|• Steven Shamanski leads rookies with 15 power-play points (6g-9a). |
• Elmira is 27-2-2 when scoring three or more goals.
• The Jackals host Toledo on Monday and Wheeling on Friday and Saturday.
|• Matt Ginn had a 34-save shutout in his pro debut on Friday against Greenville. |
• The Everblades are 31-4-3 when scoring first.
• Florida is at Orlando on Wednesday, Evansville on Friday and Saturday and Toledo on Sunday.
|• Dallas Jackson is two points shy of 100 in his professional career. |
• Greenville leads the league with 10 wins in games decided beyond regulation (10-0-4).
• The Road Warriors host Cincinnati on Thursday and Friday and Indy on Saturday.
|• Will MacDonald scored two goals on Sunday at South Carolina. |
• The Gladiators are 14-3-1 when leading after two periods.
• Gwinnett visits Orlando on Thursday and Saturday.
|• Garret Sparks set a team record with 53 saves on Saturday at Evansville. |
• Orlando set a club record with 10 goals in Saturday’s 10-3 win at Evansville.
• The Solar Bears host Florida on Wednesday and Gwinnett on Thursday and Saturday.
|• Ryan Cruthers had his ninth multi-point game of the season on Sunday against Kalamazoo. |
• The Royals have reached the 20-win plateau at home for the fifth time in the last six seasons.
• Reading is at Brampton on Thursday, Friday and Sunday.
|• Caleb Herbert is fourth among rookies with a 21.5 percent shooting percentage (17-for-79). |
• South Carolina leads the league in goals-against per game (2.32) and shots-against per game (26.02).
• The Stingrays host Indy on Friday and Cincinnati on Saturday.


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You should know what all is banned on Facebook to avoid getting banned
We should all agree that Facebook is a whole new different type of ecosystem than what we usually encounter. Its members are normal people, activists, freedom fighters, drifters, drug addicts, politicians, etc. and keeping your sanity and posts within the realms of what is allowed is a big job.
We have had 3 students livestreaming their sexacapes on Facebook, a student livestreaming a movie premier earlier. But what caught everybody’s notice was a recent murder of a 28-year-old Chicago man was captured live on Facebook. One minute the man was hanging out with friends and livestreaming on Facebook. The next, there are sounds of gunshots and screaming. Watching this gruesome spectacle on Facebook raises questions about how can the network giant allow such livestreaming.
He was shot Wednesday night, and yet Facebook hasn’t pulled the video from its platform, which begs the question: Why not?
According to Facebook, the video doesn’t violate its community standards because it doesn’t believe the video celebrates violence. According to the Facebook gods, its falls under a different category: Raising awareness. Therefore instead of removing those types of videos, Facebook marks them with a user warning.
Now consider another post in which an ISIS sympathizer killed a police commander and livestreamed it earlier this week. Facebook immediately pulled off that video. As said above, it is really a thin line which you have to adhere to prevent getting banned or suspended.
Facebook’s community standards are broken into eight categories, including attacks on public figures, bullying and harassment, sexual violence and regulated goods. But exactly what it allows and when isn’t clearly defined and may rest solely in the hands of someone at Menlo Park.
The community standards state that it “aims to find the right balance” to keep people safe, encourage respectful behavior, acknowledge cultural diversity, and empower people to control what they see in their feeds.
But you should remember that while a video of a murder is OK by Facebook’s standards, showing a woman’s nipple isn’t. The company does, however, “always allow” photos of women showing post-mastectomy scarring or actively engaging in breastfeeding. Although some genuine breastfeeding posts have been removed. More so before 2014, moms had been complaining that their breastfeeding pics were removed. In 2014, Facebook relaxed its breastfeeding policy a bit to allow for these types of non-sexual images.
However that took considerable effort and a hashtag movement, #FreeThe Nipple, which brought Facebook’s attention to the banning of female nudity on sites like Instagram and Facebook.
Facebook does allow nude paintings, sculptures, and other art that depicts nudes — but sometimes it gets it wrong. Facebook has in the past removed many paintings which it deemed as gross including an artwork depicting Donald Trump’s babydick. Similarly a Facebook post by Lee Rowland of the ACLU was removed because it contained a photo of a nude statue. Facebook’s head of policy management Monica Bickert later accepted that the photo didn’t actually violate Facebook’s policies but was just a mistake.
Facebook draws a hard line on selling prescription drugs, marijuana, firearms and ammunition– which it says are prohibited on the platform.
But you are allowed to post photos of, say, yourself smoking marijuana out of a bong.
Facebook, like other online communities, relies on a mix of user reports and internal moderation to flag inappropriate or illegal content.
That means Facebook has 1.65 billion people helping enforce its standards — but what’s considered “appropriate” is far from universal.

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Randy Foster tossed an armload of clothes into his truck, grabbed his dog and fled as the town around him was about to burn. He left behind his new motorcycle as hot ash began singeing the back of his neck.
''It was time to go,'' he said.
Today, Mr. Foster, a Los Alamos police officer, returned for the first time to what remained of his neighborhood. Walking through his yard, he found charred metal, blackened rubble and the skeleton of his bike, most of it melted away in a firestorm that has turned 36,000 acres of northern New Mexico into a scorched no man's land.
Most frustrating was what Mr. Foster could no longer identify.
He turned over a hunk of fused metal in his hands, blackened by picking through the debris that was once his living room.
''I have no idea what this is,'' he said. Then it came to him. ''Oh, wait a minute, that's my VCR.''
More than a week after the National Park Service started the blaze to remove dry brush and grass, the fire that had destroyed 260 homes and threatened the Los Alamos National Laboratory remained dangerous.
Also today, President Clinton declared the area affected by the Los Alamos fires to be a ''major disaster.'' The announcement will bring federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts as well as financial relief to individuals affected by the blaze.Continue reading the main story
The blaze in the nearby canyons and valleys was still only 5 percent contained. It spread in all directions today, reaching Indian land. Officials were concerned that the fire might reach sacred tribal sites in the Santa Clara Canyon.
Winds picked up late today, and a dry, cold front was expected on Monday, bringing higher winds.
''With the fire burning in so many different directions, it will be a long time before we get this fire contained,'' said Jim Paxon, a United States Forest Service spokesman. ''This fire will burn for weeks. This thing is growing and we don't know where it's going to end up.''
Most of the 25,000 people who were evacuated will not be allowed to return to their homes for at least a week, although the National Guard will begin escorting groups into Los Alamos as early as Sunday to pick up clothes, medicine and other essentials. Most learned of their homes' fate on Friday, when a list of destroyed houses was posted on the county's Web site.
''We are experiencing a miracle at the moment: Our house, which we were absolutely sure was gone, is standing,'' said Karen Brandt, who had checked into a Santa Fe motel with her husband and her mother.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt promised residents that they would have answers by Thursday about why the Park Service started the blaze at Bandelier National Monument.
Park Superintendent Roy Weaver was placed on paid leave pending an investigation, and Mr. Babbitt said all prescribed fires in the West would be put on hold for a month, although government agencies could still grant exceptions.
At a Red Cross shelter in Santa Fe, residents waited for word of the supervised visits, trying to determine in the meantime what remained.
A few made their way into town, past the checkpoints meant to keep them out. Others, like Mr. Foster, whose jobs gave them access, were able to survey the devastation, which could cost $1 billion.
White ash dusted the remnants of his two-story condominium like a light spring snow, and the twisted metal resembled a junkyard more than the wreckage of a home.
Faring better was the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a key facility in the nation's nuclear weapons program that gave rise to the town.
Some trailers were burned, but the laboratory's major installations emerged unscathed. The lab planned to resume limited operations on Monday, the laboratory director, John Browne, said. In a move officials described as unprecedented, the lab opened its facility to reporters today, trying to allay fears that the fire damaged research and nuclear waste areas.
Months of drought in New Mexico have left the state vulnerable to fires. Though the fire season has just begun, already more than 200,000 acres have burned -- nearly four times the total for last year.
In southern New Mexico, a fire that had charred 20,700 acres lost momentum, and firefighters said it was 50 percent contained.
The fire, which was caused by a downed power line, destroyed 14 buildings and forced 125 people from their homes in the Sacramento Mountains. The villages of Sacramento and Weed were evacuated, along with several nearby canyon enclaves.
About 450 firefighters were using bulldozers, airplanes and a helicopter to fight that blaze today.Continue reading the main story


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Roniit is an independent Dark Electro Pop artist hailing from the mountains of Colorado. Harnessing her silvery voice and a keen ear for melody, Roniit writes and produces catchy yet somber electronic music.
Since starting in her career in 2011 Roniit has toured nationally, playing 30 cities in 2 months. She has sung on several collaboration tracks with DJs from the United Kingdom, Los Angeles, and New York. Her latest creation is her 6 track EP “In The Shadows.” All music, lyrics and production are her own handiwork, with drums and assistant production by Eric W. Brown.

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How to Get Involved
We need you. The Village Square is a completely unique model for civic engagement in modern America. But as good as our new (but actually very old) idea is, we are still swimming upstream against the thriving business of division in America, so there’s nothing easy about this.


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The opening ceremony of the “Workshop on Pest/Disease Risk Analysis, Laboratory Diagnosis, and Fumigation in Uzbekistan” was held virtually on March 29. Thirty-seven representatives from the State Plants Quarantine Inspection of Uzbekistan, scientific research institutes, and local inspection and quarantine bureaus registered for the workshop. The opening ceremony was presided over by Hong Zhijie, Counselor of the Center of International Cooperation Service (CICOS) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China. Alisher Shukurov, Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Chen Runyun, Vice President of the Academy for International Business Officials of the Ministry of Commerce of China, and Jin Yulong, Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in the Republic of Uzbekistan, attended the ceremony. Tong Yu’e, Director of CICOS, also attended the ceremony and delivered remarks.
The workshop is being held from March 29 to April 8, and focuses on identification and diagnosis of common plant pests and diseases in Uzbekistan, fumigation techniques, and eco-friendly prevention and control methods. The aim is to improve the capacity of Uzbek specialists to prevent and control pests and diseases, develop the philosophy of eco-friendly prevention and control methods, promote China-Uzbekistan cooperation in agricultural science and technology, and push forward agricultural development for both countries.

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PUBLIC ARCHIVES COMMISSION
AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES COMMISSION FOR THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE JOHN DICKINSON MANSION AS AN HISTORIC SITE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:
Section 1. The sum of $18,800 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956 and a like sum of $18,800 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957 is appropriated to the Public Archives Commission of the State of Delaware to maintain the John Dickinson Mansion and to make the said mansion available as an historic site and to cover incidental expenses connected therewith. Hereafter the Budget Appropriation Bill will include an appropriation to maintain the John Dickinson Mansion.
Section 2. This Act is a supplementary appropriation and the money appropriated shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the General Fund of the State of Delaware.
Approved June 1, 1955.

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After a few PMs about the music I had made for my game(games technically, but the second isn't done yet
), I figured that a few of us out here probably have no skill in creating music with music editing software or the such. I know I was like this at one point, and some of us are bound to be in the same boat, or are just not in the mood to make it.
I came up with an ideal, and found a means to provide it too. I'll be adding buy-able music on my website (a few tracks are already up, with usage rights and limitations) to can be purchased from prices from $1-$3 per track. You can listen to the full song before you purchase it, so no fears in worrying if you'll like the song after you buy it.
All transactions are done through PayLoadz.com, and I do not obtain any personal information from the buyer. Music can be purchased using Credit Cards or PayPal (I would advice PayPal for added security reasons!). All files are on PayLoadz's servers, and download links are provided upon payment by PayLoadz, so there is no waiting for a download email from me.
Check out my list of songs and sample them at http://www.darksideofdawn.com/music.html
Thanks for your time, and I hope you find some of this music usable and to your enjoyment!


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Years in the Art Fair Business
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Fort Worth TX- it's HUGE, it has a wide variety of art forms, and all of it is good serious art, not crafts/amateurish
Worst show ever and why
Lawton OK - everything was cheap, pop-up tents with craft-level stuff, except 1 or 2 serious artists
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Kader Khan has served in the Bollywood industry for a long time and that is appreciable. The way Kader Khan served for the film industry was something which many stars couldn’t. He has contributed to the industry in many ways (actor, director, comedian, and screenwriter). Khan was active in Bollywood from 1971 to 2017. He played a role of prosecuting attorney in his debut movie Daag which was released in 1973, In which Rajesh Khanna played the lead role. Kader Khan’s Net worth At the time of his death was $30 million, which is equal to INR 212crores.
Kader Khan has done some extraordinary roles in the film industry and in real life as well. Kader Khan has been there for a long time. But being in the industry doesn’t mean you are serving to the community. however, he was a man with a vision and had a lot of love for the poor people of this world. So he retired himself and then started serving the poor people.
His Sons were very much connected with him and before a few years, he was offered Canadian citizenship and he moved to Canada with his family. After a prolonged illness, he left for the heavenly abode a few weeks back.
But a strange thing which nobody noticed or only a few may have noticed that none of the big stars were present in the ceremonial rites of kade Khan in Canada. His Family chose to bury him in Canada because he had moved there and they are the citizens of Canada now. Otherwise, they actually belong to Afghanistan.
Kader Khan was mostly known for the comedy roles he had played for several years in the industry. But he played some other roles of villains, supporting actor and sometimes the father of the heroes as well. So we can say he was a versatile actor which this industry may never produce again.

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The New Art Gallery celebrates its 20th birthday on the 20th February 2020. To mark this special occasion, we will bring together a range of works collected over the last 20 years. Works will span a wide range of media and will include both international artists as well as those closer to home. […]
This year, Walsall Society of Artists celebrates their 70th annual exhibition and for the first time and will be shown in the Family Gallery on the Ground Floor. Every year, a range of works are presented by local artists including portraits, still lifes, urban and rural scenes as well as craft. Every Saturday, members will demonstrate […]
This exhibition brings together three photographers, Arpita Shah, Maryam Wahid and Nilupa Yasmin to present new and existing work focused around portraiture, culture and female identity. Through making work about and in collaboration with their families and communities, both in the UK and Pakistan, these photographers seek to explore and represent the complexity and […]
14 January – 23 February 2020 25 February – 5 April 2020 Two of the exhibiting artists from The University of Wolverhampton MA (Fine Art) Degree Show will be invited to take up short residencies in the Artists’ Studio as part of the Gallery’s Studio programme next year.
To coincide with the display of the Garman Ryan collection through 2020, work by Birmingham based artist Sarah Taylor Silverwood will displayed within our Floor 2 temporary exhibition space. This body of drawings is based on text and images abstracted from photographs, letters, and documents relating to the two creators and donors of the […]


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Essential Tips for Studying Witchcraft
First of all, you need to think of the reasons why you are interested in learning more about witchcraft. Where you are required to use a journal and write down some of your reasons for the course. This is essential as it will help in guiding you through your goals until such a time that you will achieve all of them. Being focused is one way of achieving your dream faster, and by knowing the reasons, you will be good to go. You find that witchcraft is a tool that can be used to manipulate others even though most cases are frowned upon by the modern witches.
Apart from that, it is necessary that you understand the difference between witchcraft, Wicca and paganism. One thing that you should know is that these things are not the same by any means. Like we said that witchcraft is magic or a tool that you can use to manipulate others. But on the other hand paganism and Wicca are religions. But it is also essential to note that sometimes Wicca and paganism uses magic but thus the main thing because they are primarily in line with the religion. Therefore, understanding these will mean that you know what you are going for.
Besides, you should also look at for books that are talking about witchcraft. In this case, you will have to visit a library, or you can visit different websites where you can read these books online or even download them. You should know that these are introductory books and they will guide on how you should go about learning witchcraft as a beginner. For instance, we have the witchcraft mommy, the dark side of the moon among others which will guide you and make you understand the art of witchcraft. Be sure to learn more about witchcraft here!
Also, you should also practice, which means that you should not be afraid of trying out what you learned. I can say that this is the best way to learn how to meditate and learn through your own experience. You find that most of the people always fear that it can go wrong and they don't have a counterspell of which you should be ready with. Make sure to learn witchcraft here!
Last but not least, you should also have expectations and be ready to face the challenges. Here you should give yourself time on things that you want to achieve, and when you are facing challenges, you should know that it is part of the game. See this video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFc3N_Rj-Xo for more info about witchcraft.

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Environmental Factor, September 2008, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Grantee Presents Prize-Winning Environmental Justice Research
By Eddy Ball
Edward Emmett, M.D., spoke to an audience of NIEHS and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists gathered in Rodbell Auditorium on July 24. Hosted by NIEHS Program Analyst Liam O’Fallon, Emmett’s talk on “Perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) from Teflon Manufacture: Studies of Community Exposure, Potential Risks and Effects of Intervention” was part of the NIEHS Frontiers of Environmental Sciences Lecture Series.
Emmett is a professor in the University of Pennsylvania (UP) School of Medicine, deputy director of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology and director of the Community Outreach and Education Core. Emmett reported on the studies he and colleagues conducted on the effects of PFOA, a persistent and ubiquitous compound also known as C8, in water provided by the Little Hocking Water Authority (LHWA) in southeastern Ohio — and their innovative protocol for disseminating results to affected residents and impacting public health practice and policy in the area.
Emmett began his talk with photos of the Ohio River, the Dupont Teflon-producing plant in West Virginia that is the source of PFOA and, just across the river from the plant, the intake for drinking water distributed by LHWA to homes in Ohio as far as 20 miles away. “Community concern really started in 2001,” he explained, “when PFOA was found in production wells of the Little Hocking Water Association at concentrations between 0.8 and 7.8 parts per billion.”
As Emmett explained, with NIEHS funding to correct an “information discrepancy…, [the researchers] set about creating an environmental justice partnership [made up of] an environmental scientist, a local health care provider and the community association… to make sure the right questions were being asked and to empower those affected by providing the information necessary for informed action.”
In a random stratified sampling of groups with differing patterns of air exposure to PFOA, the investigators determined that the source was indeed water and that levels in humans varied depending on the source of the water. They also found that the median PFOA in LHWA customers averaged 386 ppb compared to a level of 5 ppb in the general population and approached levels found in production workers, with levels highest in the very young and the very old.
Even though the team found no association between serum PFOA and biomarkers or an increase in liver or thyroid disease, the team prepared a set of recommendations for consumers, industry and regulators. They disseminated the results of the study and their recommendations through a protocol that marked a paradigm shift in communication of research findings by notifying individuals in the study and the community first through personal letters, consultation, public meetings, a web site and a newsletter. Only after the people affected understood the results were the scientific community and the media informed in such a way that the partnership controlled the message.
This empowerment model proved to be very successful. It convinced Dupont on the afternoon that results were released to offer free bottled water to affected households and led eventually to construction of a new treatment plant. According to results of a follow-up study of the affected population, 78.6 percent accepted Dupont’s offer of bottle water, 95 percent made some change in water supply, and there was a 26 percent reduction in PFOA levels.
Several published studies emerged from the investigators’ work, along with a first prize at the EPA Science Fair in 2000, and the publications won the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Authorship Award for the year. In May of this year, Emmett and Decatur Community Association Community Coordinator Ellen Mumma accepted the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Award for 2008.
The research also inspired a chapter in Callie Lyons’ provocatively titled 2007 book,Stain-Resistant, Nonstick, Waterproof, and Lethal: The Hidden Dangers of C8. So far at least two states, New Jersey and Minnesota, have used the team’s research as the basis of safe water standards.


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Board of Alders approves inclusionary zoning legislation, requiring affordable housing in all new developments
This new housing policy will mandate that market-rate developers in New Haven include a designated percentage of ‘deeply affordable’ units.
Sylvan Lebrun, Contributing Photographer
Years in the making, New Haven’s first inclusionary zoning law — which will require and incentivize developers to include affordable housing units in all new market-rate projects — is now set to become city policy next month.
The city’s Affordable Housing Task Force first recommended the implementation of inclusionary zoning policies in January 2019. Introducing the legislation became a major priority for Mayor Justin Elicker’s administration. The law was formally presented to the public in its current form in June 2021. After a number of contentious public hearings and debates within the City Plan Commission and the Board of Alders’ Legislation Committee, the policy finally passed with a 25-1-1 vote on the floor of the full Board last Tuesday.
The bill mandates that future market-rate housing complexes include a certain portion of units with rents set at 50 percent of the Area Median Income. This portion will be determined by the strength of the market in the neighborhood, with stricter requirements in the downtown area where luxury developments are common. This is intended to encourage mixed-income development and combat historic redlining. The law will take effect on Feb. 18.
“This ordinance will make sure that, in the core of our city, future growth and development will benefit everyone,” Ward 7 Alder Eli Sabin ’22 said at the Tuesday night meeting. “We will no longer have segregated luxury developments. Instead, we will have mixed-income development that protects those who need it most… Everyone deserves to live in a safe neighborhood with good access to jobs, transit and housing.”
Sabin called this inclusionary zoning plan “one of the most important pieces of legislation that this board has voted on in a number of years.” Many alders emphasized the centrality of the ordinance to the board’s legislative agenda, in which they pledged to address the city’s housing crisis.
Under the new ordinance, all market-rate developments of more than 10 units within the “core” downtown zone of New Haven will be required to make 10 percent of their units affordable — with rents at or below 50 percent AMI — and reserve an additional five percent of their units for housing voucher holders. For a two-bedroom apartment, an “affordable” unit under the requirements of the new bill would have a monthly rent of $1,090 or less city-wide, according to the Connecticut Department of Housing.
In the “strong” zone, which includes East Rock, Long Wharf, Dixwell and Dwight, as well as parts of Wooster Square, Newhallville, the Hill and Fair Haven, only five percent of the units must be affordable. Throughout the rest of the city, only larger-scale building projects with more than 75 units will be required to make five percent of their units affordable.
Ward 9 Alder Charles Decker emphasized that the higher percentages set for the neighborhoods with the strongest real estate markets are intended to “prevent future luxury developments in areas like Downtown and East Rock from becoming de facto gated communities,” increasing the supply of affordable housing across the whole city.
Solidifying the details of this inclusionary zoning policy was a “balancing act,” according to City Plan Director Aicha Woods ARC ’97, and required incorporating public testimony and feedback from housing justice advocates, developers and New Haven residents. Woods said that the goal was to ensure as much affordable housing as possible while not “creating an environment that would potentially stifle development” and reduce the overall housing supply.
In his speech of support, Decker noted that this new ordinance was progressive even in comparison to similar inclusionary zoning programs across the country, setting an unusually high threshold for affordability. Inclusionary zoning policies typically set the rent for ‘affordable’ units at “70 percent or 80 percent or even higher” of the AMI, he said.
An in-lieu fee will be available as an option to developers who do not fulfill the requirements of the policy. According to Livable City Initiative director Arlevia Samuel, the city will then use these amassed funds to subsidize housing assistance nonprofits and smaller affordable building developments across the city.
Those who comply with the inclusionary zoning requirements will receive a number of benefits, including a waiving of parking minimums, tax abatements and permission to build denser units.
These incentives were a cause of debate at the Board of Alders meeting, with Ward 10 Alder Anna Festa, who casted the single dissenting vote, arguing that the bill was too lenient on developers and would be exploited.
“I feel like we’re constantly giving developers a break,” Festa said. “What we’re fighting for is not even enough affordable housing… You know what the developers are going to do? They’re going to increase the market rate rental in order to make up for what they’re losing in affordable housing. And we in this city are giving them all these tax breaks.”
In response to Festa, Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison argued that the incentives were the only way to be in the position to “ask these people who are building housing with their own money to make sure that there’s affordable [units] in there.”
Many alders who spoke in support of the ordinance stated that although it represents a step in the right direction, it is in no way enough to solve the affordable housing crisis. Alder Devin Avshalom-Smith shared that in his Newhallville ward, low-income residents can “barely stand” the 50 percent AMI rents set as affordable under this new legislation, calling the bill a situation in which “you get something or you get nothing at all.”
“In Fair Haven, this should have happened yesterday,” Ward 16 Alder José Crespo said.
The bill as amended at the Board of Alders meeting includes a provision in which the market environment will be re-evaluated every two years. According to Decker, this is with the hope of being able to raise the affordability percentage requirements and adjust the map to add more land to the core and strong zones in the future.
Michael Piscitelli, the city’s economic development administration, told the News that he was “very encouraged and grateful” that the plan had been approved by the Board of Alders, believing that it will have “significant benefit” to the residents of New Haven.
His team will be working in the months ahead to collaborate with developers and begin to implement the new requirements into the zoning process. Woods shared that the City Plan Department has developed a manual outlining the procedures for carrying out the inclusionary zoning policy, focusing on specifics of the developer application process, incentives, enforcement, tenant selection and marketing.
“This is an important step forward, but is not in any way a comprehensive solution to providing deeply affordable housing,” Woods said. “However, it is really based in changing some of the legacy land use patterns in our city…to provide opportunities for residents to live in places that they formerly would be excluded from.”
On Feb. 2, the City Plan Commission will hold a special public hearing to evaluate the implementation manual for the approved inclusionary zoning bill.


By De Elizabeth
On March 24, 2018, more than a million people took to the streets in protest of gun violence for the first-ever March For Our Lives (MFOL). Student activists and survivors of the February 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, organized the official event in Washington D.C., while peer activists staged sibling marches in cities around the globe. Many students involved have not stopped fighting for gun reform in the following months, and the topic continues to be on the minds of young people every day. And while tangible change has occurred in the form of new gun safety laws and even more proposed proposed legislation, one fact remains clear: There is still a lot of work to be done.
In the early planning stages of MFOL, student organizers had a seemingly straightforward outcome in mind: Raise awareness, and motivate others to get involved. “We hoped that the march would be a flashpoint that people saw as a moment they decided to fight before it was too late — before they, too, lost someone to gun violence,” Ryan Deitsch, co-founder of MFOL and MSDHS graduate, told MTV News. “Our goals were to ... empower others to stand up and demand an end to gun violence in all communities.”
Charlie Mirsky, MFOL’s co-founder and Political Director, agreed, adding that they aimed to “show that all these pent-up feelings that the country had [about gun violence] could be represented on a stage for everyone to see at one moment.” According to Mirsky, organizers wanted to build upon the momentum from the world’s response to the Parkland shooting in order to showcase the gravity of the U.S.’s gun problem. “We wanted to create that moment that everyone could remember, and show how many people cared about this issue,” he explained.
Gabriella Socio, a 16-year-old who attended the D.C. march and later worked with a local chapter in Middlesex County, NJ, told MTV News that she was drawn to the event after her little brother was so afraid of gun violence, he refused to attend school. “He was only in kindergarten and was scared of getting shot in school,” she said. “I didn’t grow up scared of school, but my brother does.”
Socio, whose entire family accompanied her to the march, described the event as “amazing,” adding: “To be around other passionate people is a true once-in-a-lifetime experience. I was able to let my voice be heard, which was something I have never felt before.”
Today, MFOL is more than just the event that took the world by storm last spring. The organization equips young people with the necessary tools to take action against gun violence, such as guides for contacting elected officials, or tips for starting coalitions at the local level. Mirsky, who soon became the organization’s D.C. representative, has been busy building a team of student lobbyists all under the age of 21 who are talking directly to lawmakers about gun reform. “In the past year, we’ve built a strong, structured organization to the point where we can continue to mobilize ... and be a real player in this progressive movement,” he said. According to Deitsch, who currently oversees the organization’s content production and partnerships, MFOL now has more than 200 chapters all across the country.
For the students who have joined MFOL at the local level, the feeling of being on the frontlines of history is palpable. “I was drawn to [MFOL] as I was inspired by the Parkland activists’ drive to spark a change in terms of gun violence,” Quinn Bosselman, who served on the organizing committee in Huntington Beach, California, told MTV News. “After [the march], I couldn’t entirely describe the feeling of gratitude I had for my community and their dedication to such an important topic, along with the hope I had for this movement’s future.”
Jacob Martínez felt similarly after serving as one of the lead organizers at a march in Arizona. “It was an overwhelming feeling of unity and strength as ... [we] descended on the state Capitol to say ‘enough is enough,’” the 17-year-old explained. Inspired by that solidarity, Martínez went on to work as a National Field Organizer for MFOL, and today, is planning to run for city council in District 3 of Mesa, Arizona.
“A big issue in my run ... is ensuring the city has a good relationship with our public schools, and is providing adequate resources for student both relating to their learning and mental health,” the 17-year-old told MTV News. Martínez attributes his desire to further enact change to the initial MFOL. “After [the march], there was a sense of accomplishment, knowing we were making an impact larger than ourselves,” he added.
“We’ve seen a further rise in activism among young people,” Deitsch remarked, adding: “We need everyone to demand action, and be the catalyst that causes real change.”
Members of the organization are also building on the momentum they’ve felt in the months since the inaugural MFOL. “Things have changed for the better since last year,” Deitsch said, noting that the National Rifle Association (NRA) has been steadily losing political power “because kids asked the country to have a moral compass.” Mirsky added that progress has been made “on paper,” citing the H.R.8 and S42 bills designed to strengthen background checks on gun purchases; Socio noted that things have improved in her state of New Jersey, highlighting the eight new laws passed by the state in 2018, including a ban on “ghost guns,” or untraceable 3D-printed firearms.
“These federal bills that are being pushed now have a very strong support from the new House of Representatives,” Mirsky said. “So there’s certainly some movement here.”
For some students, the fact that people are simply talking about gun reform is progress in and of itself. “MFOL has kept the topic of gun violence in our daily discussion for over a year,” Bosselman said of his community, which recently elected Rep. Harley Rouda, a Democrat who supports gun reform, while voting out former Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a congressman with an “A” rating from the NRA.
However, it hasn’t been an entirely smooth journey for these student activists, especially in Washington. “There is still a lot of work to do in terms of expanding voting rights and putting people in the Senate — and the White House — who are not corrupted by special interest groups, like the NRA,” Bosselman noted.
Mirsky agreed. “The answers are there,” he said. “It’s just getting money out of the hands of corrupt politicians.”
Of course, one powerful metric of change will ultimately be a decline in gun violence, which is something we sadly haven’t seen yet. According to the CDC, there were nearly 40,000 gun deaths in the U.S. in 2017, which was the highest it had been in more than 20 years, and 2018 was reported as the worst year for school shootings in the U.S. on record.
With the grave reality of gun violence statistics, some students are less optimistic about the future. Dylan Caçador, who attended the MFOL rally in Boston, Massachusetts, told MTV News that while awareness and proposed bills are a step in the right direction, he worries about “guns in the hands of more people in more places.” The 20-year-old noted that many states allow concealed weapons in places of worship, despite tragedies such as the Emanuel Church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.
“Many states have also expanded ‘stand your ground’ laws, which allow the use of deadly force against a perceived threat,” Caçador pointed out. “So we’re left with this spectrum of states with very tough restrictions, to states that continually put more guns into more hands.”
Socio believes that the ultimate solution lives within a reframing of what firearms are — and what they aren’t. “The honest answer is that we need people to change their minds about guns,” Socio said. “Guns are dangerous. They aren’t toys that anyone can have. Making the rules stricter ... helps save lives.”
And the MFOL organizers are keeping their eyes on the progress made by other countries in the wake of gun violence, especially given that gun homicide rates in the United States are 25.2 times higher than other high-income countries, and many politicians continue to accept money from organizations like the NRA to fund their reelections, only to offer “thoughts and prayers” at every gun-induced tragedy. In contrast, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced “our gun laws will change” as a direct response to a mass shooting at two mosques. In 1996, the U.K. began the process of drafting new gun legislation in response to a school shooting, and Japan rarely has more than 10 gun deaths each year due to its strict gun laws. Change, as these countries have shown, is possible, but it does not yet seem like enough American politicians want it.
“The end goal is to make our country [reflective] of all these major countries that have passed these common sense gun laws and have far, far less shootings and gun related deaths,” Mirsky explained to MTV News.
Still, the fight marches on — and these MFOL organizers and participants aren’t ready to give up any time soon. “More than anything, this country needs a revolution of compassion and common sense,” Caçador said. “It’s far too easy for dangerous people to get hold of firearms. That’s hardly an opinion at this point; it’s been proven true far too many times ... and the consequences are catastrophic.”
Bosselman agreed, listing “universal background checks, closing loopholes, banning assault weapons, and funding the CDC’s research on gun violence” as several logistical steps needed to end the U.S.’s mass shooting problem.
For Deitsch, the work has only just begun. “We are in a better place today than last year, but that doesn’t mean hit the breaks,” he said. “There is so much more that must be done on these issues. To stop now would be unthinkable.”
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In early April, the ten finalists in the Rebuild By Design competition unveiled their proposals to protect the Tri-state region from the next Sandy. And in the near future, a jury will select a winner—or winners—to receive federal funding to pursue their plans. But before that final announcement is made, AN is taking a closer look at each of the final ten proposals. Here’s BIG’s “Big U” that could save Lower Manhattan from the next superstorm.
Team BIG encased Lower Manhattan in the “Big U,” a ring of flood protection measures and community and recreational programming. The 10-mile system is separated into compartments that provide unique storm mitigation strategies and programming for the distinct communities along Manhattan‘s outer edge.
On the East Side, the Bridging Berm protects against future storms and provides access to riverfront parkland when the waters are calm. Underneath the FDR Expressway, BIG would install panels that are decorated by local artists and can be deployed as storm-walls when necessary. A new berm in Battery Park would protect the country’s financial center and provide a new pathway through the already popular public space. And an existing Coast Guard building is replaced with a “reverse aquarium,” which “enables visitors to observe tidal variations and sea level rise while providing a flood barrier.”
The team includes One Architecture, Starr Whitehouse, James Lima Planning + Development, Project Projects, Green Shield Ecology, AEA Consulting, Level Agency for Infrastructure, Arcadis, and the Parsons School of Constructed Environments.BIG’s plan for the FDR Expressway. (Courtesy BIG) BIG’s berm. (Courtesy BIG)

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Sidi Bou Said has a reputation as a town of artists. Artists who have lived in or visited Sidi Bou Said include famous occultist Aleister Crowley, Paul Klee, Gustave-Henri Jossot, August Macke and Louis Moillet. Tunisian artists in Sidi Bou Said are members of École de Tunis (painting school of Tunis), such as Yahia Turki, Brahim Dhahak and Ammar Farhat. French philosopher Michel Foucault lived there for a number of years while teaching at the University of Tunis. French author Andre Gide also had a house in the town.
In the 12th century/13th century AD Abu Said Ibn Khalaf Yahya al-Tamimi al-Beji arrived in the village of Jabal el-Menar and established a sanctuary. After his death in 1231, he was buried there. In the 18th century, Turkish governors of Tunis and wealthy citizens of the latter built residences in Sidi Bou Said.
During the 1920s, Rodolphe d’Erlanger applied the blue-white theme all over the town. His home, Ennejma Ezzahra, is now a museum.
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Wednesday’s failure is likely to work as a setback for such private sector efforts. The rocket was supposed to have sent a satellite into orbit around earth to gather various information. (Agency)


Intel will begin supporting overclocking on mid-range motherboards with Rocket Lake, the company has confirmed to us today. Previously limited to enthusiast motherboards with a high-end chipset, such as the existing Z490 chipset for 10th Gen Comet Lake chips, now it seems Intel is keen to bring overclocking to more affordable options.
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Intel fell short of detailing the specifics of which boards will gain the ability to overclock, but we would assume that means the 500-series equivalent to Intel's existing B460 chipset.
Intel will introduce a new lineup of 500-series motherboards alongside Rocket Lake CPUs next year, the company confirmed yesterday.
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There are also other new overclocking features coming with Rocket Lake, an Intel spokesperson tells us. These include: per core frequency states (without per core voltage), AVX512 offset settings, and AVX disable/enable options.
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All of which, Intel says, should help users get a little more out of their chips, if they so wish.
Yet we don't yet know how great an overclocker the 11th Gen Rocket Lake chips will be just yet—so how much of an effect these features will have is up for debate. Comet Lake hasn't proven to be much of a dab hand at overclocking, at least not without enthusiast overclocking equipment, likely down to the already rather high clock speeds it runs at out of the box.
Rocket Lake could, perhaps, be a little different, considering it's a brand new architecture. It is using the same 14nm process node, however, and I'd expect Intel would want to crank up clocks as high as it can to ensure the best performance in the face of AMD Ryzen 5000 processors.
At least some unwritten rules are changing with Rocket Lake: you no longer need a high-end motherboard to overclock, architecture and process node needn't be intrinsically linked together, and that it may somehow end up being the cheaper option next to AMD Ryzen.
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Author duo Christina Lauren are the type of writers who really just grab your attention from the beginning. Their characters always seem so real that you can’t help becoming emotionally invested. They have a certain charm that has never failed to engage me entirely in the stories they weave. As someone who typically doesn’t care for romance novels, I have to admit that this author duo has, at times, made me question my long-held opinion of the genre.
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I don’t know if it’s some sort of unspoken rule that whenever there is a book, movie, or a play that characters are working with or enjoy in a novel, but it always seems to me that it’s usually quite underdeveloped. While I can see this making sense, it was a little annoying to me that I hated Sam’s screenplay entirely. I was so bored with it which, at times, made me feel bad since it was based on his grandparents. But, I did absolutely adore Luther for the time we got to spend with him.
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The population density, still low as the general average of the confederation, with 26 residents / km 2, is significantly increasing in the southern and western areas, while it is stable in the increasingly populous states. In the Mid Atlantic (states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) it was 140 residents / km 2 in 1970 and is still the same in 1990, while in Texas and California it increased by 35 ÷ 40% over the same period. The demographic center of gravity has continued to move westward, following a constant trend for centuries: at the beginning of the twentieth century it was in Indiana, in 1970 in Illinois, in 1990 in Missouri, near Steelville. Furthermore, in the last decade the center of gravity has dropped from the 39th to the 38th parallel.
The urban population has grown in global terms, but is now stable in percentage terms (73.5% in 1970; 73.7% in 1980, approximately 75.0% in 1990). The influx to metropolitan areas and to smaller cities is partly offset by the opposite movement towards villages and areas considered to be rural. After the 1980 census, a new classification of metropolitan areas was made, now called MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Areas), with criteria that adhere more than in the past to the concept of ” functional area ”; the areas thus identified have at least 100,000 residents and a central locality of at least 50,000 residents, while the largest may have subordinate central localities. 284 have been defined as such, hosting 193 million residents. (1990), on an area of 1,. Eleven of these large urban units exceed 3 million residents, while the largest (New York-New Jersey-Long Island) exceeds 18 million. These metropolitan areas do not have a single administration, on the contrary they often cover many counties and extend into several neighboring states, but their identification helps to highlight the enormous extent of uninterrupted urban systems. Moreover, the various neighboring administrations are oriented towards forms of cooperation to solve the complex problems of land management. The increase in the large centers of the South is evident, where medium-small centers are also growing, at even higher rates. On the other hand, the large northern cities have almost all shown stability in recent years, after a period (1970-80) of even decline.
The 1980 census had already classified 11,400 villages, officially the centers with less than 2,500 residents, not included in metropolitan areas. Their number is even higher than that of twenty years earlier, when the agricultural population was much more consistent. The phenomenon, still in progress, is explained by the transformation of the functions of small settlements: no longer commercial centers serving the countryside, but places of various advanced and industrial tertiary activities. Decentralization, which has seen particular success in the West, South and Great Plains, is facilitated by the fact that the village can offer a better quality of life, more accessible services and cheaply available space. In addition, the current new residents feel little isolation, easily connected as they are to large centers,
Another aspect of the same phenomenon is urban decentralization. Within the same city, the peripheral areas have grown in the face of a depopulation of the central districts, which more often than not have suffered social and physical degradation. The most recent trend is that of an urban revival of the central districts, where imposing buildings with spectacular architectural qualities are built. In Manhattan skyscrapers are being built again, in Detroit the Renaissance Center has been built, in Baltimore the degraded Inner Harbor has seen luxurious buildings rise on its banks; the same happens in Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas. But the reconstruction of the central neighborhoods further deprives them of population, as this type of building is dedicated to offices, hotels, shopping centers and, only to a modest extent, to housing.


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President Trump wants to crack down on e-cigarettes.
Talking with reporters at the White House, Trump expressed concerns about flavored e-cigs that are marketed to kids. He also said the government is investigating deaths from vaping. Six people have died from lung disease linked to vaping. The CDC is looking into more than 450 cases of vaping-related illnesses across more than 30 states. Meantime, the American Lung Association has put out a statement saying e-cigarettes are definitely not safe.

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According to information released by County Judge Chad Sims, more detailed information about cases is being released by the Marshall-Harrison County Health District.
"Today we have not received any new positive notifications for the COVID-19 virus. We do have additional information. We were notified that one of the 13 positive cases that we reported for Harrison County is actually the resident of another county. That will reduce our total positive count to 12," Sims said.
Also, the Marshall-Harrison County Health District has provided the following information and graphic: As our case numbers increase, we feel that we can release more detailed information and not risk violating our resident’s privacy. Please know that information we share is in the interest of public health. We feel that the best information to keep the public healthy is to follow the guidance provided to social distance, no social gatherings, wash hands, wear a mask in public, limit essential shopping trips to one family member and stay home if you are sick. Staying at home reduces your risk of coming in contact with someone that is unaware they have the virus. Thank you to those who are working hard to keep our community healthy!
One of the 12 cases has been confirmed to be at Oakwood House Assisted Living, according to Chris Landers President of Veritas Senior Living, the parent company of Oakwood.
The confirmed person is not at the facility at this time and are at the hospital, Landers said.


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What does genealogy and family history have to do with recovery? Everything. Our family tree has the roots of our codependency, alcoholism, or addictions in it. Just as we get our genes from our ancestors, we get our dysfunctional behaviors, either inherited or through their influence. In recovery, it is helpful to understand where the dysfunctional behavior comes from in ourselves and in our immediate family members—parents, siblings, children. We need to understand the people who shaped us and the people who shaped them. Often, we find researching our family tree will fill us with healing, love, and understanding for our family.
I recommend you try to trace at least five generations of your family, starting with yourself and your siblings and then your parents, grandparents, and your grandparents’ parents and grandparents. Most of us knew our grandparents and they played significant roles in our lives. Similarly, who our grandparents were was shaped by their parents and grandparents so to understand our grandparents we need to understand the generations before them.
It may or may not be easy to find this information. Sometimes our parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles can fill in details. Sometimes we have no one we can ask. Sometimes our family members may not even want to talk to us about the family—they may feel those things are better left alone—that in itself is a clue of dysfunction and information we will be stronger for knowing. Family members are the best source of information but their memories may be faulty, or they may only know what their parents or grandparents told them, and that may not be everything. We can also consult birth, death, and marriage records, censuses and historical information about the community where our ancestors lived. But how does this information help us?
Say your father was emotionally abusive, and you have realized over the years he has low self-esteem, which he compensated for by trying to control you. You remember your grandfather as a mean, ornery old man. You might even know that he physically abused your father as a child. But as you research, you learn more. Your grandfather was an immigrant to this country. Back in his home country, he had to work as a young boy to help support the family because his own father died when he was twelve. He had a mother and younger siblings to help support. Imagine the burden on him. Imagine how difficult it must have been for him to leave his family to come to the United States to find a better life for himself. Imagine being an immigrant in a country where you didn’t speak the language and you knew no one. Imagine finding that life here was not much better than back home. You found a wife and had a family but you were still poor. Imagine living through World War II, daily fearing for your mother and siblings that you left back in Europe. Imagine losing one of your children in a fire. I would think that would give you some reason to be mean and ornery. It doesn’t excuse the behavior, but it does make it understandable, and grandpa then took out his frustrations on dad who in turn took them out on you.
It’s just a start. Remember grandma has her story too. Think about it—your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents—that’s thirty people whose lives have directly or indirectly affected your life. By knowing their stories, we can trace the dysfunction, the pain, as well as the positive aspects about them that we have today. It leads to a better understanding of ourselves, where our dysfunction came from, and how we can keep it from continuing to rear its ugly head by finding different means of dealing with life’s frustrations.
In the process, we will also see the triumphs. Maybe dad was emotionally abusive, but unlike his father, he never hit his children. In his own way, he tried to do better, to break the cycle. And grandpa—he didn’t know how to deal with disappointment but he still worked so life would be better for his children than it was for him. That’s love even if not spoken. When we understand our family members, we can see them as whole, complicated people, but people who tried to do better, just like us, and we can continue that family tradition, not of dysfunction, but of trying to do better. Whatever we end up finding in our family trees, we will better understand how dysfunction began and worked in our families and we will be better prepared to deal with the imprints that have been passed down to us.
Irene Watson, MA, is author of The Sitting Swing: Finding Wisdom to Know the Difference, and co-editor of The Story that Must Be Told: True Tales of Transformation, and Authors Access: 30 Success Secrets for Authors and Publishers. She is a workshop leader, managing editor of Reader Views, and president of a non-profit Higher Power Foundation. Irene lives next to Barton Creek in Austin, TX, with her husband Robert.

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VA Stormwater Management Program (VSMP)
Effective July 1, 2013, DEQ is the lead agency for developing and implementing statewide nonpoint source pollution control programs to protect the Commonwealth's water quality and quantity.
Nonpoint source pollution is water pollution caused by stormwater runoff that is not confined to a single source, such as a wastewater treatment plant or industrial discharge pipe. One of the main ways of controlling nonpoint source pollution is through stormwater management, which includes erosion and sediment control.
Stormwater runoff is water flowing overland into surface waters or water that is channeled into natural or constructed conveyance systems during and after precipitation. Unmanaged stormwater can cause erosion and flooding. It can also carry excess nutrients, sediment and other contaminants into our waters. Properly managed stormwater protects land and streams from erosion, flooding and pollutants.
A permit may be required to discharge stormwater from a construction activity. Such a permit also may be required to discharge stormwater through a conveyance system owned or operated by a government entity. DEQ administers these permits under Virginia Stormwater Management Program (VSMP) regulations, authorized by the Virginia Stormwater Management Act (§ 62.1-44.15:24 et seq).
During construction, a permit may be required for erosion and sediment control. These land disturbance permits are issued by localities as part of their erosion and sediment control programs. DEQ also conducts reviews of local erosion and sediment control programs.
The Stormwater Act and VSMP permit regulations provide DEQ the ability to manage the quantity and quality of stormwater runoff on construction sites as well as on a regional or watershed basis.
- Quantity of stormwater runoff:
Compared with impervious surfaces such as pavement or rooftops, pervious surfaces such as meadows and woodlands absorb and filter rainfall and reduce runoff. When development occurs in meadows and woodlands, the increase in impervious surfaces increases the amount of runoff that occurs when it rains. This can overwhelm waterways, causing erosion, localized flooding and property damage.
- Quality of stormwater runoff:
Pervious and impervious surfaces in urban areas collect pollutants, such as automobile oil, grease, sediment, bacteria from animal waste, excess nutrients and pesticides, and deposits from airborne pollutants. Stormwater runoff with large amounts of these pollutants may enter nearby waterways when it rains.
Additional information on VA Stormwater Management Program (VSMP)


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To kick off the 2019 state legislative season, NORML is pleased to release our 2019 Gubernatorial Scorecard. This extensive database assigns a letter grade ‘A’ through ‘F’ to states’ governors based upon their comments and voting records specific to matters of marijuana policy.
Representative Lou Correa (D-CA) has introduced HR 493: The Sensible Enforcement Of Cannabis Act, which would codify the protections that were outlined in the now-rescinded Cole Memo.
Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup!
Today, the rollout of the new leadership team of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus was announced, with Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and David Joyce (R-OH) joining founding members Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Don Young (R-AK).
Municipal governments across Michigan move to ban the sale of adult-use marijuana, but advocates remain hopeful education and guidance from state lawmakers will provide a new perspective.
Welcome to the first Weekly Legislative Roundup of 2019!
Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee today announced his intent to provide an expedited process in order to grant pardons to those with past criminal misdemeanor marijuana-related convictions on their record. It is estimated that some 3,500 individuals will have their criminal records vacated as a result of these actions.
With a new year on the horizon, members of Nevada and Las Vegas NORML wanted to take time to shine light on 18 of our most memorable moments from 2018.
Everyday NORML Chapters from around the country invest countless hours in advocating for meaningful marijuana law reforms on the local, state and federal level! Here’s a brief rundown of some of their most recent accomplishments. Get involved today!
NORML chapters around the country are gearing up for next year’s legislative sessions with the goal of advancing legislation that will end marijuana prohibition and establish protections for marijuana patients and consumers.


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The Ebb & Flow Festival continues through 10 p.m. Sunday, April 7, downtown Baton Rouge. The outdoor festival features visual artists, musicians, dancers, teaching artists, poets and film. Free. ebbandflowbr.org.
First Sunday runs from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. today, April 7, at Louisiana Art & Science Museum, USS Kidd Memorial and Museum, Capitol Park Museum and LSU Museum of Art in downtown Baton Rouge. Free admission to the galleries, $6 unlimited admission to planetarium shows at the museum with a variety of art and science exhibitions and activities for all ages. Also, the LMOA hosts "Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism Through the French Lens" curator tour from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and Family Fun Day from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. lasm.org, lsumoa.org and usskidd.com.
UpStage Theatre presents one more performance of "The Bad Seed," 3 p.m. Sunday, UpStage Theatre, Cortana Mall, Entrance 1. Tickets at upstagetheatre.biz.
The LSU Gospel Choir will perform from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 7, Shiloh Baptist Church, 185 Eddie Robinson Sr. Drive. The annual Spring Gospel Night will offer past and present gospel music favorites. Free.
The Music Club of Baton Rouge will host its annual scholarship winners in recital at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 9, at the Woman’s Club, 259 T.J. Jemison Blvd. Coffee is served at 9:45 a.m. Admission is free. On the bill is flutist Ivy Holladay, soprano Margaret Ann Zentner, pianist Mary Grace Ellerbee and soprano Monica Music.
The LSU Jazz Studies program will present legendary trumpet player Wayne Bergeron in a guest performance with the LSU Jazz Ensemble and Lab Band, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, LSU Union Theater, $18 general public; $11, students.
Southeastern Louisiana University Department of Music and Performing Arts in Hammond will host the annual Bill Evans Jazz Festival April 10-13 in honor of the late alumnus. Performances, all in Pottle Recital Hall, include: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, Alumni Jazz Ensemble Concert, $5, students; $10, adults; free, current SLU students, faculty and staff with university ID; 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, University Jazz Lab Band, free; 1 p.m. Friday, April 12, free masterclass with guest artist trumpeter Pete Rodriguez and at 7:30 p.m., Jazz Faculty Trio Concert with Rodriguez and special guests Zakk Garner and Brad Walker, $5, students; $10, adults; free, current SLU students, faculty and staff with university ID; 1 p.m. Saturday, April 13, free masterclass with Rodriguez and at 7:30 p.m., University Jazz Ensemble in concert with Rodriguez, free. (985) 549-2184.


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I’ve been playing a lot with 3D lately, even though I have no depth perception.
It started when I saw a Kickstarter for an inexpensive 3D printer. A 3D printer for less than half the cost of my first laser printer? I could not resist.
I know that this printer can’t produce high-quality models. I anticipate using it to prototype models before sending them off to a professional firm. Also, now that I’ve got lots of board games, I never have to worry about losing a game piece again; I’ll just print out a new one.
Researching the specs and possibilities of having my own 3D printer led me to Thingiverse, a web site of models that you can print on your own 3D printer, and to Shapeways, a service for printing out models on high-end 3D printers.
I knew that the 3D printer revolution was coming, but I was not aware of how far the technology and services had advanced. You can model something in a 3D program on your home computer, and turn that idea into reality. Even if you don’t have a 3D program or much design skill, sites like Shapeways offer a design-your-own-ring page that does most of the hard work for you.
I tried my hand at creating a few rings with standard magical symbols (pentacle rings, etc.). You can see the results at a special “shop” I set up on the Shapeways site. The thumbnail previews don’t show much; click on the image, then click on the cube to see a model you can rotate by clicking and dragging. (Even if you want one of my designs, I suggest you don’t order it from that shop unless you happen to want a size 12 ring. Contact me and I’ll create a ring in the size and material you want.)
The future arrived while I wasn’t watching!
In order to take advantage of this new technology, I have to learn how to use a 3D design program. I have no illusions about my artistic and designing skills; I’ll be able to create objects that are workmanlike, and that’s it. But sometimes “workmanlike” is good enough; I’m not a writer, but I know enough about computers to write a blog with one.
So I purchased an inexpensive 3D program: Cheetah3D. It contains all the features I’m likely to need for the kinds of models that are within my skill to design and within the resolution of my 3D printer to produce. I had the program; after working through a couple of tutorials, what should be my first project?
My thoughts turned to the logo for my Wiccan group, Acorn Garden. That logo got its start with a picture drawn on a postcard for me by Melissa Arleth in, I think, 2006.
In 2009 I decided I wanted to have an Acorn Garden symbol for a tattoo. Melissa’s artwork was far more complex than I think I could stand to have inked on me, so I asked Vann Godfrey to translate Melissa’s picture into a logo suitable for a tattoo.
This logo became a tattoo. It also found its way onto pens, tote bags, t-shirts, and most recently a custom-sculpted ring.
Here’s the latest phase of evolution of the Acorn Garden logo: I turned it into a 3D model and created a tiny movie using Cheetah3D.
Now that I have a 3D model, what will the next phase be? A necklace? A sculpture? An animated cartoon in which the Acorn Garden logo and the Hermes Council logo team up to fight Mecha-Godzilla? I don’t know. The nice thing about the future is that the possibilities are wide open.


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Rogue's Pawn (eBook)
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Haunted by nightmares of a black dog, sick to death of my mind-numbing career and heart-numbing fiancé, I impulsively walked out of my lifeand fell into Faerie. Terrified, fascinated, I discover I possess a power I can't control: my wishes come true. After an all-too-real attack by the animal from my dreams, I wake to find myself the captive of the seductive and ruthless fae lord Rogue. In return for my rescue, he demands an extravagant pricemy firstborn child, which he intends to sire himself
With no hope of escaping this world, I must learn to harness my magic and build a new life despite the perilsincluding my own inexplicable and debilitating desire for Rogue. I swear I will never submit to his demands, no matter what erotic torment he subjects me to