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text: Snow has been falling here all day. With the exception of a few bursts, it has been fairly light. We currently have around 6″ as snow continues to fall. Here’s a recent image from our webcam. I think that is the most snow that we have seen on the snow stake all season.

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Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again Sheet Music
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|Date Added||August 23rd, 2012|
"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" is one of the musical numbers included in the 1986 musical "The Phantom of the Opera", by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The show tune is performed by the main female character Christine Daaé.
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Hotel Garbi was much bigger than we had anticipated.... It has a splendid approach up a steep, pine clad hill. Reception were friendly and efficient, and to be honest you only have to have contact with the Hotel staff if you want/need to!!
Our room was perfect-large, immaculate and luxurious, with probably the best views we have ever had in a Hotel!!
It was a very steep climb back up to the Hotel from Calella, but we felt fitter for the exercise.
The one gripe we would have with this Hotel is that the one night we ate in the Restaurant the restaurant manager was extraordinarily rude and the food was terrible- nonetheless we would recommend the Hotel Garbi wholeheartedly.
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Baker dropped into a tie for third place in the Greater Oregon League boys soccer standings Saturday after losing 3-1 to Mac-Hi at the Baker Sports Complex.
The Bulldogs fell to 1-2 in GOL play and 4-2-2 overall.
Mac-Hi took a 1-0 led in the first half Saturday only to have Baker’s Colton Anderson score to knot the game at 1-1 at halftime.
Mac-Hi then scored two unanswered goals in the second half to defeat the Bulldogs.
Baker travels to La Grande Saturday for its next GOL action.
Baker’s final two home matches are Oct. 9 against Four Rivers and Oct. 13 against Ontario.

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10 GPS facts probably didn't know
Getting stuck in the middle of nowhere or getting confused in the middle of a crowded city is no longer the nightmare that it used to be. You do not have to swallow your pride and resort on others for directions anymore.
All you have to do is whip out your phone and make use of the GPS (Geo Positioning System) to find out exactly where you are right now and what you have to do in order to get to where you want to go. If you wish to learn more facts about the GPS system, please read on.
1) There are 24 satellites which are positioned in six earth-centered orbital planes, there are also four operation satellites and a spare slot available in each orbit. Each GPS satellite orbits the earth every 12 hours.
2) The idea for GPS was based on the operations of LORAN and Decca Navigation System, this was first used for helping with the navigation of ships and planes at a long range during World War II.
3) The Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, a couple of American physicists began to keep a tab on the satellite’s transmissions and soon came to realize that they were able to identify the satellite in its orbit using Doppler Effect. This is one of the key principles on which the GPS system is based on.
4) The US military’s need for a global navigation system during the cold war was a catalyst for the GPS being developed.
5) The navigation system of the Navy was used widely before GPS came into existence. The high-speed air force operations demanded a faster navigation system and this is what forced people to consider if navigation through satellites as possible.
6) Initially, GPS was called Navstar. Nine of the ten satellites that were launched in 1978 managed to make it into orbit. The first fully developed GPS satellite was launched in 1989.
7) GPS was made open to the public following the wake of a disaster. In 1983, Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down by Soviet Union resulting in the death of 269 passengers who were on board. This incident was what made President Ronald Reagan make the United States military satellite navigation system DNSS public. This is the system that later became GPS.
8) Despite being made public, the high-quality GPS signals were reserved for military use alone until recently. On, May 1, 2000, this practice was brought to an end. The GPS that is available for civilian purposes is much more accurate nowadays.
9) Automobiles started becoming equipped with GPS starting from 1996.
10) GPS can be used to do more than just navigate. All GPS satellites are equipped with atomic clocks and time signals from these satellites can provide a device with the accurate time.


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“To good for a T-shirt.”
To good for a T-shirt.
Awsome, and would look great on a shirt , just depends upon taste, I would wear it !
i love your work on shirts or other types of prints.
this just doesn’t look like t-shirt art. A poster yes, but t-shirt no.
sorry but none of the stuff you are putting up would look good on a shirt. maybe if there was no boarder around the image they would look a little better
All your art is awesse, but none of it works as a shirt, sorry. D:

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Fiona Ross and Christine Kydd, singers
And how lucky are we that these two talented and feisty women have included the Wighton Centre in their Songs Across The Water UK Tour?
Fiona Ross grew up in Partick, in the west end of Glasgow, in touch with her roots on the Isle of Lewis. The youngest of five children, she inherited a love of Scottish music from her dad, and soon began singing popular Scottish songs. In the 1980s Fiona truly embraced the Scots song tradition, immersing herself in Edinburgh’s vibrant folk scene appearing at local folk clubs and busy pub singing sessions and joining the group Handsel.
Fiona moved to Australia in 2009 and has been flying the flag for Sottish song there. She has continued to develop into a well recognised tradition-bearer of Scots song, and was a finalist in the Scottish Singer of the Year at the Scottish Trad Awards 2019. Fiona’s honest, earthy & evocative singing style and extensive repertoire showcases the richness & diversity of the tradition.
Christine Kydd’s presence at any gathering of singers and musicians is a guarantee of fun, laughter and, of course, great singing. Her work as a singer, choir director, voice coach, teacher, folklorist and animateur covers an enormous range of experience and has taken her all over the world. Her rich voice, wide and eclectic repertoire and knowledge have won her accolades including two nominations for Scots Singer of the Year and induction into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame
Admission £5, tea/coffee available for a small donation.
Peter Hedlund, nyckelharpa; Paul Anderson, fiddle; Shona Donaldson, song & fiddle
Peter ”Puma” Hedlund is considered by many to be Sweden’s foremost player of chromatic nyckelharpa. As a teenager in 1975, he achieved the Zorn Medal in silver, for “tradition-based playing of Uppland tunes on nyckelharpa”, and since then he can call himself “Riksspelman”, or “Fiddler of the Realm”. In 2010 he was honoured with Sweden’s most prestigious folk-music award, the Zorn Medal in gold, “For masterful, brilliant, and tradition-conscious playing of nyckelharpa.” We are indeed privileged to have him come and play for us.
Paul Anderson needs little introduction to anyone with even a passing interest in Scottish music. Probably our finest exponent of the North-East fiddle tradition, he is in a direct line of players from Niel Gow through James Mackintosh of Dunkeld and Hector MacAndrew – the man who famously judged Yehudi Menuhin’s playing of a strathspey to be “No bad” – to his own teacher, Douglas Lawrence. He has also written many a good tune!
Shona Donaldson is a very fine traditional singer, and fiddle-player, from Huntly. This multi-award winning singer, whose honours include Scottish Singer of the Year, is equally at home singing a Muckle Sang, a World War 1 number or a bothy ballad. In the latter she excels, having twice won the prestigious Bothy Ballad Champion of Champions competition in Elgin.
Admission £5, tea/coffee available for a small donation
Whistle class is off on 23rd and 30th March
Wighton Singers are off on 2nd and 9th and back on 16th
Fiddle class is off on 6th and 13th of April.
Clarsach class is off Monday 8th and 15th April back on the 22nd.
Muti-instument online class is off till April 13th
The fiddle, percussion and guitar ceilidh band who had the crowd at the City Square dancing – and roaring for more! – at the Hooley! They have taken their traditional and contemporary Celtic tunes, including some of their own compositions round the world, most recently to Kuwait, Cyprus and even Glasgow for Celtic Connections! We are chuffed to bits to get them for them for the Wighton.
Admission £5, tea/coffee available for donation
“Positive Notes Advanced (over 40’s section) Learning Disability Singing Group present an early celebration of Irish Folk Songs, for St Patricks Day. Positive Notes groups like to sing songs that will boost your mood and put a smile on your face. Come along and join in with the fun. Sing along with us too if you like.”
Admission free, donations welcome.
Dougie MacKenzie has been a weel-kent face and voice on the Scottish folk scene for many years but the release of his solo album “Along the Way” in 2019 brought his warm mellow voice to a wider audience. His choice of material is mainly Scottish, and he has a particular talent for the Muckle Sangs, but Irish, English and one or two recent compositions might also appear
A well respected figure in the Scottish traditional music world, Brian Miller has been playing music since he was a young boy and his instrument of choice was the guitar. In the early 70s, while at Glasgow University, he joined the ‘Laggan’, played professionally with ‘Swan Arcade’ and even before that used to play regularly with the great Fife Road Show which featured many other fine singers and musicians.
After that he returned to Edinburgh and played with fiddler Charlie Sloane. He has also been known to appear with those legends of good taste and anarchy, ‘The Vindscreen Vipers’. He became a member of the dance band ‘The Occasionals’, and has always been in great demand as a session musician.
Saturday at 12.15pm, Whistle Class Tutor Helen Forbes, one of Scotland’s finest whistle players. The class is suitable for all levels, fee £5
Saturday at 1.30pm, Fiddle Class Tutor Heather Miranda, an experienced strings teacher and performer. The class is suitable for all levels, fee £5
Tuesday at 2pm, The Wighton Singers Tutor Amy Lord, experienced tutor and harmony wizard. A friendly group who just love to sing, fee £5
Mixed instrument classes, tutored by MoragAnne Elder, 11am (Payment £5 online or by cheque}
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We are delighted to have persuaded the great Tyneside born singer, Di Henderson, to break her journey to the Kirrie Festival to give us a Lunchtime Recital on Friday 1st September. Di has a rich powerful and yet flexible voice and puts passion and commitment into her singing. Her songs are taken from both the tradition and the best of newer writers. They cover a range of subjects – pathos, humour, drinking, love, feminism and not to mention the occasional bawdiness.
Jess Smith, Traveller, author and storyteller, and Joss Cameron, traditional folk singer, have woven their Scottish Traveller stories and songs into an enthralling and musical show, Jess has been our guest before, Joss, who is related to ballad singing icon Jeannie Robertson, is making her first visit = not to be missed!
Admission £5 (doors open 10.30am)
Feis Rois Ceilidh Trail 2023
Fèis Rois Ceilidh Trail is back!
The Ceilidh Trail is a paid summer job and professional development opportunity for outstanding young traditional musicians. Musicians between the ages of 16 and 25 spend the summer playing music, travelling throughout Scotland and beyond, and gain experience playing for just about every kind of gig under the sun! Dundee is lucky – we get two chances to see and hear them!
Wednesday 2nd August – Wighton Centre; 1-2pm. Free; donations welcome. Informal Concert
Wednesday 2nd August – HMS Unicorn, Dundee; 7.30pm. £10/£8 (Concession – Over 65/Unwaged)
Ceilidh Dance – https://www.hmsunicorn.org.uk/on-board/events/ceilidh-0208

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Exploring the Beauty of Adobe Town Horse Management Area (HMA)
If you're a nature lover, then you must explore the beauty of Adobe Town Horse Management Area. Located in south-central Wyoming, it spans across 472,812 acres of land. The area is a delight to explore, as it features colorful eroded desert badlands to wooded buttes and escarpments. The topography is varied, with extensive rolling to rough uplands interspersed with some desert playa and vegetated dune areas. Additionally, the area is home to a diverse range of flora and fauna.
The Adobe Town Horse Management Area is an excellent destination for horse lovers, as it is home to a large population of wild horses. These horses exhibit a full range of colors, with greys and roans predominating. The population has been influenced by the routine escape of domestic saddle stock from the surrounding populated areas. The horses range from 14 to 15 hands and 900-1100 pounds mature weight. In fact, one of the most famous wild horses of all times, named “Desert Dust” came from this area.
The Adobe Town Horse Management Area is also home to some fantastic hiking trails.
The area features several trails that allow visitors to explore the natural beauty of the area. One of the most popular trails is the Cherokee Trail, which offers stunning views of the surrounding landscapes. Other popular features in the area include the Haystacks and Powder Rim.
If you're planning a trip to Wyoming, then you must visit the Adobe Town Horse Management Area.
The area is a hidden gem that offers visitors a chance to explore the natural beauty of the state. From the diverse range of flora and fauna to the wild horses, there's plenty to see and do in the area. So, pack your bags, put on your hiking shoes, and get ready to explore the beauty of the Adobe Town Horse Management Area.


Jordan Mechner, the creator of the original 1989 state-of-the-art animation game Prince of Persia, has recently released the videos he took of his brother that he used for the animations in the game. When this game was released, it really took animations on the PC to a new level. For those that remember playing the game, I'm sure you'll recognize the moves performed in the video—especially his brother "struggling" to get up the wall.
It's pretty impressive to see the original footage that lead to the ground breaking animation. It's basically the birth of motion capture in video games.
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We Need to Talk About Education Hardback
When we talk about education, it's easy to lose track of the human element: the stories behind the statistics; the people behind the stories.
In this ground-breaking work, author Ben Faccini and film-maker Greg Villalobos have combined to give young people a voice, through interviews and workshops.
The result is a unique picture, sometimes disturbing, often inspiring, of what young people want from education, what stands in their way, and the difference a teacher can make.
It includes an introduction by Meryl Noronha, one of the Teach First teachers featured in the BBC3 documentary 'Tough Young Teachers'.
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 144 pages
- Publisher: IndieBooks
- Publication Date: 14/01/2014
- Category: Educational strategies & policy
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Celebrating thirty-five years on the Main Street
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As you may already know, the OCAD U Book Arts Fair has been discontinued, but good news! The Porcupine’s Quill will have a table at the new Bound Book Arts Fair in Toronto. The following guest post by Chester Gryski, … Continue reading
The Porcupine's Quill would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. The financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) is also gratefully acknowledged.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Quinolone antibiotics for prostate-biopsy prophylaxis are showing signs of increased resistance.
ANAHEIM, Calif., May 29 -- Quinolone antibiotics for prostate-biopsy prophylaxis are showing signs of increased resistance.
A retrospective record review of 1,230 patients who received quinolone prophylaxis before a prostate biopsy during 2004 through 2006 showed that 2.7% (33) had symptoms of infection after biopsy, investigators said at the American Urological Association meeting here.
Twenty-two of the 33 had positive urine or blood cultures, and quinolone-resistant organisms were found in 16 of the 22 (73%), said Joseph Feliciano, M.D., of the State University of New York Downstate Medical School in Brooklyn.
Though the overall rate of quinolone resistance remains low, the rate more than doubled from 1.1% in 2004 to 2.6% in 2006, a non-significant rise (P=0.095), yet providing concern about the possibility of emerging resistance., he said. Additionally, quinolone-resistant organisms often were resistant to multiple antibiotics, but they were highly susceptible to cephalosporins.
"At this time, quinolones are still safe," said Dr. Feliciano. "But when patients come in with infections after prostate biopsy, quinolone resistance should be suspected, and the patient should be treated with cephalosporins."
The study involved patients who had transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy from January 2004 through October 2006. All patients were given a three-day course of levofloxacin or gatifloxacin one day prior to biopsy. Patients who returned for visits within 30 days after biopsy were questioned regarding infective symptoms, including fever, chills/rigors, elevated white count, and persistent dysuria requiring medical attention and intervention. Additionally, patient cultures were evaluated for patterns of resistance.
The overall rate of infective complications was 2.7%, roughly half of which (1.3%) involved quinolone resistance. Escherichia coli grew in 80% of the cultures, and 90% of those cultures demonstrated quinolone resistance, Dr. Feliciano reported. Quinolone-resistant E. coli also demonstrated resistance to gentamicin (17%), trimethorprim/sulfamethoxazole (47%), piperacillin (70%), and ampicillin (95%). However, the quinolone-resistant organisms exhibited 100% sensitivity to amikacin, ceftazidime, and ceftriaxone.
Overall, the quinilone resistance data do not offer a reason for immediate concern, said Dr. Feliciano. However, stratification of the data by year revealed evidence of a trend toward increasing resistance to quinolone antibiotics in patients undergoing prostate biopsy, a development physicians should watch closely.

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Session: Vim - precision editing at the speed of thought
Wednesday 10.00 - 10.50
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Vim's modal editing model was conceived to meet the constraints of computing in the 1970s. The arrival of the mouse made intuitive point-and-click user interfaces the norm. While this was a boon for the novice computer user, it was a backward step for the power user. For a touch typist, there is no quicker way of editing text than with the keyboard.
This session won't teach you much in the way of practical hands-on advice - for that, see my Vim masterclass. Instead, it will challenge your preconceptions about Vim, and inspire you to give it a second look. We'll draw analogies with the mechanics of video games such as Quake and Street Fighter II. We'll look at patterns in the game of chess, and see how they relate to the task of editing text. And we'll learn what Vim users have in common with Scrabble players.
Drew Neil is an independent programmer, writer, and trainer. He runs workshops around the world, speaks regularly at conferences, and specializes in making educational screencasts. At vimcasts.org, he publishes articles and video tutorials about Vim. He is the author of the Pragmatic Bookshelf title, Practical Vim.


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The Academic Boycott of Israel
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Shahid Alam | Counterpunch | 31 July 2002
In early April 2002, moved by the massacres in Jenin and the wanton destruction of civilian infrastructure in West Bank cities by invading Israeli forces, two British academics, Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, circulated a call-posted at www.pjpo.org-for an academic boycott of Israel.
This campaign was directed mostly at European academics, and so when it reached me nearly two months later, in the first week of July, there were only six American academics among the signatories. I carefully read the boycott statement, which entailed non-cooperation with “official Israeli institutions, including universities,” and decided to sign on to the list. I also forwarded the call to academics on my mailing list.
Most of the friends on my mailing list just ignored the call. Only two responded, and both were more than a bit troubled that I should support such a thing. One described this campaign as “destructive,” another objected that this was an “attack” on academic freedom. And once my name was on the list of signatories, I promptly received two pieces of hate mail. One of the two, from India.
A few days later I came across a counter petition initiated by Leonid Ryzhik, a mathematics lecturer at University of Chicago. In an interview published in The Guardian, May 27, he said that the boycott campaign was “immoral, dangerous and misguided, and indirectly encourages the terrorist murderers in their deadly deeds.” And this week, in The Nation, August 5-12, Martha Nussbaum, an eminent ethical philosopher, wrote that she felt “relaxed” to be in Israel, where she had gone to receive an honorary degree from the University of Haifa, “determined to affirm the worth of scholarly cooperation in the face of the ugly campaign.”
Having declared my support for the academic boycott of Israel, I believe I must now explain why I can not view this campaign as “destructive,” “ugly” or supportive of “terrorist murderers.” On the contrary, I see this as a moral gesture, part of a growing campaign by international civil society to use its moral force to nudge Israelis, to awaken them to the ugly and destructive reality of their Occupation, which has now lasted for more than thirty-five years and shows no sign of ending any time soon. At last, the cumulative weight of Palestinian suffering has begun to break through the crust of Israeli protestations of innocence. Although tardy, world conscience is now preparing to engage Israeli intransigence.
Increasingly, the world outside United States understands that Israel is not a ‘normal’ country. The Zionist movement sought to establish an exclusively Jewish state in Palestine, a land inhabited almost entirely by Palestinian Arabs in 1900. Since no people yet has been known to commit collective suicide, this could only be accomplished by conquest and ethnic cleansing. This is how Israel emerged in 1948, through conquest and ethnic cleansing of 800,000 Palestinians.
Yet this was not enough. Although Israel now sat on 78 percent of historic Palestine, this fell short of Zionist goals. In 1967 this shortfall was corrected when Israel, after defeating Egypt, Syria and Jordan, occupied the West Bank and Gaza. Another, smaller campaign of ethnic cleansing was rolled into this second round of conquests.
Although the Security Council promptly passed a resolution, calling for Israeli withdrawal from the territories it had occupied in 1967, this never had any teeth. Impressed by Israeli rout of Arab nationalist forces, United States deepened its partnership with Israel and promptly rewarded Israel by doubling its military and economic assistance.
As a result, thirty-five years later, Israel still remains in ‘Occupation’ of West Bank and Gaza. In reality, this Occupation is merely a fiction, a farcical cover under which Israel buys time, time which it uses to insert armed Israeli settlers, to increase Israeli control and ownership of Palestinian lands, to push the Palestinians into ever shrinking enclaves, to escalate the violence against Palestinian resistance, and to deepen the misery of Palestinian lives till they can be forced to flee their homes.
The logic of the Occupation is brutal, and it should be transparent to all but the purblind. If Palestinian demography prevents annexation, and if Palestinians cannot be expelled in one fell swoop-as they had been in 1948-then the same results can still be achieved by forcing the Palestinians into Bantustans. If a million Palestinians can live in Gaza, a strip of 100 square miles, the two million in West Bank can be pushed into similar enclaves, freeing 90 percent of the West Bank for Jewish settlers. It is about time that we gave up the fiction of the Occupation, and describe this oppressive regime by its proper name. This is Aparthied: one country with two systems of laws, one for the colonizers and one for the colonized.
I have two objectives in rehearsing, though ever so briefly, this narrative of Palestinian dispossession. First, it is a narrative that has been denied repeatedly and falsified massively by Zionists. It therefore needs to be affirmed, simply and forcefully, again and again, in the expectation that world conscience will bear witness to the Zionist project of wiping out the Arab presence from Palestine to make room for Jewish settlers.
Once this narrative is affirmed; once it becomes clear that the destruction of Palestinians was necessary-and always known to be necessary and accepted as necessary-for Israel to emerge as an exclusive Jewish state; once it is admitted that the dispossession of Palestinians has involved wars, ethnic cleansing, massacres, villages destroyed, cities besieged, homes demolished, children maimed and killed, prisoners tortured, ambulances bombed, journalists targeted, municipal records destroyed, and trees uprooted; once all this destructiveness-already accomplished, and more of it unfolding everyday-is recognized the protestations about the “destructiveness” or “ugliness” of an academic boycott of Israel become insupportable, indeed unconscionable.
Mr. Leonid Ryzhik, of the University of Chicago, argues that academic boycott “indirectly encourages the [Palestinian] terrorist murderers in their deadly deeds.” Does he mean to say that this boycott “indirectly encourages” the Palestinian resistance; and anything that questions, delays or weakens the extension of the Zionist project to the West Bank and Gaza must be challenged, and neutralized. It must be affirmed in the face of such posturing that resistance is a right of the Palestinians, as it was of all colonized peoples who faced dispossession. Of necessity, dispossession is implemented by force-unless this project is aided by pathogens; and, it follows, that resistance to the colonizer must be violent.
The question is not, why do the Palestinians resist, or why do they resist by violent means? There is a different question before world conscience. Why have we for fifty years abandoned the Palestinians to fight their battles alone, beleaguered by a colonizer whom they cannot fight alone? Why have we allowed the Palestinians to be battered, exiled from their lands, herded into camps-in villages and towns that have been turned into concentration camps-exposed to the mercy of a colonizer who freely draws upon the finances, political support and military arsenal of the world’s greatest power? In despair, marginalized, pauperized, facing extinction as a people, if the Palestinians now use the only defense they have-to weaponize their death-who is to blame?
And if now world conscience shows the first signs of acting on behalf of the Palestinians, we can hope that this will mitigate the Palestinian’s deep despair. When the young Palestinians learn that academics the world over, that young people on campuses in Britain, France, Canada, and United States are stirring on their behalf, this will convince them that they are not alone; and once they are so convinced, they may be persuaded to renounce their acts of desperation. The academic boycott of Israel uses non-violent means, it leverages moral suasion, to reduce the violence of the colonizer as well as the colonized.
There are people who are shouting “Foul” at the academic boycott on the plea that this curtails the academic freedom of Israelis. I will readily admit that it does; this boycott is expected to work by shrinking some of the international avenues available to Israeli scientists for pursuing their work. Still it must be emphasized that this curtailment is temporary; it will end the moment Israel ends its Occupation. It is also limited in its scope. It only seeks to limit some of the advantages Israeli scientists derive from their interactions with the global scientific community. It does not threaten any fundamental academic freedoms.
This infringement of academic freedom-temporary and limited as it is-must be seen in a broader framework. I will readily concede that academic freedom is an important value, a value that all humane societies should cherish. But there are other values that we cherish, other values that may even be more important, more fundamental than the right to academic freedom. I believe it is reasonable and moral to impose temporary and partial limits on the academic freedom of a few Israelis if this can help to restore the fundamental rights of millions of Palestinians-their right to life, to their property, to their lands, to freedom of movement within their own country, to sovereign control over their destiny, and to equal treatment under the law. This can only be denied if we confess to a disproportion in the value we accord to Israeli and Palestinian rights.
One might, of course, argue that this boycott is wasted effort, since it can have no appreciable impact on Israeli society and policies. This is a question about the efficacy of the boycott. There can be little question that Israeli scientists value the esteem and cooperation of the world’s scientific community as well as access to international funding. It can therefore be expected that if the boycott spreads, this can begin to reduce the effectiveness of Israeli scientists. Perhaps more important, it is unlikely that Israeli polity can ignore the message that the boycott sends to them: that Israeli violations of Palestinian rights are repugnant, and will not be allowed to stand.
At the same time, I refuse to be cowed by invocations about the ‘sanctity’ of academia. More than ever before, universities help to reproduce the power structures of their societies; they are a potent source of ideologies of imperialism, race and class exploitation. Israeli universities are no exception. Through their links with the military, the political parties, the media and the economy, they have helped to construct, sustain, and justify the Apartheid. I might have hesitated in adding my name to the boycott if I knew that Israeli academics had taken the lead in organizing rallies, in organizing sit-ins, and passing resolutions protesting the Occupation, or that they had refused to work on projects that serve the Occupation. To the contrary, Israeli academia, on the whole, has shown that it is a party to the Occupation.
The academic boycott offers one of the few handles available to international civil society for seeking to end the Occupation. Israel has pursued policies in the Occupied Territories that would have invited economic sanctions, and even military intervention, against another country. America’s capitulation to the Israeli lobby has meant that Israel can wage war against a civilian population-using bombs, rockets, tank shells, and artillery fire-with impunity. Abandoned, isolated, beleaguered and unarmed, a few Palestinian men and women have responded to this massive force by weaponizing their own death, provoking still greater violence against themselves. But, paradoxically, this has also pushed world conscience into taking notice of the affront to humanity that is the Israeli Occupation. The academic boycott is one small step the detribalized world is now taking the stop this affront, a step that all men and women who have risen above tribalism should welcome.
M. Shahid Alam is professor of economics at Northeastern University, Boston. His second book, Poverty from the Wealth of Nations was published by Palgrave (2000). He may be reached at email@example.com Copyright: M. Shahid Alam.


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Barabanki: With the Samajwadi Party coming under fire in wake of the violent clashes in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said that the police should have been ‘more prepared’ before trying to evict the agitators, who had encroached on the land.
“It is quite unfortunate that such an incident happened in Mathura. The police had gone there to warn the people and the incident happened while they were doing the recce. They did not know how much arms and ammunition the locals had with them at the time. 19 people have died so far, including two police officers,” Akhilesh told the media.
Stating that the Allahabad High Court had given them orders to remove the people, who had encroached on the land, he added that the state government had tried to speak to them and had also warned them of dire consequences but the locals still chose violence.
The Chief Minister also ruled out a CBI probe into the matter, saying that it would be conducted only at the Commissioner-level and action will be taken against the guilty following the investigation.
“The people there were squatting on the government’s property. The police should have gone ahead with full preparation, as they clearly did not know about the cache of ammunition that the locals had with them at the time,” Akhilesh said.
The Chief Minister had earlier ordered an inquiry into the incident and also announced an ex-gratia of Rs. 20 lakh to the family of deceased policemen.
Meanwhile, the death toll in yesterday’s Mathura clash has risen to 24. Those killed include Mathura Superintendent of Police (City) Mukul Dwivedi, Farah Police Station SHO Santosh Yadav and 20 protesters. More than 40 people have been injured in the incident.
The clashes between police and protesters broke out when the men in uniform launched a drive to clear encroachment in Jawahar Bagh area of the city. The BJP has demanded a judicial probe into the clashes.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh earlier had a telephonic conversation with the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and assured him of complete help from the Centre in wake of the unfortunate incident.
Superintendent of Police (City) Mukul Dwivedi and Farah Police Station SHO Santosh Yadav were among those killed when the Swadheen Bharat Subhash Sena (SBSS) activists opened fire at the police party that attempted to evict the Jawahar Park late last evening.
Over 100 people, including City Magistrate Ram Araj Yadav, were also injured in the clash that lasted for almost four hours.
The encroachers, who described themselves as ‘Satyagrahis’, were reportedly from a semi-religious sect.
The authorities have cleared the area and a manhunt has been launched to nab the culprits.

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A letter to the Editor-in-Chief expresses concern about the study by Iverson et al published in the June 2008 issue of JOSPT. While the letter writers appreciate the creative exploration of the authors, they are concerned with limitations of the methods and potential transferability of the findings of this clinical prediction rule for lumbopelvic manipulation for treating patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome.
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A driver of a BoltBus traveling from New York to Baltimore was recently
drunk driving. According to authorities, the driver was handling the bus, which was
filled with passengers, erratically. Apparently, the driver was acting
so strangely that one passenger called 911 to report that something was
out of the ordinary.
Around 4:00 in the afternoon, the bus was pulled over near the Camden-Philadelphia
interchange. The authorities reportedly asked the driver to leave the
vehicle and participate in a range of sobriety tests. The driver complied
with their requests. However, after closely observing the driver, the
police came to believe the individual showed signs of being under the
influence of alcohol. They arrested the driver on the spot.
According to news reports, the passengers waited on the side of the turnpike
for hours. Some were able to get on another bus, while the others waited
for another driver to arrive and bring them to Baltimore. The bus company
refunded all passengers on board for their fares.
Anyone charged with drunk driving knows that there is more to worry about
than the arrest, though that must be dealt with promptly. In many instances,
the charge can negatively impact a person’s career. The bus driver
in this case has been suspended from BoltBus, pending the outcome of the
DUI investigation. A spokesperson for the company said the driver has
been driving for the company since 2009 and had a good record prior to
this incident. However, his future with the company depends on how his
drunk driving case turns out.
Source: NBC Philadelphia,
“BoltBus Driver Busted for DUI on the NJ Turnpike,” Dan Stamm, 12 March 2011


DHL orders three B767 conversions from IAI
22 / 06 / 2020
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has won a contract to convert an additional three B767-300 aircraft for DHL.
The deal has an option for a fourth conversion and comes on the back of growth in the e-commerce market.
IAI executive vice president and general manager of aviation group, Yossi Melamed, said: “IAI is a world leader for passenger-to-cargo conversions. We provide high-quality solutions tailored to customer’s needs on narrow- and wide-body aircraft.
“The constant increase in the e-commerce market and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have emphasized the importance of cargo aircraft. We thank DHL for its acknowledgment of IAI’s performance and again trusting us to convert additional aircraft for their cargo aircraft fleet.”


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- Q:how is aluminum formed?
- I don't think any significant quantity of aluminum is produced by reduction with carbon - aluminum is too reactive for this to give a good yield. Instead, the metal is produced by electrolysis in the Hall-Heroult process. First, aluminum ore is processed to aluminum oxide in the Bayer process. This ore, bauxite, consists of aluminum oxides and hydroxides with some impurities, mostly iron oxides. The aluminum oxide/hydroxides are dissolved with concentrated sodium hydroxide in water. Iron oxides and hydroxides do not dissolve, and are filtered out. AlOOH (insoluble in water) + NaOH + H2O ----- NaAl(OH)4 (soluble in water) Neutralizing or cooling this solution will cause aluminum hydroxide to precipitate out. This is then heated strongly to drive off water and produce aluminum oxide. 2Al(OH)3 ----- Al2O3 + 3H2O This aluminum oxide can be melted and then electrolyzed to make the metal and oxygen gas. However, the melting point of aluminum oxide is very high, so it is dissolved in molten cryolite (Na3AlF6), which has a lower melting point. This is then electrolyzed, and molten aluminum collects at the bottom of the cell (cathode), where it can be drawn off. Because the oxygen that would be formed will attack most metal electrodes, a sacrificial carbon electrode is used for the anode and is oxidized to CO2. Very small amounts of aluminum metal occur in nature - it is usually found in association with fossil fuel deposits (which provide the reduced carbon necessary to reduce aluminum minerals).
- Q:Is using Aluminum foil bad?
- Aluminum foil melts at 660dF, hardly a temp reached by a toaster oven. For years, before microwaves, TV dinners were sold in aluminum trays.
- Q:wood aluminium windows?
- Wooden windows provide insulation, Aluminium windows failed the EU standards for insulation.
- Q:1mm how much is one square meter for aluminum rolls?
- The price of aluminum sheet is calculated according to the price of aluminum ingot + processing fee (aluminum plate state), and the specific price is also different according to the size and size of aluminum sheet.
- Q:Can an aluminum and Fluoride bond be created by boiling fluoridated water in aluminum cookware?
- It could be.....but the amount of fluoride in tap water is 1.2ppm, so even if you do, it won't have any effect :)
- Q:Would Aluminum foil sculptures sell?
- It would have to be something they could not make by themselves. It would have to be durable. It would also help if the sculpture is useful in some way. Hey, I am just telling you what sells, from long experience. Maybe you would like to teach a class in foil sculpture instead. Try offering a class on Craigslist and see if anyone signs up. Or you could do videos or a pamphlet and sell those on Ebay. .
- Q:Aluminum coil area, with aluminum sheet area, how is not the same?
- Direct measurement length and width calculation area of aluminium plate;The aluminum coil can measure the volume of the aluminum coil and then calculate the area by dividing the thickness. You can also measure the mean diameter, calculate the perimeter, multiply the number of laps, the width, and calculate the area.
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If you were a 1990s protester in a developed nation, you probably hate the idea of globalization, though democratization of culture and wealth have clearly been very good things. Globalization used to be controversial but by now no one sentient really thinks cultures that condone rape and stoning of women should be preserved.
Cloud computing will take that globalization to the next level, because it is a key enhancer of innovation and economic development - and it gives groups without giant budgets for hardware a way to compete, just like food science that lets crops grow in inhospitable climes saves lives.
It promises the democratization of access to knowledge and resources is as palpable in the business world as in the end user’s. For example, developing world groups can compete technologically, optimizing the use of resources while making a minimal investment, while the user experiences how to the immeasurable range of information and the possibility of using specialized tools with the aid of a web browser.
Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm for distributed computing systems whose goal is to offer software as a service over the Internet. The CLOUDS research project has focused on advancing the state of the art of this technology trend, one that is revolutionizing computing and the way in which users and network providers interact online. As everything Internet touches, this development is marked by the imprint of the globalization spirit. From the self-sufficient individual device that stores all data and contains all the applications required by the user, we are evolving towards an on-demand service model for computation, communication and information storage that dynamically adapts to variations in consumption and meets the needs of a global market.
The cloud allows the crossing of technological, geographical and administrative boundaries, concentrating information and services in data centers and devices that are remote but accessible online at any time, from anywhere and from almost any device or terminal. The level of autonomy, scalability, automation and flexibility this computing model provides is unprecedented. Technological resources are distributed globally and the information is stored on Internet servers, freeing the user from the traditional dependence of the device, enhancing mobility, accessibility and security, and allowing until recently unthinkable access to next generation services via payment for consumption, that is, without a substantial prior economic investment.
Research on cloud computing poses challenges and promises advances that go beyond what is covered by the CLOUDS project. Indeed, its potential applications impact various areas that have in common a high degree of innovation. From cellular telephony (HLRs, fraud detection, real time processing of CDRs), banking and finance (detecting fraudulent card payments and money laundering), business intelligence (real time data warehousing and scalable targeted advertising), safety (mitigation of denial-of-service attacks, processing systems security events), sensor networks (processing output of massive sensor networks) to domotics (smart buildings).
The CLOUDS (Cloud Computing for Scalable, Reliable and Ubiquitous Services) project has been financed by the Department of Education, Youth and Sports of the Regional Government of Madrid and was in operation from January 2010 to May 2014. Researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute collaborated with research groups from two Madrid universities, the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the University Rey Juan Carlos.
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Schedule: 48 hours/week, nights, 7:15p-7:15a, every other weekend/holiday
Duration: 13 weeks
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Requirements: 2+ years CCU experience, MA nursing license
Compensation: $6,993 Total Weekly Travel Package
Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition.
Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standard.
Initiates and evaluates patient and/or family education.
Compares expected and actual outcomes of care and identifies deviation from the plan of care.
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Former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan has opted not to mince his words regarding the situation surrounding Chelsea striker Diego Costa.
The Spain international is embroiled in a dispute with the club over his future after failing to return to pre-season training.
In a very revealing interview with the Daily Mail, the 28-year-old accused Chelsea of treating him like a criminal after manager Antonio Conte allegedly sent the striker a text message informing him that he was no longer wanted.
Costa has also threatened to remain in his homeland of Brazil for a year if he is not granted a move to his former club Atletico Madrid.
The Spanish outfit cannot register new players until January 2018 due to a transfer ban that was upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Jordan, who is very vocal with his opinions on Twitter, has given his backing to Chelsea and called on the FA and PFA to take action.
The 49-year-old told talkSPORT:
“Chelsea are well within their rights to take a stance. They are well within their rights to tell a player that he is no longer required.
“He should be yanked backed and the authorities should get involved. Where are the PFA? Where is Gordon Taylor and his £4million-a-year salary saying something about a player which is completely and utterly wrong.
“He should be back in England, he should be keeping himself fit, he should be doing his job. If he doesn’t do that, the authorities should get him for every single day that the slob doesn’t turn up for training.”

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Car show proceeds benefit Memory Matters
The Sun City Car Club recently donated $1,350 to Hilton Head Island nonprofit Memory Matters as a result of its annual fundraiser.
The money brought in from the Concours d'Nice Car Show in November will help fund the nonprofit's respite daycare program. According to the organization, about 50 percent of its clients are Sun City residents.
This year's car show featured 120 antique, classic and modern vehicles in the Magnolia Hall parking lot, giving car lovers a chance to admire the display and give back to a good cause.


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We have created a menu designed around your health. This was most recently the Chop House in Palm Desert, but transformed into a Kaiser Grille the summer of 2014. We have the same quality and service standards as the famed Chop House. However, we wanted to provide more for our guests than the requisite steak and seafood. The lounge is now expanded with Happy Hour every night of the week.
Our belief is that you are what you eat.
With this in mind, we offer all natural and hormone-free USDA PRIME beef, free range organic chicken, sustainable/wild seafood, and with fresh, local produce.
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Born out of our love of food and hospitality, Kaiser Grille has been synonymous with quality and value for over twenty years in the Coachella Valley. Founded by Kaiser Morcus in 1992, Kaiser Grille quickly became a hotspot for locals and visitors alike. After a ten year hibernation in Palm Desert, his son, Eric is taking the helm in his new restaurant. We are located at the former Chop House location in Palm Desert. Fresh from a remodel and menu change, we are located just a few blocks away from where it all began over twenty years ago.
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Can algae be genetically engineered to produce sufficient quantities of biomass for fuel? Can “solar” nanostructures, used like paint on the exterior of buildings and cars, help to harness sunlight to give us energy and destroy pollutants in the air?
Science may have some answers that could make irrelevant the anger of environmentalists directed at politicians who failed us at Copenhagen by not agreeing on concrete and legally binding cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
The Weizmann Institute for Science, Rehovot, Israel — in the news recently when Ada Yodanath of the Institute won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry — has set up the Alternative Sustainable Research Initiative to try and “push the envelope of the possible” as its President Daniel Zajfman notes. The founder of the Institute, Chaim Weizmann, was, incidentally, also a Zionist leader and the first President of Israel till his death in 1952, underlining the emphasis on science in Israel.
Boris Rybtchinski in the organic chemistry department is hopeful — optimistically it could happen in a decade and pessimistically speaking it could take two — that nanoparticles could be used in an aqueous (water) base to create “self-assembling” structures that could give us a kind of “light harvesting paint” to give limitless cheap solar energy.
Interacting with a group of Indian journalists who were recently in Israel on invitation of the government of Israel, said his search was for a “stable” and “:self-assembling” system that would be cheap and easy to use. In nature plants use solar energy to grow and make food – proteins and sugars.
If one were to get the “right stuff,” put it into water, where it will assemble itself to become a light-harvesting system, the world will have an answer to its greenhouse gas belching problem. “Success is not yet there, but it is possible,” Dr. Rybtchinski, who came to the Weizmann Institute from Kiev in Ukraine, adds cautiously. “We do not have a lot of time. Pollution will kill us before global warming…. We need to find a product which we do not need to burn.”
A post-doctoral research scholar from Tamil Nadu, who is part of Dr. Rybtchinski’s team, G. Santosh, came to the Institute in April 2008 after taking a doctoral degree from IIT, Mumbai. “An organic solar panel as against the currently used silicon based panels can theoretically give us very cheap and plentiful energy. An entire year’s energy requirement of the United States can be produced in a day …” He said there were about 20 scholars from India attached to different departments.
A sort of magical light-harvesting paint is not the only area of research under the Institute’s Alternative Sustainable Energy Research Initiative. Avihai Danon is hoping to create “superalgae’ that could be grown in a controlled environment to yield 30 times the oil output from the best plant crops. “Such algae, which could be harvested year-around and produce little waste, could be farmed near power plants, where they would convert carbondioxide to oil, making then a truly green alternative,” an article in a document of the Institute said.
And Avignor Scherz and Dror Noy are engaged in research to create genetically engineered cyanobacteria and algae — both these simple organisms are photosynthetic like plants — that will thrive in all sorts of extreme climactic conditions and produce biomass for fuel.
Science here is of stuff dreams are made of, but as Dr. Boris Rybtchinski insists “it is curiosity driven research” where what is possible must be shown to be doable.


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Since the New York Giants season started in Hoboken with offseason lockout workouts, perhaps it would be fitting for it to end there with a championship parade after they win the Super Bowl.
At a town hall meeting yesterday in Bridgewater, Gov. Chris Christie fielded a question on where the Giants will hold their rally should they win the Super Bowl on Feb. 5 against the New England Patriots..
The governor predicted a win and said he would urge the team to hold their celebrations in New Jersey.
If the Giants win this matchup — and what true blue Giants fan doesn’t expect it? — what’s the best place in the Garden State to celebrate?
Nj.com commenter “catfishsharkeater” weighed in on where a possible Giants’ victory parade should march:
“Right down Washington Street in Hoboken. That’s where the parade should be for the G-men.”
With Eli Manning a Mile Square City resident and other Giants players living along the waterfront, the idea of Hoboken hosting the event doesn’t sound like that crazy of an idea. It could even soften the blow of the cancellation of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
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More beef being recalled over salmonella fears
More U.S. beef is being recalled because it may be contaminated with salmonella.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday a unit of Brazil’s JBS is now recalling a total of more than 12 million pounds of raw beef that was shipped around the U.S.
JBS Tolleson in Arizona already recalled about 7 million pounds of beef in October.
Health officials say their investigation identified additional products with the USDA inspection number “EST. 267.”
The products were packaged between late July and September. The USDA says any products still in people’s freezers should be thrown away. It says 246 illnesses have been reported.
The USDA says salmonella is prevalent in raw poultry and meat and is reminding people to properly cook and handle meat. It says cooking kills salmonella.
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Bishkek, Nov. 20, 2017 / Kabar/. A third Aarhus Centre in Kyrgyzstan, located in Chlopon-Ata in the Issyk-Kul region, was officially opened with the support of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek and the State Agency for Environmental Protection and Forestry of Kygryzstan (SAEPF) on 9 November 2017.
The new Centre follows the establishment of those in Osh (2004) and Bishkek (2015) and will similarly contribute to the implementation of the fundamental principles of the Aarhus Convention in Kyrgyzstan.
“The Aarhus Convention plays an important role in allowing the representation of civil society’s interests in the field of environmental protection,” said Arsen Ryspekov, Deputy Director of SAEPF. “In this regard, the support of the Programme Office to the network of Aarhus Centres, which provides public representatives with practical resources for exercising their rights in environmental protection, cannot be underestimated. In turn, respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of law are at the core of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development of the Kyrgyz Republic."
The OSCE has been supporting the activities of the Aarhus Centres in the country for more than 10 years. Currently, there are more than 50 Aarhus Centres operating in the OSCE region.
In Kyrgyzstan, they actively work with youth in environmental protection activities, supporting the development of environmental journalism and strengthening the dialogue between state structures and civil society in solving environmental problems.
The opening of the new Aarhus Centre in Cholpon-Ata took place following the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the OSCE and SAEPF in 2015.
Pierre von Arx, the Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, said: "The Aarhus Centre in the Issyk-Kul region will contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the Aarhus Convention in Kyrgyzstan and the implementation of the National Strategy for the Development of Aarhus Centres for 2015-2018. The new Centre will help to establish a constructive dialogue between local authorities and the population to address the most acute environmental problems in the Issyk-Kul region.”


During the closures, both east and west bound lanes will be closed to vehicle, pedestrian and bicycle traffic. Once the crane and bridge is in place, contractors will install barriers that completely block the entire right-of-way on 30A.
Road Closure Schedule:
• Tuesday, January 24th at 5:00pm to Thursday, January 26th at 12:00am
• Tuesday, January 31st at 5:00pm to Thursday, February 2nd at 12:00am
Closures will begin 80 foot west of the project and 100 foot east of the project. Traffic detours around these closures will be via US Highway 98.
Questions about these closures can be directed to the Walton County Public Works Department at 850-892-8108.


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SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — An annual Seoul night market festival will open early next month for about seven months, allowing citizens to enjoy a variety of food, international performances, magic shows and busking there, the Seoul authorities said Wednesday.
“The 2019 Bamdokkaebi Night Market will open every Friday through Sunday from April 5-Oct. 27,” the city said.
The market will be set up at Yeouido Hangang Park, Banpo Hangang Park and Dongdaemun Design Plaza on April 5, the Cheonggye Stream on April 6 and Mapo Oil Tank Culture Park in May, according to the city.
Some 200 food trucks will join the festival, it added.


It’s Monday (June 17) and the start to another week. While your Monday Blues might have gone by now, we still have last week’s hangover as it was quite an eventful week. Not only did we see some really interesting movies and their promos, but also heard quite a few interesting news items as well. We even saw a major controversy erupt. So sit tight and take a look at our list of top 5 trending Bollywood celebrities of last week. CineBlitz tells you who and why they were trending in the news last week. Here’s our list for this week!
# Salman Khan
After Bharat’s release, Salman Khan has been in the news all through the last week. First for the film’s phenomenal run at the box office and it nearing Rs 200 crore, then because of one of his sweet gestures. We saw him organise a special screening for war veterans, their families as well as people who had witnessed the partition. The senior citizens recalled their days and praised Bharat as well as Salman Khan’s kind gesture that even bowled the Netizens over. That kept the star in the news for days. Salman Khan’s party and late-night cycle ride with Iulia Vantur also made headlines. But it was his controversy with Sona Mohaptra that caught everyone’s eye, as the singer continued to slam him on Twitter. The actor has maintained his silence!
# Kareena Kapoor Khan
Bebo might be chilling in London with hubby Saif Ali Khan and Taimur, but she has been making a lot of headlines back in India. From her vacay pictures to her workout videos, everything about Bebo seemed to go viral last week. Reports of her being a part of Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chadha also broke out and she also made headlines for her latest photoshoot. With everyone wanting to know more about Kareena, we guess she will be a regular in our list.
# Shahid Kapoor
With the release of Kabir Singh coming up, Shahid Kapoor has been on a promotional overdrive. And hence he has been in the news! From his movie’s songs to his act and his revelations, he’s been a topic of discussion all of the past days. His appearance with Kiara Advani on Neha Dhupia’s chat show also turned heads. He made quite a few revelations on the show. But it was his concert in Pune that left people highly impressed! Thousands had gathered at a mall in Pune to catch a glimpse of the actor and the magical night left them spellbound. Sasha’s revelation that he was not invited for Kareena’s wedding also broke the internet! And his stint on The Kapil Sharma Show was also well appreciated by the Netizens.
# Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Priyanka flew down to India last week and got all her fans very excited. Her post for her father on his death anniversary was very heartwarming and won our hearts. But it was her appearances at The Sky Is Pink wrap party and an event for her company, Bumble that made heads turn. Her pics where she’s seen sporting a mangalsutra too became an instant hit. She flew back to the US and her pics and videos with Nick Jonas, their family and friends have gone viral ever since they were uploaded. Her indirect dig at Salman Khan and her blouse-less saree look were also major topics of discussion.
# Tanushree Dutta
Last, but the biggest news and controversy of last week revolved around Tanushree Dutta. The former Bollywood actress, who made headlines last year for her #MeToo allegations against Nana Patekar, was in the news once again. The police told the court that they had found no evidence against the veteran actor and hence, they filed a B report in the court. This really angered Tanushree, who lashed out at India’s judicial system and the cops. She even made some shocking revelations about Nana Patekar’s NGO.
Well, these are CineBlitz’s top 5 trending Bollywood actors of last week. Who do you think was the most trending actor of last week? Share with us your thoughts in the comments section below! Also stay tuned to CineBlitz for more Bollywood news, updates and gossip right here.
Michael Jackson death anniversary: Hrithik Roshan, Tiger Shroff, Remo D’souza – 5 celebs who The King of Pop has inspired
Today (June 25) marks the 10th death anniversary of the King Of Pop, Michael Jackson
King Of Pop Michael Jackson left for heavenly abode on June 25, exactly a decade ago. While he is still etched in our memories, he has also inspired many. Yes, there are so many MJ fans, who were left smitten by his moonwalk, toe stand, anti-gravity lean. Amongst the many he inspired were some Bollywood stars too. And as we remember the pop-star on his 10th death anniversary, let us take a look at the actor Michael Jackson has inspired.
Hrithik Roshan– Bollywood’s Greek God who is loved for his acting skills, is adored for his dance moves more. Along with being one of the best dancers in the Hindi film industry, Hrithik has also been a fan of Michael Jackson since his childhood days. His dance moves in the film Bang Bang are quite similar to MJ’s signature poses. The Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara star also met the pop legend while shooting for Anurag Basu’s Kites.
Tiger Shroff- The young superstar has an amazing mass appeal, thanks to his impeccable dance moves. Yes, the Student Of The Year 2 actor manages to ace every dance step. And in case you don’t know, Tiger is a true blue MJ fan. In his debut film Heropanti, Tiger Shroff left everyone amazed with his Michael Jackson-inspired dance performance. The actor also paid a fitting tribute to the King of Pop, terming him as the reason why he started dancing.
Prabhu Deva– Choreographer-turned-director-turned-actor PrabhuDeva was called the Michael Jackson of India. The influence of King of Pop on PrabhuDeva’s energetic dance moves is quite evident in his performances like Muqala Muqabala in Humse Hai Muqabala and Go Govinda in Oh My God.
Remo D’souza- A choreographer, former Dance India Dance judge and now a director, Remo was just 14 when he first saw Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk. In an interview with a leading daily, Remo said,” I thought how can he move like that?” After this, his fandom for the King of Pop has known no boundaries.
Jaaved Jaaferi– He is not only an amazing comedian but also a skilled dancer. He was a big fan of Michael Jackson during his initial years. He even got to meet the dancing legend way back in New York during an award show.
Did King of Pop inspire you as well? Let us know in the comment section below and stay tuned to CineBlitz for more updates.
Bharat, Game Over, Kabir Singh – CineBlitz’s top 3 trending movies of the week gone by!
Here’s our list of top trending movies of last week and here’s why they were in the news
Well last week was quite interesting – not only because of the news-breaks, but also because of Bollywood movies at the ticket window and the buzz around them. Last week saw a few decent movies release, but looks like not all of them worked at the box office. In fact, while some of them failed to make an impact, others did! A major film that released earlier continued its run, while an upcoming film made all the right noises. So which were the top 3 trending movies of the week gone by? Well, check out CineBlitz’s list and know why and how were they in the news right here.
Salman Khan – Katrina Kaif’s movie was trending all through last week. After releasing on Eid (June 5), the movie continued its run in the first week. And looks like it performed well! Nearing Rs 200 crore, the movie was discussed on social media a lot. The box office collections, detailed analysis and the veterans’ review of the movie also made news.
# Game Over
Taapsee Pannu’s Tamil – Telugu bilingual film that released on Friday (June 14) was also trending. Though Men In Black: International also released the same day, it failed to live up to the expectations. On the other hand, the Hindi dubbed version of Taapsee Pannu’s Game Over impressed the audience. People loved her act and the thrill element of the movie. Though it did not light up the box office, the people were talking about it. And that made it trend!
# Kabir Singh
Shahid Kapoor – Kiara Advani’s film trailer and songs have impressed one and all. And with the film releasing this week (June 21), the team has been on a promotional overdrive. And with that, the movie has been in the news. People have also been Tweeting their excitement for the movie. Everyone wants to see how different it will be from Arjun Reddy and compare Shahid’s act with Vijay Deverakonda’s performance! Also the film’s adult certification, its album, its concert and its advance bookings have also been in the news!
Well this is our list of top trending movies of last week. Which movie deserves to be on top? Share with us your thoughts in the comments section below! Also stay tuned to CineBlitz for more Bollywood news, updates and gossip right here.
Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Akshay Kumar: 5 hot fathers of Bollywood
Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan and Shahid Kapoor made it to our list of hot Bollywood daddies on this Father’s day
While Bollywood celebs are always very hot and happening, there are many stars who top the hotness charts. Yes, the men from the film industry often leave us drooling with their hotness quotient. And while they maintain their physique so well, it would be hard to believe that many of them are dads. Ahead of Father’s Day (June 16), we bring to you some of the hosttest dads from B-Town, check them out…
# Shah Rukh Khan: SRK is the king of romance and his charming personality makes many hearts skip a beat. Yes, King Khan’s overall persona and a hard to ignore charm is what makes him hot.
# Hrithik Roshan: Right from his first movie Kaho Na Pyaar hai, Hrithik has left us all smitten with his sizzling moves. And not to forget his hot abs! He isn’t called Bollywood’s Greek God just like that.
# Akshay Kumar: Akshay Kumar has always grabbed eyeballs with his adventurous side, and while he has been an amazing father, his personality and charm make him appear quite hot to many.
# Saif Ali Khan: Saif is a natural charmer, and a really hot dad! His welcoming personality and chivalry has not only won Kareena’s heart but ours too!
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# Shahid Kapoor: Are we even over Aditya in Jab We Met? His versatile roles and that chiselled frame makes it all good for us to fangirl over him, isn’t it?
Here are the hottest dads of the B-town, who is your favourite? Let us know in the comments below. Also, stay tuned to CineBlitz for latest updates.
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Ensuring healthy and resilient communities of both wildlife and people
The Walton Family Foundation’s freshwater initiative focuses on sustaining healthy and resilient communities of both wildlife and people in two of our country’s most important river systems.
Through collaborations with local stakeholders in the Colorado and Mississippi River Basins, we seek to find ways to preserve the environmental health of the rivers that benefit the communities and businesses that surround them.
Through our work in the Colorado River Basin -- which includes all or part of seven U.S. states -- we partner with conservation and recreation organizations, businesses, land owners and local governments to find ways to improve and restore the Colorado River so it can remain an economic and ecological backbone for the region. Our grant making supports organizations that are striving to preserve healthy river flows and restore riverside lands to ensure that the Colorado River can sustain the plants, animals and people that depend on it.
Our work in the Mississippi valley focuses on improving water quality, riverside lands and infrastructure. We collaborate with local farmers to find win-win approaches to reduce agriculture’s impacts on water quality and wildlife habitats. Other projects seek to implement ecosystem restoration approaches that create jobs and revitalize the region’s economy.
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In the Colorado and Mississippi River Basins, our conservation work is focused on promoting four key components of a healthy river system:
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The four main unions in the energy sector called for a strike by EDF employees on Wednesday to protest against the sale of electricity at reduced prices.
Faced with soaring energy prices, the government has drawn up an arsenal of measures to contain bills and honor its promise to limit the increase in regulated electricity prices to 4% in 2022, in a context sensitive to a few weeks before the presidential election. It thus asked EDF to increase by 20 terawatt hours (TWh) the volume of nuclear electricity sold at a reduced price to its competitors, to increase it from 100 to 120 TWh on an exceptional basis.
This measure will have “a cost for EDF of between 7.7 billion and 8.4 billion euros depending on market prices”, indicated the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire. After this announcement, the four main unions in the energy sector called for a strike by EDF employees on Wednesday.
Christophe Castaner does not understand the anger of employees
The boss of LREM deputies Christophe Castaner said on Wednesday that he did not understand the anger of EDF employees, on strike against the request of the State-shareholder to sell more electricity at low prices to its competitors in order to contain household and business bills.
“No, I do not understand it because when you are proud to be in a public company like EDF, you also assume to contribute to national solidarity”, he affirmed on France 2, questioned on “the anger” of the employees on strike this Wednesday.
He recalled that EDF was “a public company 80% owned by the State (which is therefore part) of the heritage of the French” and assured that the price of electricity would have “increased by 44%” without the measures taken. by the government.
“When EDF has experienced difficulties, the State has always been present. And the State will always be present”, added Mr. Castaner.
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Whitney Houston's pal Robyn Crawford has broken her silence on their romance.
The late singer's assistant told all the details about the night they spent together and the "physical" relationship they had together.
Whitney took the secrets of their romance to the grave when she was found dead in her bathtub in February 2012.
Years on, Robyn has recalled how their love was born out of a spontaneous kiss which led to the couple enjoying a night of passion together.
Whitney and Robyn first crossed paths when the singer was 16 at a 1980 summer camp, in Houston.
The author detailed how she and Whitney grew close after they became romantically involved with each other.
"Our friendship was a deep friendship," she told NBC's Dateline. "In the early part of that friendship, it was physical.
"It was during that first summer that we met... It was the first time our lips touched. And it wasn’t anything planned, it just happened.
"And it felt wonderful. And then not long after that we spent the night together. And that evening was the night that we touched. And that just brought us closer."
Robyn has been cashing in on their love affair by spilling the beans in her new memoir A Song For You which revisits their relationship.
She claimed she wants to bring what Whitney was truly like to the public with her new book.
In regards to their romance, the writer stated the pair didn't discuss "labels" or identify themselves as "lesbian".
Instead, she said the couple hoped their romance would last "forever".
In her new book, she wrote: “We never talked about labels, like lesbian or gay. We just lived our lives and I hoped it could go on that way forever.”

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As the calendar winds down on the calendar for the year 2019 there are many things to look at and think about. Tigers Woods wins at The Masters and in doing do he collectively “flipped off” all of the naysayers who said that he was done. How does crow taste by the way?
At Bethpage, the polarizing Brooks Koepka claimed the Wanamaker Trophy in winning the PGA Championship. He may not win regular events, but he’s a threat every time he tees it up in a Major. The very likable Gary Woodland won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. His first Major championship. You had a feeling that it was going to come eventually. But if there was a newly minted Major champion that you have to like and feel good about. Shane Lowry would be that guy. It was fun watching him win the Open Championship. He really ended up running away with the Claret Jug besting runner-up Tommy Fleetwood by 6 strokes.
As we fast-forward to 2020 I thought that it might be fun to make bold predictions regarding the 2020 Major tournaments. Oh, and before anyone suggests it, no I will not talk about The Players Championship. My opinion is to just leave it as it is. A stand-alone tournament for… The Players. So without further delay. Here we go!
(Injuries and unforeseen circumstances can really put a damper on these things)
The Masters – Is it just me or can you practically smell the azaleas, dogwood, and pine straw already. Honestly, I don’t know what it smells like there but I have an image, or smell, conjured in my imagination. It’d be easy to pick Tiger to win The Masters and repeat. Seeing that, as it stands now he is the favorite to win again according to oddsmakers. So with that said. Here’s my pick. This guy made putts on the fast and firm greens of Royal Melbourne during the Presidents Cup. He’s long and has the control. My pick. Justin Thomas.
PGA Championship – TPC Harding Park will be the venue for the 2020 PGA Championship. The “San Francisco Treat” was named after avid golfer and former President, Warren G. Harding and opened in 1925. Tight tree-lined fairways and small undulating greens were the norms of courses designed in this time frame. A premium will be placed on accuracy and iron play. Will length be a determining factor in this one? Maybe not. Then again, is length really a factor for many of these guys?
My pick had a sneaky journeyman-like 2019 campaign. A pretty good striker of the golf ball his iron play is solid, putting is good and has adequate length for a 7,200-yard golf course. Currently ranked #8 in the world. My pick is Justin Rose to heave the Wanamaker Trophy over his head. Sorry about the jinx Rosey!
The U.S. Open – A Father’s Day tradition. Sticking with the theme of golf courses designed in the 1920’s Winged Foot Golf Club is another golf course that features tight fairways and distinct green complexes. The A.W. Tillinghast-designed gem has hosted a cacophony of major events including some prior U.S. Open’s. What separates this course from TPC Harding Park? The USGA. I hope the USGA does what it does best. Set the course up in such a way that it makes professional golfers irate.
If this thing ends up a “Battle of Attrition” you have to like Brooks Koepka‘s chances. It might be an unpopular choice because he’s as polarizing a player as there is in professional golf. He may not win a ton of PGA TOUR events but he really shows up for the Major’s and he loves the U.S. Open. We don’t know how bad his injury truly is that kept him out of the Presidents Cup. His health could be a factor.
The Open Championship – The 149th Open Championship will take place at Royal St. George’s. The venue last hosted the Open Championship in 2011 which was won by Darren Clarke (his first and last). While I can see the likes of Rose and Tommy Fleetwood contending here I think both come up just short. Weather is always a factor during the Open Championship perhaps a little less so in England than in Scotland or Ireland for that matter. So if it’s cold and crappy out that could hurt an “old guy” riddled with past injuries (Tiger Woods).
With all things being equal and taking the lousiest weather conditions into consideration I like Rory McIlroy to win the Open Championship. He had a solid 2019, really solid in fact and I just think he’ll continue to roll in 2020.
It’ll be fun to watch all of the Major championships in 2020. I think the collection of courses by architects of the 1920s makes the events more intriguing. You know what else will be fun? Watching my picks “crash and burn”.
Until The Next Tee!!

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SCASD is sailing into a fresh school year with a new captain at the helm. Curtis Johnson, the former assistant superintendent of secondary education, currently leads the district as the interim superintendent while the search continues for Bob O’Donnell’s successor.
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, but a Delta Program student group already was trying to protect youth this summer by finishing a successful campaign supported by county commissioners and local police to inform families about safe gun storage in homes.
On Aug. 23, 2022, SCASD plunged into a fresh year, leaving summer break behind and infusing schools with energy and optimism. “It’s so, so great to have you back!” Park Forest Middle School Principal Karen Wiser said on the morning announcement broadcast. “We missed you over the summer."
A new foreign languages program provided elementary students with academic enrichment and intervention. Fourth and fifth-graders explored a language with three or four weekly 2-hour classes, choosing from French, Spanish, German, Chinese or Japanese.
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Glorious muted tones and the most beautiful design blend to make keeping your small belongings an adventure in itself. Petite in proportions but ambitious in potential, our trinket trays redefine small storage. Catch house keys and coins, jewels and hair pins, or a four-leaf clover plucked from your front walk.
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