense understorey.
This work has already begun, and is a collaboration between the Tiwi Land Council, Tiwi Land Rangers, Charles Darwin University, and the Northern Territory Government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources. It is also receiving support from the Norman Wettenhall Foundation.
In 2017, we deployed two large grids of camera traps to estimate the density of feral cats on the Tiwi Islands. We deployed one grid at Pickataramoor on Melville Island and one near Ranku on Bathurst Island. This work is already producing interesting results. While we detected plenty of cats around Pickataramoor, we did not record any from Ranku, suggesting that the density of feral cats varies between these two areas.
We will extend this work to other areas on the Tiwi Islands over the next two years to try and work out why these densities vary. We also plan to use experimental fire plots on the Tiwi Islands to discover how and why the manipulation of fire frequency influences native mammal density.
Hub researcher Hugh Davies with a brush-tailed rabbit-rat. Photo John Davies
Hugh F. Davies, Michael A. McCarthy, Ronald S. C. Firth, John C. Z. Woinarski, Graeme R. Gillespie, Alan N. Andersen, Hayley M. Geyle, Emily Nicholson, Brett P. Murphy (2017) Top-down control of species distributions: feral cats driving the regional extinction of a threatened rodent in northern Australia. Diversity and Distributions, 23, 272–283.
Hugh F. Davies, Michael A. McCarthy, Ronald S. C. Firth, John C. Z. Woinarski, Graeme R. Gillespie, Alan N. Andersen, Willie Rioli, José Puruntatameri, Willie Roberts, Colin Kerinaiua, Vivian Kerinauia, Kim Brooks Womatakimi, Brett P. Murphy (2018) Declining populations in one of the last refuges for threatened mammal species in northern Australia. Austral Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/aec.12596.
Top image: Brush-tailed rabbit-rat. Photo Hugh Davies


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Kodo Beast Riders are tauren riders that participated in the War of the Thorns. They first appeared with the Horde army led by Varok Saurfang in the Northern Barrens. Then they arrived to the secured Astranaar in Ashenvale with Varok and Warchief Sylvanas. They later arrived to Twilight Vale but remained behind the wisp wall while the main army was in Blackwood Den. They also joined the battle near the Wildbend River.
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South Station expansion chugging along
The Patrick administration is on track to select a builder for what could be the start of a more than $200 million South Station expansion.
Richard Davey, secretary and CEO of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, said the agency has received proposals three firms competing to add 9 new tracks at South Station in preparation for expanded commuter rail and Amtrak service. The project includes the potential for future air-rights development over the station that would pave the way for an office tower and help the state pay for the pricey project that involves moving the adjacent U.S. Postal Service facility.
“The need to expand South Station is acute because we envision adding service to Worcester and the South Coast and Amtrak has ambitious plans to expand high speed rail, so having a bigger station is key,” Davey told the Business Journal. “We are not building airports anymore and South Station is full, particularly at rush hour, with a train arriving or departing every 90 seconds — and any delays are felt by our passengers.”
Davey declined to name the contractors that have submitted bids. But a commercial real state source close to the project said the builders include HNTB, a Kansas City mass transit builder and designer, Parsons Brinckerhoff, the New York contractor that handled much of the Big Dig and AECOM, a Los Angeles building and engineering firm.
The Bay State has secured $32 million in federal dollars for a study and engineering work that will be the basis for new rail construction documents at South Station. But more cash will be needed. While the U.S. Postal Service considers the fate of the 1.4 million-square-foot sorting facility on 14 acres amid a rash of closing slated for next year, the state is on the hook for either buying the facility or paying to build a new plant elsewhere to make room for the station expansion. Either way, it will cost. The assessed value of the postal facility is $177 million and the cost to build a new one is anyone’s guess.
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