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Post Glover has been associated with Lohre and Associates for the past 8 years or so. There was a brief period where we tried another firm….but that experiment failed and we returned to ask Chuck and his team to complete our website. We were redesigning the site after a merger, and did not want to lose any of the high ranking keyword position we had gained over the years.
Chuck and his team bring a strong knowledge of our business and specifically, (as relates to our company anyway), the industrial equipment marketplace. They have shown a great interest in technical societies and publications that follow our applications. I believe these genuine interests have enabled Lohre to help craft and optimize our website to match the needs of our customers. Chuck's team is very responsive to our requests for changes or updates, and as often as not, offer a helpful suggestion for improvement.
Our website is optimized to provide first page rankings for 6 keyword searches, and we consistently meet that goal. Early on, our strategy was to use pay per click keyword strategies, but after some experimentation, we determined that our site was strong enough to go without pay per click, saving us $$ every month. We still use this as a supplemental strategy if we need to boost a search.
Website hits are nice, but most importantly for us, we measure the amount of online RFQ we get from the site every month. This metric has improved every year, and has stayed consistent at 2008 levels even in the recent economic downturn. All of our statistics are captured in a concise monthly report, that forms the basis for our management review. Even though we don't always implement things right away, Chuck keeps a detailed log of all of our ideas. We review this on a periodic basis, to make sure we catalog all of our ideas.
Lohre and Associates does a great job for Post Glover Resistors.
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Volunteer Spotlight: Kay Bitney
When she started volunteering?
Kay, who is 92 years old, has volunteered for most of her life. She raised her family in Roseville and wanted to return something to the community. Kay started volunteering by using her nursing skills, volunteering for the Red Cross at the State Fair. She volunteered for 10 years at the senior center. Kay was a Powderpuff Clown, entertaining many in Roseville. She also spent several years coordinating the Rose Parade. Kay also volunteered as an election judge. She currently volunteers at Harriet Alexander Nature Center, craft shows and special events. Kay also volunteers at her senior apartment complex, coordinating birthday celebrations and monthly gatherings.
Why she volunteers for Roseville?
Kay likes to keep busy. She appreciates the chance to make things nicer for others. Lots of people aren't able to help and it makes her happy to be able to help others.
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Throughout most of the 1970s the inmates controlled most of the real estate inside the penitentiary walls. In this video, an inmate describes what it was like.
Throughout most of the 1970s the inmates controlled most of the real estate inside the penitentiary walls. In this video, an inmate describes what it was like.
People's Park was created in May 1971 shortly after Superintendent B. J. Rhay allowed the lifers to take over the grassy area between Seven and Eight Wings as dedicated outdoor space just for lifers. Not everyone thought this was a good idea. Note the misspelled "CONGRADULATIONS, GOVENOR" comment typed below Rhay's memo to his associate superintendent for custody, Bill Macklin. The memo, with the added comment, was sent anonymously to Governor Dan Evans. Click here to see a picture of People's Park.
Shortly after allowing the creation of Lifers' Park at the penitentiary in April 1970, Superintendent Rhay authorized the Resident Government Council (RGC) to be in charge of what he called "a People's Park area." Formerly off-limits (inmates were required to keep to paved pathways), People's Park was originally a grassy area next to Seven Wing, and south of the dining halls. It was later expanded when Rhay's successor had the Lifers' Construction Crew tear down the wall around what had been the outdoor exercise yard for men in segregation. The picture below is likely from 1978, after the wall around the segregation yard was demolished.
In the middle of People's Park was a fish pond stocked with fish. There were also fire barrels in the park where inmates would warm their hands on a cold night, and sometimes fry a fish. As one inmate said, "It was like you're on the streets, and you weren't."
The newly constructed pond is shown in the picture below. Water and fish came later.
This picture, from sometime around 1977, shows the old segregation yard in the middle of the prison. Big Red (segregation) is on the right, the dining halls are in the center, and the chapel and seven wing are on the left. The open space between seven wing and the seg yard is People's Park.
The proximity of People's Park to the seg yard made it easy for inmates in segregation to communicate with inmates in People's Park or for contraband to be thrown over the wall. When Douglas Vinzant was superintendent, he gave the Lifer's Construction Crew sledgehammers and had them tear down the seg yard. This eliminated one of the many avenues for introducing contraband into seg but it also effectively ended outdoor recreation for inmates in segregation. People's Park became much bigger.
This aerial photograph shows the location of the major inmate clubs and outdoor areas at the Washington State Penitentiary in 1978/1979. The Lifers held their banquets in Lifers' Park; the Bikers and Confederated Indian Tribes held theirs in the Big Yard. The BPFU (Black Prisoners Forum Unlimited) held theirs in a grassy area to the west of their club. Blood Alley ran north/south next to Central Control, the BPFU, and Four/Five Wing. By 1978, the roof over Blood Alley had been removed.
The segregation unit at the Washington State Penitentiary occupied the south end of a long brick building known as Big Red. Since Big Red was in the middle of the institution and next to People's Park (see site plan), communication between inmates in seg and inmates in the general population was easy: words could be shouted through open or broken windows, and some inmates could visit them in their segregation cells. Before the seg yard was torn down in 1978, notes, drugs, and weapons could be tossed over the seg yard wall by inmates standing in, or passing through, People's Park. Because of it's location, and the way it was run, segregation didn't segregate.
To demonstrate their displeasure, inmates in seg would often thrown trash, food, and human waste onto the tier. The unfortunate officers assigned to work the unit were issued full face masks, rain slickers, and dairy boots, to prevent them from being hit by excrement or urine. If the garbage and waste were left long enough, maggots would multiply and the filth on the floor would start to move. The first picture below is from a "strike" by the segregation inmates in 1979. The second shows an officer delivering meals while wearing a rubber suit and face mask.
In May 1979, three inmates took ten staff hostage in the Classification and Parole Building (see site plan). Inmates throughout the institution were ordered to return to their cells. Most did, but about 250 men congregated in People's Park where they shouted encouragement to the hostage takers. Before the administration could address the hostage situation, it was necessary to move the inmates out of People's Park and into the Big Yard. A newly trained Tactical Team confronted the inmates. When orders to move to the Big Yard were ignored, the Tac Team was authorized to use tear gas.
In the image below, the last of the inmates are being moved through the gate into the Big Yard where they spent the night under the stars. The hostage situation was resolved through negotiations and no one was hurt.
On June 15, 1979, Sergeant William Cross was murdered by inmates. The attack occurred in an extension of People's Park, between the south entry to the dining hall and Big Red (see site plan). He was stabbed five times, one cutting his aorta. At the time, Sergeant Cross was the only officer in Washington State to be killed at the hands of inmates in living memory.
Cross's death marked the beginning of the longest lockdown (nearly six months) in the history of Washington's prisons.
The Washington State Penitentiary was locked down after the murder of Sergeant Cross. Superintendent Spalding had two primary goals for the lockdown. The first was to conduct a thorough search of the entire institution, confiscate contraband, and remove excess inmate property beyond a limited number of items that could fit in a foot locker under an inmate's bed. The second was to make physical changes to the prison so that when the lockdown ended the world inside the walls would be a different place. Bulldozers were brought in. Lifers' Park, People's Park, and almost every grassy area inside the main compound were buried under a vast slab of concrete. In Spalding's words, the architectural message he wanted to convey was, "this is a close custody institution, and we're going to control it."


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One of the best places where people shop for furniture is in IKEA. The Swedish store is selling all types of furniture, including the ones for bedroom. To make sure that your bedroom is going to look amazing using IKEA furniture items, you must follow these tips. The first one is that you will have to know what type of furniture you want to be in your bedroom.
IKEA has a lot of products to sell. The furniture items from the store are available in a lot of styles and looks, depending on the series and types. That is why you should understand their catalogue first. Second, find out the right shade for the furniture. If your bedroom is using lighter shade like white, the shade of the furniture must be white or some lighter shade, too. Third, considering that IKEA furniture is mostly come in parts, make sure that you are capable in assembling it so that decorating your bedroom using those furniture items from IKEA store won't be hard at all.
For those who love visiting IKEA and surely want to decorate the whole room using furniture items from them, these pictures should give them the right inspirations. These are the pictures depicting bedroom properly decorated by IKEA furniture items to show that those products are great for decorating your bedroom.
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What's on the radar this week? Sleigh Bells + St. Patrick's Day! We've handpicked the best events in Lou just for you, who are New2Lou. Looking for more great events around town? Check out our calendar at new2lou.do502.com and don't forget to give us a follow on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Never again will you find yourself out of the social loop.
Wednesday (3/15) - Sunday (3/19) The Illusionists - Don't miss this mind-blowing spectacular showcasing jaw dropping talents of the most incredible Illusionists on earth. This non-stop show is packed with thrilling and sophisticated magic of unprecedented proportions. Show kicks off next Tuesday (3/14) at the Kentucky Center for Performing Arts and runs through Sunday (3/19). Tickets are still available and start at $32.50.
Thursday (3/16) Jazz Live at Lola - Good news folks! 91.9 WFPK is hosting a weekly jazz series at Lola, Butchertown Grocery's speakeasy-style upstairs lounge! The concerts will be held every Thursday from 7:30 until 10 p.m. The series continues March 16th with The Mike Tracy Brazilian Ensemble. Admission is FREE!
Friday (3/17) St. Patrick's Day - May the luck of the Irish is with you. Want to know what's going on in town for St. Patrick's Day? Look no further. The fine folks at Do502 crafted up a great list of events and essentials. Our top pick isn't on the list, so we'll put it right here: St. Patrick's Day at the Irish Rover. May the luck of the Irish be with you.
Saturday (3/18) Sleigh Bells - Mark your calendars folks! Sleigh Bells, American noise pop musical duo based in Brooklyn, are coming to Mercury Ballroom this Saturday! Doors open at 8 PM, show starts at 9 PM. Tickets start at $25. Want to win tickets? Of course you do! Enter to win at new2lou.do502.com.
Sunday (3/19) Recent Alien Abductions - We don't know about you, but we love the X-Files, so when Actors Theatre of Louisville announced this show we literally squealed. Álvaro, the main character, is searching for a lost episode of the X-Files that he swears has been mysteriously altered. Could this missing episode be proof of a larger conspiracy? We certainly think so. Show runs March 17 - April 9, 2017. Tickets start at $25.
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Wednesday (3/22) Music Without Borders - Teddy Abrams and the Louisville Orchestra offer music by each section of the orchestra. There are amazing works for wind orchestras and glorious pieces for string bands. A piece for the brass section is sure to show-off the heroics of the trumpets and trombones. Tickets are $20. Show runs March 22 - April 20 at the Kentucky Center. Tickets are $20.
Friday (3/31) The Prince Experience - Sadly we lost Prince in 2016, but his music lives on in our hearts and on the Mercury Ballroom stage at the end of this month! Get ready to dance to all of Prince's legendary hits including Purple Rain, Little Red Corvette, Kiss, and more! Doors open at 8 PM, show starts at 9 PM. Tickets start at $12. Enter to win a pair at new2lou.do502.com.
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We rescued and placed our first pigs in October 2011. We are a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization for charitable purposes. Whispering Rise is located on 6 acres in northern Baltimore County, Maryland.
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The mission of Whispering Rise is to provide sanctuary for surrendered and rescued potbelly pigs who are products of the pet pig trade and to educate the public about them.
We meet the mission by offering sanctuary to potbelly pigs, providing humane education to the public, and offering an anthrozoological experience to individuals and small groups.
The founder, Jeff Lambert, is a long-time animal welfare, child welfare, and environmental activist.
"I worked in child welfare programs for 30 years in Virginia and Maryland. I want to create a place where these three interests can intersect for the benefit of people and animals."


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The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity and Plymouth Citybus have unveiled the latest addition to their fleet – a new bus that will raise awareness of the charity's purpose in supporting the naval family in and around the city.
The striking livery depicts the local community and its close association with the Royal Navy and Royal Marines with a new tagline 'By Your Side'.
The RNRMC bus was unveiled on Monday at HMS Raleigh in Torpoint, the 'front door' for entry into the Royal Navy where ratings receive their 10-week initial naval training.
From the moment members of the naval service join up, either at HMS Raleigh, the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth or the Commando Training Centre, to the end of their lives, RNRMC are by their side.
Visitors to Plymouth Armed Forces Day on Saturday will be able to see the new bus up close within the Royal Navy Village and can find out more about how the RNRMC supports the naval service.
Other activities include a charity raffle and prize draw and the HMS Oardacious rowing challenge.
Following its launch, the bus will enter circulation and will be seen around Plymouth as part of the Citybus fleet, as well as at special events throughout the year.
Alasdair Akass, director of marketing and fundraising at RNRMC, said: "We are very excited to have Plymouth Citybus 'by our side' and look forward to seeing the RNRMC bus out and about, serving the community of Plymouth.
"The inspiration behind the design has come from the wonderful mutual support that the city, the Royal Navy and the RNRMC share and the strong community spirit it creates.
"We want to ensure the naval family, both serving and veteran, know that we are there for them by their side, wherever they are. We are very grateful to Plymouth Citybus for their partnership and would also like to thank HMS Raleigh for helping us unveil the bus."
Richard Stevens, managing director of Plymouth Citybus, said: "We're proud to be supporting the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity and are really pleased to unveil this new bus. The bus will be in service across our network following Armed Forces Day, to help promote the vital work they do to support naval families.
"Many of our employees are former service personnel, so this is a cause that is close to our hearts here at Citybus."
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A Shoulder to Cry On ~ 2023 [Korean With ESub] WEB-DL [K-Drama]
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At school, Lee Da Yeol spends most of his time living as an outsider. Not popular by any stretch of the imagination, Dae Yeol's only real joy comes from his time spent with the archery club. A talented archer whose skills have earned him a scholarship to the school, Dae Yeol doesn't mind being an outsider, so long as he's free to pursue his greatest passion. But an ill-timed run-in with a devilishly handsome classmate lands him in trouble and places his precious scholarship in jeopardy.
One of the school's most popular students, Jo Tae Hyun has always enjoyed a level of freedom that very few high school students have ever attained. Able to get away with practically anything, the entire school has no problem believing his side of the story when he's caught fooling around in the nurse's office with another student and Da Yeol. Claiming Da Yeol was trying to make out with him, Tae Hyun thoughtlessly puts the archer's scholarship at risk. Desperate to correct the misunderstanding, Da Yeol does everything he can to try to quell the rumors but no matter how hard he tries, it's just not enough.
Completely unremorseful about what he's done, Tae Hyun seems to take a wicked sort of delight in doing everything he can to make Da Yeol's life miserable; his favorite method being to follow Da Yeol everywhere. Unable to shake Tae Hyun, Da Yeol spends his days loathing his shadow but the more time he spends with him, the more conflicted his feelings become; leaving him to wonder, where exactly does the line between hate and love end?
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~~ Adapted from the manhwa "Sonyeoneul Wilohaejwo" (소년을 위로해줘) by Dong Mul (동물).
Title: A Shoulder to Cry On, Comfort the Boy, Sonyeoneul Wilohaejwo, Sonyeoneulwilohaejwo
Native Title: 소년을 위로해줘
Aired: Mar 14, 2023 – Mar 29, 2023
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Genre: Psychological, Romance, Youth, Drama
Episode: 07
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The brain is complex and undisputedly the most vital organ in the human body. It is also important noting that the brain is very delicate to any form of physical, neurological, and psychological issues. Some of these issues can be challenging to identify without proper or keen procedures; the same can also lead to misdiagnosis, which will quickly cause complications.
Today, technology seems to be the solution to almost every medical issue that has been challenging to man. It is now easier to correctly diagnose issues relating to the brain. The magnetic resonance imaging or commonly referred to as MRI is one of the medical advancements that have made detection of brain-related medical problems better.
It is vital to learn more about MRI scanners, but the basic principle they operate on is using radio waves and magnetic fields to create images of soft body tissues, the brain included. To fully benefit from an MRI scan it would be vital to take into account the following tips.
- Follow instructions
On your appointment day, you will be required not to consume or drink anything two hours before your MRI scan. Once you arrive at the MRI department, a technician or medical personnel will fill you in on all you are needed to do and the procedure in general. It is, therefore, important to fully cooperate with them and communicate your areas of concern which might lead to the interference or disruption of the process.
The two most important instructions that will be given to you will be the required breathing techniques and to try as much as you can to avoid movements. Anything contrary to this will lead to the interference of the image quality. Again if you have trouble concentrating all through the process, it would be vital to let the technician or nurse know about it and find the best solution or assistance.
- What to do after the MRI scan
After successful Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), it is vital to drink a lot of water. Doing so flushes out all the traces of medication used during the process. Finding out from your doctor when your next appointment will be vital. And once you turn up for your appointment, your doctor should be able to explain to you the results of the MRI scan. All through this process, you will be required to remain calm as the doctor explains to you the best solution for your medical condition based on their findings.
Some of the medical procedures or treatments that will be prescribed by your doctor include
- Surgeries
- Radiotherapy
- Chemotherapy
It is vital noting that the choice of the treatment processes will chiefly be inspired by factors such as your age, the medical condition, and the stage of the disease or condition.
- The follow-ups
Once you go through a successful medication procedure as prescribed by your doctor, it would be vital to ensure that you attend the follow-ups appointments to determine the success of the medical process. If there might be arising issues, the doctor can, therefore, propose a way forward.
Magnetic resonance imaging is one of the marvels of modern medicine, and it allows medical personnel to diagnose medical conditions affecting the brain correctly. Which will lead to a proper diagnosis, to successfully ensure a successful procedure, it would be vital to consider the above three tips.


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Are you looking for a simple, fitted camisole that gives you a range of options? This White Shine Camisole from Hotmilk is a lovely soft camisole that's also really versatile!
This camisole is really flexible, giving you the chance to wear it as outerwear during the summer, under layers for that bit of extra warmth in the winter, or to match your lounge pants or pyjamas. We all know how useful it is to have a brilliant wardrobe essential, and this Shine camisole might just be it! If you would like a different colour, please follow the link below to see this product in Black.
This camisole is made of beautiful cotton modal, which is soft and shouldn't irritate your sensitive skin at the time when you need comfort the most. It's a comfortable and practical camisole, with adjustable straps and ruching between the cups to help you find the fit you want.
So is it supportive? The camisole has an internal shelf built in, with an elasticated bottom instead of wires, so that you don't have to wear a bra for support. Experts recommend wearing a bra without wires when you're pregnant or nursing your baby, to reduce the chance of developing mastitis. The internal A-Frame offers support when the cups are down, and the one-handed maternity clips on the straps allow you to unclip the drop cups and feed your baby whilst still holding them comfortably in the other hand.
So why would we recommend this Shine Camisole from Hotmilk? We think that this camisole is a brilliant, versatile piece that gives you a range of options.
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04/06/2017 to 04/09/2017
Hundreds of New Boats, Marine Gear, Seminars, On the Water Training, Demos and More
More than a dozen years ago, Bob Bitchin and Jody of Cruising Outpost created the Cruisers' Party at our show. Cruisers come from all over to enjoy this annual celebration of the cruising lifestyle. Eric Stone will be live and in concert, while you enjoy a slice of pizza and a beer or glass of wine.
There will be great raffle prizes, including a Kanberra Gel gift box, Pure water + filter system from Forespar, Hook & Moor boat tool and many more. Proceeds go to The Educational Tall Ship Foundation Project S/V Mathew Turner, being built in Sausalito CA.
The event is free and open to all show attendees and exhibitors. It starts when the show closes at 6:00 p.m. You must be in the show prior to closing to attend. Be part of the biggest, most fun cruising party of the year!
PARTY: Saturday, April 8, at 6:00 p.m.
Thank you to our sponsors
Edson Marine, Forespar, Hand Craft Mattress, Kanberra Gel, Passage Nautical
Hundreds of New Boats, Marine Gear, Seminars, On the Water Training, Demos and More
The 2017 Pacific Sail & Power Boat Show and Marine Sports Expo will cruise into the historic Craneway Pavilion and Marina Bay Yacht Harbor for all things boating. Both inside and outside on the water will be filled with vessels of every size and budget including sleek racers, multihulls, family cruisers and luxury yachts. New this year, dozens of powerboats will be featured in the in-water Motor Yacht Showcase. This four-day event will feature hundreds of the latest boats, gear, accessories, free seminars, a Paddleboard Expo, radio controlled model yacht sailing, interactive activities for young aspiring boaters and more. From nautical novices to serious yachtspersons, this is the place for people to immerse themselves in the marine sports lifestyle, talk to experts, participate in hands-on seminars, learn new techniques and check out the latest in boating products.
Click here for a list of all the seminars: https://pacificboatshow.com/seminars/
Thursday, April 6, from 10 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Friday, April 7, from 10 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Saturday, April 8, from 10 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday, April 9, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Craneway Pavilion
1414 Harbour Way S.
Richmond, Calif. 94804
Representatives from dozens of manufacturers including Dehler Yachts, Bavaria, Beneteau, Catalina, Jeanneau, Lagoon, Hanse, RS, Hobie, Tiara Yachts, Princess Yachts, and more will be on site to answer questions and provide information. Equipment and accessory manufacturers such as Spinlock, Gill, Quantum Sails, Raymarine, Harken, New England Ropes and many others will also be on hand with the newest must-have gear.
The Pacific Sail & Power Boat Show is produced by Sail America, the trade association for the U.S. sailing industry dedicated to promoting the health and growth of sailing. Established in 1990, Sail America now has more than 200 members representing all segments of the sailing market. For additional information, visit www.sailamerica.com.
Tickets are $18 one-day adult; children 12 and under are free when accompanied by a paid adult, $28 two-day adult pass and $48 four-day pass (multi-day passes available online only). An early bird one-day discount price of $16 is available when you purchase online by March 31. Advance tickets are available at www.pacificboatshow.com.
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Working with shelters, rescue groups, fosters, recently adopted dogs, at no charge when referred by the rescue or organization. There is more advice on fostering etc, on the articles page (fostering advice and tips)..
Given time and the right information they will thrive. This means you keeping calm and getting on with your life as they watch an learn.
Working with shelters and their volunteers to prepare dogs for adoption, and helping dogs settle in afterwards.
Bedlington Terrier
Bichon Frise
Chinese Crested (hairless)
Irish Water Spaniel
Kerry Blue Terrier
Poodles (Toy, Miniature or Standard)
Portuguese Water Dog
Schnauzer (Miniature, Standard or Giant)
Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier
Viringo (Peruvian hairless)
Xoloitzcuintli (hairless).
Helping amazing people who adopt dogs at no charge, when referred by the organization.
Please read, The Dog Listener by Jan Fennel. Go to your local library and borrow a copy.
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...~ Alone Again~ author unknown~ I wish someone would tell me what it is that I've done wrong. Why I've had to stay chained up and left alone so long. They seemed soglad.net to have me when I came here as a pup. There were so many things we'd do while I was growing up. They couldn't wait to train me as companion and as a friend. And told me how they'd never fear being left alone again. The children said they'd feed me and brush me every day. They'd play with me and walk me if only I could stay. But now the family "hasn't time"; they often say I shed. They do not want me in the house, not even to be fed. The children never walk me. They always say, "Not now!" I wish that I could please them. Won't someone tell me how? All I had, you see, was love. I wish they would explain. Why they said they wanted me, then left me on a chain. ~
"Mahatma Gandhi acutely observed that 'the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.' To seek to reduce the suffering of those who are completely under one's domination, and unable to fight back, is truly a mark of a civilized society."
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When we talk about transformations in the 21st era, we tend to forget about how mobile phone games have come a long way. For instance, they have developed from the iconic snake game which used to add thrill to our lives to being played online. Yes, online games are a lot of fun especially because you get to connect with millions of people from different parts of the world and additionally, you show off your prowess. However, it is essential that you don't forget that there are fantastic offline games too which come in handy especially when your internet connection is misbehaving or when you are stuck up in a boring meeting. Nevertheless, you ought to download the best ones to have as much fun as you can do. To assist you with that, below is a list of the best offline games.
Handpicked Best Android Offline Games
Shadow fight 2
It is among the best android games in the market right now. You need not be connected to the internet except when you are about to reach a new chapter as it requires an extra file. Doing so is worthwhile as the graphics of the game are just out of this world, and it gives you that online feel as each level comes with new enemies and weapons. The main idea here is for the protagonist to fight other masters to regain his power after he became a shadow thanks to a curse. To be able to win, you ought to choose your weapons and techniques wisely.
Can knockdown
If you like challenging yourself, then can knock down is for you. It allows you to set and break records yourself. It is quite easy as the plot of it is to knock down cans which are in a particular arrangement for different scores using a limited number of balls for each level. Its graphics are just superb, and you need no internet connection once you download it.
Euro Truck Driver
Ever wished for a chance to drive a truck even if it's just once? Well, wish no more because, with this game, you will feel as if you are in one. The game makes you a euro truck driver who delivers things like soda across different parts. It has online multiple player elements while you are on internet connection but if not solo play is also fun. You have to load the trucks and take them to another destination to reload. It feels just like reality as you make several stops to refuel, sleep and even garages. In short, you get to engage in all the things which truck drivers participate in while on a journey.
Lone Wolf
Lone wolf you are into shooting and war games, then you are on the right track with Lone wolf. It takes about 70 MB to download, but each MB is worth it as the graphics, sound, and plot of this game are just excellent. It comes with 21 mini-games, and you go on to 30 missions which are more than enough to keep you entertained. In this game you are a shooter on a mission where you see hand-drawn cards and with each level you unlock, you get new weapons. Nevertheless, you might find yourself fighting barehanded on some levels.
If you are stuck up in a boring meeting, then mekorama will help rejuvenate your mind as it is a puzzle game and the main character is a robot which gets stuck almost everywhere. Your primary mission is to help this robot reach the exit point without getting stuck. Each level brings with it fresh challenges and elements, for instance in some it is stories while in others are random bots. It does not require internet and is set to get you back on track within minutes
Dr Parking
Get to put your parking prowess to the test with this high definition graphics games. It also has online multiple player features, but it is just as entertaining even when you play offline. It works perfectly on all devices and comes with four levels and as you advance it gets more challenging. For instance, in some, there are spiral driveways which challenge your skills, and also it brings with it features such as custom camera views and many other top-notch ones.
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Angry birds' fans now have something to smile about as it comes with a new addition and to make it even fun, you can play it offline. As the name suggests, the game has a touch of the famous star wars flick, and the whole plot is closely related to it. The game has about 30 characters, and it all comes down to your choice. It offers you a wide array of options and can even choose whether you want to be a dark villain or on the force side while the telepod feature allows you to bring any of your favorite characters in it. Unfortunately, it is not free.
Into the Dead
Add a little horror and action in your life by downloading this offline game. It takes you into the world of zombies and killing with its almost perfect graphics and sounds. It is packed with free trials and gives you four modes which are different in regards to challenges, toughness and the plot. It is all about killing zombies and making sure you survive the harsh surroundings. You increase your weapons from crates and to unlock other features through coin collection.
Test your problem-solving skills, through the stack puzzle game. It has only a few MB's, and the main idea here is to fit rectangular blocks on each other. You may think it's that easy until you try to fix a flat block on another one and even before you are done another one appears from a different direction. If you misplace one the previous block which you had placed cuts off and if the trend continues you lose. It is both challenging and fun at the same time.
Alto Adventures
It is widely known for its superb online elements, but even the offline ones are brilliant. The graphics are almost perfect even when you don't have an internet connection, and they vary according to the weather conditions and also day and night. It involves a small kid running on the snow hence the name alto's adventures.
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Super-fan Steve soaks in BTCC weekend with PMR
This past weekend at Donington Park, Power Maxed TAG Racing welcomed super-fan Steve Rogers into their garage for the full Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship VIP experience.
Steve, who fully lost his sight at the age of 30, is a lover of all things motorsport and a long-time admirer of the BTCC and he was treated to the whole hog by the team at PMR – including a chance to meet both of the outfit's drivers, Josh Cook and Senna Proctor, breakfast and lunch as well as a garage tour.
In addition, right at the very top of his bucket list was to get an opportunity to meet the team at ITV – the guys painting the picture for everyone tuning in.
Duly, Paul O'Neill, David Addison and the ITV crew took the time out to chat to Steve, and give him a little tour of the pit-lane and paddock in the process!
BTCC VIDEO | EXCLUSIVE: Paul O'Neill spoke to BTCC super fan Steve Rogers before race 1 – Live on ITV4 now #BTCC pic.twitter.com/qeAcv4gMli
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There is something almost unspeakably powerful about experiencing a work of art that blurs the lines between the characters' life experiences and your own life's journey.
When the story evokes questions, fears, joys, doubts, gratitude, and regret that you have experienced, you find the line between entertainment and self-examination three steps behind you. You live on every next word because you find your life on every next word.
Ostensibly, A Course Called Scotland is a first-person narrative travel journal of a man's golf quest to play all of the golf links on Great Britain. The author's ambition is a hope of unlocking the secrets of the game of golf, and a dream of qualifying for the Open Championship.
It's a pleasant enough hook to garner the interest of any golfer. However, that's not the story or the book I read, or more accurately, not the book that I experienced.
When I received my copy of A Course Called Scotland, I was incredibly excited to read it. I'd listened to Coyne interviewed on multiple golf podcasts during the promotional phase around the time the book was published and had hoped to read it one day, but life kept getting in the way.
As fate would have it, the book would arrive at my house less than a week before two friends and I would be leaving for our own Scottish golf adventure. I remember thinking, "what could possibly be better to read on the series of flights I would take to The Old Country?"
The premise of the book was to memorialize Tom's travails as he attempted to play every links course in Scotland (and the few true links courses in Wales and England, too, for good measure).
I had hoped to gain a little spiritual or strategic insight into the golf courses that I would be playing, or perhaps helpful tips about getting around and where to eat in St. Andrews. I had no idea what an emotionally wrenching journey that the book would set me upon while I was on my own trip of a lifetime.
The story begins when Tom receives a phone call from his oldest and best friend., Robert. Robert dredges up a pub promise daydream they both had when they were younger men, which was to play all of the courses Open Championship.
The journey around Scotland, as proposed, is a Devil-may-care fantasy proposed by one unburdened by the weight of responsibilities, untethered to any particular ambition except to hop from one 19th hole to the next, regaling new best friends with tales of the day's golfer versus course battles.
Therein begins the real drama of Tom's story, his internal struggles with his desire to do the right thing when his head, his heart, and his soul are pulled in different directions, and whether Robert is well enough to make the journey.
It's one thing to daydream about an epic roadtrip of golfing Nirvana as a twentysomething with time to chase birdies and barflies. It's quite another idea with Tom approaching his 40s, with a family and a career balanced against Robert, nostalgia, and ego pulling another direction.
In some respects, this book is a follow-up to Tom's bestseller, A Course Called Ireland, his story of walking the island of Ireland by traveling from one golf course to another. Though the logistical challenges of Scotland were different, I have to think that the task's logistics always felt doable after Ireland.
This time, his journey has a defined ending place on a hard time-certain deadline: a tee time in a qualifying tournament for The Open Championship. His tournament is less than two months from his first links tee time, with 111 rounds of golf to be played during which he must find the secret to golf.
The race against time, the will needed to continue to march forward, swing after swing, all the way to the end of the journey, on schedule with his game and mind in tact, creates an additional stratum of drama to the journey.
The story unfolds in a simple , conversational style in plain terms. The words are honest, not gussied up for pretense or panache, as if readers are witnesses to Tom's internal monologues hearing how people really think and talk to themselves.
The value of such a tale from a purely golf perspective is that Tom gives readers a kernel of wisdom and a nugget of information about each golf course along the journey. While he attempts to be kind to each course he visited, the honesty The descriptions of the arduous parts of getting around Scotland are insightful for any golf trip excursionist.
The tale gains an additional layer of richness with each no name town that has a humble yet wonderful golf links that most readers will not have heard of otherwise. The backstories of such far flung places and the pride of the people found there are endearing and heartwarming.
It's a revealing insight to lands not so much that time forgot, but to places people choose to live a simpler way. Life in villages tucked into harsh corners of requires a certain no-frills grit that carries a quiet dignity that inspires the golf courses that aren't on any travel agency list of preferred partners.
The interactions with the community of golfers, innkeepers, friends new and old, and family, transform these passersby of his journey into characters that he develops real relationships with, and who become accomplices to the caper.
Golf is the connective thread of the characters, the tie that introduces so many random strangers and their kindnesses to Tom, and binds them all to his life.
I didn't finish the book until long after I'd returned from Scotland. I took great interest comparing and contrasting where our pilgrimage had crossed paths with Tom's. Cross-referencing the lists of favorites and "bests" from the back pages of the book will be an integral part of future trip planning for me.
The journey proved less cliché than a Corvette or a career change, but it was a mid-life crisis in his relationship with golf. Eventually, the mechanism that compartmentalizes golf, keeping it separate from the rest of life, eventually breaks down and the golf struggles affect the rest of his life, and vice versa.
In more serious moments, driving alone or chasing pars as a single on some hidden, local gem course, Tom reflects on solitude, on life experience, on kindness, and on Robert. It becomes clear that he and Robert are chasing different things on this counterclockwise race around coastal Scotland.
It's there, in those parts of the tales from Scotland, that I couldn't get away. The similarities between our journeys cut too close, creating a deep emotional investment that turned an underdog story into difficult self-examination.
Robert bothered me. Deeply. He had all the markers that someone like me recognizes instantly. I spent a lot of time trying not to see characteristics in myself, so they're easy to spot in others now, even characters in a story.
Robert and Tom were, in fact, on two separate, simultaneous journeys in Scotland. While Tom was chasing the secret of golf in rain gear, Robert was chasing an eternal road trip, a last call for a tab he was never going to pay. The similarities to that journey cut too damn close, too.
There were moments when, frankly, I wasn't sure I wanted to keep reading, scared that I wouldn't like what I saw of my own journey reflected in the book's pages. But the quest is compelling, the dramatic crescendo building steadily as Tom's clock continues to tick.
Fortunately for the author, golf and sanity win out. A Course Called Scotland concludes in a way that left me still rooting for the underdog. Like any worthy quest, the journey ends up being worth the effort, as gratitude, camaraderie, and love prevail.
Tom finds lots of secrets of golf along the way, none more complicated than the next. He eventually realizes that the secrets have less to do with golf and more to do with life than he wanted. Fixing his golf swing was merely treating the symptom.
It's a book that every golfer should read. It's a story that every impulsive escapist should read. It's an emotional slalom course drawn on a map Scotland, leaving readers to connect the dots with their own stories and journeys.
I think I'll wait a golf season or two and read it again. I started the book on my flights to Scotland, but I didn't finish it until several months after I had been back. I'd found my own Askernishing in Scotland, and I needed to process it in my own time.
But Tom's is a just and worthy quest, and I think it's a journey I'll need to accompany him on every few seasons to find those secrets all over again. Scotland is that good, it keeps one coming back.


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WE SINCERELY THANK YOU, our Semiahmoo House Society Volunteer Team! Since this agency's inception in 1958, volunteers have been at the core of its success. The parents, who felt a need to provide community opportunities and education for their family members, created the embryo that has grown into adulthood as one of the forward reaching agencies in Canada. They, as volunteers, created Semiahmoo House Society. They were our first Board of Directors with sleeves rolled up literally to make good things happen. Our present day Directors are no less valiant in keeping us on the path of quality services, advocacy and support. It takes rigorous work and deep commitment to keep us moving forward into that bright and promising place where we would all like to be. Thank you to our first friends.
Sprinkled throughout Semiahmoo House Society are lovely people who come from their separate places in high schools, colleges and universities, workplaces, and home, in order to add their brand to the good things that happen here. They come with enthusiasm and experience that add to the dimensions of the fine people who look to us for support in living good lives, surrounded by good people. Almost every week, there are inquiries about what would be required in becoming a sterling volunteer at Semiahmoo House Society. And regularly fine people join us to do what we know best – how we thank them.
It would be remiss to not recognize the amazing staff team who give steadily of their talents and vision as they immerse in best practices to follow the lead of an excellent Executive Director. We thank him for also being a visionary, collaborating with Board and Staff alike in bringing about the good things enjoyed by us all. Extra time and lively vision may be above expectation in a regular job requirement, and so when given, are voluntary in nature. Thus paid staff become volunteers of quality as well. All turn to you with thanks.
Volunteering love of people, love of work and love of purpose makes this agency what it is and what it promises yet to become. The good men and women who rely on that love and direction can also rely on our continuing to give as we celebrate life together.
By Dorothy Gurney, Volunteer, Volunteer Coordinator
Dorothy Gurney is a tireless volunteer who recruits and initiates volunteers to do wonderful work with people with disabilities. Thank you, Dorothy for all you do.
Semiahmoo House Society, a non-profit organization located in Surrey/White Rock, exists to provide quality services and supports to people with disabilities and their families in the community.
The Semiahmoo Foundation exists to fund, support and enhance the programs and services delivered by Semiahmoo House Society.


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The highlights:
- Gottlieb admitted that his "supplemental case notes" were, in fact, written months after the events they allegedly described;
- The April 4 lineup was, he suggested, procedurally proper, because none of the lacrosse players were "suspects" at the time;
- The investigation, as of March 22, was not about to end; and before the April 4 lineup had reached a stalemate.
Gottlieb comes across as a figure who plays fast and loose with the rules, and who harbors a deep dislike for Duke students. Although he doesn't say it explicitly, he also leaves little doubt that he continues to believe a crime occurred.
The "Straight-from-Memory" Notes
Under questioning from the Bar's attorney, Doug Brocker, Gottlieb conceded that his typewritten case "notes" almost always were not produced contemporaneously. The exception was the transcript of the April 4 lineup.
Nifong-like, Gottlieb offered a variety of excuses for this peculiar note-taking habit:
- He did take contemporaneous notes—on a "dry-eraser board"—but Officer Ben Himan mistakenly neglected to take photos of the board(!) each day before Gottlieb erased its contents;
- He wasn't really that involved in the investigation, so he had nothing to record;
- Officer Michele Soucie usually took handwritten notes for him;
- He did take contemporaneous notes, of a sort, by radio log, through calling into police dispatch. Even though defense attorneys had requested these recordings be preserved, they, like the "dry-eraser board," were conveniently erased.
When, Brocker asked, did Gottlieb type up the most explosive item in his memorandum, the alleged descriptions that Crystal Mangum gave of her attackers on March 16?
Answer: Just before he submitted his report to Nifong, on July 14.
How, then, did Gottlieb come up with Mangum's suspect descriptions?
Answer: From Himan's handwritten notes, and from his memory—almost four months after the fact—of what Mangum had said.
So, Gottlieb's story is: He looked at Himan's handwritten notes of the March 16th interview sometime in early July. He saw Himan's notes of what Mangum had said. But he, instead, remembered Mangum giving dead-on descriptions of the three people ultimately indicted, even though Himan's contemporaneous notes reported something entirely different, and the sergeant had taken no notes of the session.
(This, it's worth remembering, is the version of the case that the New York Times presented to the world as authentic last August.)
The April 4 Photo Array
Gottlieb conceded that as of March 31, 2006, the investigation had reached a "stalemate." The idea for the lacrosse-players-only lineup, he noted, came from Nifong, but neither he nor Himan nor anyone else from the DPD objected to Nifong's scheme.
Gottlieb conceded that he had considered all of the players except for first-name Brett, Adam, and Matt—and Dan Flannery and Dave Evans—to be "fillers" in the March 16 and March 21 lineups. But, he said, the Duke website photos were "military-style," explaining why Mangum couldn't identify her "attackers."
The suspects-only approach in the April 4 lineup, Gottlieb suggested, was justified on two grounds: (1) the police were searching for witnesses, not the perpetrators of the crime; (2) Nifong was testing to see whether drugs might have impaired Mangum's memory.
Both of these assertions, of course, are preposterous: to accept the first would require believing that the police taped a lineup they hoped would produce witnesses but not lineups they hoped would produce suspects. And the second claim was, simply, baffling, as Brocker pointed out in the exchange below:
Q: How would the photographic presentation that was put together have shed any light on what drugs she may or may not have been under? I'm not following that point.
A: OK. Let's say you took a date-rape drug that causes amnesia, you wouldn't be able to identify anybody as, "Oh, I remember him, he was standing outside smoking; I remember him, he was watching television; I remember him, he urinating in the backyard." They wouldn't remember anything. Whereas if you are drugged with ecstasy, you would have recall, and that would explain why she was having the physical signs and symptoms of an intoxicant yet still having her memory.
Q. Did Mr. Nifong explain why doing this photographic presentation as opposed to a photographic array that had been done before would be more helpful to bring that point out?
A. All I can say is he didn't ask for a photographic array. He was dealing with, my understanding, he was asking for this to see what she recalled and what she didn't recall.
Q. OK. Just to make sure I'm clear, it was Mr. Nifong's decision to conduct this photographic presentation as opposed to having her provided photographic arrays as had been done before?
A. Yes.
Gottlieb saw no problem with his running the April 4 array because, he said, he didn't really know the identities of any of the players, except for the captains. That claim, however, flies in the face of his behavior when the players came to the police station to comply with the non-testimonial order. Then, he identified several of the players by name and said that they didn't look like their Duke website photos. In short, there's every reason to believe that Gottlieb knew the identities of each and every member of the team before the April 4 session.
Mangum, he further asserted, did what she was supposed to do in the April 4 session, describing what each person she identified did to her. He denied that she identified four attackers, didn't explain why sometimes he asked follow-up questions and sometimes he didn't, and suggested that a suspects-only lineup wasn't all that unusual in the DPD.
After repeated questioning from Brocker, Gottlieb eventually conceded that he could not recall another of his cases in which indictments resulted from a photo ID that hadn't followed procedure.
Blame Himan
At least eight separate times in the deposition, Gottlieb asserted that the case was Himan's, not his. Despite this claim, however, the sergeant managed to discuss his involvement in the case for more than six hours—on topics ranging from interviewing the three captains to chatting with SANE nurse-in-training Tara Levicy to running the April 4 lineup to attending the three meetings with Dr. Brian Meehan.
Overall, moreover, Gottlieb's blame-Himan defense proved (unintentionally) devastating for Nifong, since the sergeant admitted that Himan was responsible for turning documents over to Nifong—fortifying Himan's DHC testimony that Nifong was fully aware of the inconsistencies in Crystal Mangum's stories as of March 27.
Nifong's Role
Gottlieb reiterated the explosive revelation in his case "notes" that on March 24, 2006, his immediate superior, Capt. Jeff Lamb, told him to coordinate all matters related to the investigation with Nifong; and "to make sure that everything that was done was approved by the DA's office, and basically to follow their leads."
And, Gottlieb continued, after March 24, 2006, that's exactly how the investigation was run.
This testimony contradicts Nifong's contrary claim, under oath, during his disciplinary proceedings; it also suggests that the Baker/Chalmers report that the DPD was always in charge of the investigation was, in fact, a whitewash.
Bob Ekstrand Was Right
In the days before March 22, attorney Wes Covington (whose clients were unclear—he told the captains he wasn't officially their lawyer) had arranged for all the members of the team to be questioned (without counsel, and without telling their parents) by the DPD. This visit, he intimated, would end the case—each player would be asked a question or two, just to close out the file.
Duke, Gottlieb continued, was a willing participant in this scheme to bring its own students in "under the radar."
Once he found out about this plan (from team captain Dan Flannery), Ekstrand suspected a trap. He was right.
Gottlieb admitted in the deposition that the DPD intended to "see if they would allow DNA. See if they would allow photographs, et cetera." Those, of course, are steps to expand an investigation, not bring it to a close—as would happen the next day, after the DPD secured the procedurally fraudulent non-testimonial order.
Tracey Cline
Gottlieb was even clearer than Himan on the origins of the NTO: after speaking with Tracey Cline, "the district attorney's office thought it was a good idea to go ahead and do a Non-Testimonial."
This raises the question, once again: what "reasonable suspicion" did Assistant District Attorney Cline, who remains in the employ of the DA's office, have to believe that Brad Ross, one of the subjects of the NTO, should be considered a "suspect"?
Gottlieb also claims that Nifong told Mangum that "he would be working very closely with Ms. Cline."
The Seligmann Indictment
Gottlieb confirmed Himan's testimony to the Disciplinary Hearing Committee completely: that Himan believed that the department didn't have enough evidence to indict Seligmann, that Gottlieb communicated Himan's concerns to their superiors in the DPD, and that Nifong dismissed them, arguing that if the police believed one aspect of Mangum's stor(ies), they should believe her entire stor(ies).
At a conference call including Gottlieb, Capt. Lamb, and Lt. Mike Ripberger, Nifong informed them that enough evidence existed to move forward with an indictment against Seligmann.
Gottlieb: "I told him our concerns and basically he made the decision."
Gottlieb's Memory Problems
For a man who admitted composing his case notes "straight from memory," Gottlieb seems to have an awfully poor memory. For instance, he stated that he couldn't remember any specific details from the March 27 meeting, the first time that he and Himan briefed Nifong on the case.
Eventually, however, under detailed questioning from Brocker, Gottlieb conceded that he and Himan comprehensively briefed Nifong on the status of the investigation, and that this briefing probably occurred on the 27th, or earlier.
Gottlieb on Mangum
Gottlieb repeatedly claimed that Mangum had been consistent in her stories from March 14 through December (if this sounds very much like a claim in Duff Wilson's widely ridiculed August New York Times story, it should).
Brocker then asked him about Mangum's claims in her March 15 visit to UNC—when she asserted that she was "drunk" and felt no pain, and in which she stated that during the "attack," one of the "attackers knocked her down, causing her to hit her head on the sink.
Gottlieb's response? "This is not a report that I have had time to review."
He and Nifong made the perfect team.
In describing his March 16 interview with Mangum, Gottlieb repeated the classic line from his notes: "She was having a difficult time ambulating." And, much like Nifong, Gottlieb repeatedly described Mangum as "the victim" during his deposition.
Gottlieb was positive that Nifong attended all three meetings with the lab director. Why? Because "I am not a scientific person as far as understanding things," and Meehan "was going through a lot of information that was over my head; I wasn't quite understanding it."
When the meeting occurred, Meehan went over the printouts showing the unidentified male DNA. But Gottlieb retained no memory of it, because "I was completely lost."
At the second meeting, Gottlieb recalled Meehan "going on and on and on about what has been done, again, in scientific terms that when you sit there long enough, and you're just lost."
His being "lost" yielded a remarkable recollection—that, he guessed, Meehan said the odds of the fingernail DNA not being Dave Evans' was "one in 900-some trillion." In fact, Meehan said that Evans was among 2 percent of the entire population whose DNA might be in the fingernail mixture.
Keeping in mind that Meehan is (as Lane Williamson put it) "Mr. Obfuscation," shouldn't a figure with nearly 20 years on the force be able to understand the role that DNA would play in this case?
The sergeant did, however, provide two pieces of information utterly damning to Nifong. First, he noted that at both the April 10 and April 21 meetings, Meehan had gone through the results of every test that he had done.
Second, when asked about the May 12 report, he said, "It was my impression that what we got was the final report." Indeed, claimed Gottlieb, Meehan discussed how he would testify about the report in trial.
The Origins of the McFadyen E-mail
The special prosecutors told at least one member of the team (during his interview) that they believed that the captains' computers were not the source of the McFadyen e-mail (as I had previously believed).
That leaves only two possible sources: one of the players (extremely unlikely) or someone at Duke. In a throwaway line, Gottlieb revealed that the McFadyen e-mail was forwarded not just to CrimeStoppers but to Capt. LaVarge of the DPD. The DPD's policy is never to ask from where CrimeStoppers gets its information—but by forwarding the e-mail to LaVarge, "that does away with the confidentiality."
Gottlieb commented that the department did try to find out who forwarded the e-mail, but didn't seem to know the results.
Stray Items
Gottlieb confirmed that Deputy Police Chief Ron Hodge—a current contender for chief—was fully involved in the chain of command on case-related decisions.
The sergeant confessed that he "looked at blogs" during the case.
All told, this was a chilling deposition, given by a figure who continues to believe that he did nothing wrong in obtaining indictments against three demonstrably innocent people for a crime that never took place.
[Note: the Sunday roundup will be moved to tomorrow's post.]


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On "Time Will," Antony's cabaret-meets-nightclubbing style sets an appropriate tone for the album, which adroitly straddles the line between disco and chamber pop. This recalls the daring dance music that came out of New York in the late 1970s, especially that of Chic, and in the early 1980s, most notably the early avant-disco recordings by Material.
Singer Nomi handles the lead vocals (with Antony on backup) on the intoxicating sex-as-music "You Belong," while Kim Ann Foxman steps up to sing the dark, lush "Athene," which does a nice job of splitting the difference between Soft Cell and Matthew Herbert. Elsewhere, "Hercules Theme" explodes as a full strings-and-horns dance-floor shaker, while the skittering, low-key "Easy" sounds like a choice Shriekback outtake.
The electro-house groove asserts itself fully with the single "Blind," which features Antony on vocals, along with hypnotic synth-pop blips, and wicked trumpet playing by Steve Bernstein.
Although Hercules and Love Affair--in the running for my album of the year--includes a number of references to Greek and Roman mythology, "Blind" doesn't immediately appear to be about Oedipus putting his eyes out. The lyrics hint that the song is more concerned with finding the truth inside when illusions abound outside. Nevertheless, it's the track that discerning music buffs will most often replay.


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The Swedish navy spent almost $2 million hunting for a Russian submarine off the coast of Stockholm that turned out to be a broken buoy, Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet newspaper has reported.
Sweden said in 2014 it had proof that a foreign submarine had been operating illegally in the Stockholm archipelago after suspicions sparked the country's biggest military mobilization since the Cold War. Analysts suspected it to be a Russian submarine, but a Swedish admiral said months later that the submarine was actually a white plastic boat named the "Time Bandit."
Intercepted radio signals thought to come from a Russian sub turned out to be Sweden's own transmission to a faulty Swedish weather buoy, Svenska Dagbladet reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed person with insight into the matter.
Stockholm has meanwhile moved to increase its defense spending since the incident. While Sweden is not in NATO, as a member of the European Union the country participates in economic sanctions imposed by the bloc against Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
Svenska Dagbladet's report comes four years after the Swedish government learned of the mistake. Swedish lawmakers remained in the dark about the error for four months, the publication reported.
On Wednesday, it said that the Swedish government has made a 14-page report into the 2014 Russian submarine chase confidential.
Russia's Defense Ministry at the time compared Sweden's search involving more than 200 troops, stealth ships and helicopters to the hunt for a popular Swedish children's book character.


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, brought a message from his 5 million members when he met with President
Barack Obama
at a small White House gathering for allies on February 18. "This is a moment to go big," he said, citing daily conversations with MoveOn activists. "We understand that's not going to be easy, but people are mobilized and willing to fight to make it happen. That's really what I carried with me into that room," he told The Nation, in his first interview since taking the helm of one of the country's largest progressive organizations.
Ruben, who has organized for labor, trade and environmental groups, must take a network that has long battled bad ideas–impeaching
Bill Clinton
, invading Iraq, gutting Social Security–and adapt it to supporting and broadening the administration's agenda. "We're in this amazing position now where we get to fight for stuff," he says. MoveOn's four "core" policy areas, decided by members during December house meetings, are economic recovery, universal healthcare, climate change and ending the Iraq War. Ruben does not expect ending the war in Afghanistan, where Obama is deploying additional troops, to make the list. The "overwhelming priority" is still Iraq, he says; while his members are concerned about Afghanistan, they tend to "differ on what ought to be done about it." ARI MELBER
The question of how to hold
George W. Bush
and his associates accountable remains open. Proposals range from the establishment of a South African-style "truth commission" to Congressional inquiries to full-blown prosecutions. The call for prosecutions got a boost February 24 when many of the nation's leading peace and social justice groups urged Attorney General
Eric Holder
to "appoint a non-partisan independent Special Counsel to immediately commence a prosecutorial investigation into the most serious alleged crimes of former President George W. Bush, former Vice President
Richard B. Cheney
, the attorneys formerly employed by the Department of Justice whose memos sought to justify torture, and other former top officials of the Bush Administration."
Signing on to the request were the
Center for Constitutional Rights
, the
National Lawyers Guild
and the
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The "Harvard Law Review" Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza
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If Narendra Modi Is Running a Global Death Squad, He'll Be Protected by the Kissinger Doctrine
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American Freedom Campaign
, as well as
Peace Action
United for Peace and Justice
Code Pink
Veterans for Peace
Iraq Veterans Against the War
and more than two dozen other national and regional groups. Their argument? "Our laws…require the prosecution of crimes that strong evidence suggests these individuals have committed. Both the former president and the former vice president have confessed to authorizing a torture procedure that is illegal under our law and treaty obligations. The former president has confessed to violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act." Arguing that the most effective investigation can be conducted by a prosecutor, the groups make a convincing case that "an investigation should begin immediately." JOHN NICHOLS
The Nigerian Assembly is poised to pass the Same Gender Marriage (Prohibition) Bill, which would make privately performed same-sex marriages punishable by up to three years in prison. It would also grant the government broad power to investigate and prosecute personal associations, targeting anyone who "witnesses, abet[s] and aids the solemnization of a same gender marriage" with up to five years in prison. Citing a link between sodomy and HIV infection, proponents of the marriage act frame it as an HIV prevention measure.
The bill "threatens basic freedoms by punishing human rights defenders who speak out for unpopular causes," said
Georgette Gagnon
, Africa director of
Human Rights Watch
. HRW helped coordinate a statement against the bill signed by twenty-five civil liberties, gay rights and religious groups, including
Changing Attitude Nigeria
and Nigeria's
Legal Defense and Assistance Project
. The
EU Intergroup
on gay rights has called for a suspension of foreign aid to the country.
While sixty-six UN members have supported the decriminalization of homosexuality, Nigeria–home to antigay Episcopalian Archbishop
Peter Akinola
— has trended the other way. Despite well-documented abuses against gays and lesbians,
Ojo Madueke
, Nigeria's minister for foreign affairs, recently denied the existence of organized gay Nigerians in testimony before a UN human rights committee: "We have no record of any group of Nigerians who have come together under the umbrella of 'Lesbian, Gay and Transgender' group."
If Nigeria's antigay campaigners get their way, Madueke's fanciful statement may become truth. Facing violence, death threats and imprisonment in their home country, Nigerian gay rights activists have been fleeing to Britain–like
Bisi Alimi
Davis Mac-Iyalla
, who were granted asylum in 2008. The Rev.
Jide Macaulay
, a gay pastor who organized a gay rights conference attended by more than a hundred Nigerians, also fled to Britain last year after being threatened with arrest. GABRIEL G. ARANA
Former Senator
Norm Coleman
's desperate attempt to cling to the seat that the official recount says he lost in November keeps getting dealt legal setbacks. The three-judge panel of Minnesota jurists reviewing Coleman's demand that the courts overturn
Al Franken
's 225-vote win has repeatedly rejected Coleman's request to include ballots that were rejected as illegitimate or uncountable by local election officials. So why would top Republican senators chip in $10,000 apiece to maintain Coleman's recount fight? And why would the
Republican National Committee
transfer $250,000 to the Minnesota GOP for the same purpose?
Ideally, Senate Republicans would like to reseat Coleman. But even if their money goes to perpetuate endless legal wrangling,
Mitch McConnell
and his partisan colleagues still come out ahead. As long as the seat remains vacant, the GOP is better positioned to filibuster in the Senate, where Democrats hold fifty-eight of the sixty seats needed to force a vote. Seating Franken would make it easier for the White House and Congressional Democrats to pressure individual Republican senators to cooperate, especially on critical economic issues. So, despite the fact that Minnesota is underrepresented, don't look for Senate Republicans or the RNC to abandon Coleman's no-hope quest anytime soon. JOHN NICHOLS


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This gallery contains 16 photos.
I haven't done a family photo session in quite a while, and this one was especially enjoyable. I mean how precious are these little boys!
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I haven't done a family photo session in quite a while, and this one was especially enjoyable. I mean how precious are these little boys!
Some of you may have noticed that we have started making and selling some wood signs. We have done some generic ones, and some custom orders! Let us know if you have any ideas for new signs, and check out our Etsy site if you've got a minute 🙂
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I had the privilege to shoot a very special wedding a couple months ago. Better to post late than never, right? 🙂
Got to do my first baby photo shoot last week, and I found out how fun it is! Hopefully I will be able to do more shoots soon!
Here are some previews of the photos of the beautiful little one. 🙂
More to come!
The GPRC (Goldendale Pregnancy Resource Center) Website is up and running as of today! This is why I love being a graphic designer. Please check out the site, and let me know what you think!
Thinking about Corporate Design today. It is fun to do the out of the ordinary designs like self promotion pieces, but corporate design also has its place and it can also be fun. Here are some corporate designs that stay in the corporate realm, but also add a bit of fun!
Let me know what you think about corporate design!
Here are some that inspired me, I hope they do the same for you!
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The Evolution of the Labour Code
The Labour code came into force on January 1, 1975. It was adopted for political and ideological reasons. Nevertheless it contained a number of good provisions, partially based on the pre-war labour legislation. Since 1989 it has been amended about seventy times. Provisions connected to the previous system have been repealed. The Code has been adjusted to the market economy. The foregoing pertains especially to preventing the escape from employment relationship, working time, prohibition of employee's competition, collective bargaining. Regardless of the above the rights of employees in relation to parenthood have been extended a few times. Many provision of the Labour code have been changed as a result of the implementation of the European Union directives which applies e.g. to equal treatment in employment, fixed-term contract, transfer of undertaking, working time, health and safety at work. The Labour code is inconsistent. An attempt to issue a new one failed a few years ago.
Labour code; pre-war labour legislation; adjustment to the market economy; rights in relation to parenthood; implementation of the European Union directives
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We left a lot of plays out on the field
Does anyone have any idea what the hell this means? I've heard players and coaches from probably every team in the NFL utter this phrase after a loss. It is usually followed up with, "We just didn't capitalize on the opportunities we had out there today." These statements usually come from offensive players and coaches after putting forth a performance like the the one we had the misfortune to watch this Sunday past. But once again, what does it mean? They are never challenged on these assertions because those media in attendance at these sessions don't know enough about football to realize how nebulous these statements are.
Let's look at some examples from the game to illustrate the point I'm trying to make. The Steelers tried on a few occasions to throw the ball deep. They were able to connect once, but were unsuccessful early in the game when it still was a game. Moreover, there were a few occasions on third down that the Steelers had receivers open, but pressure caused a poor throw, a throw away, or a sack. These examples illustrate what offensive players call "missed opportunities" or "plays being left on the field." Defensive guys have another name for it: Good defense.
The Chargers took a risk on Sunday. They thought the Steelers were not good, or consistent enough, on low percentage throws to prevent them from loading the box and blitzing like crazy. On the Steelers first run play in the first quarter, the Chargers blitzed both linebackers and had each safety fly to the ball. If the Steelers were throwing play action there, it could of been a big play. But, that was the risk the Chargers took. They were going to defend the deep ball with pressure. Also, they were going to pressure on early downs to keep the Steelers in third and long so they could prevent an easy throw on third down. So, when Ben says things like plays were left on the field, he validates the entire Charger game plan. The Chargers were not afraid of the big play, and they played with reckless abandon. The Chargers game plan forced a lot of missed opportunities and forced a lot of plays to be left on the field. When Emmanual Sanders dropped that ball in the wide open field against the Ravens, that was a missed opportunity. That was a play left on the field.
Supposedly the NFL is a copycat league. Should we expect the rest of the defenses we face this year to sell out with pressure. Probably not, and here is why: They're scared.
Ben scares them. Mike Wallace scares them. Heath Miller running wide open on a hot route scares them. Why didn't the Chargers play scared? Because they are all getting fired, that's why. They don't have anything to be scared off. Their collective fates as coaches is already sealed.
You might be thinking that the Chargers were able to blitz with bravado because of the current state of the Steelers offensive line. You'd be wrong. The Chargers were not bringing five because they were confident they could win the one on one battles. They were bringing six or seven guys. Defensively, you can always outnumber the amount of blockers. Unless you are spying the quarteback, the defense is always playing 11 on 10. But, in order to bring seven guys on a blitz, you are truly putting your corners on an island. You got to have guts. When Ben overthrows Wallace, you can't say that he's too fast and we have to keep both safeties deep. Instead, you have to say that they will not consistently beat us with that pass. And the Steelers didn't.
Defense wins championships but offense gets you hired or fired.
Coaches love to say that, and sadly, many coach by that dictum. Especially in the NFL. Jerry Glanville once famously said that NFL stands for "Not For Long. He was referencing officials, but he also could have been referencing offensive innovation in the NFL because innovative coaching usually does not last long.
You know just about everyone in the NFL runs a pro style offense? The reason is because no one ever got fired for running a pro style offense. Bill Walsh is hailed by a genius by those same sportswriters that frantically write down things in their articles like, "We left a lot of plays out on the field today." But, they don't have any idea what the true genius of Bill Walsh was. Walsh did not run anything out of the ordinary in the west coast offense. He emphasized certain things (quick game) and de-emphasized others (vertical game). Walsh's genius, however, was found in how he coached the quarteback position and how he installed an offense.
When Walsh first arrived in San Francisco, he held meetings where he installed the offense to each position group. He videotaped it. Then, he forced his assistants to use all of the same verbiage and coaching points that he did. That might not sound to you like a big deal, and you'd be right. It's not a big deal, it's a huge deal. Walsh demanded that everyone coach everything his way. Many coaches don't do this. They delegate and allow their assistants to coach their way.
Walsh also coached quarterbacks extremely hard. He especially coached their footwork and ball placement. There is floating on the Internet a video that Walsh made on QB fundamentals. It's just an instructional video, but it became famous amongst coaches because Walsh is constantly griping at Montana about his ball placement. He wanted the slant to be delivered to the receiver at two inches below the top of the outside number (or something like that). Exactly there. It's comical to watch him grow visibly frustrated at Montana (Joe freaking Montana) during a simple instructional video. But what you catch a glimpse of there is the true genius of Walsh.
If you want to see innovation, watch the FCS football tournament. On Saturday, I watched some of the Old Dominion and Georgia Southern game. Old Dominion was no- huddle, up-tempo spread, and Georgia Southern was running the flexbone. Or, watch an Lousiana Tech or a West Virginia game. Those guys run the Airraid offense, which was first developed by Hal Mumme at Kentucky. That staff at Kentucky took some old Sid Gilliam stuff, combined it with Norm Chow's BYU stuff, and threw in a dash of Mouse Davis' run and shoot. The result is an offense that hardly anyone in NCAA can stop. Good defense has been defined down. If you can hold someone below 30 points, you played great defense. The most famous personification of the Airraid offense is Mike Leach, formerly of Texas Tech.
What I love about Leach is he doesn't care. He is going to run his offense and convention can be damned. Convention says you have to have balance. Leach throws the ball constantly. Convention says that you have to have a huge playbook. Leach uses an index card to call his offense and installs it in three days. Convention says that being in the shotgun all the time limits what you can do in the redzone. Leach never puts his quarterback under center. The beauty of Leach is that he didn't take the conventional coaching route. He got a law degree then decided he wanted to coach football. Therefore, he doesn't care what his peers think because he didn't come up under them. So, for example, when he tells his offensive linemen to take three and a half foot splits because it widens the route for the defensive end to get to the quarterback, he doesn't fear someone telling him he can't do that because its unconventional. He just does it.
So, Norv Turner is going to get fired. While that is bad for ole Norv for myriad reasons, it sure helped his coaching. It's unconventional to run a double move on 3rd and 1. It's unconventional to run a counter run on 3rd and 13. But, Norv did those things because he now doesn't care. Once again, no coach ever got fired for NOT running a double move on 3rd and 1. Also, coaches don't get fired for NOT running a fake punt in their own territory. Yes, I know, Harbaugh loves to run fake field goals when up by big margins. But, what Norv did on Sunday really took guts. No, let me correct myself, it really didn't. He's getting fired anyways. If he would have done it four weeks ago, that would've been gutsy.
Well, then again, it probably wouldn't have been that gutsy then either. With the element of surprise, there no way Stevenson Sylvester (who had contain) doesn't get blocked on that fake punt. Coaches love to hide behind percentages and numbers when it favors them. But, it's been shown that the numbers and the percentages favor them going for it more often on 4th down. But, they don't because coaches don't get fired for NOT going for it more often on 4th down. Coaches don't get fired for not faking plays on special teams like Les Miles at LSU does, or this crazy high school coach who never kicks off or punts.
Sean Payton is hailed for calling an onsides kick at the beginning of the second half of Super Bowl XLIV. But, if he had a numbers advantage, if the players showed proficiency at executing the play, and he had the element of surprise, wouldn't he be foolish not to run it?
Innovation is slowly creeping in the NFL. Teams are incorporating more college, "spread" concepts in their passing games and as a result, some rookie quartebacks are flourishing. While some teams get stymied for one and a half quarters only to magically find some rhythm when they go no huddle, the Patriots run a two minute offense the entire game.
Norv Turner was successful on Sunday because he felt the freedom to do the things he felt were necessary to win the game. He was not constrained by convention, and he was not concerned about the backlash he would receive from not converting things like a fake punt. The sad truth is that the Steelers coached scared, but so does every other coach in the NFL. Greg Schiano, who is undoubtedly an ass, got yelled at by Tom Coughlin for having his guys dive at the snap during the Giants victory formation. Coughlin's basic argument was, "Hey, you can't do that because no one does it so one of our guys may have gotten hurt!" Using that same logic, Tennessee should have never run the Music City Miracle in 2000 because poor Wade Phillips and the Buffalo Bills weren't expecting it and someone might have gotten hurt. I mean, it was a kickoff for goodness sake! I'm shocked Goodell has not fined Fisher retroactively.
Schiano hurt Coughlin's feelings, so I'll be shocked if he does it again. Schiano violated an unwritten rule (convention) which states that coaches cannot do anything out of the ordinary designed to actually win the game.
Herm Edwards famously said that you play to win the game. He was wrong. Most coaches play not to get fired. Kudos to Turner for finally playing to win, but shame on him for waiting this long to do it.


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