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Rich Iott, the Tea Party Republican running against Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), has responded to the publicizing of the fact that one of his hobbies is dressing up and pretending to be a Nazi in reenactments.In a statement, Iott said he never "meant any disrespect to anyone who served in our military or anyone who has been affected by the tragedy of war, especially the Jewish Community." He called suggestions otherwise "blatant distortions and attacks." He also said that he's participated in reenactments of different eras, and that he and his son have participated in some of these events together.
Read Iott's entire statement:
"Anyone who knows me would tell you that I am a proud American who loves this country and loves Freedom and those who have died fighting to preserve it. The despicable accusations and distortions of the truth that have been leveled at me, sadly exemplify why people have lost faith in the political process and with the media as well.
"Never, in any of my re-enacting of military history, have I meant any disrespect to anyone who served in our military or anyone who has been affected by the tragedy of war, especially the Jewish Community. I have immense respect for veterans who served our country valiantly, particularly those who fought to rid the world of tyranny and aggression by relegating Nazism to the trash heap of history. I also believe we need to 'never forget' what happened to Jews during that war. In fact, my respect for the militaryand our veterans and my concern for the victims of war is one of the reasons I have actively studied military history throughout my life.
"Historical re-enacting is a hobby enjoyed by millions of men – and women – around the world. I have been involved in historical re-enacting from many different eras since I was in college. When my son was old enough to participate, it became a hobby that the two of us could do together and I'm grateful for the father-son bonding we shared as we participated in the events."
"This election needs to be about issues, not false character attacks. Middle class families are struggling and honest people are out of work, which is why I hope my opponent will join me in condemning these blatant distortions and attacks and pledge to focus on the issues that Ohioans so desperately want Washington to address."

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STELIOS Giannakopoulos put Arsenal to the sword for the second successive season.
The Greek international scored the winner last season which effectively ended Arsenal's title challenge, and his strike this time around - after Abdoulaye Faye's first for the club - may have a similar effect.
Arsenal were left cursing their luck and no-one more so than Thierry Henry who twice hit the post.
Kevin Davies found space on the right in the fifth minute and El-Hadji Diouf made a good break but the pass was over-hit and goalkeeper Jens Lehmann was able to clear.
Played switched back down the other end and Freddie Ljungberg got clear at the back post when Robin van Persie played the ball in but failed to get enough power on his header to test Jussi Jaaskelainen.
Bolton were playing with a lot of confidence despite their defeat by Fulham last weekend and were stringing their passes together.
Henry tried to get Arsenal going in the 14th minute and pick out van Persie but Tal Ben Haim read the situation well and made a timely clearance.
Jaaskelainen then made a comfortable save from Cesc Fabregas two minutes later following a cross from Ljungberg.
Bolton made the breakthrough in the 20th with Faye's first goal for the club. The Senegal international, who signed a contract until June 2008 this week, got on the end of Giannakopoulos' clever chip to head home.
Arsenal were again forced on the back foot after 26 minutes but Davies' header found the arms of Jens Lehmann.
The visitors were stung but launched a swift counter-attack two minutes later and Jaaskelainen did well to beat away a teasing cross from Lauren.
Then Henry shaped up to take a 30-yard free-kick but there was not enough power in his effort and the goalkeeper made the save.
Bolton went 2-0 up in the 32nd minute after a mistake by Gilberto cost Arsenal dear. He carelessly lost possession to Davies and he released Giannakopoulos, who made no mistake from close range.
Arsenal almost pulled a goal back two minutes later but Henry was left with a feeling of frustration after his effort came back off the post.
The Gunners, though, were looking vulnerable at the back and Faye came close to getting his second in the 36th minute, only for Lehmann to claw the ball away.
Gilberto then dragged his shot wide of the target before Kevin Nolan forced a marvellous save from Lehmann in the 40th minute.
Arsenal went looking for an early goal at the start of the second half which would have brought them back into the game.
Lauren picked the ball up from deep and launched it forward but there was no-one on hand to take advantage.
The Cameroon full-back's frustration spilled over in the 52nd minute when he was booked for a challenge on Ricardo Gardner.
There was a let-off for Bolton a minute later when Henry's shot hit the post and rebounded into Jaaskelainen's body. It broke to Robert Pires but his effort was weak and the goalkeeper was able to clear.
Bolton hit back and Diouf was released by Giannakopoulos only to send his cross into the arms of Lehmann.
The home side were continuing to play some good football and Gary Speed tested Lehmann after a clever through-ball from the industrious Nolan.
Certainly the Bolton supporters were savouring the game and seeing their side give Arsenal a hard time - and not for the first time.
Speed then rattled in a close-range shot which was blocked before Faye turned the ball into the net with his hand.
Substitute Ricardo Vaz Te almost added a third in the 85th minute but Bolton had recorded a famous victory.


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Through a distorting lens: Although their counterparts elsewhere disagree, some of the corporate U.S. media say they find little worth in WikiLeaks' revelations.
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It's notable that the Post, in particular, forthrightly refuses to publish material from the WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs; it has, in fact, published an editorial dismissing them as containing no new insights. The NYT, however, has adopted a more sophisticated policy: It publishes material from WikiLeaks, telling us of some of the principal documents and the information in them that has led German news weekly Der Spiegel to conclude that the war is a failure; but it then so frames the revelations as to make them appear little more than potholes in the road toward a better Iraq.
In the first chapter of A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn notes a similar phenomenon:
Samuel Eliot Morison, the Harvard historian, was the most distinguished writer on Columbus, the author of a multivolume biography, and was himself a sailor who retraced Columbus's route across the Atlantic. In his popular book Christopher Columbus, Mariner, written in 1954, he tells about the enslavement and the killing: "The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide."
That is on one page, buried halfway into the telling of a grand romance. In the book's last paragraph, Morison sums up his view of Columbus:
"He had his faults and his defects, but they were largely the defects of the qualities that made him great — his indomitable will, his superb faith in God and in his own mission as the Christ-bearer to lands beyond the seas, his stubborn persistence despite neglect, poverty and discouragement. But there was no flaw, no dark side to the most outstanding and essential of all his qualities — his seamanship."
One can lie outright about the past. Or one can omit facts which might lead to unacceptable conclusions. Morison does neither. He refuses to lie about Columbus. He does not omit the story of mass murder; indeed he describes it with the harshest word one can use: genocide.
But he does something else — he mentions the truth quickly and goes on to other things more important to him. Outright lying or quiet omission takes the risk of discovery which, when made, might arouse the reader to rebel against the writer. To state the facts, however, and then to bury them in a mass of other information is to say to the reader with a certain infectious calm: yes, mass murder took place, but it's not that important — it should weigh very little in our final judgments; it should affect very little what we do in the world.
What the Times is doing here, when for example it suggests that, as bad as the treatment of Iraqi detainees in American hands might admittedly be, it would have been still worse under Saddam Hussein, is essentially similar: Yes, it confesses, we are committing some unspeakable abuses; but they really aren't that important, because the Iraqis might have been abused worse anyway had we not ousted Hussein.
And so begins the perversion of history, for when the story of the US-led invasion of Iraq is told in the textbooks of tomorrow, it will be founded on the reporting of the US' most authoritative contemporary source: the Times. And if that reporting has already been distorted to satisfy a political agenda, then the history must necessarily be distorted in proportion.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Fitch Ratings said Tuesday it downgraded Transocean Inc.'s RIG, +2.53% debt ratings to BBB from BBB+. Fitch cited Transocean's pending merger with GlobalSantaFe Inc. and its plan to distribute $15 billion in cash to shareholders upon closing of the deal for the downgrade. The outlook on the company's rating is stable, the rating agency said.
Fitch downgrades Transocean debt ratings to 'BBB' vs 'BBB+'
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A fugitive football fan from Derbyshire has been jailed for his part in a mass brawl between Exeter City and Plymouth Argyle supporters.
Steven Dyke pleaded guilty to affray last year but then went on the run from his home in Plymouth and vanished for almost 10 months.
He was one of a group of about 30 Argyle fans who interrupted their journey home from an away game against Portsmouth in April 2017 and went to confront City supporters at their unofficial base in the King Billy pub.
A mass brawl started inside the pub on New North Road which spread out onto the street outside and the junction of Sidwell Street and High Street.
All the others who took part received suspended sentences at Exeter Crown Court last November but Dyke jumped bail and went to live in Derbyshire.
He was arrested for shoplifting in Derbyshire last week and appeared by video link from jail, where he is serving an 18 week sentence for those offences.
Dyke, 43, of Weaver Close, Crich, and formerly of Plymouth, admitted affray and breaching bail and was jailed for a further 18 weeks by Judge Timothy Rose.
He told him the sentence could not be suspended because Dyke is already serving the other sentence.
The judge also made a football banning order covering the next four years.
He told him:"This was a serious incident in which a group deliberately went to the King Billy to see if they could cause trouble, and trouble is exactly what you got. There was serious disorder.
"It was obvious there was trouble going on. A significant fight broke out inside the pub and outside, where there were confrontations and threatening behaviour."
Mr Peter Coombe, prosecuting, said the violence happened on April 14, 2017, when Plymouth fans returning from Portsmouth got off their train at Exeter Central and walked en masse to the King Billy.
The pub was full of Exeter supporters who had been at a home game against Barnet and a mass brawl ensued.
He said Dyke was seen on CCTV being thrown down the steps outside the pub, which has since closed.
He threw an object, thought to be a bottle, at Exeter fans at the top of the steps, then went up to confront them.
He was seen taking part in a second fracas later at the junction of High Street, where he partially covered his face with a scarf.
Miss Hollie Gilbery, defending, said Dyke had been out of trouble for eight years before the affray but had moved to Derbyshire in 2018 and fallen back into heroin addiction.
He is now in jail because he stole to feed his addiction but is keen to work with the probation and addiction services to address his issues on his release.


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Realising the potential
What do you want from AI? Where do you begin? How do you keep pace with change?
1/Work out what AI means for your business
The starting point for strategic evaluation is a scan of the technological developments and competitive pressures coming up within your sector, how quickly they will arrive, and how you will respond. You can then identify the operational pain points that automation and other AI techniques could address, what disruptive opportunities are opened up by the AI that's available now, and what's coming up on the horizon.
2/Prioritize your response
In determining your strategic response, key questions include how can different AI options help you to deliver your business goals and what is your appetite and readiness for change. Do you want to be an early adopter, fast follower or follower? Is your strategic objective for AI to transform your business or to disrupt your sector?
AI provides the potential to enhance quality, personalization, consistency and time saved, but it's also important to consider the technological feasiblity of AI and the availability of the data needed to support AI. How are you planning to overcome barriers and accelerate innovation?
To prioritise your response, it's important to map the key process flows to be automated and decision flows to be augmented. What functions contain high potential processes that could drive near-term savings, for example? As data becomes the primary asset and source of intellectual property, what investments and changes would enable you to capture more data and use it more productively? With this map in place, you can then develop the cost-benefit analysis for automation and augmentation.
AI is applicable across all elements of the value chain, which can lead to multiple silos of initiatives or confusion in finding a good starting point. Developing the insight, governance and organisational collaboration to pick your spot and drive initiatives forward are therefore critical.
To prioritize your response, it's important to map the key process flows to be automated and decision flows to be augmented
3/Make sure you have the right talent and culture, as well as technology
While investment in AI may seem expensive now, FORFIRM subject matter specialists anticipate that the costs will decline over the next ten years as the software becomes more commoditised. Eventually, we'll move towards a free (or 'freemium' model) for simple activities, and a premium model for business-differentiating services. While the enabling technology is likely to be increasingly commoditised, the supply of data and how it's used are set to become the primary asset.
To make the most effective use of this technology, it's important to instil a data-driven culture that blends intuition and analytical insights with a focus on practical and actionable decisions across all levels.
Demand for data scientists, robotics engineers and other tech specialists is clearly growing. These are in short supply, especially in less developed markets according to the interviews we carried out with FORFIRM's data and analytics' regional leaders, so it will be important to gear long-term training and development to these emerging needs. As adoption of AI gathers pace, the value of skills that can't be replicated by machines is also increasing. These include creativity, leadership and emotional intelligence5.
It's important to prepare for a hybrid workforce in which AI and human beings work side-by-side. The challenge for your business isn't just ensuring you have the right systems in place, but judging what role your people will play in this new model. People will need to be responsible for determining the strategic application of AI and providing challenge and oversight to decisions.
4/Build in appropriate governance and control
Trust and transparency are critical. In relation to autonomous vehicles, for example, AI requires people to trust their lives to a machine – that's a huge leap of faith for both passengers and public policymakers. Anything that goes wrong, be it a malfunction or a crash, is headline news. And this reputational risk applies to all forms of AI, not just autonomous vehicles. Customer engagement robots have been known to acquire biases through training or even manipulation, for example.
AI should therefore be managed with the same discipline as any other technology enabled transformation. Key questions to ask while building AI include:
• Have you considered the societal and ethical implications?
• How can you build stakeholder trust in the solution?
• How can you build AI that can explain its logic so that a lay person can understand?
• How can you build AI that is unbiased and transparent? It's important to put in place mechanisms to source, cleanse and control key data inputs and ensure data and AI management are integrated.
Transparency is not only important in guarding against biases within the AI, but also helping to increase human understanding of what the AI can do and how to use it most effectively.
Autonomous intelligence in action
Entertainment industry consumers now have an unprecedented choice of movies, television, music and games. While this provides consumers with more opportunity to enjoy content specific to their unique tastes, they can experience 'choice overload' during their search. And worse, sometimes they make no choice at all! Video and music streaming companies have begun using autonomous recommendation engines that combine segment trends, ratings and content similarity to personalise suggestions and engage customers. Engaging customers not only increases retention, but also allows companies to collect more data on individuals and improve the personalisation of offerings – creating a virtuous feedback loop that provides a significant competitive advantage.


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Passengers affected by strike action at Ryanair are being advised they are entitled to a refund of legitimate expenses.
The Consumer Association of Ireland says anyone re-routed by the strike action who has had to pay for meals or accommodation out of their own pocket are entitled to reimbursement.
Dermot Jewell, from the Consumer Association, says it is not considered a compensation element:
If they've gone for the option of re-routing then that's fair enough. The only possibility that they might be looking for a refund is in relation to meals and refreshments or some form of an overnight stay if that was not already provided to them.
"It's not a compensation element, it's an element that they're fully entitled to that was supposed to be provided by the airline.
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Belgrade – Cyprus firm Akciona has given up from the race for taking over of the shares of Serbian tourist agency "Putnik" in whose property is the attractive Montenegrin island Sveti Marko, while the Russian businessman Dmitrij Lucenko has improved his offer to 68 millions per stock for 85% of that enterprise.
The reasons of giving up of Akciona in the last minute were not officially stated. The stockholders have a deadline until the 23rd of April at 12h to give an answer to the offer.
In the starting offer of Akciona, which is the property of Russian company MEtropol, for taking over of at least 70% of the funds of "Putnik" they offered 44 euros for a stock.
The stocks of "Putnik" on Belgrade stock market yesterday reached the price of 61, 8 euros which is a leap of 19% compared to Tuesday, says B92. The total package of about 85% of the stocks, if the stockholders would accept the offer of Lucenko would cost 43 millions of euros.
Russian businessman from Saint Petersburg in the offer states that he is ready to invest 30 millions of euros in the renewal of the tourist capacities of "Putnik" as well as to pay up all the debts of that enterprise which at the end of the last year were over 9 millions of euros.
Lucenko's representatives have announced upon the opening of the offer that he is interested in investing a lot in the island Sveti Marko beside Tivat, as well as in other capacities of "Putnik", and above all in the hotels in Kopaonik.


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Hiking guides and blogs exist in proliferation, each created by self-professed authorities on the subject of the outdoors. And almost every one inevitably has a section named something to the effect of, "What every hiker NEEDS to bring with them on every hike."
The problem with most of these lists is that they look like the supply manifest from Scott's last Polar expedition. Hat, gloves, pocket-knife, warm layers, insect repellent, sunglasses, sun screen, map, compass, signal mirror, first aid kit, etc etc etc. By the time you load up on all the 'essential' gear your pack is going to be over twenty pounds and you haven't even added in water (arguably the most essential gear) tent and sleeping bag.
What do I really need to bring with me for a hike?
Experience has taught us that that there is no uniform kit that a hiker should bring for all situations, because there is no uniform set of conditions. In fact, our argument would be to dispense with a generalized list of equipment altogether. In all cases, you should prepare specifically for the place you are going, the things you will be doing and the conditions you are likely to see.
Our rule of thumb is called the One Mile Rule. Are you going more than one mile into the wild? ('wild' being loosely defined as unpopulated areas where help and services will not readily be found.) If the answer is yes, then you must take SOME steps to properly prepare before doing so. The preparations will obviously vary depending on a number of factors, so begin by considering the factors which will influence the hike. Ask yourself the following five questions:
Where am I going?
What am I going to be doing?
How long am I going to be out?
What conditions am I likely to see?
How might things go wrong, and what might be REALLY useful to have in that situation?
Then, instead of asking what to bring, ask yourself what you DON'T need to bring.
For example, let's take a person hiking three miles along a very well-marked loop trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, near a road, in early fall, with minimal elevation gain, in good weather.
Where am I going? The woods, basically.
What am I going to be doing? A light walk.
How long am I going to be out? Two hours, tops.
What conditions am I likely to see? Worst case…rain and 40 degree temps.
How might things go wrong? Worst case…an injury prevents me from getting back to the car.
What are the things you are likely to need for this expedition? Instead of asking what we need to bring let's establish what we don't need to bring.
Well, we're not staying the night so we don't need a tent, sleeping bag or a stove. We also don't need climbing rope, ice ax, etc. You get the picture. We're not climbing Everest here.
How about warm clothing? Well, the weather is forecast to be good and the sky is clear, but freak weather can happen. You might need a sweater. A rain layer would be advisable; it would be better to stay dry if you could.
Boots? Light hiking shoes will do.
How about a hat, mittens…? You might take a baseball cap.
How about a map and compass? The trail is well marked, the road is near. If you get lost, this is not likely to end up a fatality. But let's take the compass anyway, it weighs almost nothing and may come in handy. The biggest danger getting lost in a situation like this is, you start walking in the wrong direction, AWAY from where you think the road is. The compass might prevent that.
How about a space blanket? Sure, weighs all of two ounces so why not. Things that are very light weight and take up almost no space are okay to bring even if they are not likely to be used. Just don't start bringing too many.
How about a fire starter? That's always Rule Number One in the survival manuals. Doesn't Bear Grylls ALWAYS carry a means of starting fire?
Yeah, but, you're not Bear Grylls. Sure, a lighter could help start a fire, but it is ONE of about six or seven things you would need to get a fire going. If you are injured, how are going to get tinder and fuel? If the ground is wet, even a lighter will not be much use getting a fire going. Any piece of survival equipment is only as good as the skill of the person using it.
In this scenario the chances of matches or a lighter helping you simply aren't that great. But…let's bring a lighter anyway. It can give you peace of mind and it weighs almost nothing.
How about a medical kit with a forceps, ace bandages and Sam Splint? What are the chances you will be dealing with a compound fracture on a three-mile day hike? Leave it at home.
You don't need a flashlight, right? You're not staying the night. Ah…But a light source is something that COULD come in handy if things were to go wrong — say, if you were forced to ride out the night. A light source would be both very helpful and very easy to engage. You don't need to rub two sticks to get a flashlight going. You just press a button. So, bring a light source. Our advice would be a very lightweight headlamp, which allows you to keep your hands free. And spare batteries.
NEVER go more than one mile into the wild without a light source. If you can't see, you can't do. And…Batteries die at inconvenient times. Don't forget the spares.
How about a pocket knife? Again, you are not likely to need it, but it doesn't take up much space and could be useful, so bring it.
Bug spray? You'll need it, but I'd put some on and leave the can in the car. Sunscreen? Sunglasses? For a three-mile hike in the woods, debatable you even need it…but I have very fair skin so I'm putting in on in the car. I don't think I need to take the whole bottle.
Water. Do I really need to bring water for a three mile walk?
YES YOU DO. Never go more than a mile into the wild without it. I would bring about a liter. For this hike, a plastic bottle will suffice. But a good hydration system is better.
The most important survival gear in all situations is water. There is no climate, location, or situation where the lack of it will not affect you, and eventually kill you.
And…A good hydration system is one that makes it easy to drink on the move. A bad one is one that discourages you from drinking (makes you stop, take off your pack, etc.)
Do I need a GPS? Probably not. If you get lost, the compass will point you back to the road and you don't have far to go.
A cell phone? A VERY useful piece of equipment if it works. It could be used to call or text for rescue, or function as a GPS, or as a compass, or even to download information about a trail. Again…IF it works. If you can't get a signal you can't call for help, and if the battery dies, it's worthless except as a paperweight. Technology Is The Work Of The Devil (TITWOTD), but it can save your life, too. NEVER become dependent on it.
Truth is, on a three-mile hike near a road the phone may be your best piece of survival equipment. I would bring it for the camera alone and keep it in a waterproof bag.
So let's check our gear list:
Sweater, rain gear, hiking shoes, a compass, space blanket, head lamp, lighter, pocketknife, a bottle of water, your mobile phone, a couple Ziplock bags and a small pack to put it in. That's it. You are ready for a very pleasant walk in the woods.
Now, let's pause for a moment and be devils advocate. What if things got REAL bad? I mean, the temperature COULD drop 40 degrees and it could start snowing, such things have happened in New Hampshire. Wouldn't it be better to be prepared for it?
Yes, it would. But here's the problem…to be FULLY PREPARED for ANY eventually that the New England backcountry could throw at you would require 30 pounds of gear, minimum. AND the skills to use it. And then, your three-mile light hike becomes a death march.
Here is where opinions and advice inevitably diverge. The amount and types of risks that a given person is willing to put with vary widely. See my article on the Doomsday Prepper mindset. My answer is, you can't reasonably be ready for everything, all the time. You are in a situation that is very unlikely to end up in a fatality, so there is no point over preparing for a nightmare scenario. The key is to be REASONABLY PREPARED. Is the hiker above reasonably prepared for a modest three-mile excursion in the woods? I think the answer is yes.
Let us consider a second scenario: A hiker is setting out an a 7-day hike on the Colorado Trail in summer.
Where am I going? WAY up in the mountains and out into serious backcountry.
What am I going to be doing? Very strenuous climbing, at altitude, followed by nights of camping; doing this day after day, plus camp chores and general keeping out of harms way.
How long am I going to be out? A week. Realistically it could be longer.
What conditions am I likely to see? Heat, cold, rain, wind, freezing temperatures, even snow. Afternoon thunderstorms are almost a given. There could be long distances between water sources. Altitude will be a factor.
How might things go wrong? Laundry list here. Hypothermia, dehydration, mechanical injury, water crossings, lightning strikes, general fatigue, injury, altitude sickness and simply running out of supplies.
The list of gear required for this hike will be TOTALLY Different than for the 3 miles day walk in the woods, because…
- The hike is longer
- The terrain is tougher
- It is more exposed to the elements
- You need bring enough food for seven days
- You need to bring shelter to spend the night
- There is a greater variety of things nature will throw at you
- If you get lost, you may walk days to find a road
- Even knowing what direction is which may not be enough
- You may need to build a fire to dry out clothes or yourself
- There may be dangerous animals
- Etc etc etc. There's just no shortage of things the Rocky Mountains will throw at you in seven days. You are going to have to carry a LOT more equipment.
To be REASONABLY PREPARED for the Rocky Mountains, you need a lot of gear, a lot of supplies, a lot of skill, a lot of experience and a lot of physical stamina. Thus you have to think VERY CAREFULLY before embarking on such a venture. You cannot leave this up to luck and chance.


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Police officers responding to a report of a robbery in Miami Beach on Saturday fatally shot a shirtless man during a standoff that was captured on cellphone video.
The police said the man was a suspect in a holdup at a Bank of America branch that occurred shortly before he was shot. A bank employee called 911 around 10:30 a.m. and reported that the suspect was armed with a bomb and had passed a note to a teller, according to Detective Kathleen Prieto, a Miami Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
As the police arrived, the suspect fled to a nearby barbershop. He refused at first to come outside, then emerged carrying a straightedge razor and was fatally shot during a standoff, Detective Prieto said.
In cellphone video taken by a bystander, Marcellus Johnson, the suspect is seen surrounded by police officers on the side of a rain-slicked road. He appears to be holding something shiny in his right hand and talking animatedly, although his words cannot be understood. He takes a step toward the officers and places his left hand on a parked police cruiser. Moments later, the sound of a Taser is heard, followed immediately by two gunshots. The suspect falls to the ground, clutching his chest.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, Detective Prieto said.
The police did not immediately say what prompted the shooting, or whether they had recovered any weapons or a bomb. The Miami-Dade County Police Department is investigating the shooting, and the F.B.I. and the Miami Beach Police Department are investigating the bank robbery attempt, Detective Prieto said.
The F.B.I. said the suspect was never given any money during the attempted holdup. Although he threatened to shoot a customer, no shots were fired and no one in the bank was injured, officials said. No device or object was left by the suspect, the agency said.
A representative for the county police did not return a phone call and an email seeking comment.
In an interview, Mr. Johnson, a local photographer who came upon the standoff during a coffee run before work, said he saw the suspect inside the barbershop banging on the glass with what appeared to be a sharp metal object and gesturing toward the police. Once the suspect came out, Mr. Johnson said, the police evacuated the shop's employees and customers and gradually closed in on the suspect.
Mr. Johnson said the officers tried to calm the man, but he was not cooperative. About 50 people watched the encounter unfold from across the street, and several people recorded it on their cellphones, he said.
"You could feel the tension when you walked across the street, like something like that was going to happen," said Mr. Johnson, who posted a clip of the video on Instagram.
Asked whether he thought the police had acted appropriately, he said: "I don't think they needed to shoot him. That's excessive force for someone that didn't have a gun. But if he said he had a bomb, there's a Catch-22 there."
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Hello, fellow readers! Here I am with my second book review. Today, it is M. R. Laver's A Tale of Mist and Shadow, the first book in his series by the same name. It is classified under Science Fiction and Fantasy, but I would definitely call it pure Fantasy. The book itself is 450 pages long and can be purchased both in e-book format and as a paperback through Amazon.
I started reading this book shortly after I "met" Laver online through a mutual friend of ours. When I found out he was a fellow author, I knew I wanted to read his first book and throw some support his way. We independently published authors need to stick together, after all. Knowing he was a Fantasy author and a fellow Christian, I figured that chances were pretty high that his work would be right up my alley. So I downloaded the book and got to reading. In truth, it took me far longer to get through this book than it should have, and that was my own fault. I had to stop reading for awhile to get a different book in, and that may have made some details revealed earlier in the book a little fuzzy.
The story starts off by throwing the reader into a bit of a battle and some conflict between those in charge (and those who think they're in charge) of a small town, and it really doesn't slow down much from there. Laver's strength is definitely writing battle scenes. Actions are precise and easily pictured, explaining what is happening and with what kinds of instruments and types of people involved without talking down to the reader. These scenes were easily my favorite. I will say that there were one or two battle scenes that felt drawn out for longer than they should have been, but even then, these were the scenes where the storytelling really shone.
As a whole, the book is not without its flaws. There are multiple grammatical issues, inconsistencies, and some characters that you just don't like. Even the worst villains have some sort of quality that makes you want to read more about them. Unfortunately, that is not the case with the demi-villain in this book. She has no redeeming qualities about her and I honestly sighed every time she was involved in a scene because I knew there would be some sort of subtle (often far from subtle) allusion to sex.
The plot doesn't feel fleshed out enough, which says something for a book that is 450 pages long. There is so much thrown into the novel that not enough time is spent on a single element to get the reader truly invested in it. I was always taught that a good novel in a series takes two or three big ideas and focuses on them while weaving the smaller elements around them, saving other big ideas for later books in the series. It felt like Laver took all his big ideas and stuffed them into this first novel, which left me feel a bit chaotic. There were so many things to learn, characters to keep track of, myths to separate, that sometimes I felt overwhelmed, which made me not want not read as much. Not a good thing.
Dialogue between characters was 50/50. Sometimes it felt extremely organic and believable, others had them pausing in the middle of very serious situations to have a slapstick comedy moment full of laughter. Sometimes reactions were so out of the ordinary that it took me out of the story to wonder about it. There were also moments of swearing which took me completely off guard and just didn't sit well with me. It felt thrown in there to try to make the scene more intense or important, but it just made it awkward.
I did love some of the characters. Grace was definitely my favorite bar far. She felt the most real to me, and her story had a distinguishable arc to it that I thought was beautifully handled. There was even a side character or two that I wished we could have seen more of or learned more about, but again, this was an area where there was just so much that there was not enough time spend on any one character.
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Brinkley, Jamel. A Lucky Man. Graywolf. Minneapolis: 2018. 264 pp. $26.00 (cloth). [View Title on Goodreads]
Reviewed by Brian Gilmore
It was Edgar Allan Poe who wrote that "the long poem is a paradox." Poe's famous exploration of limitations of the long poem form was declared to shine brighter light on short story, or "the tale," as he humbly calls it. According to Poe, the tale was more fitting for the "demands of high genius." There is, Poe stresses, much more space to speak to seek a "truth" in the short story than in a poem. Jamel Brinkley in his debut collection of short stories, A Lucky Man, has chosen the tale as his path to truth, though he writes often in a delicate lyric detail more often observed in poetry.
The opening lines to the first story here, "No More Than A Bubble," is one of many such admirable passages: "It was back in those days. Claudius Van Clyde and I stood on the edge of the dancing crowd, each of us three bottles into one brand of miracle brew [. . .]" (pg. 3). His language is sensitive, vivid, yet full of anguish on occasion. Most of the stories in A Lucky Man might be deemed long (not too long), and he pushes against the boundaries of some accepted norms of the traditional mechanics of short fiction. Writer Kurt Vonnegut, for instance, often preached that a story should always start as close to the end of the story as possible. Brinkley does that much of the time, but Brinkley's tales are also slow drips; he is in no hurry, and he is unafraid of the deliberate creative process no matter where the story takes off.
"A Lucky Man," the title story, and the first story I read (I randomly chose it) adheres to this rule. Here is a story, like many of these tales, deftly rooted in character. The so called "lucky man," Lincoln Murray, seems lucky but that is the point of it all; he doesn't realize it. He works at a prestigious New York City private school, married, with a daughter, and life is apparently orderly though underneath chaos looms. In this slow uncovering, "A Lucky Man" asks: what is "lucky" and how fleeting is this luck, in our real, every day, morally challenging lives? This especially comes forth when we learn what Lincoln has done to compromise his safe, lucky world in the worst way.
There are many stories in A Lucky Man about the complexity of manhood and, understandably, black men and the struggle for meaning intheir lives, love, and ultimately validation. Whether Brinkley is writing of missing fathers, personal relationships, and/or city life struggles, these tales are commentary on a subject lost in today's headlines and daily street chatter: male vulnerability and the inability to be completely emotionally exposed, for a multitude of reasons.
"J'ouvert," a reference to a Trinidadian culture festival, embraces the theme of vulnerability like a lover. Brinkley's deepest concerns spill out on the page in this story of two brothers—Ty, and Omari—who face a demeaning poverty, but who, most of all, are bemoaning the absence of their father from their lives. Their often painful machinations on the void in their lives is presented in plain view. Ty, the older brother, unable to even afford a sharp fade (haircut) for an upcoming West Indian parade, does what many poor black boys do in resisting or eschewing vulnerability: he improvises and shields his pain from the world:
It was a hot breezeless day, the air gauzy and wet. Though the sun was high in the sky, a lone and distant object, its energy came from everywhere at once. I wandered around the neighborhood tugging down the bill of my Knicks cap. (pg. 34)
The rhythmic poetic devices used here are just a part of the writing—not all of it—but essential nonetheless. "J'ouvert" is a coming of age story where the coming of age happens at supersonic speed without even a modicum of empathy. It is full of descriptions, such as the one above, that force the reader to inhabit the tale and feel its texture and emotions as the two boys take their journey.
"Everything The Mouth Eats," another tight tale, is an excursion into the world of capoeira, the Brazilian martial arts dance practice. Like James Baldwin in his most famous tale, "Sonny's Blues," Brinkley uses psychic distance and the enduring presence of one brother on the mind of the other brother (the narrator) to carve out a tale of kinship that becomes like capoeira on the page: part music, dance, but also full of a story with tension and theater.
Yet, "Everything The Mouth Eats," like so many other stories here, is also about respect. The pressure here is natural: the story's characters, Eric and Carlos, are brothers but stepbrothers. Eric, the narrator, is older and longs for the relief of love from the father of his stepbrother, Carlos. The father validates the brothers' relationship, and Brinkley brings the man to life well in passages such as this:
He was an overweight but striking Puerto Rican man, with large hands, light skin, and wide active eyes. With his thick black horseshoe mustache, he was trying to approximate or even surpass Willie Colon, whose face would appear again and again if you flipped through the sleeves of his record collection. (pg. 79)
Here, the stepfather's presence in the life of the older stepson is presented in detail, but it also acknowledges the sustaining love central to the friction between the brothers at the capoeira event.
There is a recurring spirit in A Lucky Man that will become noticeable and perhaps, niggling to some readers. That feeling is of men (black men) persistently missing from others' lives, whether intended or not. Brinkley's many men are out of prison, like Curtis Smith, in "A Family," who has been missing and is seeking to return. Or take the deceased father in "No More Than a Bubble," who gives his son a condom years ago, in a rite of passage moment, so that the son may put it to use at the right and necessary moment.
A Lucky Man seeks desperately for these missing men, and tells some of their stories with Brinkley's beautifully rough prose. The men and boys who are here cope and they wear bird masks to hide their pain or pretend they are robots. Or they are like Clifton, from the final story, "Clifton's Place," who is forever missing, and gone from the life of his lover, Sadie, but nevertheless present—having loved so well, she names her bar after him, and seeks to endure life without him the only way she knows how, through hope and memory.
BRIAN GILMORE is the author of three collections of poetry, including his latest We Didn't Know Any Gangsters, a 2014 NAACP Image Award and 2015 Hurston/Wright Award nominee in poetry. He is a long time columnist with the Progressive Media Project, and is both Cave Canem Fellow and Kimbilio Fellow. He teaches public interest law at Michigan State University.


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Ina Gittings: Better Onions Or Better Coeds?
Ina Gittings was a tomboy and a pioneer of women's physical education. She arrived at the University of Arizona in 1920 and was the first female physical education director. In 1924 she wanted an athletic field for women - where the campus vegetable garden was. The rallying cry became "Do we want better onions or better coeds?" She changed the face and the dress code for women student athletes.
You didn't mess with Ina Gittings. She was tough and outspoken. She graduated from the first women's physical education program in the nation, then went to Germany to provide physical therapy to the wounded Allied soldiers in World War I. She was working with refugees in Turkey when the Unuversity of Arizona asked her to establish its first physical education program for women.
She accepted - and became a driving force on campus for the next 34 years, until she was well into her seventies.
When she arrived in 1920, all she had to offer her students was one room on the second floor in Old Main to exercise in and a dirt tennis field. In 1922 she used the men's athletic field to host tryouts for future female Olympians. By 1924 she decided the women needed their own track field.
The spot she chose was the campus vegetable garden. It was then she began asking regents, faculty and students: "Do we want better onions or better coeds?" The rallying cry had its effect. One spring day students and faculty - both male and female - turned out in force and ripped out the garden. The women's field was completed on that site the next year.
When Bear Down Gym was completed in 1926, Gittings moved her program into the men's former gymnasium - Herring Hall. Now, with both an athletic field and a gymnasium, the young UA program was in position to compete nationally.
Gittings was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1885. She told the UA newspaper, "Mother tried to make a lady out of me, but with four brothers, I was usually drafted into a baseball game on the vacant lot. That's how I got my start in physical education."
In high school she played on one of the first female high school basketball teams. In 1906 she graduated from the University of Nebraska, the first university in the nation to create a physical education program for women, and became a teacher there.
Then came the war and her service to soldiers in Germany and refugees in Turkey. The UA contacted her and invited her to establish the women's physical education department. She was offered many positions, but chose the UA. The young woman said she found the rugged Southwest "romantic" and relished the opportunity to create her own program.
It was a time when the world was changing: Suffragettes gained the right for women to vote in 1920. Prohibition led to speakeasies and flappers with bobbed hair and shorter skirts. People were more interested in sports, and universities began to stress the importance of physical education.
From the days when Gittings pole vaulted in her bloomers and her photo was published in the New York Times and national magazines, her hallmark was comfortable attire for women. She told her girls, "Dress for health, then for looks."
She once told the Tucson Citizen, "When I started teaching I had two influences to counter act - the corset and pointed-toe shoe." In a speech she said shoes held "the highest place as troublemakers," the garter "could disrupt the entire circulation" and "brassieres, unless worn property, hamper that vital function - breathing."
Attire actually played a role in getting a women's physical education building approved during the Depression. Many students, faculty members and the community felt it was not appropriate for young women to be running across campus in their swimsuits from Herring Hall to the swimming pool. The Women's Building was one of several facilities on campus constructed through the Works Project Administration. Gittings and her staff moved into their new quarters in 1936.
The new facility and dorm allowed the program to expand. By the 1940s the UA list of sports activities exceeded many other schools in the nation - archery, badminton, modern, folk and square dancing, fencing, golf, swimming and diving, tennis and team sports such volleyball, hockey, baseball and basketball. Swimming and horseback riding helped attract students from the East Coast and other wintry climes.
Gittings was passionate about women's health and children's health. She introduced a six-lecture course for all freshman students on the importance of health and hygiene. Early on she created a teacher-training course for her girls and many went on to teach in local elementary and secondary schools. Her classes were said to guide girls to be fine teachers and leaders, as well as wives and mothers. In 1947 Gittings published a book titled "Fundamentals in Teaching Physical Education."
She also felt it was essential for young children to have a place of their own to play. Even during the Depression she crusaded for playgrounds in the community.
Gittings stepped down as director of physical education in 1952 and retired in 1954. She died in 1966. While she grew this pioneering program from scratch, she also homesteaded 480 acres in northwest Tucson. Ina Road is named for her.
Information for this story came from a research paper written by Marian Smith for History 396, the capstone research class for UA history majors. This year's class, taught by Professor Martha Few, was the "History of the University of Arizona Student Research Symposium." For her research, Smith used the Ina Gittings Collection in UA Special Collections, plus books on the history of physical education and other resources.
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The Tigers down in the eighth inning, did just that.
Last night's game against the Seattle Mariners (and King Felix) was pretty well wrapped up (in the minds of some) going into the bottom of the inning. But, it has been said that, "it ain't over, 'til it's over!"
Mark Lowe, who replaced Felix Hernandez on the mound, faced Alex Avila, leading off the Tigers portion of the eighth. With the Mariners leading, 3-1, Lowe sent Avila out for a jog around the bases. Santiago came into the game as a pinch hitter, and promptly singled. After popping out Curtis Granderson, there was an error, a walk, and another single. Then – Ryan Raburn stole home!
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After a lifetime of searching for answers and meaning, I find the missing piece of the puzzle to learn why my life is what it is and how to truly change it once and for all.
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When we're not learning the soul lessons we came here to learn we are signaled with emotional and physical dysfunctions. Learn the lesson; eliminate the signal.
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The origin of my bad eyesight in this life is a thought in my first century life in Judea that there is something I 'don't want to see.'
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My first century personality learns his soul lesson to 'see' everything to gain awareness and understanding. I now begin to restore perfect vision today.
4. Stuck in a Troubled Relationship
My inability to leave a troubled marriage comes from a tragedy in my third century life with the same soul. With the lesson learned, the ties that bind are cut.
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A congenital heart defect signals an unlearned lesson in eighteenth century Boston with a corresponding money program that has plagued me in this life.
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7. The Perils of Ignoring Intuition
Looking for the origin of a missing toenail in this life takes me to a thirteenth century life in Florence and a fatal mistake of not listening to my intuition.
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My three-year-old is unsettled and wants to talk. Uncle Tom is hurting her. As she learns to use the strength of her inner light to protect herself, she comes to an understanding of what happened and takes back her power.
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My three-year-old isn't finished. She has to tell mom about Uncle Tom. He said not to tell. Once this is done, she is at peace about her abuse.
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My three-year-old is worried. Mom and dad are going to get another baby and she's afraid they're trading her in. By looking into the future she sees it's not so.
15. Angels and Dreams
Why don't I remember my dreams or have psychic experiences? I locate the origin of each – a thought at age twelve and a thought at age three.
16. Hidden Marriage Programs
My vision is much better but goes extremely blurry while writing a script about marriage. My eight-year-old thinks marriage is bad and learns how it can be good.
17. The Purpose of an Evil Life
Although I had an unworthiness program from adoption, the origin is in a thirteenth century life as an evil soldier. There is a soul reason why people live evil lives.
18. How to Avoid Karma from an Evil Life
Karma is un-creating what we create. We can do it by having the experience physically or by going to the level of consciousness where it was created and un-creating it mentally. A much better option!
A summary of what has been learned both individually and universally, the effects on my personal day-to-day life, and the opportunity this work presents to everyone.
Sample Neuro-Muscular Response Testing
A transcript of the exact wording in an NMResponse session.
Sample Hypnosis Inductions
An induction to a past life and to an inner age of this life illustrate how to relax so the conscious mind can step back to access the subconscious level where all the emotions, programs and memories are stored.
How to Find a Regression Therapist
Tips on things to look for and questions to ask when interviewing a prospective therapist.
Light the Earth
The law of nature is balance. We humans have created grave imbalance, which we must un-create. We can use our own light to do this.


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Top 2 Cosmetic Dentistry Canberra Services and Costs
A perfect smile is the best accessory that you can wear on your face. But not all of us are blessed with a straight and white set of teeth. If you are suffering from crooked, gap teeth, uneven teeth, and/or discolored teeth, you may be wondering what types of treatment will be recommended by a dental health professional.
Before you step in a cosmetic dentistry clinic in Canberra, it is imperative that you learn about the basic cosmetic dentistry services available in Canberra clinics.
Here are some of them:
- Veneers are cosmetic dental appliance that are laminates made from thin layers of either composite or porcelain material. They are applied directly on the surface of teeth for two reasons:
- To enhance the appearance of teeth
- To improve the teeth's overall durability
Veneers are indicated for patients who have crooked, misshapen, and small teeth.
Veneer cost in Canberra usually ranges between 400AUD for composite and 1,200AUD for porcelain veneer per piece.
- Teeth Whitening is an important cosmetic dental service for those who suffer from stained or yellow teeth. If discolouration is a chronic problem that you may be suffering from and if traditional teeth whitening toothpaste and products don't work on you, this is solution that you may want to look into. Teeth whitening may including:
- In-clinic teeth whitening that utilises laser technology that aims to whiten teeth up to 5 to 7 shades in just one session.
- Your cosmetic dentist may also prescribe you with at-home teeth whitening or teeth bleaching products that you are required to wear for a few hours. These at-home whitening kits can lighten your teeth 5 to 7 shades in just a few weeks of regular application.
For snowy-white teeth, prepare to shell out at least 800AUD per visit. Ideally, you need to undergo at least 5 teeth whitening sessions from the best cosmetic dentistry expert for best results. Professional whitening systems for home use that are prescribed by cosmetic dentists are typically priced at 100AUD or more.
To learn more about cosmetic dentistry services, or if you wish to schedule an appointment, feel free to give us a call on 1300 767 553.


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"Make sure it hits the bottom on every drop."I did as I was told. My partner and I caught a few. But nothing like the 7-pounder finning with contentment in Jacobsen's livewell. Maybe it was me and my inherent limitations as a walleye angler (always a possibility). But then again, maybe it was the differences between our walleye bladebaits. I sided with the bladebait differentiation theory and commenced to peppering Jacobsen with questions not only about his bladebaiting methods, but also about the bladebait itself. I'd always figured a bladebait is a bladebait is a bladebait. The only real differences in the packaged blades I bought seemed to be weight, and a smattering of different colors. All bladebaits, my early thinking went, had the same shape, hooks, snaps, holes, and actions. But I was more wrong than a blocked punt in your own end zone. The differences in a store-bought, ready-to-go bladebait, and a bladebait you create or customize down in your basement, is akin to the differences between a store-bought cake and a cake your sweetie labored all afternoon to make for you while you were out fishing. STRAIGHT FROM THE PACKAGEThere's not a thing wrong with any of the commercial bladebaits you buy off the peg at your local tackle retailer. Well designed bladebaits include Heddon's Sonar, Luhr-Jensen's Ripple Tail, Bass Pro Shop's XPS Laser Blade, Wazp's Zounder, Cordell's Gay Blade, the Silver Buddy, Zap Lures' Minnow Style Blade Bait, Pope's Blade Baits, Reef Runner's Cicada and Bitzer Creek's Zip Lure. All are awesome walleye-getters.But consistently successful fishing lives in the details, and expert walleye practitioners like Jacobsen know that a little extra something can and will make all the difference. If walleyes love bladebaits, so goes the theory, they'll love customized bladebaits, made just for them, even more. A good example? Crappie fry tend to congregate around the I-90 bridge pilings at Moses Lake in fall. They all look like fishy little Dalmatians with all those little black spots so characteristic of crappies. The walleyes congregate, too, feasting on the crappie pups."I figured it out one year," says Jacobsen. "I took a chrome blade and made little dark spots on it with a magic marker. Looked just like a crappie." And to the walleyes, it looked just like a crappie, too. Jacobsen and his marked-up blades slayed 'em.And that's just the beginning. Bladers have raised customizing their baits to a science. Coloring in eyes, using colored tape, marking up a brass blade with vertical black stripes to look like a perch, interchanging different kinds of hooks and snaps, pouring their own lead to make adjustments to weight, and even adding sparkle from nail polishes are all part of the high-level detail meant to maximize the duping ability of these lures. BASE COLORS AND FINISHESBladebaits originally came in one color--silver. And they came in one finish--flat. That was it. But not anymore. Manufactured blades now come in gold, copper, and brass base colors, many with clear coating to prevent tarnishing. Finishes can be flat, hammered, or rippled. And painted finishes have been added, such as firetiger, red, pink, chartreuse, and combinations such as blue-chrome.The fastest and most versatile way to customize blade finish is to start with a base silver blade and add prism tape. Larry McClintock with Critter Gitter Custom Walleye Tackle in Portland, Oregon, (503/257-0553, www.playnposm.com) makes tapes specifically for this purpose, and numerous Columbia River trophy walleye anglers swear by them. The color combinations are almost infinite: small silver black scale, clear red scale, clear silver scale, clear purple scale, dark green scale, and so forth. Critter Gitter also makes tapes that approximate juvenile fry, such as white black tiger and clear black tiger. ZAP Lures (419/475-2621) has tape available in gold, silver, red, and chartreuse prism for most standard-size blades.MAKE YOUR OWNIf you go through a lot of bladebaits in a season, or if you want to experiment, contact blade manufacturers and buy just the blades (you can add weight, hooks, and snaps yourself). Critter Gitter's brass blades, for example, sell for only $1.50 each in quantity.If you buy your blades in bulk, you'll need to add melted lead for weight. A good source for a melter and mold supplies is Jann's Netcraft (www.jannsnetcraft.com). While manufactured blades have the typical 1/4-, 1/2-, and 3/8-ounce weights, molding your own will allow you to customize the weight for the depths you prefer to fish. For example, springtime 'eyes can often be as shallow as four feet in stained water, where a lighter 1/8-ounce weight is more appropriate. Conversely, winter fish in 50 feet of water or in heavy current may need as much as an ounce of weight to stay in contact with the bottom.To create a lighter 1/8-ounce bladebait, either grind down the lead on a 1/4-ounce lure with a power grinder; pour only half the normal amount of molten lead in a 1/4-ounce mold; or mix lighter metal filings in with your lead to lighten the mixture.NOISEBladebaits vibrate, no doubt about it, but you can add noise to that vibration by adding rattle eyes. In fact, Heddon has done this as an option with their Sonars, and so has Luhr-Jensen with their Ratt'ln Ripple Tails. Excalibur makes Rattle Eyes for plastics that can be adapted for bladebaits, but better yet head to your local sewing craft shop. There you'll find tons of doll stick-on eyes with little black plastic balls inside the eye dome that will work just fine.SHAPEIt's believed that Heddon's Sonar was the first bladebait to hit the mass market, circa 1959. It featured a flat blade, chunk of lead, holes, and hooks. In 1990, however, the shape of the blade itself came into focus, and the Reef Runner Tackle Company, makers of the Cicada, somewhat "cupped" the blade so it would fall slower on the drop and waggle more on the pickup. Luhr-Jensen's Ripple Tails have this same curvature feature.You can make your own shape by slightly adjusting your blades, using a pair of pliers, the same way you adjust a trolling spoon. The more "cupped" or concave the blade, the more you'll affect the action and ensuing vibration qualities, as well as the speed of the descent-ascent.Reef Runner's Cicada also represents an innovative shape change, in that this blade is designed to stand up on the bottom as opposed to falling over flat as most blades do on a slack line. You can customize your blades to do this by adding and flattening the lead weight at the forward part of the bait.THE OL' MAGIC MARKER, PAINT, AND NAIL POLISH TRICKAnother of Bobby Jacobsen's innovations is to paint eyes on his bladebaits, using red paint for red eyes. Using a household marker like a black Sharpie, you can color in vertical stripes (for perch) or black dots (for crappies). The Scented Double Markers from the Spike-It Bait Company (available through Bass Pro Shops) offer coloring pens in Chartreuse-Red and Chartreuse-Orange with the added value of scent enhancement (garlic and gamefish). You can also dip your blades in Pro-Tec Powder Paint, the same kind of stuff you dip jigheads in.Lastly, if your household is like mine (wife and two teenage daughters), there's lots of nail polish in the house. Glitter nail polish can be awesome for adding reflective color that looks like tiny scales.HOOKSMost bladebaits come equipped with two sets of treble hooks. A recent trend, however, is to replace these with two sets of dual hooks--the hooks facing the center of the blade removed. You can buy premade dual hooks or simply use a pair of wire cutters to snap off the third hook on each treble. Other variations include removing the forward treble altogether. Some anglers also use a single Siwash style hook on the rear--and nothing else.SCENTExperiment with adding scent to a blade via a pinch of nightcrawler, Berkley Nibble, or a minnow head. This can be done without hindering the action by adding the bait to the center-pointed hook of the forward treble. Also smear the blade with a gel scent like Smelly Jelly (anise scent being one of the best). Some ice jiggers are known to add a spike (maggot) or two to the fronttreble hook.SNAPSMost blades come with some sort of snap for attaching your line or leader, inserting it into one of the hole positions along the top of the blade, resulting in a different attitude and vibration characteristic. One school of thought, however, is that snap swivels hinder action and slow response between you and the blade, particularly when a fish strikes. If your blades have a snap swivel, simply remove the upper barrel and keep the snap. Northwest walleye anglers typically use a chrome Duo-Snap, also known as a fast-lock snap.An innovation that might just catch on is adding a small O-ring rather than a snap. It's less obtrusive, has less effect on action, and still protects the mono leader.The upshot is, there are many modifications possible with bladebaits. Be creative and add your own ideas and creations to the bladebait debate. n*Dusty Routh, an outdoor writer, newspaper columnist and book author hopelessly addicted to walleye fishing, is a resident of Issaquah, Washington.WHAT COLOR WORKS BESTDennis Bryant of the ZAP Lure Company, makers of Minnow and Shad Style Blade Baits,was asked the age-old question: what bladebait colors work best for walleyes? He provided this handy guide:Gold--stained or muddied water, low-light conditions, and trolling.Silver--bright-light days, shallow or clear water, or longline trolling.Red--deep-water jigging, heavily overcast skies, rain.Chartreuse--post-front conditions and less than 2 feet of water visibility.An interesting side note is that ZAP's blades are made from a lead-bismuth alloy that turns gray with age. Bryant's experience has been so successful with older, grayer blades that he now "ages" his blades a year before putting them on the market. Get Your Fish On. 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The Nationwide Rifle Affiliation's political exercise and spending is as soon as once more below scrutiny following the capturing bloodbath at a South Florida college.
Of the tens of hundreds of thousands of the NRA has spent through the years in help of gun rights, a comparatively small share goes on to particular person members of Congress, in keeping with Federal Election Fee information compiled by the Heart for Responsive Politics.
For the 2016 election cycle, the group spent simply over $1 million on candidates for federal workplace. Congressional candidates from Florida, together with Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, acquired the third-biggest whole from NRA PACs; particular person members, staff or house owners; and people' speedy households, in keeping with the CRP.
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The international management code for the safe operation of ships and for pollution prevention (ISM code) Adopted by Resolution A. 741(18) of the Assembly of the International Maritime organization on 4 November 1993 (18th session, agenda item 11).
The ISM Code includes 13 sections:
1. General provisions:
2. Safety and Enviroment Policy;
3. Responsibility and authority of the company;
4. A Designated person ashore (DPA);
5. Responsibility and authority of the master;
6. Resources and personnel;
7. Development of Ships Operation Plan;
8. Readiness for emergency situations;
9. Reports non-compliance, accidents and dangerous occurrences and their analysis;
10. Maintenance and repair of the vessel and equipment;
11. Documentation;
12. Verification, review and evaluation carried out by the company;
13. Examination, evaluation, and control.
Every company should develop, utilize and maintain a safety management system (SMS) which includes the following functional requirements:
1) Safety and Enviroment Policy;
2) instructions and procedures to ensure the safe operation of ships and protection of the environment in accordance with relevant international law and legislation of the flag state;
3) the established level of authority and lines of communication between personnel on shore and on the ship and internal communications;
4) the procedure for reporting accidents and non-compliance of the provisions of this Code;
5) preparation for emergencies and actions to address them; and
6) the procedure for internal audits and management review.
With 01.01.2015 year entered into force amendments to ISM code.
Resolution MSC.350 (92) amendments to the International Convention for the safety of life at sea, 1974, which had previously been approved by the MSC-91. Amendments to rule 19 "Training of personnel for action in emergencies and exercises" Chapter III of SOLAS. Amendments to regulation III/19.1 introduces the requirement for training and safety briefing newly arrived passengers before the vessel's departure or immediately after departure. Amendments to regulation III/19.2 and 19.3, the law introduces obligatory requirements to ship the exercises for entrance into enclosed spaces and rescue with a frequency of at least once every two months, in accordance with Resolution A. 1050(27) "Revised recommendations for entry into enclosed spaces". Amendments to regulation V/19.1 SOLAS regarding the dissemination requirement of the alarm system to perform navigational watch (SHW) (Resolution MSC. 282(86)) to ships constructed before 1 July 2002. Currently, these amendments apply to ships built after 1 July 2002. The amendments to regulation XI-I/1 authorization of recognized organizations" introduces the requirement of compliance of such organizations with the mandatory requirements of the Code for recognized organizations. Amended, repealed previously specified in this rule resolution A. 739(18) "guidelines for authorization of organizations acting on behalf of the administration and A. 789(19) Specifications of the functions of recognized organizations acting on behalf of the Administration, examination and certification".
Resolution MSC.353(92) – amendments to ISM code. In particular, under the new provisions of section 6 "Resources and personnel" of the Code, the company must provide the required number of personnel to cover all aspects of the maintenance of security aboard ship during the operation, while reference was made to Resolution A. 1047(27) Principles for determining minimum safe crew". In section 12, "Testing, analysis and evaluation, carried out by the company" introduced the requirement for Company periodic inspection and evaluation of the staff performing the functions of a security in accordance with the ISM Code.


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Permo-Drive Technologies Ltd. has developed a hybrid hydraulic drive system that will be ready for use by commercial trucks and buses in three years, a system the Australian company said can reduce fuel consumption per vehicle by up to 40%.
Permo-Drive said it will begin testing its hybrid drive system in major North American fleets next year and plans to make the technology available commercially by 2005.
"The potential impact of hybrid hydraulic systems on the economy in general and on commercial vehicle owners in particular could be significant," said Paul Chandler, Permo-Drive's vp for North American operations. "Trucks account for nearly 81% of U.S. freight business and last year alone consumed more than 42 billion gallons of fuel."
Chandler said that Permo-Drive's Regenerative Drive System (RDS) can be installed on both new and existing trucks. The RDS captures energy generated by a vehicle's braking process, then releases the energy back into the driveline as power is needed.
In addition to improved fuel economy, Chandler said Permo-Drive's regenerative braking and propulsion system could "significantly" increase brake life, plus reduce hydrocarbon and particulate emissions for all classes of commercial vehicles.


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