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Duncan Hannah is is an artist who became popular in the 1970’s in New York’s avant-garde and glam and punk rock scenes, acted in a number of underground movies, and showed several of his figurative portraits in 1980’s infamous Times Square Show. His work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Art Institute. His new book is Twentieth-Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies.
Duncan is speaking at House of SpeakEasy’s Seriously Entertaining show on March 20th, themed A Matter of Time, alongside David Enrich, Stefan Merrill Block, and Joselin Linder. We spoke to Duncan ahead of the show…
Describe your current project:
I edited my journals from the 1970’s, which Knopf is releasing as “20th Century Boy”
What is your earliest memory involving reading or writing? Probably either Curious George or Harold and the Purple Crayon.
What is your favorite line from your current work? The last line of the book, “Look for what you love.”
What is your favorite first line of a novel? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
What advice would you give to aspiring writers? Be a vacation reader!
What writer do you wish you could share with the world? Arthur Machen
What are you reading right now? L.A. Woman by Eve Babitz
What fictional character do you most closely identify with? Charles Ryder from Brideshead Revisited.
If you could live inside a fictional world, which one would you choose? The Paris of A Moveable Feast
Are there any quotes you use to inspire you? “Only Connect.” —E.M. Forster.

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Heat a nonstick pan over medium heat. Add the ham slices and cook until slightly crisp and warmed through. Remove the ham to a plate. Add a few tablespoons of butter to the pan, whisk 8 large eggs in a bowl, season with salt and pepper and cook over low heat until soft curds form and stir in the chives.
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"The Walking Dead" brings life to Ga. town
When the cotton mill closed, the rural Georgia town of Grantville began a slow transformation into a ghost town.
Residents fled. Storefronts faded. Buildings decayed.
City of Savannah fires director of film office
The director of Savannah’s film office was fired Monday after city officials said complaints surfaced about the production of “Spongebob 2 The Movie.”
Atlanta logs dramatic turnaround in homelessness
After Larry Mainor left the armed forces, he spent years getting high on crack and sleeping in cars, under bridges, behind restaurants and even in the woods. Now, he finally has a roof over his head and his own bed to sleep in.
Inmates find relief from anger through yoga
It’s just a double-wide, but for some inmates, the classroom trailer at the Clarke County Jail is a calming oasis away from the turmoil of the cell blocks.
Savannah-Chatham police chief abruptly retires
The Savannah-Chatham County police chief is retiring a day after it was revealed that City Hall is investigating a sexual harassment claim against him.
Balfour indicted on expense-related charges
A grand jury has charged state Sen. Don Balfour with illegally claiming legislative expense pay and double-billing the state and his private employer for the same expenses, according to an indictment released Friday.
U.S. honors Ray Charles with stamp
The U.S. Postal Service is planning to add soul singer Ray Charles to its “Music Icons Forever” stamp series.
Falcons sweeten deal to buy church for stadium
The Atlanta Falcons are offering an extra $8 million to purchase a church property that sits at the site of a proposed $1 billion, retractable roof stadium that the NFL team wants to build, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said Friday.
Deal touts Ga.’s energy efforts, links to jobs
Gov. Nathan Deal touted the state’s efforts to lure manufacturing firms with its energy policy on Monday, saying a recent energy sales tax exemption has brought jobs to Georgia and that a stable supply in the state could bring more.
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Retired female cop wins more than $1MILLION after 104 officers used official database to look at her licence photo more than 420 TIMES
- Officers used private database to look up Anne Marie Rasmusson more 425 times since 2007
- Rasmusson, a former cop, said she became suspicious when former co-workers called out of the blue asking her out
- All 104 officers could lose their jobs if found guilty
A former female Minnesota police officer will receive more than $1million in multiple lawsuit settlements after learning that dozens of her former co-workers illegally accessed her driver’s licence record just to gawk at her picture.
The Minneapolis City Council has agreed last week to pay Anne Marie Rasmusson $392,000, on top of a $280,000 settlement she reached with several other cities whose officers violated the law by accessing her record for personal reasons.
Rasmusson will also be awarded $385,000 from the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, for a total of $1,057,000 that taxpayers will have to pay, Wired reported. That figure could be even higher if the retired officer wins her suit against the state.
Violated: Officers used their private database to look up Anne Marie Rasmusson's driver's licence photo, right, more than 400 times since 2007. She's seen pictured with her husband, left
Toned: Rasmusson began entering body building competitions after she was forced into medical retirement, losing more than 70 pounds
The case marks one of the largest data breaches committed by law enforcement officials in history, according to the Minneapolis independent paper City Pages.
An investigation into Minnesota’s Dakota County Sheriff’s office, as well as state troopers and Bloomington police show that more than 100 officers - from chiefs on down - were using the database as their personal Facebook.
Rasmusson, who was known by colleagues as Bubbles because of her cheerful personality, first became aware that other officers were looking up her photo when a former police academy colleague mentioned to her in 2009 that she looked great and that he and his partner had used their squad car computer to view her driver’s license image.
In August 2011, she contacted the
state’s Department of Public Safety asking if it was possible to
restrict access to her driver’s license file. Following an
investigation, a DPS worker revealed that her record had been accessed
by officers numerous times as far back as 2007.
Ms Rasmusson, a 37-year-old retired cop, stands at a petite five feet two and has her hair trimmed short.
Officers are only supposed to look someone up for official reasons.
That said, the incredible misuse of the database is astounding – City Pages found that 104 officers in 18 different state agencies accessed her driver’s licence record 425 times.
There were 24 police officers in Minneapolis who accessed her record 133 times, and 42 officers in St. Paul who looked her up 175 times.
The 37-year-old woman told City Pages: ‘There is nothing that I would say about this driver’s licence photo or any of my previous ones that in any way would deserve the attention that they’ve gotten.’
Breech of trust: Rasmusson, right, said she felt her privacy was violated and got sick after she found out how many times her personal data was accessed
Ms Ramusson told the paper that she feels her privacy has been violated. When she found out to what degree, she actually became ill.
One officer, who requested that he not be named, said that every cop – regardless of rank – had looked at her file.
In the lawsuits Rasmusson filed, she alleged that the officers violated, among other things, the federal Drivers Privacy Protection Act, which prohibits states from disclosing personal information that drivers submit to obtain a license.
The city of St. Paul denied Rasmusson’s invasion-of-privacy allegations and any liability for her claims, but said it agreed to settle with her in order ‘to avoid the uncertainties and costs associated with continued litigation of this matter.’
Under the settlement, Rasmusson’s name, picture, address and other personal information will be removed from the city and police department’s internal directory and website.
In the aftermath of the case, most of the officers who looked up Rasmusson’s record got away with warning letters and additional training.
An officer who accessed the woman’s file record 13 times received the harshest punishment in the form of a demotion and a five-day suspension.
In Minneapolis, however, none of the 24 officers who looked up Rasmusson’s photo have been disciplined, while St. Paul absolved four of its officers.
When she was 24 and new to the St Paul police force, one of her co-workers suggested a bet – who could lose the most body fat in three months.
The once overweight officer dropped 15 pounds in three months, and continued her regimen of exercise and healthy eating until she dropped an additional 70lbs.
Questions: She became suspicious after several acquaintances called her up out of the blue and asked her out on dates
An injury in 2003 forced Ms Ramusson to go into early retirement, but the determined fitness guru continued working out, and began entering body building competitions while her husband – another Minnesota officer – went to work.
She became suspicious when a former academy friend said she looked great in her driver’s licence photo. Then unsolicited texts from other officers trickled in, requesting her company on boating excursions.
Tired of the texts, she insisted on an audit, and the results were shocking.
Her personal data – including her address, phone number, and driver’s licence information – had been accessed repeatedly by officers since 2007.
If federal privacy laws swing in her favour, all 104 officers who viewed her profile could lose their jobs.
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The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld a newspaper's right to name an alleged rapist based on information found in police records -- even though it turned out the man was not a rapist. The court affirmed the "fair report privilege" which allows newspapers to base reports on police records without fear of liability. Justice Paul E. Danielson noted the First Amendment expressly guards the press from "timidity and self-censorship" by the press.
Did you get that? A newspaper is Constitutionally protected from civil liability when it splashes the name of an accused rapist all over its front page for all the world to titillate to his humiliation even if, as happens a lot, it turns out the report was wrong and the man is not a rapist. The law has no concern whatsoever for the destruction of a man's good name attendant to such reporting.
This, of course, is in stark contrast to the "timidity and self-censorship" exercised by the press when it comes to naming rape accusers.
And let's be clear. Timidity and self-censorship are sometimes a good thing. Rape accusers should not be named. Withholding the names of rape accusers is sound public policy. Publishing the names of persons accused of rape is reckless, unnecessary, and an affront to human decency. Given the harm inflicted on accused rapists, publishing their names creates security risks and threatens their personal well-being.
Neither the accused nor the accuser should be named unless and until a conviction is obtained -- either for rape or false reporting.
We have made great strides is implementing laws and policies to make it easier for women to report rape. These include anonymity; extensive counseling paid for by tax and tuition monies; heightened sensitivity when being interviewed by police; exemption for accusers from taking polygraphs; the accuser's right to have rape kits preserved for years at taxpayer expense while she mulls over whether to press charges against a man or boy; exemption for accusers from underage drinking charges on college campuses for accusers; and special evidentiary rules at trial to jack up rape convictions.
These are largely good things, but they carry with them a heavy price: they enhance the likelihood of false rape claims. If we, as a society, countenance measures that make false claims more likely, it is a moral imperative that we provide protections to insure the safety of the presumed innocent from physical, mental and reputational harm. One such crucial protection is anonymity.

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Now Nene’s into the finance of farming
‘BEE attracts opportunists’
Nhlanhla Nene, the former finance minister, who is currently an adviser at Thebe Investment Corporation, says BEE was only partly successful.
“If people do not have to work to get to the top, there is a tendency that opportunists start believing they have a right to simply and quickly get to the top,” he said this week.
“For that reason it is very important that practical and meaningful plans are made to support the enforcement of BEE.”
Thebe is one of South Africa’s black empowerment success stories, but ironically, it is not a BEE company.
The company was founded as a trust by luminaries such as former president Nelson Mandela, along with Walter Sisulu, Beyers Naudé, Ernest Mabuza and Vusi Kanyile in 1992.
At the time, there was no BEE legislation.
The intention of the founders of Thebe was to start a black company that would help black people get access to mainstream business in the new, democratic South Africa.
They initiated some businesses themselves, and bought, developed and resold others. One of these was the state-owned airline, SA Express.
Today the company manages assets worth R6 billion and it still has a majority black shareholding.
“Yes, there should be more companies like Thebe, which was founded to create value – unlike today’s companies, which are only established because of benefits to be reaped from the BEE regulations,” said Nene.
“These days, people establish BEE companies purely because there are immediate advantages for them.”
After Nene was fired as finance minister last year, he received numerous job offers, including one from Thebe.
“Thebe’s culture and vision appealed to me,” he said.
“To this day the company still aims to, first and foremost, build communities, while also contributing to transformation and to growing the company.”
– Inge Kühne
December 9 marks exactly a year since Nhlanhla Nene was fired from his post as finance minister.
A day or two after vacating his position, he took his youngest daughter shopping – because he had the time. He also helped his wife, Lisa, to plant 10 000 cabbages on their 22-hectare farm near Kranskop in KwaZulu-Natal.
Before long he was involved in a development project for preschoolers, and took up the chairmanship in board meetings of the local hospital.
After Nenegate – known in the corridors of Treasury as “9/12” – Zuma tried to calm the markets by claiming Nene would be taking up a high position at the development bank being mooted by Brics, the acronym given to the coalition of the five emerging national economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. But nothing came of that.
However, many in the private sector queued with offers in hand for Nene.
In April, he accepted a position as a nonexecutive director of Allan Gray. Since May, he has been an adviser at black investment group Thebe Investment Corporation, which manages assets worth more than R6 billion.
Nene describes these opportunities as vastly different from his ministerial duties. “It offers me a new life because the private sector forces me to focus on new challenges.”
He admits to missing the breakneck pace of his former life in politics. “My children can testify that they were never really sure whether they had a father. But now they know they have one. I introduced myself to them again.”
He feels less stressed than during his ministerial days, and enjoys what he does now.
Government’s loss is business’s gain. Vusi Khanyile, the chair of Thebe, attests to this, saying Nene’s “immeasurable skills set” will be invaluable to the growth path of the business.
For Nene, who is involved in his family’s farm, agriculture is of critical importance to the economy. He places its importance as being on a par with mining.
“Agriculture’s role in addressing three of the country’s biggest challenges – unemployment, food security and its contribution to the wider economy – should not be underestimated.”
But there are many obstacles, especially for people farming on a small scale. “It would help if every town had a market where local farmers could sell their fresh produce, be it 10 bags of potatoes or 100,” he suggests.
“These markets could start as a government initiative, and state institutions such as schools and hospitals could buy their products locally.
“This would stop the process of vying for supply tenders and provide opportunities for private entrepreneurs, such as for contractors who transport the farmers’ produce to market.”
Nene stresses the importance of good relationships between producers, the markets and government agencies. “If you look at some of the failed agriculture and land reform projects, poor links between the various role players, or misunderstanding the role each was supposed to play, was a problem.”
He says Thebe is in a position to re-evaluate some of these failed projects, get involved and make them commercially viable again.
One of the projects that has been identified for a revival is situated in Mpumalanga.
According to Nene, Thebe representatives are already in talks with community members on the matter and will soon meet with the department of rural development and land reform to discuss possibilities. “Farming is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It is sufficient to sustain you and is an asset that grows. But your heart has to be in it.”


5: Cup series victories for Roush Fenway Racing in 2011, its most since 2008, but its third fewest in the past 10 seasons. Matt Kenseth won three races for Roush in 2011, and Carl Edwards and David Ragan won one each. RFR won four races last year and three in 2009. Roush averaged seven Cup wins a year from 2002 to 2011.
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As Iraq calms, Mosul remains a battle front
US forces may stay in the volatile northern city beyond the June deadline for Americans to pull back to bases.
Attacks have dropped dramatically across Iraq, falling by 80 percent since March, when US and Iraqi forces were locked in deadly fights with Sunni insurgents and Shiite militiamen. Today conditions in many parts of the country appear ripe for US forces to begin pulling back and for Iraqis to take the lead.
But in the northern city of Mosul, violence still rages. US and Iraqi forces continue to battle the latest incarnation of Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), which considers the city a key asset in its self-declared Islamic state. Mosul's location near the Syrian border, where foreign fighters cross into Iraq, adds to its strategic importance. The gains here are fragile, and neither Iraqi nor American military leaders can afford to see it return to insurgents' hands.
So when US troops withdraw to their bases next June under an agreement with the Iraqi government, there's a good chance they will stay put in Mosul, according to American and Iraqi officials.
"In this climate we can't do without American forces," says Mosul Mayor Zuhair al-Aaraji. "Our government is still too weak to fully support the Iraqi forces." Last Saturday Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of American forces in Iraq, said that despite the joint US-Iraqi security pact that calls for US troops to leave Iraqi cities, some battalions could remain in urban centers. "It's important that we maintain enough presence here that we can help them get through this year of transition," he said.
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Advisory Opinion No. 2012-24 Advisory Opinion No. 2012-24 Re: Rose Marie Cipriano QUESTION PRESENTED The Petitioner, a member of the Smithfield Financial Review Commission, a municipal appointed position, requests an advisory opinion regarding whether the Code of Ethics prohibits her from being a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the State of Rhode Island and the Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island. RESPONSE It is the opinion of the Rhode Island Ethics Commission that the Code of Ethics does not prohibit the Petitioner, a member of the Smithfield Financial Review Commission, a municipal appointed position, from being a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the State of Rhode Island and the Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island. The Petitioner is a member of the Smithfield Financial Review Commission (“FRC”), having been appointed by the Smithfield Town Council in January of 2011. She states that the FRC is advisory in nature to the Town Council and School Department. She informs that the FRC’s duties are as follows: verify revenue estimates; monitor expenditures; review monthly reports that detail the Town’s current financial condition; receive and review the annual audit report and monitor the Town’s compliance with recommendations; review operations of the Town and the School Department and make recommendations to improve productivity and/or reduce costs; issue semiannual reports to the Town Council and School Committee as to the financial health of the Town; and, finally, review and inquire into departmental budget requests and make recommendations to the Town Manager and the Town Council. Smithfield Code of Ordinances ch. 48 § 5. In her private capacity, the Petitioner represents that she retired from a career in public education in 1998. She states that she worked in the Woonsocket School District for twenty (20) years, first as a teacher and later as an assistant principal. She also worked as a principal in the Cumberland School District for ten (10) years. She informs that she is collecting a pension from the Employees Retirement System of Rhode Island (“ERSRI”). She represents that she is currently the president of the Rhode Island Association of Retired Principals (“RIARP”), an association of retired public school administrators who are current beneficiaries of ERSRI. She represents that RIARP is one of seven (7) plaintiff-associations named in a lawsuit recently filed against the State of Rhode Island and ERSRI. She informs that RIARP and the other plaintiffs are seeking relief from the Rhode Island Retirement Security Act of 2011 (“RIRSA”) as it relates to suspending and reducing the vested retirement benefits of already-retired public employees. The Rhode Island Public Employees Retirees Coalition (“RIPERC”) is another of the seven (7) plaintiff-associations in this lawsuit. The Petitioner informs that RIARP is a member of RIPERC and, thus, she is also a member of RIPERC’s executive board by virtue of her position as president of RIARP. The Petitioner represents that she sought this advisory opinion after being approached by certain Smithfield Town officials regarding whether it was a conflict of interest for her to simultaneously serve on the FRC and also be a party to the lawsuit against the State. The Petitioner states that neither the Town of Smithfield nor the FRC are parties to the lawsuit. Furthermore, she informs that there is no connection between her official duties as a member of the FRC and this lawsuit. Under the Code of Ethics, a public official may not participate in any matter in which she has an interest, financial or otherwise, that is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of her duties or employment in the public interest. R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-14-5(a). A substantial conflict of interest exists if an official has reason to believe or expect that she, any person within her family, a business associate or an employer will derive a direct monetary gain or suffer a direct monetary loss by reason of her official activity. Section 36-14-7(a). Additionally, a public official may not use her office for pecuniary gain, other than as provided by law, for herself, a family member, employer, business associate or a business that she represents. Section 36-14-5(d). In the present matter, there is nothing to indicate that RIARP and RIPERC’s litigation against the State would be subject to consideration or review by the FRC, given that neither the Town of Smithfield nor the FRC is a party to the lawsuit. Accordingly, absent any other relevant fact that would implicate provisions of the Code of Ethics, it is not reasonably foreseeable that the Petitioner’s official activity as a member of the FRC would have any impact upon RIARP and RIPERC’s lawsuit against the State and ERSRI. Therefore, it is the opinion of the Ethics Commission that the Code of Ethics does not prohibit the Petitioner, a member of the FRC, from being a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the State and ERSRI. Code Citations: § 36-14-5(a) § 36-14-5(d) § 36-14-7(a) Keywords: Business Associates Litigation  For purposes of this advisory opinion, the Commission and the Petitioner assume that the FRC is a municipal entity subject to the Code of Ethics.  All public school teachers in Rhode Island are members of ERSRI. See §§ 16-16-1 to -43.


CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Choir School at St. Peter’s, Charlotte’s leading music education program, today announced it is changing its name to Charlotte Choir School. The name change reflects the organization’s commitment to the city of Charlotte and the community it serves.
“For 29 years, our organization has enriched the lives of Charlotte’s young people through excellent, accessible music education and choral performance,” board president Dr. John W. Hall said. “Our program is for our entire community, and our new name Charlotte Choir School reflects our commitment to this city and its young people.”
Charlotte Choir School serves more than 75 students from every background and corner of the Charlotte region, and since its founding in 1993, more than 800 students have participated in its excellent, accessible program. In June, the Choirs returned to in-person performances for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This month, Charlotte Choir School begins its 29th season and will present its annual fall concert on October 16, 2021.
“The pandemic took away our ability to perform in person for Charlotte audiences. But, it also gave us an opportunity to look inward and reflect on our place in the Charlotte community,” executive director Davis A. Tapp said. “We are a proud steward of Charlotte’s cultural life, and we believe this new name will be a part of reintroducing our choirs to Charlotte after a long year away.”
Charlotte Choir School remains in residence at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Uptown Charlotte. Founded in the tradition of English cathedral choirs, Charlotte Choir School relies on St. Peter’s as a founding partner to provide our students a living laboratory for choral music making. Charlotte Choir School Artistic Director Elizabeth Lenti is also Organist and Director of Music at St. Peter’s.
“The unique partnership between Charlotte Choir School and St. Peter’s extends nearly three decades, and we are so excited for this next chapter,” The Rev. Jacob E. Pierce, Rector of St. Peter’s, and Elizabeth Lenti said. “The Choirs have enriched the St. Peter’s community and St. Peter’s has offered a perfect home for our program. Together, we look forward to Charlotte Choir School becoming an even larger part of Charlotte’s cultural fabric.”
Charlotte Choir School was represented in the renaming effort by brand strategist and board member Geoff Yost, an alumnus of the organization, and by Moore & Van Allen, who provided pro-bono assistance with trademark registration. The new name is effective immediately, and will be implemented throughout the upcoming season.
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About Charlotte Choir School
Since 1993, Charlotte Choir School has enriched and strengthened young lives through excellent, rigorous music education and choral performance. Conceived in the English choral tradition, the program serves young men and women from every background and corner of the Charlotte region, with more than 75 students aged seven to 18 comprising five distinct choirs. Over its nearly 30 year history, the organization has taught more than 800 Charlotte-area students. Entirely tuition-free, the 501(c)3 nonprofit relies on individual contributions, foundation, and corporate support. You can learn more at CharlotteChoirSchool.org.
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As you may understand by now, as a dedicated reader of our blog, the nature of each of our projects this summer werecentered aaround the issue of youth migration from the villages of Kuwde and Farende. Whether it is to Nigeria, Benin, Ghana or other parts of Togo, the young adults travel seeking “l’adventure” and a way to make money, often to pay their school fees, though are sometimes instead exploited for work, manual labor, and even sex. Our projects this summer worked towards mitigating these negative outcomes of youth flight by bringing adventure and a way of making money to the villages, and giving students an alternative to migrating that is, perhaps, less risky. From Caitlin’s writing class, Brian’s computer class, and my microfinance project, I feel that we were able to engage the youth in Farende in a way that was effective and hopefully, sustainable. It was =an absolute joy to work with and learn from the motivated, driven, and enthusiastic young people in the village over the course of our projects,
I saw my own work come to fruition when this last week, we launched Microfinance des Jeunes de Farende. We selected seven young adults who will receive loans in a first cycle of the initiative to start businesses ranging from selling fertiliser to marketing soy cheese. Cyril will oversee the follow up and repayments, and the program will continue throughout the year, selecting more loan clients every few months.
Already i feel this project has been a success. When we reached the point of giving out the first cycle of loans for MJF, we learned of one bright, energetic young man who had gotten a girl pregnant and had planned to travel to another country for the summer to try to make money to pay for her, as well as his school fees, by working in the fields. However, when he heard of the opportunity with microfinance in the village, he stayed home and wrote a strong application to recieve a loan. So now, this summer, rather than risking being exploited for labor and paid very little, this hardworking young man will be to raising and selling chickens using a loan that MJF gave to him.
I am hopeful that this microfinance initiative will only continue to grow and make an impact on the lives of youth of Farende. It has been truly a pleasure to work and experience life in the village this summer..
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- 1 What You Need to Know About Dell 15th Generation Servers (and Its Release Date!)
- 2 Anticipation of Dell 16th Generation Servers Release Date
- 3 How the 15th Generation is Different and Advanced from Dell 14th Generation Servers?
- 4 List of Dell Server Generations
- 5 List of Dell 14G Servers
- 6 Final Words
- 7 Frequently Asked Questions
What You Need to Know About Dell 15th Generation Servers (and Its Release Date!)
Everyone seems to be talking about the Dell 15th Generation PowerEdge servers, and for good reason. They are the cutting edge of Dell’s product range and will push your network to new heights. These servers are the advanced updates to the 14th generation, packed with innovations to meet the expanding needs of today’s data centers.
Dell engineers have worked diligently to enhance performance and efficiency. These servers will meet Your data processing needs, working in tandem, guaranteeing top performance for your programs.
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What is the Expected Release Date? – The anticipation of Dell 15th Generation Servers Release Date is great. Fans of cutting-edge technology can’t wait to get their hands on these servers once they go on sale.
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Expectations for the next Dell 16th Generation PowerEdge servers are rising rapidly in the ever-evolving computer industry. The following is a glimpse of the next release: The Dell 16th Generation servers are the next generation in data center infrastructure. They are expected to be even more powerful and innovative than the 15th generation, which they will replace.
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Let’s look at how the 15th Generation PowerEdge servers excel above their 14th Generation predecessors. With each subsequent Generation, Dell pushes the envelope even further, and the 15th generation is no exception. Let’s look at all the upgrades done by Dell on this latest update.
- Processing Power
One of the most important variances resides in processing power. The most recent Intel CPUs are anticipated to power the 15th generation of servers, significantly increasing their processing capabilities.
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- Optimized for AI and Machine Learning
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Dell knows how much money may be lost due to system outages. The 15th generation of servers will include built-in redundancy in various areas, including power and storage.
The IT world continuously changes, and the 15th-generation servers are designed to keep up. These servers will allow you to run native apps, virtualized workloads, and containers.
The 15th Generation of PowerEdge servers has new features and enhancements that will take your network to new heights. They’re both better and revolutionary in speed, power, and dependability.
List of Dell Server Generations
Here’s a comprehensive table that outlines the different generations of Dell PowerEdge servers:
|Generation||Key Features||Release Date|
|15th||Enhanced processing power, AI readiness, robust security||TBD|
|14th||Impressive performance for diverse workloads, efficient power usage, simplified management||2017|
|13th||Reliable and consistent performance, energy-efficient design, easy scalability||2014|
|12th||Robust computing power, enhanced energy efficiency, hardware-level security||2012|
|11th||Efficient performance, versatile scalability, fortified security features||2009|
List of Dell 14G Servers
Here is a list outlining the main models and features of the 14th Generation servers:
|Model||Key Features||Release Date|
|Dell R740||Powerful performance for demanding applications, seamless scalability, energy-efficient design||2017|
|Dell R730||Versatile performance for various workloads, exceptional energy efficiency, user-friendly management||2016|
|Dell R430||Compact yet potent performance, energy-efficient design, easy scalability||2015|
|Dell R630||Scalable performance to meet evolving needs, energy efficiency, advanced security||2014|
Now, let’s delve deeper into specific models from the 14th generation to get a better understanding:
Dell R740 Release Date
The Dell R740 debuted in 2017 as a part of the 14th generation of PowerEdge servers. Experts in the field of information technology welcomed its arrival with open arms.
The debut of this server was a major step forward in Dell’s mission to provide enterprise data centers with industry-leading technology.
Dell R730 Release Date
The R730 is part of Dell’s 14th generation of PowerEdge servers, released in 2016. The tech world generally welcomed this release with open arms.
Its release demonstrated Dell’s commitment to providing adaptable and trustworthy solutions to help enterprises deal with the dynamic nature of the modern information technology environment.
Dell R430 Release Date
In 2015, Dell introduced the R430 as part of their 14th-generation PowerEdge server portfolio. Its release answered the market’s need for small, powerful servers.
This expansion bolstered Dell’s standing as a provider of cutting-edge, eco-friendly hardware solutions that meet the needs of today’s data centers.
The 15th Generation of Dell PowerEdge servers heralds the dawn of a new era in computer networks. They are prepared to handle the challenges of the digital world with improved processing power, energy efficiency, and an emphasis on artificial intelligence capabilities.
Even as we excitedly await the arrival of 14th-generation servers like the Dell R740, R730, and R430, it is important to recognize their advantages. Businesses may still rely on these servers’ reliability and adaptability.
Each new generation of Dell products reflects the company’s dedication to innovation and quality, giving IT professionals the confidence they need to tackle the challenges of today’s data centers. Keep a watch on Dell’s statements on the Dell 15th Generation Servers Release Date as you plan your IT infrastructure upgrades.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is the latest Generation of Dell servers?
The 15th Generation PowerEdge servers are the most recent release from Dell and are regarded as a major upgrade in performance and efficiency.
2. What is a Dell 15G server?
Dell 15G servers are the 15th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers with improved features. By using power efficiently, Dell EMC 15G PowerEdge servers may be installed at higher densities, conserving rack space.
3. What Generation is PowerEdge R720?
The Dell PowerEdge R720 is a 12th-generation two-socket, 2U Xeon server with huge expandability and cutting-edge features.
4. When did PowerEdge 2850 come out?
The PowerEdge 2850 was officially released on May 1, 2004, as part of Dell’s ninth generation of PowerEdge servers.
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While information about Dell’s upcoming server launches in 2023 is currently lacking, interested parties are encouraged to stay abreast of Dell’s official announcements. In February of 2023, Dell’s PowerEdge R760 was released worldwide. The Dell PowerEdge HS5620 and HS5610 will be made widely accessible in April of 2023.


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Adore Me will be busy over the next few months as she pursues more group one glory.
Pacing's most stunning debut season is in for a shock extension.
Which is just the news rivals of champion pacing filly Adore Me didn't want to hear.
The superstar 3-year-old has won 10 of her 11 starts in her first season of racing, her only defeat having come when second against a vintage crop of colts in the Northern Derby.
Trainer Mark Purdon expected the winning rampage to come to an end after the Harness Jewels this Saturday, when Adore Me is $1.05 to win her $150,000 division.
However, Purdon was surprised when a call from part-owner Paul Kenny explained Adore Me has even richer targets ahead.
Initially, Purdon had been informed Adore Me was not eligible for the A$175,000 Breeders Crown Final in Victoria in August so was thinking she would head to the spelling paddock after Saturday.
But Kenny informed Purdon that Adore Me is very much eligible for the Breeders Crown and that means all going well on Saturday she will be set for a five-race Australian campaign.
"I was shocked to hear that but if she is eligible then she really should go," said Purdon.
"And if we are going there [Victoria], then she might as well head to Queensland for the Oaks races up there to keep her ticking over."
That is likely to mean a campaign comprising the Gold Coast Oaks in late June, followed by the Queensland Oaks a week later.
Then Adore Me could stay in Queensland or head to Victoria for her heat, semifinal and final of the Breeders Crown.
The Queensland detour makes sense because those races will be bypassed by Australia's best filly Frith, so Adore Me will find herself in her usual unbackable favourite role.
The extended campaign means by the end of her debut season Adore Me could have raced 17 times, which sounds enormously taxing but the evidence suggests that hasn't been the case.
Apart from her hard run in the Derby when second to Ohoka Punter, Adore Me has beaten her filly rivals by an average of 4 lengths so hasn't really had to dig deep too often.
While a fully fit Frith would give her something to chase in the ABC final, that will be the last race of her season anyway and if she remains unbeaten against her own sex she could head for her break the winner of an incredible seven group ones in eight months.
A huge or record-setting win this Saturday may see Adore Me close the gap on Terror To Love, who races on Sunday, in Horse of the Year voting but any subsequent Australian victories are unlikely to help.
Feature-race Australian wins rarely seem to factor in the mind of Horse of the Year voters, with the late-night features often missed by some and given little local coverage.
While the Breeders Crown creates a splash in New Zealand racingbecause it is broadcast on a Sunday afternoon it is not until late August because, for reasons largely unknown, the Australian harness racing season runs until August 31.
With the Horse of the Year awarded on July 27, that will be about three weeks too late to help Adore Me in her quest for the title.
Still, while she has created more interest in the second half of the season than Terror To Love, the big horse still deserves favouritism for the title.
While beaten in most of his major races this year, he has won the New Zealand and Easter Cups, the Ashburton Flying Stakes, finished second in the Auckland Cup and Miracle Mile and fourth in the Interdominion Final.
Terror To Love is $1.10 to win his Jewels division on Sunday, which should seal the deal.

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Living in society has always presented a variety of challenges to its members. These challenges need to be addressed if there is to be an improvement in the quality of life in society. However, to what extent can philosophical thinking facilitate the task? This book pursues and answers this question. It offers an analysis of fundamental issues and provides philosophical considerations of the challenges arising from living in society. The topics discussed here include philosophy and the social context; individual interests and the common good; dualistic thinking of and in society; relationships and communal life; the individual and society; ethical thinking and formation; images, reality and truth; the power and limits of human freedom; social roles, public office and moral society; economic crisis and accountability; the marketplace, academia, education; contemporary society and faith-based education; and the meaning and significance of life. After reviewing these discussions, the concluding chapter then sets out a philosophical vision to facilitate an understanding of and motivation for the creative advance of society.


Plane crash kills six in The Bahamas
Source: Caribbean News Now
ANDROS, Bahamas — A private plane crashed off the coast of Andros in The Bahamas on Wednesday. The six-seater, twin engined Piper Aztec was reportedly en route to New Providence when it was forced by bad weather to return to Andros. All five passengers, including a child, and the pilot perished in the crash.
Reports from Air Traffic Control in New Providence indicate that the plane went missing off radar at around 8 am on Wednesday morning and efforts to locate the plane culminated with evidence of a crash discovered at about 2:30 pm.
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KVERT reported that seismic activity at Shiveluch was at background levels during 15-17 and 21 May and above background levels the other days during 16-23 May; gas-and-ash explosions may have occurred on 18, 19, and 20 May. According to video footage and visual observations, small hot avalanches descended the lava dome every day and fumarolic activity was noted. A large hot avalanche caused an ash plume to rise to an altitude of 4 km (13,100 ft) a.s.l. on 20 May. The plume drifted E. Observations of satellite imagery revealed that a thermal anomaly was present in the crater daily and an ash-and-steam plume drifted more than 100 km SE on 20 May.
Source: Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) – “Reports provided courtesy of the Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program and the US Geological Survey’s Volcano Hazards Program.”


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Born in Milan, Italy; Pilati has worked and designed for some of the most recognizable brands in high-fashion such as Giorgio Armani, Prada, Miu Miu and is now the Creative Director for all Yves Saint Laurent operations.
Date of Birth: 1965
Location: Milan, Italy
About Stefano Pilati
Born in Milan, Pilati actually started out as an architect major but interned with fashion designer Nina Cerruti where his new found passion for fashion emerged. Being that Pilati’s upbringing was around his 2 fashionable sisters, pursuing the route into the fashion world only made sense. His first gig in the fashion industry led him to being employed for an Italian velvet manufacturer and then secured a number of jobs as a fabric consultant for popular designers such as Versace and Valentino.
Stefano Pilati got his first big break in 1993 where he was taken on by Giorgio Armani as the menswear assistant and then graduated from Armani in 1995 into Prada as part of their fabric R&D team. Pilati quickly acceded in the fashion industry and in 1998, he became the Assistant Designer for Miu Miu, where he was responsible for both the mens and womens collection.
A new beginning emerged for Pilati in 2000 when he was discovered by Tom Ford and worked directly under him as his Creative Director. Under Tom Ford, Pilati designed the womens wear for YSL. The success of the line promoted Pilati and catapulted his career into the position of Director of Design in all of YSL’s categories in 2002. The disputes between Tom Ford and Yves Saint Laurent of creative direction into the brand ultimately put Pilati into the second-in-command position at YSL when Tom Ford left the brand in 2004. It was then, Pilati assumed the Creative Director position at YSL.
Marie Claire, Spain – 2006 Prix de la Moda, Best Ready-To-Wear Designer of the Year
Fashion Group International – 2006, Best Designer of the Year
Marie Claire, Spain – 2007, Prix de la Moda, Best Accessories Designer of the Year
Japan Fashion Editor’s Club – 2008, International Designer of the Year
Telva – 2008, Best International Fashion Designer of the Year
Marie Claire, France – Prix D’Excellence de la Mode, Best Designer of the Year


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F-T is an artist/producer from the city of Milton Keynes, England. F-T broke out from the local grime scene to gain nationwide recognition with the crew IMP Batch who were also from the Milton Keynes area. Following on from the success of IMP batch F-T has continued to record and release released materiel on his own label ODD ENT as well as produce beats for some of the big names on the Grime/UK Rap scene. In 2011 F-T co-launched TMTV Freestyle fire an internet based TV channel dedicated to shining a light on up and coming talent. Break to the beat recently caught up with F-T to find out about his involvement in the UK Grime/Rap scene over the years as well as talk about his current projects.
How did you get in to the UK Grime scene and what inspired you to start rapping/writing lyrics?
My Dad wanted to stop me n my brother from watching too much TV when we were young so we could concentrate on education I guess, I can’t remember exactly but he effectively said we couldn’t watch TV during the week and we literally went upstairs and discovered a ghetto blaster tucked away in the storage cupboard of the spare room. We found Milton Keynes pirate station ‘super jam’ and heard MC OJ and MC DANNY P going back to back with ‘Mr Fixit’ on the turntables. We hasn’t heard anything like it, all we knew of musically before this was US hip hop like 2pac, that was my first taste of UK Garage. I then started sourcing out all UK garage music I could from tape packs to recording tapes and the music evolved from garage to grime and I was a listener throughout the transition. Then in secondary school me n some mates decided to form a little group called ‘The Justice System; and we soon started winning a lot of talent competitions and had the ethic from the start to put our money together to produce semi pro recordings something other people of our age were not doing. Nobody would give me beats to rhyme over so I decided I needed to make beats myself and that too started and I was eventually noticed by the popular Milton Keynes grime crew at the time (imp batch/impressionist crew) and I ended up part of that movement. It was then at the age of 16 that I made an instrumental called Gype which blew up spending 12 weeks at number 1 in the same UKG chart I grew up listening to and aspiring to be part of one day. From there as a collective we went on BBC 1xtra various times, had countless record releases that topped the UK G charts and I got to produce for the likes of Kano, Tinchy Strider, Roll Deep, Crazy Titch, Jemma Fox, Jammer (the whole grime scene). Continue reading


If you declare a nation that no other nation recognizes, is it still a nation? Such is the quandary of Vit Jedlicka, a Czech politician and founder of Liberland, a 3-square-mile speck of land between Croatia and Serbia that he plans to turn into a little dynamo of a country. If only the world will let him. Since he announced his grand plans, no other country has recognized Liberland, Croatia has threatened to arrest would-be settlers, and nearby residents interviewed by USA Today don't seem quite sure whether it's a joke. Jedlicka insists it's not, and says that more than 300,000 people around the world have applied for citizenship. (You can do so through the Liberland website.) "The key for us is to get recognized," says Jedlicka. "We're in contact with about 50 embassies."
The plan is to get a few countries, any countries, to recognize Liberland, and "the rest will fall into place." The rest, presumably, includes electricity, plumbing, and actual buildings, all of which Liberland now lacks, save for a lone abandoned house. But all is not bleak. "Even if the legal premise of Liberland is shaky, it is looking more and more like a legitimate state, thanks to its well-developed nation-branding," observes a post at Quartz. Liberland has a flag, a coat of arms, and a motto ("To live and let live"), and scores of volunteer artists are pitching in to flesh out the branding. One musician even created a national anthem. (More Liberland stories.)


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As is to be expected with the word roadhouse in the name, this restaurant at Coastal Grand Mall specializes in big, juicy, hand-cut, wood-grilled steaks. The company was founded in Nashville, and the menu and décor both bear a Tennessee vibe complete with southern-inspired food and southern hospitality. And since much of what is being served is prepared in-house from their own recipes, Logan’s has a flavor that is all its own.
Logan’s Roadhouse Food
If the bottomless buckets of peanuts aren’t enough to hold you over while you wait on your entrée, there are plenty of Appetizer options to munch on. One house favorite is the From-Scratch Loaded Potato Skins, crunchy fried spuds topped with bacon, green onions, and cheddar. Other options include Fried Pickles with housemade ranch, the Southern Onion Tower, Bone-In Wings (Garlic Parmesan, Mild Buffalo, Bourbon BBQ, Hot Buffalo, or Nashville Hot), Fried Mozzarella Cheese Sticks, and Fried ‘Shrooms. If what you’re after is a hearty meal between a bun, several unique Burgers and Sandwiches are available for the choosing. Signatures include the Fried Cheese & Bacon Burger (fried cheese, thick-cut bacon, lettuce, tomato, red onion, Amazin’ sauce), the Steakhouse Sirloin Melt (Brewski onions, mushrooms, Swiss, chipotle mayo), and the Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich (spicy, hand-breaded chicken, lettuce, tomato, red onion, pickles, and bleu cheese for dipping). The Farm Fresh Salads & Soups list offers some lighter and some heavier fare. Options include the Southern Steakhouse Salad (grilled steak, mixed greens, fresh avocado, bacon, tomato, hard-boiled egg, and yeast roll croutons), the Kickin’ Logan’s Chickin’ Salad (blackened chicken, romaine, tomatoes, cheddar, black bean & roasted corn salsa, tortilla strips), Loaded Potato Soup, and Award-Winning Chili. The Fresh Hand-Cut Steaks are the main attraction here for most, and the options include The Logan (11 ounces of Black Angus), a 20oz Bone-In Ribeye, 12oz New York Strip Steak, Barrel cut Filet, 22oz Porterhouse, 16oz T-Bone, and Logan’s Prime Rib. The list of Roadhouse Combos combines your favorite steak with things like BBQ ribs, fried of grilled shrimp, chicken, or lobster tail. Also, each entrée comes with salad and side, and can be topped with one or more Steak Toppers, including Bleu Cheese Crumbles, Sauteed Mushrooms, or Brewski Onions. The Southern Specialties menu is divided into two categories – Real American Roadhouse Meals and More from the Dock. The first includes highlights like Logan’s Famous Baby Back Ribs, Country Style Buttermilk Chicken and Grilled Meatloaf, while the Dock selection includes Coastal Carolina Shrimp, Mesquite Wood-Grilled Salmon, and Southern Fried Fish. The 12-and-under crowd also has a nice variety of options, including Chicken Tenders, Roadie (mini steak burger), Corndog, Macaroni & Cheese, Grilled Chicken, Popcorn Shrimp, or Steak Tips.
Logan’s Roadhouse Atmosphere
Between the name and all of the peanut shells on the floor, the no-frills casual vibe here is pretty obvious. Seating ranges from tables and booths in the dining room, to stools and high-tops in the bar area. In peak season, try to make a reservation ahead of time – this place fills up fast and waiting times can sometimes be pretty lengthy.
Here's some other points of interest in the Myrtle Beach area near this location:


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The environment provides points for control of pathogens spread by food, water, hands, air, or fomites. These environmental transmission pathways require contact network formulations more realistically detailed than those based on social encounters or physical proximity. As a step toward improved assessment of environmental interventions, description of contact networks, and better use of environmental specimens to analyze transmission, an environmental infection transmission system model that describes the dynamics of human interaction with pathogens in the environment is presented. Its environmental parameters include the pathogen elimination rate, mu, and the rate humans pick up pathogens, rho, and deposit them, alpha. The ratio, rhoN/micro (N equals population size), indicates whether transmission is density dependent (low ratio), frequency dependent (high ratio), or in between. Transmission through frequently touched fomites, such as doorknobs, generates frequency-dependent patterns, while transmission through thoroughly mixed air or infrequently touched fomites generates density-dependent patterns. The environmental contamination ratio, alpha/gamma, reflects total agent deposition per infection and outbreak probability, where gamma is defined as the recovery rate. These insights provide theoretical contexts to examine the role of the environment in pathogen transmission and a framework to interpret environmental data to inform environmental interventions.


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Welcome to the next stop in Jeri Smith-Ready's Shift Blog Tour. Today, I'll be reviewing Shift for you. If you don't know (???), Shift is the highly anticipated sequel to Shade. At the end of my review, I will be announcing an amazing, ridiculously epic giveaway. If you've been to the other tour stops, you might have an idea of what it is. But before we get into that, let's talk about Shift!
***Fair Warning. For those who have yet to read Shade, this might be (probably will be) spoilery. For those who have read Shade, but haven't read Shift, you're good!***
Shift takes place literally right where Shade ends. As if being a teenager in general wasn't complicated, Aura also has to deal with the possibility of her ghostly boyfriend, Logan, shading. If that wasn't enough, Aura also can't hide her growing affections for Zachary, finding out what really happened to her mom, and the added bonus of discovering why she was the first to Shift, and Zachary was the last to not.
One by one, Aura slowly begins to unravel the mystery behind the Shift. Her personal life, however, begins to take a turn for the worst. Forbidden romance, unexpected love interests, government agents, an insane amount of heartache, and girls who just suck all play a role in this breathtaking, edge of your seats, thrill ride. Be warned, once you start, you may never put it down.
Please excuse the excessive fan-girling, but I have to tell you how much I loved this book. I seriously couldn't put it down. Every time I thought "okay, this is going to be the last chapter I read before bed", the author throws in another twist or turn. One thing led to another and before I knew it, the clock struck 3:30am, and I still had six more chapters till the end.
The pacing in Shift is, quite frankly, flawless. I absolutely loved the description and details Jeri displays not only in the setting or the characters themselves, but also the emotions. I swear, one minute I was giggling, the next I was swooning, and then, out of nowhere came the heartache. Don't worry kiddies, this is a repetitive cycle so be sure to have your fun hats on and hanky nearby.
For those who know me, you know I'm a mega huge Zachary fan. He's everything I love about a swoon-worthy boy and more. Even when he makes mistakes (and trust me, he will make a few doozies), I can't help but love him. His heart is always in the right place, and he will do whatever it takes for Aura. And if I wasn't a Zachary fan before, that lake scene sure would have won me over. You'll see what I mean.
Don't worry Logan fans. He's in there, too, but I can't go into details about Logan without possibly spoiling it. Just know he's in there. Oh, and keep an eye out for an unsuspected boy who may turn out to be something more.
Overall, Shift is a spectacular sequel you don't want to miss. Many of your questions will be answered, just to be replaced with more intriguing, better questions. I'll be honest, I didn't cry the first time I read Shift. I was too busy rushing through, wanting so badly to know what would happen next. But the second time I read it? Wow. I knew what was going to happen, yet I still bawled like a baby. Thus, word of advice? When you go to pick up your copy of Shift, be sure to also grab a box of tissues.
Leave a comment below to enter today’s drawing. There will be two winners.
*Winner # 1 gets a signed copy of SHIFT, plus a shiny "Celtic bookmark," courtesy of Jeri.
*Winner #2 gets an unsigned copy of SHIFT, courtesy of Jeri’s publisher.
Additionally all commenters will be entered into a draw to win the Grand Prize - annotated copies of SHADE and SHIFT, an early copy of SHIFT (book three of the series, of which there will be no other ARCS) and an iPod Shuffle!
Open to international entries! Winners will be drawn after 24 hours.
Author Bio: Jeri Smith-Ready’s next release is SHIFT (May 3), the second in the YA ghost trilogy that began last year with SHADE (which just came out in paperback April 5). She loves to hear from readers, so please visit her at www.jerismithready.com, or better yet, on Facebook (www.facebook.com/jerismithready) or Twitter (@jsmithready), where she spends far too much time.
***Special thanks to Jeri Smith-Ready and Karen from For What It's Worth for putting this whole thing together***


Powell River is being severed from the federal electoral riding of West Vancouver - Sunshine Coast - Sea to Sky Country.
The Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission released its final report on Aug. 21, upholding the proposed redistribution that will see Powell River and a portion of North Vancouver removed from the federal seat.
Including Powell River with northern Vancouver Island “was significantly driven by numerical considerations,” as the existing West Vancouver - Sunshine Coast - Sea to Sky Country riding is “well above the electoral quota,” the commission said in its report.
“The commission was and is cognizant of the historical links between Powell River and the Sunshine Coast area as well as the circumstance that the Powell River area has often fallen within the territory comprising the West Vancouver - Sunshine Coast - Sea to Sky Country electoral district. We are keenly aware that alteration of an established district will always occasion some disruption,” the report said.
Ferry access was identified as an important factor, with the report suggesting that the single crossing from Powell River to Little River (Comox) might be more convenient than the two sailings to West Vancouver and could “actually enhance” access between MP and constituents.
“That consideration, plus the very real problem of the high population number in the existing West Vancouver - Sunshine Coast - Sea to Sky Country district, leads us to conclude that we cannot accede to the objections concerning Vancouver Island North - Comox - Powell River,” said the report, adding that the inclusion of Powell River in the new riding was “appropriate and should be maintained.”
West Vancouver - Sunshine Coast - Sea to Sky Country member of Parliament John Weston, who, with other MPs, had submitted a counter-proposal to keep Powell River in the riding, said the commission was ultimately guided by the numbers.
“Regrettably the boundary commission had to reduce the population of ridings throughout British Columbia — that was part of adding six new seats — so it’s good for British Columbia and our representation in Ottawa,” Weston said. “It’s also good in that I now have only 112,000 people to represent rather then 130,000, so that means I have less territory to cover than I did before.”
Weston noted that the number of constituency offices he maintains is among the highest across Canada, with four offices to serve the “sprawling riding” with its “very distinct communities.”
On losing Powell River, Weston said: “I love Powell River and have become very closely integrated with the community in many, many ways. I will be serving the people of Powell River right up to the last moment, you can be sure of that.”
For the Lower Sunshine Coast, Weston said an important part of the commission’s decision was keeping the area tied to the North Shore, “which follows many of the business and health care and education patterns of the people who live on the Sunshine Coast and commute to the North Shore.”
The redistribution of seats in the House of Commons takes effect for the next federal election in 2015.