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A geological model forms the foundation of the mining value chain, upon which all resultant assumptions are based – from initial target delineation to Mineral Resource estimation to final reserving and metallurgical processing.
The importance of a high-quality geological model cannot be stressed enough.
Reviewing and incorporating all available data (historical and recent), as well as geophysical surveys and mapping data allows a geologist to form a well-rounded understanding of a project's geology at a conceptual level, even during the early exploration stage, before drilling has begun.
Geological understanding is key to generating comprehensive and suitable exploration strategies which are supportive to the generation of a meaningful geological model.
Determining the sequence of orebody formation through deposition/erosion or intrusion, structural deformation and understanding the mineralisation controls, promotes good geological interpretation.
Regular updates and integrating new information allow solid geological theories to be tested and proved, revised and remodelled.
Often geologists do not dedicate enough time to building a high quality, representative and detailed geological model and frequently assume (sometimes incorrectly) that geostatistical solutions will partially, or even completely provide an adequate estimate of the spatial variability within the mineral deposit, resulting in simplified grade shell models being produced which do not adequately mimic the geometry of a mineral deposit.
Domaining within a geological model is critical to the Mineral Resource estimation process. Exploratory data analysis can assist in recognising domains. If controls on mineralisation are well understood, a wealth of information in the form of alteration, weathering patterns and structural trends may be also used to define these zones, in addition to lithological information.
Delineation of mineralised zones based on grade shells alone may often result in under- or over-reporting of the Mineral Resource. A meaningful estimate should be calculated within homogenous mineralised zones that display similar geological as well as statistical characteristics.
Geostatistics should confirm, rather than dictate, the interpretation of the geological model and defined domains within the geological model. A high-quality geological model combined with industry standard geostatistical methodologies will most often result in a credible, meaningful Mineral Resource estimate in terms of both the grade and tonnage for conversion to a Mineral Reserve.
A meaningful geological model improves the confidence in a Mineral Resource estimate. Mineral Resource classification should be a function of data density, grade continuity and grade estimation. However, confidence in geological input, data quality and geological continuity will always outweigh or override statistical classification methodologies during final Mineral Resource categorisation.
A high-quality geological model implies good understanding of geological concepts and resultant geological continuity and can serve as a strong support to classify the Mineral Resource at a higher level of confidence. A high-quality geological model should also support future expansion of exploration activities, potentially increasing the life of a project.
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Cookiecutter: Project Templates Made Easy
Yesterday, Jeff Knupp wrote an amazing how-to article called "Open Sourcing a Python Project the Right Way". While I was reading it, I was rather pleased by just how close it is to my own practices. Considering Jeff's amazing Writing Idiomatic Python, it meant I was on the right track.
The downside, of course, is implementation. Creating reusable Python
packages has always been annoying. There are no defined/maintained best
practices (especially for
setup.py), so you end up cutting and pasting
hacky, poorly understood, often legacy code from one project to the
other. Some of it does nothing and some of it fails catastrophically on
Python 3. There's a term for this sort of behavior, and it's called
Cargo Cult
Fortunately, while I was ranting and Jeff (and Hynek Schlawack) was writing, someone was making cookiecutter.
cookiecutter does one thing and it does it well
What cookiecutter does is make creating and maintaining project templates easy and intuitive. This allow developers of all languages (not just Python) the ability to break free from cargo-cult configuration and follow patterns dictated by the experts who present their own cookiecutter templates. So if you don't like how the author of cookiecutter's creates her projects, you can use someone else's or roll your own.
Okay, enough talk, let's use cookiecutter to build a Python project. Assuming you have virtualenv installed:
$ pip install cookiecutter
note: In the works is a Homebrew package, and possibly packages for the various Linux distributions as well.
Done? Okay, now use cookiecutter to create your Python project. For this example, I'm going to create a sample project called "cheese".:
$ cookiecutter https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage.git
Cloning into 'cookiecutter-pypackage'...
remote: Counting objects: 183, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (100/100), done.
remote: Total 183 (delta 87), reused 161 (delta 70)
Receiving objects: 100% (183/183), 29.36 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (87/87), done.
Checking connectivity... done
full_name (default is "Audrey Roy")? Daniel Greenfeld
project_name (default is "your project")? cheese
... snip for brevity
See how it asks my full name? Well, at this point, cookiecutter begins to ask a number of questions. These questions are actually specified in the cookiecutter.json file for cookiecutter-pypackage.
Once you've answered everything that cookiecutter-pypackage wants, it generates your project. Let's go and check:
$ tree cheese
├── AUTHORS.rst
├── CONTRIBUTING.rst
├── HISTORY.rst
├── MANIFEST.in
├── README.rst
├── docs
│ ├── Makefile
│ ├── authors.rst
│ ├── conf.py
│ ├── contributing.rst
│ ├── history.rst
│ ├── index.rst
│ ├── installation.rst
│ ├── make.bat
│ ├── readme.rst
│ └── usage.rst
├── requirements.txt
├── setup.py
├── simplicity
│ ├── __init__.py
│ └── simplicity.py
├── tests
│ ├── __init__.py
│ └── test_simplicity.py
└── tox.ini
While there are some differences from Jeff Knupp's example in his article (ReStructuredText vs Markdown, location of tests, etc), I would argue that the general vision is the same. Better yet, if Jeff (or someone) wants to implement Jeff's pattern, they can.
In fact...
Creating cookiecutter templates is easy and intuitive
All you have to do is:
- Fork cookiecutter-pypackage and rename it.
- Make the changes you desire. You can change anything you want, the setup.py, the test handling, or perhaps add or remove from the questions specified in cookiecutter.json. Right now repo_name is a mandatory cookiecutter.json field, but there is an issue submitted to have that changed.
- Remember that renders everything in Jinja2. Questions asked by cookiecutter.json are rendered to the project's files (be those files in Python, Javascript, HTML, etc). So if you add a field to cookiecutter.json, all you have to do to see it in a templates is write:
# Place in Python, HTML. Javascript, CSS, Markdown, or any other plaintext format.
- Submit a pull request to cookiecutter asking for their project to be listed on the README.
It's not hard. In fact, there is already a growing ecosystem of cookiecutter templates, including Python, Flask, Django and JQuery templates.
Note: There is already a fork of cookiecutter-pypackage that even more closely matches Jeff Knupp's design.
Additional cookiecutter features
Here are more things to like about cookiecutter:
cookiecutter is focused
It doesn't handle deployment, serving of HTTP, testing, or anything else. All it does is project templates. It follows those classic words, "It's programmed to do one thing and do it well".
Supports all modern versions of Python
- Python 2.6
- Python 2.7
- Python 3.3
- Even PyPy!
cookiecutter is modular
It's not built off a single giant function, or a complex architecture. Instead, it's comprised of a number of relatively simple functions. Why? Well this way you can import easily elements of cookiecutter into other projects, and it plays into the next feature:
cookiecutter is tested
The project has as of August 20th 2013, 98% test coverage, with an intention to increase it to 100%. This makes handling the following things much easier/safer:
- Implementing new features without breaking existing ones.
- Handling new versions of Python as they emerge.
cookiecutter isn't just for Python packages
That's correct. While at the moment there is only cookiecutter-jquery, there is nothing to stop developers from using cookiecutter to create templates for anything. The way it renders output is designed to accommodate customizations for any tool.
Which brings me to my next point...
cookiecutter isn't just for Python developers
Even if you don't know Python you can use
cookiecutter. The templating
is done via Jinja2, which isn't far off from
other template languages like Mustache, Handlebars, or Liquid. if you
are worried about collisions between templating systems, just use
{% raw %} template tag:
{# Jinja2's raw template to escape the Liquid template inside #}
{% raw %} {# Liquid template from here on #}

{% for product in products %}

{{ product.title }}

Only {{ product.price | format_as_money }}

{{ product.description | prettyprint | truncate: 200 }}

{% endfor %}
{% endraw %}
- Update 09/20/2013: Test coverage increased to 98% from 91%.
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Includes Flake by Matthew Dooley, Page 45's Comicbook Of The Month for July 2020. Please click on that link to see previous CBOTMs, read their reviews by clicking on their covers, learn more about it, and / or sign up…
Flake h/c (£18-99, Vintage / Cape) by Matthew Dooley.
"Every significant moment of Howard's life had happened in Dobbiston."
This we learn as an ice-cream van sails through the stars at the beginning of 'Howard's Cosmos', otherwise known as Chapter 2.
"All the forgettable ones had too."
FLAKE is as smart as it is delicious, as it is very, very British.
I'm going to bring out the big guns immediately and reference both Raymond Briggs and Alan Bennett when it comes to the quality, the cast, their outlook, their environment, and their quotidian observations about their parochial environment: pride in your local history, the surprising complexities in your family's history, and the strength of absurdities which can come to dominate any life; the traps therein.
The lateral thinking and succinct wit of Tom Gauld flow freely too. I hope I'm successfully selling this to you.
Visually, there remain stylistic influences from Chris Ware (the facial forms and rendering, the colouring, the occasional boxed layout, and the odd "AND SO…) and there's even a bit of Ted McKeever in an elderly lady's loose-toothed mouth. She should probably have a quick floss.
The central cast consists of Howard, his wife, his best mate Jasper and Jasper's new employee, Alex.
Like this father before him, Howard is an ice-cream van man. That's what we used to call them. A veritable local landmark like the lollipop lady, neither were permanent fixtures, more roaming delights. Both were enormously treasured but the sudden appearance of one – preceded by their iconic jingle-jangle eliciting an inevitable Pavlovian drool – was a little bit more thrilling than the other, I own.
Howard has become a master of his craft, with all the local knowledge necessary and subtle skills:
"Identifying the best places to stop. Sensing the optimum moment to switch on his signature tune.
"His ears were acutely attuned to the sound of children laughing.
"And, more importantly, the sound of children crying."
Unfortunately, Howard's finances are dwindling and this summer there's been a bit of a downturn which Howard at first dismissed as one of the vagaries of his inherited trade. It's not.
It heralds the Coastal North-West English Ice Cream Wars: like Sicily-on-Sea.
Ice cream vans which had for generations been peacefully patrolling their claim-staked family territories range from the familiar and more mundane Mr Creamy and Barry's Ices to Good Golly Miss Lolly and – my favourite – Walt Whipman. But now one sly Tony Augustus has emerged, seemingly from nowhere, and his entente ain't so cordiale.
Tony was born of one of the Families, but not into it, and this has given his quite the chip on his fishy shoulder: it's made him far more ambitious. His multiple vans have begun encroaching on others' routes, swallowing them whole like some Great White Shark of the suburban seas. And there's a reason why he wants Howard's more than anyone else's…
If Howard is FLAKE's naif, then his best mate Jasper is the story's idiosyncratic buffoon. Jasper works in the local museum, selling both tickets and – for an extra 50p – museum maps. For fear of confusing those easily overwhelmed with detail, the maps are very clear and extremely concise, boldly noting the most salient features: "museum", "car park, "gift shop" and "entrance". In order to acquire a copy, you'd have to have successfully navigated at least two of those already.
Like Howard (and, it transpires, Alex), Jasper enjoys his daily crossword. They both have plenty of time on their hands and their daily routine includes an 11am exchange of answers. They also like local quizzes.
"Jasper had mixed experiences with quizzes and game shows.
"This included a catastrophic appearance on Countdown.
"Jasper boldly opened with a nine letter word…
Too funny!
Jasper's overriding priorities, however, are his pet peeves or causes, each as irrelevant to any sane human being as they are uncompromisingly and passionately pursued.
"Jasper had worked in the museum for the last twenty years. Aside from a six month stay in a French prison… for trying to convert continental road signs from metric to imperial."
… Then painting his results on their signposts.
So he's averse neither to direct confrontation nor overt vandalism, which may well come in handy during the imminent North-West English Ice Cream Wars. (It doesn't.)
All of which is but the tip of the iceberg which finds our protagonist, right at the beginning, standing silently and solitarily on top of his own ice cream van, buffeted by the waves and submerged in the sea.
There are so many set pieces to enjoy on your journey, including the local quiz night, a saunter to the seaside, and particularly the three old ladies of 'The Black Veil Club', Maud, Jean and Frances. They're not actually wearing veils, but they're dressed for the part; nor are they surrounded by flies, though they could be.
Their hobby – their calling, their vocation…? – is to attend funerals, not to mourn the deceased, but to gossip about them, while rating each occasion on score cards according to turnout, eulogy and music.
"A funeral is a fine barometer of a life well lead."
"And this is the turnout of a womanising drunk."
But don't be deceived, for these ladies do pay attention and have acquired much local knowledge over the years. You'll be pleased that you listened, though you won't have to strain your ears, for they are not backwards in coming forwards with their mid-service pronouncements.
"People these days don't have the common decency to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves."
True, actually.
Buy Flake h/c and read the Page 45 review here
Luther Arkwight: The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright & Heart Of Empire s/c (£35-99, Dark Horse) by Bryan Talbot.
Here we go, then, first with THE ADVENTURES OF LUTHER ARKWRIGHT:
A damning indictment of man's ceaseless inhumanity to man in the form of oppression, warfare and retribution: its attempts to justify war in the name of God or country; its failure to learn or advance except in more effective means of destruction; individuals' consistent failure in power to live up to their promises made in revolution, and all the endemic, sorry subterfuge behind it all.
Bryan's knowledge of political history is matched only by his command in communicating its lessons, however they may be ignored by our lessers, and for a work which is essentially science fiction involving multiple parallel worlds, precognition and psychometry, this has its feet planted firmly in British history and on its very streets as Luther Arkwright is dispatched to a key parallel world in which Britain never succeeded in unshackling itself from its Cromwellian past. There he must uncover the Disruptor agents that have infiltrated key positions in the world's governments and in particular that of repressionist, Puritan Britain, marshal the underground Royalist forces and start a great big fucking revolution to uncover the legendary Firefrost and prevent pan-dimensional Armageddon. I know that it's a dirty job but someone's got to do it.
This is a work that is rich in texture, vast in scope and charged with sexual energy. It's also incredibly dense in its truest sense, for it could have been expanded into four times its length with no filler whatsoever. Instead, by weaving Arkwright's complex history through the threads of the main narrative, by gradually lacing the present and particular with what is known of the parallels' past, and by excavating as they go what few clues the guardians of central and stable Para 00:00:00 have of the mysterious Firefrost, their role and their goal in locating that ultimate weapon of mass destruction is slowly revealed. It really is intoxicating, as is the central climax of orgasmic satori when Arkwright rises from his own ashes – a phoenix primed with pure impressionistic poetry – which by contrast is allowed to explode across the pages in all its lush allusion. For anyone else this would be their magnum opus, not their opening salvo.
As indicated, Talbot has much to say about governments and war. The Firefrost, as its name implies, is an entity of opposites, a conjugation capable of destruction and creation, death and rebirth: the ultimate weapon of mass destruction designed to preserve life "until inevitably – as with any deterrent – it was activated". Concise and to the point, I think you'll agree.
Nathaniel Cromwell, Lord Protector and head of the Church of England, is an exceedingly ugly creation. A puritanical preacher, he rages against sin yet fornicates in secret, forcing himself on young royalist virgins, bound and gagged in the dark. Riddled with venereal disease, he is rabid in public whilst, in private, deliriously drunk; he is plagued by his father's abuse which left him sexually disfigured. Even the revolutionary Queen Anne has a ruthless side that will take you by surprise – or maybe not if you've read HEART OF EMPIRE. Just like HEART OF EMPIRE (a sequel of sorts) this shares its Shakespearian elements contrasting affairs of state with backstreet bawdiness, and this has an awful lot of omens. Bryan has a worryingly broad and vivid imagination when it comes to the hundreds of worldwide catastrophes visiting the other parallel worlds! Here too are the Hogarthian references as you'll see down in Cheapside overlooked (I think) by Westminster, as foul-mouthed farter Harry Fairfax (again, some relation to Sir Thomas) questions the meaning of it all.
It's also in Cheapside especially that the true majesty of the art – until now smothered and smudged beyond all recognition by a printing process inadequate to the task – really shines in this new shooting. The sheer detail on every page is remarkable from the exterior architecture with its intricate cross-hatching to the textures of a library crammed full of foliage, cloth and cultural carvings, and the final battle is epic. Steeped in British legend and lore (Boudicca, Britannia, George and the Dragon…), the World War fighter planes are dwarfed by futuristic helicarriers which hover in the sky like mighty, metal, military toads defying the laws of gravity. Absolute carnage!
October 2008 marks the 30th anniversary of the first pages seeing print in one form or another, and I think what may be most remarkable about this is that Talbot had the drive, ambition and courage back then to embark on it at all. That he then managed to successfully complete such a complex and painstakingly rendered grand narrative of sequential art which the British and American markets at the time were neither ready for nor willing to pay properly for, paving the way for future sales and showing what could and should be done, leaves us as progressive retailers (and others as subsequent comicbook creators), I believe, substantially in the great man's debt.
Please note: readers of editions earlier than 2007 really won't recognise what they see here: there are mountains whose delineation never made it onto the printed page and stars will explode in a night that was previously pitch-black – or rather bland grey. For many comicbook readers this is their favourite graphic novel of all time, and they'll now need another copy to see what it should have looked like.
Talbot wrote to me:
Yes, I was trying to do a Hogarthian scene – though it's not based on any specific one. I just looked at the page in the Czech edition with a magnifying glass and there's a lot of stuff in there I'd forgotten – me at the drawing board looking out of the top left window, a woman hanging washing in the BG of the next window along, people pissing and fornicating in the narrow alleyway, an old guy sitting on the steps crushing body lice with his thumbnails (as seen in a plate from The Harlot's Progress – the prison scene). And I noticed, for the first time, not having gone through this edition religiously, that Vaclav Dort, the publisher, has even unobtrusively translated the graffiti on the walls. I think that the tower is one from the old St Paul's cathedral – the one that burned down on this parallel in the great fire of London 1666. You can see it two pages earlier in the rooftop scene. That scene is based on a Doré print – 'cept in that it's the new St Paul's in the BG. Likewise before the Battle of London when Rose walks up to Westminster Abbey, it has the domes capping the side buttresses that were replaced on our parallel a couple of hundred years ago.
And now our second feature this evening, HEART OF EMPIRE:
Highly ambitious, very British and totally engrossing work, this uses all the clarity and majesty Talbot found for THE TALE OF ONE BAD RAT.
It is, in fact, thoroughly Shakespearean both in scope and treatment, alternating between high matters of state and street-level bawdiness whilst emphasising the connection through social and sexual decadence amongst the aristocracy and their entourage, and revolutionary aspirations and individual courage in the no-go areas of London. Then there's the dilemma raging between the individual and his/her role in society, the missing kin, the moment of upheaval and the looming cataclysm – all traditional elements of Elizabethan theatre; it might be stretching it a bit but the parallel worlds could be looked at as foreign territory and the science fantasy element as replacing the role of magic.
As to the story itself, 23 years ago Luther Arkwright saved this alternate reality, leaving behind him a wife, two children and an ambitious empire whose heart is Albion (England), and which has by now conquered most of the known world outside of America. Only the Vatican is allowed a modicum of independence. This world is very much a contemporary of ours – the two US reporters make that clear – but so much of it is Victoria in extremis: the all-consuming, rapaciously greedy imperialism, the vast state expenditure on monument (Talbot's art here, particularly for the creation of the neo-Crystal Palace and its environs, is awe-inspiring, right up there with Guy Davis but with his own distinctive light and clarity), the seemingly unassailable, matriarchal monarchy, slavery bolstered by racism and apartheid, the hypocritical sexual values forced upon the commoners yet flouted by the well-to-do, flaunting both their bosoms and their catamites. Some sciences have advanced whilst others languish, superstitious prophets and quacks maintaining weight amongst the court, madhouses still the destination of the unstable or politically undesirable.
From the very first page looking out through a Roman window, with its overripe fruit cleaved by a knife, the waste, decadence and latent violence is made patently clear.
Talbot's anti-authoritarian credentials are well documented (see ALICE IN SUNDERLAND's substantial post-script), and this work has at its heart a total disgust for inequality, control and corruption. Machinations are rife. Brutality is common. Sycophancy permeates the court. But even so Talbot is not so dismissive as to avoid counter-arguments, and his strength as a writer shines through in his portrayal of the protagonist, for the princess at the heart of the story has a journey to make, and as the story opens she is as cold and aloof as the empire but has made use of its wealth, power and her own talent to build an astoundingly beautiful city, replete with buildings, squares and vistas rarely seen since the Renaissance, and on a scale we don't even aspire to any longer.
The resources of the many squandered by the few on self-aggrandising, imperialist spectacle…? Well of course, but it's more than a little tempting to mourn such architectural planning and achievement, especially after Talbot's pen lines.
The book also boasts some fine Alan Moore-ish LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN mock endpapers, a great deal of explicit sex and I wasn't kidding about the bawdy humour, so be warned. Okay, back to the plot and an interdimensional apocalypse approaches…
Quick reminder that you can find Page 45's Bryan Talbot interview in our website's FUN & RESOUCES section. There are several paragraphs there relevant to this including a couple of behind-the-scenes secrets.
Buy Luther Arkwight: The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright & Heart Of Empire s/c and read the Page 45 review here
Silver Surfer Omnibus vol 1 (£89-99, Marvel) by Stan Lee & John Buscema.
"Poor, pathetic creatures! So riddled with fear… with gnawing distrust!
"What monumental irony… that they who rule a planet — should be so insecure!"
Bumper all-in-one hardcover treatment for the Marvel Comic that most stands the test of time from its early period, given that man's inhumanity to man is apparently the least mortal thing about us.
John Buscema is on mighty form here, with phenomenally evocative body language as the Silver Surfer, exiled to Earth after escaping his role as Galactus's first herald, finds the human race busy destroying its own planet and each other… then biting the shiny alien hand which reaches out to feed it.
It is a bit wordy since the Surfer pronounces judgement on anyone and everyone around him, but it's not as if he's wrong.
Also, no matter how many snazzy tricks they might have for representing silver, no other artist has achieved the effect so successfully, so fluidly over form. Nor have they matched Buscema's definitive depiction of this individual in anguish, his fingers spread wide over his forehead or entire arms covering his eyes in sorry (and, I'd suggest, vicarious shame) after each successive rejection or military abomination. John's expressiveness was right up there with Will Eisner's, and I'm not exaggerating when I declare Buscema in terms of physique to be a svelte successor to Michelangelo, without all the gargantuan distortion which plagued the maestro's paintings, though none of his sculpture.
Mephisto, Marvel's version of the devil, really does have it in for our silver soul. He's nothing if not persistent and positively revels in adding yet more sadistic torture on top of that heaped on him by us.
Thor, Loki, The Stranger, Spider-Man, The Human Torch, The Inhumans, and The Abomination are all in evidence here too.
Full colour throughout (it's sometimes difficult to find interior art online), this collects SILVER SURFER (1968) #1-7 (A STORIES) and #8-18 and material from FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #5 and NOT BRAND ECHH #13.
Buy Silver Surfer Omnibus vol 1 and read the Page 45 review here
Brand-New Releases:
Please click on images or the links to buy or learn more from the publishers. Oh, apart from ARKHAM ASYLUM: I wrote some of that review over two decades ago!
Fire Power vol 1: Prelude s/c (£8-99, Image) by Robert Kirkman & Chris Samnee
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With the continued expansion of beef cattle in our area, pasture and hay land is becoming scarce for new producers, and others interested in expanding their operation. Most of the counties in the Florida Panhandle have over 60% of their land in timber. Thousands of acres were put in the CRP program back in the 70's and 80's, further reducing acres available for grass production. With recent low timber prices, there is renewed interest in converting pine stands to pasture lands. This is a costly practice, but many landowners are taking on the challenge.
Converting timberlands to pasture involves the use of prescribed fire, clearing land with a dozer, and disking up the area to be planted to permanent pasture. These disturbances wake up a giant seed-bank of weed seeds that often have been dormant for years. Also, soil that was shaded for many years now has an abundance of sunshine, along with less ground-cover of leaves and pine needles which previously slowed or prevented weed germination.
Besides a massive influx of dog fennel, ragweed, and pokeweed. Bracken fern, crotalaria, and perilla mint are often benefactors of your new land management activities. Bracken fern is often the great beneficiary of fire. This is especially the case for land that was previously farmed before being set in pines 30-40 years ago.
Some of these plants can be extremely toxic to livestock, if not controlled. With potential drought potential in the southeast this season, a grass shortage could lead to livestock consuming these plants. So, it is essential to control weeds prior to planting. There are herbicides available to control these weeds, but multiple applications may be required, especially if dry conditions persist.
Chaparral and metsulfuron are the recommended herbicides for control of bracken fern. However, these products were developed for use in bermudagrass and will also kill or seriously injure bahigrass, so it is important to control bracken fern prior to planting. Read all labels before applying these products.
For further information on toxic plants and weed control go to the following publications:
Bracken Fern
Solutions for Life: Toxic Plants
Weed Management in Pastures and Rangeland—2017
- What are the Benefits of Freezer Beef? - August 27, 2021
- Fire Management in a Silvopasture System - March 19, 2021
- Game Cameras for Wildlife Monitoring - October 2, 2020


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Failure to renew GSP will result in Michigan small business "letting one production person go"
Altus Brands, LLC is a small, 12-employee company in Grawn, Michigan – near Traverse City and Michigan's "Little Finger" – that imports leather bags from the Philippines. It is among the many companies in the United States and around the world that needs Congress to renew GSP and refund tariffs paid immediately. GSP be...Continue reading


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A forbidden fae kiss could be deadly.
Naia was raised in the shadow of her twin brother, the crown prince, who has iron magic much more powerful than hers. But Naia has wishes of her own. They awaken when she finds a white fae almost dying in the woods. She only heard of them in stories; the dreaded race that razed cities to the ground, killed her grandparents, almost rid Aluria of humans—until they disappeared. Now, almost twenty years later, are they back? Is there another war coming?
But the fae is evasive and secretive—and also alluring and fascinating, more beautiful than anyone she's ever seen. And then it happens: Naia kisses him—and nothing will be the same again.
In another kingdom, Leah, a necromancer princess, has to find a husband in less than four days, during the gathering, when royals from all over Aluria meet. Her family makes it very clear that she can pick any prince she wants—except one: Naia's brother. And it turns out that he's the one; the one who makes her heart beat faster.
Meanwhile, war looms over the land. One of the kingdoms is amassing immense power. The White Fae might be returning. Amidst it all, Naia and her brother struggle with newfound magical powers, family secrets, and most of all, their own treacherous hearts.
Psychological abuse, physical abuse, death of a loved one, gaslighting, sexual harassment, attempt at sexual assault.


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Knee pain can come from a wide variety of causes. Common injuries to the knee include to the supporting ligaments, widely known by their acronyms: ACL, MCL, PCL. These ligaments criss-cross the knee joint providing stability to the knee throughout it's range of motion and to protect it from shearing forces across the joint. Other common injuries are to the meniscus, which are the two pads in the knee that act as shock absorbers. An injury to the ligaments will normally cause the knee to feel "loose," while injuries to the meniscus will often be very painful and can cause the knee to "lock up." Depending on the severity of the injury, and whether the tear in these tissues is a partial or complete, surgery could be indicated. In either case, physical therapy is important to strengthen the muscles surrounding the knee and to make sure movement is coordinated across the knee joint.
Treating Osteoarthritis Pain with Chiropractic Care
What about other sources of knee pain? Osteoarthritis is another common source of pain in the knee. This is caused by the gradual wear and tear most of our joints experience over time. Regular chiropractic treatment is an important part of managing joint pain from osteoarthritis. Depending on how advanced the arthritis is, we can usually help manage this type of chronic knee pain.
Knee pain in an otherwise healthy, uninjured knee is often from a biomechanical problem, meaning the joints of the leg are not moving properly in relation to each other. If you think of the ankle, knee, hip, and pelvis as a "chain" of joints that have to work together, you can see how one area can affect another. If there is a restriction in the ankle or hip, they become out of sync with each other, and the knee is the "link in the chain" that often becomes irritated. This irritation over time can lead to swelling and pain. By gently realigning the joints of the pelvis, hip, knee, and ankle, it allows the chain to move freely and reduce the stress on the knee. Give us a call today to schedule an evaluation to see if we can help with your knee pain.


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Nefertiti Lift Botox
As a professional practitioner it always amazes me that I very rarely have demands about the neck. And when I have it is generally too late for a non surgical treatment such as the Nefertiti lift.
The neck is one of the most important component of the beauty and as such should be protected with the greatest care. No need to talk about the Joconde or Queen Nefertiti, it is really this extra "je ne sais quoi" that gives sex appeal and class. What would be Audrey Toutou or Brad Pitt without a distinguished, racy neckline ?
I wrote an article about the use of botox injections for Nefertiti lift to preserve the neck beauty and allure, you can read it by clicking this link
The Nefertiti lift is the technique using botox injections to relax the strongest parts of the superficial neck muscle (platysma). These parts are pulling the jaw line downward when ageing and are enlarging the lower third of the face. Relaxing them at the early stages of the process is a simple but elegant way to preserve the beauty of the neck.


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Envious Illuminated Shot Glasses
Do you love drinking? Then look no further to the Envious Illuminated Shot Glasses. For only $9.99 from www.envious.com, they would illuminate your mood for a couple of drinks. The inventor has already donated some of these shot glasses to a fundraising event held by Forbes to raise money for Katrina relief.The shot glasses are made of frosted glass and there is a LED that is held in a small base, which also holds a battery capable of 3,000 uses or about 35 gallons of liquor. Once the shot glass is tapped, the shot glass lights up for six seconds.This would be excellent addition to your liquor collection, consider buying it.


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The Lakers continue on their annual Grammy road trip tonight as they take on the surprisingly good Utah Jazz. After beginning the season losing seven of eight road games, the Lakers are now looking to make it three straight wins while donning their Forum Blue threads. The Lakers kicked off their road trip with a win in Denver last night, led by the first year all-star Andrew Bynum's 22 points and 10 rebounds. Bynum was a big reason for the Lakers' win at Utah earlier this season as he provided a crucial block on Al Jefferson in the final moments of a one-possession game. Tonight's game won't be easy, especially if Jazz forward Paul Millsap has anything to say about.
Millsap has been playing at an incredibly high level in this shortened season. He is currently averaging a career high in points per game (16.9), while shooting efficiently from the field (52%) and the line (career high of 78%). He is also grabbing 9.3 rebounds per game (career high) and 1.6 steals (another career high) all while having a career low in turnover rate despite carrying a larger share the offensive load than ever before. This has culminated in the recognition of him as a MVP candidate on ESPN's top 10 list last week. While his status as an MVP candidate is something of a stretch, the Jazz's status as a playoff team is not. Despite the loss of coach Jerry Sloan, the trade of franchise player Deron Williams, and the subsequent downward spiral at the end of last season, the Jazz have recovered and firmly established themselves as playoff contenders in a very deep Western conference on the big shoulders of Millsap.
Joining Millsap on the front line is the very talented Al Jefferson. Jefferson enters tonight's contest averaging 18.5 points and 9 rebounds. The combination of Jefferson and Millsap is one the better scoring and rebounding front lines in the league. Bynum did well in the last meeting with Jefferson, holding him to 11 points on 5 of 17 shooting, including the game sealing block in overtime. Millsap on the other hand posed significant problems for the less mobile Pau Gasol. Millsap scored 29 points on 14 of 24 shooting using his quickness and strength to keep Gasol off balance all night. Pau must defend Millsap better tonight if the Lakers are going to come away with a win.
The rest of the Jazz offense is generated by committee. The Jazz have four players averaging between 9.3 points and 10.2 points per game. None of the Jazz are particularly good three-point shooters as Raja Bell is the only Jazz player making over 33% of his attempts on the season. There aren't many teams that shoot the three worse than the Lakers, but the Jazz are one of them.
Offensively the Lakers will need more balance tonight, particularly from the duo of Bynum and Gasol. In the previous game against Utah, the Lakers won on the back of Kobe Bryant's 40-point scoring effort. Bynum and Gasol combined to shoot only 37% on the night and 63% from the line. The Lakers' twin towers must play aggressive offensively and look to exploit their size inside.
In contrast, you won't have to worry about Kobe playing aggressively. When he catches the ball on offense he will likely be staring at the clothesline king Bell. The match-ups between Bryant and Bell are often very heated with neither player willing to give an inch. Sometimes this comes at the detriment of the Lakers as Kobe can tend to lock in on trying to stick it to Bell rather than playing the best team basketball. Kobe struggled to score last night in Denver, scoring only 20 points on 7 of 23 shooting, though he did finish with 9 assists. The onus will be on Kobe to put aside the past battles against Bell and instead focus on running the best offense for the team as a whole.
The Lakers may have finally found the bench player to help replace the scoring that Lamar Odom provided in prior seasons. Andrew Goudelock, one of the Lakers rookies, has become a consistent contributor for the purple and gold. His combination of three-point shooting and ability to put the ball one the floor and finish with a running floater has transformed him into the 4th option on this veteran Lakers team. Goudelock finished with 13 points on 6 of 10 shooting in last nights, which marks the fourth time in five games that he has scored at least a dozen points.
After a slow start to the season, Troy Murphy seems to have rediscovered his shooting touch. The sharp shooting big man has made 9 of his last 14 three point attempts, bringing his three point shooting percentage to 48% on the season. The combination of Murphy and Goudelock has helped to address the Lakers shooting woes and lack of production from the bench unit; both big reasons the Lakers have won four out of their last five games.
The Lakers are looking to continue their winning streak and stay undefeated on their Grammy road trip tonight against another playoff caliber opponent in Utah. It won't be an easy game by any stretch. The Lakers played last night in a tough contest against the Nuggets while the Jazz rested up. Will they have enough legs to withstand another 48 minutes in a very hostile arena? Join us at 6:00 in our game thread as we discuss the action as it unfolds.


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Democratic Frontrunners Are Wrong About Aid for Israel
Putting America's annual $3.8 billion of military assistance to Israel on the chopping block makes for good politics. But it makes no sense for U.S. national security.
In a jarring moment during last month's Democratic primary debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, asked about Washington's complicated relationship with Riyadh, lit into the Saudis for the murder of the U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, condemning the kingdom as a brutal, misogynistic dictatorship that "is not a reliable ally." Then, without skipping a beat, he pivoted to an attack on Israel for its mistreatment of the Palestinians, particularly in Gaza—a tack that won a spontaneous outburst of applause from the attending audience. Seamlessly lumping together the Middle East's only stable democracy with its most reactionary absolute monarchy, Sanders concluded, "we need to be rethinking who our allies are around the world."
In a jarring moment during last month's Democratic primary debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, asked about Washington's complicated relationship with Riyadh, lit into the Saudis for the murder of the U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, condemning the kingdom as a brutal, misogynistic dictatorship that "is not a reliable ally." Then, without skipping a beat, he pivoted to an attack on Israel for its mistreatment of the Palestinians, particularly in Gaza—a tack that won a spontaneous outburst of applause from the attending audience. Seamlessly lumping together the Middle East's only stable democracy with its most reactionary absolute monarchy, Sanders concluded, "we need to be rethinking who our allies are around the world."
Of course, harsh criticism of Israel has long been a staple of the Sanders playbook. A tad more disconcerting was the apparent approval it triggered in the crowd. Condemnations by other candidates earlier in the evening of dangerous U.S. adversaries such as China, North Korea, and Russia didn't seem to elicit nearly the same level of enthusiasm. Also hard not to notice was the fact that none of Sanders's nine rivals on the stage rose to push back against the suggestion that the long-standing U.S. alliance with Israel should be up for reassessment. This was especially striking because in the days leading up to the debate, the Gaza-based Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad had fired close to 500 rockets at Israeli population centers, sending tens of thousands of civilians into bomb shelters and shutting down schools and businesses in Tel Aviv, the country's most important commercial hub.
In fairness, it's possible that the format and rhythm of the debate simply didn't allow for that type of intervention. On the other hand, it's becoming increasingly obvious that, when it comes to Israel, a shift is indeed afoot in the Democratic Party—at least among its more progressive and activist base.
That trend was most visible in October, when several Democratic candidates in succession—including leading contenders such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg—joined Sanders in advocating for the position that the United States should consider withholding military aid if Israel pursued policies that undermined a two-state solution. Only one of the top-tier candidates, former Vice President Joe Biden, spoke out forcefully against the idea, calling it "absolutely outrageous" and a "gigantic mistake."
Biden is right. It may increasingly be the case in today's Democratic Party that putting America's annual $3.8 billion of military assistance to Israel on the chopping block in service to the peace process makes for good politics. But it makes no sense as national security policy. The fact is that Israel's recent emergence as one of the world's most powerful industrial democracies has never been more important to the United States. And the value to U.S. interests of Israel's world-class military, intelligence prowess, and cutting-edge science and technology sector is only likely to grow in the future.
In the last three presidential elections, the U.S. public—frustrated and weary from fighting so-called endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—has consistently supported the candidate (Barack Obama twice, Donald Trump once) who exhibited the greatest enthusiasm for reducing the country's military commitments in the Middle East. Especially as the United States' own dependence on oil exports from the region continues to decline, the long-term trajectory of U.S. retrenchment seems almost certain to continue. For its part, the U.S. military is also looking to draw back from the Middle East so it can divert more of its capabilities and energies to higher-priority missions, in particular the need to counter increasingly aggressive great-power competitors, China and Russia.
Yet even as it seeks to reduce its burdens, the United States still has important interests in the Middle East that need defending. It wants the region to be more stable. It wants to avoid significant disruptions in oil supplies that could wreak havoc on the economies of key trading partners. It wants to contain Iranian aggression, combat Islamist terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, deter the outbreak of major war, and ensure Israel's security. Logic dictates that doing all that with less U.S. involvement means someone else will have to step up to help fill the void. That, in turn, puts a premium on reliable local allies that have both the will and the capability not just to defend themselves without the United States riding to the rescue but also to act effectively on their own across the Middle East to help advance major U.S. interests. With all due respect to Washington's other longtime partners in the region and even Europe, it's patently obvious that only one country comes close to meeting those criteria today: Israel.
Israel has, by an order of magnitude, the most powerful and operationally effective military in the Middle East. Its intelligence services rank among the world's best, far outpacing any regional rival. It's a technological superpower with leading research and development capabilities in priority national security areas for the United States, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, unmanned systems, missile defense, space, and anti-terrorism. Israel's assessment of the most serious threats to Middle East security is nearly identical to Washington's. And its government and population are unwaveringly pro-American, ready and willing to lend Israel's full support to countering shared threats and securing key U.S. objectives.
With little fanfare, Israel in recent years has taken on sustained military missions that extend well beyond its historical preoccupation with the defense of its immediate borders. As Washington's stomach for wielding hard power against the Middle East's most dangerous challenges recedes, the new reality is that Israel has become a major exporter of security and extended deterrence to the broader region. Since at least 2017, it has been the only power in the world conducting regular military operations to push back successfully against Iranian forces and their expansionist designs. A kind of de facto division of labor has emerged whereby the United States restricts itself to punishing Iran and its regional proxies with harsh economic sanctions while Israel does the more difficult and dangerous work of directly confronting and containing Iranian power on the ground.
In Syria, probably the Middle East's most strategically consequential battlefield of the past decade, Israel has reportedly attacked more than 1,000 targets affiliated with Iran. Almost singlehandedly, in fact, Israel has foiled Iran's ambition to entrench itself militarily in Syria. Iran's far-reaching plan to establish a series of land and naval bases, command a force of up to 100,000 pro-Iran fighters, and stockpile and deploy thousands of highly accurate rockets and missiles in Syria has been stillborn. Though garnering little attention, Israel has over the past four years inflicted one of the worst defeats ever suffered by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its imperial project to dominate the Middle East's northern tier from Tehran to the Mediterranean Sea. The IRGC's goal of replicating in Syria the same level of military power and threat that it built in Lebanon through Hezbollah has been almost completely thwarted by a sustained campaign of discreet Israeli military attacks and intelligence activities—all without triggering a larger war and conflagration. The United States—not to mention Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and much of the rest of the region threatened by rising Iranian hegemony—has quietly applauded from the sidelines without having to put any of its own forces at risk.
Though on a far lesser scale, Israel has over the last year extended its targeting campaign against Iran to Lebanon and Iraq as well, as the IRGC seeks to adjust for its failure in Syria by further building up its capabilities in those countries, especially by giving precision missiles to Hezbollah and Iraqi Shiite militias. In Egypt, an under-the-radar but extensive program of Israeli military and intelligence support has proved essential to preventing extremist groups loyal to the Islamic State from taking over the strategically vital Sinai Peninsula. Israel has long played a similarly critical role in bolstering the security of neighboring Jordan. Meanwhile, in the eastern Mediterranean, as the region's massive gas reserves become an increasingly important factor in global energy markets, Israeli defense capabilities will play a leading role in securing the area's critical infrastructure, in cooperation with other stakeholders including Cyprus, Egypt, and Greece.
There's every reason to believe that the demand for Israeli security assistance will only increase as U.S. disengagement continues apace. Already, it seems a near certainty that Israel is engaged in unprecedented, albeit covert, cooperation with several Gulf states, including the Saudis, to help them counter Iran and other extremist threats. Given the direct impact on its own interests, it's easy to imagine Israel taking on much greater responsibilities for policing the Red Sea, or ensuring that Houthi rebels in Yemen don't become the next repository of long-range Iranian missiles and drones capable of accurately striking strategic targets not only in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, but in Tel Aviv and Haifa as well.
In the 1970s, the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon, preoccupied with the war in Vietnam, developed a "twin pillars" strategy for the Middle East. It relied on two local allies, the shah's Iran and Saudi Arabia, to help counter Soviet meddling and enforce regional security. The strategy quickly crumbled when the shah was overthrown and the Saudis proved both unwilling and for the most part incapable of fulfilling their assigned role.
By contrast, Israel today is the real deal, a stable democracy and longtime ally that has consistently demonstrated the will, power, and operational effectiveness to do more to secure the Middle East from common threats, so the United States can do less. From countering Iranian imperialism and Islamist terrorism to protecting energy resources and vulnerable regional allies, Israel's role in the region has become critically important for the United States. At a time when war fatigue and other global priorities are driving Washington to reduce its involvement in the Middle East, it's increasingly apparent that Israeli power will be indispensable if the United States hopes to maintain a regional order that favors its interests.
In other words, Israel is America's new pillar in the Middle East. Truth be told, it's the only pillar. To jeopardize such a strategic asset on the altar of a Palestinian conflict that has dragged on chronically for decades, with no resolution in sight and the issue's relative geopolitical significance in steep decline, would be a huge unforced error. Many of Washington's most important Arab partners are now moving systematically to deepen their security cooperation with Israel, refusing to allow their national interests to be subjugated to one of the world's most intractable disputes any longer. It would be an odd time for the United States to start moving in the opposite direction, as several of the Democratic candidates suggest, and throw into question its own tremendously beneficial defense relationship with Israel. That's precisely the kind of strategic indulgence that a superpower bent on retrenchment can ill afford.
John Hannah is a senior fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America and a former national security advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney.
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People prefer to see another person's post and are keen to know what they are up to and that too without communicating with them.
How to tell if someone is stalking you on Instagram? Can someone tell if you look at their Instagram? Let's explore the truth.
Unfortunately, you have limited choice to check who are the people that are stalking over your Instagram account. The only available option is Instagram Stories, which lists all the viewers of that particular story.
Instagram Stories Can Help You to Know Instagram Stalkers
Instagram stories work the same as the Snapchat stories do.
For stories, you need to create a post and set that as a story. That particular story will be available for the next 24 hours and will automatically disappear after that.
For watching another person's story, you need to select his profile, and from here, you may watch stories. Other people may do the same to watch your stories. Similar to Snapchat, Instagram also gives you the list of viewers of your stories.
You may swipe up from your story to get the viewer's list. That list will tell you the username of each viewer. Unsure, but some people believe that the viewer's list arranges the names of the viewers in the way how often they are viewing your stories.
It means that the person standing on the top of the list has viewed your stories the most. As told before, these are just concepts developed by the users as there is no official confirmation from Instagram about such theories.
Apps to See Who Stalks Your Instagram
Apart from the viewer's list of your Instagram stories, there is no alternative method for your curiosity. On the other hand, Snapchat provides details about who is doing what, which is not in the case of Instagram.
What if someone comments on your post or communicate in other ways? You must have a nightmare.
Or are you doing the same?
If you are more cautious and concerned with your privacy, there are many apps to see who stalks your Instagram these may help you to some extent but do not expect too much.
These apps provide you with a list of people who have viewed your posts but did not respond along with the list of people viewing your Instagram account.
How to Prevent Stalking on Instagram?
Honestly, you do not have a lot of access to know who are your stalkers. They are not doing anything wrong by stalking on your Instagram account unless you are facing threats or any kind of mishappening from them.
Make Your Account Private
You can modify a few of your privacy settings for better security of your account.
- Select the three-line menu icon on Instagram app
- Go to Settings and from the list select the Privacy option
- Select Account Privacy and make it to Private Account
Users who are following you may only view your Private Account. People who want to follow you will send you a follow request. Acceptance or denial of their request is your sole decision. This privacy setting will make your account visible to only your followers and not any other person.
Turn Off Your Activity Status
Under Privacy settings, there is an option to manage Activity Status.
- Click on the Activity Status
- Turn off Show Activity Status
It will not allow anyone to watch your activities on Instagram, and proportionally, you can not watch other user's activity as well.
Remove Instagram Followers
If you are aware of your stalker, then you may remove them as your follower. The option Accounts You Follow can help you.
Under Privacy settings, look for Accounts You Follow.
- Click on the Accounts You Follow option
- Switch to XXX Followers tab (where XXX is number of followers)
- Scroll down to find an Instagram stalker.
- Simply, click on the Remove button, select and confirm Remove, and you are done.
If willingly you have chosen to make your account as private, then that user may not be able to view your profile. Anyhow, they can only watch your likes and comments made on other user's posts but may not be able to hover around your profile.
A private account secures you with a few protection. You can change your privacy setting as public after one month or two with a hope that a particular user gets bored trying to view your activities and hopefully moves on.
Final Thoughts
Instagram is a great social media platform that enables you to post photos and videos which you may share with your loved ones. On the other hand, Instagram is not for those people who are cautious with their privacy concerns.
In the end, there is no way to know who your Instagram stalkers are.
You should be careful while posting anything on your Instagram account or any other social media.


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Interested in learning more about biodynamic farming? Here's a conference that may shed some light.
"Join us on November 14-18, 2012, at the beautiful Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison, WI, for an extraordinary event — the 2012 North American Biodynamic Conference. This biennial conference will bring together hundreds of farmers, gardeners, educators, activists, and interested newcomers for five days of inspiring keynotes, informative workshops, networking, exhibits, film screenings, art, and organic and biodynamic foods. This year's theme, Sacred Agriculture: Creating a New Relationship with the Earth, will focus on how we can build a sacred relationship to the earth through farming, gardening, and transformational work in our communities."
via Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association.


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SOLAR: GM plans a 2.2 MW solar array at an Ohio assembly plant, which would be the company's fifth-largest solar installation. (Youngstown Vindicator)
ALSO: Minnesota-based 3M will offer discounts on solar panels as an employee benefit. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
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EFFICIENCY: European passive house standards get a makeover for Midwest climates, and the Department of Energy will pursue new efficiency standards for water heaters and some fluorescent lights. (Midwest Energy News, The Hill)
COAL: Citizen groups in Illinois seek a federal takeover of the state's mining regulator, and an Illinois county delays a vote on a proposed coal waste storage facility. (SNL, Springfield State Journal-Register)
CARS: Hybrid owners love their cars but still face a stigma on the road; Michigan's governor signs a bill, supported by GM, that blocks Tesla's sales model in the state; and Ford drops the price of its electric Focus. (Chicago Tribune, CBS Detroit, MLive, Autoblog)
OIL AND GAS: High pollution levels are found near Ohio drilling sites, a Canadian company considers a new refinery in North Dakota, and an industry gathering gives Ohio officials a look at other shale plays around the country. (Associated Press, Columbus Business First)
POLITICS: Environment and energy issues are playing a major role in midterm campaigns. (New York Times)
WASTE-TO-ENERGY: The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a dispute over a proposed waste-to-energy plant near Green Bay. (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
NUCLEAR: Allison Macfarlane, chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is stepping down at the end of the year. (Washington Post)
GRID: Rural co-ops say bigger farm machinery is leading to more accidents with power lines. (Minnesota Public Radio)
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'Gotham's Cory Michael Smith on Embracing Edward Nygma's Dark Side
The pre-Batman drama is calling Season 2 "The Rise of the Villains," and holy crowd control, do they have a barrage of baddies flooding Bruce Wayne's far-from-fair city. In addition to Robin Lord Taylor's Penguin, Erin Richards's now-nasty Barbara Kean and Camren Bicondova's Catwoman-in-waiting, Shameless's Cameron Monaghan is due back as the murderous circus kid everyone hopes will become the Joker, Jessica Lucas (Gracepoint) is joining as the Tigress and True Detective's James Frain has been cast as her wicked brother (a newly created character), Theo Galavan. But it's Cory Michael Smith's Edward Nygma who's really poised to bring the villainy to Gotham as his riddle-loving forensics tech embraces the inner demon he first unleashed after killing an abusive cop last season.
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Where is your character, Nygma, when the season opens?
His id has exploded from that murder. His mind is cracked open, and these two parts are going to be competing. The volume of this [dark] part of him is going to get louder.
How is he handling all this?
The Edward we know has put a lid on it because he got away with it. But the other Edward, like any great serial killer, is going to be like, "I want credit for this!" [Laughs]
So what does Edward's dark side look like?
This other half of him certainly doesn't have a different look—yet. But he just wears Edward differently. He has some swagger…he's a confident, comfortable dude who is a bit aggressive.
Does this mean a sexier Edward?
Well, it's me, so if someone finds me sexy, sure. [Laughs]
Did producers promise at the start that you would not have to wear a lime-green bodysuit with question marks all over it?
There was not a promise, but I have a very deep hope that there will not be latex on this body, for the sake of everybody! [Laughs]
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You and Robin Lord Taylor shared only one scene last season. Will we see Edward and Oswald Cobblepot, aka Penguin, together again?
I admired so much how Robin handled the material last season, and what we'll see in the show is that Edward admires Oswald as well. We already know from Season 1 that Edward knows exactly who Oswald is, but we don't know how or why…but if Edward has an interest in being a badass, that is the one guy he would ask, "How do you do it?"
Anything else big coming up that you can tease?
Someone loses his virginity. And it may or may not be with the person you think. Ed is growing up!
Whoa! So how was your first love scene?
Well, you know, it is Edward, not James Bond. I didn't watch Daniel Craig for notes. [Laughs]
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The CW's finest grace four exclusive TV Guide SDCC covers
The CW's stable of DC Comics super heroes joins Riverdale students and Supernatural's Winchester brothers as the annual partnership of Warner Bros. Television and TV Guide Magazine reconvenes for the eighth year in a row, joining forces for four TV Guide SDCC exclusive covers featuring Riverdale's KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes and Cole Sprouse, Supergirl's Melissa Benoist, Supernatural's Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles and a trio of DC Super Heroes — Arrow's Stephen Amell, Black Lightning's Cress Williams and The Flash's Grant Gustin — together on one cover. Check out all four TV Guide SDCC cover designs in the gallery viewer below!
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I'm sorry about the problems that you are having. The situation that you describe is quite a common one. It is likely that the only treatment that can be done to the teeth in front of the impacted wisdom teeth (second molars) is emergency treatment for pain relief as is being planned and this is reasonable. Proper treatment can only be assessed and carried out once the wisdom teeth have been removed. It is at this stage that the health of the second molars can be assessed including any damage caused by extraction of the wisdom teeth, and whether they are viable teeth to be treated by root canal/filling or whether they should be extracted also.
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I am 26 and
until recently have not required any dental treatment other than regular
check-ups. To cut a long story short, my partially erupted and impacted lower
wisdom teeth have been causing problems: an x-ray revealed decay in
neighbouring molars, with the beginning of decay in one of the wisdom teeth. I feared
something like this would one day happen but have always been dissuaded having
my wisdom teeth removed because of my good oral health and the risk of nerve
damage. However, I no longer have the option and have been referred to have
them out under a general anaesthetic (waiting list about 2 months). In the
meantime, I am due two fillings in my back molars. I recently had the first one
and because it was very deep she put a temporary filling in. I experienced
quite a bit of pain and discomfort afterwards and was prescribed a five day
course of antibiotics, which improved the pain, although I still get it
intermittently, especially at night. I take ibuprofen once or maybe twice a day
to manage the discomfort. Another x-ray revealed that the filling is right on
the nerve and that I will need root canal. However, due to my impacted tooth,
she cannot get right into the root, so will begin the first round to relieve
the pain and finish root canal once my wisdom teeth have been removed (this
later stage will be done privately, but the initial root canal with be done on
the NHS). This *sounds* sensible, but I have some reservations about this
approach – should she be starting a root canal she cannot finish easily? Especially
as the pain is at the back of the tooth, where the impacted wisdom tooth is? I'm worried I may end up suffering more pain
this way, especially if the root canal fails and she cannot do anything about
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is it possible that this molar can become damaged during wisdom tooth extraction?
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You may have heard of Ozomatli, the alternative/Latin band whose hits include "Cut Chemist Suite" or "Saturday Night," but did you know their name derives from the Nahuatl word for monkey? Ozomahtli is the 11th daysign of the Aztec Borgia Codex, a manuscript that served as a 260 ritual calendar of sorts as well as used by religious figures made of beautiful painted animal skins. The monkey represents art, music and harmony - a perfect fit for the musical band.


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Halloween may be long over, but the Real Education Affecting Life (REAL) peer group wasn't done letting the holiday go in their latest event.
The Peers hosted their annual Murder Mystery event Thursday in the Sharwan Smith Student Center as a chance to have some fun with role-play and solve a crime to see who did it in the process. Guests came into the Non-Traditional Office to get an opportunity to play along in a Halloween-themed game event that was pushed back due to some conflicts they were dealing with before they hosted the event this past week.
Juliann Best, a freshman outdoor recreation major, likened the event to the fan favorite game "Clue" where the contestants are looking for the possible suspect behind the crime.
"I think it's cool because I don't think anyone knows about mysteries," she said. "This event is unique because it is more interactive than theater shows and dances."
They had to ask a few questions to the suspects in order to solve the case of the professor who appeared to be missing. The suspects included a vampire, a ghost, a witch, a clown and a mummy.
There were also free drinks and cookies the guests enjoyed during their quest to find the real "killer." They could go in any order they chose with the checklists they were given when they arrived at the area to help them find the person behind the crime.
Erica Smith, a senior psychology major from Cedar City, worked on the event and wanted to teach those in attendance about how cases can be solved through a different point of view.
"It brings students into campus to attempt dangerous activities," Smith said. "Also, it teaches responsibility and also gives out options."
The Ghost explained her side of the story in the Mystery Murder case.
"I saw a horseman coming to the house and then I jumped to avoid them. There was just one at the time."
This was before it was determined that in one of the levels she was behind the mysterious case where she knocked out the victim with a candle.
The REAL peers organization had a fun time raising awareness for the event that was closely related to Halloween. Next up, they will continue to promote events including their version of Thunder After Dark which are held each weekend night. For more information, visit their site here.
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(Originally published May 9, 2019)
Okay let's rewind time (no pun intended) all the way back to 2015 when Dontnod Entertainment released "Chrysalis" the first episode of its new episodic game series "Life is Strange" this is after the last game Dontnod released, "Remember Me" had bombed. This was at the time most likely the last game that was going to be released so Raoul Barbet and Michel Koch pitched a 5 part episodic game titled "Life Is Strange". However, the head of Dontnod insisted that they use a time element as previously seen in "Remember Me" they said yes and they and the team started work on the first episode which was released at the end of February. Impressively this was less than a year after the announcement of the game. I remember doing a spoilercast for each episode of Tales From The Borderlands from Telltale Games, and my former writing colleague Adnan would bring up the issue that we eventually got more information last year about Telltale games about it's issue with releasing games on time. By the time we finished the Tales From The Borderlands spoilercast all five episodes of Life Is Strange were released. So for you reading this that's Dontnod releasing a five part episodic game in eight-nine months while Telltale released a five part episodic game in nearly a year. In the Slack chat that we talked in Adnan and another writer Chris would also sing the praises of Dontnod and
Life Is Strange. So once the game went on sale I bought it on Steam and PlayStation 4 to try and support the developers of the game and I did the same with the prequel to Life Is Strange titled Life Is Strange: Before the Storm. So fast forward three and a half years and I am creating content for the Los Harrow Games YouTube channel, (would you kindly subscribe?) and the only ongoing things I have are Star Trek: Evolution and Telltale's The Walking Dead, so I figure,"I have nothing to lose and I have been hearing great things about Life Is Strange so I decided to record each episode for the channel.
So in Life Is Strange you are placed in the shoes of Maxine Caulfield a student at Blackwell Academy which so happens to be a very prestigious school and I discovered that one of the game director's went to art school and wanted the player to be an art student which fits perfectly as the game starts out with a dream about Max in a very intense storm and once you wake up you end up taking a selfie which sets everything in motion. You are *supposedly* a hipster who doesn't care about what other people think and after witnessing a tragedy in the bathroom you go back to class. I don't think I presented that well, you rewind time and reverse time all the way back to the beginning of the game and Max is the only one with the knowledge of what happened in the bathroom. You end up setting up the event in motion when it comes to cause and effect and actually prevent the tragedy from occurring. It is once you leave the bathroom where you get your first choice. In a Telltale game you would make a choice thinking things would change but in reality everything is predetermined without your knowledge. This happens in EVERY GAME Telltale did post The Walking Dead. It was either adapt or die and they chose to die. But back to Life Is Strange, unlike Telltale's games your choices actually have consequences. I won't mention the first big one that shows up in Episode 2. But it is a matter of life or death. The end of the game is similar but on a grand scale. To quote Mr. Spock from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan "Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." All that aside this moment, the ending of Chrysalis to be specific had me hooked since:
A few minutes later I recorded an episode of the Los Harrow Games Podcast and I was stunned and speechless as an effect of playing the first episode. The game has elements inspired by The Walking Dead, Gone Home, and surprisingly Heavy Rain. Some people call the game a walking simulator and while that may be semi-accurate in certain spots it is a big mystery that ends up going in an entirely different direction that I still rank as one of the biggest twist endings to a game in recent memory. For those of you who did see my playthrough on the LHG YouTube channel I basically said "to hell with logic" and committed genocide. Luckily, there is a critically acclaimed ongoing comic book series that picks up where this ending left off and I have read the first arc at least four times. That is how much I love the two leads in the game who are voiced by Hannah Telle (Max) and Ashly Burch (Chloe). When I read the comic I read the dialogue in all of their voices, Warren, David, Rachel, Joyce, and anyone else who reappeared. The character of Rachel Amber is both the driving force of the first game and the prequel Before the Storm. She is also an easter egg for the two game directors Raoul Barbet and Michel Koch similar to the way Noob Saibot was a nod in the Mortal Kombat games to Ed Boon and John Tobias. The music for the Life Is Strange series is equally as amazing as the other elements of the four games in the series (Life Is Strange 1, Before the Storm, The Adventures of Captain Spirit, and Life Strange 2). The original score to the first game is by Syd Matters while Before the Storm is by Daughter.
This game not only changed my life but the lives of everyone at Dontnod as it was both a financial and critical success. This was in a way the Final Fantasy of Dontnod as it not only saved the company from closure and made them one of the hottest developers in Europe. The comic book series I was mentioning isn't the only adaptation of the game as there is a digital series in the works over at Hulu. As I write this the sequel to the game that follows new characters with some easter eggs to the first game is nearly at the halfway point and rather than being a master of time, you are on the run from a severe injustice done to you and your brother and encounter both the best and worst of humanity in a big road trip. Frankly put, the Life Is Strange brand is here to stay for quite a while and I can't wait to see where this series goes.
-Written by Allan Muir