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Well & Good gluten-free Vanilla cupcake mix made into lamington fingers! The perfect way to celebrate National Lamington Day on July 21st.
What you’ll need
- One box of Well and Good cupcake mix
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup water
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- 3/4 of the icing sachet
- 1/2 cup caster sugar
- 1/2 cup jam of your choice
- 1 cup desiccated coconut
Here’s what I did
I used Well & Good Vanilla Cupcake mix and made the batter as directed on the back of the box. Then, I lined a baking tray with baking paper; (My baking tray was too small!) use a 35cm x 25cm baking tray.
Pour the vanilla cake batter into the baking dish and spread evenly with a spatula; bake for 13-15 minutes.
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Broken Trust doesn’t give Second Chances…
Holden Wright had it all—and lost it. Five months ago, he was on top: a decorated detective with a bright future. Then his father’s gambling destroyed everything. Left with nothing, Holden works nights at Jake’s Bar with no idea how to get his broken life back on track.
Brent Northwood has it all—except the man he loves. Brent made a deal with the devil to become a well-respected lawyer, but success doesn’t turn out to be all he ever wanted. His love for Holden started with a wild, crazy hookup in the rain, but it all came to an abrupt end when Brent lied—with best intention—but a lie is a lie and Holden can’t forgive.
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The first heavy raindrops hit Holden and soaked the thin material of his white dress shirt. He’d lingered and was now paying the price. Instead of walking back to the main building of the country club with all the other party guests as thunderous clouds had moved in, he’d stayed behind to have a few minutes alone with tall, dark, and hot-as-fuck. Holden knew Con had only invited him to his father's birthday party at the fancy country club to piss off his parents. At first, he’d felt slightly uncomfortable sitting at a table with some of Boston’s rich and famous. Until he realized that people instantly pegged him as a nobody and ignored him. A vice detective at Boston PD didn’t belong, even if he was wearing a designer suit like everybody else. Holden didn’t care. Eating fancy food and drinking champagne wasn’t exactly a hardship.
He’d fully intended to duck out early, but then his gaze had crossed with the Conway family lawyer. As their eyes locked, the roomful of pretense had disappeared. And now, they stood on the edge of the carefully manicured lake on the golf course, watching the clouds swallow up the last rays of sunlight with alarming speed. They hadn’t said more than a handful of words to each other since everyone else had left. The first drops had been a relief from the humid August heat, but within minutes, the rain was coming down hard, drenching them both to the bone. Still, neither one of them rushed back to the safety of the covered balcony and the air-conditioned dining room.
The devil was riding Holden. Knowing full well that the other man was watching him, he tilted his head back. Arms stretched out to the side, he closed his eyes and let the rain pound his skin. A low curse was an instant reward for his blatant provocation.
“If I’m reading this wrong, tell me now before I do something we both regret.” The deep voice was a ragged growl against his exposed neck, sending an uncontrolled shiver through his body. Instead of an answer—and without opening his eyes—Holden leaned closer. Warm, wet lips crushed his mouth and devoured him. There was nothing tentative about Brent Northwood’s kiss…
Holden pulled out of his thoughts as he topped off the beer and slammed it on the counter in front of Grey. The grungy mechanic tore his eyes away from a green-haired twink across the room. “What crawled up your ass tonight?”
JD’s was a gay bar and prime hookup spot, so there were a few dozen suitable answers, but Holden wasn’t feeling any of them. His mind was fucking with him—flashing lust-filled images from a past he’d buried deep in a box labeled “mistake.” For the past hour, while he was serving drinks and cashing out people as it got late, he’d tried hard to ignore the man in a dark suit sitting at one of the high tables away from the crowds. It had been a good night until Brent Northwood showed up at JD’s Bar.
Grey took a sip and licked the foam off his lips with an exaggerated swirl of his tongue. On the other side of the bar green-hair rolled his eyes and turned away to follow his friends back to a booth. Grey had tried to get the guy’s attention a few times now and had consistently been shot down.
“You’re not Kyle’s type,” Holden said helpfully as he wiped down the beer taps.
Grey pulled a face. “It’s a shit night. The place was hopping for a while, but lately it’s been slow. I think Jake is in trouble. He hit gold when that blogger made a big deal out of JD’s, but there was just no way that was gonna last. JD’s doesn’t offer enough. In the end, it’s just a dingy corner bar.”
Then what the fuck are you doing here every night? Holden swallowed his acrid reply. Grey was a bit of an ass, however Holden was pretty sure that nothing but an empty apartment waited for the guy at the end of the day. Five months ago, he would have been quick to judge and discard JD's regular, but these days, they had too much in common.
Grey wasn’t the only one, who came to JD’s Bar, instead of drinking a lonely beer in front of the TV. Sprinkled in among a young crowd drawn by the hype of local influencers sat a few of JD’s old regulars, looking for a nice cold drink before they shuffled off to whatever private hell, they had turned their lives into.
Before he could stop himself, Holden threw a glance across the room to the lanky man sitting motionless in the dim light. As always, Brent looked like he’d just stepped out of a courtroom. Impeccably dressed in an Armani suit. A face with square angles and full lips with a cupid’s bow. The dark five o’clock shadow was the only imperfection, but it enhanced his classic charms. Holden had always known he was bi. He’d experimented with both men and women. Brent Northwood, almost ten years older, serious to the point of severe, wasn’t his usual type. Still, nobody had ever been as irresistible to him.
Elbows resting on the table, the lawyer nursed a whiskey in his hands. He seemed lost in his thoughts. Even though he’d been there for over half an hour, he’d made no attempt to talk to anyone save for ordering a drink from Jazz, who had worked the bar with Holden earlier.
Luckily, Grey picked up their conversation again before Holden was caught staring. “Somebody must have bought the rundown movie theater next door. They’re renovating. The dumpster takes up half the parking spots on this side.”
“Yeah, Jake’s been talking about them hammering all day long. He’s pissed about the noise,” Holden replied. That was an understatement. Jake Devlin, his boss, didn’t like change, and the fact that somebody had the audacity to mess with his street had him raging.
“If that’s turned into a bar, Jake can bag it,” Grey said with gloomy delight. “I’m telling you, this is only the beginning.” He waved around the mostly empty place.
“Bullshit. It’s Tuesday. Tuesdays are slow.”
It was almost midnight, and the place was emptying out. Holden started his cleanup by adding a few more glasses to the small dishwasher under the counter. Sharp pain shot into his shoulder as he reached down. He had full range of motion back, but there was still the occasional ache from the gunshot wound. On dark days, Holden wondered if he’d ever be back to normal.
“That’s why you’re stuck with Tuesdays. Jazz is a smart cookie. I was surprised they were here tonight at all. They usually only work shifts closer to the weekend.” Grey wasn’t done stirring shit up. “Has to grind a little that such a young kid has seniority over you and gets the better days. Maybe you should talk to Jake. You must be hurting for money after losing your cushy detective job—”
A hand came down on Holden’s back. “Grey, shut your mouth,” Jake growled at the mechanic. “Nobody needs your poison. Told you that before. If you can’t be civil, get the fuck out of my bar.”
It wasn’t an empty threat. Jake had zero tolerance for hate or stupidity, and he was fiercely protective of his staff. The warmth of Jake’s touch seeped through Holden’s shirt, and for a moment, he leaned in. Damn, he really was off his game tonight.
“Done with paying bills?” he asked and got only a grunt in return. Jake was always in a bad mood after wrestling with his outdated accounting system, which he’d done for the last few hours, hiding in his office in the back. Holden had offered to take over the financials a few times, or at least upgrade the ancient software, but his boss had never taken him up on it.
Jake grabbed a few empty bottles and tossed them into a crate under the bar. “Where is Jazz?”
“It was slow, so I sent them home a few minutes ago. They’ve got an exam tomorrow. Talked about it all night. I’ve got it covered and thought they could use a few extra hours of sleep,” Holden replied.
“Makes sense to take advantage of a nice, peaceful night,” Jake said with a happy sigh and started to wipe down a few trays stacked at the corner of the bar. Grey had been right. Business had been slower lately, but Jake was almost cheerful about it. He was the only bar owner Holden knew who got into a pissy mood when his place was packed with people. Jake loved peace and quiet, and most nights, JD’s Bar was anything but.
Jake stopped abruptly and squinted into the dimly lit taproom. “What’s the damn fixer doing here?”
“The damn fixer?” Holden smirked. Of course, he knew who Jake was talking about. The man never missed anything going on in his bar, even if Brent was hiding in the dark.
“Don’t mess with me, Wright. You know who I mean. The guy in the fancy suit lurking in the corner over there,” Jake said with a scowl on his face.
“Northwood?” It was petty, but Holden took perverse pleasure in the fact that Jake didn’t like Brent.
“Yeah, Brent fucking Northwood. What’s he doing at my bar? I swear, if he’s here to mess with Con again, I’m gonna kick his uptight ass.”
“You know Con can take care of himself, right?” Holden said. Jake’s boyfriend, Miguel Conway, was the youngest son of the influential Santiago-Conway family. Con’s mother was a state senator, and the entire clan was rich as fuck, hence the fancy birthday party Holden was trying to forget about.
“What’s going on now?” Grey twisted on his barstool. “Who is here to mess with Con?”
Brent must have noticed they were talking about him. He downed his drink and walked over to the counter. “Holden” He nodded before shifting his gaze to Jake. “Devlin. It’s good to see you again.”
“Con isn’t here.” Jake growled.
“I’m actually here for Holden.”
“Yeah, no, I don’t think so,” Holden scoffed.
Brent’s lips twisted ever so slightly. “I need to talk to you. And I think it’d be preferable if we could go somewhere private.”
“Again. Not interested.”
“I’m interested.” Kyle, the green-haired kid from earlier, came out of nowhere and pressed himself against Brent, who jerked backward at the unexpected touch. “I’m very interested. Especially in going somewhere more private.”
“Stay the fuck out of it.” The words were out of Holden’s mouth before he could think. Brent blinked, then locked eyes with Holden across the bar. Damn. “Actually, you know, go right ahead.”
Kyle raised an eyebrow. “Like I need your blessing.” He turned to Brent again and said, “My name is Kyle, by the way, and seriously, you’re wasting your time with that one.” He pointed his chin toward Holden. “Says he’s bi, but I’ve been watching him. Turns everybody down. He’s got a bit of an ice-queen rep. Eye candy but without any fire.”
“Excuse me.” Holden was two seconds from jumping over the counter.
“Maybe his dick is broken,” Grey chipped in, which earned him a glare from Jake. He’d been standing next to Holden with his arms crossed but now took a few steps in Grey’s direction.
Kyle replied, “I’m not judging—”
“You better not,” Jake interrupted. “I won’t have any of this dumb talk in my bar.”
“I know. That’s why this place is cool. And as I said, seriously, not my concern, but—” Kyle started rubbing shamelessly against Brent’s hip while throwing a triumphant glance at Holden. “My dick ain’t broken. Actually, right now—”
“Your offer is very flattering.” Brent carefully extracted himself from the grabby hands. “But…ehm…it’s not a good night. I’m not looking for…”
A flicker of warmth rushed through Holden. Brent Northwood could charm twelve jurors to swallow every word from his lips, but in a situation like this—a bar, a come-on—he was awkward. Always a little too formal. Too serious.
Kyle smiled sweetly. Maybe he had the same thought as Holden because he pressed a finger against Brent’s lips, went on his tiptoes, and whispered something into his ear. Brent froze, but then he chuckled and quietly said something back. Holden’s hands balled into fists. What the fuck?
Kyle’s head fell back, and he let out a low groan. “Seriously?”
Brent nodded. “Yes, seriously.”
“Oh fuck. That sucks.” Kyle stepped back. “Well, then all that’s left to do is to wish you good luck with the frozen one.” He gave Brent a two-finger salute and went back to his friends. The minute he sat down and whispered a few words, a collective moan went through the group.
Brent straightened his jacket and turned back toward the bar, but before he could say anything, Grey pointed his finger. “Well, that was damn stupid. Who turns down a sure thing?”
“Holden.” Brent ignored Grey. “There have been some recent developments, and I really need to talk to you. And this interruption reinforced my request that we should speak somewhere private.”
“In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve left Boston PD, and I’m a bartender now. Unless there’s a shortage of beer or liquor, I don’t think there’re any developments that would faze me.” To make his point, Holden picked up one of the trays and slid under the flap door to clear a few abandoned tables.
Brent stepped in his way and grabbed his arm. “Give me a few minutes and then—”
“I gave you more than a few minutes,”—Holden jerked out of the hold—“and all that came out of your mouth were fucking lies.”
“I never lied.”
“Bullshit. I came to you for help, and you fucked me over—” Heat rushed to Holden’s face as he realized what he’d just said. “I mean…Half-truths. White lies. Whatever you call them. You weren’t honest. You played your manipulative-lawyer mind games with me.” Holden was losing it, but he didn’t care. He’d carried this frustration around for a long time, and maybe it was time he had his say. “I don’t need that in my life. Never again. We’re done.”
Brent flinched as if Holden had delivered a physical blow. All the color drained from his face. Holden could hear him suck in a ragged breath. The bar had gone quiet. Not that there were still a lot of people around, but they clearly had everybody’s attention.
Brent brushed his fingers through his hair and lowered his voice. “I know…I know all of that. I made a mistake, and I respect your decision to cut all ties, but something has come up, and we need to talk—”
“Fuck, Brent. I work here. This job is the only thing I’ve got going right in my life. Stay out of it. Just fucking leave.”
After a few long seconds, Brent nodded and stepped back. “Okay. If you change your mind, please call me.”
Brent turned and left without another word. Holden took a deep breath and walked to the corner booth to pick up empty bottles and glasses. His hands shook, but he ignored it. Slow and methodical, he cleaned the table and then did the same to the next one, forcing any thought of Brent Northwood out of his mind.
“Last call,” Jake yelled from the bar. “Or better yet, go home. It’s a fucking Tuesday.”
As the bar emptied, Jake putzed around behind the counter, drying glasses and putting them back onto shelves. Once everybody was gone, Holden started to stack chairs.
“Can I ask you something?” Jake asked into the silence. “You can tell me to fuck off, but I don’t quite get it.”
Holden braced himself. Jake rarely ever initiated personal conversations. In the two months he’d worked at JD’s, they’d never once talked about the night Holden’s father had threatened to kill Jake and Con to cover up that he was on the take. While Con occasionally tried to poke around in his head, Jake had let him be. And Holden had been grateful because even months later, his seething fury over his father’s betrayal hadn’t diminished. Law enforcement was written into the Wright’s family DNA, and his father had pissed it all away.
Holden finished with his last chair and made his way back to the bar. “I really don’t want to talk about Brent fucking Northwood.” He deliberately copied Jake’s words from earlier, and the flicker of a grin told him that his boss hadn’t missed the subtle dig.
“Believe me, I get being pissed at somebody.” Jake paused but didn’t elaborate. “Con and Northwood both left you in the dark. Whether they outright lied or omitted a few key facts, it’s all the same. They messed with you. Con was your partner. Northwood was the guy you asked for help. You have a right to tell them to stay the fuck out of your life.”
“If they’d been honest with me…damn, we could have put the pieces together earlier. Maybe I wouldn’t have ended up drawing a gun on my dad to stop him from putting a bullet through your head.” A shiver ran through Holden, remembering that night.
“Or gotten shot.” Jake, thankfully, didn’t add by your father. Even five months later, thinking about his father pulling the trigger still sent chills through Holden.
Jake dropped his towel and continued, “In hindsight, I agree with you. The whole situation wouldn’t have escalated if they’d just talked to you and filled you in on all the facts. But I was there. I watched Con struggle with the decision about what to do. And I admit I wasn’t in favor of bringing you in.”
“I don’t blame you or Con. I fucked up. It was me opening my big mouth, talking about an ongoing investigation with my dad and it blew everything up. Con getting beaten up by Murphy’s goons is on me too, and in the end, I almost got him killed.”
“Enough self-flagellation.” Jake grunted. “You don’t get to take the blame for your father sending his criminal cronies after Con or for holding us at gunpoint. That’s all on him. You made mistakes. Con made mistakes. But your father chose to hurt others to protect his secrets.”
You have no idea. Holden sank onto a barstool, propped his elbows onto the counter, and rested his head in his hands.
“You’re the one who ended up with a bullet hole in your shoulder, not Con or me, so I think you paid up.” There was a clink of glass. A shot was pushed his way. It was the first time Jake had offered him alcohol since Holden had started working three months back. “As I said earlier, I know what it’s like to get screwed over, but I also know that life gets better when you let go of the past and allow yourself to move forward.”
Holden let out a dark chuckle. “Was there a question? ’Cause I missed it.”
“You know, Con said you’re an acquired taste on your best days.” Jake snorted. “And I never thought I’d say this, but I think I like you, Holden Wright.”
He mock toasted to his boss and downed the shot.
Jake leaned back against the counter. “Smartass, here is the question: Why have you forgiven Con, who in essence lied to protect himself, but you can’t forgive Brent Northwood, who only lied to protect you?”
“I think technically that’s two questions.” Holden’s voice was rough from the alcohol burning down his throat. Still, he reached out for the bottle and refilled his glass. Maybe, just maybe, he had to say it out loud once. “Yes, I was pissed at Con, but I got hurt by Brent, and I won’t ever let it happen again. Does that answer your question?”
“It does. Answers a lot of them.”
They sat in the silence of the dimly lit bar sipping their drinks, and Holden rolled his neck, trying to relieve the tension.
“He’ll be back,” Jake added as he rinsed out his glass and then dried it off.
Holden looked up. “Why do you think that?”
“Because guys like Northwood haven’t gotten where they are by accepting defeat.”
“Well, it won’t matter. He fucked up. I’ve drawn a line, and I won’t cross it.”
“Uh-huh,” Jake mumbled as he picked up Holden’s empty glass and put it into the sink. “It’s late. Let’s get out of here.”
Holden took a deep breath and straightened his shoulders to brace himself for the cold, wet November night, trying not to think about how he’d rather stay at work than go home.

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For 30 years, the Sundance Film Festival (January 16 to 26; sundance.org) has spread the gospel of audacious, independent filmmaking from Robert Redford's mountain fortress nestled high in the peaks of Park City, Utah. While Hollywood elders spend January in Brentwood mansions contemplating their Oscar votes, the next generation of film pioneers braves soul-challenging winter winds to sample 187 selections culled from an eye-popping 12,218 submissions.
But with so much to choose from and so little time, here's a list of ten intriguing features that people will no doubt be talking about. By no means the last word, it will at least give you a head start.
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Boil plenty of water in a large pan with 1 tsp of salt and 1 tsp of oil. Add the fettuccine to the boiling water by adding a few at a time. Cook uncovered, stirring occasionally and gently until the fettuccine is tender. Cooking times may vary with the size and the thickness of the fettuccine. Immediately drain the cooked fettuccine into a sieve or a colander. Transfer to a bowl of cold water to refresh it. Drain again and keep aside. If the fettuccine is not to be used immediately, add 1 tbsp of oil to it and toss it.
Green Fettuccine is made by adding boiled and pureed spinach to the pasta dough and then make the fettuccine as usual. Green fettuccine is found on the same aisle as other pasta products. It is dried wide noodle pasta mixed with fresh spinach leaves, which imparts the green colour. This variety of pasta not only enhances the look of the dish but also is of great nutritive significance.
Having Spinach in it, serves as a scrumptious and colorful appealing dish. It goes well with all veggies, just experiment with your choice or favorites and cook with minimal spice for best flavour. Just the plain green fettuccine tastes immensely wonderful with cheese topped and a little bit of mixed herbs sprinkled.
" Both fresh and dried versions are used to make fettuccine Alfredo, a quintessential dish which layers fettuccine pasta in a thick, creamy sauce. To make the dish, cooks toss freshly cooked pasta with heavy cream and a mixture of cheeses such as Parmesan and Romano. Fettuccine Alfredo is typically finished with lavish amounts of fresh ground salt and pepper.
" Deliciously simple, yet very impressive seafood pasta dish with cream and Parmesan cheese.
" Light, very healthy and overwhelmingly green, this is a vegetarian delight broccoli flowerets, oil, sesame seed, toasted, fettuccine, broken up, Parmesan cheese.
" Chocolate Fettuccine with Vanilla Sauce and Strawberries Recipe
" Drain the pasta thoroughly and transfer to warm soup plates. Top with sauce and use two forks to gently lift the pasta and allow the sauce to coat it. Spoon the berries on top, garnish with mint leaves and serve immediately.
How to store fettuccine, flat ribbon pasta
Store it, unopened, in a cool, dry cupboard for six to eight months or as per the expiry date. Dried, fresh, and cooked pasta need to be stored in different ways. Fresh pasta will keep for 1-2 days in the refrigerator and can also be frozen. Stuffed pasta or fresh pasta made with eggs will keep for 1 day in the refrigerator or 2 months in the freezer. Cooked pasta will keep for 3-5 days in the fridge or freezer. When refrigerating or freezing cooked pasta, be sure it is stored in a well sealed container so that it does not absorb any odours.


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IUP STUDENTS FROM BLAIR COUNTY GRADUATE FROM IUP
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The following students from the Hollidaysburg/Duncansville area have completed requirements for graduation from Indiana University of Pennsylvania as of December 2020 and January 2021.
Local graduates, their hometowns, majors and degrees are:
Duncansville: Kamrynn Renee Wantz, Lowry Drive, B.S. in Communications Media/Media Marketing
The full list of December 2020 and January 2021 graduates is available at www.iup.edu. IUP is a member of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education....

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Former employment minister Jo Swinson has called for a business-led initiative to improve management training and tackle workplace productivity.
Swinson welcomed the increase to the National Minimum Wage, which she said represented the government recognising the problem with a low skills, low wage economy. However, she urged caution from employers...
A "substantial" parliamentary bill acting as a "roadmap" for the long-term future of private pensions will lead to a "significant period of calm", Guy Opperman has promised.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has completed its appointment process for the Single Financial Guidance Body's (SFGB) board, naming three non-executive directors.
Pensions and financial inclusion minister Guy Opperman has launched a simplified two-page annual statement in a bid to provide a best practice template for the industry.
Some 70% of defined contribution (DC) members want to know their scheme is personalised and tailored to their needs, an Invesco language study reveals.


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Ellen Muriel Deason, known professionally as Kitty Wells (born August 30, 1919) is an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued up until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of future female country singers to come to fame in the 1960s. Wells's success in the 1950s and 1960s was so enormous that she still ranks as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the history of the Billboard country charts according to historian Joel Whitburn's book The Top 40 Country Hits, behind Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, and Tanya Tucker. Wells was the third country music artist, after Roy Acuff and Hank Williams, to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991, as well as being the seventh woman and first Caucasian woman to receive the honor. In 1976, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. She is as of May 2008 the oldest living member of the Hall of Fame. Wells's accomplishments earned her the moniker "The Queen of Country Music," a title since inherited by Reba McEntire.


The United Nations raised alarm as a series of racist incidents against minorities and foreigners were reported in the United Kingdom following the country’s decision to leave the European Union.
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said on Tuesday that “racism and xenophobia are unacceptable in any circumstances” around the world.
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“I urge the UK authorities to act to stop these xenophobic attacks and to ensure that all those suspected of racist and anti-foreigner attacks and abuses are prosecuted,” Hussein said.
“All of us must refuse to tolerate discriminatory acts in our daily lives – to ensure that there is nothing ‘everyday’ about discrimination.”
Violence, intimidation and calls of “Go home” directed at minorities – from Europeans in England to non-white Britons – have surged since the referendum last Friday.
The Muslim Council of Britain has compiled social media reports of more than 100 racist incidents since Thursday, when a majority of Britons voted for exiting the EU.
In the latest incident, widely reported on social media on Tuesday, three young British men in Manchester were caught on video shouting racist abuse against an American tram passenger, calling him “little f**king immigrant” and demanding that he “get off the f**king tram now. Get back to Africa”.
In another incident, a man was seen getting out of his car as he confronted another person, who apparently shouted racist words.
"Go back to your country."
Has Brexit made Britain more racist? https://t.co/czZAWRxIjq
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The Polish Embassy in London earlier said it was “shocked and deeply concerned” by incidents of abuse directed at Poles and other Eastern Europeans living in England.
They reportedly include the posting of laminated cards reading “Leave the EU – no more Polish vermin” to members of the Polish community in Huntingdon, near the eastern city of Cambridge, on Saturday.
There were also reports of racist graffiti scrawled on a Polish community centre in Hammersmith, west London. The Metropolitan Police Service said it was investigating the claim.
Following the incidents, British Prime Minister David Cameron said that the government “will not tolerate intolerance”.
Cameron said he had spoken to his Polish counterpart Beata Szydlo to express his concern and to reassure her that Poles in Britain would be protected.
Sadiq Khan, the newly elected mayor of London, said he had placed the city’s police force on high alert for racially motivated attacks.
Politicians lobbying for the so-called Brexit had argued it would allow Britain to curb immigration.
Mutuma Ruteere, the independent UN investigator on racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia, said some of the abuse and comments reported since the vote “certainly are xenophobic and racist.
“I also note that the government and the prime minister have been very categorical in denouncing those practices as well as what has taken place,” Ruteere told a news briefing.
He said the incidents would be a test to Britain’s watchdog institutions that monitor racism.
“I’m quite confident and hopeful that actually the institutions that exist can address this problem and nip it in the bud before it becomes a bigger problem.”


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There is a scene in the movie American Splendor in which the main character, Harvey Pekar, played by Paul Giamatti, riffs about other Harvey Pekars whose names disappear and reappear. “Who are these people? What do they do? What’s in a name?” he begs of the camera.
But while Mr. Pekar was too timid to ever pick up the phone and find out, Aaron Cohen was not. “I looked up my name in the phone book and there were eight Aaron Cohens living between 72nd Street and 96th Street, just on the Upper West Side, you know, just between West End Avenue and Central Park West,” Mr. Cohen told The Observer in 2009, and in that same year, he met a gaggle of nine AC’s, as he calls them, at Katz’s Deli on the Lower East Side. From there, he plotted out a documentary about Aaron Cohens around the world, finding and friending them through Facebook (he is now friends with 132 of the 1,000+ AC’s on the social network). Last night he launched a Kickstarter campaign for the film around 10 p.m. from the Salt Lake City airport, after his redeye flight back to New York was canceled.
The campaign has raised $1,519 of its $50,000 from 10 backers, half of whom are named Aaron Cohen.
Mr. Cohen spent most of his career as an entrepreneur (co-founder of Concrete Media and Bolt.com and CEO of Menupages and Anyclip). He teaches a class called the History of Internet Media at NYU. “Twenty-five years ago, Woody Allen, Spalding Gray, and Ross McElwee sparked something inside of me. The Aaron Cohens is that thing,” he says on the campaigns Kickstarter page.
Mr. Cohen spoke to Betabeat via Gchat from the plane (edited slightly for punctuation) about the film, Kickstarter, Facebook, and being Aaron Cohen.
How many ACs are you friends with on Facebook now?
It takes me too long to count. It’s unreal. Changes all the time. But the 132 was done within the last two months. But there are more than 132 on Facebook.
How much of it is done?
The film? Half. Maybe. But I have a very different view of KickStarter. Independent films need tribes. Tribes help let people know that something meaningful exists. I need people who care about this film to join me during the entire process. If anything I should have started earlier.
Is the movie about Jews? You kind of mention this is in the video.
I can’t give too much away.
Ooh, twist ending?
Let’s just say that I thought all Aaron Cohens would be just like me. And they are not. For example there is one in Salt Lake.
Mormon Aaron Cohen?!
I cannot confirm that at this time.
Here’s the important thing. I had an expectation, perhaps we all do. Names are codes. They mean something. Particulary Raj Gupta or Jesus Martinez. Aaron Cohen is one of those names. Except that I was wrong.
What does your family think of this project?
Very supportive. It’s a long story.
I started out making a straight comedy, but about nine months into it my mother got terminal cancer. That kind of shelved things for a long time and changed the direction of the film in certain ways.
Does it feel like you’re finally able to see the completion in sight of a film you started so long ago?
Definitely. But I’ve always seen the film and how it would unfold. The challenge has been that I was a CEO for a long time and making films is even more intense. I did a TEDx talk on the intersection of startups and films two years ago.
So how many Aaron Cohens will appear in the film?
Well no film has room for 132 characters, not even Slacker. But we will show a dizzying number of faces and really quick moments. But the film centers around a six pack.
The Facebook thing is really important. I mean. I can’t reach all my ACs because of FB’s policies. They don’t want me to anonymously contact Aaron Cohens. That makes a lot of sense, unless you’re making this movie.
Will you like this? I hear that’s important.


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(Slovakia/Czech Republic, 75 min.)
Dir. Ivan Ostrochovsky, Writ. Marek Lescak, Ivan Ostrochovsky
Starring: Peter Balaz, Zvonko Lakcevic, Jan Franek, Stanislava Bongilajova
Slovakia’s Oscar submission Koza is not a contender. The Slovaks admirably put up their dukes with an unconventional candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film race, but Koza, even at an anemic seventy-five minutes, is a tiresome slog. The film follows a down-and-out boxer named Koza (Slovak for “goat”), played by Peter Balaz, as he goes back into the ring to earn enough money to pay for his girlfriend’s abortion (why not double team with Lily Tomlin?) and this story of a well-intentioned loser is no knock-out punch. It’s a harmless welterweight.
Director Ivan Ostrochovsky doesn’t bring much punch from the corner of the ring as Koza mostly plays out in drab interiors that are awkwardly staged and placidly shot. Koza marks the filmmaker’s first attempt at narrative filmmaking following a few documentaries, and the observational style eschews non-fiction aesthetic, but the dramatic energy of the film is a vacuum of dead air. Little happens and Koza is frankly boring as Koza broods and trains. Some black humour with a hack trainer/chicken farmer add minimal laughs that still struggle to raise the film a weight class.
If Koza lacks the dramatic punch to satisfy even a fan of esoteric world cinema, it nevertheless has a hook that makes it a publicist’s dream film. This year’s Toronto International Film Festival, where Koza had its North American Premiere, featured publicists aggressively, if not assaultively, hounding critics and journalists with “stories” that would inspire them, rather than films that would move them. (It’s worth noting that the barrage of publicists punching writers in the face isn’t necessarily the Festival’s o, for that matter, Koza’s fault.) Koza perfectly captures the fallacy of this angle: if the film doesn’t work, then the story is pitiless and the film falls doubly short since it sends a pitch that swings with a miss. The film comes first. Everything else is noise.
The “story” behind Koza is that the film essentially stars Balaz as a variation of himself, and some grainy TV footage of a boxing match adds some context, but it could just as easily be fiction as viewers have seen dramatic films replicate odd film stocks and grainy images to add a sense of authenticity. The film, one could say, “docudramatizes” Balaz’s life as Ostrochovsky fights with fading glory amidst a backdrop of barren poverty. Balaz might be authentic fit for the role, but he's not a strong actor. Even playing himself, his blank stare isn't compelling, and many of the non-actors who fill the film are equally subdued. Koza needs the press notes to leave an impact, though. Without them, one is lost and unmoved. A film needs to hit on some level—intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, or physically—to connect and land a blow. What's a story worth if one doesn't care about the film?
Rating: ★★ (out of ★★★★★)
Koza had its North American Premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.


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Asia Bizz: Google’s Street view has been sued recently by a Frenchman. On March 1, 2012, the search engine giant was taken to court for showing him urinating in his yard.
The man has argued that this has made him a laughing stock of his village in the rural northwest France. The middle-aged man has demanded the removal of the photo from the website as the locals have recognized him despite his face being blurred.
The Frenchman has demanded 10,000 Euros as damages. The lawyer of the man, Jean Noel, said that everyone has a right to a degree of secrecy and in this particular case it is more amusing than serious. Noel added that even if he was caught kissing a woman other than his wife, then it would have had the same issue.
The StreetView of Google covers some 30 countries and is available in France since 2008. The service shows the pictures taken through the camera mounted on the vehicles. The picture of the man was taken in the year 2010 and the man had then though that the closed gate would have hidden him. But the lens had caught the man from above his gate as the vehicle passed.

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The New South Wales, Australia Department of Education has terminated a staff member who posted a pro-Hitler comment on the Facebook page of a Jewish student union.
According to the Australian Jewish News, the employee wrote: “It’s such a shame [Hitler] didn’t finish his job” underneath a photo of Hitler.
It was posted in May on the Australasian Union of Jewish Students Victoria’s Facebook page. But the staffer was only recently let go after an investigation led to their contract not being renewed.
NWS Secretary for Education Kevin Conolly said in a letter that the comment did not represent the NSW government or the department and that both “do not tolerate discriminatory or racist conduct of any kind.”
“It was alarming that such comments were made by a representative of the NSW government, particularly the Department of Education, which has a fundamental responsibility to the safety and protection of our children,” NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Darren Bark told the Jewish News.
For months, the Department of Education had received criticism from opposition politicians and Jewish leaders for refusing to divulge information about actions it was undertaking against the staffer.
The Australasian Union of Jewish Students told the news outlet that is was relieved the Department of Education had finally acted.
“We hope it sends a clear message to anyone engaging in anti-Semitic rhetoric that it’s not welcome, appropriate or tolerated in our society and that there are severe consequences for such behaviour,” said the student union’s political affairs director Gabi Stricker-Phelps.

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The administration is giving certain employers extra time before they must offer health insurance to almost all their full-time workers.
Under new rules announced Monday by Treasury Department officials, employers with 50 to 99 workers will be given until 2016 — two years longer than originally envisioned under the Affordable Care Act — before they risk a federal penalty for not complying.
Companies with 100 workers or more are getting a different kind of one-year grace period. Instead of being required in 2015 to offer coverage to 95 percent of full-time workers, these bigger employers can avoid a fine by offering insurance to 70 percent of them next year.
By providing the dual phase-ins for employers of different sizes, administration officials have sought to lighten the burden on the small share of affected employers that have not offered insurance in the past.
Originally, the employer mandate — which affects companies employing 72 percent of all Americans — was to have gone into effect Jan. 1, at the same time the law began requiring most Americans to have health insurance.
The law says that anyone who works 30 hours or more is a full-time employee, and it compels many employers to offer affordable insurance to those workers and their dependents. It defines affordable as premiums of no more than 9.5 percent of an employee’s income, and employers must pay for the equivalent of 60 percent of the actuarial value of a worker’s coverage. Businesses that fail to do so will eventually face a fine of up to $2,000 for each employee not offered coverage, though workers are not required to sign up for the benefits.
Under the health-care law, small employers — those with fewer than 50 workers — do not have to offer insurance.
Administration officials said Monday that they will issue a separate set of rules in coming weeks that will cover related questions about how employers must report their workers’ insurance status to the government.
Some details in the new rule pleased fire companies, which had feared that the government might have required them to offer insurance to volunteer firefighters and other first responders. The rule also said that educators who have summers off are nonetheless to be treated as full-time workers entitled to be offered coverage. Adjunct faculty members will be counted as working 2.25 hours for ever hour in the classroom. And the rule said that seasonal workers — such as farm workers or extra department-store hires around Christmastime — are considered full time only if they work for at least half the year.
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REAFFIRM (Reverse Engineer, Analyze and Fuzz Firmware) is a platform for firmware analysis, component identification and extraction, and testing. REAFFIRM facilitates cyber security assessments for cyber-physical systems used in the military (weapons controls, navigation systems), critical infrastructure (industrial-control systems) and everyday applications (automotive controls, medical devices).
To help analysts achieve a deep understanding of firmware, REAFFIRM’s analyses identify meaningful components, present them, and rank them by relevance. This enhanced understanding facilitates both cyber security assessments and evaluations of the firmware for reuse in new settings.
Cyber security testers can use REAFFIRM to extract key components for testing. Because our system identifies, isolates, and virtualizes the hardware-coupled portions of firmware components, testing can proceed in a virtualized environment, without the expense and risk of damage associated with using real hardware.
Through its use of data science tools such as Jupyter notebooks, REAFFIRM supports reproducibility and gradual automation of reverse-engineering and testing workflows.
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Air Force, DARPA, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Office of Naval Research under Contract(s) No. FA8750-20-C-1005, FA8650-16-M-1724, FA8650-18-C-1663, FA8750-18-C-0141, N00014-16-P-2041 and N68335-17-C-0454. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Air Force, DARPA, the Navy or the Office of Naval Research.


Looking toward the Westinghouse Plant from the "Village" about 1922
The Model Village in Marcus Hook was built to house the new employees of the Viscose Company plant in 1910. Are you aware of the Westinghouse Village? Built for the employees of the then new plant in Essington it is now almost 100 years old. The information below is from 1919.
THE WESTINGHOUSE VILLAGE IS MINUTELY DESCRIBED
Architect Brazer, Who Designed This New Delaware County Settlement, gives Times Readers Some Idea of the Valuable Adjunct the Westinghouse Machine Company is to Community
HOUSING TRACT CONTAINS NINETY ACRES OF HIGH GROUND
Westinghouse Village lies between the town of Lester and Essington on the Delaware River about three miles north of this city. The large new machine turbine plant of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, for whose employee the town was projected, extends from the water front to the railroad. On the watershed as shown on the small insert plan. The inland side is the village site, approached from the plant by a viaduct over the railroad tracks as well as over the Chester Short Line trolley tracks from Philadelphia. The viaduct is also planned to serve the railroad station and a trolley loading loop.
The tract set aside for housing contains about ninety acres of comparatively high land sloping gently north and will a fall of thirty feet toward Long Hook and Darby Creeks, which are surrounded by marshland. The portion nearest the trolley tracks is Powhattan Avenue was formerly a cornfield surrounding one of the first built houses on the Delaware River. Essington on Tinicum Island was the first permanent settlement in Pennsylvania, having been settled on the highest river land by the Swedes in 1643. Its streets were named for its prominent men. The old manor house had been burned out many years ago, and the first act of the workmen before they could be stopped was to use it as a quarry for foundation stones. A glorious old oak tree some six feet in diameter still remains, however, carefully “courted” to preserve its roots. About twenty acres in the center of the tract are richly wooded, while stretching across the fields are groves of gum trees so colorful in the fall.
The Westinghouse Company has over twenty other housing developments, but this is the largest of all and, as planned, it will eventually provide homes for over 6000 people. Long before America entered the war this scheme had been projected as a permanent part of their plant, and the company’s town planning architect, Clarence Wilson Brazer, was commissioned to study and report a complete and comprehensive town planning development for the site with plans of all buildings and municipal engineering suited to the needs of the locality and the company’s employees. After several months spent in survey and study of surrounding towns, he submitted the accompanying plans with a comprehensive report. The latter discusses all phases of town planning, taking the open land, its sub-division, plotting, installation of all streets and public utilities, housing for different classes, and the necessary number and kinds of shops required to provide their needs, and churches which the population could support. A complete census of probable male, female and children occupants of the bedrooms contained in the typical plans of the buildings designed also gave data for school population and playgrounds, as well as the possible number of male employees, single and married, that could be housed. This was accompanied by the usual percentage tables to prove the proper proportioning of the land area and detailed estimates of cost of full land and utility development, as well as detailed builders’ estimates on the buildings, thus giving a grand total of eventual expenditures required. The public improvement costs were assessed against the lots according to area, to which were added the cost of the buildings. Tables of each of the fifteen classes of buildings were prepared, and on these total costs for each class were ascertained the taxes, insurance, water rent, 5 per cent interest on the investment, maintenance and repairs for streets, parks, utilities, lights, fire protection, and buildings, as well as costs for collection of ashes, garbage and rents. These tables thus gave the amount of rent required from each house, or building to pay all these charges, and the proof of good design is shown by the fact that the yearly rentals on the gross cost of building and lot, average only 9 per cent, including water rent, interest, and all above charges. Recommendations for restrictions to be placed on the land, administration and disposal of privileges terminate the preliminary report.
When Mr. Brazer first studied the site the factory buildings were nearing completion and their septic tank was being erected upon the lowest land adjoining Long Hook Creek. Extensions of the septic system had been planned to provide for the future village. This, therefore, became one of the determining factors in the town plan as the natural fall of the land from the railroad gave just about the proper grade for sanitary sewers. Then, too, the surface drainage could be handled most economically by the same route to Long Hook Creek. The Swedish named streets of Essington and the Indian streets of Lester had already been plotted, and were in part cut through in typical gridiron fashion and the distance between these two towns being only 1800 feet, a system of curved streets would not only have been incongruous, but unsuitable to the economical straight forwarded plotting of flat land for row type housing preferred by workmen in this locality. In order to fuse imply and directly with these towns some of the adjoining streets were continued into the property and those running north and south were chosen for residences, so that practically every room in the village gets direct sunlight sometime during the day.
The frontage on the trolley line naturally was reserved for stores, banks, movies, etc., with apartments for the shopkeepers and offices for the professional men placed in two stories above to shield the housing district and give more privacy from the noise of the plant and railroads. These higher buildings are broken by Central Parkway, 150 feet wide, on which are placed boarding houses of similar height, leading to the Protestant and Catholic Churches on the edge of the woods. In order to best preserve this wooded section, twin and single houses were plotted for the executive force of the plant, each with its garage on a minor service road. Service roads were also introduced to serve all houses and to permit most of them to have private garages. The sanitary sewers are placed here most economically. At the far end of Central Parkway, where the noise of organized play would least disturb the villagers, are centrally located the school, Y.M.C.A. and recreation field and boat house; the latter on filled land. The lowest corner on the east side nearest the viaduct to the plant was reserved for the laborer’s section and the higher land to the west for homes of mechanics and foremen.
The blocks have been planned with alternate streets omitted until full development requires their being cut thru, so that in the intervening years protected open lots for play or gardens at will. All necessary connections have been made to the sewers and children will have the use of these other utilities, of size to amply serve the future houses on this land which are located as shown by dotted lines on the town plan. Thus the first development will retain all the openness of the surrounding unplotted country at very little additional first cost.
Upon America’s entry into the war, prices so advanced that private financing became undesirable and Fleet Corporation financial assistance was accepted for a sixth section of 200 houses only. This portion is shown on the accompanying detail planting plan and the houses thereon have now all been plastered and over half of them are occupied. The unfinished condition of the surroundings which, with the planting, cannot now be done until spring makes it more desirable to publish the beautiful perspective drawings by E. Donald Robb than any photographs which could be taken at this time. In the war haste with which these houses were designed and erected many of the detail drawings were not followed on the job. Ill-advised changes were also quickly made by rough work pushers, so that better as well as more economical results are anticipated in the larger number of buildings still to be erected.
The Chester Historical Preservation Committee
is opening this year's lecture series on March 16 at 7:30 PM
at the Quaker Meetinghouse 520E. 24th street, Chester, Pa.
George Fox and the Quakers, from the founding to the end of the Holy Experiment will be the subject of the lecture. Robert Quay will be the presenter. He is an 18th century interpreter of Bob Quay and educator at the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation and author of " From the Collection of Bob Quay, Operator #43. The lecture is free and open to the public.
For further information call CHPC at 610-872-4497


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November 26, 2018
2018 CROP FARM PROFITS WILL VARY
Ask a farmer what their profit levels from crop farming were in 2018, and the answers can range from “pretty good” to “acceptable” to “right down terrible”. Any of those answers could be correct, depending where the farmer is located and how the erratic 2018 weather conditions affected crop production in the area. There will also be a wide variation grain marketing decisions and crop insurance coverage for the year that potentially affected farm profitability. Following is a brief overview of how these three major factors will likely affect final farm profitability in 2018:
- 2018 crop yields — “Mother nature” was not kind to many producers in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa in 2018, as well as in some other areas of the Upper Midwest. Several areas received 50-100% above the normal growing season rainfall, in addition to some severe storms late in growing season, which lead to greatly reduced crop yields for the year. Some growers in south central and southwest Minnesota and adjoining areas of northern Iowa are reporting their lowest corn yield since the disaster year of 1993. Overall, corn yields in region were 10-20 percent below long-term averages, and probably 15-30 percent lower than 2015-2017 average yields. In general, soybean yields were 5-20 percent below long-term average yields.
By comparison, growers in Illinois, Indiana, and the eastern Corn Belt are having record crop yields in 2018. Portions of southeast, central, and northwest Minnesota, as well as central and eastern areas of Iowa, also reported above average yields, as did parts of Nebraska, North and South Dakota. At a farm-level price of $3.25 per bushel, a farm operator with a yield of 220 bushels per acre will gross $715 per acre, wile a producer with 180 bushels per acre grosses $585 per acre, and a producer with 140 bushels per acre only grosses $455 per acre.
The “market facilitation program” (MFP) payments, which are being paid to farm operators to offset market price reductions resulting from tariffs and trade issues, are based on final 2018 crop yields. The largest estimated MFP payment level is $1.65 per bushel for soybeans. So, a producer in the eastern Corn Belt that had a soybean yield of 70 bushels per acre will get an estimated MFP payment of $115.50 per acre, while a producer in southern Minnesota that had a weather-reduced yield of 40 bushels per acre will only receive $66 per acre.
- Grain marketing decisions — As in most years, the grain marketing decisions that were made by farm operators will have a big impact on the profit levels for their crop enterprise in 2018. The biggest difference will likely come in soybeans, where producers in many areas had the opportunity to “lock-in” cash prices above $9.50 per bushel on a portion of their anticipated 2018 production from February to May this year, prior to the Chinese tariffs on U.S. soybeans. Current soybean cash price levels are near $8.25 per bushel in southern Minnesota, and even lower in some areas.
For example, farmer A and B both targeted a yield of 60 bushel per acre for soybeans at the beginning of 2018; however, due to the weather conditions they only had a yield of 50 bushels per acre. Farmer A “locked-in” two-thirds of the anticipated production (40 bu./acre) at $9.75 per bushel and sold the balance at $8.25 per bushel. Farmer B sold the entire production at harvest for $8.25 per bushel. Farmer A would have a gross income of $472.50 per acre, while farmer B would have a gross income of only $412.50 per acre, a difference of $60 per acre.
The difference in marketing decisions for corn from prices the Spring of 2018 until post-harvest prices was not quite as dramatic as with soybeans. There were several opportunities from March to May to “lock-in” a local cash corn price of $3.50-$3.65 per bushel in southern Minnesota, which compares to the current cash price near $3.25 per bushel. However, this can still amount to a difference of $30-$60 in gross income per acre. Grain marketing decisions are often overlooked as a major factor that impacts farm profitability.
- 2018 crop insurance coverage — The level and type of crop insurance coverage that a producer carried for the 2018 crop year will also impact farm profitability in the areas that had greatly reduced crop yields for the year. Corn and soybean producers had the option of selecting revenue protection (RP) crop insurance policies ranging from 60% to 85% coverage levels. The level of insurance coverage can result in some producers receiving crop insurance indemnity payments, while other producers receive no indemnity payments, even though both producers had the same adjusted APH yield and the same final yield. For example, at an adjusted APH corn yield of 190 bushels per acre and a final 2018 corn yield of 155 bushels per acre, a producer with 85% RP coverage would receive a gross indemnity payment of $69.14 per acre, while a producer with 75% coverage would receive no indemnity payment.
A large majority of Midwest corn and soybean producers chose “enterprise units” for their 2018 crop insurance coverage, in order to reduce premium costs. This combines all acres of a crop in a given county into one crop insurance unit. By comparison, “optional units” allow producers to insure crops separately in each township section, which can be a big advantage in a year such as 2018. For example, assume that producers A and B both have 5 separate farms in the same county with an APH corn yield of 190 bushels per acre, and with an overall average 2018 corn yield of 165 bushels per acre. However, three of the farms average 175 bushels per acre and two of the farms average 145 bushels per acre. Producer A has an 80% RP policy with optional units and producer B has an 80% RP policy with enterprise units. Producer A would receive no insurance indemnity payment on three farms; however, would receive a gross insurance payment of $68.32 per acre on two farms. Producer B would receive almost no insurance payments on any farms.
Corn and soybean producers in Illinois, Indiana, and other areas with average or above average yields will likely have an average to very good profit year in 2018, depending on their grain marketing decisions. Farm operators that had average to slightly below average yields for the year will probably have acceptable to reduced profit levels in 2018, depending on grain marketing decisions. Finally, producers with below average to very low crop yields in 2018 will likely have reduced to disastrous profit levels for the year, depending on their crop insurance coverage and their grain marketing decisions.
Farm operators that are facing serious cash flow shortages for the 2018 crop year are encouraged to consult their farm management advisors and ag lenders sooner than later to look at ways to address the situation. Farm operators should also consult their tax advisors before the end of the year, as there are changes in the new tax law relative to the tax treatment of farm income losses for a year.
Note — For additional information contact Kent Thiesse, Farm Management Analyst and Senior
Vice President, MinnStar Bank, Lake Crystal, MN. (Phone — (507) 381-7960);
E-mail — email@example.com)

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I have at long last been exposed as a "rootless cosmopolite." I should have seen this coming. As far back as March, an anti-Semitic hack from the West Coast attacked my "Zionist NDP blog." The dogs had begun to bark.
Well I remember the latter days of Stalinism, and the denunciations that flowed against citizens of the world like myself,
unbridled, evil-minded cosmopolitans, profiteers with no roots and no conscience… Grown on rotten yeast of bourgeois cosmopolitanism, decadence and formalism… non-indigenous nationals without a motherland, who poison with stench… our proletarian culture. --"About one antipatriotic group of theater critics," Pravda, January 28, 1949
Occasionally, pundits like F. Chernov went too far:
Appearing as messengers and propagandists for bourgeois ideology, the rootless-cosmopolitans fawned over and groveled before decadent bourgeois culture. Defaming Soviet socialist culture, they praised to the heavens that which was found in the emaciated and decayed conditions of bourgeois culture. In the great culture of the Russian people they saw echos and rehashings of Western bourgeois culture.
I must chide Comrade Chernov here. A little decadence, like salt in a stew, goes a long way. No rootless cosmopolite can live on salt alone.
At length, in any case, the official denunciation came. In a stroke of genius, I was condemned, not by a heroic proletarian defender of the Motherland, but by a commenter at the blogsite of someone posing as anti-Communist, Russian and Jewish. That, Comrades Stalin and Chernov, if I may say so, outdoes your relatively feeble efforts at curbing dangerous cosmopolitan tendencies. To be denounced as a rootless cosmopolite in the very home of another notorious rootless cosmopolite carries its additional sting:
There are rootless intellectuals like this Dr. Dawg fellow who move from country to country, acquire different citizenships, but pride themselves on their sense of detachment and look condescendingly on those who have a strong sense of attachment, heritage, family history and feel it's their prerogative to completely reengineer and redefine the social relationships in this country, to throw open our borders and call anyone and everyone a Canadian, irrespective of whether they want to be, what they identify themselves as, whether they have any attachment and commitment to this country.
Like Ilya Ehrenberg, I now numbly await the knock on the door.
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Another great weekend here in Chicago. Here’s a recap for ya -
After work I hit up the grocery store. Nothing too exciting there, but it was nice to get it out of the way.
Picked up dinner on the way home. Homemade Pizza Company.
Pear and Blue Cheese Salad.
Pizza – half spinach, half sausage. You can guess which half was mine.
Whole wheat crust. Homemade Pizza Co. isn’t all that cheap, especially for pizza you have to bake yourself, but the fresh, all natural ingredients make up for it.
And to drink – cider beer! I liked this brand a lot because it wasn’t overly sweet like a lot of cider beers tend to be.
After dinner we watched a movie. My pick -
I thought it was pretty funny. Maybe not as funny as I had heard and definitely not as funny as The Hangover, but funny nonetheless.
Mid-morning, my sister, niece, and I went to a food demo at Native Foods Cafe called “Hold the Butter! Veganizing Paula Dean’s Recipes”. I’ll give you a full recap on that in my next post!
After the food demo, I hung out at my sister’s casa for a while, had some coffee, watched a squirrel beg for food on the deck -
Oh my goodness, that little guy is so stickin’ cute! He’s practically taken up residence on their deck, he’s around so often. Pretty sure his name is Gibby.
Mid-afternoon I got a mani/pedi.
Starbucks is a necessary accompaniment to a mani/pedi. I got my usual Grande Soy Latte.
Wish I knew what the name of the color was – it’s like a slate grey with subtle sparkles. Whatever it is, I love it.
And on my fingernails – kind of a khaki color. The fall nail polish colors are awesome this season.
Did some late afternoon lounging around with Maddux and Ryan.
Maddux thinks he’s a cat. He chilled on the arm of the couch. In the sunniest spot.
I told him to get down and he gave me that look – like, “excuse me?!”
PS. That chair in the background? Yeah, that’s Maddux’s chair. After he chewed up half the chair we just deemed it his. Wicker furniture and puppies are a bad combo.
For dinner we went to a restaurant called Rise Sushi and Sake Lounge. Sorry for the craptastic pics, but it was dark.
Warm edamame for an appetizer. Red wine for a beverage.
Ryan ordered some steak teriyaki thing. I don’t really know.
I ordered a cucumber roll, a sweet potato roll, and crispy tofu with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce.
I ate almost everything. All of the tofu for sure. Crispy tofu? Yes, please!
After dinner we met up with some friends at a nearby bar to celebrate a birthday. Stayed for a couple hours and then called it a night.
Yesterday was a pretty chill day involving lots of TV watching and eating. I made a big pot of chili and cornbread. I apologize in advance if half of my meals this week are chili.
I loosely followed Rachael Ray’s recipe for Veg-Head 3 Bean Chili, substituting for what I had on hand.
I made vegan cornbread by following this recipe. I used whole wheat flour instead of white and agave nectar instead of sugar.
Both turned out great – especially the chili. The recipe gives you the option of adding a can of refried beans to thicken the sauce, which I did and highly recommend.
Anyway, that was my weekend. I have to say, one of the best Saturdays I’ve had in a while. I mean – cooking demo, mani/pedi, sushi, wine – can’t get much better than that.
Best meal of your weekend?


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Reported by Kacie Whaley
Fifteen children and young adults have been shot early Sunday morning at a new Miami, Florida club, including an 11-year-old.
At around 1AM on Sunday, shots rang out at The Spot, a club that just opened within the past few weeks in Miami. About “100 shots” were fired by at least “4 different guns,” according to an unidentified witness interviewed by CBS Miami.
When police arrived on the scene, both teenagers and adults were running in panic, with injured victims both inside and outside the club. “People were screaming, people were saying they were shot,” Miami Fire Rescue Captain Ignatius Carrol told Associated Press.
Several of the victims, whose ages range from 11-25, were taken via ambulance to Jackson Memorial Hospital. At least seven of the fifteen victims were minors, five were boys, two were girls, according to CBS Miami. One of the injured teens is in critical condition.
“It’s very early in the investigation,” the Miami Police Department’s Frederica Burden told CBC Miami. “Detectives are out there, they’re questioning everybody.”
Law enforcement are still trying to figure out why so many young children were at a club so late at night where alcohol was present. “What we’re thinking at this point is it may have been a private party,” explained Burden.
Some of the victim’s family and friends were familiar with the club and couldn’t believe that someone would target the building, knowing that children were there.
“What was you thinking man? It’s a kids’ club, what was you thinking shooting it up?” said 20-year-old Shay, a friend of one of the victims. “It’s just sad, man. Real sad, because it could have been me that was there just trying to get away.”
One woman whose nephew was shot told reporters that she wants the shooters to be located. “I just want justice for Travon and I want justice for the rest of those kids and their families who had to go sit at trauma last night for their kids being injured,” she told CBS Miami.
Police have not yet made any arrests.

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Tom Holland has been busy promoting his next film, Spider-Man: Far From Home, in recent weeks. And it seems like time spent promoting his role as Spider-Man and the film has ingrained taking action into his psyche (in addition to the fact that he's like, an actually nice person who is the epitome of precious), because earlier this week Tom jumped in to help out a fan during a Far From Home event.
On Monday, June 24, Twitter user @NamelessCass posted a thread with personal testimony and videos showing how Tom rushed to her aid when she was being pushed into a metal barrier by other Far From Home fans, most of them grown men. In the first video tweet, Cass can be heard politely but firmly asking others in the crowd to stop pushing her.
Cass's video also shows that Tom was clearly not willing to watch someone get hurt. He can be heard jumping into action. "I'm going to throw your sh*t on the floor if you keep pushing that girl," Tom warned fans as Cass pleaded, "Guys!" Cass can also be heard saying, "I'm having a panic attack," as her breathing picks up, causing Tom to come closer to her and say, "It's okay. I got you, I got you," and asking other fans, "Can you back up?"
In her thread, Cass also revealed that Tom apparently made good on his promise to throw posters and other items fans wanted him to sign if he caught them endangering the safety of others. Midway through her thread, in all caps, Cass wrote, "TOM HOLLAND JUST THREATENED GROWN-ASS MEN THEN THREW THEIR POSTERS BECAUSE I WAS CRUSHED AGAINST THE BARRICADE. HE SAID 'IM GONNA THROW YOUR SHIT ON THE GROUND IF YOU KEEP PUSHING HER,'” then came to me and calmed me down and the video HES LITERALLY SO MAD AT GRAPHERS VKSBDKSN WHAT?" and then quickly followed up with a photo of posters scattered everywhere, saying, "HE REALLY THREW ALL THE SHIT TOO FLABDKSB."
Another fan at the event confirmed things were just as unruly and unnerving as Cass described in her thread. Twitter user @SedJazz wrote, "I was there too. I was crying because I was happy yet because I was scared. I never would have thought that people way older than me and bigger would be squashing me to the ground. I wasn’t able to get an autograph or a picture."
Twitter users reacted primarily in two different ways: with overwhelming love and appreciation for Tom (because yes, of course, we stan a real-life hero!) and with disgust for older adults ruining what should have been a fun event for fans of all ages (literally, WTF, adults?).
Hopefully, Cass is doing better in the aftermath of this scary event, which never should have happened, and thank you forever for existing, Tom Holland, because we need more real-life heroes like you.
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BEIJING (92 News) – Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said on Monday Beijing supports any measures aimed at easing tensions between Pakistan and India.
Addressing a news briefing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman has said that China is maintaining contact with both the sides Islamabad and New Delhi to help achieve this goal.
“China hopes that India and Pakistan, which are important countries in South Asia, will be able to resolve the relevant problems via friendly dialogue and negotiations. In order to reduce tensions [in the region], China maintains close contacts with both India and Pakistan,” Lu Kang said.
The spokesman also commented on the proposal made during talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Pakistani counterpart, Shah Mehmood Qureshi. According to the plan, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) mechanisms could be used to resolve the existing crisis in the region.
“China supports any constructive measures that would contribute to maintaining peace and stability in the region and reducing tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad,” he stated.
Turkish president offers cooperation to reduce tension b/w Pak, India
Earlier today, Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he has offered cooperation to reduce tension between Pakistan and India.
While addressing to the nation, he said that he also spoke to Prime Minister Imran Khan on Pak-India tension. The Turkish president said Pakistan has a special place in the hearts of Turkish nation. He said our Pakistani brothers always stood by Turkey in difficult times.
“We can never forget their support in Tehreek-e-Khilafat,” he mentioned.
Erdogan hails PM Imran’s statesman-like offers to India for peace
On Thursday, Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congratulated Prime Minister Imran Khan on his speech at the joint parliament session and his statesman-like offers to India for de-escalating the situation and working towards peace.
The Turkish president phoned PM Imran Khan and said Islam is a religion of peace that underscores resolving disputes in a peaceful manner.
Erdogan hailed the announcement by the Prime Minister to release the captured Indian Air Force pilot and pointed out that this gesture was a sign of strength.


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Hollywood actor Bruce Willis appears different on a bicycle. Wearing a pink sweater and blue jeans , Willis traveled around the city of Los Angeles on his bicycle on Tuesday (12/11). Not to forget, he also wore a safety helmet.
Photos of Willis biking around LA appear on the page The Sun. “The legend of Die Hard, Bruce Willis does not look like an action star when cycling around his environment wearing a thick bicycle helmet,” wrote the British media.
64-year-old actor did appear different in recent years. In 2013 he sold six of his favorite big motorbikes. All funds from the sale of the six motorcycles were channeled to the Boot Campaign, a charity based in Texas.
This charity helps active and retired members of the US Army. “I want to use my bicycle in a way that will benefit our military members,” he said in a statement.
In exchange, Willis bought a bicycle. This bicycle accompanies its activities during the filming holiday. Willis has also been involved gimmick – a gimmick when he was invited to the ‘Late Show With David Letterman’ in 2013 ago. At that time he came to the studio on a bicycle.