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A total of 33 respondents completed the interview, including males and females across a range of ages and living conditions (see Table 1).
Across all interviews, four major themes emerged regarding COVID-19 vaccination decisions: 1) Deliberation for and against vaccine uptake (benefits versus risks); 2) Social and political context; 3) Emotions towards the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated political and social processes; and 4) Trust in vaccines, science, government-affiliated health institutions and oneself. As respondents weighed whether to get vaccinated, they consistently conveyed, oftentimes via a personal narrative, how they found themselves contending with competing narratives that were shaped by emotional responses to the broader context.
Drawing upon these narratives, we developed the DCET framework (Deliberation, Context, Emotion, Trust) of COVID-19 vaccination decision-making (see Fig. 2). We present our results following the flow of this figure. First, we outline deliberation (see section 3.1) wherein respondents, usually as a first step, weighed benefits and risks of vaccines. Second, we illustrate how these considerations were informed by contextual realities (see section 3.2) including political and interpersonal factors of COVID-19 and vaccines in Germany. Deliberation and context converged to spark a range of emotions (see section 3.3) about vaccines and vaccination, which in turn could lead to further, more personal deliberation (particularly regarding vaccine side effects). Although negative emotions were highly salient in participants’ narratives, they did not necessarily impact vaccination decisions in cases when respondents reported having trust (see section 3.4) in science, doctors, experts, and/or in their own capability to process information.
Deliberation about benefits versus risks
When asked about opinions, experiences and attitudes on COVID-19 vaccines, respondents routinely illustrated how they weighed reasons for and against vaccination, highlighting internal debates about the risks of COVID-19 versus risks associated with vaccines, and navigating these fears to make decisions for or against vaccination uptake:
“The tests before approval were less comprehensive than usual … but I think concerning the risks of getting blood clots compared to the risk of the pandemic … one is significantly smaller than the other. So I have little reservations, I’d be willing to take the risk.” (female, 30 years).
Benefits of vaccines
Respondents generally described the benefits of vaccines as outweighing drawbacks. Vaccines were consistently highlighted as a valuable means to reduce suffering or mortality on a societal level, to end lockdowns and to resume normalcy. When describing the utility of vaccines, respondents often invoked a sense of doing what was in the best interest of society and recalled images of “intensive care units with these completely helpless, profoundly sick, dying people” (female, 61 years). Respondents, particularly younger respondents, perceived their own COVID-19-associated risks as minimal, but viewed vaccines as a means to protect vulnerable individuals within their family or social circle:
“I was never really worried about myself, but more about harming others by unintentionally infecting those around me.” (female, 30 years).
With similar frequency though less intensity, respondents described how vaccines would offer a means to end lockdowns, to meet friends and family, to engage in social and cultural activities, and to travel. As one young man said, “the only relief for me would be to finally have a social life again.” (male, 27 years). Some respondents described how social distancing and a constant fear of catching COVID-19 were detrimental to mental health, and others described the need to re-boot the German economy – in both cases highlighting vaccination as a means to address these issues. With less intensity and frequency, respondents described how a vaccine would mitigate concerns regarding problems associated with a moderate COVID-19 infection including loss of smell and long COVID (see legend of Fig. 2 for a definition). Respondents who had pre-existing conditions (diabetes, multiple sclerosis, lung diseases, etc.) perceived a high personal risk of severe illness from COVID-19 and viewed being vaccinated as “a matter of life or death” (male, 54 years).
Risks of vaccines
While respondents predominantly argued that the benefits of vaccination outweighed the risks, reservations centered on short-term side effects (namely, sinus thrombosis but also a high fever), broad safety concerns (due to a validation process described as unusually fast or “immature” [female, 61 years]) and potential long-term side effects (sterility, DNA-damage, or cancer). As one respondent said: “I’ve heard that it causes blood clots and I don’t … even if they say [the risk is] really minimal that minimal might fall within me.” (male, 37 years). Respondents described concerns such as being treated like a “Versuchskaninchen” [lit.: “trial rabbit”, sem.:“guinea pig”] (female, 57 years) by scientists “experimenting with genetics” (female, 21 years), with one older respondent recalling the thalidomide scandal in the 1960s as a cautionary taleFootnote 1 .
Vaccine hesitancy regarding deliberation
Despite reservations, most respondents said they would ultimately get the vaccine, but some hesitated and described getting vaccinated as “a basically frightening” (female, 61 years) experience, best undertaken only after “seeing how others respond to it” (male, 27 years), and underscoring that they were concerned about the vaccine not preventing virus spread. Several respondents wondered aloud who would be accountable in the event of negative, vaccine-induced health consequences and whether vaccines might trigger or amplify mutations.
Two respondents conveyed outright rejection of COVID-19 vaccines. They described the risk of severe COVID-19 infection as minimal for younger people and lamented that information about the virus appeared “fear-focused and detached from reality” (male, 31 years). In their view, vaccines were generally dangerous (“I don’t trust the procedures.” female, 21 years) and there appeared to be no institutional recourse in the event of vaccine-related injury. Both respondents highlighted how they had grown up in a non-German context, and how they today partially relied on information they received from contexts outside of Germany, particularly regarding the potential harm of vaccines and how one’s own immune system was naturally capable of overcoming disease.
Social and political context
Although not explicitly asked in interview guides, each respondent lamented some facet of the current social and political context in which COVID-19 vaccines were discussed, debated, promoted, and presented by politicians, journalists, or members of society.
Respondents described how, despite “many well-performing public bodies” (female, 51 years) in Germany, vaccine-related mismanagement (e.g. incomprehensible online registration portals, complex admission procedures within vaccination centers, or an inability to receive vaccines within family doctors’ offices) was “rather problematic” (female, 30 years) and served as one more example of political incompetence, thereby “trying the limits of people’s patience” (female, 51 years). Respondents decried the government’s vaccine purchase and supply chain process as “abysmal” (male, 57 years), “wandering” (male, 61 years), and “amateurish” (male, 57 years), leading to sentiments “that [vaccination roll-out] is faster everywhere in the world, compared to us” (male, 31 years). Respondents described how vaccines became a topic that seemed to serve political self-interest or a desire to expand personal clout in an election year:
“How [vaccines] are being communicated to the public is fatal. And even beyond vaccines, there’s the lockdown measures, with politicians making promises they cannot keep. They have self-serving interests, probably because of the upcoming elections.” (female, 30 years).
Respondents also uttered dissatisfaction with how information was presented in news media. Divergent news on vaccines lead to a sense that journalists were intent on “emotionally arousing” (female, 37 years) reporting, “ripping facts out of context” (female, 58 years), “showboating” (“Effekthascherei”, female, 58 years), sowing stories that foment panic (“Panikmache”, female, 30 years), creating “mass hysteria” (female, 61 years), or encouraging broader social division related to COVID-19 vaccines. One woman explained that her negative opinion about one specific vaccine was “triggered by the media, because you hear a lot more negative things about AstraZeneca than about the other vaccines. And you have to build your opinion based on what you hear, there is no other option.” (female, 52 years). Respondents wished for more clarity and a greater sense of responsibility on behalf of the media concerning vaccination news, comparing the task to a mother who “has a responsibility, and [I] must choose my words when I want to deliver a message.” (female, 58 years).
Along with the political and media climate, respondents lamented the manner in which extended lockdowns and social distancing measures in Germany underpinned societal divisiveness and seemed to widen tensions between those in favor of and those opposed to COVID-19 vaccines. Respondents shared firsthand experiences of public conflict as those holding differing views on masks, vaccines, or social distancing engaged in arguments in public transportation, on the street, or online. Respondents who favored vaccines described a desire for expanded freedom for the vaccinated, and outlined frustration toward those who were unvaccinated, for whom they had “very little understanding” (female, 51 years). Unvaccinated people were further described as “egotistical” (female, 55 years) and “careless” (female, 51 years), and as inclined to “demonize everything” (male, 61 years), while society should instead focus on “what it is actually about – that this vaccine is our hope” (male, 31 years). Respondents who expressed outright objection to vaccination feared mandatory vaccines and indicated that they “would be more open towards” (male, 31 years) vaccination if it was voluntary.
Emotions emerged as a layer through which deliberation (benefits versus risks) and contextual factors (political, medial, and social) were filtered when making a decision about vaccines. Some participants voiced their desire to make a purely rational decision, without letting emotions influence their vaccination intention (see direct arrow from Deliberation to Trust in Fig. 2). In most of such cases, however, emotions were nevertheless verbally or non-verbally expressed. The dominant emotion associated with COVID-19 vaccines or vaccination in general across interviews, regardless of age or gender, was anger coupled with impatience, frustration, insecurity, or exasperation primarily directed at the slow roll-out of vaccines and other contextual factors, voicing concerns that “it will take a hundred years until it’s my turn to get vaccinated” (male, 20 years) and that “that’s the biggest misstep I accuse our government of” (male, 61 years). A young woman, who had been very hopeful about the vaccines, felt “helplessness, fury, because you are forced to spend many more months of your life indoors without leisure time activities” (female, 30 years). Respondents also fumed about how vaccines were presented in the media (particularly with regards to a perceived exaggeration of side effects such as sinus thrombosis caused by the AstraZeneca vaccine), and how vaccines were becoming another topic that was tearing society apart. Some respondents anticipated that provocative headlines and divisive news might lead to feeling “insecure” (female, 29 years) or “confused” (female, 21 years) about which vaccination information to believe, with one respondent conveying the feeling of being “beaten to death by information” (female, 51 years). Some respondents described feeling primed by the media to take a negative view (“it sows in your mind some doubts towards it”, male, 37 years), with one respondent stating:
“If there is so much squabbling [German: “Hick Hack”] about a vaccine, you just can’t have a positive feeling. And there might be many who tell me: ‘Well, a few have died but it [the vaccine] has many positive aspects.’ Nevertheless, it remains an uneasy feeling.” (female, 57 years).
Vaccine hesitancy regarding emotions
As highlighted earlier, the vast majority of respondents described their intention to get vaccinated (once a vaccine was available), and expressed a range of positive emotions and phrases to describe vaccines, such as “ray of hope” [German: “Lichtblick”] (male, 31 years), feeling “happy to get vaccinated” (male, 37 years) or “relieved” (female, 58 years) and able to feel safe again: “What would it mean to catch COVID-19? Would I get severely ill? Would I die? Well, I’ll put it like this: I hope that this fear will decrease substantially when many people get vaccinated.” (female, 51 years). Those respondents for whom risks of vaccines outweighed benefits described feeling “ambivalent” (female, 51 years), “an inner apprehension” (female, 21 years), or “skepticism” (female, 52 years) toward vaccination, and they wondered aloud: “What are we exposing ourselves to, as world-population? […] Well, that’s my gut feeling.” (female, 51 years).
Almost all respondents outlined frustration with the COVID-19 response, concerns about the rapid pace of vaccine development, or exasperation with the government’s approach to vaccine distribution. Yet, when asked how these factors influenced decisions to vaccinate, respondents answered with phrases such as “not at all” (female, 55 years) or “it is independent” (female, 57 years). Upon further probing, respondents described how trust – in science and the scientific process, in doctors, institutions, media, or oneself (see Table 2 for key quotes with regards to the different trusted entities as emerging from respondents’ accounts) – safeguarded their vaccination intention or tipped the balance in favor of vaccination even in light of disheartening or unsettling contextual factors:
“I had some reservations against the mRNA vaccine, as it hasn’t been used before. But well, I think the trust in the EMA [European Medicines Agency] regarding this … yes, is stronger. What other than trust could it be? I think nobody knows what is going to happen in 20 years, whether we will light up green or something. Nobody can know that, I’m aware of this.” (female, 58 years).
The most trusted authorities indicated by respondents were scientific and medical institutions responsible for reviewing and validating vaccines in Germany. Even respondents who were skeptical about foreign vaccines (such as Russia’s Sputnik V) expressed that they would have confidence in them if German supervisory authorities decided to approve them. These trusted institutions included government-affiliated scientific institutions such as the European Medical Agency (EMA), the Robert Koch Institute (RKI, Germany’s main public health agency), and the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI, Germany’s Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines), while political actors such as elected government officials were much less trusted:
“All that happens on a scientific level, like the EMA on the EU-level, the PEI in Germany – I trust completely. On a scale from 1-10, that’s a 10. But this goes into a minus range for federal- or state-level politics. So, I see vaccines very positively, but the way we handle them is evidence of incapacity [German: “Armutszeugnis”].” (male, 37 years).
In general, respondents described feeling “very inclined toward science” (female, 55 years), scientists, and family physicians. The latter were particularly emphasized by several respondents because they expected family physicians to be beholden to their patients, to have a longstanding relationship with their patients, and to better understand patients’ medical histories and unique concerns or priorities in relation to medical information. Respondents also mentioned scientists as role models, naming prominent figures such as Dr. Mai Thi Nguyen Kim (a German chemist who focuses on science education via YouTube) or Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten (a German virologist and expert consultant of the government, who hosted an educational podcast over large parts of the pandemic), as well as scientists or experts with whom they personally interacted in their everyday environment. One student, for example, recounted how her professor helped her feel less insecure about vaccines by explaining how to interpret numbers about risks.
Finally, several respondents expressed trust in their own ability to sift through divisive or misleading media reports, and to better identify trustworthy information by reading scientific evidence themselves, particularly as a means to gauge risk:
“I am a science student and, well, I know, to some extent at least, how to make sense of things that were reported in a misleading way. But I guess that most people are not familiar with this field and do not know where to find which information or which information to believe.” (female, 37 years).
Vaccine hesitancy or refusal regarding deficits in trust
While the above examples highlight how high trust has protective qualities for vaccine uptake when facing negative emotions, some respondents also described how trust deficits facilitate the opposite consequence. Some respondents raised doubts regarding the general honesty of governmental stakeholders and media or explained how they could not find vaccine related information they were searching for online, suggesting that relevant facts about vaccines have been “hidden” or “covered up” (female, 21 years). The resulting insecurities prepared the ground to vaccine hesitancy: “This creates extreme mistrust […] and then it’s not a long way towards becoming vaccine hesitant, anti-vaccinator, conspiracy theorist.” (male, 54 years).


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I got these on the way to the field after I broke my old goggles. They were the only goggles in stock at the store so I didn't really have a choice.
It put them on at the field and they were VERY NICE. Comfortable, HUGE field of vision, and i got lots of comments on how nice they looked.
Then I hit the field, the first thing i did was dive into some bushes where the stick in front of me were pelted by some 100+ rounds, my goggles were splattered everywhere. Thats to be expected, I wiped them off and kept playing. after about 20 minutes of playing I couldn't see anything. I walked back to the safety area with my girlfriend and cleaned up. We headed back out to the game a second time hoping for better luck (it was sunny and were were defending a sunny hill from the dark woods, so I figured my eyes needed to adjust to the forest better).
As soon as I entered the game again they fogged up again, I still couldn't see much. But we were able to win, I just sat in the bunker and picked off the guys with the red dot scopes I could see through the fog.
I brought them back to the store and got a refund.
I wouldn't recommend these at all, either save up for a better mask, get a pair of v-force armour, or rent a pair. I wanted these to work 'cause they had everything else going for them.

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United becomes playoff eligible; M-R dominates West Hancock
MONMOUTH — Sometimes, you can throw the stats out the door.
United senior Jack Whitsitt got injured in the second half of Friday night's 41-24 victory over Mid County.
He laid on the ground for a couple minutes with an injured ankle and was carried off the field.
"I got my ankle twisted up pretty bad and I wanted to be out there with my guys," Whitsitt said, "and finish up the game with them and get the win."
Whitsitt went on to finish the game with 58 yards on six carries. Then, he got high-fives from several of his teammates after the victory.
Chris Hennenfent had another standout effort at running back for United, rushing for 149 yards on 21 carries to go with two touchdowns.
The big surprise for several fans was the emergence of running back Alfred Mono, who got his first real varsity action. Mono responded with 98 yards on the ground and three touchdowns.
"I thought it was fun," Mono said after the victory. "It was my first time playing varsity and I just tried to play. I had never played like that before. It's exciting to play like that."
Quarterback Mason Love was also a factor in the game, completing 4 of 7 passes for 109 yards.
"It's the big fifth win that gets us playoff eligible,” said United head coach Fred Lucas. “Nothing is guaranteed, but with the strength of schedule, it looks promising."
Titans dominate West Hancock on road
WARSAW — Monmouth-Roseville bounced back from a rough homecoming last week and defeated West Hancock Friday night with a big performance from quarterback Josh Weber.
Weber connected with Jared Kirby in the second quarter and Dee Coleman in the fourth for two touchdown passes. The latter play went for 43 yards and sealed the 34-14 victory for the Titans.
Weber also had two rushing touchdowns — both in goal line situations.
Coleman finished with 105 receiving yards, while Tucker Shepherd led the team in rushing with 109 yards. Charlie Bertelsen followed with 93 yards on the ground.
The Titans led 16-6 at halftime.
Monmouth-Roseville improved to 3-4 on the season. The Titans will again try to keep their playoff hopes alive when they host Quincy Notre Dame next week.

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DuneWatch continues as Glenn & Scott review the newest Dune movie. They discuss what aspects of the story this movie emphasizes and what it leaves out all together, what it handles better than any previous adaptation and what it handles arguably even worse than the 1984 film. They evaluate the performances, the characterization, the production design, the color grading, and the relative importance of Duncan Idaho. Glenn has an estimate of when it might be safe to go back to movie theaters, while Scott has an update about his craw. Then they close the show by musing on the difficulties of reviewing half a movie and talking about what they’re looking forward to in Dune Part Two.
You can support the show on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/nontoxicfanboys. On the most recent patron-exclusive show, Scott discussed his recent bout of watcher's block.
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WASHINGTON, DC (CBSDC) — U.S. Park Police have a suspect in custody following a cell phone robbery in Fort Reno Park on Wednesday.
A teenage girl was walking through the park in the Tenleytown neighborhood of DC when another teen ran by and grabbed the phone out of her hand.
The victim was not harmed in the incident.
“There was no force involved, but never the less it was a robbery which is a felony,” US Park Police Sgt. David Schlosser told WNEW’s Cameron Thompson.
Detectives were able to use tracking technology on the phone to locate the phone and identify a suspect in the case.
Police would not say whether the incident was related to a similar robbery of an 11-year-old girl in Northwest this week.


Sending Office: Honorable Matt Cartwright
Join Letter to Make Scott Pruitt Release Confidential Identities of Fracking Chemicals
We hope you will join us in asking EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to release the identities of all the new chemicals it has approved, despite concerns about human health, for use in oil and gas drilling as well as hydraulic fracturing. First responders and
communities around the country are being put at a risk of exposure from unknown chemicals every day in areas near oil and gas wells, in part because the EPA has not released the identities of these chemicals. A FOIA request submitted by the Partnership for
Policy Integrity revealed that from 2003 to 2014 the EPA approved 41 new chemicals for hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas drilling, even though the agency’s own scientists had serious health concerns about these chemicals. State and Tribal officials, first
responders, medical professionals, and the public have the right to know what chemicals are in the environment and drinking water.
When a spill or a leak occurs, first responders don’t know what contaminants they are dealing with and need to contain. When an individual exposed to an oil or gas leak seeks treatment, medical professionals don’t know what chemicals they may have been exposed
to, preventing effective treatment. And when residents complain about contaminated water, State, Local, and Tribal officials do not know what chemicals to test for or remove from the water to make it safe to drink and bathe in. Although the Toxic Substances
Control Act (TSCA) permits disclosure to first responders, medical professionals, and government officials, it usually takes the EPA days or weeks to release the information about which chemicals they may have been exposed to, putting our communities at risk.
TSCA permits disclosure of confidential chemical information when exposure to the chemical poses an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment. The EPA has not disclosed the identities of the new chemicals it approved in order to protect the
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ELKHART, IN - Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: PATK), a manufacturer and distributor of building and component products for the recreational vehicle and manufactured housing markets, saw a 6.4 percent rise, or $4.3 million, in third quarter sales, to $77.4 million.
With RV sales declining three percent industry wide, most of Patrick Industries' increase came from acquisitions. In September Patrick acquired Syracuse, IN-based A.I.A. Countertops llc. In June 2011 Patrick acquired wood products firm Praxis Group, and in 2010 Patrick acquired Blazon.
Retail fixture sales in the industrial market, which serves new housing construction, benefitted from a rise in housing starts during the period.
RV industry sales are 59 percent of Patrick's revenues. Manufactured housing sales industry-wide, which is 26 percent of Patrick Industries' sales, fell 5 percent in the latest quarter.
The industrial market sector, tied to the residential housing market, is 15 percent of sales. New housing starts were up 6 percent.
Patrick Industries, Inc. makes building products serving the recreational vehicle, manufactured housing, kitchen cabinet, household furniture, fixtures and commercial furnishings, marine, and other industrial markets and operates at locations in 12 states. Patrick's major manufactured products include decorative vinyl and paper panels, countertops, wrapped profile mouldings, cabinet doors and components, interior passage doors, and slatwall and slatwall components, and interior passage doors.
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Get yourself a nice camera and start tossing it around with shutter speeds around 0.5-1 second and voilaa, artwork! Of course you don’t have to throw your precious Canon or Nikon across the room, you can simply move it around in your hands, but it adds a nice sizzle to the mix!
This DIY pro photography technique is bound to make nighttime pictures more fun and enjoyable. Any camera with shutter speed control should be able to perform abstract artwork under the laws of gravity.
Artistic Newtonian and Shutter Speed Effects
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"If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment."
- Linda McCartney
Chinh has loved photography since she was a young girl growing up in Vietnam, even before she ever owned a camera. She's now going strong on her 7th camera. She loves photography's ability to capture the exact moment, along with all the emotions and senses, that no words can truly describe.
Oh, the places you'll go!
Chinh loves traveling. Her goal is to travel as much as possible. Visiting every continent is on her "Bucket List." Below are photos from some of her traveling adventures.


IPv6 was developed to substitute IPv4, as it was expected to run out of addresses.
An IPv6 address uses 128 bits.
While IPV4 is represented by decimal numbers, IPv6 uses hexadecimal numbers.
There are 8 blocks of hexadecimal numbers, representing each one 16 bits. Each block is separated using colons (:).
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Philly’s Annual Park Cleanup & Tree-Planting Day is Nov 10
This is a great way to do some rewarding volunteer work for Philadelphia.
On November 10th, it's the 8th annual 'Love Your Park Fall Service Day' which entails a city wide park cleanup and tree planting.
This event helps your favorite green places in Philly prepare for the warmer weather next Spring. According to phillyvoice.com this 'day is dedicated to cleaning, planting trees and collecting leaves for compost in preparation for winter.'
If your into it and ready to get your hands dirty with some community service you can register here.


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SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio family is angry after their loved one was shot and killed by officers, over the weekend. The deadly encounter happened on Saturday night at Sonora and Nogalitos. SAPD shot and killed a man after investigators say he pointed a gun at them.
Denise Alba is the sister of the man shot and killed by officers. She said her brother should still be alive.
"I am never going to see him again," she said. "He is the only brother I had. "Now he is not going to be here because they took him from me and my family." Alba said her brother is 42-year-old Arturo Fuentes Jr.
San Antonio Police said, that night, Fuentes was shooting his gun walking up and down the street. On Saturday, Police Chief William McManus said, "When officers approached him, he reportedly turned and raised the gun toward officers."
However, Alba said that's not true. She was there that night and lives across the street.
"No, I was there," she said. "I was there. He did not do that."
Fuentes was shot in the yard of his parent's home. He was hit four times. The bullets missed his father who the family said was trying to calm his son down.
"I saw my dad trying to grab the gun and I don't know how my brother swung like this and that is when they started shooting," Alba said. "I thought my dad was shot. He was inches away."
One of the bullets went through a pillow inside the family home. Minutes before, the family said Alba and Fuentes' mom had been sitting in that spot.
"It is not like he is someone that would sell drugs off the streets," his sister said. "He had a family. He was a somebody."
Alba said before police shot him, her brother had gotten into an argument with someone down the street, but she doesn't know about what. The family believes officers could have deescalated the situation better.
"I can't make excuses for him," she said. But, still there are other ways to calm somebody down. But they shot him to die. I think you should do better. And at least apologize to my mom and my dad for taking their son away."
Two officers fired their weapons, and one of the officers is a probationary officer. The other has been with the department for four years.
And per department policy, SAPD will release body camera video within 30 days. However, there are certain conditions and it has to be approved by the police chief.

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Industry super funds are working together to make consolidating multiple accounts easier for members, announcing a new initiative that should save eligible members an average $260 a year in fees and insurance premiums.
Eighteen industry superannuation funds have agreed to a collective cross-fund matching initiative that would be free of charge to members if a successful match is found.
The scheme would seek to automatically deploy 500,000 low balance inactive accounts in its first full-scale deployment, which the funds estimate could save members an estimated $100 million a year in duplicate fees and insurance premiums.
Industry Super Australia (ISA) chief executive, Bernie Dean, said the funds had been working on the scheme for over a year, including trialling a pilot last year which consolidated 50,000 accounts.
“It has been developed to cut through restrictive rules which limit the ability of funds to reunite members’ lost and inactive savings without first obtaining express consent,” Dean said.
“Once a match is found members will still be able to opt out, but a survey following the pilot found members who had accounts consolidated were very happy funds proactively chased their savings.
“This is the right thing to do for members – they expect the system to sort out multiple accounts for them. Industry super funds have been consolidating multiple accounts for many years, but it has relied on members kicking it off. This new initiative will cut through the red tape.”


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A big talking point of Formula 1 car design is push-rod and pull-rod suspension. But what is the difference between them, and why is it so important? Mercedes push-rod front suspension detail Photo by: Giorgio Piola What’s the difference between push-rod and pull-rod suspension? An F1 car’s suspension has an
Four teams – Andretti Global, Arrow McLaren, Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) and Team Penske – took part in the latest running Feb. 20-22 at Homestead-Miami Speedway’s 2.21-mile road course layout. Each day featured one driver per team behind the wheel. Per IndyCar, “12 drivers combined to turn 1,202 trouble-free laps”
There is some debate whether the issue is even a “problem” that needs to be addressed but when NASCAR officials said publicly last week the sanctioning body was “reviewing” it, the attention magnified. Kyle Buschfor one, was not happy with how the race strategy played out on Monday’s rain-delayed 500.
Sporting a bold, new design for its RB20, F1’s dominant force Red Bull impressed at Sakhir with his consistently-rapid long runs. Ferrari also caught the eye with a much more balanced and stable SF-24, which appears to have gone some way towards addressing its 2023 race pace struggles, while Charles


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The Sullivan board includes Bill Clinton as a founding director and current honorary co chair. In addition, former Atlanta Mayor and UN Ambassador Andrew Young led the foundation until early March. As a result of the public exposure from several human rights organizations, Young recently disavowed the Foundation’s decision to hold the summit in Equatorial Guinea prompting us to ask more questions.
The Twitter sphere quickly lit up with comedic chatter about Romney’s reference to “binders full of women,” but a bigger issue arose shortly after the debate ended. The Phoenix, a Boston based publication, reported that the candidate had overstated his involvement in starting the hiring initiative. What’s more, it said the number of women who held senior level positions with the Republican’s government actually declined at the end of his term..
“Her foundation took in large payments from major corporations and wealthy individuals, foreign and domestic, and all while she was secretary of state,” Trump said at a rally in Akron, Ohio, in August, for example. And out. Emails between the staff at the Clinton Foundation and State Department show that some of those donors wanted access to Hillary Clinton, and that she did take meetings with some of them as secretary of state.
Hi everyone! Loretta here. Thanks for checking out my profile. I’m living the good life with my Brooklyn foster mom right now, but she says it’s high time I spread the Loretta love to a forever family. You also going to see us shipping individual champ to champ changes over the coming months which are aiming at either opening up playstyles that used to exist but don anymore (AD Malzahar, Lane Nidalee, AP Trist as a potential examples), or introducing playstyles that have never existed on a champ before (I wonder what an AP Shotgun knees looks like). This needs to be done carefully though, as alternate playstyles present entirely new challenges when it comes to balancing. Sometimes they can be great and we been able to support them for years (Jarvan jungle/top, Vlad mid/top, a bunch of our mages that double as supports), but others can prove tricky/problematic.
1. 3. Sky News has learnt that the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) annual audit quality review will single out KPMG, the firm which audited Carillion (Frankfurt: 924047 news) before its collapse, for an “unacceptable deterioration” in work undertaken for the UK largest listed companies.
The Paper Test This is a variation of the refraction test described above. It involved placing the diamond on top of a white piece of paper with small lettering on it, and then looking through the stone at the text below. If you can see the text through the diamond clearly and without distortion what you have is not a real diamond but most likely just a piece of glass..


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Couldn't find a decent photo of a pregnant guppy but found one of a molly. Th squaring off is the same in both anyway.
you can see at th back that she's kinda square rather than round.
One thing that i would advise however is that the breeder boxes are highly stressful for the mum and not good for the babies for more than a day or 2. Placing the mother in the breeding box could cause her to abort the lot.
If the tank is heavily planted then most of the fry should survive and my experience with guppies is that even in a bare tank many of th fry will survive nayway, at least half will avoid being eaten as long as the fish are fed.
Another thing i would mention is about what Lupin said. What will you do with all the babies? You will either need a huge tank or multiple 10g tanks to cater for all the babies if you don't want to risk an amonia spike which could lead to killing off many of the fish, babies and mothers.


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This is one of my favourite weeks of the Speedway 660 racing season. We all like The Riverview Ford Season Opener, which goes this Saturday night, for several reasons. First-off, we finally get to see some exciting short-track racing almost nine months after Cassius Clark celebrated his Auto Value 250 win at SpeedWeekend 2012.
We’ll also renew old friendships, meet new folks and generally enjoy the camaraderie that is such a big part of the Speedway 660 racing scene. And we all want to see the race-cars too. The teams, in all five of our divisions, have worked hard to get their machines ready for the season and they’ll all look shiny and new for the opener.
There’s always a little nervousness and uncertainty that comes with a new season. Especially this year! I hear there are several new drivers and others who are moving to higher divisions. I’ll bet they are getting a little antsy as we close in on Saturday’s opener. And what about Speedway 660’s new owners? I’m sure the Roy and Foley families are anxious and a little nervous heading into their first night at the helm of Speedway 660.
And how about Brian Speight? Our new race director is moving from his old job, inside the fence to the most important job on top of the tower! Brian’s a very capable and confident guy and he may not show it, but he’s likely going to be a little nervous when he starts making those tough race director decisions. Speaking of Brian Speight, we’ll have a Conversation with him on our website later this week, so please come back in a day or two to check it out.
I’ve got to admit, even after 19 years, I still get a few butterflies when I pick up the microphone to start a new season. We all love racing and we all want things to be perfect, but you know what? We’ll all be flying by the seat of our pants a little bit come Saturday night. And that’s a good thing. A little nervous energy is part of racing. We’ll all be fine.
The Riverview Ford Season Opener is going to be a blast. It always is. How could it be anything else? There’s so much anticipation for the racing season to begin and as the days slide by this week, we’ll be getting amped-up for the first of many trips to the Geary Woods this summer.
Speedway 660 is celebrating it’s 20th season of racing in “The Geary Woods”. For the past two decades fans have been thrilled by our exciting brand of side-by-side racing.
This is going to be a special season of racing for the Speedway 660 family. It’s our 20th season and for us “old-timers” season number one, way back in the summer of 94 seems like yesterday. Well, maybe not yesterday, but it sure doesn’t seem like two decades since the first green flag flew out there.
Jerry O’Leary’s dream to bring racing back to the Fredericton area became a reality. The Father of modern day stock-car racing in New Brunswick deserves a lot of credit for making it happen. Without Mr. O’Leary’s vision and commitment we sure wouldn’t be where we are today.
Back in 94, Chris Duncan was crowned our first Pro Stock Champion. Duncan had to wait until 2010 before earning his second title. That first season’s Sportsman Championship trophy went to Karl Raeburn. And the Street Stock points battle ended in our only tie with Brian Gillespie and Matt Harris sharing the championship. Gillespie, the most decorated champ in Speedway 660 history, won his second Street Stock title in 95 before rattling off five Sportsman titles in 98, 02, 03, 07 and 08.
So let’s go back to the future, after that little history lesson. We are on the eve of our 20th anniversary season. It’s shaping up to be our best year ever. There are lots of story-lines and plenty of exciting action and it all begins this Saturday night and wraps up on SpeedWeekend in early September.
If you are part of our Speedway 660 family, I know you’ll be at the Riverview Ford Season Opener. If you haven’t been down to the Geary Woods in a few years, please come back to be part of the 20th anniversary season. And if you have never been to Speedway 660, this is a great time to experience the best three hours of sports entertainment in Atlantic Canada.
It all officially begins this Saturday night at 7PM – but remember come early because we’ll warm you up with the Bandolero and 4 cylinder heat races at 6:20. We’ll see you at the races!

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March 28, 2017
Fourth Amendment Searches: DNA Collection
Tuesday, April 2, 2013, by Cara Richards
Twenty-eight states and the federal government have enacted laws that provide for automatic DNA collection when an individual is arrested. The issue that arises with these types of laws is whether it is constitutional to collect DNA samples without a warrant, if the entire purpose is to compare the DNA with other samples in a national database. It is well-established that police can conduct such tests once an individual is convicted. The Supreme Court is considering whether a DNA sample can be taken from people arrested, but not yet tried or convicted.
In this case, Maryland vs. King, Maryland’s DNA Collection Act permits police to collect genetic material without a warrant from those who have been arrested, but not yet convicted of a crime. The case was argued before the Supreme Court on February 26, 2013. The Supreme Court is currently reviewing the constitutionality of the Act and a decision is expected in the coming months. Privacy advocates fear that a ruling in the state’s favor could open the gates to more extensive use of an individual’s DNA for government purposes. Civil liberties groups worry inadequate testing by overwhelmed lab technicians can lead to errors. In the current case before the Court, Alonzo King Jr. was arrested four years ago on an assault charge and a DNA sample was taken which linked him to another sexual assault. King moved to suppress the DNA evidence, but was convicted of the sexual assault offense.
At its core, this case places “modern technology against notions of personal privacy.” The Fourth Amendment grants the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” The parties in the case agree that the DNA swab was a search under the Fourth Amendment, so the issue lies in whether or not the search was reasonable. In determining this, there needs to be a balance of legitimate law enforcement interests with the privacy rights of individuals. This Fourth Amendment area of law is often confusing and complicated. The Maryland Court of Appeals agreed with King, holding that suspects under arrest have a higher level of privacy than a convicted felon, outweighing the state’s law enforcement interest. The process of taking King’s DNA was not for identification purposes and was more invasive than fingerprinting.
One possible outcome would be for the Court to break down the search into two separate searches. The DNA swab would count as one search and the analysis of the sample in the DNA database would count as a second search. Breaking down the search would allow the court to create a more narrow decision. Overall, this is an important decision for the Court that will affect states across the country that have laws similar to Maryland’s.

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Power fluctuations during rehearsals for the Super Bowl led organizers to use generators at Sunday’s game, which was then interrupted for 35 minutes by a partial blackout, a National Football League official said.
About half of the Superdome in New Orleans went dark early in the second half of the contest between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers, creating a huge embarrassment for the NFL.
Eric Grubman, the league’s executive vice president of business operations, said officials noticed “fluctuations in the frequency of the power supply” during rehearsals, and feared the issue would pose problems for high-definition television cameras.
“Since we did not want any issues at halftime with TV cameras or other gear related to the frequency fluctuations, we decided it would be best to use generators designed for the type of power demand presented by the show,” Grubman said in a statement released on Tuesday.
During the disruption, players stretched and chatted with each other and waited patiently for the lights to return.
The 49ers, who had been outplayed to that point, scored 17 consecutive points after the game restarted but came up just short, losing 34-31.
Grubman said it was unlikely the outage had anything to do with the halftime spectacular by pop star Beyonce, whose show featured a dramatic pyrotechnics display.
“The power outage occurred well after the halftime show and well after any of its unique demands on power supply or power quality had ended,” Grubman said.
Entergy Corp, the utility providing power to the Superdome, said its distribution and transmission feeders were serving the Superdome at all times.
Equipment designed to monitor electrical load sensed an abnormality in the system where the Superdome equipment intersects with Entergy’s feed into the building, triggering an automatic cut in power, Entergy said in a joint statement on Monday with the Superdome’s management company, SMG.
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Garbis Dental Associates
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As part of Urbanscapes 2018, the Zhongshan building will host a variety of events showcasing local arts and crafts.
The series of events, titled The Zhongshan Building Weekender, will feature tenants of the building each utilising their respective spaces to present exhibitions, workshops, performances and interactive installations.
The showings range from the likes of art, film, literature, music, typography, fashion and food.
A full layout of the showings can be seen below.
Urbanscapes is one of the longest-running creative arts festival in Malaysia. Since its inception 16 years ago, the aim of Urbanscapes has always been to bring together Malaysian creative communities from the fields of music, the arts, design, film and other creative disciplines. The festival has grown leaps and bounds to become internationally known and attended.

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The company, which is a collaboration between Bey and her personal trainer Marco Borges, is called 22 Days Nutrition.
But why 22 days? They believe that it takes 21 days to make or break a habit - and Bey would know, her and husband Jay-Z did their own 22-day vegan challenge in 2013.
Now, she includes more plant-based food in her diet and has even taken to wearing 'Kale' sweatshirts in her music videos. Whodathunkit?
"All you have to do is try. If I can do it, anyone can," Beyonce said in a statement.
"We all know the importance and value of eating plant-based foods but often times find ourselves trapped in a series of bad habits that sabotage optimum wellness," says co-founder Borges. "The Vegan Meal Delivery program makes it easier to reset your habits with healthy and delicious plant-based foods."
According to the website, the plant-based meals are 100% organic, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free and contain non-GMO ingredients.
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Just like the neighbouring Czech side of the Beskids, the Polish side of this mountain range has numerous peaks with panoramic views, caves, waterfalls as well as forests full of mushrooms and blueberries, but the local tourist cottages offer an unusually varied gastronomy and hospitality. You simply must try a 'bigos' or mulled beer.
Sauna or hot tub are always a great way to end your day. Or a great start of a fun evening... it's all available and it's only up to you.
The best rest is active rest
We've read that in smart books and we've personally tried it. You'll have all the hiking trails and unmarked paths for exploring the forest and the surroundings within reach. On foot, on bike, or on cross-country skis in winter. A clear head, a happy body.
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The Community and Economic Development Agency (CEDA) currently has an
opening for the position of Redevelopment Intern. This internship provides
a valuable opportunity to gain practical experience in redevelopment,
including real estate development, urban planning, public improvements, and
The Redevelopment Division provides financial and technical assistance to
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In the past, interns have worked on a variety of projects, including:
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issues, and coordination with community organizations.
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educational experience, a familiarity with the principals of real estate
development, economic development, and/or urban design. Strong written and
verbal communications skills are essential. Proficiency with Microsoft
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Rate of pay: $13.14/hour (The City does not offer fringe benefits for
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Smartgates have been a welcome introduction to the immigration process for international travellers since their introduction about a decade ago. The machines make the process of arriving and departing into the country quicker and more convenient. But passengers travelling with children under sixteen have been unable to use the gates… until now.
The signs at Australian immigration checkpoints still advise that children under the age of sixteen are not eligible to use the Smartgate. However, a new system whereby children from as young as ten may use the system if accompanied by at least two adults is being trialled.
One member was caught by surprise on a recent trip when told of the new policy.
We recently travelled to NZ and back with two kids in their mid teens (under 16) and on arrival in NZ the kids could go through the Smartgate – no age restrictions we could see. On our return to SYD on the weekend we arrived with hundreds of others in the early morning and after the unexpected Ebola survey, jumped on the nearest machine and got our tickets. We then proceeded to immigration where the Smartgate sign said “no children under 16 years” – information which would have been useful before we got our tickets.
So then we queued with all and sundry for some 30-40 minutes before getting to the immigration officer who saw our tickets and said straight away “why didn’t you go through the Smartgate?” We reported the sign said “no under 16s” to which he replied – “your kids are old enough to fool it” and then said we could have problems next time we enter or leave the country as we registered on the machine but didn’t ‘complete’. He said the Smartgate age is set at 16 to stop people with little kids trying to go through as they’d be too short for the camera – “over 10 is fine”.
As the Smartgate system uses facial recognition technology, it would seem that most children above the age of ten should be able to use the system, provided their facial characteristics haven’t changed since the passport photograph was taken.
Other members have reported success taking their children through the Smartgate.
We used the Smartgate system on arrival at SYD last night. Two youngest girls are 12 and 10. My 10yr old is pretty short for her age. It worked fine – except for me offering a few people in the queue their eyes back for staring out my mini-me.
Also being trialled currently is the use of Smartgates by Irish, Canadian and Swiss passengers. Travellers holding passports from Australia, New Zealand, the United States, United Kingdom or Singapore are already eligible.
In New Zealand, where Smartgates are available in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington, children above the age of 12 may use Smartgates.
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An exhibition in Milan pays homage to the history of the buckle from the 18th century to the present day.
[In cover: shoe by Amato Dianiele and its buckle detail]
Enhancing clothes, shoes, belts and bags, the buckle is more than simply functional, often decorating items and on occasion becoming almost a piece of jewellery. In the past, nobility considered it a status symbol; buckles are indeed depicted in many old paintings. One of these works, a portrait of Antonio Litta by Giacomo Ceruti (known as Il Pitocchetto) dated to circa 1765, introduces the exhibition Fibbie! Moda, Arte e Gioiello [Buckles! Fashion, Art and Jewellery] held at Palazzo Morando in Milan from July 9th to September 15th.
Sponsored by the Brera Academy and curated by Bianca Cappello and Luca Ghirardosi, the project displays, for the very first time, beautiful buckles from shoes, belts and clothing. The exploration starts in the 18th century and continues to the present day, exhibiting items such as shoes by Amato Daniele from the autumn/winter 2017/2018 collection. The young designer found inspiration in Napoleon to create this pump with a 10cm heel and brocade brass buckle plated in antique gold.
Bags by Giancarlo Petriglia and Paola Bonacina are also on display with their over-sized buckles. The exhibition harmoniously unites works from the Palazzo Morando permanent collection and showcases displaying buckles through the ages. The buckles showcasing fashions from the 18th and 19th centuries are from Enrico and Paola Pennasilico’s prestigious collection, which includes pieces from the world’s leading jewellers, including Fabergé, Tiffany & Co., Piel Frères, Theodor Fahrner and William B. Kerr. Representing the 20th century are previously unseen buckles from Milan’s Palazzo Morando/Costume Moda Immagine collection, in addition to some splendid items by jewellery designers such as the renowned Italian Giuliano Fratti, known as “the king of crazy jewellery” for his highly imaginative creations.
There are also archive pieces from the historic artisan workshops in Milan, specialising in the production of jewellery and fashion accessories, including Viganò, Ottavio Re, Bijoux Bozart, De Liguoro and Ornella Bijoux. Lastly, there is a contemporary section dedicated to buckle projects and creations by students at the Brera Academy for the Splendid Buckles workshop. The buckle is projected into the future by experimenting with materials such as glass, wicker, plexiglass, recycled materials and even Lego to create a buckle-come-sculpture.


Lana Del Rey recently wrote and recorded this new song and quickly released it so that her views could be heard as soon as possible. #LanaDelRey
Lana wrote Coachella – Woodstock In My Mind to express her concern for being at Coachella while tensions with North Korea and the USA are rising. She sings about how she’d trade her life of fame to have peace in the world, and she worries about why she should even be worrying about the state of the world – because things like this shouldn’t be happening. She views Coachella as her Woodstock because it is an escape from everything that is happening, although she wishes she didn’t need an escape. And she sings about her worry for what is going to become of the children today and perhaps her hope is enough to ripple something positive in the world.
This song is not included on Lana’s upcoming album Lust for Life.
Music video by Lana Del Rey performing Coachella – Woodstock In My Mind. (C) 2017
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Detection of a simultaneous optical and gamma-ray flare from blazar PMN J2345-1555
ATel #2972; D. Donato (NASA/GSFC) on behalf of the Fermi LAT Collaboration, M. Hauser, S. Wagner (LSW Heidelberg), H. Hagen (Sternwarte Hamburg) on behalf of the ATOM team
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Subjects: Optical, Gamma Ray, >GeV, Blazar, Transient
On October 24, 2010 the Automatic Telescope for Optical Monitoring (ATOM), operated by the H.E.S.S. collaboration and located next to the H.E.S.S. IACT array in Namibia, showed significant optical flaring activity of the intermediate redshift flat spectrum radio quasar PMN J2345-1555 (RA=23:45:12.5, Dec=-15:55:07.8 (J2000); Petrov et al. 2006, AJ, 131, 1872; z=0.621, Healey et al. 2008, ApJS, 175, 97). The optical source was observed to have brightened by 2 mag in the last week (Oct 17th: R=16.1mag, Oct 24: R=14.6mag, Oct 25: R=14.0mag) and by 4 mag with respect to its faint state in July 2010. The R-band brightness of this source monitored by ATOM during the last year varied between R=15.9mag in January 2010 and a faint state of R=18.4mag in July 2010.
Also the Large Area Telescope (LAT), on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has observed a flare from a source positionally consistent with this blazar. Preliminary analysis indicates that the source showed a bright gamma-ray outburst with a daily flux (E>100MeV) of (0.6 +/- 0.2) x 10^-6 ph cm^-2 s^-1 (errors are statistical only), a factor of 15 greater than that reported in the Fermi-LAT 1st year catalog (1FGL J2344.6-1554; Abdo et al. 2010, ApJS 188, 405).
Because Fermi operates in all-sky survey mode, gamma-ray monitoring of this source will continue. In consideration of the activity of this source we strongly encourage multiwavelength observations. The Fermi LAT contact person for this source is D. Donato (firstname.lastname@example.org).
The Fermi LAT is a pair conversion telescope designed to cover the energy band from 20 MeV to greater than 300 GeV. It is the product of an international collaboration between NASA and DOE in the U.S. and many scientific institutions across France, Italy, Japan and Sweden.


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The New Pacific Roadlog from Nogales to Tapachula twists along the Pacific Coast from the US to the Guatemalan border. It also includes some new sublogs; Sonoyta to Santa Ana; Navojoa to Alamos; San Blas to Las Varas, Arriaga to Tuxtla Guerrero and San Christobal de las Casas to Palenque; and Tapachula to San Christobal. The Pacific Coast Roadlog leads you from the Pacific coastal lowlands to the highlands of Chiapas and over to the Gulf of Mexico. For years, our clients have asked us for updated road logs of Mexico. The On The Road Logs are updated, simple to read, easy to use, and offer the perfect solution that our clients have been asking for. As we
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TransUnion Completes Acquisition of Verisk Financial Services
TransUnion completed its acquisition of Verisk Financial Services. Together, our combined capabilities will help us better serve customers through enhanced insights into customer behavior. Read More.
As the recovery from the initial pandemic continues, the focus in the world of cards and payments has now moved firmly towards profitability as well as the opportunities and threats afforded by evolving consumer behaviour, with up-to-date data and insights imperative for industry decision-makers.
The latest market intelligence reports from Argus Advisory Report cover four markets: United States, Malaysia, South Africa and Kuwait. Our country-by-country guides deliver in-depth research, expert analysis and valuable commentary, now featuring data showing impacts and trends related to the pandemic.
Competition has resumed in the credit cards market with issuers vying to capture their share of the return of spend as restrictions lift. A new form of competition has emerged in the form of BNPL, which has blossomed here in recent years. The accelerating rollout of contactless shows that, despite a powerful tradition and legacy infrastructure, change can happen quickly if industry desires it. You will learn:
Despite the rapid increase of digital payment methods, there remains a golden opportunity to claim market share both in issuing and acquiring. Supported by successful efforts to launch an interoperable standard, the QR code is gaining ground fast, paving the way for super-apps to gain market share. You will learn:
Digital banking is growing fast and new lenders are challenging incumbents through purely digital offerings, while the emergence from non-banks of new tech (eg, QR codes, SoftPOS and mPOS) is set to drive down the cost of payment acceptance for merchants. The central bank is currently consulting with stakeholders about creating a domestic card network. You will learn:
Acceptance improvements will accelerate the POS rebound in tandem with e-commerce's increasing popularity, rising smartphone penetration and initiatives to encourage cards and digital usage. The debit card is notably popular here, in contrast to the wider region, while the rise of Premium products shows that the credit card is growing in appeal. You will learn:
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Fall migration has been looking rather different at the LSLBO this week. Instead of the Tennessee Warblers that have been so numerous for so long, recently we have seen an increase in Swainson’s Thrushes – another one of our most banded species. They are one of several different thrush species that we band here at the LSLBO, including Hermit Thrushes and American Robins. We also banded our first Gray-cheeked Thrush of the season, and a young Varied Thrush! While we can expect to see at least a few of the other thrush species throughout the season, the Varied Thrush is an unusual capture. This young one is only the seventh to be banded in the twenty-seven years the LSLBO has been running, and the first since 2010.
Currently, the Varied Thrush is listed as a common bird in steep decline. As of 2015, their population has declined by 73%. Since they prefer old growth forests and large trees, they are especially impacted by habitat loss due to logging and fragmentation. Like many birds that visit bird feeders, they are also vulnerable to window strikes and predation by both feral and domestic cats.
They are predominantly found in the Rockies and British Columbia, so seeing them this far east is a treat. If you are very lucky, you might be able to hear the single alternating note of their song on Marten Mountain during the breeding season: keep an eye out for a robin-sized bird perched on an exposed branch near the canopy, with striking slate-grey and orange plumage!
Like other thrush species, the Varied Thrush forages on the ground, using their long legs to sneak through the low bush looking for insects during the summer months. As it gets cooler, they switch to a nut and fruit diet that helps them pack on the fat they use as fuel during their migration from the northernmost edge of their range in Alaska to the milder B.C. coast. This is a considerably shorter migration compared to other thrush species.
Our popular Swainson’s Thrushes travel from their boreal breeding grounds all the way down to the western coast of South America, including Argentina and Peru. The Gray-cheeked Thrush we banded this past week may join the Swainson’s Thrushes in Argentina, but they also spread throughout the Caribbean and farther south into Brazil. Meanwhile American Robins will spend the winter anywhere between the southern edges of Canada and down towards Florida and Mexico.
September will be the last month for LSLBO’s songbird migration monitoring, and the first for our owl banding program. If you are looking for more information regarding bird conservation and what we do here, be sure to give the Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation a visit.
By Bronwyn Robinson, LSLBO Field Assistant


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It’s a bittersweet ending to many seasons. Coaches are being shown the door, and the field continues to shrink. Some teams have work to do, while others will have to regroup for next week. There are bid stealers alive in the conference tournaments. Let’s take a look at the Friday slate of conference tournament games. Here are the College Basketball picks for March 15th.
College Basketball Picks March 15th
Pittsburgh vs. North Carolina (-7.5) (O/U 147.5)
Starting with the Pittsburgh Panthers, who may have done enough to secure a spot in the big dance. They discarded Wake Forest yesterday and face a UNC team that has figured it out just in time. A win for the Panthers would go a long way to secure their spot but this should be all North Carolina.
North Carolina is athletic enough to cover Blake Hinson. Of course, I’m not talking about Armando Bacot. This is a Harrison Ingram shoutout. UNC’s flexibility in their lineups should pressure the Panthers to race the floor and keep up with the scoring.
Unders have been a theme for the neutral court matchups in the conference tournaments, but UNC is completely ignoring that. Take the over on points in this one. North Carolina in a rout.
The Pick: Over 147.5
Texas Tech vs. Houston (-8.5) (O/U 131.5)
Impressive win by Texas Tech yesterday, controlling BYU from the tip. The Red Raiders took it to the Cougars, holding BYU to 20% shooting from deep. The Red Raiders keep the theme consistent and play the Houston Cougars for a spot in the Big 12 final.
The big thing about the Red Raiders has been consistency. Texas Tech is able to shoot the ball well from deep. However, Jamal Shead is waiting for Pop Isaacs. That will leave the Red Raiders a man down on the perimeter just to create even more trouble getting to the rim than Texas Tech already has.
Houston displayed why they are able to slowly suffocate teams from the tip in their matchup with TCU. They were able to get out ahead early and grind TCU down.
Jamal Shead had 5 steals. This same pressure from Shead creates a real problem for Texas Tech and everyone else in the country. They are forced to find a game out of players who aren’t used to being depended on. Back door cover threat.
The Pick: Houston -8.5


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House Republicans are attaching controversial cuts and policy measures to legislation required to run the biggest domestic department in the federal government, and if they don't back off there will likely be, you guessed it, another government shutdown fight.
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Already, Democrats in both chambers are saying a draft of the House's Labor/Health and Human Services appropriations bill is dead on arrival, because it contains deep cuts to heating assistance for the poor, requires the repeal of a major provision of the health care law that will help provide assistance for disabled people, halts implementation of the entire law until the Supreme Court determines the constitutionality of its individual insurance mandate, and slashes Planned Parenthood and public broadcasting. Just for starters.
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Sometimes, a simple thing can change the trajectory of someone’s whole life. For new graduate Cameron Douglas of Vardaman, it was an introductory counseling course taken during his sophomore year at Mississippi State. That single class led him to consider counseling as a future career.
“That one class planted a seed for me. After that, I made up my mind, changed my major and haven’t looked back,” Douglas said.
Douglas hopes to work with pre-teens and teenagers. He said teen years are crucial because youth are figuring out who they are and who they want to become. He explained that many young people don’t get the chance to live up to their potential or be their best selves, and they may have difficulty advocating for themselves or lack the resources to do so. Douglas hopes to be that advocate and make a difference for many youth in the future.
“I want to be that resource or be able to add to the resources that are already available to teens,” he said. “I want to be able to help teens transition into college and adulthood—to give them the best chance at success.”
Douglas already is able to put what he’s learned into practice. At his internship with Starkville’s Community Counseling program, he has been assisting counselors in sessions, even leading a few sessions of his own under supervision.
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“There’s a huge stigma there, and because of that, many black teenagers will probably never get the mental health services that they need,” he said. “Studies show that the sooner people who need mental health services get them, the better off they are. We need to do more research and see how we can get more young black kids into counseling and close the gap.”


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Relative to “Hurricane Recovery, in Post-Ida Louisiana” (Nation, Sept. 26 issue): Reading through the flood of news highlighting Hurricane Ida’s devastation, I found myself overwhelmed by an unexpected emotion — anger.
Over the past year, I have worked to embrace Christ’s calling to a “righteous anger.” My anger in response to the loss of life, home and hope that resulted from Hurricane Ida is, I believe, such an anger.
As you are likely aware, we were in the “Season of Creation” in the Church, celebrated Sept. 2 through Oct. 4. This year’s theme was “A Home for All? Renewing the Oikos of God.” It highlights our calling as Christians to care for our common home and serves as a reminder that climate change is an imminent threat to the homes of countless people and species, particularly the most vulnerable.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, the threat climate change poses to our God-given home is clear. As your article mentions, we are only 16 years post-Katrina. We may be better at responding to catastrophic weather events, but I fear we have begun to accept this as “good enough,” when, as Christians, we are called to do more.
As Pope Francis states in Laudato Si (Care for Our Common Home), “our goal is to become painfully aware, to dare to turn what is happening to the world into our own personal suffering and thus discovering what each of us can do about it” (19).
If you had a home that consistently experienced major flooding, would you be satisfied with a slightly improved response each time? Or would you want to find out why your home was flooding and address the root problem? This is what we are called to: Demand more, make the suffering of our world and of our brothers and sisters personal, and fight for them.
Part of getting to the root of the problem involves engaging in civic participation. I encourage you and your readers to advocate for stronger government action on climate change.
As Congress pours through the budget reconciliation, we have an opportunity to ensure that the communities and environments most impacted by climate change are not left behind. We need more investment in technology and research to develop renewable energy that is accessible to all, capture carbon more effectively, and ensure access to clean water.
As a Catholic who is tired of reading about homes, churches, communities and lives being destroyed, I urge you to consider how to “become painfully aware.”
Your report “Traditiones Custodes and the ‘Reform of the Reform’” (front page, Aug. 15 issue) gives the impression that this proposed reform would consist mainly in putting an end to widespread abuses in celebrating the revised Roman Rite of Mass promulgated by Pope St. Paul VI and in promoting a greater use of the traditional options it still allows.
Jesuit liturgist Father Tony Lusvardi is reported as “point[ing] out” that Pope Francis “is explicit in his agreement with Benedict’s critique of the implementation of the post-Vatican II liturgical reforms.”
I find this account inexact, even misleading. At a 1995 Eucharistic Conference, Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio and I pioneered the idea of “reforming the reform”; and when I spoke personally with then-Cardinal Ratzinger about this in January 1996, he expressed substantial agreement. But our core proposal was not just to correct abuses in celebrating the post-conciliar liturgy (though, of course, we saw that as important and necessary), but, rather, in the interests of restoring unity, to bring that officially promulgated liturgy itself back into greater conformity with what the Council Fathers prescribed in Sacrosanctum Concilium.
We “Reform of the Reformers” have constantly emphasized that the changes chiefly responsible for alienating so many tradition-loving Catholics from even reverent and abuse-free celebrations of the Novus Ordo are novelties that Vatican II never called for: Mass entirely in the vernacular and facing the people; the near disappearance of Gregorian chant and polyphony; the elimination of many gestures of reverence and “sacrifice-expressing” offertory prayers; Communion received standing and in the hand; marginalizing the Roman Canon — the very centerpiece of the historic Latin Rite liturgy — by adding new Eucharistic Prayers; drastically reducing sacred silence by requiring all Eucharistic Prayers to be recited out loud; and allowing lay Eucharistic ministers and female altar servers.
While it is true, as your report points out, that not all the above cancellations and innovations are required in the modern Roman Rite, it is equally true that if the liturgical reform had limited itself to what Vatican II actually called for, none of them would even have been permitted. Thus, a key premise of Pope Francis’ motu proprio is historically false, namely, that the Missal “promulgated by St. Paul VI and St. John Paul II [is] in conformity with the decrees of Vatican Council II” (Traditionis Custodes, 1).
Tragically, its non-conformity with those decrees will probably thwart the Holy Father’s plan to use it as the instrument for restoring Catholic unity.
Father Brian W. Harrison, O.S.
St. Louis, Missouri
The Editor responds: Thank you for your insights. Your impression that our coverage of Traditiones Custodes was misleading surprises us. Most of our coverage characterized the decree as heavy-handed in its approach and unlikely to achieve unity. We couldn’t agree with you more regarding your statement that “changes chiefly responsible for alienating so many tradition-loving Catholics from even reverent and abuse-free celebrations of the Novus Ordo are novelties that Vatican II never called for.” We hope our other coverage was clearer in pointing out the problematic elements.
I am always behind in reading my subscriptions, and only now am I catching up on your Sept. 12-25 issue. I’m engrossed in it actually, studying now your college guide.
I often look up to the head of an article to see who wrote it, and this time around, your new writer, Virginia Aabram, kept showing up.
I enjoyed her piece on the new president of the University of Dallas, really enjoyed her piece on the new president of Magdalen College (“College Should Be Like Rivendell”) and was so impressed with her “3 Reasons Why the Latin Mass Is So Attractive to Young People” that I just forwarded a link to it to a couple of close friends.
My wife and I attended just such a Mass in Littleton, Colorado, a couple months ago, and everything Ms. Aabram wrote about the traditional Mass rhymed perfectly with our experience. We look forward to visiting there again occasionally. And we’re not even young. I’d say we’re old.
One of the surprises at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Littleton was how young and family-filled their Mass was.
Ms. Aabram nailed it.
Estes Park, Colorado
Relevant to “Abortion Advocates Wage War Against Threats to Roe” (page one, Oct. 10 issue):
The article describes how abortion advocates are rallying against a Texas pro-life law that bars abortion when an infant’s heartbeat is detected.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called the Texas law “a vigilante bounty system that will have a chilling effect on the provisions of any health-care services.” President Joe Biden called the Texas Heartbeat Act an “unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade.”
The article indicates the Texas law caused “a little bit of earth shaking” with the Democratic Party. To protect the “statutory right to abortion” and expand access, the House of Representatives passed the Women’s Health Protection Act.
This legislation would preemptively invalidate all current and future state-level legislation that protects the unborn.
All pro-life laws (federal, state and local) requiring ultrasounds, waiting periods before abortions and parental notification for minors would be invalidated. Doctors would be forced to perform abortions against their deeply held convictions. Helen Alvaré, a legal scholar at George Mason University’s Scalia Law School, called the Women’s Health Protection Act a “huge power grab of every aspect of abortion law.”
This “protection” bill would also repeal the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of taxpayer funds to pay for abortions. It would force all American Catholics to support abortions here and abroad with their tax dollars and pay for something against our deeply held beliefs.
This legislation would conflict with our freedom of religious conscience guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. This deceptive “protection” bill not only eliminates rights — it destroys human life.
When abortion was legalized in 1973, government not only created a constitutional crisis, it instigated a national tragedy that has now led to the deaths of more than 62 million babies.
It’s time for all Catholics to choose life and reverse this egregious and unrighteous precedent decision. It is the No. 1 cause of death in America. With God’s help, his truth will help all Catholic Americans recognize that so-called “choices” miraculously develop into children.
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Continents apart from one another, two farming families aim to reinvent themselves on their land. One family—a strong-willed French matriarch and the son she raised among her vines—tends a centuries-old, biodynamic vineyard in the Southern Rhône. Across the ocean in Humboldt, California, another family—a brash father and his more reserved son—carefully manage a state-recognized, organic cannabis farm. The feature documentary WEED & WINE interweaves their stories, urging comparisons and teasing out contradictions between France’s revered winemaking traditions and the artisan culture emerging alongside the legal cannabis industry.


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I HAVE A SLT 4X4 WITHA V8 5.9.. WONT START NOT FIRING
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October, 30, 2011 AT 7:40 AM
It will crank strong but the truck has no fire or spark to anything. The odemeter is reading "nobus" my gas gauge isnt working. I replaced the pcm, and crankshaft sensor, had the coil pack tested it is reading 1 ohm higher it should be 2 and its 3 could that cause it. Also I hotwired the fuel pump to see if it kicks which it does. Do you have any suggestions? I really hope you can help!
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An international criminal tribunal in The Hague has found Charles Taylor guilty of all 11 charges relating to the bloody civil war in Sierra Leone.
The former president of Liberia looked despondent as Judge Richard Lussick listed the charges, which included murder, rape and the conscription of child soldiers - offences that are classed as war crimes as well as crimes against humanity.
Although Taylor did not commit the atrocities himself, the court ruled that there was sufficient evidence to show that he had "aided and abetted" the commission of crimes through his dealings with rebel groups.
In exchange for diamonds ,Charles Taylor had provided weapons, food, fuel and equipment to rebels carrying out atrocities in Sierra Leone.
Our Europe Correspondent Martin Geissler reports from the trial in The Hague, on the message today's verdict sends to other brutal rulers.
Today's hearing brings to an end a lengthy process that began with Taylor's indictment in 2003, while he was still President of Liberia. Soon after, he resigned and went into hiding in Nigeria.
His conviction is the first time a former head of state has been convicted by an international court since the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi leaders in 1946.
The lead prosecutor Brenda Hollis hoped that today's ruling would bring "some measure of justice to the many thousands of victims who paid a terrible price for Taylor's crimes".
The court found that Taylor gave "sustained and significant" support to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels in Sierra Leone. However, the judge ruled that the evidence fell short of showing that Taylor ordered the crimes.
Taylor's support included selling so-called blood diamonds in exchange for arms and ammunition, which he passed on to the rebels. The judge said that Taylor was aware that the rebel group was responsible for serious crimes.
Earlier in the trial, the supermodel Naomi Campbell was asked to testify about some blood diamonds Taylor gave her at a banquet they both attended in South Africa in 1997.
Taylor's association with such diamonds, which Miss Campbell famously described as "dirty little stones", were key in bringing him to justice.
The civil war in Sierra Leone lasted for a decade and claimed the lives of some 50,000 people. Numerous atrocities occurred including widespread amputations and rapes.
Human rights groups have hailed the conviction as reminder that not even heads of state are immune from prosecution.
Taylor will be remanded in custody until a sentence hearing on 16th May, and the final sentencing on 30th May. He has the option of appealing the judgement before then.
If he receives a prison sentence he will serve it in the UK.