Corporate polluters and their friends in Congress are pushing an extreme agenda to roll back vital laws, regulations, and funding that protect clean water, reduce air pol
The oil and gas industry, aided by the erosion of campaign finance laws and nearly boundless lobbying budgets, asserts enormous influence over legislative processes in real time while also enjoying legacy influence in regulatory frame- works. The results can be devastating to the health of the environment and the public.
As the current Congressional session winds down, there is still work that we need our legislators to do: Reauthorize the successful Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and ensure that anti-environment and dirty water riders are kept out of any legislation, including the must-pass spending bills later this month.
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Controversial Tanzanian socialite, Lulu Diva finally speaks up on her relationship with Starehe MP, Charles Njagua.
The lass who has been making headlines, not so much for the good, seems to have a romantic circle that only she understands well.
So away from Diamond Platnumz and back to her Kenyan rumored-lover, Jaguar, Lulu Diva explains that all there is is a crush that they have decided to keep cool on.
Jaguar has reportedly been making trips to the bongo land, seemingly to pay his ‘crush’ Lulu Diva a visit or two.
However, Lulu’s defense is:
He has been crushing on me and I have crushed on him too. We are just crushing on each other and we decided to stay just like that.
From Rich Mavoko to Diamond Platnumz and now Jaguar…where does her foot lay the strongest?
And is she expectant with any of the celebrities’ baby?
No, I’m not pregnant!
Time will tell.
Corazon Kwamboka flaunts her sensational post-baby body a week after welcoming bouncing baby boy (Photo)
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Shreveport, LA (KMSS) — May people throughout the country, including in Shreveport support marriage equality for one simple reason; nobody tells them who they can and can't marry, so why should they do that for others. That's the case for Laura Katherine Jones, who says that marriage equality wouldn't have a make anybody's life harder, but it would make life easier for many others.
For Adrienne Critcher, a member of People Acting for Change and Equality, supporting the quest for equal rights has a more personal note. Her son is gay, and has a serious boyfriend. They live in California, where same sex marriage is legal.
Like many mothers, Critcher looks forward to being the proud mother of the groom. Marriage is very important to her family. She and her husband have been married for 43 years, and she wants her son to have as happy of a marriage.
That's possible in California; but if Critcher's son gets married and decides to move back to Shreveport, his marriage won't be recognized.
That's why earlier this month, Forum for Equality Louisiana filed a lawsuit asking that same sex married done in states where its legal be recognized in Louisiana. A similar lawsuit was filed in Kentucky, and Thursday afternoon, a federal judged ordered that Kentucky must recognize same sex marriages from other states.
This decision comes on the back of another decision made by a federal judge in Texas, saying that the state's ban on same sex marriage is unconstitutional.
This gives Critcher and other equal rights supporters hope that equality will come to Louisiana. They aren't sure when exactly it will happen, but they are sure that eventually, everybody will have equal rights when it comes to marriage.

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The government looked the other way when rioters burned down cities in the name of racial justice. However, some of those involved in the incursion at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 have had the book thrown at them.
Devlyn Thompson was sentenced to 46 months in prison for assaulting a police officer during the unrest at the Capitol, Breitbart reported. In addition, he will be under supervised release for another three years thereafter.
The 28-year-old was in the tunnel in the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol building on Jan. 6 along with several other demonstrators. They pushed back against the police line, and Thompson joined in confronting the officers with threats of violence.
“Thompson and others in the tunnel yelled obscenities at police and encouraged the continued assault,” the District Attorney contended. “Thompson was part of a group that threw objects and projectiles at the officers, including flag poles, and grabbed and stole the officers’ riot shields to prevent them from defending themselves.”
The statement went on to say Thompson “…helped throw a large speaker at the front line of officers, and he later picked up a metal baton from the floor of the tunnel and swung it overhead and downward against the police line in an apparent effort to knock a can of pepper spray from an officer’s hand.” Afterward, Thompson turned himself in.
In addition, the man eventually “pled guilty to assaulting, resisting or impeding officers while using a dangerous weapon,” according to the district attorney’s office. However, Judge Royce Lamberth did not soften because of Thompson’s cooperation.
“The violence that happened that day was such a blatant disregard to the institutions of government,” Lamberth said. “You didn’t just come up and sock a guy in the face. You’re shoving and pushing…and participating in this riot for hours,” the judge asserted during sentencing.
More than 700 people have been arrested for allegedly participating in the demonstration. While it was an egregious error on their part to enter the building, lawmakers and enforcers alike seem to take their crimes more seriously. Perhaps it isn’t so much about what they did, but about the politics of the people behind it.


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Niloufer Ichaporia King Helping Out with Brunch at Foreign Cinema, June 26-27
Last time Niloufer Ichaporia King showed up to do brunch at Foreign Cinema, the city's food insiders sort of lost it. It's happening again. On June 26-27, Foreign Cinema's Gayle Pirie and John Clark are inviting in King, author of My Bombay Kitchen, to help fix breakfast, only this time, the food promises to wander far from the author's Parsi roots.
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King likes to travel to warm places, apparently, and brunch will throb with the flavors of Veracruz, India, and what a press release calls "beyond." Date filling in the signature Pop Tarts, kheema turnovers, prawns and yogurt rice, salt cod pancakes: And more than one of the city's food insiders, we wager, losing it. Details after the jump.
Exotic Brunch with Niloufer Ichaporia King
When: Sat., June 26, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; Sun., June 27, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Where: Foreign Cinema, 2534 Mission (at 21st St.)
Cost: Dishes priced a la carte
Reservations: Call 648-7600

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The new gem system in Path of Exile 4.0 has triggered a climax of players. The new design not only brings a sense of subversion to the past, but also adds fun to the new game. More complex game designs are conducive to enhancing the sense of accomplishment of players.
The huge changes will help players build characters and bring new gameplay. It will also bring high-risk, high- POE Currency. Thanks to this change. Players can play whatever they want, and they can implement a variety of powerful main attack methods. The most important thing is that players no longer have to worry about the matching of skill stones in order to change equipment. More intuitive DPS information display makes the game experience better.
In addition, the game should incorporate the design of deformation. By thinking about the game, how to apply it to various scenarios and exert the maximum power of weapons. The proper use of various attack skills adds a high degree of playability to the game. And the most important point is that transformation can be achieved no matter during walking or casting skills.
The new screen upgrades, players: stunning!
Last year's Blizzcon had provided players with the opportunity to experience POE 4.0 in-hand. From the current official announcement and feedback from players on-site trials, the new-generation Path of Exile's picture is more quality than the previous generation Flyby, softer and natural light and shadow performance, more sophisticated and complex character models, stunning light and shadow effects, and more aggressive reward mechanisms can bring you more Path of Exile Currency. These changes will undoubtedly provide players with a more comfortable and adrenaline-soaked gaming experience.
Although the official release date of version 4.0 cannot be determined, the preview version of 3.9 was already released in December last year. Because the development of version 4.0 has already taken up Blizzard's great resources, the new version should not meet players so soon in the near future. But players can enjoy the thrill of the game in version 3.9.

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What is the Real Meaning Of The School For Good And Evil’s Ending – A 2022 fantasy movie with the same name is based on the Soman Chainani book of the same name. Paul Feig, who co-wrote the screenplay with David Magee, directed the movie. The movie follows Sophie and Agatha as they arrive at the School for Good and Evil, where Sophie is assigned to the Evil side while Agatha is assigned to the Good side. Sophia Anne Caruso and Sofia Wylie lead the ensemble cast as Sophie and Agatha, respectively.
The movie’s production got underway in 2013 when Roth Films and Jane Startz Productions bought the rights to the novel. Initially, Universal Pictures was going to be the movie’s distributor. Paul Feig was chosen to helm the film after Netflix gained control of it in 2017 after it had been mired in development hell. Caruso and Wylie were cast as the parts they will be playing in December 2020. Between January and July 2021, Northern Ireland served as the location for principal photography.
Also Read: “Black Adam” (2022) Movie Ending Explained
Meaning Of “The School For Good And Evil” Movie’s Ending
The School For Good And Evil’s ending actually means that it isn’t really good or evil; instead, there are just good or evil choices, contrary to what the Netflix film’s title suggests. Sophie becomes Evil because of her unwavering conviction that she is Good and her desire to switch schools, which causes her to make self-centered decisions with little regard for the consequences.
Agatha was able to act uninfluenced and naturally selflessly because she didn’t think there was a fundamental conflict between good and evil (including Sophie). At the conclusion of The School for Good and Evil, Sophie repudiates Evil and aids Agatha, reinforcing the idea that no one is destined for a particular outcome and that people are not defined by their decisions.
According to the narrator Cate Blanchett, Agatha’s choice was “the conclusion of the story,” but Tedros showed there was still more to be revealed. I need you, Agatha, Tedros says as one of his arrows pierces the vortex separating Agatha and Sophie’s worlds in Galvaldon, the world of the schools.
For Soman’s second book in the School for Good and Evil trilogy, A World Without Princes, the message serves as a crucial plot aspect. Tedros, as opposed to Agatha, requests Sophie’s return to the school in the book. According to Soman, the film’s conclusion was faithful to the books. Still, the addition of Agatha’s name increased the “ambiguity” of Tedros’ scheme to exact revenge on Sophie for having taken his love away.
Soman comments of the ending, “The difference is in the second book, you know, Tedros is angry at Sophie because he really wanted Agath. So it was just a matter of getting to the heart of the matter, which is what he really wants is Agatha back, so the question is how you play it at the beginning of a second movie.”
The author continues, “To me, it’s sort of the same point basically being that when the arrow comes at the end of the movie, we don’t really know who that arrow is for, is it a message to Agatha being like ‘come back’ or is it directed at Sophie like, ‘get out of the way so I can have Agatha back’? So that ambiguity still leaves you willing to do exactly what you need to do from book two.”
— Soman Chainani (@SomanChainani) September 13, 2022
You can watch The School for Good and Evil on Netflix.

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A federal court judge has dismissed lawsuits against Henry County and Animal Control Officer Dan Flinkfelt filed by a woman who had more than 200 animals seized on her property in December 2011 during an animal cruelty investigation.
The Dec. 12, 2011, raid on Terri Smith’s home led to Flinkfelt charging both her and her husband Kenneth with 218 counts of second-degree animal cruelty.
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Academic Staff Union (ASUU) of IBB University Lapai, says it has initiated an uncertain strike, because of the delinquency of its N500 million extraordinary recompenses by the Niger state government.
Dr Salahu Lawal, ASSU Chairman, IBB University Chapter, disclosed to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a meeting in Lapai on Saturday that the choice was taken after the lapse of the week-long cautioning strike set out by the association on March 7.
He said that the section administrators were welcomed by the state government over the issue however they were unwilling to pay the stipends that had collected since 2009.
“Niger state government implored us that it will pay N350 million while we relinquish N150 million; we can’t manage the cost of such a misfortune, it is gigantic.
“This is the cash we worked for and it must be ponied up all required funds; really, they needed to pay us yet they demanded in paying N350 million; that is a break and we are not going to take it.
”This cash we are requesting is collected cash from our stipends, this cash we earned it, we are not asking for it.
”They said they don’t have cash to clear the excess, we are not going to acknowledge their offer. They need us to relinquish some portion of the cash, we can’t on the grounds that some of our individuals passed on while sitting tight for this cash.
”I am certain in the event that they had paid this cash, some of them would have utilized it for their therapeutic care and might not have kicked the bucket,” he said.
Meanwhile, Mr Jide Orintunsin, Senior Media Assistant to Gov. Abubakar Bello, said that the obligation was not acquired by the present organization rather; it was acquired from the past organization.
As per him, individuals from the association were not being sensible in perspective of the budgetary difficulties of the organization was managing.
“We have numerous contending issues shaking for money related consideration, these issues are numerous and we are attempting to accomplish something with the little assets we have.
“We will pay yet in stages, they should hold on for us and acknowledge in compliance with common decency what we will pay now,” he said

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WILL SMITH: Once Wanted to “Date” Halle Berry and Misty Copeland
Written by KingCnote on September 29, 2021
There are more bombshells dropping from the interview Will Smith did with GQ. Will, who was once known as the Fresh Prince, perhaps should have been called the Fresh Pimp!
The 53-year-old, who once released an album titled Big Willie Style, once admitted to an intimacy coach he had thoughts of having a posse of 20 girlfriends. On the top of his wish list were Halle Berry and ballerina Misty Copeland, presumably not at the same time, but you never know.
Will said, (quote) “I don’t know where I saw it or some [crap] as a teenager, but the idea of traveling with 20 women that I loved and took care of and all of that, it seemed like a really great idea. And then, after we played it out a little bit, I was like, ‘That would be horrific. That would be horrific.’ I was like, ‘Can you imagine how miserable?'” (People)

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A veneer is a thin shell of a tooth-coloured material that is pasted on the front surfaces of the teeth.
If you are unsatisfied with the colour or shape of your teeth or bothered by the gaps in your teeth, veneers can instantly improve your smile. They are also ideal for stained teeth that cannot be corrected by tooth whitening.
This involves using a tooth-coloured filling material which is adhered in the form of a coating on the surface of the teeth.
Before we place Veneers a lot of factors are to be considered- such as your gum health, bite pattern, tooth alignment and finally patient expectation. Any artificial cosmetic treatment always demands special post treatment care- by which we mean excellent oral hygiene and regular dental checkups.
These are Veneers that are made of ceramic or porcelain. They are usually custom made by the dental lab and require 2 visits.
The dentist first prepares the teeth by removing a small amount of the tooth enamel to make space for receiving the veneers. Then a mould or impression of the teeth is made and sent to the dental lab for custom veneer fabrication. Meanwhile you may be given temporary veneers.
The next visit involves a trial fit of your veneers, minor adjustments, and cementation.
A new twist to the conventional old veneers is the Lumineers System As the name suggests, this type of veneer is least invasive with almost no alteration to the existing tooth structure in terms of grinding or shaping.
As with any dental care procedure, our experts would first like to analyse your smile and teeth bite pattern before we recommend the best veneer option for you.

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The president was speaking at the 37th All India Police Science Congress when he noted that developing countries are exposed to terrorism due to high resolution satellite imagery.
“Earth observations by Google Earth has resulted in high resolution pictures being made freely available on Internet sites, including http://www.fas.org. The present laws regarding spatial observations over the territory are inadequate,” he said.
I guess no one has explained to him that Google does not take the pictures; satellite imaging companies do.
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If it’s a location based game, we can have as many ads of companies based in a certain location. It would really depend on the concept and if the advertisers are keen on the same.
- Salil Bhargava, of paradox, a gaming company, quoted in Express India in an article about in game advertising. I guess this means we’ll have in game, location-based ads soon!
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Hard to know if there’s a direct relationship, but a Leica VP has joined Pixxures, an aerial imaging company as COO. Michael Hut, former Vice President of Customer and Technical Service at Leica Geosystems, also held a position at MJ Harden (now part of GE Power).
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This concert was ok!Yeah...just "ok",I'm afraid to say...I went there with great expectations...it was the third time I was seeing The Offspring live,and so far they never disappointed me...but tonite,they played with not enough soul!
All their songs were perfectly played and the tracklist was pretty good,too (even ifthere was just one song off the two first albums...what a pity!),but they were lacking soul and fun,and I surely felt it!Anyway,it was still a good concert and I'm sure less critical people than me have enjoyed it! :)
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Here's the beginning of the show:Dexter has still to warm up,so he's still wearing his cool fur coat (I hope it's a FAKE fur coat!!!)
Ok,he's warmed up now and we can see his t-shirt!From left to right,you can see Greg K (bassist),Dexter (Singer,but also guitarist in this tour!) and Noodles (guitarist)
Same scene,different lights...
Woops,it seems I took too many pics of the band in this position!!! :)
Ah,here is a cool Dexter closeup!He was dressed in a totally un-glamourous style,don't you think? :)
Behind Noodles you can see the keyboards used to play "Pretty Fly".On the edges of the keyboards you could see severed heads of children.Er,doll children...it was cool!
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Civil Twilight – Live @ The Borderline
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London, 9th April
Alternative rock band Civil Twilight are a quartet from Cape Town, South Africa. Now Nashville based, they’ve developed their career as a progressive live act and are often compared with U2, Radiohead, and Muse.
Brothers Andrew and Steven McKeller, Richard Wouters, and Kevin Dailey are signed to Wind Up Records and have released two studio albums: their self-titled debut album Civil Twilight and Holy Weather.
The upbeat and catchy Fire Escape, with its funky, pulsating bass lines, crashing drums and intricate electric guitar work has a contrasting style to It’s Over, a slow and softly atmospheric piano track. In River a light, acoustic riff is added to a vigorous drumbeat. Letters From The Sky is a rather abstract but fresh and innovative love story whilst the inward looking Sweet Resistance is moody and subdued.
Civil Twilight uses electronic drum beats, vocals, and synthesizers to create bass driven rock and ethereal piano ballads. They’ve departed from the character and personality of their first album but remain rich, playful and confident. Mostly they succeed in their aim “to make people feel good and get them to a good place every night.”
Set list: Doorway, Sweet Resistance, River, It’s Over, Holy Weather, Please Don’t Find Me, Fire Escape, Trouble, Letters From The Sky, Human.


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This audio was originally released on CD as accompaniment to the book ‘The House on the Borderland’ by William Hope Hodgson, published in 2018 by Swan River Press, Dublin, in an edition of 300 signed copies.
Performed by Jon Mueller.
Recorded in April 2017 by Shane Hochstetler at Howl Street Recording in Milwaukee, WI.
Mixed and arranged by Shane Hochstetler and Jon Mueller.
Mastered in April 2017 by Cory Allen at Altered Ear in Austin, TX.
Produced by Jon Mueller and Swan River Press.
Artwork by John Coulthart; design by Meggan Kehrli.
©2018 Warm Camera Grumpy Publishing (SESAC).


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HOLLYWOOD—Last week we got an update on Maggie, Sasha, Jesus and The Hilltop, but this week episode of “The Walking Dead,” titled ‘Swear’ introduced the audience to more madness involving Heath and Tara and the Oceanside community who feared Negan’s dictatorship. The episode opened on the outskirts of a beach, with a young girl and a teen girl dismantling of walkers in their presence, and stumbled across Tara. The youngster was ready to take out Tara, but her ally wanted to rescue Tara. Hmm, can’t help, but wonder how Tara ended up on that beach?
Of course, how about a long flashback to explain the situation! Heath and Tara found themselves deserted and at a crossroads. Heath spoke a truth that did not resonate with Tara, but I’ll be honest, he was indeed speaking the truth. Be patient people because the episode did a bit of time jumping from the past to the present. Our teen left Tara with water, weaponry and the supplies need to survive, as she took off, unaware that Tara was watching from a distance. It led Tara to follow the teen, and she stumbled upon a community hidden in the woods, off the beach. They have guns, they have weapons, indeed a suitable ally to help Rick and the others combat against Negan.
When it became clear a threat was in their presence, the community took aim at Tara who got the upper hand on the ‘enemy,’ but not before Rachel pulled a gun on her. Cindy came to Tara’s defense in this world that looks to be promoting female power. It became apparent that Heath and Tara came to a bridge that was closed off to outsiders. Tara’s eagerness, unleashed a sand surprise as tons of walkers attacked, and Heath retreated to save himself.
We soon meet Tanya, Katherine and Beatrice, as Tara told her story of falling off the bridge and landing onto the beach, where Cindy and Rachel came to her aid. Tanya and her allies were debating just what actions to take with Tara: to kill or not to kill? Tara found herself invited to a late supper courtesy of Cindy, Tanya, Beatrice and Katherine. Tara asked the big question of the hour: where are all the men? Looks like a battle royal led to the extinction of all the men who were formerly a part of the community. Tanya wanted Tara to stay at their camp, and was forced to divulge the secrets of Alexandria. When Tara started to talk about Negan, it became apparent (from my perspective) that Tanya and the others may have been aware of Negan.
Tanya agreed to allow Tara to leave their camp in search of Heath and to journey back to Alexandria. Man that scene with Rachel and Tara, was just hilarious to say the least. Beatrice and Katherine accompanied Tara on their mission, but ran into walker trouble along the way, which served as the perfect distraction. Tara fled and Beatrice and Katherine pursued chase with guns in tow. Tara begged to be let free, but Beatrice confirmed what the audience already knew about The Saviors and their massive army. It became clear The Saviors took out every men and child at Tanya’s camp, but they refused to be minions to an evil army. Cindy once again, came to Tara’s rescue allowing escape, but not before Cindy pulled a gun on her. Back at the bridge, Cindy and Tara debated on the best plan to ensure her survival to the other side. I mean this girl is a sharp-shooter, so let her do what she does best. The walker infestation was unleashed and things did not look too bright for Tara and Cindy people. Tara managed to get to the other side, and the flashback revealed that Heath did not desert her as she suspected.
During the final moments it was revealed that Heath or someone that looked like him became a walker. So a glimmer of Hope was given to the audience with those tire tracks people. Eugene was ecstatic to see Tara make her way back to Alexandria, but Tara had no idea of the chaos that had erupted while she was away from camp, Denise, Abraham, Glenn, just some of the lives lost, not to mention Negan’s rule. Rosita was determined to seek vengeance, but Tara seemed closed off to the idea, at least for now.
Looks like next week, the penultimate episode before the mid-season finale sets the stage for more revolt to begin in the midst of a fight against the villain whose dictatorship spreads much farther than many expected. Until next Sunday “Walking Dead” die-hards!

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Off Enewetak, grey reef sharks exhibit different social behaviors on different parts of the reef. Sharks tend to be solitary on shallower reefs and pinnacles. Near reef drop-offs, loose aggregations of five to 20 sharks form in the morning and grow in number throughout the day before dispersing at night. In level areas, sharks form polarized schools (all swimming in the same direction) of around 30 individuals near the sea bottom, arranging themselves parallel to each other or slowly swimming in circles. Most individuals within polarized schools are females, and the formation of these schools has been theorized to relate to mating or pupping.
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The "hunch" threat display of the grey reef shark is the most pronounced and well-known agonistic display (a display directed towards competitors or threats) of any shark. Investigations of this behavior have been focused on the reaction of sharks to approaching divers, some of which have culminated in attacks. The display consists of the shark raising its snout, dropping its pectoral fins, arching its back, and curving its body laterally. While holding this posture, the shark swims with a stiff, exaggerated side-to-side motion, sometimes combined with rolls or figure-8 loops. The intensity of the display increases if the shark is more closely approached or if obstacles are blocking its escape routes, such as landmarks or other sharks. If the diver persists, the shark will either retreat or launch a rapid open-mouthed attack, slashing with its upper teeth.
Another danger posed to humans by the Caribbean reef shark involves the accumulation of toxins in the flesh of the shark. Since sharks are apex marine predators, they may contain toxic levels of mercury and other heavy metals due to bioaccumulation (increasing concentrations at higher levels in the food web). It was found that methylmercury levels (MeHg) in sharks off the coast of Florida were higher than the FDA guidelines.
The Caribbean reef shark occurs throughout the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, from North Carolina in the north to Brazil in the south, including Bermuda, the northern Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. However, it is extremely rare north of the Florida Keys. It prefers shallow waters on or around coral reefs, and is commonly found near the drop-offs at the reefs' outer edges. This shark is most common in water shallower than 30 m (98 ft), but has been known to dive to 378 m (1,240 ft).
Cyanobacteria do not have skeletons and individuals are microscopic. Cyanobacteria can encourage the precipitation or accumulation of calcium carbonate to produce distinct sediment bodies in composition that have relief on the seafloor. Cyanobacterial mounds were most abundant before the evolution of shelly macroscopic organisms, but they still exist today (stromatolites are microbial mounds with a laminated internal structure). Bryozoans and crinoids, common contributors to marine sediments during the Mississippian (for example), produced a very different kind of mound. Bryozoans are small and the skeletons of crinoids disintegrate. However, bryozoan and crinoid meadows can persist over time and produce compositionally distinct bodies of sediment with depositional relief.

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Meeting with Female Filmmakers – Online
Online Cine Saturday and panel discussion with filmmakers, organized by the Bophana Center, is back again! This Saturday, the discussion will be attended by two female filmmakers, Mrs. Sophea Kim and Mrs. Sreylin Meas. They will show you their short films including:
– “Grey Feather” directed by Mrs. Sophea Kim
– “California Dreaming” directed by Mrs. Sreylin Meas
An online discussion with the filmmakers will begin after the screening ends.
The program will be conducted via live streaming on the Bophana Center Facebook page, on Saturday, May 9, 2020, at 5 PM. Everyone is invited to join us, and raise questions to the filmmakers.


Gerson: "We Need to Organize a One-Day Statewide Strike of All Public Education"
|"We Need to Organize a One-Day Statewide Strike of All Public Education" OEA Leader Jack Gerson Speaks At Defend Our Education Conference
[Note: Following are major excerpts from the presentation by Jack Gerson, Executive Board member of the Oakland Education Association (OEA) and member of the State Council of the California Teachers Association (CTA), to the Northern California Conference to Save Our Education, held on Sept. 29 at San Francisco State University.]
IT IS NO secret: They are out to decimate public education.
In September 2003, when I started teaching at Castlemont High School in Oakland, Calif., there were more than 40 classroom teachers. Of that initial group, only four teacher remain. The turnover rate is more than 40% per year. Those most adversely affected are the Black and Latino students. This should give you an idea of what they have in store for public education in the inner cities -- not just in Oakland, but across California.
The powerful University of California walkout on Sept. 24 is a beacon of hope for public education in this country. ...
They would like to push us to where we say, "Let's just fight to save what we've got." But what we've got is completely inadequate. There is great discrimination in our system against those who need quality education the most. What we have to do is fight for free, quality public education for all.
In the Oakland Education Association, we've been demanding that class size be reduced to 20 students in the Oakland schools and 15 in the low-achieving schools in the flatlands and poorer areas of Oakland.
Currently, we have a very discriminatory system in the city of Oakland, where the schools in the hills, with more funding and more parent support, are able to do better. So we have some distinguished public schools in Montclair and Rockridge, but in the flatland areas of Oakland things are getting worse and worse.
We were under state receivership in Oakland for almost seven years. The state has returned governance to the School Board in Oakland, but the state retains financial control. The state came in because, allegedly, Oakland couldn't run its finances, with $50 million in debt. Today, more than six years later, the state has returned governance -- and we now have a $118 million debt. They more than doubled the debt, while closing virtually every library in middle schools and in many secondary schools, including where I teach at Castlemont.
They have cut back elective programs across the board. In the first year of the receivership they laid off 40% of the custodians in Oakland. They've laid waste to the school district.
At the same time, they received 20% in cost-of-living money from the state. We, the teachers of Oakland, have seen less than 1% of that fund. Where has the money gone? They've been cutting like crazy. They haven't given the money to us. They turn their pockets inside-out and say, "No money!"
But we've found out that they've been able to spend $80 million each year in "undordered actuals" for consultants and out-sourcing. This money is going to the privatization of public education in Oakland -- a pattern that is being replicated across the state and across the country.
And we in the OEA have said, "It's time to put an end to that. ... We need quality public education. We need the money to go where it belongs!"
A Crisis of Priorities
There is not a funding crisis. There is a crisis of priorities. There are budget crises because of the upside-down priorities in this country. ...
We have to take the inspirational, unified fightback of staff, students and faculty on Sept. 24 at UC Berkeley and push it further. It was inspirational, but that inspiration will fade -- and it will not be truly meaningful -- unless we move forward from here.
We really need to discuss our next steps. I want to discuss two issues:
1) What action is needed? I think that the first thing that's on the agenda, especially for K-12 teachers, is to demand that our union leadership, that is, the CTA leadership, organize a one-day strike to defend public education in California. And we must call upon the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) -- which organizes some K-12 teachers and the Community Colleges -- to join with the CTA, the California Faculty Association, and other unions, so that we can have a walkout, a real strike, across the board. That's what we need to organize now.
I'm one of the delegates to the CTA State Council. We'll be meeting in Los Angeles in late October. We will bring in a motion calling on the CTA to organize such an action. But we will need everyone -- all K-12 teachers, parents, staff -- to lean of the CTA leadership to issue such a call. We need to put tremendous pressure on them.
The CTA came out with a statement of solidarity with the Sept. 24 UC walkout. But the statement was issued on Sept. 24. That's not the solidarity we need. We need solidarity that actively builds and organizes. We're glad that the CTA leadership came out with this statement of support; we hope this means that from this point on they're going to be building and organizing real solidarity.
2) We also need to know where this money come from.
There's a budget crisis, but this is really a crisis of the system, of the capitalist system, which is seeing its limits. We have a crisis of priorities. We need to say, "People First -- NOT the Profits of the Big Financial Institutions!"
The government put $13 trillion -- between the Treasury bailout money they've handed to the banks and the funding and guarantees from the Federal Reserve -- into the hands of the bankers. The Federal Reserve, which doesn't need Congressional authorization, has handed trillions of dollars to the banks. The Treasury bailout is close to $800 billion; the rest comes from the Federal Reserve. Obama's chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Timothy Geithner, is a tool of the bankers. This is all wrong. It is upside-down.
We need a second stimulus packet -- a packet that needs to be much larger than the first. We need to reverse the priorities: NOT funding the banks, but providing money for jobs and for working people. We need to guarantee, maintain, and expand vital social services that serve the public. That's what this administration should be doing -- NOT putting money into the hands of the banks.
We are told every day by the administration and by the politicians that our economy cannot survive unless the financial institutions thrive. We are told that we're dead without them. This is hogwash. This logic, in fact, will lead to a new capitulation and to another bubble that will blow up in their faces and that will, unfortunately, drown us all.
We need to change those priorities now. It is vital that we demand a second, real, stimulus package.
There is another dimension to this struggle. In the state of California, we can date back the crisis more than 30 years to when Prop 13 was passed. Since that date, public education in California went from being the best in the country to what is now arguably the worst K-12.
Prop 13 needs to be repealed, and what we need in its place is a split-roll tax, which will tax corporate property heavily. That's the state component of it. But that won't work without the federal component of it.
If we don't do this, we're going to see happening at every level what they're trying to do in the city of Oakland now, where they're talking about closing public libraries several days a week, or closing the animal shelter. They're trying to close down and close down and close down until there's no revenue base at all. The whole country is shutting down because we have to capitalize the banks!
This is absolutely the wrong way to go.
We have to be absolutely clear: We need to organize a statewide strike of all public education. We in the OEA are going to work for that. The money is there; we just have to go get it where it is.
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3. Stress can make cats sick – REALLY sick!
Dr. Buffington at The Ohio State University has conducted research that links a serious urinary tract disease in cats with stress. Another study by Judi Stella showed that stressed cats experienced nearly twice as much sickness as less anxious kitties, and that sources of stress for cats could be as “small” as unwanted affection, a dirty litter box or a change in routine. Illnesses in cats are no laughing matter: they can be difficult to diagnose, expensive to treat and could result in the cat being euthanized or surrendered to a shelter. Decreasing your cat’s stress levels means health and harmony for your home!
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Cats are great pets for busy people because they sleep, on average, 15 hours a day. As ambush predators, cats sleep this much to conserve energy for the periods of intense activity when they hunt. For indoor cats, sleeping may be followed by a languid stroll to their food and water dish and a bout of looking out of the window before heading back to their bed. This is a really unnatural behavior cycle for kitties! Having a variety of cat toys can help a cat purge those hunting instincts, in addition to tossing the food dish and feeding your cat with an interactive toy, but your cat will really benefit from a mere ten minutes of play with you! One of my cats favors a wand toy while the other prefers to chase after balls or fake mice. (Try to avoid laser toys!)
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How quickly times change. Just a few months ago, universal health care was a perfunctory item on the Democratic wish list, more wistful than realistic. But, thanks to John Edwards, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Wal-Mart--yes, Wal-Mart--a debate over universal health care is suddenly underway. And, to the shock of reformers, they find themselves mulling a previously unimaginable question: Can universal health care actually pass?
Unfortunately, this is where the discussion gets tricky. You can plausibly blame the failure of the last great reform effort, President Clinton's, on any number of factors. But a key impediment, in retrospect, was the widely held perception that the very idea of universal coverage was something foreign and scary. It's "socialism," the critics warned--unaware that the president who probably came closest to signing universal health care legislation was that notorious left-wing symp, Richard Nixon. Alas, history neither deterred the right-wing message machine nor dented the public's wariness of big government. The critics prevailed, and, today, we're still stuck with a dysfunctional health care system.
This season's reformers have already cobbled together genuinely innovative proposals. Whether you're talking about Edwards's plan for an individual mandate or Senator Ron Wyden's idea of junking the employer-based health care system altogether, there are now more than a smattering of serious ideas on the table. But all the novel policy in the world won't make universal coverage happen if the reformers can't shatter the old tropes that conservatives used to destroy the Clinton plan--and will undoubtedly reapply in the next battle. It's time to get rid of those. And the place to start is with taxes.
And, yes, there must be new taxes. In any decent universal health care system, public spending on health care will grow, as taxpayers pick up the cost of insuring the uninsured or--as in a single-payer system--the cost of insuring every single American. This gives the opponents of universal coverage an opportunity to pounce. New taxes mean new financial hardship, they say. And, really, don't you pay enough in taxes already?
But, if public spending on health care grows, then private spending on health care should shrink. Today, the average family insurance policy costs a staggering $11,000 per year. One reason: Private insurance already subsidizes the cost of treating the uninsured, since doctors and hospitals charge paying patients extra to make up for the money they lose on charity care. If government were to start insuring the uninsured directly, then people wouldn't have to pay quite so much for private coverage anymore. And, naturally, if government were to start insuring everybody, then people wouldn't have to pay for private insurance at all.
In other words, raising taxes to finance universal health care isn't tantamount to imposing a new financial burden. It's swapping one burden for another. And there is good reason to believe that, ultimately, the new burden will be smaller. Serious reform schemes have the potential to restrain costs substantially--whether by eliminating administrative waste, bargaining harder on prices, or reducing unproductive profiteering.
In one reform proposal, recently outlined in these pages by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Victor R. Fuchs, the government could finance a universal voucher system with a value-added tax of 10 to 12 percent ("Vouchsafe," February 19). Yet, even accounting for those higher prices that tax would impose at the checkout counter, Fuchs, who is among the nation's most respected health care economists, predicted that typical Americans would end up better off financially. Among other things, he noted, wages would rise as employers stopped contributing toward employee benefits.
Calculations like these don't even begin to tally the added economic growth that reform might unleash. Among the many failures of our health care system is that it discourages people from changing jobs or starting out on their own by creating a fear of switching coverage or losing coverage altogether. Universal health care would potentially eliminate that damper on entrepreneurship. Indeed, this is the lesson of Scandinavia, where the high taxes that finance welfare states haven't deterred growth--in part, according to the experts, because a secure workforce is more willing to embrace a dynamic, ever-changing economy.
And, if invoking the example of Sweden (or, as is the case, Denmark) sounds suspiciously socialist, then Americans can comfort themselves with the fact that high taxes have been compatible with growth here, too. They need only harken back to the Clinton era--that is, before the Bush tax cuts slashed federal tax rates--when the economy enjoyed one of its strongest growth periods ever.
But it's not just financial benefits that universal health care would bring. It's also peace of mind--the security that comes with knowing your health insurance can never be taken away, no matter what happens to your job or what medical catastrophe befalls you. If you don't think that's worth an awful lot, ask somebody who has had to go without health insurance recently--a group that, according to some studies, accounts for nearly one-third of the entire U.S. population over the course of any two-year period.
Will Americans ever learn to live with higher taxes again? A few prominent politicians seem to think so. Arnold Schwarzenegger has justified the new "fees" to pay for his proposed California health plan by arguing that it's preferable to the "hidden tax" all residents now pay to cover the cost of care for the uninsured. It's a clever formulation that, appropriately, reminds voters of the money they could end up saving under his plan. More courageous, still, is John Edwards. When he unveiled his universal coverage scheme earlier this year, he came right out and acknowledged his plan to pay for it with taxes. The benefit more than outweighed the cost, he said without evasion, as if the concept were self-evident--and firmly in the mainstream of U.S. politics. That's certainly where it belongs.
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The exchange said it also banned Kirill Malofeev, the son of tycoon Konstantin Malofeev reported by the US Treasury Department as being a major financing source for Russians who push for separatism in Crimea.
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As Nick Arama reported earlier, President Joe Biden failed to commemorate the 77th anniversary of D-Day Sunday, not making any public comments about it nor posting anything to his social media accounts regarding one of the most famous and honored days in American military history.
While Biden did tweet about the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which deserves remembrance in its own right, many were left wondering why a Commander in Chief who has in the past put on theatrical productions and told tall tales about his supposed fondness for our men and women in uniform would fail to give the historic day and the symbolism of what it means the proper acknowledgment and respect.
Though Biden appeared to be unavailable to take questions from reporters today, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy did not let that stop him from inquiring of White House press secretary Jen Psaki earlier during the daily press briefing about Biden’s lack of acknowledgment of the day.
“Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump all commemorated D-Day anniversaries on the D-Day anniversary,” Doocy noted. “Why didn’t President Biden?”
Here was Psaki’s response:
“Well, I can tell you that certainly, his value for the role the men who served on D-Day and the memory of them, the families who have kept their memories alive over the course of years on this day is something the President has spoke to many, many times in the past. It’s close to his heart, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s more we would have to say on it.”
.@PressSec is asked why President Biden didn’t post a commemoration of D-Day:
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So if it was so “close to his heart,” why didn’t he say so? Was it deliberate or did he forget? Quite frankly, I’m not sure which is worse.
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A French journalist who was held hostage with James Foley in Syria has told ITV News it was "devastating" to see his murder but that his friend "remained strong until the end".
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A delegation of Israeli businessman led by Consul General of Israel David Akov visited the textile city Surat on Wednesday to meet the businessmen and explore bilateral business in the field of textiles and garments.
The Consul General visited a few prominent textile processing units to gather information on the fabric production and the B2B business potential with the retailers and garment wholesalers in Israel.
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I was fortunate enough to see Alvvays play Ottawa on their second night sold out show at Bronson Centre.
For better or for worst, I had to use my iPhone to capture this.
The band was in full-force promoting the wonderful and one of 2022’s best album Blue Rev.
Kicked off with Pharmacist then After The Earthquake.
During Very Online Guy, Molly was singing down on her knees since she had to fiddle with the pedals.
There was the favourites like In Undertow, Adult Diversion, Dreams Tonite and Next of Kin during the encore.
This band never disappoints live and gets better.
Kicking off the show was Wisconsin’s disq.
A band I was excited since I first heard of them when they released their first album Collector during the start of the pandemic.
I wasn’t aware they dropped their second album called Desperately Imaging Someplace Quiet.
Wonderful set of alternative rock music.
Here are some video clips from my Instagram


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Lifestyles in Bay Colony Shores are a happy blend of elegant and laid-back, amid the placid waterfront atmosphere afforded by lakes. Although "The Shores" was named to reflect the lovely lakes in this neighborhood, it could just as well refer to the Gulf, because families living in Bay Colony Shores also enjoy the beach that is an integral part of Bay Colony's location.
Building covenants and architectural requirements ensure strict adherence to quality standards, preserving and augmenting the community's property values. Only a select few of the area's finest craftsmen have been invited to build custom homes in Bay Colony Shores.

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The co-founder and former president of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, says that climate change is a “complete hoax and scam,” which has been “taking over science with superstition and a kind of toxic combination of religion and political ideology.”
Moore, who recently made headlines for calling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “pompous little twit” and “garden-variety hypocrite” on climate change, sat down with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
The Greenpeace co-founder’s message echoes that of John Coleman, the late Weather Channel founder who called global warming “the greatest scam in history.”
Moore told Breitbart how fear and guilt are driving the climate change argument, reports Breitbart News.
Fear has been used all through history to gain control of people’s minds and wallets and all else, and the climate catastrophe is strictly a fear campaign — well, fear and guilt — you’re afraid you’re killing your children because you’re driving them in your SUV and emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and you feel guilty for doing that. There’s no stronger motivation than those two.
According to Moore, the climate change movement has co-opted and corrupted politicans and bureaucracies in order to exert further control over people, Moore explained – noting that “green” companies only exist on the back of taxpayers.
And so you’ve got the green movement creating stories that instill fear in the public. You’ve got the media echo chamber — fake news — repeating it over and over and over again to everybody that they’re killing their children, and then you’ve got the green politicians who are buying scientists with government money to produce fear for them in the form of scientific-looking materials, and then you’ve got the green businesses, the rent-seekers and the crony capitalists who are taking advantage of massive subsidies, huge tax write-offs, and government mandates requiring their technologies to make a fortune on this, and then of course you’ve got the scientists who are willingly, they’re basically hooked on government grants.
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WOAH! An early model of the upcoming Toho Large Monster Series Destroyah vinyl figure by X-Plus is now on display at the Amazing Japan Model Expo 2015. Looks freaking impressive even without paint! And, it looks to be pretty big seeing as how it’s eye to eye with the upcoming Toho 30cm Series Godzilla 2014.
(Also on display are the first five entries of X-Plus’ 4-inch Godzilla Kaiju Museum figures.)


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Q: I had my garage roof replaced (attached to the house). They removed my 2 wind turbines and installed 1 ridge roof vent, I have 6 soffit vents on the eaves, But my garage is now extremely hot. They said I no longer needed the turbines with the ridge roof vent. How can I cool the garage back down? We live in Texas. My eave vents are not blocked by debri or any other objects. Thanks for any advise you can offer.
A: First of all, if your new garage roof is darker in color than the old one, that will increase heat gain into the attic.
Proper ventilation requires intake and exhaust vents. In your case, soffit vents are being used for intake and ridge vent for exhaust.
Ideally, you will want to maximize your amount of venting and you will want to have the same or perhaps slightly greater airflow at the ridge as what you have at the soffits (total both sides). That will allow for the convective airflow that you need.


Two weeks ago a slightly strange thing happened to me while I was wearing my hat as editor of When They Get Older.
Someone contacted me on behalf of a bingo company with a suggestion for an article. It was to be based around an app they were offering to help youngsters get to grip with numbers.
I ignored it because I genuinely don’t have the time to deal with time wasters. He hadn’t looked at our site obviously. Just gone on the name. When They Get Older isn’t about children. It’s about ageing friends and relatives. The clue’s in the couple of hundred articles we’ve already published.
The even stranger thing is that a week later he chased me up to find out if I was interested in his article. Fortunately I’m not an aggressive person. But he does now know what he was doing wrong.
Over the course of my editorship of print and digital magazines and blogs I’ve come across many would-be authors and content providers who are excellent at proposing articles.
And some that verge on the excruciatingly weird.
So if you want to get your articles around the ageing population published by high-quality sites, here are a few tips.
- Know the audience. See above
- Know what the site has already published and find something new
- If you can’t find a new topic, find a new angle
- Say something useful. If you’re representing a company that works in this market, tap into their internal knowledge to provide real insights
- Propose a few ideas to let the editor choose
- Give it a week before chasing
- Use a writer who can interview your experts and write well – and brief them about the audience and style of the blog
- Make it a really interesting article and don’t fill it with product puffs that the editor will just take out again
- Proofread before you send it to the editor – to show how much you care. Mostly people do. But I have also received cut and shunt articles that range from first person casual to third person formal without taking a breath and are full of typos and grammatical errors
- Offer some really good images. Don’t start me on the use of images of hands to illustrate articles about older people. Much better to find an original image about your particular subject
Really, it’s all about being exceedingly helpful to the editor by taking on the chores that they would otherwise have to do. That, and remembering the audience.


Having recently celebrated its first birthday, UnbreakableCoin (UNB) has lived up to its name.
The digital currency, which was added to Cryptsy’s exchange a few months after its release, has never been broken. It has never gone into maintenance once or temporarily removed from the exchange for review.
It’s become one of the most trusted coins out there, said developer Jim Blasko in an interview with CoinReport.
What sets UnbreakableCoin apart from other crypto coins is that users can put a name and a face behind this coin. UnbreakableCoin was the first digital currency with a telephone number (1-406-CALL-UNB). Users can reach Blasko by that phone number, as well as by email. His office in Las Vegas is open-door, so anyone can drop by.
“You got to get your face out there, you got to get exposure for the coin, let people know that you’re going to back them up,” said Blasko. “I think the phone number is a big thing. Every time somebody calls that phone number somebody’s picking up and…is there to talk to them. We built that trust by being there.”
Among the highlights in UnbreakableCoin’s first year was being added to the Cryptsy exchange and the launch of one of the first crypto auction websites – Unbreakablecoin Auctions – which has brought Blasko’s coin some recognition.
In early February, UnbreakableCoin hit a market cap of more than $400,000, but now is currently trading at about 1.3 cents, well ahead of Bitcoin on its first birthday. Despite the price drop, Unbreakable lives on.
“Unlike a lot of crypto coins when their prices crash, [developers] disappear and the groups disappear, a lot of the times the coins quit working, so we’re still here,” said Blasko.
Blasko runs the business from Las Vegas and has a team that spans the globe. The team is composed of supporters from the crypto community who generally volunteer their own time to help develop services for UnbreakableCoin, such as mining pool creation and wallet design. There are more than 20 team members, with a base growing in Italy.
“Every team member has been dedicated and contributed a great deal of their own time to expanding UnbreakableCoin,” Blasko said. “I feel very privileged to be the guy behind the beginning of our community.”
To keep UnbreakableCoin completely safe, no one besides Blasko has access to changes to the coin’s source code on GitHub. Other developers are welcome to fork their own crypto coin from UnbreakableCoin, but the original code has remained untouched and unbroken since its release.
“I believe this is the only way for UnbreakableCoin to continue to remain as decentralized as possible,” said Blasko. “When these developers are constantly making changes to a coin that’s already been released, you have to wonder, ‘Is that coin really decentralized anymore?’ I’m pretty sure not everyone may have wanted these changes that the developer just made to a publicly released coin. A year later UnbreakableCoin has proven it doesn’t need any changes. It’s 100% unbreakable and remains truly decentralized.”
One of the few coins built on the same SHA256 code that runs Bitcoin, UnbreakableCoin can adapt any technologies that Bitcoin would choose to adapt. Should a great invention come out of the blockchain, UnbreakableCoin can implement that just the same as Bitcoin. Like Bitcoin, UnbreakableCoin is mineable, but it wasn’t pre-mined. There are 80 million UNB to be mined, and there are about 2.2 million UNB out there. Blasko said it will take about 35 years for UnbreakableCoin to be mined out.
One area in which Blasko sees UnbreakableCoin standing out from other cryptocurrencies is the strong community that believes in and trusts his coin.
“[When] most coins go through a large increase in price and a large decrease in price, the fans of the coin usually don’t hang around for much longer. But even after suffering such a dramatic price decrease our fans are still here, and even stronger it seems like,” said Blasko, who added that he’s getting more phone call and emails than ever. Making himself available to the community by phone, email, and an open-door office has made a difference, he said. “[Those are] the kinds of things that we’ve tried to do, just make [UnbreakableCoin] more appealing in the sense that we wanted it to be a community’s coin. We didn’t pre-mine it, we wanted it to be a fair coin to all from day one, and nothing’s going to change about that. We’re going to keep it just that way.”
Images courtesy of UNB


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Gordon is on a path to start at small forward ahead of Jae'Sean Tate, Kelly Iko of The Athletic reports.
The Scoop: Iko notes that while Gordon will likely start for the Rockets, Tate still figures to be a big factor and will see a good chunk of minutes with the starters. The staff will likely tinker with the lineup options during training camp before figuring out how it wants to deploy it when the regular season fires up Oct. 19 versus the Hawks.
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A Laser Level that Holds Itself to the Wall
Laser Levels In the last few years, laser levels have gotten more compact and less expensive. Ron demonstrates a state-of-the-art version from Ryobi.
Built into the base of this tool is a rubber suction cup complete with a vacuum pump, which enables you to stick the level to almost any flat surface without any pins, nails or clamps.
First, place the laser level on the wall and press a button to turn on the miniature vacuum pump, which continues to run, holding the instrument securely in place. Adjust the turret until the bubble indicates that the laser is level.
The laser line will continue into the corner and onto the adjacent wall. To check for plumb, rotate the head 90 degrees and again, adjust the level. This will provide you with a perfectly vertical line.
Laser levels like this are especially handy if you're working alone. They also keep you from making a lot of unnecessary marks on your walls.
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A bizarre find in Pioneer Park Pond in Brigham City has biologists stumped. A fish with fangs was discovered; now officials are trying to figure out what exactly it is.
Craig Schaugaard, Aquatic Manger for the Department of Wildlife Resources, said, "When we first saw that fish, we thought, ‘What in the crap is this thing?'"
Where did this fish come from, and more importantly, what is it? The mystery started a couple weeks ago when every fish in the pond went belly up.
Ben Boyce, with the Brigham City Corporation, said "Approximately 4,000 fish, when the ice came off the pond, were discovered to be dead."
The pond may have been poisoned, or the water may have run out of oxygen due to the thick ice. "We just have no way of knowing," Schaugaard says.
Among the dead were the species the pond had been stocked with, along with the unexpected -carp, goldfish, and the mystery fish that was found in the parking lot, apparently dragged by an animal.
"It's been decomposed. It's been run over," Schaugaard said.
Biologists say it's not a new species. They believe the fish could be a Lake Trout whose tissue decomposed rapidly, making its teeth more prominent. It could also be a cast-off, a pet fish dumped by someone tired of taking care of it. "We would be appreciative if the aquarium fish didn't come to our pond," Boyce said.
Aquatics biologists say if they can't figure it out, they'll let the fish decompose then examine the bone structure to determine the species. While they wait, the fish stories will only grow. Schaugaard says, "It definitely could become an urban legend."
Officials will soon begin restocking the pond with fish of their choosing. It's safe to assume that won't include any aquarium fish or mystery fish.
Besides adding the new fish, park officials are also applying for a grant to improve the pond. They want to make it deeper and add rocks and tree stumps to make it a better habitat.


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One of the characteristics of democracy, more so the presidential system of government being practised by Nigeria is a periodic conduct of elections as prescribed by the constitution. Not only are the elections expected to be held at regular intervals at the end of tenures of elected leaders, such polls are supposed to be seen to be free and fair for a nation to be adjudged as a member of the comity of democratic states.
In Nigeria and many other third world countries, which are grappling with the forms of government to adopt, the failure to conduct free and fair elections has led, at one time or the other, to the collapse of regimes. In some of the instances, such elected governments have been dethroned by the military which often blame the politicians. In some instances too, failure of electoral processes has led to wars which claim millions of lives.
In Nigeria, the 1962/63 political crisis in Western Nigeria which gave rise to the "wild, wild west" and the "Tiv Riots" which also broke out in the north central part of the country adumbrated the 1966 military putsch, led by major Chkwuma Nzeogwu.
Similarly, the military regime of then Major-General Muhammadu Buhari which struck in 1983 and sacked the elected regime of former President Shehu Shagari was quick to give as one of the reasons for the take over, the unwholesome conduct of the 1983 general elections by the Federal Electoral Commission, FEDECO, which had returned Shagari into office as a re-elected president. …


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Mashonaland East marks anti-sanctions day
Marondera (Chaminuka-New Ziana) -Thousands of people from Mashonaland East turned up at Rudhaka Stadium in Marondera and joined the rest of the nation for an anti-sanctions rally that was attended by several stakeholders who included war veterans, students, churches, chiefs and members of the public.
Southern African Development Community Heads of State and Government set the day aside during their 39th Ordinary Summit held in Tanzania in August this year.
Representatives of different organizations gave solidarity messages that were in unison in slamming the embargoes, saying they were having a negative impact on the economy as they were crippling developmental programmes.
Provincial war veterans chairman Cde Peter Sigauke said the sanctions had destroyed economic opportunities and called for unity among Zimbabweans to fight the illegal embargoes.
“Today is a big day for us as a nation as we make it clear to those who imposed sanctions on us that enough is enough. These illegal sanctions are making life unbearable for the majority of people and they must be lifted. Let us unite and speak with one voice as Zimbabweans until they are lifted,” he said.
Kushinga Phikelela Student Representative Council (SRC) vice president Kenneth Tari said the sanctions had dampened the hopes of most students who are not absorbed into the formal job market on completion of their education as industries were either shutting down or operating below capacity.
He said: “These illegal sanctions are a thorn in the flesh of every student. We are learning, but we always wonder where we will be employed as industries are being closed down owing to the sanctions. We always wonder what the future holds for us and as students. We say it’s high time those who imposed sanctions on the country lift them. There are many challenges that we are facing as students such as shortage of food at the institutions where we learn and that has led most female students to turn to prostitution as a means of survival.”
The same message was delivered by a youth representative, Ethel Madawo who added: “Our generation is growing in a tough economic environment owing to the sanctions. As Zimbabweans, we are known the world over as very educated people, but most youths are unemployed. Industries are not employing, rather they are shutting down as operations are being negatively affected by the sanctions. In the end, the girl child is turning to prostitution and early child marriages are becoming the order of the day.”
Chief Svosve, in whose area the Third Chimurenga that marked the land reform program which led to the enactment of ZIDERA started, said although the sanctions were making life miserable for their subjects, Zimbabweans should jealously guard their land.
He said: “Those Western powers imposed these sanctions on our country following the land reform program. They thought that by imposing the sanctions on us, the program would be reversed, but that will never be the case. Land is our heritage and we must hold onto it. We will never back down and those sanctions must be removed.”
Pastor Zhou who spoke on behalf of churches said religious organisations were also being affected by the sanctions.
“We are praying with and for hungry people as life has become unbearable owing to these sanctions. As churches, we want to see them lifted. One day, God will hear our prayers.
Musician Andy Muridzo headlined the entertainment cast while a football match was played later on.
The United States of America and the European Union imposed sanctions on the country at the turn of the millennium after Zimbabwe embarked on the land reform programme to redress land imbalances that condemned the majority of indigenous black people to unproductive land.


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This is Fire Prevention Week, which was established to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 that killed 250 people and left more than 10,000 people homeless. In fact, the entire month of October is dedicated to National Fire Safety and Prevention, which is a perfect opportunity to talk to your family about fire safety.
In a press release sent on Friday, the Anne Arundel County Fire Department reminded local residents about the importance of installing smoke alarms and residential fire sprinklers. Nearly two-thirds of residential fire deaths occurred in homes where there was no smoke alarm or the alarms failed to operate, according to the release.
Everyone knows the stop, drop, and roll, but there are many other ways to prevent a fire in your home. Here are five tips recommended by the CDC:
- Install a smoke detector in every floor of your home and if possible, in all sleeping rooms. Be sure to perform a monthly test of your existing smoke detectors throughout the year.
- Make sure there is space around your heater and that window curtains or other flammable materials aren’t touching the heater.
- Create a family escape plan from your home in case of a fire. Everyone in your home should know at least two ways out of each room. Also, be sure to have a meeting place outside your home.
- Don’t smoke in your home. If you do, never leave burning cigarettes unattended and don’t empty burning or hot ashes in a trash can.
- When cooking, keep anything that can catch on fire away from the stove including potholders, towels, long loose-fitting sleeves, etc. Also, never leave cooking food unattended and keep pot handles turned in when on the stove.
For more fire safety tips and facts, visit the National Fire Protection Association page.
TELL US: What are your fire safety tips? What is the most useful thing you have taught your family about preparing for a fire?


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A little rain and some occasionally wonky vocals didn’t stop a crowd of 8,843 from enjoying the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand’s final concert of the season Monday night, a Big ’80s throwback bill featuring Culture Club, the B-52s and Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins.
Bailey took the stage promptly at 6:30 p.m. with a brief set of Thompson Twins smashes along with his new solo single, “Science Fiction.”
Originally a trio, the Thompson Twins were often dismissed as just another hairdo band in the ’80s, but they actually managed to record a few classics, many of which got aired Monday. Original member Joe Leeway left the group in 1986, with Bailey and Alannah Currie carrying on as TT and later Babble before dropping out of the music business in the ’90s to focus on raising their family.
Bailey and Currie divorced in 2003 and eleven years later, Bailey resumed touring after decades away from the stage. Backed by three women all dressed in white, Bailey opened with “Love on Your Side,” which like most of the other TT songs of the night, felt a bit slower than fans might remember.
It rained through his set, and Bailey appeared to be amused to be performing among a sea of stage equipment all inelegantly draped in plastic. And, well, it was clear he wasn’t lip syncing as he managed to miss a key note or three in each song. But “Lay Your Hands on Me,” “Doctor! Doctor!” and “Hold Me Now” each earned a warm reception. During the latter, Bailey urged the audience (almost entirely Gen X and older, although surprisingly diverse) to sing the final choruses a cappella and they happily obliged.
The plastic was gone by the time the B-52s took the stage. They focused almost exclusively on their earliest work, with the exception of the title track of their most recent album (2008’s “Funplex”) and their late-’80s smashes “Roam” and “Love Shack.”
The chemistry between goofy barker Fred Schneider, torchy vocalist Cindy Wilson and ray-of-sunshine Kate Pierson remains intact, although at times it felt like they were going through the motions. It was fun to watch Schneider employ a series of instruments ranging from Glockenspiel to a toy piano to enhance the surf-rock sound conjured by a four-piece touring band that included longtime B-52s collaborators Tracy Wormworth (bass) and Sterling Campbell (drums).
But Wilson often sounded winded and struggled with signature songs like “Dance This Mess Around” and “Give Me Back My Man.” Luckily, Pierson still could belt out her signature shrieks inspired by Yoko Ono. (Indeed, when John Lennon heard the B-52s on the radio in the late ’70s, it helped inspire him and Ono to make what would become their final album together, “Double Fantasy.”)
The rain had stopped by the time Boy George and Culture Club arrived with a shimmering version of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance.” It was the first of the group’s three tributes to late musicians, with Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” and Prince’s “Purple Rain” bookending the encore. “Like most of you, I was a huge, huge Prince fan,” Boy George reverently told the crowd. (Culture Club also tackled Bread’s “Everything I Own,” which served as Boy George’s 1987 solo debut single.)
Boy George was in much better spirits, and voice, than he was the last time he was in town, headlining Treasure Island Casino nearly two years ago. In fact, he nailed everything from “It’s a Miracle” to “Miss Me Blind,” even though he seemed vaguely annoyed by the hits that made him famous.
Culture Club slipped in three new tracks – “Let Somebody Love You,” “The Truth Is a Runaway Train” and “Different Man” – that managed to recapture the spirit of CC’s heyday. The band has been promising a new album for years now. Initially dubbed “Tribes,” it has since been reworked into a new record called “Life” and has what looks like a solid release date booked in October.
On stage, the original members of Culture Club – save for drummer Jon Moss, who was mysteriously missing from the lineup Monday night – got a sonic boost from four additional musicians, another four backup vocalists (none of whom could match Boy George’s legendary ’80s foil Helen Terry) and a random guy who wandered out to play harmonica for “Church of the Poison Mind.”
In the end, the main thing missing from Culture Club’s set was what would have been an entirely appropriate post-downpour rainbow.