Using Our Home Field Advantage to Grow the Gallup-McKinley County Economy
9 May 2023
News Categories, Press Release
The New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) works with the City of Gallup and McKinley County to Use Our Home Field Advantage to Grow the Gallup-McKinley County Economy through assisting businesses and communities in a broad variety of economic development needs. EDD does this through forming relationships and partnerships. The mission of EDD is to improve the lives of New Mexican families by increasing economic opportunities and providing a place for business to thrive.
Through a variety of initiatives and programs, EDD has worked with the city and county to develop community projects, support business growth, and increase job opportunities using the Local Economic Development Act (LEDA). McKinley Paper Company, Inc. benefited from LEDA with the acquisition of new assets and a wastewater treatment system as an effort to ensure job retention at the site. The El Morro Theater, also a LEDA recipient, received infrastructure improvements and upgrades that allowed for a digital conversion of the equipment. Currently there is consideration of funding with the New Mexico MainStreet Program to develop façade improvements. EDD, with the MainStreet Program, supported various phases and needs required to complete the Coal Ave Commons project that has meant Gallup proudly has a vibrant, walkable downtown able to host exciting events. MainStreet is beginning to develop plans to improve the Courthouse Plaza and improve downtown alleyways to foster community events and business attraction. One of the largest of the county’s project, the McKinley County Industrial Park, has been funded also through LEDA for infrastructure improvements that will sustain the development of the Industrial Park which has the capacity to attract innovative businesses with large workforce needs. Other programs, like the Local Economic Assistance and Development Support (LEADS), allow EDD to support the local Economic Development Organizations which in turn grow our local economy. As EDD selects projects to fund, the goal is always aligned to the department mission of job and wealth creation for New Mexican families.
The New Mexico Economic Development Department is committed to supporting Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s nine targeted industries for growth and understands there is opportunity for the City of Gallup and McKinley County to develop many of those nine industries which include Aerospace, Film & Technology, Intelligent Manufacturing, Outdoor Recreation, Sustainable and Green Energy (including hydrogen), Biosciences, Sustainable and Value-added Agriculture, Cybersecurity, and Global Trade. Outdoor Recreation has been an ongoing focus, with grants that had been utilized to develop trail systems throughout Gallup and the surrounding areas; as the Outdoor Recreation Division receives greater funding, perhaps more projects will be developed, especially as the city and county begin working on branding that reinforces the potential of our recreation opportunities.
To assist with the goals of furthering job creation, retaining existing businesses, and attracting new business, EDD has Regional Representatives which are part of the Community, Business, and Rural Development Program. Regional Representatives are referred to as the “boots on the ground” that develop the relationship within the community and extend to the different agencies available to New Mexico. Gallup and McKinley County have two reps, Keegan Mackenzie-Chavez, and Lorraine Ruggles, for this northwest area that include McKinley County, San Juan County, Sandoval County, and Cibola County. Representatives strive to guide both businesses and communities to meet their varied economic needs, becoming the links between various organizations to find the best solutions for growth.
During Economic Development Week organized by the Greater Gallup Economic Development Corporation, EDD has helped with the Wednesday event focused on job skills, available job programs, and workforce issues around ramping up and enlarging a businesses’ workforce. There will also be a job fair to support hiring workers. Check out the Economic Development Week’s schedule for event times for Wednesday, May 10th which will all take place at UNM-Gallup.
Keegan Mackenzie-Chavez came to Gallup in 1992 for a Returned Peace Corps Fellowship Program. She received a BS in Business from USF a MA in Secondary Education from UNM, and a MA Architecture from UNM. After retiring from teaching at the Gallup McKinley County Schools, Keegan was hired in January 2023 as a Regional Representative for the NM Economic Development Department working in the northwest region.
Region 1 Representative
Serving Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, and San Juan Counties
Community, Business & Rural Development Team
NM Economic Development Department


PORTLAND, Maine — The national Polaris Project released a report Thursday dissecting data gleaned from calls placed to its human trafficking hotline, a help number that has seen a sharp increase in contacts over the last five years.
In Maine, the organization reported that its hotline netted 19 of what Polaris Project defines as high- or moderate-level indicators of trafficking in the most recent year. However, local experts say that number is just the tip of the iceberg and that a continued push to provide comprehensive services to victims is necessary.
The indicators on the high end of the Polaris Project range, meaning the callers are highly likely to be reporting actual cases of human trafficking, include information from people who say they have been involved in the activity themselves or are considered subject matter experts, among other criteria. Moderate-level indicators come from callers who are suspicious of the activity, but offer few concrete details.
The report was released the same day Maine’s Legislative Council voted unanimously to allow the larger Legislature to consider a bill by state Rep. Amy Volk, R-Scarborough, that would create avenues for convicted prostitutes to expunge their criminal records when they’re victims of sex trafficking.
The Thursday vote by the council represents a reversal of the panel’s previous decision. Volk’s bill, which was motivated by a previous Polaris Project report on states’ legal shortcomings when dealing with human slavery, was previously turned away along party lines, triggering outcry that state Democrats were insensitive to the plight of trafficking victims.
Nationwide, the Polaris Project reported Thursday that calls to the hotline have increased by nearly 260 percent since its launch in late 2007, from 5,746 in 2008 to 20,650 in 2012.
The Polaris Project’s human trafficking hotline received 44 calls placed from Maine in 2012. That compares to 46 in 2011, and represents a new approximate baseline for human trafficking tips in the state after two years in which the organization fielded less than half that many — 22 and 20 calls in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Not all of the calls yield indicators of specific cases of human trafficking. Many calls come in seeking general information or access to training, for example.
Destie Sprague, a program coordinator for the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault, said Thursday that while the Polaris Project report is important, Mainers should not reach the conclusion that only 19 people in the state were victims of trafficking in the past year.
She said the number is in reality much higher. In Maine, where sex trafficking is considered the form of human slavery most prevalent, more victims are turning to local hotlines, agencies, shelters and resources, Sprague said.
And still many more victims are not reporting the activity at all, she said.
“I don’t think there’s a connection between victimization in Maine and calls to a hotline,” Sprague said. “We know confidently that it doesn’t correspond with the victimization in the state, but it shows how many people are in a position to reach out for help and know how to do so. Those are pretty high barriers.”
Among the data breakdowns revealed in Thursday’s study are that 41 percent of sex trafficking cases reported to the hotline involve victims who are U.S. citizens.
Children were referenced in 2,668 cases, according to Polaris Project data, with callers reporting children in 33 percent of sex trafficking cases and 20 percent of labor trafficking cases. The release of those numbers comes about a week after 348 people were arrested and 386 child victims were rescued in a massive international child pornography investigation led by Toronto police.
Sprague said her organization and other Maine groups such as the Greater Portland Coalition Against Sex Trafficking and Exploitation are making progress training service providers to recognize the signs of forced prostitution and human slavery, as well as building networks of groups that can offer services to victims who often are battling wide ranges of problems.
Those provider networks include shelters, domestic and sexual violence counselors, child protective services, mental health and substance abuse counselors, police and lawyers, she said.
The Portland social service agency Preble Street and a group of partners was awarded a $400,000 U.S. Department of Justice grant last month to develop a multifaceted bundle of services for people who are exploited in the sex trade.
“No one provider can provide everything a victim is going to need,” Sprague said. “That’s going to be the first funded model in Maine. I really see that as the future, and we hope we will be able to adapt it for other communities around the state.”


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Homemade Oreo Cookies…
I had an epiphany. Wanna know what it was?
I’m a Dunker. 100% Dunker. It’s not that I’ve never eaten Oreos before, they’ve been one of my favorite cookies since childhood. It’s just that, well, I was a cynic to the practice of Oreo dunking. I didn’t see the point of dunking a perfectly crunchy cookie into a glass of milk and turning the experience into a mess of soggy cookie and crummy milk.
Boy was I wrong. I am waving the white flag at Oreo Dunkers. You were right all along.
Perhaps that is why Oreos were only one of my favorite cookies during childhood and not the favorite. Suffice it to say, that has changed.
These are awesome. Store bought Oreos are awesome too. I’m not knocking them. But these are beyond. I was surprised at how much they actually taste like Oreos. They were gone in a matter of two days which was probably best for my waistline, but not for my cravings.
The great thing is, they’re so easy to make and take less than 10 min to bake. So no excuses people. Do it.
Oreo Sandwich Cookies…
Makes 25 to 30 sandwich cookies
For the cookie part:
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch process cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 to 1 1/2 cups sugar [see recipe note]
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) room-temperature, unsalted butter
- 1 large egg
- 1-3 tbsp milk
For the filling:
- 1/4 cup (50g) room-temperature, unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 2 cups sifted icing sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F and line two baking sheets with non-stick parchment paper.
Place the dry ingredients for the cookie part into a food processor (or stand mixer).
Mix until thoroughly combined, then add the butter…
And the egg…
Now we’re talking…
This was where I had to adapt the recipe. I’m not sure why but my mixture was a little dry at this point. No worries. I just added a little extra milk until it formed into a ball and had a soft, doughy consistency. (not sticky!) Then it was time to roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface and cut out the rounds. (I used a 1 1/2 inch round cutter)
They go onto the prepared baking sheets and into the oven for about 9 minutes. If you bake them longer they’ll crisp up a bit more, but you also can’t tell when they’re burning as they’re already so dark in colour, so be careful.
In the meantime, make the filling. Place the butter and shortening into a mixer bowl and beat until smooth.
Turn the mixer down to low-speed and gradually beat in the sifted icing sugar and vanilla.
Beat on high-speed for 2-3 minutes until light and fluffy and you’re good to go.
Pipe some filling onto one half…
And squish them together. Then eat one. Right then. Go ahead. No one will know…
You can clean up the evidence before you fill the rest…

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What is History, Now?
Saturday 9 October
Lord Leycester Hospital
3.00pm – please note later time
Inspired by the influential text What is History? by Helen Carr’s great-grandfather, E.H. Carr, and published on the 60th anniversary of that book, this is a ground-breaking new collection addressing the burning issue of how we interpret history today.
What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all of us. Featuring a diverse mix of writers, both bestselling names and emerging voices, this is the history book we need NOW.
Join the collection editors, Suzannah Lipscomb and Helen Carr, as they discuss topics such as the history of racism and anti-racism, queer history, the history of faith, the history of disability, environmental history, escaping imperial nostalgia, hearing women’s voices and ‘rewriting’ the past.

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A Terre Haute attorney is making his sixth argument before the nation's highest court Wednesday, but his first before the newest justice. This time he's there on a case that could ultimately change campaign-finance disclosure rules nationally.
During an hour-long argument scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. before the United States Supreme Court, lawyer Jim Bopp faces off against the state of Washington Attorney General's Office in the case of John Doe #1, et al. v. Sam Reed, Washington Secretary of State, et al., No. 09-559. The issue is whether the state's public-records disclosure law violates the First Amendment privacy rights of voters who sign petitions to launch a referendum aimed at overturning a law allowing same-sex domestic partnerships.
Arguing for the conservative group Protect Marriage Washington that brought the suit, Bopp is arguing those names should remain private. This case is one of several Bopp is handling nationally on the broader scope of campaign-finance rules, and the outcome could play into how contributors are allowed to donate to election campaigns and get involved in political issues.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California had reversed a decision from the District Court level, which had given the sponsors an injunction against the release of the names.
Bopp said he arrived in Washington, D.C., Monday evening and is participating in a moot court today at the conservative-focused American Center for Law & Justice. Aside from the merits of the case, Bopp said he is looking forward to arguing in front of the current nine justices, including Justice Sonya Sotomayor who was appointed to the bench last year. The last case he argued before the court was the 2007-decided case of Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc., 551 U.S. 449 (2007), in which the justices held that issue-specific ads may not be banned in the months preceding a primary or general election.
"I do think it'll be interesting," he said, wondering what difference he'll see without aggressive questioning by Justice David Souter, who strongly supported campaign-finance regulations. "I'm looking to see how the dynamics are different."
Justices are expected to issue a decision by the time the term ends in June.


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The University of Cape Town’s Vredenburg Rural Training site organised and hosted an Open Day at the Vredenburg Provincial Hospital for the second consecutive year on 26 July 2018. All high schools in the catchment area were invited and 5 schools brought along 28 Grade 11 and 12 scholars to come and find out more about different career opportunities within the health care sector.
UCT lecturers, hospital staff, community service officers and health sciences students rotating here during that time were all actively involved in talking to the scholars about their different professions and demonstrating some of their activities and/or equipment at the different stalls. These stalls included Family Medicine talking about being a doctor (and health promotion), Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, Nursing, Speech and Audiology and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) with the Primary Health Care directorate facilitating the discussion about entry criteria for health sciences into UCT.
It was a morning of fun for all, ending off with a nice cup of coffee for the teachers and a sandwich and juice for the scholars. This day showcased shared knowledge about medical careers, the University and the hospital in the community.

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October 20, 2011
By Marc Bussanich
LaborPress City Editor
As New York has the highest unionized work force in the country, the paradoxical question, “What’s Wrong with New York?” was asked yesterday, October 19, 2011, at the Murphy Institute to learn why working New Yorkers have continued to vote for Republican mayoralty.
Moderated by veteran journalist Tom Robbins, panel members John Mollenkopf of the Center for Urban Research, Brad Lander, Chair of the City Council Progressive Caucus and Ed Ott, Distinguished Lecturer at Murphy and former executive director of the Central Labor Council, each gave their reasons for the conundrum.
Mollenkopf believes one reason why New York voters have voted Republican in mayoral politics is because a sizable demographic of older, white-trade unionists who live in the outer boroughs tend to vote conservatively, as do Jewish voters and white-ethnic Italians, who have been voting Republican for a long time.
Mollenkopf added, “Obviously white working class voters see Democrats as too liberal on immigration reform and too eager to spend.”
Ott pointed to the recent special election in the 9th Congressional District as an example of conservative voters voting Republican because they were offended by Obama’s call for Israel to return to pre-1967 borders and by Democrats support for same-sex marriage.
But Mollenkopf said a caveat is that the traditional white conservative voters are becoming the minority as different immigrant groups, such as Russian, Columbian, Chinese and West Indian communities now make up 30 percent of the voting electorate.
But this new immigrant electorate poses its own challenges because the new generation of immigrants “doesn’t fit into the old-fashioned Democrat coalition of whites, blacks and Latinos,” said Mollenkopf.
He added that while the new immigrants are in favor of government social services because they’re doing poorly economically, the irony is they tend to vote Republican because they are socially conservative, which Republicans have exploited to maximize votes.
While Mollenkopf elaborated on the problems and challenges of building a progressive coalition, specific solutions for coalition building were lacking.
“We need to get our house in order to avoid fragmentation. We need dialogue among African-Americans, Latinos, white liberals, unions and the new immigrant communities,” he said.
Ott said that labor missed an opportunity for coalition building when it didn’t take the lead on the wage disparity between men and women. “Rather than labor leading, the movement to eliminate wage disparity became primarily a woman’s issue.”
Mollenkopf emphasized that whatever the coalition’s political platform, it has to reflect general demands without focusing on specific demands of each coalition block.
Ott said labor organizations have their work cut out for them to build political coalitions among different constituencies. He doesn’t believe there is a progressive dominant force in the city right now to challenge the austerity crusade, although the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement could help in uniting and launching that force.
Ott also believes for too long labor has relied too heavily on political strength rather than allowing members to engage in collective action. He lamented the demise of the private sector unions when confrontations with employers usually resulted in economic gains.
“Workers in the private sector used to engage in battles and confrontations on the shop floor. But as we lost industrial jobs, unions turned to political lobbying to influence electoral races.”
Ott also noted that labor is experiencing a period of transition, which is forcing it to face the hard reality of a diminished unionized private sector workforce. “Many current labor leaderships have been around for too long, and new voices are now needed to change that reality.”
Ott pointed to the mostly young protestors of OWS who are trying to come to terms with the new economic realities. “The grievances OWS is expressing, such as the increasing inequality gap, will force labor to go beyond bread and butter issues and figure out the solutions required to build a more progressive society.”
What’s the Matter with New York?
October 20, 2011


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When watching a Baz Luhrmann film, you instantly feel as though you’ve been transported to another world. The visionary filmmaker enchants his viewers not only with thoughtful storylines, but with dazzling sets, dizzying cinematography, and daring costumes as well. Luhrmann and Catherine Martin, the Oscar-award-winning costume and set designer responsible for the visuals in his films, truly make a dynamic duo, and their latest television collaboration taps into the same alluring spirit as their blockbuster films.
The Get Down, created by Luhrmann, with Martin acting as executive producer and production designer, premiered on Netflix in August. The music-driven series is set in 1970s New York, and traces the birth of hip hop alongside the evolving disco scene, presenting a new take on an often-untold story. For this series, Luhrmann and Martin collaborated with costume designer Jeriana San Juan to build a wardrobe that would visually portray characters such as hip hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash, a crew of South Bronx teenagers who experiment with rhymes and spray cans, and the stylish singer-songwriter leading lady played by up-and-comer Herizen Guardiola.
We caught up with San Juan on set in New York mid-production earlier this year. We sat in the costume department, surrounded by floor-length trench coats, sparkling platform shoes, wrap dresses, and bell-bottomed jumpsuits, all hanging from countless clothing racks set up from floor to ceiling. Here, she shares her insight on the enduring legacy of ’70s-era fashion, what it was like working with the masterful Luhrmann and Martin, and how costume can contribute to effective character building in a period piece like The Get Down.
S/: Why do you think that ’70s-era fashion has had such a strong presence on the runways recently?
Jeriana San Juan: Seventies influences have been a continuing trend in fashion because the silhouettes are inherently flattering and they have so much flair. They embrace femininity. Bell bottom jeans, for example, make women’s legs look really good. And the colours are also really beautiful—the cranberries, the burnt oranges, the ochre yellows.
S/: It’s interesting, because it’s an era that’s in the past, but it’s so recent that we don’t usually think of it as history yet. It’s just becoming historical to us.
JS: Yeah! I mean, hip hop is now a multi-million dollar industry. And 40 years is not that long ago…. When you think about something coming together in a rec room, a party, a way of looping music together, of rhyming words over music…that it was something that was created entirely out of their own ingenuity and their own creativity…. It’s really interesting to be able to tell that story from a costume standpoint. It’s such a remarkable thing because it was along with the amazing music and graffiti and the street dancing that came the street fashion. So it was a big bang of culture, you know? The universe was created in a big bang, and hip hop was created in a big bang.
S/: So the story is set in both the glamorous disco clubs and the rugged Bronx area. How do you marry those two worlds when you’re thinking about creating these costumes?
JS: I feel like it was always an intention in my collaboration with Baz and Catherine to create a really strong juxtaposition between those two worlds. We want it to feel like our main characters in the Bronx are looking out across the river at a world that felt entirely different, but still a part of their life…. You’re experiencing the world through their eyes, how they were able to make the most out of their circumstances while also striving for a life that was maybe across that river…. We really tried to illustrate disco as glamorously as possible, and when we were in places like a rubble field in the Bronx that was burning down, we really tried to enhance those stories. It was literally a place littered with junk, junkies, and homeless people. It was a community of people living that way, and we showed all the elements. We didn’t try to delicately tiptoe around anything.
S/: In a lot of ways, it sounds like this show is a portrait of New York in that moment. It’s about the city itself.
JS: Exactly, it really is. I mean the city is genuinely another character on the show. You get to see all of the different sides of life in Manhattan—whether it was in the World Trade Center or a tenement apartment.
S/: Could you share some details on how you developed one of the central characters’ look?
JS: In developing Dizzee’s character [Marcus “Dizzee” Kipling—a talented graffiti artist and writer], played by Jaden Smith, we spoke about the character’s interest in fashion and art. I was able to create themes in the costume design based on this and use influences from designers and artists of the time period. This came out in details like the buttons that decorate many items from his wardrobe that are an ode to Patrick Kelly (a famous emerging fashion designer of the time) and the painting and drawing on his clothing which echo themes in the work of Basquiat and Andy Warhol.
S/: In addition to creating some looks from scratch, you also collaborated with designers on recreating key pieces and/or borrowing from their archives. Which designers/brands did you work with and why?
JS: In working with the sneakers from the period it is impossible to recreate them while still being authentic. It was important to incorporate all of the original brands and that included using Puma, Converse, and PRO-Keds. PRO-Keds, for example, was in the midst of relaunching their brand, so it was a match made in heaven. They recreated their original styles that existed during the time period, as did Puma and Converse. Puma lent the original Puma Clyde sneakers you see on the screen. The differences are small between the current version and the original however there are many people who know the differences and the goal was to be authentic in the details. Diane Von Furstenberg, Adrienne Landau, and Halston were also very giving with pieces from their archives.
S/: How do you think costume contributes to character building?
JS: I think costumes are integral to creating character. It’s how we identify them visually through the entire story. It will tell you exactly who they are, how much money they have, what their inspirations are, whether they are creative in their clothing, or whether they care about clothes at all. These are characters who genuinely care about their clothes. They care about how they’re represented in the world. I think that’s something that is really specific to hip hop culture.

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Twenty-eight Europe-bound refugees and migrants were found dead on a day of frantic rescues off Libya on Tuesday, including at least 22 in an overloaded wooden boat, a photographer and the Italian Coast Guard said.
The photographer, who was able to go aboard the vessel, said it appeared that many of the dead had suffocated.
He said there were about 1,000 people on three levels. He counted 22 bodies and said there were more dead in the hold.
The coast guard — which is coordinating rescue efforts in international waters north of Libya — said 28 bodies had been recovered over the course of 33 operations on Tuesday, while 4,655 refugees and migrants had been rescued.
The photographer was traveling on the Astral, a ship chartered by Spanish non-governmental organization ProActiva Open Arms, which rescues refugees and migrants at sea.
Late on Tuesday, the Italian Navy took over helping survivors and retrieving bodies, the photographer said.
It was yet another day of drama at sea after more than 6,000 people, most of them Africans in packed rubber dinghies, were rescued off Libya on Monday. Nine bodies were found in those operations, including a pregnant woman.
With numerous rescue boats en route to Italy to unload the huge human cargo collected on Monday, the Astral was left alone to deal with the overloaded wooden boat for several hours.
The Astral was aided only by lifeboats dropped by a Spanish military plane until the Italian Navy arrived at midday.
There was panic onboard, with people jumping into the water, the photographer said.
The Astral’s rescue operations had begun before dawn and lasted until nightfall.
The latest people to be rescued will add to a total of about 132,000 refugees and migrants who have landed at Italy’s southern ports so far this year, fleeing conflict, poverty or persecution, and hoping to start new lives in Europe.
The new arrivals are mostly Africans who plan to try to get to northern Europe, but increasingly are obliged to seek asylum or the right to remain in Italy, where reception centers have been strained to bursting point.
‘CONFESSED’: A court in Beijing said that former CCP member Ren Zhiqiang abused his power at a state firm and embezzled almost US$7.14 million of public funds A Chinese tycoon who called Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) a clown and criticized his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic was yesterday jailed for 18 years for corruption, bribery and embezzlement of public funds. Ren Zhiqiang (任志強) — once among the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) inner circle — disappeared from the public eye in March, shortly after penning an essay that lambasted Xi’s pandemic response. His outspokenness had earned the former chairman of state-owned property developer Huayuan Group the nickname “Big Cannon.” Yesterday’s verdict said that Ren embezzled almost 50 million yuan (US$7.4 million) of public funds and accepted bribes worth 1.25 million
AUSTRALIAN SITE: China has had a contract with SSC’s Yatharagga station since at least 2011, but the last time it used it was in June 2013. No final date has been given China would lose access to a strategic space tracking station in Western Australia when its contract expires, the facility’s owners said, a decision that cuts into Beijing’s expanding space exploration and navigational capabilities in the Pacific region. The Swedish Space Corp (SSC) has had a contract allowing Beijing access to the satellite antenna at the station since at least 2011. The station is located next to an SSC satellite station primarily used by the US and its agencies, including NASA. The Swedish state-owned company said it would not enter into any new contracts at the Australian site to support Chinese customers after
OFF BORDER ISLAND: The fisheries official disappeared from a patrol vessel wearing a life jacket and leaving behind his shoes, indicating an intentional move, Seoul said North Korean soldiers shot dead a suspected South Korean defector at sea and burned his body as a COVID-19 precaution after he was interrogated in the water over several hours, Seoul military officials said yesterday. It is the first killing of a South Korean citizen by North Korean forces for a decade, and comes with Pyongyang at high alert over the COVID-19 pandemic and inter-Korean relations at a standstill. The fisheries official disappeared from a patrol vessel near the western border island of Yeonpyeong on Monday, the official said. More than 24 hours later, North Korean forces located him in their waters and
The scarcity of commercial flights landing at Sydney Airport has been a disaster for airlines and workers, but for hobby pilots the COVID-19 pandemic has provided the opportunity of a lifetime. The quieter-than-usual runways mean that private pilots have been given the chance to land at the international airport for the first time. When Sydney Flight College club captain Tim Lindley put out a call, he received an overwhelming response. He eventually organized for 14 light aircraft to fly into Sydney airport on Sunday. “For a lot of the pilots involved, including myself, it was a childhood dream to land in a big


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No Escape from Empire: Cameron Rowland at London’s ICA
Derica Shields on how the 1661 Barbados Slave act shaped policing in contemporary Britain
Derica Shields on how the 1661 Barbados Slave act shaped policing in contemporary Britain
In the text that accompanies Cameron Rowland’s current exhibition ‘3 & 4 Will IV. c. 73’, at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London, the US artist links two dates: 1661, the year the colonial English legislature made the regulation and policing of the enslaved mandatory for all freemen in Barbados, and 1800, when British Parliament passed the Glasgow Police Act.  As Rowland notes: ‘[t]he slave patrol preceded the existence of the police in Britain and its colonies.’ In 1829, when Home Secretary Robert Peel created the London Metropolitan Police Force, Britain also had slave patrols and tenant militias policing captive Black populations on its West Indian plantations. Given that the United Kingdom was created from colonial violence and slave-trading wealth and now sustains itself by disavowing the same, it is unsurprising that few today connect contemporary British police forces with their forebears in England’s Caribbean and North American plantation colonies. Yet in many published British discussions of police abolition, the omission gapes, even as the origins of US police in slave patrols is accepted, and even as Black people in the UK are more intensely policed than any other population.
The English codified the choreography of Black capture in the 1661 Barbados Slave Act. Titled An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes, it was the first comprehensive slave law written in English, and it was widely copied. After helping to formulate the Barbados Slave Act, Thomas Modyford, a trained barrister, went to Jamaica along with 800 fellow English planters, where, in 1664, as the newly appointed Governor, he implemented it virtually unmodified. When English planters appropriated the land now known as the Carolinas (named for King Charles I), they took the off-the-books custom of publicly castrating rebel slaves practiced in Jamaica and Barbados and added it to their 1691 slave code. In Antigua (1702) and Virginia (1705), too, English planters organized into legislative assemblies either adopted the Barbados Slave Act wholesale or used it as the basis for whatever maximally exploitative version suited them. Back in England, King Charles II rewarded Modyford’s lawmaking with a Baronetcy of Lincoln’s Inn.
In Barbados, 1661 marked the first year since English settlement that enslaved Africans outnumbered the white population and there were continuous uprisings. White indentured labourers, including Irish servants, also rebelled. On the same date he signed the Barbados Slave Act, the Deputy Governor Henry Walrond, a sugar planter from Ilminster, also signed the Servant Act to increase the rights and entitlements of white labourers. The preamble of the Barbados Slave Act, however, frames enslaved resistance to captivity as evidence of African ‘baseness’ and innate violence, which in turn justifies the punitive clauses that follow (an alibi that, for the British, has stood the test of time). In the same section, the lawmakers use ‘negro’ interchangeably with ‘slave’, introducing their primary aim: cementing racial slavery. The act prohibited the enslaved from giving legal testimony against anyone but each other and from trial by a jury of their peers. White people of any status were within their rights to kill ‘a negro or other slave by night and out of the common path’. Black self-defence was punishable by death. The Barbados Slave Act made it the legal duty of all whites to watch, apprehend and punish captive Africans. White servants received financial reward or reduced indenture for policing, creating what Hilary Beckles in Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados (1989) calls a ‘white community’ that ‘functioned under law as a collective police force’.
Although the slave had no legal rights and provisions beyond those protections afforded ‘other goods and Chattels’, English lawmakers were careful to categorize Africans as fellow ‘men’. It was not exclusion from the category of human that fixed Black subjection in English colonial law, but inclusion. The same law that put Africans at the bottom of the tiered European conception of humanity, made indentured servants white, granting them safety, binary gender, and the right to own property and wield violence. Dazzled by their new mobility in this racial pyramid scheme, unpropertied whites worked with English planters to hone policing techniques. A mounted and uniformed militia patrolled on weekends and holidays, performed twice-monthly searches of slaves’ homes, pursued runaways and attended all gatherings of enslaved people – markets, funerals and celebrations included. When exhaustive patrols did not deter insurrection plots in 1675, 1692 and 1701, the Barbados Assembly moved towards total surveillance. Between 1696 and 1702, they introduced the tenant militia, first installing 2,000 imported English soldiers on plantations and then offering indentured servants rent-free land to serve as live-in plantation police. It was over 100 years before there was another co-ordinated, cross-plantation rebellion in Barbados.
As policing evolved, the numbers of maroons ‘run away into woods’, bemoaned in the 1661 Barbados Slave Act, dwindled. Yet, the enslaved still ran away – even without hope of reaching the alternative to plantation life that Maroon communities symbolised elsewhere in the Caribbean. Baffled by the networks that enabled petit-marronage, historians surmise that enslaved people held it a moral obligation to harbour those related to them by blood. If English planters also tried to understand Black freedom networks through their European obsession with consanguinity, that was perhaps a misrecognition that served in the runaways’ favour. In Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834), the English author Matthew Lewis records a conversation with his Jamaican slave who claims a man named ‘Old Luke’ as kin because ‘[h]e and my father were shipmates.’ Within the crisscrossing violence of the plantation, some of our ancestors knit new forms of Black relatedness from otherwise obliterating harm, abiding time to make shelter from trauma, fashioning the networks that birthed Bussa’s 1816 uprising. Even as we descendants of the enslaved live within structures invented by Europeans, we also have access to an inheritance of transformation.
In the ICA’s lower gallery, three police car searchlights are mounted on three load-bearing piers. The text alongside probability of escape (2020) traces three layers of descent – from the Barbados Slave Act, to the 1690 South Carolina slave code, to South Carolina’s 2012 statute – revealing the enduring legal logic that permits the taking of Black life; in the wording of today’s laws, there is no need to even name the ‘negro’. Against Britain’s exceptionalism, Rowland’s genealogy is satisfying. I relish its sharpness while also feeling the heaviness of living in the homeland of the authors of Barbados Slave Act. With help from the academy, Britain works at both ends to erase the origins and effects of its laws and institutions. Yet, as few statistics and ample lived experience testify, British state bodies still know whom to target.
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“[I]f any poor small free-holder or other person kill a Negro or other Slave by Night, out of the Road or Common Path, and stealing, or attempting to steal his Provision, Swine, or other Goods, he shall not be accountable for it; any Law, Statute, or Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding.”
– ‘An Act for the Governing of Negroes,’ Barbados, 1688
“[I]f any person shall kill a slave stealing in his house or plantation by night, the said slave refusing to submit himself, such person shall not be liable to any damage or action for the same; any law, custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.”
– ‘An Act for the Better Ordering of Slaves,’ South Carolina, 1690
“A citizen may arrest a person in the nighttime by efficient means as the darkness and the probability of escape render necessary, even if the life of the person should be taken, when the person:
(a) has committed a felony;
(b) has entered a dwelling house without express or implied permission;
(c) has broken or is breaking into an outhouse with a view to plunder;
(d) has in his possession stolen property; or
(e) being under circumstances which raise just suspicion of his design to steal or to commit some felony, flees when he is hailed.”
– SC Code § 17-13-20 (2012), South Carolina, current statute
Courtesy: the artist and Essex Street / Maxwell Graham, New York
 Derica Shields will be presenting a text from her forthcoming book Bad Practice (2020) at the ICA as part of the talks programme for Cameron Rowland’s exhibition.
Main image: Royal Marines from the HMS Rodney instruct members of the 'native police' in how to assemble and use a Lewis Gun, 1934. Courtesy: Getty Images; photograph: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive

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PuppetSoup have collaborated with the NHS to create the award-winning pilot version of ‘Fix Freddie!’ which was toured extensively throughout 2014 and 2015.
The show was developed in collaboration with Paediatric Consultant Doctor Francesca Cleugh of St Marys Hospital, London.
In 2014, ‘Fix Freddie!’ won the Liz Molyneux prize and research was published in the British Medical Journal and the Journal of Emergency Medicine.
We hope to redevelop and tour Fix Freddie! again in 2017.


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A new power saving chip developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego could significantly reduce or eliminate the need to replace batteries in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and wearables. The so-called wake-up receiver wakes up a device only when it needs to communicate and perform its function. It allows the device to stay dormant the rest of the time and reduce power use.
The technology is useful for applications that do not always need to be transmitting data, like IoT devices that let consumers instantly order household items they are about to run out of, or wearable health monitors that take readings a handful of times a day.
“The problem now is that these devices do not know exactly when to synchronize with the network, so they periodically wake up to do this even when there’s nothing to communicate. This ends up costing a lot of power,” said Patrick Mercier, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC San Diego. “By adding a wake-up receiver, we could improve the battery life of small IoT devices from months to years.”
The team, led by Mercier and UC San Diego electrical and computer engineering professors Drew Hall and Gabriel Rebeiz, published their work titled, “A 22.3 nW, 4.55 cm2 Temperature-Robust Wake-up Receiver Achieving a Sensitivity of -69.5 dBm at 9 GHz,” in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
The wake-up receiver is an ultra-low power chip that continuously looks out for a specific radio signal, called a wake-up signature, that tells it when to wake up the main device. It needs only a very small amount of power to stay on and do this–22.3 nanowatts in this case, about half a millionth the power it takes to run an LED night light.
A key part of this receiver’s design is that it targets higher frequency radio signals than other wake-up receivers. The signals are in the frequency of 9 gigahertz, which is in the realm of satellite communication, air traffic control and vehicle speed detection. Targeting a higher frequency allowed researchers to shrink everything, including the antenna, transformer and other off-chip components down into a much smaller package–at least 20 times smaller than prior nanowatt-level work.
This wake-up receiver can also do something else that other nanowatt-powered receivers cannot: perform well over a wide temperature range. For this receiver, performance is consistent from -10 C up to 40 C (14 F to 104 F). Typically, performance in low power wake-up receivers drops if the temperature changes by even just a few degrees. “For indoor use, this is not a big deal. But for outdoors use, it needs to work over a wide temperature window. We specifically addressed that in this work,” Mercier said.
The UC San Diego team developed new circuit designs and system-level techniques to equip their receiver with all these features while boosting sensitivity. These were made possible thanks to cutting edge ultra-low power electronics developed by the Mercier and Hall labs, and advanced antenna and radio technologies developed by the Rebeiz lab.
According to the researchers, this receiver’s combination of nanowatt-level power consumption, small package size (4.55 square centimeters in area), sensitivity (-69.5 dBm) and temperature performance is the best that has been published to date.
“These numbers are pretty impressive in the field of wireless communications–power consumption that low, while still retaining temperature-robustness, all in a small, highly sensitive system–this will enable all sorts of new IoT applications,” Mercier said.
There is a small tradeoff in latency. There is a 540-millisecond delay between when the receiver detects the wake-up signature and when it wakes up the device. But for the intended applications, researchers note that this amount of delay is not a problem.
“You don’t need high-throughput, high-bandwidth communication when sending commands to your smart home or wearables devices, for example, so the trade-off of waiting for a mere half a second to get a 100,000x improvement in power is worth it,” Mercier said.
Paper title: “A 22.3 nW, 4.55 cm2 Temperature-Robust Wake-up Receiver Achieving a Sensitivity of -69.5 dBm at 9 GHz.” Co-authors include: Haowei Jian, Po-Han Peter Wang, Li Gao and Corentin Pochet.
This work was supported by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, contract HR0011-15-C-0134) and equipment purchased through a DURIP award from the Office of Naval Research (award N00014-18-1-2350).
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Mistletoe in Beirut Crosses Religious Lines
By IHSAN A. HIJAZI, Special to The New York Times
Published: December 21, 1990
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 20— Almost every store on Hamra Street, the shopping center of the Muslim part of the Lebanese capital, has mistletoe dangling in the doorway.
"We're selling the mistletoe as fast as we can bring it in," said Samih Daouk, a flower shop owner who says he imports his mistletoe from Europe and Syria. "We sold mistletoe at Christmas in the past, but this year, the demand was overwhelming. Why? Perhaps because Lebanese for once feel that there is a genuine hope for peace.'
Harach Manoukian, an Armenianwho owns a jewelry store, said: "This Christmas, you sense the new mood among Lebanese, and I mean all Lebanese. I am not talking about Muslim and Christian."
Beirut was reunited only three weeks ago under the Government of President Elias Hrawi, a Christian, and the national army. The Government controls less than 10 percent of Lebanese territory but about half of the country's 2.9 million people, and those within the Government-controlled zone are breathing a heavy sigh of relief that the gunmen who had spread violence and terror in the past are gone.
The city is again displaying the spiritof religious tolerance that was characteristic of prewar Beirut. Muslims know the mistletoe they hang in their stores is part of Christmas celebrations in much of Europe. Christmas trees can be found in equal numbers on Hamra Street as in the heart of Ashrafiyeh, the main Christian quarter of Beirut. With the city supplying only three hours of power a day, shopkeepers keep generators going late into the night to keep the tree lights shining.
The city Government, which has a Muslim mayor, has helped adorn the streets with Christmas lights and Santa Claus figurines.
Business is brisk, with shoppers jamming the stores to buy gifts. "My 8-year-old son wants a gift for Christmas because his Christian friend in school is getting one," said a Muslim housewife who was looking at toys in a department store.
Shopowners have organized a campaign to beautify their areas with flowers and bushes."This way we have achieved two goals," said Khalil Nahhas, who owns a gift shop. "We kept cars from parking on the sidewalks and stopped people from piling their trash in front of our store."
But for the first time since Lebanon was engulfed in a national turmoil a holiday spirit prevails. "Santa Claus will come to Beirut," an 8-year-old Christian boy, George Khoury, announced confidently. "He has nothing to fear any longer. There is no war, there is peace now."

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No longer do mundane green-and-silver metal signs welcome drivers to Cooper City. Now, motorists are being greeted more colorfully.
The 10 new "Welcome to Cooper City" signs display the green silhouette of a tree against a salmon pink ground.
Designer of the signs was Carl Presti, a member of the Community Appearance Board, who teaches commercial art at Miami Lakes Technical Center.
And because Presti worked on the signs, the design didn't cost the city a cent, said Public Works Director John Flint. He estimated the cost of the signs at about $50 each.
The city has been designated this year as a "Tree City, U.S.A." In order to remain a tree city, the city has to maintain a certain number of trees per resident.
The Community Appearance Board toyed with different ideas for one or two months, according to chairman Patti Mazzoli.
The signs are up at such intersections of Flamingo Road, Sheridan Street, Stirling Road, and Griffin Road. All were installed Aug. 30.


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Since hitting the mainstream with its acquisition of one of the biggest streamers of all time, the question mark over the Mixer's viability has been a persistent issue.
Mixer has grown since its early days as Beam.pro, but it hasn't seen the types of audiences that typically allow people to become career streamers. Frustration with the platform has led many ex-partners to move to other services in recent months for more exposure, whether it's Twitch, YouTube, or indeed, Facebook Gaming, which brings us to today's topic.
Today, Microsoft revealed that it is beginning the process to sunset Mixer, planning to "close the operations side of Mixer," and support creators into choosing new platforms.
Microsoft is teaming up with Facebook Gaming to provide a "bridge" and direct partnership for all of Mixer's existing partnered streamers. As far as we know, it's only Facebook Gaming offering a direct avenue for partnerships right now. Microsoft expanded, detailing how it intends to help migrate the Mixer community, and offer a new home for streamers who choose to jump across to Facebook instead of other platforms.
The news came as a bit of a shock to me personally, especially as someone who began streaming on Beam.pro for Windows Central back when all of this came about. However, the writing was ultimately on the wall when Mixer failed to grow during a period when literally everybody was indoors. Many of Mixer's competitors saw triple-digit growth, while Mixer only saw 0.2 percent. The slow pace of updates likely didn't help either, as many of Mixer's unique platform strengths got copied rapidly by its competitors, who then iterated more quickly to bring benefits for those investing in the platform.
Project xCloud meets Facebook Gaming
Facebook isn't exactly the friendliest company, embroiled in what feels like near-weekly controversies. Even when you disregard its inaction over fake news and the spread of weird conspiracy theories across its platform, it's not something typically talked about in the wider core gaming community, despite its massive size. Indeed, Facebook is a platform with billions of users, which by far outstrips the kind of reach Mixer would likely ever be able to achieve, even if they baked it directly into Windows itself. It's with that in mind then, that we come to Microsoft's other announcement, that it will be partnering up with Facebook to bring Project xCloud to the platform.
There are no hard details about exactly what they will be doing, but I imagine it will be similar to scenarios posited previously by Google Stadia, such as moving straight from a game stream on YouTube to playing it on Stadia, for example.
Facebook's massive platform size will give the Xbox developer environment more endpoints than PC and Xbox could do by itself, which could help Project xCloud to truly explode if positioned properly. We'll have to wait and see how that plays out.
Bye bye Mixer
We grew a nice little channel over there, and I just want to thank and shoutout all the amazing partners and Mixer community members and staff who made streaming there unique and fun. The smaller audience certainly made it difficult to turn streaming into a career over there, but Mixer at least attempted to offer an oasis in a desert of toxicity that generally plagues online video game conversations, with investments in things like its AI moderator system.
The partnership with Facebook Gaming will undoubtedly be a boost for Project xCloud, but for the Mixer community, it remains to be seen whether Facebook can really offer the kind of close-knit community that Mixer once fostered. I made far more friends on Mixer than I ever did streaming on other platforms, with viewers and streamers who were generally awesome people (you know who you are).
If you've enjoyed our streams on Mixer, know that we'll continue streaming the Windows Central Podcast over on our main YouTube channel, and streaming games over on our separate Windows Central Gaming YouTube channel here.
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ELKTON GAS COMPANY’S STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCEMENT (“STRIDE”) PLAN APPLICATION
Case No. 9660
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On March 2, 2021, the Elkton Gas Company filed an application for approval of a new gas system strategic infrastructure development and enhancement (“STRIDE”) plan and accompanying cost recovery mechanism. The Maryland Public Service Commission (the “Commission”) has initiated the above-titled proceeding to consider approval of the company’s proposal.
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Nevline Nnaji- 2018
Documentary filmmaker focusing on black women’s lives and founder of the New Negress Film Society
A New Lens on History
By Abenezer Belamo
Looking back on history, the Civil Rights movement is regarded as the cornerstone for the progress towards equality for people of color. While this is somewhat true, the story is different for black women. Black women were facing marginalization within the Civil Rights and Feminist movement. Society is less familiar with this reality because history is often told from a male standpoint. Nevline Nnaji is a multidisciplinary artist that has tried to challenge this issue by making a documentary about Black women being unrepresented in the movements they were fighting for. Nnaji encourages Black women everywhere to speak up and tell their stories via her documentary since it is critical to break the silence.
Nevline Nnaji has used her voice to inspire black women across America. Through directing this outstanding documentary film, Nnaji has been able to utilize her platform by not only educating the general public, but also creating an open community for black women to discuss and unpack the decades-worth of political marginalization designed to suppress black women’s voices. Throughout the development process, Nnaji aspired to emphasize the challenges women of color sought to overcome by presenting her criticism regarding the dominant narrative of Civil Rights history from the black male perspective. In an interview with Nikki Giovanni from the documentary, Giovanni explains that black women are usually comprised in the term black when talking about discrimination. “I don’t know that I have ever faced discrimination, as a woman, as yet, and I think that’s because the racial situation in America makes most black women face discrimination as black” (Richardson, 2013).
By solely uplifting and focusing on black women’s voices to express their views and contributions, Nnaji’s documentary triumphantly accomplishes promoting the Black feminist movement. She encourages the distinctiveness of each black woman’s viewpoint, hence sharing their experience is extremely important as it can inspire and educate others. Nnaji, herself, has been inspired by Elaine Brown to make the documentary. While reading about the sexism Brown experienced within the Black Panther Party from her memoir, “A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story”, Nnaji resolves that she must do something about it. “I thought the Black Power movement was supposed to be empowering for all people,” Nnaji said. “Reading all those things made me want to do a film about discrimination against Black women” (Brown, 2013). The documentary serves to remind black women that their true power lies in their identity, in the fact that they themselves are black women and not in their ideologies of change or militant dreams.
Nevline Nnaji’s determination to correct something that society has gotten wrong is why she is important to us today. She is a beacon of inspiration for black women everywhere through her documentary, which motivates them to use their own voices. Her strong drive and relentless dedication to empower black women has modeled the way for the next generation.
BFC/A. “Reflections Unheard: BFC/A Interview with Nevline Nnaji.” Black Film Center/Archive Blog, The Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University, 9 Apr. 2016, blackfilmcenterarchive.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/reflections-unheard-bfca-interview-with-nevline-nnaji/.
Jr., Michael T. Barry. “‘Reflections Unheard’: A New Film on Black Women and Civil Rights.” AAIHS, AAIHS, 15 Mar. 2017, www.aaihs.org/reflections-unheard-a-new-film-on-black-women-and-civil-rights/.
BROWN, COURTENAY. “Film Spotlights ‘Unheard’ Voices in Civil Rights Movement.” New York Amsterdam News, vol. 104, no. 25, 20 June 2013, p. 18. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asn&AN=102758463&authtype=sso&custid=s3915890&site=eds-live&scope=site.
“About.” Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights, 5 July 2018, reflectionsunheardfilm.com/about/.
Richardson, Judy, et al. Reflections Unheard : Black Women in Civil Rights. Women Make Movies, 2013. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat05812a&AN=mil.997588922203569&authtype=sso&custid=s3915890&site=eds-live&scope=site


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Navika Kotia is a television actor who has been most active on television during from 2008 to the present date. She is residing in Mumbai, and continuing her acting career from Mumbai. She is most popularly known for her role of Chikki in the serial Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. This show was aired on January, 2009 on Star Plus and is still running with around more than fifteen hundred episodes. The main theme of the show is discovering love after marriage, what happens to the protagonists of the show. The serial is based in Jaipur, Rajasthan. In this serial she plays the role of a spoilt kid, and her story follows as she is brought back on track.
She has also featured in the movie English-Vinglish, whose protagonist was Sridevi. This movie was about a house wife and her journey about exploring herself and also learning a language new to her, English. In this movie she plays sister to her real brother Shivash Kotia. She has also featured in the serial; , which is based on the theme of child marriage.
She has also been a part of the serial Baa Bahoo Aur Baby, which was a tale of a Gujarati family and its three generations and had a new outlook towards life and its ideals. She has done a cameo in
that features on Life OK with a new story every day, about the wrong happenings in India, and works as a warning to the audience who are asked to be careful.
She is just sixteen years old, but this beautiful actress has won many hearts with her performances as described above.

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Hi, everyone! How ya’ll doing? 😀 Hope you’re good! It’s almost my birthday and I’m very excited! 😀 So! Have I ever mentioned that I love Robin Hood stories? 😀 I do. One of my favorite shows in the whole world is BBC’s Robin Hood. I started watching in high school and I got the box set of the show for christmas one year. 😀 My friends all loved it too, so we’d all come over to my house and watch the show together.
So, Robin Hood is a favorite legend of mine. I collect books and novels about him. 😀 Seriously. I have around a hundred or so. 😀 So, I thought for today’s spotlight, I could do a Robin Hood author. 😀
Steven A. Mckay
Seriously, this dude is awesome. 😀 He’s a bestselling Amazon author in his catagories and he’s got so many reviews on his stuff! His stuff is great, by the way. I’m only part way through his Robin Hood series, because I’m a super freaking slow reader as a grown up. But it’s so awesome! (I miss school only for how fast I could finish my school work and have free time to read. lol) And he’s got a seriously awesome mailing list! I’m part of it, so I get awesome cover reveals, can enter drawings for signed books (haven’t won yet, but I’m hoping!), and I even got a free audible book the other day! 😀
It was Knight of the Cross, and I’m really excited to listen to it!
Isn’t that pretty! 😀 ❤ And it comes in audio, print, and ebook! Tiny 103 page paperback! Lennie Like! ❤
So, I’m sure ya’ll would like to see his author bio, right? 😀 If not, to bad! I’m sharing anyway! ❤ lol. Love ya’ll!
Steven A. McKay was born in Scotland in 1977. His first book, “Wolf’s Head”, came out in 2013 and was an Amazon UK top 20 bestseller. The Forest Lord series, which “Wolf’s Head” is part of, now has over 130,000 sales so far.
Steven’s new novel, “Song of the Centurion” is the second in a series set in post-Roman Britain. The first installment, “The Druid”, was published on November 1st 2018, holding the number 1 spot in the UK “Celtic Myths and Legends” chart for the next three months.
His first novel written exclusively for audio, “Lucia”, has been produced by Audible Studios and tells the tale of a Roman slave in second-century Britannia. It will be published on October 22nd, 2019.
Steven plays lead guitar and sings in a heavy metal band when they can find the time to meet up.
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WA Delegate: The Pacific Imperium of Aleisyr (elected )
Embassies: the West Pacific, Balder, Europe, The East Pacific, Osiris, NationStates, Mordor, Warzone Australia, The New Pacific Order, the South Pacific, Atlantic, The Western Isles, The Communist Bloc, Imperium of the Wolf, and Lazarus.
Regional Power: Extremely High
Today's World Census Report
The Highest Unexpected Death Rate in the Pacific
The World Census paid their respects at cemeteries in order to determine how likely citizens were to die each year from unnatural causes, such as crime, preventable illness, accident, and government encouragement.
As a region, the Pacific is ranked 9,022nd in the world for Highest Unexpected Death Rate.
|31.||The Dominion of Stuffcit||Inoffensive Centrist Democracy||“Make things to break things”|
|32.||The Federal Alliance of Morganham||Father Knows Best State||“Operating over ten years with the same motto! ...Wait -”|
|33.||The Imperial Dominion of Pacifica Peace||Father Knows Best State||“Sic Transit Gloria Mundi”|
|34.||The Witless Sheep of New Triscritia||Iron Fist Consumerists||“I hate this country and its people”|
|35.||The Dominion of La Nueva Orden||Iron Fist Consumerists||“QUOTE”|
|36.||The United national kingdom of Burdiand||Capitalist Paradise||“We are made by country”|
|37.||The Armed Republic of Bananabush||Corporate Police State||“We dont like Bananatree”|
|38.||The Empire of Treazul||Corporate Police State||“If it's not mine, it will be.”|
|39.||The Empire of Shadowthrone||Corporate Police State||“Load up and Shoot”|
|40.||The Dictatorship of Niyazovistan||Corporate Police State||“Comrade Niyazov is always right!”|
- : The Commonwealth of Atheister was founded.
- : The Republic of Earthh was founded.
- : The United States of Tors was founded.
- : The Empire of Theolampio arrived from Eastland.
- : The United States of The Reformed Russian Republic was founded.
- : The Constitutional Monarchy of Glothare was founded.
- : The Empire of Adylland was founded.
- : The People's Republic of Socialist Brazil-Argentina departed this region for Revolutionary Socialist League.
- : The Empire of NaziUSA departed this region for 10000 Islands.
- : The Empire of NaziUSA was founded.
The Pacific Regional Message Board
Is that monthy pyton? :D
Secret secret, he's got a secret!
Our chief weapon is peace. Peace and justice.
Our two weapons are peace, justice, and a dedication to a rules based global order.
Our three weapons...
Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: peace, justice, a dedication to a rules based global order, and nice red uniforms.
Finally made it to top 1% for scientific advancement. Looking forward to starting interplanetary settlement
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
This certificate I'd made out to The Grand Imperial Magocracy of Zhufbar for trying.
Khoume is ranked 167,207th in the world and 9,683rd in the Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 26.13 on the Bus Surprisal Index.
Living in Khoume is like looking both ways before you cross the road, then nearly getting hit by a plane, but then actually getting hit, then eaten, by a bear.

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Cardboard Gingerbread Houses with Wikki Stix
By Jaclyn Ryan
One of the holiday traditions I have enjoyed most over the years is making gingerbread houses with my children. A staple of Christmas, gingerbread houses can be as simple or as complicated as you’d like!
Legend has it that the gingerbread house has been around since medieval times and now gingerbread house making is an actual, real life profession! Try doing a simple google search and you will see the endless ideas and designs that go into the making of this Christmas tradition.
With my children, I have come to enjoy the crafty type of gingerbread house a lot more than the edible version. Crafting gingerbread houses instead of eating them with my kids means we still get to enjoy a fun Christmas tradition, but with much less mess and without the sugar crash!
My three daughters were so excited when I told them we’d be partnering with Wikki Stix to make some fun gingerbread houses out of cardboard! These are relatively simple to make, they are so much fun for kids (and for everyone else in the family, too)!
Wikki Stix is actually the perfect tool to use with an open ended craft project like this one. They provide a whole bunch of color options within their Big Count Box – 13 different colors, to be exact. Each Wikkie is 6-in length and there are 468 of them in all! I love that they came packaged in a flip-top box that can also be fun to decorate in and of itself and can also be used for storage. Best of all, Wikki Stix do not need to be taped or glued down – simply press them to the surface to adhere them!
My recommendation is to begin this project by surrendering all creative design over to your children. Definitely let them know that there is no right or wrong way to do this project. You can do a quick google search for gingerbread house coloring page printables for design inspiration, but let your children take the lead with the actual project. I promise you, the result will be far more adorable than if you try to guide their every move with this craft.
- Wikki Stix Big Count Box
- Gingerbread House Printable (optional)
- A good pair of scissors
Cut out each part of your cardboard house separately. In this instance, we needed:
- A floor
- Sides (2)
- Roof (2)
We used a template that I found after a quick google search. Label each piece as you go so that you don’t get confused.
Have your children brainstorm their design. Try to keep things as open-ended as possible and focus on the process above all else. By focusing on the process of creation rather than the finished product, children are free to embrace their creativity, make independent decisions and gain confidence in their own abilities.
Once their design is complete, guide your children to choose the colors, the shapes and anything else they see fit for their gingerbread house! The most fun part about this craft in particular is that it focuses mainly on the “decorating”, which is something children can easily do independently and however which way they please!
Use scissors to cut the Wikkies, as needed. Instruct children to press down hard on the cardboard to get the Wikkies to attach (this is actually great fine motor practice!). That’s it — no glue is even needed for this craft until the very end!
Once all Wikki Stix decorations have been added, assemble your gingerbread houses using a low temp hot glue gun. Then, add them to your holiday display at home!
Aren’t these just adorable? And as you can see, they aren’t too difficult to make! So, grab yourself some leftover Amazon boxes, Wikki Stix, and get the whole family involved. You could even have a gingerbread house making competition! Whatever you decide to do, be sure to have fun with it and take some pictures as it will surely make some lovely family memories!
About Jaclyn Ryan
Jaclyn Ryan is a mom of four, former teacher (MS Ed in Early Childhood), and early childhood advocate. She lives in Connecticut with her family and prefers to engage her children in activities that foster creativity and connection — and that are also fun!

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September 9, 2021 7:06 PM
Air Quality since Labor Day weekend is up and down after a smokeless end to August.
September 9, 2021 11:53 AM
President Joe Biden will visit Idaho on Monday as part of a three-state trip to the West.
September 8, 2021 6:04 PM
This year’s fire season started months earlier than usual because of the historic drought conditions.
September 8, 2021 5:47 PM
The Pend Oreille County Sheriff's Office says no homes are threatened by the fire.
September 6, 2021 4:38 PM
This Labor Day, the community of Malden gathered to remember the fateful day when their spirit was tested, but not broken.
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What time of day is best to battle flames? When do residents evacuate? And why do firefighters sometimes let a wildfire spread? Ten questions answered.
September 6, 2021 7:29 AM
With firefighting resources strained and burning harder to contain, many face last-minute changes or cancellations to outdoor adventures.
September 2, 2021 5:02 PM
Last year, fires that started on Labor Day weekend accounted for more than 70 percent of all acres burned in 2020.
September 2, 2021 10:22 AM
BONNER CO., Idaho -- A wildfire has burned 42 acres about 11 miles northeast of Priest River. 60 firefighters, five engines, one bulldozer and one excavator are responding to the Prater Red 2 Fire. Multiple helicopters and fire boss aircraft…
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The Ford Corkscrew Fire started on Aug. 15 near Ford and forced hundreds of families to evacuate.
August 24, 2021 8:05 PM
Families forced to evacuate because of the Ford Corkscrew Fire could soon know when they head back home.
August 24, 2021 4:33 PM
The guardsmen will provide five hand crews to help fight the 45,554-acre fire.
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Fire crews said there was no change in evacuation status, but they were are being addressed in team meetings and we expect to have news in the next couple of days.
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Your growing bump is not the only change that happens during pregnancy. Like the uterus, your skin will also have to undergo changes to accommodate the baby. The influx of hormones and change in blood circulation will have an effect on your skin during pregnancy. Most of the changes disappear after your baby is born. But, you will feel good during those nine months if you take care of these skin issues. Here are a few ways to address common skin problems.
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Now that you are pregnant, stretch marks are bound to happen. Most expectant moms experience stretch marks. Pregnancy causes your skin to stretch more, leaving pinkish or reddish streaks on it. It appears around your breast, belly, or hips. Apply lotions that contain vitamin E and alpha hydroxy acids to minimize stretch marks.1 Also, avoid excessive weight gain to reduce the risk of getting these marks. Do
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As the requirements of your body change, there will be 50 percent more blood production. This increase in blood circulation brings that extra brightness on your face. Moreover, the hormones HCG and progesterone cause the glands to secrete more oil, making your skin shinier. However, use an oil free cleanser to wash your face if your skin becomes too oily. Other than that, love this glow and enjoy it while it lasts.
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3.Mask Of Pregnancy
Also known as melasma and chlosma, this causes dark patches on your face, especially on the forehead and cheeks. The appearance of dark splotchy
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4.Pimple and Acne
While you enjoy the pregnancy glow, others may not be lucky enough. The hormones that cause the oil glands to produce more oil do the damage for them. The extra oil leads to pimple breakouts and acne. Use soap-free face wash to keep the face clean. Choose an oil-free moisturizer lotion with SPF 15
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The enlarged bluish veins that can be seen on your legs are varicose veins. The increased blood volume during pregnancy puts pressure on the veins, causing varicose veins. They can also appear on the buttocks and vaginal area. Adopt these preventive measures:
- Avoid sitting or standing for long periods of time
- Elevate your legs periodically to improve blood circulation
- Start regular exercises, which are safe for pregnancy
- Walk as much as
- Do not use high heels
- Cut down sodium intake
- Get enough vitamin C
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The increased blood circulation exerts pressure on your capillaries, resulting in small, reddish blood vessels known as spider veins. They disappear within a few months of giving birth. Increase your vitamin C intake to minimize spider veins. Also, restrain yourself from crossing your legs.
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This is expected as your skin stretches with the growing belly. Dryness and itchiness trouble you during this period. To get relief from this, keep your abdomen moisturized. Lotions or anti-itch cream such as Calamine may comfort you. Do not use creams that contain chemicals. If the itching is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, fatigue, loss of appetite, or jaundice,
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You may not have noticed it before. The line that runs from your navel to your pubic bone darkens during pregnancy has always been there. But, it was so light in color. During pregnancy, it darkens. Well, it is harmless and nothing can be done about it. And it fades way after childbirth.
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9.Darkening Of Skin
Moles, nipples, areolas and labia become darker as you get pregnant. Changes in your skin pigmentation caused by high volume of pregnancy hormones are the reason behind this. There is nothing you can do to stop this. And unlike other changes, they may remain so even after pregnancy.
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Background: In some settings, research methods to determine influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) may not be appropriate because of cost, time constraints, or other factors. Administrative database analysis of viral testing results and vaccination history may be a viable alternative. This study compared VE estimates from outpatient research and administrative databases.
Methods: Using the test-negative, case-control design, data for 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 influenza seasons were collected using: 1) consent, specimen collection, RT-PCR testing and vaccine verification using multiple methods; and 2) an administrative database of outpatients with a clinical respiratory viral panel combined with electronic immunization records. Odds ratios for likelihood of influenza infection by vaccination status were calculated using multivariable logistic regression. VE = (1 - aOR) × 100.
Results: Research participants were significantly younger (P < 0.001), more often white (69% vs. 59%; P < 0.001) than non-white and less frequently enrolled through the emergency department (35% vs. 72%; P < 0.001) than administrative database participants. VE was significant against all influenza and influenza A in each season and both seasons combined (37-49%). Point estimate differences between methods were evident, with higher VE in the research database, but insignificant due to low sample sizes. When enrollment sites were separately analyzed, there were significant differences in VE estimates for all influenza (66% research vs. 46% administrative P < 0.001) and influenza A (67% research vs. 49% administrative; P < 0.001) in the emergency department.
Conclusions: The selection of the appropriate method for determining influenza vaccine effectiveness depends on many factors, including sample size, subgroups of interest, etc., suggesting that research estimates may be more generalizable. Other advantages of research databases for VE estimates include lack of clinician-related selection bias for testing and less misclassification of vaccination status. The advantages of the administrative databases are potentially shorter time to VE results and lower cost.
Keywords: Administrative databases; Influenza; Vaccine; Vaccine effectiveness.
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The British No1 Andy Murray has reached the third round of the ATP Masters 1000 event in Paris with a battling 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 win over the Argentinian David Nalbandian.
Murray was broken twice in the first set despite serving seven aces, but levelled after breaking in the final game of the second set.
A wrist problem caused concern in the third set but he pressed on. Another late break put him on the verge at 5-3 and he served out superbly to love.
There were also straight-sets victories for the second seed Novak Djokovic and the No8 Andy Roddick.
Murray next plays the 13th-seeded Croatian Marin Cilic who beat the Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.