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Anne Lee was introduced to encaustic by her artist friend and fellow Lexington resident Jennifer Goldfinger. Lee was intrigued by the process of creating rich, layered membranes by manipulating beeswax, resin, and pigment at various temperatures for applications in nearly every artistic style.
When author E. Ashley Rooney of Lexington approached her soon afterward to co-write a book on the subject, Lee eagerly accepted.
Released last month by Schiffer Publishing, “Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century’’ showcases contemporary examples of the art form. The 79 featured artists include Goldfinger, Tracy Spadafora of Westborough, and Sirarpi Heghinian-Walzer of Lexington.
Lee said she spent untold hours visiting galleries, museums, and artist studios to learn about the cross-disciplinary medium of encaustic, which ranges from painting to sculpture, assemblage, collage, and printmaking.
The eight chapters, which are organized by geographic region, explore the artists’ feelings about their work and the use of encaustic to express themselves and their environment.
“This medium has been around for 2,000 years, and yet artists are using it in completely new ways,’’ Lee said.
For more information, visit schifferbooks.com.
Cindy Cantrell can be reached at cindycantrell20@gmail. com.


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J.J. Culver was inspired by Kobe Bryant to improve his game, then scored 100 in one night
J.J. Culver had scored his team’s first 42 points on Tuesday night. He had 51 at halftime, already surpassing the Wayland Baptist record and tying the Sooner Athletic Conference mark for the most points scored in an entire game.
And the senior guard was just getting started.
Culver, the older brother of Minnesota Timberwolves rookie Jarrett Culver, finished the game against Southwestern Adventist with 100 points to become only the fourth college player to reach the century mark in an official game.
“WAIT.... my brother @jj10culver just scored 100 points in a game !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” tweeted Jarrett Culver, who was drafted sixth overall by the Timberwolves this summer after two seasons at Texas Tech. “Somebody tell me I’m not dreaming.”
J.J. Culver made 34 of 62 shots, including 12 of 33 from three-point range, and was 20 for 27 from the free-throw line to help Wayland Baptist cruise to a 124-60 victory in front of a home crowd at Hutcherson Center in Plainview, Texas.
“First I have to thanks God. Second I couldn’t have done this without my coaches and teammates. Definitely a dream come true,” he tweeted. “I put in a lot of work for this. I love playing basketball and thanks everyone for the support.”
After being named the conference’s player of the year and an NAIA first-team All-American last season, Culver used Lakers legend Kobe Bryant as inspiration to take his game to another level.
“I saw some of his videos,” Culver told Yahoo Sports. “He said when he scored 81, he was conditioned really well. So in the summer, I ran a lot.”
Culver set a career high with 41 points against McMurry in the second game of the season and also scored 40 against Bellevue last month. But coach Ty Harrelson and the Wayland Baptist players could tell Culver was well on his way to eclipsing those marks early in Tuesday night’s game.
“We always script our first couple of plays, and J.J. scored on the first three or four,” Harrelson said. “The guys realized he was hot and kept going to him. We figured as long as he’s taking good shots and shots out of our philosophy that he had a chance to do something special tonight.”
The previous school record for points in a game was 50, set by Roy Young during the 1955-56 season. Victor Parrish of Science & Arts of Oklahoma set the previous conference record of 51 in 1993.
Jack Taylor of Grinnell College holds the NCAA record after scoring 138 points during a 2012 game. He also had 109 points during a 2013 game.
Clarence “Bevo” Francis of Rio Grande (Ohio) set the NAIA record of 113 points in 1954. The only other college player to reach 100 in an official game was Frank Selvy of Furman in 1954, according to SportRadar.
After joining those illustrious ranks, Culver spoke with his famous sibling on FaceTime. According to Yahoo Sports, the call began with “incoherent screams” on both ends.
“I don’t even know what to say, bro,” Jarrett Cole eventually told his big brother.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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By Ken Reed
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Dear Colleague Letter today clarifying schools’ obligations to provide extracurricular athletics opportunities for students with disabilities under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
The directive applies to K-12 schools as well as colleges and universities. The bottom line of the OCR action is that students with disabilities must be provided opportunities for physical activity and sports equal to those afforded to students without disabilities.
In a press release about the OCR’s action, issued by the Inclusive Fitness Coalition, an advocacy organization for disabled athletes, James Rimmer, Ph.D., director of the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability said, “The OCR guidance is a clear indication that athletics is an extremely important part of our educational system and that youth and young adults with disabilities must be afforded the same opportunities as their non-disabled peers.”
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has called on the Department of Education to provide resources to assist states and schools in serving students with disabilities in physical activity settings.
“We applaud OCR for its leadership and action, which we hope will pave the way for students with disabilities in sports the same way that Title IX has done for women,” said Terri Lakowski, policy chair of the Inclusive Fitness Coalition.
It’s a landmark day for disabled athletes in the United States but now comes the hard part: enforcing implementation of this mandate. Everyone who cares about equal opportunity in sports must be diligent at the local and/or national level. This isn’t an impossible task. Models are out there.
“We are ready and eager to work with schools across the country and show them that integrating students with disabilities into school athletic programs is not only feasible, but will greatly enrich the overall athletic experience for all students,” said Beverly Vaughn, Executive Director of the American Association of Adapted Sports Programs.
A lot of work has been done.
A lot is still left to do.
Get involved where you can.
— Ken Reed, Sports Policy Director, League of Fans
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Episode #26 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: How Can We Fix Youth Sports? – John O’Sullivan is Founder and CEO of Changing the Game Project and author of “Changing the Game: The Parents Guide to Raising Happy, High Performing Athletes and Giving Youth Sports Back to Our Kids.” We discuss overzealous adults in youth sports, the dangers of sport specialization, youth sports entrepreneurs and the profit-at-all-costs mindset, and the growing socio-economic gap in youth sports.
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Episode #25 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: Physical Education Should Be a Critical Component of K-12 School Design – Michael Horn is co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation.
Episode #24 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: Mental Health and Athletes: Ending the Stigma – Nathan Braaten and Taylor Ricci are the founders of Dam Worth It, a non-profit created to end the stigma around mental health at colleges and universities through sport, storytelling, and community creation.
Episode #23 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: Olympian Benita Fitzgerald Mosley Talks Title IX, Youth Sports and the Olympics.
Episode #22 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: Rethinking Sports Fandom with Author Craig Calcaterra – We discuss Calcaterra’s new book “Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game” and explore new ways to be a fan.
Episode #21 – League of Fans’ Sports Forum podcast: Chatting About a Broken Game With Baseball Writer Pedro Moura – Moura is a national baseball writer for Fox Sports. We discuss how and why the game of baseball is broken, what factors caused it, and offer a few thoughts on how to “fix” a great game.
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“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.” ~ Doris Lessing
I am just making final preparations to return for a few days to County Kerry at the end of the month with my good friend Johan Peijnenburg. This image was from my last trip there at the end of last year, and wow did I got some amazing weather. I have all my fingers and toes crossed for the same conditions again!
This was captured at Killarney’s Upper Lake in the early morning, after a beautiful sunrise at Ladies View a little further up in the mountains. This skeleton like tree captured my attention as I was passing by in the car. I found a safe place to park and walked back and was rewarded for the effort. Surrounded by tall green and yellow grasses, the mountains as a backdrop and some slow passing clouds made for a very pleasant hour of shooting.

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The BMP-3 vehicles are part of a Venezuelan program to modernize its armed forces. Other purchases include the Su-30 fighter aircraft, and the local manufacture of AK-103 assault rifles.
In 2010, Venezuela received a $2.2 billion loan from Russia for the purchase of 92 T-72M1M main battle tanks, BTR-30 armored personnel carriers and artillery systems.
Venezuela is projected by Russia to become its second largest market for arms purchases after 2015. Only India would be a bigger market and surpassing China.
The BMP-3 is an amphibious, tracked Infantry Fighting Vehicle with several variations developed by the Tula Design Bureau for Instrument Engineering. The specifications of the basic version are:
- a crew of 3
- a length of 7.1 m
- a width of 3.2 m
- a height of 2.4 m
- a weight of 18.7 tons
- a range of 700 km
- a road speed of 72 km/hr
- an offroad speed of 45 km/hr
- a speed of 10 km/hr in the water
The crew of the BMP-3 consists of a driver, gunner and commander and can carry between 7 to 9 passengers. The vehicle provides NBC protection for the crew and can be fitted with reactive armor.
The BMP-3 is one of the most heavily armed IFV around. The turret is fitted with a 100 mm 2A70 low-velocity rifled gun, 30 mm 2A72 gun and 7.62 mm coaxial gun. There are usually two 30 mm machine guns at the front of the chassis.
The 100 mm gun can fire the 9M117 / AT-10 Stabber laser beam-riding anti-tank missiles. There are also grenade launchers and all weapons can be fired when the vehicle is stationary, afloat or on the move.
Depending on the BMP-3 version, the vehicle can be fitted with an automatic fire control system, including a laser range-finder, an optical sight and thermal imaging sight. The Shtora or Arena counter-measures systems may also be fitted.


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Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
Sex, Camp, Rock 'N Roll is a musical, cabaret fantasy starring Ryan Patrick Welsh, The 8th Best Legs in San Francisco. Deeply personal, thoroughly humorous, and exceedingly fantastical, Ryan Patrick weaves an unforgettable night of story, song, and sensuality featuring a four piece rock band & everyone’s favorite diva duo, The K*ntz! Buckle up for a night of delicious vulnerability and dazzling entertainment from one of San Francisco's most outlandish performers.
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How misinformation about ‘Lawn Boy,’ a book that was never intended for children, made it the second-most contested book last year
Brandi Burkman arrived at the Texas school board meeting with a printed speech, a plastic-sheeted library book and a swelling sense of fury.
The 43-year-old mother of three approached the podium at the Sept. 9, 2021, meeting of the Leander Independent School District board with her 16-year-old son in tow. As Burkman began to speak, the teen hoisted white posters scrawled with sentences in black marker. They were taken from the book he’d discovered a week earlier in his AP English classroom and brought home for supplemental reading: “Lawn Boy,” a novel by Jonathan Evison.
Burkman’s three-minute speech recounted passages that describe a sexual encounter between two 10-year-old boys. Quoting pages 19, 91, 174 and 230, she told the roomful of adults how the boys meet in the bushes after a church youth group gathering, touch each other’s penises and progress to oral sex.
“What sort of diversity are you intending to teach my child with material like this?” Burkman asked, her voice shaking, her son expressionless. “Who normalizes sex acts between fourth-graders?”
She did not wait for an answer: “I’ll tell you who. Pedophiles.”
Burkman’s remarks set off a tsunami of condemnation that, a year later, would see the book “Lawn Boy” challenged in at least 35 school districts spanning 20 states and temporarily removed from shelves in almost half those places, according to a Washington Post analysis. Most of those districts — 63 percent — later returned the text to shelves after a review, while at least four banned the book for good. The plethora of complaints, 87 percent of which were brought by parents, The Post found, rendered “Lawn Boy” the second-most challenged book of 2021, according to the American Library Association.
The complaints against “Lawn Boy” came amid a historic nationwide spike in schoolbook challenges and bans as conflicts simmer over what to teach about race, racism, history, sex and gender. Already, 25 states have passed laws restricting what teachers can say about these topics or limiting the rights of transgender students at school, a Post analysis previously found.
“Lawn Boy” is in many ways the quintessential target for the book-banning movement: It is a coming-of-age novel centered on a gay character of color, Mexican American Mike Muñoz. The thousands of books targeted for school removal in the past two school years were overwhelmingly written by and about people of color and LGBTQ individuals, according to the American Library Association and PEN America.
Mandy Peterson, a leader of the Nebraska School Librarians Association, said book acquisitions often stem from American Library Association recommendations: “We check those awards lists on the day that they come out.” She said librarians usually cross-reference the association’s suggestions with professional review sites such as the School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews, both of which gave “Lawn Boy” high marks. Peterson said she does not know of any librarians who confused Evison’s book with Paulsen’s. But a few months ago, she noticed many commenters online giving Paulsen’s book bad reviews for pedophilia.
Evison said his novel, an exploration of racial assumptions and the failures of late capitalism, is meant for adults. If schools want to offer the text, he said, they should restrict access to older students.
“Nobody below a teenager is ready for that book,” Evison said. “It’s got a lot of adult stuff.”
Burkman did not know Evison’s feelings when she stood at the podium in Texas that warm September night. Informed during an interview, she said that she does not much care. What matters is that the book is still available in schools, she said — including in her own district, which never removed the text because Burkman, distrustful of the system, never filed a formal challenge.
Burkman said she did not mean to kick-start a nationwide push to eradicate “Lawn Boy.” But she’s glad it happened. A devout Catholic, she said she sees more than coincidence at work.
“Out of all the kids to bring that one home, out of all of the books …” she paused. “I’m the mom that he brought it home to.”
‘Is this a problem just in Texas?’
On the Friday before 9/11 last year, Stacy Langton was cooking dinner and half-watching “Spicer & C0.,” a television show hosted by President Donald Trump’s former press secretary. Then something made Langton, a 53-year-old parent of six, pause and stare at the television screen mounted above her pantry.
It was the voice of Brandi Burkman, railing against “Lawn Boy” at the Leander school board meeting.
“Well, what the heck?” Langton, a stay-at-home mother in Northern Virginia, recalls thinking. “Is this a problem just in Texas?”
The next day, Langton checked out the book from her son’s high school library in Fairfax County. She kept the novel locked in her car and brought it out for perusal only after her children — including her youngest, age 7 at the time — had gone to bed.
She zeroed-in on the same scene of oral sex that troubled Burkman in Texas. She became convinced, wrongly, that “Lawn Boy” shows fellatio taking place between an adult and a boy. In fact, the book describes a man in his 20s meeting another man in his 20s and remembering the consensual sexual encounter they shared in fourth grade.
Langton wanted to protect the children of Fairfax County. Inspired by Burkman’s example, she called the school district and asked how to speak at the next board meeting, which she’d never done before. Two weeks later, she was standing at a podium, waving her copy of “Lawn Boy” and shouting.
This “book describes a fourth-grade boy performing oral sex on an adult male,” she said. “Pornography is offensive to all people! It is offensive to common decency!”
Langton later submitted a formal complaint and, after conducting a review, the Fairfax school district denied her requests to yank the book from shelves.
But she had a more lasting effect elsewhere: supercharging the debate over “Lawn Boy” by taking it national.
Her speech received coverage from mainstream outlets, including The Washington Post, and drove an explosion of stories from conservative media. A Post analysis shows that, in the month following Langton’s remarks, right-wing shows and sites produced at least 13 articles or episodes criticizing “Lawn Boy.” Overall, 64 percent of conservative stories and shows produced between September 2021 and early October 2022 that negatively referenced “Lawn Boy” also pointed to Langton’s speech, The Post found. At least 31 repeated Langton’s contention that the book depicts pedophilia.
“The novel ‘Lawn Boy’ contains graphic depictions of sex between men and children,” Tucker Carlson said falsely on his namesake Fox News show in September, shortly after referencing Langton’s efforts to ban the book. “So why are they pushing this on kids? Well, of course to prime them for sexual exploitation.”
And parents nationwide were paying attention.
It is impossible to say precisely how each of the 30-plus adults who challenged “Lawn Boy” became aware of the book. The Post attempted to contact every person who criticized “Lawn Boy” during a school board meeting or filed a formal complaint, additionally analyzing school video footage and documents. Many did not respond.
Still, Burkman and Langton, and news coverage of their activism, played a significant role.
The Post was able to determine the source of concern for 12 complaints brought against “Lawn Boy.” In half of the cases, parents said they grew worried about “Lawn Boy” due to the book receiving “national attention” or by reading “national news reports.” Three of those parents pointed specifically to Burkman’s or Langton’s activism. Three parents mentioned hearing about the book from politicians, one from a neighbor, and two parents, including Burkman, said their child spontaneously checked out the text.
Langton inspired Mary Ellen Cuzela, a 50-year-old mother and substitute teacher in Texas’s Katy Independent School District, to check out “Lawn Boy” from her public library. Deeming the book “well-written but … R-rated,” she persuaded her school district to permanently yank the novel in October 2021, an account confirmed by local news reporting. The district did not respond to requests for comment.
“This is not about canceling people or being insensitive to someone’s walk in this life,” said Cuzela, who had never challenged a title before. “It’s about removing sexually explicit, vulgar material from schools.”
In North Carolina, father of three Chad Slotta said he decided to challenge “Lawn Boy” in the Wake County Public School system after reading about a push to remove the book nationwide and in Virginia — likely including Langton’s efforts, although he cannot remember precisely. He bought and read “Lawn Boy,” which he found graphic and obscene.
“My wife and I heard these stories and were curious about what was going on in our own children’s schools,” Slotta said. (Wake County officials later decided not to remove the book.)
Of the 38 parent speeches and challenges against “Lawn Boy” identified by The Post — some of which were filed within the same district — at least nine include false assertions that “Lawn Boy” depicts an encounter between a man and a boy.
“This one is about pedophilia,” Florida parent Alicia Farrant announced to Florida’s Orange County Public Schools board at a Nov. 9, 2021, meeting. Farrant, who did not respond to requests for comment, repeated the charge in a formal complaint she filed against “Lawn Boy.” Under a question in that document asking what she’d done to review the book, Farrant wrote: “I watched another mom discuss the book.”
Today, Langton acknowledges that she was wrong about the pedophilia. She said it is “unfortunate … if there are other parents who have gone to school board meetings and repeated that particular misconception.”
But if given the chance, she said, she would do everything again. Exactly the same way.
‘How to blow the whistle’
Conservative politicians and activists were close behind parents.
It began with Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin (R). At a debate five days after Langton’s speech, Youngkin called attention to “Lawn Boy,” listing it as an example of school officials refusing to listen to parents.
“In Fairfax County this past week,” he said, “we watched parents so upset because there was sexually explicit material in the library they had never seen. It was shocking.” The next day, the Youngkin team pasted video of Langton’s board-meeting assertion that “Lawn Boy” contains pedophilia into a campaign advertisement, which appeared on television and YouTube, where it garnered 56,000 views.
A week later, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in North Carolina posted a Facebook video in which he asserted sexually explicit materials are infecting schools and cited three texts as proof. One of them was “Lawn Boy.”
“These materials,” he said in a clip seen nearly a half-million times, “do not belong in public schools.”
Sixteen days after that, Texas Rep. Matt Krause (R) included “Lawn Boy” on a list of 850 objectionable books he flagged to the Texas Education Agency in late October. The next month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) ordered a criminal probe into “pornography” in school libraries, pointing to “Lawn Boy.” Not long afterward, Oklahoma State Attorney General John O’Connor announced he was reviewing 54 books, including “Lawn Boy,” to see “if they violate the state’s obscenity law.”
And in late March, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) mentioned the book while signing a law that grants parents greater control over the selection and removal of textbooks and school library books. Lauding the new legislation, DeSantis repeated a falsehood that had originated several-hundred miles north and six months back with Virginia mother Langton.
“‘Lawn Boy,’ a book containing explicit passages of pedophilia, is somehow accepted as being okay,” DeSantis said.
Youngkin, Krause, Abbott and O’Connor did not respond to detailed lists of questions. DeSantis press secretary Bryan Griffin sent a one-sentence email: “If you don’t see an issue with the content of the book Lawn Boy being in kindergarten through third grade classrooms, then you have exemplified the problem.”
A spokesman for Robinson said the lieutenant governor first heard of “Lawn Boy” in October 2021, when someone submitted a complaint against the book to an online portal Robinson’s office maintains to uphold classroom “fairness and accountability.” After Robinson “shined a light” on the title, the spokesman said, North Carolina schools pulled the book from online catalogues — but “it is hard to say exactly how many.”
The Post’s analysis shows that at least three school districts in Texas saw challenges of “Lawn Boy” due to politicians’ actions. In November, a mother in the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District argued for removing “Lawn Boy” and several other books after communicating with Rep. Krause about the titles, she said. The next month, school officials in the North East Independent School District said they opted to reconsider “Lawn Boy” after seeing Abbott single-out the book as inappropriate. And this February, two parents in the McKinney Independent School District complained about 282 books — “Lawn Boy” among them — all of which appeared on Krause’s list.
Meanwhile, advocacy groups were spreading the word, too.
The founder and president of parents’ rights group No Left Turn in Education, Elana Yaron Fishbein, said that, over the course of 2021, she communicated her worries about “Lawn Boy” to the several dozen chapters of No Left Turn in Education established across 27 states.
“Our volunteers sought out the books in their local school districts and when they found the book was present in the schools, they demanded they be removed,” she emailed The Post. “Our volunteers challenged this book in approximately 20 school boards including KY, MO, PA, GA, WI, GA, and others.”
She declined to share the names of the 20 school districts or to review The Post’s list of school challenges and say whether her volunteers were responsible.
A spike in threats and sales
Jonathan Evison is not sure how to feel.
In the first days after Burkman’s speech, as video of her remarks accumulated more than 30,000 views on TikTok and YouTube, Evison received a flurry of death threats and messages calling him a “pedophile,” mostly through Facebook. Those didn’t bother him much — but the strangers who vowed sexual attacks on his daughters did. He set his accounts to private.
Evison is not sure he disagrees with all the criticisms of his book. “Too profane? I’ll own that, fine, who cares. My mother would heartily agree.”
But he defends the passages showing the sexual encounter between 10-year-olds. That account, he says, marks a pivotal step in the protagonist’s process of coming out to his best friend Nick, who is racist and homophobic. Muñoz is using coarse language to power himself through a moment of extreme vulnerability, Evison said.
“I don’t think the effect was to glorify the experience,” he said of the sex scene.
He also questions the motives of some parents. He suspects they “don’t like a marginalized, non-White, non-cisgender character trying to be comfortable and find their place in the culture. I think the end game of these people is they want to keep the status quo, and the best way to do that is not to have these stories told.”
He is heartened, he said, by The Post’s finding that most school districts returned the book to shelves.
He also noted that sales of “Lawn Boy” have spiked massively in the past year: The paperback edition has now sold 100 percent more than it did during its first print run in 2018.
Evison declined to give specific numbers. But, he said, the book has gone into four extra printings since Burkman’s school board speech in Texas.
The Post tallied the number of school challenges, temporary removals and permanent bans of “Lawn Boy” in a roughly one-year period by reviewing public databases compiled by nonprofit groups PEN America and EveryLibrary. The Post also conducted its own independent research by reviewing more than 3,000 news articles, at least 50 school district websites and more than 150 social media accounts maintained by school districts, school employees and parents.
In every case where The Post identified an incident concerning “Lawn Boy,” The Post contacted the school district to verify the details. In every case, The Post also attempted to contact and interview the parent(s), teacher(s) or school administrator(s) who complained about the book. If The Post was unable to verify a book challenge, removal or ban, The Post removed that incident from the tally.
Additionally, The Post tallied politicians’ negative comments about and actions taken against “Lawn Boy” between September 2021 and September 2022, as well as the number of articles critiquing “Lawn Boy” published by conservative news outlets in the same period.

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You may have seen last week when Andrea Tantaros, a far-right radio talk show host and Fox News contributor, told her listeners that if they ran into any Obama supporters that day, “Do me a favor — punch them in the face.” Here’s the full quote:
This is Obama’s America. It’s like the Soviet Union. He said he’d change the country. He said it, he said it, he said it, and a lot of people voted for him. And if you see any of those people today, do me a favor, punch ’em in the face. We’ll be right back.
I’m always amused when right wingers say that Obama’s America is just like the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. It never seems to occur to them that the fact that they are allowed to say those things without being arrested or murdered kind of undermines their point. But it turns out that Tantaros has a rather predictable double standard here. She really hates violent rhetoric — when she thinks Obama is doing it.
I think Obama’s rhetoric, the violent rhetoric and class warfare rhetoric causes these flashmobs.
Violent rhetoric — even when it isn’t actually violent at all; you’ve never heard Obama say anything encouraging violence against anyone in this country — is bad when other people do it.

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President rules out Naira devaluation
President Buhari has said that Nigerians who have developed taste for foreign luxury goods should continue to pay for them rather than pressure the government to devalue the Naira.
In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President spoke made this revelation at the Africa 2016: Business for Africa, Egypt and the World at Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt on Saturday, February 20, 2016.
While contributing to the Presidential Panel Roundtable on Investment and Growth Opportunities at the opening of the event, President Buhari said, “Developed countries are competing among themselves and when they devalue they compete better and manufacture and export more. But we are not competing and exporting but importing everything including toothpicks."
Continuing, 'So, why should we devalue our currency? We want to be more productive and self-sufficient in food and other basic things such as clothing. For our government, we like to encourage local production and efficiency.'
The President also expressed optimism that Nigeria would get out of its current economic downturn, adding that those who have developed taste for foreign luxury goods should continue to pay for them rather than pressuring the government to devalue the Naira.
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Kombiverkehr: Rheine (DE) to Poggio Russo (IT)
Kombiverkehr started a direct line connecting Italian Poggio Russo with
Rheine twice a week, using 16 T3000 wagons equipped to transport semitrailers
and new trucks by rail. It is partnering with DB Cargo, Lokomotion and Rail
Traction Company for the traction of these trains.
Gysev Cargo: Wels (AT) to Herne (DE)
A new block train carrying LKW Walter semitrailers started operating between the Wels terminal in Austria (near Linz) and the Herne terminal in Germany. Running three times a week, traction is provided by Gysev Cargo’s subsidiary, Raaberbahn Cargo.
Rail Traction Company: Southern Germany to Poggio Russo (IT)
At the start of September, the Rail Traction Company started the operation of a train dedicated to sugar transport with specially adopted wagons for this commodity. This new, all-year-round service will run once a week.
EVM Rail: Czech Republic to Verona (IT)
EVM Rail, an Italian operator that has focused by now mainly on agricultural commodities, is now active in a new type of transport. Two times a week trains with new Skoda cars from Czechia will be delivered by EVM Rail to Verona Terminal Quadrante Europa.
PCC Intermodal: Gliwice (PL) to Padova (IT)
A new service of PCC Intermodal connects Gliwice (near Katowice) in Poland with Padova in Italy since August 2023. Shuttle trains will transport DV, HC, 20’, 30’, 40’, bulk, tank, reefer and other containers with door-to-door delivery options in a 150 km radius from Interporto Padova.

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My Aussie Summer Holiday
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The summer break for university students are a glorious three months off, which makes it the perfect time to travel. Melbourne caters to all your needs, you name a location type and you can reach there within 2 hours. We were spoilt for choice. Mountains, beaches, wildlife, gardens; so much to do, so little time.
Between my friends and I, after considering various options, we decided on Philip Island. Being Melbourne, the weather plays the most important role in planning a trip. Make sure that you plan your trip on a nice day so that you are not freezing with cold nor are you melting in the heat.
We rented a car because that was the most convenient and reasonable mode of transport. Instead of a day trip, we stayed the night in local bed and breakfast so we could explore more of the area. We stayed in a beautiful 3 bed cottage which was stocked with cards and board games. One of my friends played his guitar so our entertainment was sorted.
The next day we went to visit Koala Conservatory and the Churchill Heritage farm. We got to learn about the uniquely Australian koalas and see them up close and personal. They are the cutest thing ever. Churchill farm had tons of activities for people who are interested in how the farm works. We walked the trail around the farm which had some beautiful sky views.
If you are a chocolate lover like me, I also highly recommend the Philip Island Chocolate Factory. Of course, the main attraction was watching the penguins up close at the penguin parade which was fascinating. Make sure to book in advance since the tickets are sometimes sold out. We took a combo pass for all these activities over the two days. Before leaving, we watched the sunset at Nobbies. Watching the waves crash on the rock and the setting of the sun was soothing and we left for home with such a picturesque memory.
Philip Island is a must-visit if you’re in Melbourne. Tip, watch out for wallabies on the road if you are driving through that area. You are sure to spot some and if you are lucky, maybe a kangaroo!


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Address: Krishi Vigyan Kendra, State Seed Farm, Papparappaty, Pennagaram Tk Distt. Dharmapuri, Tamil nadu
MANDATES of KVK
Conducting “On farm testing” for identifying in terms of location specific sustainable land use system.
Organizing training to update the extension personnel with emerging advances in agricultural research on regular basis.
Organizing short and long term vocational training courses in agriculture and allied vocations for the farmers and rural youth with emphasis on “Learning by doing” for higher production on farms and generating self- employment.
Organizing front line demonstrations on various crops to generate production data and feed back information

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Bollywood superstar Ranbir Kapoor has opined that every film is a pan-India flick. There is a conditionality, though.
Speaking to India Today, the handsome actor averred that if people like a film and is watched by many, then it is known as a pan-India film.
Ranbir awaits the release of two multi-lingual releases this year. 'Shamshera' is slated to hit the cinemas on July 22 in multiple languages, including Telugu. The period action film is set in the 1800s. "Shamshera tells the story of a dacoit tribe, and their fight for independence against the British rule," director Karan Malhotra recently said. It is produced by Aditya Chopra.
Ranbir Kapoor's other pan-India release is 'Brahmastra', which is slated to hit the cinemas on September 9. Alia Bhatt, Amitabh Bachchan and Akkineni Nagarjuna have key roles in it.

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Tourists in The Pilbara who are looking for quality accommodations in Karratha have many choices. Expedia's extensive database currently features 13 hotels within a 0.1-kilometre (0.06-mile) radius of central Karratha.
Karratha's city heart is within strolling distance of hotels including Karratha International Hotel and ibis Styles Karratha.
6 kilometres (3 miles) away from downtown Karratha, is the Comfort Inn & Suites Karratha. Alternatively, the Best Western Karratha Central Apartments is positioned 2 kilometres (1 mile) away. The The Ranges Karratha and the Discovery Parks – Pilbara, Karratha are two other accommodation options worth checking out around Karratha.
Interested in seeing more of the beaches and desert landscapes that this area features? Why don't you plan some extra nights in some of the other parts of The Pilbara? Spend your time rock climbing and mountain climbing or make a trip to the region's tourist attractions. Comfortable hotel options are available.
The closest places to stay in The Pilbara are Stove Hill and Gap Ridge. Stove Hill is 5 kilometres (3 miles) to the southwest of Karratha, while Gap Ridge is 8 kilometres (5 miles) to the west. Stove Hill hotels are the Karratha Village and Karratha Lodge. The Cattrall Park Motel and Econo Lodge Karratha are the hotels and apartments in Gap Ridge.
Karratha Airport is a practical option when getting to Karratha. It is 10 kilometres (6 miles) away. Aspen Karratha Village - Aspen Workforce Parks is a nearby hotel.


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YoTelim Dog Water Bottle Portable Leak Proof Dog Water Dispenser with Drinking and Feeding Function Lightweight Pet Water Dispenser for Walking and Travel for Dog, Cat and Other Animals
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Product Dimensions : 3.9 x 3.8 x 13.5 inches; 13.44 Ounces
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Date First Available : January 24, 2021
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Easy to Use – Pressing water key lightly to fill water , and release to stop water. Just keep pressing the button to let the extra water flow back to the bottle, very suitable for one-handed use.
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Durable and Safe – The dog water dispenser is made from ABS material, more durable compare with other common bottle, also is resistant to high temperature and corrosion, and easy to disassemble and clean.
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Banner Flags - Gold Stripes and Dots - Set of 9
Put all the needed touches on your theme with one of our color or theme party kits! Build it in the Party Builder to see how the elements come together. This gold ink banner is printed on high quality cardstock in the USA.
Size: Each flag is 6" x 4.25"
Your kit also includes twine for hanging and display. Some assembly required.
By The TomKat Studio.
What you'll get
1 set of 9 banner flags (in a mix of stripes and spots) + twine

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Activision maintains operations in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Australia and the Netherlands.
Activision owns a number of foreign companies: Take Us! Marketing & Consulting GmbH (Germany), Combined Distribution (Holdings) Limited (UK), NBG EDV Handels & Verlag GmbH (Germany), CD Contact Data (Benelux territories), as well as developers Raven Software and Head Games.
In 2007, Activision merged between Activision and Vivendi Games (as well as Blizzard Entertainment, which had already been a division of Vivendi Games) to form the global publishing entity Activision Blizzard.
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Abdominal MR angiography performed using blood pool contrast agents: comparison of a new superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle and a linear gadolinium polymer.
- Published Article
AJR. American journal of roentgenology
- Publication Date
Jul 01, 1998
The blood pool agents FeO-BPA and WIN 22181 can be used to produce high-quality abdominal MR angiograms on standard MR imaging equipment. The contrast-to-noise ratio of hepatic vessels is best on iron oxide-enhanced images because of a T1-T2* synergistic effect in the liver. The longer diagnostic window provided by FeO-BPA coupled with the option of in-plane imaging suggests the usefulness of FeO-BPA in future MR imaging-guided vascular interventions.
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Despite the futile attempt by rumour mongers about the well intended gesture of the NA to scare genuine beneficiaries of the exercise, the Division went ahead and proved critics wrong. At today’s medical outreach at Igbo Etche community in Etche LGA of Rivers States, hundreds of residents trooped to the venue to benefit from the exercise.
Over 1700 residents were diagnosed, treated and administered with drugs depending on their ailments. There was also distribution of treated mosquito nets to nursing mothers and pregnant women.
One particular case of an old woman in her 80s, (Mrs. Margaret Okere) who has lost her sights for a long time was brought to the venue by her grandson. After careful examination and administration of requisite eye drops and eye glasses, Mrs Okere regained her sight and that sent jubilation among the crowd.
The general Officer Commanding 6 Division Nigerian Army, Maj Gen Enobong Udoh however extended the medical outreach in the community to tomorrow 20 Oct 17 due to popular demand by the community.
Services rendered include: Free Medical Consultation, HIV Counselling and Testing,
Prostrate Health Awareness, Dental Care Services,
Eye Care Services,
Free Drugs Dispensing,
Cardiovascular Screening as well as DM/Neuropathic Screening.
Present at the occasion were the representative of the COAS Maj Gen RI Nicholas, GOC 6 Div, Maj Gen EO Udoh, HRM Eze
Dr SN Amaechi the paramount ruler of Etche clan, Observers from the Army Headquarters and some Principal Staff Officers from the division.


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Travellers that set up an unauthorised encampment in Painshill Gardens have been moved on.
It is believed the travellers entered the landscape gardens site in Cobham on Sunday evening (June 2), with more than 10 caravans occupying the car park on Monday (June 3) .
Bailiffs and police were present at the site on Tuesday morning (June 4), with the 18th century gardens having to remain closed throughout the day while staff dealt “an incident out of our control”.
At around 4.50pm, a spokesman for the landowners confirmed that the unauthorised encampment had been moved on and that the site would open as normal on Wednesday (June 5).
They added: “We are very happy to say that the caravans have now moved from our car park at Painshill.
“There is a significant amount of litter and garden waste that the Painshill team will be clearing early tomorrow morning to make the area safe again for visitors.
“We would like to thank Surrey Police and our professional support team for their assistance and everyone in the local community for their messages of support.
“We will be open tomorrow morning from 10am.”
A three-year injunction banning the setting up of unauthorised encampments and fly-tipping on public land was granted to Elmbridge Borough Council in November last year. However, as the land was privately-owned, the injunction did not apply.
Painshill was forced to close to the public between May 24 and May 30 last year due to a large number of caravans taking up residence in the car park and nearby field.
Speaking to SurreyLive on Monday, councillor Dorothy Mitchell said the behaviour of the travellers was a problem.
The Cobham and Downside representative added: “Private landowners can move them on much faster than we could do on public land. Even so, it is the mess and the damage that they will have to clear up and deal with afterwards.
“I honestly think if they behaved and communities did not have the problems they bring with them, people would not be so anti them. We do not seem to be able to get that across.
“It is their behaviour that has people so anti them, not necessarily their lifestyle; it’s their behaviour.”

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This is the place where you can personalize your profile!
By moving, adding and personalizing widgets.
You can drag and drop to rearrange.
You can edit widgets to customize them.
The bottom has widgets you can add!
Some widgets you can only access when you get Core Membership.
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We've split the page into zones!
Certain widgets can only be added to certain zones.
"Why," you ask? Because we want profile pages to have freedom of customization, but also to have some consistency. This way, when anyone visits a deviant, they know they can always find the art in the top left, and personal info in the top right.
Don't forget, restraints can bring out the creativity in you!
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So I created a simple video for anyone who's getting started with SAI with a few tips and advice from my past experiences as once being a beginner who was totally ignorant to what to expect in the world of digital art. Please share this to any friends or anyone who is planning on starting with SAI or who has any unanswered questions and hopefully it'll save them years of frustration and suffering.


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Collected Travel Writings
The ContinentBook - 1993
Collects James's travel writings, describing France, Italy, Switzerland, and Holland.
Publisher: New York : Literary Classics of the U.S. : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press, c1993
Characteristics: 845 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
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Racing at Donington 1937. Austin Sevens are among the cars on the starting line.
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contain the occasional imperfection and blemish.
Racing at Donington 1937
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These banana bites are perfect for when you’re craving a sweet treat that is (sort of) healthy. The recipe couldn’t be easier and you’ll only need three ingredients; all-natural peanut butter, chocolate and bananas.
Each banana bite is sandwiched together with all-natural peanut butter and dipped in dark chocolate. Bananas are a great source of carbohydrates, peanut butter is high in protein and dark chocolate is supposedly one of the best sources of antioxidants (win!). The combination of ingredients is the perfect energy booster.
Keep the banana bites in the freezer for when you need pre or post-workout pick me up, or to curb those after-dinner sugar cravings.
Not a fan of dark chocolate or peanut butter? Swap the dark chocolate for milk or white chocolate, and swap the peanut butter for any other nut butter like almond, cashew or hazelnut.
Ingredients (makes 12 banana bites)
2 ripe medium bananas
6 teaspoons (50g) natural peanut butter – I always buy Meridian peanut butter
50g dark chocolate
Peel the bananas and slice them into rounds. You should be able to get roughly 12 slices per banana.
Top half of the slices with a small amount of peanut butter. Place the remaining slices on top to make little sandwich bites. Insert a toothpick into each bite and put into the freezer for 30 minutes.
Melt the dark chocolate in the microwave or on the hob. Coat half of each sandwich bite by dipping it into the melted chocolate. Put back in the freezer for 15 minutes.
Either serve and eat straightaway, or store in the freezer for up to 1 month.

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A former Utah legislator said opposition from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had “snuffed out” his proposed hate crimes bill in 2016. The next year, church officials made no comment on the issue — but state Sen. Daniel Thatcher’s bill still didn’t receive a public hearing.
With hate crimes on the rise, Thatcher is now urging Utah’s predominant faith to officially clarify its position before the upcoming legislative session, where he has proposed a similar bill.
“They had no position last year either, and yet there’s no shortage of people who are happy to speak on behalf of the church in the absence of an official statement from them,” said Thatcher, R-West Valley City, who declined to identify his religious views. “So while I believe going from opposition to no comment is and of itself a position, the problem is as long as they continue to say, ‘We have no position,’ there will be plenty of people who are willing to tell you what the church’s position is. It wouldn’t be accurate, but that won’t stop them.”
A church spokesman did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Statistics released last month show incidents of hate crimes rose in Utah last year — a trend FBI agents in Utah believe will continue based on complaints and investigations this year. There were 66 incidents reported in the state. Of the 6,121 reported nationally, most were committed because of a person’s race, ethnicity or ancestry, followed by religious affiliation and sexual orientation.
Utah’s current hate crimes statute, adopted in 1992, has never resulted in an upheld conviction. Hate crimes do get prosecuted here but on the federal level — a reality Thatcher said conservatives should be eager to change.
“Utah is not capable under current law of prosecuting these cases ourselves, which means that when things like this happen, they’re turned over to the feds for prosecution,” he said. “When was the last time that any conservative in Utah was happy delegating our obligations to the federal government?”
Thatcher has not released the details of his 2018 proposal, but the senator said it would allow a judge “to consider as part of the sentencing phase whether or not [a crime] was a deliberate, targeted attack based on an inherent, protected characteristic” — a procedure that is not currently in place. At that point, “if the judge concludes that it was an unlawful target, then the penalty would be enhanced.”
Thatcher prefers to call the issue “victim targeting” rather than hate crimes, arguing that you can’t prove hate but you can prove someone specifically chose a target.
Former Sen. Steve Urquhart, R-St. George, saw his version of this proposal fail in the Senate on a 17-11 vote in 2016. Urquhart told The Salt Lake Tribune at the time that he believed opposition from the LDS Church lost him the votes needed to pass his bill.
“I can’t understand why the church cares about the Utah criminal code,” Urquhart, now retired from the Legislature, recently told a Tribune columnist. “I don’t understand what it has to do with God.”
The church has stayed quiet on Thatcher’s proposal so far.
In an attempt to drum up more support, several municipalities have passed resolutions urging the Legislature to approve the bill or something like it.
Salt Lake City passed its resolution Tuesday night, which called for “stronger tools to address crime in which the offender targets victims.”
West Jordan’s City Council was the first to pass a resolution, followed by Beaver County, South Salt Lake, Moab and Midvale. Those governing bodies have joined groups like the Statewide Association of Prosecutors, the Utah Chiefs of Police Association, the Utah Sheriffs’ Association and others that have already expressed support for the Legislature to act. Equality Utah has also expressed its support.
“Hate crimes are on the rise in both Utah and around the country, so this is an affirming way for municipalities to come together and say, ‘We don’t tolerate this kind of behavior in our town,’” said Troy Williams, executive director of Equality Utah. “We’re very encouraged by this, and we’re very hopeful that this momentum will continue to build.”
Williams said he’s eager to continue working to engage the church on the issue.
“It took us seven years to get the church on board for a statewide nondiscrimination law, so I’ve not lost hope in them,” he said.
Williams said he wants to demonstrate to lawmakers and Mormon officials that the bill would include religion in its protections, along with sexual orientation, race and gender identity.
“The state of Utah was founded by Latter-day Saints fleeing persecution,” he said. “They were targeted because of their faith, so it would be so powerful to see in 2018 the LDS Church step forward and support this legislation.”


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According to information from Global food and agri-business Olam International Limited that on 26th February 2019 Olam Cocoa completed the acquisition of BT Cocoa, Indonesia’s largest cocoa processor, and it is now a part of the Olam Cocoa family.
• Olam International Limited has acquired an 85% share of YTS Holdings Pte Limited for a consideration of USD$90 million which is 100% owner of PT. Bumitangerang Mesindotama (“BT Cocoa”)
• The remaining 15% of shares are to be held by the founding members of BT Cocoa, Piter Jasman and family
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Daily photo: What a difference ten hours makes
Mind-bending weather in this city. The morning 'fog' tastes like diesel fumes in a sawmill but when it clears the evenings have been lovely. It went from winter and down jackets to summer in T-shirts literally overnight with no Spring to speak of.
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FORT MYERS - An arrest report released Wednesday shows a San Carlos Park woman killed in her home last week died from a deep cut to her throat.
Lee County sheriff's deputies said Debra Striano, 55, was killed during a botched robbery in her Three Oaks neighborhood home, where several items, including a fanny pack containing an estimated $1,000, were missing.
Striano's body was found in a bedroom by her live-in boyfriend, Russell Myers, at about 10:30 p.m. July 24. Crime scene investigators found blood on the drawers of nightstands and dressers, as well as clothing inside the drawers.
Unnamed witnesses told deputies that Dustin Jaye, a 23-year-old North Fort Myers resident, thought there was "a substantial amount of cash" at Striano's residence and planned to commit a robbery. Jaye was arrested Tuesday by sheriff's deputies. A Lee County judge denied him bond Wednesday morning.
Deputies said Jaye and his uncle, 42-year-old Billy Ray Retherford, robbed the home and killed Striano. Retherford remains at large.
After the killing, a witness saw Jaye with a serrated knife that appeared to have a broken blade, the arrest report said.
Deputies said Jaye asked several family members to lie to police about his whereabouts the night of Striano's death. Witnesses also told deputies that Jaye spoke to Retherford about gold taken from the scene.
Clothing Jaye might have worn at the scene, including a shoe that matched a bloody shoeprint found at Striano's home, were located in an air conditioning vent at Jaye's residence, the arrest report said.
Deputies also conducted a search of Retherford's North Fort Myers residence, where they discovered a fanny pack containing a bank deposit slip belonging to Myers, the report said. Bloody clothing also was recovered from the scene, deputies said.
Anyone who sees Retherford or knows of his whereabouts is asked to call the Lee County Sheriff's Office at (239) 477-1000, or to remain anonymous and be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000, Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-8477.
A Lee County judge denied bond Wednesday for a North Fort Myers man accused in last week's killing of a San Carlos Park woman.
Dustin Jaye, 23, faces a murder charge in the July 24 slaying of 55-year-old Debra Striano, whose body was found in the Three Oaks neighborhood home she shared with her boyfriend. Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott said the killing occurred during a botched robbery.
An alleged accomplice, Billy Retherford Jr., 42, of North Fort Myers, remains at large.
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