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Down a set and 1-5 in the quarterfinals of this year's U.S. Open, Andy Murray was shouldering the hopes of Great Britain—and a peculiar man who yelled "Come on, Andy! Grrrrrrand Slam" after every point. Murray, of course, ultimately snarled his way to a win, beating his opponent, a man another crazy fan had dubbed "that other guy in the purple shirt."
In tennis, there are hundreds of those "other guys."
Since Wimbledon in 2003, only four men not named Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, or Novak Djokovic have won majors. That's 9 years of dominance and 33 out of 37 Grand Slams. Throw in Murray and it gets even uglier. In 15 of the last 28 tournaments, at least three out of Djokovic, Nadal, Federer, and Murray have made the semifinals together.
There's a technical term for these kinds of players: monsters.
Marin Cilic, the "guy in the purple shirt" is ranked No. 13 in the world. Is resistance futile for anyone outside the top four?
I asked tennis guru Tim Gallwey, author of the '70s phenomenon The Inner Game of Tennis, how one can overcome such a stone wall of competition. The 84-year-old barely entertained the idea: "They probably won't make the finals."
So what's a decent tennis player to do? "If he can play well, no one's going to say he choked," Gallwey advises. That's some motivation. Then he tells me the alternative: completely collapsing in self-doubt. So much for that.
Retired Americans Taylor Dent, former world No. 21 and semifinalist at the '04 Olympics, and Justin Gimelstob, former No. 63 and one of the most quotable men on the tour, help me understand.
"Federer revolutionized tennis when he weaponized the ultimate forehand stroke," Dent says. "He'd never miss it." He suggests you target Federer and Nadal's backhands. As for Djokovic, it doesn't matter. "He's going to hurt you."
Gimelstob says you have to keep Murray guessing. But then he gives a bleak outlook. "Tennis is a game of matching your strengths to your opponent's weaknesses at the most important times," he says. "They don't have them."
Another thing: If you find yourself on center court with one of these monsters, no one will really cheer for you. When you hit your shots, the crowd thinks, Wow, this guy is not that bad. That's a dirty secret in tennis: The top player is better, of course, but not by an incredible amount shot-wise. It's their consistency in hitting those spectacular shots over and over and over again which puts them miles ahead.
Dent says you've got to be ultra-aggressive. Otherwise, "it's just not going to be good enough." Like in a match against Federer, where a wily slice made the greatest player of all time hit the deck like Raggedy Ann (go to the three-minute mark here). Or this gunshot of a serve against Djokovic at Wimbledon that set a speed record at the All England Club.
If the unknown grabs a lead—like Cilic did to Murray—the crowd gets quiet. Aside for praying that a rain delay doesn't happen (usually top players compose themselves and then win), it's time for the other guy to stick to his usual game. "You're on a tightrope," says Dent. "Don't get too excited when you're ahead, just keep calm and play the way you got there."
This rarely happens, though. And then it hits: He's baaaaack. The crowd knows it, too. The No.1 player gets over his funk. He never changed his game when he stunk. Everyone complains that Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, and Murray shank shots but stubbornly stick to the same strategy. They don't listen. And they win.
"That's why those guys are so good," says Dent. "They're confident and rarely push outside of what got them there." Meanwhile, on the other side of the net, the other guy knows he has to do something special to win. He tries for too much and misses, or gets shy—and still misses. And then the match ends.
Maybe the past few years have just not been a great time to have "professional tennis player" on your résumé.
"There are certain athletes that pick the wrong time," says sports psychologist Jonathan F. Katz. "I'm saying that jokingly. If you want to win, you're going to have to get through those guys. It's just what it is."
Dent doesn't deny the dominance was frustrating. But, he says, "If anybody else wants to catch up, it's on them." Gimelstob never got over the feeling of futility. But he says he was successful at doing the best he could with what he had.
Just look at Andy Roddick, the most celebrated and successful "other guy" of the past decade. Despite having had 7 Grand Slams viciously denied him by Federer, he doesn't have any regrets. "People view it as a career of … some hard knocks," he said in his retirement conference, "But I got to play."
Indeed, up against these odds, love of the game has got to be enough. In his teens, U.S. Open semifinalist David Ferrer's coach locked him in a tiny closet for hours because he thought he wasn't practicing hard enough. Ferrer quit tennis and got another job. After only a week, he returned to the court. Construction work just wasn't the same as smacking yellow balls around.


text: How to Build a Raised Bed Step-by-Step13 April 2018, written by Benedict Vanheems Spring has sprung - but there's still time to start a raised bed! In this short video and article, we'll demonstrate how easy it is to build a small 4ft x 4ft (1.2m x 1.2m) raised bed from scratch. For this project we've used two planks of wood that are 8 feet (2.4m) long. By cutting these in half this makes a square bed that is 4 feet (1.2m) long on each side. The advantage of a bed that size is that you can reach the center from all sides of the bed, so that you never have to step on the soil inside the bed. That means the soil never gets compacted, which helps plants to thrive. Preparing the Ground Choose an area of your garden that receives plenty of sun. Start by laying cardboard over the area the new bed will occupy. This will help to clear all the grass and weeds beneath. The first thing you need to do with any cardboard is to remove any tape and staples. That way you'll be starting with nice clean cardboard that will rot down into the soil over time. This step may seem a little tedious, but it really shouldn't take you too long. Spread your cardboard all over the growing area, including the paths. This will help to suppress weeds, stop grass growing up through, and keep it nice and clean, ready for the compost to go on top. Overlap the cardboard generously to prevent weeds from creeping up through any gaps. Aim for an overlap of about 6 inches (15cm). Remove any non-biodegradable tape and staples from cardboard before using it as a base for your raised bed Building a Raised Bed With the ground covered, it's time to make your raised bed. Lay out a measuring tape along each plank and clearly mark the halfway point with a pencil. Saw both planks in half to create four the four walls to your raised bed, all of equal length. Next, drill some pilot holes. These will make it easier to screw the walls together. Use a drill bit that's slightly thinner than the screws themselves. One end of each plank will overlap the end of the next and screw directly into it, so position your pilot holes correspondingly. Two holes in each plank is sufficient. The walls of the bed need to be laid out so that each plank overlaps the next, with the pilot holes located at the overlapping end. Screw the walls together using long screws so that each wall is properly secured to the next with a snug, close fit. Overlap the ends of the raised bed walls and screw them together Raised Bed Finishing Touches With the walls of the raised bed fixed together, it's time to fill it. Add garden compost to the bed. This will give a nutrient-rich, moisture-retentive layer for roots to grow down into - a sensible move with summer approaching. It also introduces lots of beneficial microorganisms to the soil, which will further enhance plant growth. The compost may be quite lumpy, so you can mix the compost with enriched topsoil specially formulated for vegetable gardening if you wish. Its fine texture means you can get on with sowing and planting immediately. You could use more of your own garden compost if you prefer, but make sure it's completely decomposed and of fine enough consistency to begin planting. Finally, fill your raised bed with a mixture of compost and enriched topsoil You can lay bark chippings directly onto the cardboard between beds to give a neat-and-tidy finish to pathways. Alternatively, cut away excess cardboard from around the raised bed to leave a simple grass path. Next comes the fun part - sowing and planting! If you're going to create a raised bed this spring, please let us know what you plan to grow in it in the comments sections below. < All Guides

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5 Back-To-Back Babies in Hollywood
They enjoyed pregnancy so much, they did it again – quickly!
We're taking a look at Hollywood's back-to-back baby boom. From Megan Fox, to Britney Spears, to Jessica Simpson, let's see which star moms are making their kids close in age.
◦ Megan Fox:
Handsome couple Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green welcomed their first child, son Noah, on September 27, 2012.
Less than one year later (in August 2013), they announced their second pregnancy.
Brian recently admitted he's not sure how they'll manage juggling a toddler, a new baby, and his job on Anger Management.
"We honestly have no idea and we discuss it daily and think, 'How are we going to do this?'" he admitted. "I think we'll see when it happens. People do it all the time."
But it sounds like his boss, Charlie Sheen, is more than understanding.
"I couldn't really ask for a better situation than that," Brian, also dad to 11-year-old son Kassius, said. "[Charlie's] one of the nicest guys I've ever met and worked with."
◦ Britney Spears:
Oops, she did it again!
Pop superstar Britney Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline welcomed their two sons one year apart — almost to the day.
The couple's firstborn son, Sean Preston, was born on September 14, 2005, and their second son, Jayden James, arrived on September 12, 2006.
Reportedly, Britney wanted to schedule her second C-section birth to coincide with Sean Preston's birthday, but her then-husband persuaded her to move the date back a couple days.
◦ Tori Spelling:
Currently, Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have two 1-year-olds — and they're not twins!
One month after their third child, daughter Hattie, was born, Tori got the unexpected news that she was pregnant for the fourth time.
"The new baby was clearly unplanned but I am thrilled and I would have lots of babies if I could, I love being a mom," Tori said at the time of her fourth pregnancy.
"All my friends keep asking me [if it was planned] and I'm like, 'Seriously? Hattie was one month old. Do you think it was planned?'" she continued. "I was up all night with feedings."
"The doctor said, 'Wait six weeks [to have sex],' and Dean was like, 'They tell everyone that.' We didn't wait that long with Stella or Liam," Tori added. "I was like, 'Well, I don't want him to think that the sex is going downhill,' so now we're on baby No. 4."
Son Finn arrived on August 30, 2012, while Hattie was born on October 10, 2011.
◦ Jessica Simpson:
Just seven months after Jessica Simpson welcomed her first child, daughter Maxwell, in May 2012, she and fiancé Eric Johnson confirmed that baby No. 2 was on the way.
"Pregnancy is a lot," Jessica recently shared. "It was hard to do two so close together. I have this huge sense of accomplishment, and I feel in my heart that I'm done. But obviously, accidents do happen!"
Son Ace Knute was born on June 30, 2013, and Maxwell arrived on May 1, 2012.
◦ Naomi Watts:
Naomi Watts and her partner Liev Schreiber welcomed their two sons within 17 months of each other.
The couple's first son, Alexander "Sasha" Pete, was born on July 25, 2007, and their second son, Samuel "Kai," arrived on December 13, 2008.
"I suppose I might consider having another child — if someone could guarantee me it would be a girl," Naomi said.
"Two boys can be a lot to handle and sometimes you think it would be easier with two girls playing with their tea sets and dolls," she added. "But Liev loves having two boys."
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Haunted House and Failed Exorcism
Witness: John
Location: La Plata, Maryland
Date of Encounter: August 1997
I have always had strange occurrences throughout my childhood, but none like this. My wife and I had just gotten married and moved into our home in July of 1997. Everything went well at first, unpacking and putting our home together. We already had one child, and were looking forward to being a family. When my wife discovered she was pregnant, all hell broke lose. The first time anything happened, we were sitting in our living room watching TV. The television turned off, and I flipped it back on. It turned off again, so I thought it was the TV. We went to the store and bought a new one.
Two weeks later, it happened again. Now, I am not insane, but there is no way a TV can go on and off by itself at night like that. We were going to church all the time then, and I asked our minister to bless the house. When he walked in, he told us he would be back in three days. But why in three days? He told us he had to prepare to do a exorcism because he felt the house was indeed haunted. Three days came and went, he arrived with other people from the church to help him cleanse our home. Going from room-to-room, he tried to cast out any evil. It only made what was there worse. The house got hotter and hotter. I opened a window in the living room, and one shut on its own, almost slamming down on my hand. We heard scratching noises on the walls and doors. There was a smell of decay in the air. After an hour or so, everything calmed down. We thought the worse was over. After my son was born in April of 1998, we started hearing the noises again, but this time we also saw a ghost. One night, I awoke to see a woman standing over our son's crib — I screamed and it disappeared. After that, our son would sleep in our bed with us. Our home was not ours anymore. Finally, after two years, we moved. The new owners also felt something strange there. The last we heard the house caught on fire and burned to the ground. After the investigation, no cause was determined as to why the house burned down.


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Zinnia Zowie and Magellan bring summer-long blooms
When you think of summer blooms in the home landscape, it's hard not to think about zinnias.
A lot of attention has been given to the Profusion and Zahara series of zinnia in summer and fall landscapes. Profusion is a Mississippi Medallion winner and both are All-America Selections. They provide fantastic summer color.
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These zinnia selections have great vase life and can still look good seven days after you cut them.
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Homelessness affects an estimated 4,000 people in Baltimore. Despite Maryland being one of the wealthiest states, one in 4 Baltimore City residents live below the poverty line. Join Be More as we recognize National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week: November 16- 24 and find out what you can do to help.
- Nov. 16-24: Online Poverty Simulation. Be More challenges the UB community to play SPENT, a powerful poverty simulation where players are placed in the shoes of a low income worker and must make difficult decisions in order survive on $1,000 for one month and avoid becoming homeless. Once you take the simulation, reflect on Be More's Facebook Page.
- Nov. 18-20: Information and Resource tables. We will have resource and information tables in the Student Center (Nov. 18) and Thueml Business Center (Nov. 19 and 20) where you can find out more about hunger and homelessness and Baltimore and find out what you can do to help. We encourage you to bring a canned good for "You Can Help" - UB's contribution to the Laywer's Campaign Against Hunger.
- Thursday, Nov. 21, 4-5:15 p.m. We will hold an intimate discussion about poverty with people who have experienced homelessness, in partnership with Project PLASE (People Lacking Ample Shelter and Employment). Refreshments will be served. RSVP here.
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Cops Are Here To Protect You (Cont'd)
Happy Ides of March! To-day is Tyrannicide Day (observed); to-day is also the International Day of Action Against Police Brutality. I don't know why anyone would be so paranoid or anti-government or anti-cop as to call for protests against police brutality. Everyone knows that cops are here to protect you.
Unnamed 19-year-old single mother, Milwuakee, Wisconsin [t/w: sexual violence committed by a police officer]: a 19-year-old single mother, who has chosen to remain anonymous, had a brick thrown through her window, and someone trying to kick in her front door, so she called 911. When the police showed up to
they took her brother outside and sent her boyfriend out of the house; then one of the cops, Police Officer Ladmarald Cates, rapist on patrol, took the opportunity to corner her while she was alone and repeatedly rape her. When she tried to get outside to tell other police about what happened to her, her rapist grabbed her, spun her around, and had her arrested forassaulting a police officer.
She was held in jail for 12 hours while other police called her a liar until she was finally taken to a hospital to be tested with a rape kit. Then they sent her back to the county jail and imprisoned her for four days without any charges ever being filed against her. The police force eventually fired Cates foridling and loafing
on duty [sic!] after they confronted him with DNA evidence of the rape, but the local DA declined to prosecute. The survivor was eventually able to find a lawyer who helped her take the case to the Feds for a civil-rights complaint; when they investigated, they found out that before he raped her, Police Officer Ladmarald Cates had already been investigated five times before for illegal behavior, including three previous allegations of sexual abuse. (The local DA had declined to prosecute in those cases, too.)Bassil Abdelal of Chicago, Illinois: Abdelal, the owner of B&B Beauty Supply on the West Side of Chicago, was robbed at gunpoint last year while trying to close up his store. Somebody who saw what was going down called the police from a CTA station, so the robbers ran out of the store. He stepped out to see where they were going to, and picked up a gun they had dropped to protect himself. Then, when the police showed up to
Abdelal dropped the gun, but they shot him 11 times while he screamedDon't shoot; I am the store owner.
Then they handcuffed him in the ambulance and denied him medical treatment while they questioned him. Then they came by the hospital again in the middle of the night and handcuffed him to the bed, and harassed and interrogated him in repeated visits for over a week.Delma Towler of Altavista, Virginia: Towler, an 83-year-old woman, called 911 to report a burglary at her home. Then she went out into her own backyard, with her gun to protect herself; the police, showing up on the scene to
gunned down Delma Towler — shooting her three times and killing her in her own backyard — for not responding to shouted orders that she could not hear without her hearing aid. According to the press report,The officer, who hasn't been named, has been placed on administrative leave . . . . He is believed to be a veteran [sic] with more than 10 years' experience in the force. . . . The Altavista Police Department chief Clay Hamilton said an internal investigation found the officer involved was not at fault as he followed department policy.
Kristen Walker and her boyfriend James, of Rochester, New York [t/w: traumatizing harassment, sexist language, physical violence against a rape survivor by police]: Walker (who is white) and her boyfriend (who is African-American) were harassed by a security guard while shopping in a convenience store late at night earlier this month; then after leaving the store found that they were being followed by police officers. It turns out they were being followed because the security guard — himself an off-duty RPD police officer — had called 911 to tell his buddies that he thought Walker and her boyfriend were suspicious because they were carrying
a massive amount of cash on them
(they had just gotten their tax return). So, hot on the scent of a possible drug seizure, two police cruisers pulled them over and multiple officers swarmed the car to demand ID and interrogate the two of them separately. When Kristen Walker asked why they pulled them over, the cop repliedNone of your fucking business, we don't have to have a fucking reason to stop you.
When she pointed out they need to have reasonable suspicion to justify a traffic stop, the police officer told herYeah?, you smart ass little bitch, get the fuck out of the car.
Then he grabbed her by the arm to pull her out of the car and wrenched it behind her back, marched her over to the police car and slammed her head on the trunk. Walker, a rape survivor, was alarmed and told the cops she suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the sexual assault; they ignored her and had both male officers conduct a pat-down search. One police officer told WalkerI should beat the fuck out of you,
and threatened to pepper-spray her in the face while she was hand-cuffed in the back of the police-cruiser. When she asked for the name and badge number of the police officer, he told herBlow me you little whore,
and shut the car door. While she was in tears, a female officer came by, looked inside, and saidAw, look at the little baby crying.
When the police failed to find anything in her car, and another police officer told told her they were going to release her and her boyfriend, she again asked for their names and badge numbers, and the cop told herIf you get their names and badge numbers you're either going to jail for disorderly conduct or they'll take you to the hospital for a mental health arrest.
When she got home, she dialed 911 and asked for a supervisor to get the names and badge numbers of the police officers who had pulled them over, interrogated her, harassed her, humiliated her in the most vulgar and violent ways, searched her, beat her, threatened her repeatedly with even more extreme physical violence, re-traumatized her and violated her civil rights in every way over carryingtoo much
cash which is, as you may know, not actually against any law. The officer on the phone explained why they had been singled out for being stopped and searched but also refused to give her the names or the badge numbers of the officers who did it. When a local journalist put up a story about it on the Internet and contacted the city government in Rochester, he was told thatthey will not be releasing the names of the officers pending an internal affairs investigation.
All domestic violence victims, New York, New York: the New York Police Department recently issued an order to all police ordering them to run criminal checks on victims who call 911 to report domestic violence to the police. So now if your partner is beating you, and you call 911, when the police show up to
they will also be checking your name in all NYPD databases to determine whether they'll be arresting you for anythingincluding for minor offenses like unpaid tickets.
According to the New York Post,A [police] source said that even if detectives wanted to take pity on someone who was battered by a spouse, they would feel pressure to make an arrest to avoid getting in trouble with superiors.
We have every right to arrest that person at that moment,
the source said.All K-12 students, Pennsylvania:
Bristol Township School District allows them. Neshaminy and Pennridge schools do not. And Palisades is discussing whether to permit them. But most local school districts have no specific policy on strip-searches of students. Without a policy, there are no guidelines, meaning students can be forced to take off all clothing if suspected of carrying prohibited contraband or material that could pose a threat [for example, dangerous substances like ibuprofen –R.G.]. Statewide, more than 100 school districts have adopted a policy example provided by the Pennsylvania School Board Association in 2009, which sets out the circumstances in which it believes a strip-search would be reasonable and necessary. Palisades introduced its proposed strip-search policy during the school board's Feb. 6 meeting, leading several parents to speak out against such searches. It defines when administrators could legally strip-search students: a reasonable suspicion that something was being concealed that would be a threat to the health, safety and welfare of the school population and could be recovered only by the removal or searching of a student's clothes. . . .
There are no possible suspicions that could possibly make it reasonable for school administrators or resource-cops to ever have the power to force a student to undergo a strip-search.Charlene Holly, six children, and the family dog, Samson, of Chicago, Illinois. Nine Chicago police officers, lead by Officer Patrick Kinney (the rest of the officers are not named in court documents), broke down the door and forced their way into Holly's apartment, dressed in army fatigues and with guns drawn, screaming
Get on the ground!
and demanding at gunpoint that an 11 month old child show his hands. They killed the family dog by choke-dragging him up from the basement and then left him in the upstairs laundry room, where he died. When the police finally showed their warrant, the warrant said that it was for a man namedSedgwick M. Reavers
and it was made out for the second-floor apartment at 10640 S. Prairie Street. The apartment that this paramilitary squad had broken into, with guns drawn, was the first floor apartment. When Samuel Holly, Charlene Holly's husband, tried to make a complaint about the wrong-address storm-trooper raid, the warrantless search and the killing of their dog, the police would not take his complaint over the phone; when he showed up at the police station the next day, they refused to take the complaint, and told him that heshould have made a complaint last night.
Deborah Braillard, of Maricopa County, Arizona: Braillard, a diabetic, was arrested on minor drug charges and thrown into the Maricopa County jail. She died in jail because the sheriff's office denied her medical care for three days, even after other inmates warned the jailers that she needed help. This was back in 2005; the story is in the news again because the Maricopa County sheriff's office has just agreed to make Maricopa taxpayers pay $3,250,000 to Braillard's family in order to settle the case, after a judge ruled that jurors could be told that key evidence in the case had been destroyed by the sheriff's department. Of course the people who personally decided to imprison Deborah Braillard and to kill her by denying her access to needed medical care will never pay a cent out of their own pockets.
Ferdinand Hunt and Sidney Newman, of New Orleans, Louisiana. Hunt and Newman, two black teenagers, were hanging out on Conti Street after a Mardi Gras parade, waiting for Hunt's mother to come back from getting some food. Nine plainclothes State Police officers and a NOPD cop then rushed them, surrounded them, and then — in spite of neither young man posing any physical threat at all — were caught on video throwing them across the sidewalk into a wall and beat them. The state troopers claimed that
while they were patrolling the French Quarter, they noticed two individuals who appeared to be juveniles and decided to ID them;
this is, apparently, how they go about finding out who's who in New Orleans.Kimani Gray of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York: plainclothes cops swarmed Kimani Gray, a 16 year old boy, late at night, claiming that he
adjusted his waistband
and attempted to leave when he saw them. So instead of letting him leave peacefully, they pulled him aside and confronted him. Then they shot at him 11 times, killing him. They claim he was pointing a gun at them. Gray was hit with seven of the 11 shots fired; three shots hit him in the back. Less than a year before, plainclothes NYPD drug cops shot and killed an unarmed 23-year-old woman, Shantel Davis, only blocks away. After vigils and protests against police violence in Brooklyn in the wake of the most recent shooting, riot cops set up roadblocks on Church Avenue, grabbed Gray's sister Mahnefah off the street, kettled protesters and arrested 46 people, mostly fordisorderly conduct.
.Jabbar Campbell of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York [t/w: homophobic language, graphic photo of injuries inflicted by police against a gay man]: Jabbar Campbell, a gay African-American man living in Brooklyn, threw a gay-pride party at his apartment. Police got an excessive-noise complaint related to the party; but when a squad of police showed up at the apartment, they claim that he
ignored their demands to
Campbell denies that that's true — but whether it is or not, what happened next is that a gang of nine cops forced their way into the building, deliberately turned off a surveillance camera in the building, and then proceeded to hold him down and beat him repeatedly, punching him in the face and striking him with clubs and flashlights until he lost consciousness, all the while screamingdiscontinue a party
and then pushed Sergeant Juan Morero, attempted to flee and flailed his arms at cops and behavedbelligerently.
You fucking fag
He was taken to Kings County Hospital with a black eye, a split lip and a bloodied mouth, needing 9 stitches and then taken to jail for 24 hours on charges ofresisting arrest,
attempted assault
and marijuana possession. Police questioned party-goers about whether they were havinggay orgies
orscrewing each other.
When Campbell filed a lawsuit against the NYPD over the beating, more armed men, wearing police jackets, broke into his house without a warrant and with their badges hidden from view, refusing to give their names, demanding ID from the gusts at Campbell's house and searching everyone there. According to Jabbar Campbell, the officers who attacked him are still on the job, althoughthey are being investigated by IAB (internal affairs bureau) and the ADA.
Stanley Gibson of Las Vegas, Nevada: Gibson, a 43-year-old US Army veteran suffering from severe anxiety and depression, had a series of run-ins with police over the course of two days and was acting increasingly erratic and disoriented. Police boxed in Gibson's car on the road; when he refused to come out after an hour, the cops decided to force him out by breaking his windows with beanbag rounds and then filling the car with pepper-spray. Instead, Police Officer Jesus Arevalo fired seven live rounds from his rifle, killing Gibson, who was disoriented, completely unarmed, and had made no attempt either to come out of the car or to attack the police. Back in December, a government grand jury declined to indict Arevalo on murder charges
after evidence was presented during hearings closed to the public and Gibson's family.
Now that the case has already been decided using secret evidence, Metro is using Gibson's case as the first case for their newPolice Fatality Public Factfinding Review
, apublic
process created by Las Vegas Metro Police Department's Sheriff Douglas Gillespie and the Las Vegas Police Protective Association's Chris Collins to replace the previous Coroner's Inquest system for police shootings with a new systemintended to make the hearings less adversarial and promote the dissemination of information to the public.
(To the public, natch; this only goes one way. In the new dissemination-system there is no opportunity for testimony from witnesses, no power to compel police to testify under oath, and no representation from the victim's family or non-police witnesses.)Alex Landau of Denver, Colorado [t/w: reporting of racist language and extremely graphic photos of injuries from the beating]: Landau, a 19-year-old Community College of Denver student, was pulled over by police, allegedly for
an illegal left turn.
Cops escalated the traffic stop into a drug search; when they asked to search the trunk of his car, Landau refused, and asked whether they had a warrant — so a group of cops punched him in the face, then beat him for several minutes, after he fell to the ground, with fists, a radio, and a flashlight. They pressed a service revolver to his head and threatened his life. The cops claim they thought they saw a gun, but Landau was in fact completely unarmed. After they stopped beating him the cops laughed at him and said,Where's that warrant now you fucking nigger?
[sic] Then they dragged him across the grass and left him to bleed; they denied him medical treatment for so long, while getting photos taken for their paperwork, that he went into shock on the way to the hospital. He needed 45 stitches and suffered a broken nose, a concussion, and brain injuries from his severe beating at the hands of the police.


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Educated at Edinburgh and Princeton and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Alan Balfour is Professor and former Dean of the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech, a position he came to after serving as the architecture dean at Rensselaer. He was formerly chairman of the Architectural Association in London, and architecture dean at Rice University in Houston. He has taught and lectured widely and will assume the position of advisory professor to the CAUP Faculty of Tongji University, Shanghai, in the Spring of 2014. Balfour was the year 2000 recipient of the Topaz Medal, the highest recognition given in North America to an educator in architecture. He was just named by Designintelligence among their choice of 30 exemplary design educators for 2013. Alan Balfour writes on the cultural imagination from the evidence in the forms of architecture and the city. Some of his work is focused on settings of significant conflict examining the physical evidence to reveal the underlying causes. The most recent book SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, Myth, Conflict and Faith (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) studies the constructive and destructive power of faith played out in the myths and realities of one place, Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Creating a Scottish Parliament (with David McCrone, Finlay Brown, Edinburgh 2005) offers an intimate exploration of the conceptualization of the political structure for a devolved Scotland and the architecture that would symbolize and be the instrument for its advancement. In 2002 he completed three books on three world cities; in each the city is viewed as the most tangible residue of the complexity of society's desires. Shanghai was published in 2002 and New York in 2001, (both from Wiley/Academy, London). The first in the series Berlin, published by Academy Editions in 1995, documents the transformation of Berlin before and after the collapse of the 'Wall.' This and an earlier book Berlin: The Politics of Order: 1737-1989 (Rizzoli 1990), received AIA International Book Awards. Other books include Portsmouth (Studio Vista 1970), Rockefeller Center: Architecture as Theater (McGraw-Hill 1978), with contributions to The Edge of the Millennium (Cooper Hewitt 1993), Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman (Rizzoli International /CCA 1994) and Recovering Landscape (Princeton Architectural Press 1999). |


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Fit For A King will be releasing a RE-recorded version of their independently released 2011 album Descendants on November 25th, 2013. The re-recording features a brand new song "Keep Me Alive," as well as completely new instrumentation and vocals for the entire album, produced by Andreas Magnusson.
Fit For A King has spent the last year touring in support of their debut label release "Creation / Destruction," which set Solid State Records history by becoming the highest-selling first week debut release on the label. Fans of "Creation / Destruction" will enjoy the new production of Descendants.
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There are many ways to use Broadband-Hamnet™, in compliance with Amateur Radio Part-97 FCC rules - without connecting to the Internet. The system is designed to be a robust, stand alone wireless network - that CAN be connected to the Internet.
If an operator connects their mesh network to the Internet, here are some ways, under FCC Part-97 rules, that it can be used: Echolink, Winlink/RMS Packet, tunnel meshing, remote control of radios/equipment, video relay, VoIP connections, APRS.
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Sniper Elite 3 Steam CD Key
Similarly to its predecessors, the action of the game takes place during World War II. This time however, authors decided to refrain from european location, instead they placed the game in the african regions. The main character however stayed the same. Probably, the role will be taken again by Karl Fishburne, working as a sharpshooter for the command of the United States Armed Forces.
Sniper Elite 3 Steam CD-Key is the serial number or product code which is a combination of letters and numbers that activates Sniper Elite 3, normally found on a sticker inside the game's case or printed on the game's quick reference card. The purchased Sniper Elite 3 Steam CD-Key global is used to register and activate the relevant game. Depending on the product, SCDKey.com provides this in the form of a scan of the code or the actual code in text format.
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Yes, Zuke's Was Bought By Purina. Don't Panic!
Yes, Zuke's Performance Pet Nutrition, was acquired by Nestlé Purina PetCare. I heard a rumor Wednesday and yesterday it was confirmed.
UPDATE: The acquisition by Nestle-Purina occurred in January 2014. In February 2018, it was announced that Zuke's will merge with another natural pet food company owned by Purina – Merrick Pet Care, an natural and organic pet-food company. Both are good companies, and the news is recent, so I'm waiting to see how everything shakes out before updating this article. However, I do know that 24 of Zuke's 36 employees will be laid off – 16 of whom are located in Durango – during this consolidation with Merrick headquarters in Texas. The employees who lost their jobs are receiving outplacement support services, severance benefits, and benefit continuation (for an unknown amount of time). Jack Llewellyn, executive director of the Durango Chamber of Commerce, added: "Whenever large companies purchase smaller companies, it's all about the economics, and they are going to evaluate whether it makes sense or not to consolidate." (Source)
Honestly, I wasn't very happy about the news. Zuke's is a brand that I highly respect. We've loved Zuke's since I discovered their first product on the shelves, Power Bones – a "power bar" to fuel your dog's adventures. I have been working with Zuke's for reviews and partnerships for a couple years now and they are currently a long-term sponsor of this blog. The staff is great and Zuke's truly cares about dogs (and cats), pet health, and fueling active adventures with your dog.
I don't feel the same about Purina. Among other things that affect my opinion of them, Purina makes Beneful and there has been some controversy around that food. I admit that I know more about the negative sentiment among vigilant pet owners that surrounds the brand than I do about the facts and the brand itself. There was some information circulating that Beneful was responsible for causing some dogs to get sick or die. The FDA found that Purina Beneful did not cause the death of the dog in the most notable case – a 2 1/2 year old English Mastiff. There is still some skepticism among pet owners though and, founded or not, some pet owners do not trust the Purina brand.
Upon hearing the news about Purina acquiring Zuke's, I did a little research. Like I said, I wasn't super pleased by the news but did not want to rush to judgement. Some large companies acquire smaller ones but allow them to operate as if they were still independent. It turns out, that is the case here.
Zuke's will operate independently under Purina. The Zuke's company stated that "Zuke's will continue creating and producing outdoors-inspired, safe and healthy dog and cat treats in the same facilities, in the same way, right here in the USA." Meiering, the original founder of Zuke's, will continue to serve in an advisory role.
According to an article in Pet Age Magazine, Meiering stated, ""I'm personally so pleased that Zuke's is now a part of the Nestlé Purina family, Their understanding of Zuke's core mission of fostering an active and healthy lifestyle for pets and pet parents alike, their commitment to keeping Zuke's and its employees in Durango as an independent operation, and their ability to help grow the Zuke's brand in the pet specialty marketplace were important factors in partnering with Nestlé Purina."
I have not heard yet from my sponsor contact at Zuke's about the sale. I am a bit disappointed that I was not given a heads-up but understand that some company information can not be released until it goes public. All I have to go on right now is the press releases about the acquisition but I am not panicking.
As long as nothing changes about Zuke's mission, formulations, and their employees continue to be treated with respect, I am fine with them being owned by Purina. Purina can help Zuke's reach more people with their mission through years of proven marketing techniques.
I'll be keeping an eye on how all of this unfolds and let you know if my opinion changes.
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Hi, I'm Jessica. I'm a Dachshund sitter, President of the largest social Dachshund club in Washington State, a dog trainer in training, and I've been a Dachshund owner for 20 years. I have over 150,000 hours of experience with the breed. When I'm not working, you can find me hiking, camping, and traveling with my adventurous wiener dogs.


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Evaluation of Wheat Varieties for Metribuzin Tolerance
Metribuzin is an important herbicide for controlling numerous weed species in wheat. It is primary a soil-residual herbicide which can be applied in the fall after the wheat emerges and roots become well established. It is particularly effective on annual bluegrass (Poa annua) and has good activity on several annual broadleaf weed species, such as chickweed (Stellaria media) and corn buttercup (Ranunculus arvensis). Metribuzin is also a critical herbicide in the management of Italian ryegrass (Lolium perenne ssp. Multiflorum). Weed competition during the fall and winter can reduce plant health, development of wheat tillers and grain yield potential.
However, wheat varieties differ in tolerance to metribuzin and many currently available varieties have not been screened for metribuzin tolerance, particularly in the soft red winter wheat production area of the Mid-South. Mississippi State University evaluated wheat varieties included in the 2013 MSU Wheat Variety Trials for tolerance to metribuzin. Wheat varieties were assessed in a field research study at the R.R. Foil Plant Science Research Center at Mississippi State University (Starkville, MS). The soil classification at this study location is a Stough fine sandy loam with a CEC of 6.6, soil pH of 6.0 and organic matter content of 0.72%. Metribuzin (Sencor 75DF) was applied at a rate of 12 oz/acre which corresponds to 0.56 lbs ai/acre. The metribuzin rate utilized for this study represented a much higher use rate than normal, and was intended strictly for evaluation of herbicide tolerance. At the time of metribuzin application, wheat had 4 or more leaves, but had not substantially initiated tillering (late Feekes growth stage 1). Visual ratings of herbicide injury were taken 11, 28 and 59 days after herbicide application. Grain yield of metribuzin-treated and untreated plots of each wheat variety were also collected and used to assess tolerance. Wheat variety sensitivity to metribuzin data are summarized according to classifications ranging from tolerant to susceptible (T=Tolerant; MT=Moderately Tolerant; MS=Moderately Susceptible; S=Susceptible). Variety sensitivity was based upon visual discoloration of foliage, vegetative stunting, stand reduction, and yield loss.
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This quirky Quail Ceramics Guinea Pig Pencil Pot is perfect for storing pencils and pens on your desk and makes an attractive fun gift or office talking point
This stoneware piece is approximately 11cm tall.
Quail Ceramics is a British company with a long tradition of designing and making distinctive and stylish top quality pieces for the table and display. Their pieces are quirky yet elegant; traditional British designs with a modern twist.
Many of the unique Quail designs do something useful for the owner, from pouring drinks to holding eggs or containing salt and pepper - they are more than pretty faces.
Everything is designed in the UK and many of the originals are made in the Midlands by traditional ceramicists and then Quail work very closely with a small number of family businesses in Thailand and Sri Lanka who do the firing and hand painting of their exclusive designs.
Quail devote an enormous amount of time to getting the detail right with their skilled craftspeople. They value and cherish the relationships they have developed and this really shows in the finished product.
At Kemps we love having these fabulous creatures in our collection. There are so very many pieces to choose from that we are unable to hold every one in the shop. We know many people are Quail collectors so we have a great working relationship with the Quail team and are happy to try and source specific customer requests if we don't have exactly what you want when you want it. Just get in touch. Liz


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Today the Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of St. John of the Cross
(1542-1591), Spanish mystic, Carmelite friar and priest
Born in Spain in 1542, John learned the importance of self-sacrificing love from his parents. His father gave up wealth, status, and comfort when he married a weaver's daughter and was disowned by his noble family. After his father died, his mother kept the destitute family together as they wandered homeless in search of work. These were the examples of sacrifice that John followed with his own great love -- God.
When the family finally found work, John still went hungry in the middle of the wealthiest city in Spain. At fourteen, John took a job caring for hospital patients who suffered from incurable diseases and madness. It was out of this poverty and suffering, that John learned to search for beauty and happiness not in the world, but in God.
After John joined the Carmelite order, Saint Teresa of Avila asked him to help her reform movement. John supported her belief that the order should return to its life of prayer. But many Carmelites felt threatened by this reform, and some members of John's own order kidnapped him. He was locked in a cell six feet by ten feet and beaten three times a week by the monks. There was only one tiny window high up near the ceiling. Yet in that unbearable dark, cold, and desolation, his love and faith were like fire and light. He had nothing left but God -- and God brought John his greatest joys in that tiny cell.
After nine months, John escaped by unscrewing the lock on his door and creeping past the guard. Taking only the mystical poetry he had written in his cell, he climbed out a window using a rope made of strips of blankets. With no idea where he was, he followed a dog to civilization. He hid from pursuers in a convent infirmary where he read his poetry to the nuns. From then on his life was devoted to sharing and explaining his experience of God's love.
His life of poverty and persecution could have produced a bitter cynic. Instead it gave birth to a compassionate mystic, who lived by the beliefs that "Who has ever seen people persuaded to love God by harshness?" and "Where there is no love, put love -- and you will find love."
John left us many books of practical advice on spiritual growth and prayer that are just as relevant today as they were then. These books include: Ascent of Mount Carmel, Dark Night of the Soul and A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ. --Christian Classics Ethereal Library (http://www.ccel.org/).
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Look upon the sacrificial gifts we offer, almighty God,in commemoration of St. John of the Cross and grant that we who celebrate the mysteries of the Lord's Passion may imitate what we now do. Through Christ our Lord.
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From December 3-5, accompanied by the Episcopal Vicar, Father Joseph Muldoon and the Administrator, Fr. Vernon Boyd, S.J., I conducted the Episcopal Visitation of the Parish of the Good Shepherd in Blackburn Hamlet (Orleans).
We arrived early Friday morning at Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha school and joined the staff for coffee in their lunch room and an assembly in the library, then took part in an assembly with the blessing of a new processional cross at Chapel Hill Catholic School, joined the staff of Good Shepherd School for lunch, followed by an assembly and the presentation of a copy of the New Testament & Psalms to the Grade 4 students, followed by Mass for the seniors at the Amica Residence next door to the school.
On Saturday afternoon, there was a meeting with various representatives of the Parish, confessions, the anticipated Sunday Mass and, that evening, a banquet to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Knights of Columbus Council.
On Sunday, I was present as presider at the two Lord's Day celebrations of the Eucharist and welcomed the parents, sponsors, family and friends of six children who would be baptized.
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Plane Touch Gun
In this game you need to protect the base from enemy planes. Shoot them and destroy all planes before they shoot you. The bigger planes you need to shoot more times to destroy. So watch on your health and destroy more planes as you can. When the game is over you can ear extra live if you guess the heart where it is.
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Anchor Porter
- Пивоварня: Anchor Brewing Company
- Стиль пива: Американский портер
- Алкоголь: 5.6% ABV
- Горечь: 40 IBU
With deep black color, a thick, creamy head, rich chocolate, toffee and coffee flavors, and full-bodied smoothness, Anchor Porter® is the epitome of a handcrafted dark beer. A blend of specially roasted pale, caramel, chocolate, and black malts, along with our top-fermenting yeast, creates complexity without bitterness. The brew is hopped at a high rate, and naturally carbonated. The result is dark in the glass, but surprisingly light on the palate. Anchor Porter® became the first modern American porter when it was introduced in 1972. As we celebrate its 40th anniversary, our porter continues to reward those who look beyond its intimidating appearance to discover its smooth, full-bodied drinkability. Anchor Porter® is the definitive American Porter.


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I have Oracle 8i installed on the lap top, ORADIM was created with automatically started and TNS Listener is automaticaly started. For some reason, every time I shutdown and started Windows, Oracle services for that instance will started automatically but the database will not opened unless I munually startup the database at SVRMGRL. I like to get this database automatically start and I start Windows.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, key member of the White House's coronavirus task force and Brad Pitt look-alike— well, kind of — mobilized his newfound celebrity for a pair of surprise graduation messages this week. Fauci addressed both Johns Hopkins University and his own alma mater, the College of the Holy Cross.
"I am profoundly aware that graduating during this time and in this virtual way — unable to celebrate in person this important milestone in your lives with your friends, classmates and teachers — is extremely difficult. I deeply empathize with the situation in which you find yourselves," said the former classics major, in his message to Holy Cross students on Friday.
"However, I encourage you to stay strong and unflinching. The country and the world need your talent, your energy, your resolve and your character."
Just one day earlier, Fauci dropped in for a remote address to Johns Hopkins.
"All of you, directly or indirectly," he told students, "will be doing your part together with the rest of us to come out from under the shadow of this pandemic."
In a surprise appearance at today's Commencement ceremony, Dr. Anthony Fauci of @NIH shared words of encouragement with this year's Johns Hopkins graduates. #JHU2020 pic.twitter.com/C4ulSy9Bb5
— Johns Hopkins University (@JohnsHopkins) May 21, 2020
A few months ago, the 79-year-old immunologist may have made for an unlikely celebrity guest at college commencement ceremonies. But Fauci's prominent role at President Trump's frequent coronavirus briefings has turned him into one of the most recognizable doctors in the country — the subject of tribute songs, posters and even his own fan club.
In his comments to new graduates at both schools, he emphasized that the global pandemic presents not only dangers but also opportunities to use the education and "moral mentorship" they had worked so hard to obtain in the classroom.
"Now is the time, if ever there was one," he told Holy Cross, "for us to care selflessly about one another."
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A new chip, packed with sensitive photon detectors signals a possible breakthrough in quantum computing.
A team of researchers has built an array of light detectors sensitive enough to register the arrival of individual light particles, or photons, and mounted them on a silicon optical chip. Such arrays are crucial components of devices that use photons to perform quantum computations.
Single-photon detectors are notoriously temperamental: Of 100 deposited on a chip using standard manufacturing techniques, only a handful will generally work. In a paper appearing today in Nature Communications, the researchers at MIT and elsewhere describe a procedure for fabricating and testing the detectors separately and then transferring those that work to an optical chip built using standard manufacturing processes.
In addition to yielding much denser and larger arrays, the approach also increases the detectors' sensitivity. In experiments, the researchers found that their detectors were up to 100 times more likely to accurately register the arrival of a single photon than those found in earlier arrays.
"You make both parts — the detectors and the photonic chip — through their best fabrication process, which is dedicated, and then bring them together," explains Faraz Najafi, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and first author on the new paper.
Thinking Small
According to quantum mechanics, tiny physical particles are, counterintuitively, able to inhabit mutually exclusive states at the same time. A computational element made from such a particle — known as a quantum bit, or qubit — could thus represent zero and one simultaneously. If multiple qubits are "entangled," meaning that their quantum states depend on each other, then a single quantum computation is, in some sense, like performing many computations in parallel.
With most particles, entanglement is difficult to maintain, but it's relatively easy with photons. For that reason, optical systems are a promising approach to quantum computation. But any quantum computer — say, one whose qubits are laser-trapped ions or nitrogen atoms embedded in diamond — would still benefit from using entangled photons to move quantum information around.
"Because ultimately one will want to make such optical processors with maybe tens or hundreds of photonic qubits, it becomes unwieldy to do this using traditional optical components," says Dirk Englund, the Jamieson Career Development Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and corresponding author on the new paper. "It's not only unwieldy but probably impossible, because if you tried to build it on a large optical table, simply the random motion of the table would cause noise on these optical states. So there's been an effort to miniaturize these optical circuits onto photonic integrated circuits."
The project was a collaboration between Englund's group and the Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group, which is led by Karl Berggren, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and of which Najafi is a member. The MIT researchers were also joined by colleagues at IBM and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The researchers' process begins with a silicon optical chip made using conventional manufacturing techniques. On a separate silicon chip, they grow a thin, flexible film of silicon nitride, upon which they deposit the superconductor niobium nitride in a pattern useful for photon detection. At both ends of the resulting detector, they deposit gold electrodes.
Then, to one end of the silicon nitride film, they attach a small droplet of polydimethylsiloxane, a type of silicone. They then press a tungsten probe, typically used to measure voltages in experimental chips, against the silicone.
"It's almost like Silly Putty," Englund says. "You put it down, it spreads out and makes high surface-contact area, and when you pick it up quickly, it will maintain that large surface area. And then it relaxes back so that it comes back to one point. It's like if you try to pick up a coin with your finger. You press on it and pick it up quickly, and shortly after, it will fall off."
With the tungsten probe, the researchers peel the film off its substrate and attach it to the optical chip.
In previous arrays, the detectors registered only 0.2 percent of the single photons directed at them. Even on-chip detectors deposited individually have historically topped out at about 2 percent. But the detectors on the researchers' new chip got as high as 20 percent. That's still a long way from the 90 percent or more required for a practical quantum circuit, but it's a big step in the right direction.
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Posted November 22, 2010, 5:50 PM.A strong, cold Gulf of Alaska storm, with elements of sub-tropical moisture, brought gusty winds and substantial rainfall to the inland valleys over the weekend. The rain came in two waves, the first (and strongest) on Saturday morning and afternoon, and the second on Sunday morning. Rainfall did not measure up to predictions, however. Just before the storm, predictions were raised to between one and two inches for the inland valleys, based partially on the absorption of a sub-tropical system. Only De Luz and the Temecula Valley Wine Country lived up to the predictions. De Luz recorded 1.83" over the three days of the storm. Next was the Temecula Valley Wine Country, with 1.14". Fallbrook, at 0.98", was next, and was more representative of rain totals that ranged from about a third of an inch to near an inch. Murrieta received 0.94", French Valley got 0.89", Temecula at 0.88", East San Jacinto received 0.88", Hemet got 0.78", Wildomar received 0.74", Lake Elsinore recorded 0.68", and Moreno Valley got 0.61". Perris was at the bottom with 0.31", with Riverside (0.46") and Menifee (0.47") also under a half of an inch. Mountain resorts in the San Bernardino mountains reported between 3 and 4 inches of snow. Additional rain was predicted for Tuesday afternoon, and another storm was brewing for the weekend. The Tuesday storm was estimated at about a tenth of an inch, and strength for Saturday and Sunday were not yet clear. Against normal-to-date totals, Fallbrook, Lake Elsinore, Menifee and Temecula were more than an inch over. Lake Elsinore and Fallbrook were both over two inches above normal. Murrieta and Hemet were right near normal. Data from WeatherCurrents' San Jacinto station continued to be unavailable due to equipment problems there. An attempted fix was made on Saturday afternoon but didn't hold. The following rainfall totals were recorded Monday:
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Carrie Underwood Discusses 2017 Face Injury: 'It Just Wasn't Pretty' (VIDEO)
Carrie Underwood says it wasn't a pretty situation after she fell on the steps of her home last year.
The 35-year-old country star spoke out on Thursday's episode of Today after breaking her wrist and injuring her face in a "freak accident" in November.
"Plain and simple, it was just kind of a freak accident," Underwood told anchor Hoda Kotb. "I just fell, I just tripped taking my dogs out to do their business. It could have happened to anybody."
"I say if I'd fallen anywhere else, it wouldn't have been a problem. There was just one little step that I went to catch myself on and I missed," she said.
The "Cry Pretty" singer, who is married to NHL player Mike Fisher, said she was alone during the incident. The couple's 3-year-old son, Isaiah Michael, was asleep upstairs.
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"In the beginning, I didn't know how things were going to end up. It just wasn't pretty," Underwood said.
Underwood said in January she required more than 40 stitches in her face after her fall. She shared a close-up selfie in April after giving fans an update on her recovery.
"Physically, I'm doing pretty darn good these days," the star said. "My wrist is almost back to normal, about 90% there... and the docs say that last 10% will come with time."
"My face has been healing pretty nicely as well," she added. "I definitely feel more like myself than I have in a while."
Underwood performed for the first time since her fall at the Academy of Country Music Awards in April. She released an emotional music video for her single "Cry Pretty" this week ahead of the debut of her album of the same name.
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Arizona PBS Moves to Cronkite School
PHOENIX—Arizona PBS, the 53-year-old public television station based at Arizona State University with more than 1 million viewers, will become part of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the university announced Thursday.
Eight, which includes three TV channels and azpbs.org, will be the largest media organization operated by a journalism school when the move becomes official next Tuesday, ArizonaPBS said. The station had been part of ASU's Office of Public Affairs. "Eight has served Arizonans for more than 50 years, providing important national and regional content in public affairs, education, the arts, science and culture across our state," said ASU President Michael M. Crow. "That critical mission will continue and we will redouble our efforts to make Arizona PBS the best public television enterprise in the nation featuring all of the outstanding PBS programming now available on Eight."
Under Cronkite, Arizona PBS also will serve as a journalistic "teaching hospital," tapping into the talents of advanced students in journalism and other disciplines who work under the guidance of top professionals from the ASU faculty and Eight staff to provide rich, new and innovative broadcast and digital content.
"A leading journalism school joining forces with one of the nation's largest PBS stations at a university known globally for its leadership in innovation is a powerful and potentially game-changing combination," the ASU president said. "We will be able to serve Arizonans on new levels while providing a national testing ground for new approaches to digital storytelling, audience engagement and revenue models to help serve a news industry that needs to rapidly adapt in the fast-changing digital world."
Since ASU made the school a free-standing college in 2005, Cronkite has been at the vanguard of a movement in journalism education to create highly immersive, professional programs in which students create journalism products under the guidance of top professionals recruited onto the faculty from some of the nation's leading newsrooms. Harvard University documented Cronkite's leadership role earlier this month in Nieman Reports.
Like a teaching hospital in medical education, these immersive professional programs provide intensive learning environments for students, important services to the community and the ability to experiment and innovate. In this case, the community service is providing critically needed, in-depth journalistic content to readers and viewers.
"We have called this a 'teaching hospital' approach to journalism education, but until now, we haven't had the hospital," said Cronkite Dean and University Vice Provost Christopher Callahan. "Now we do – a multiplatform media organization in one of the nation's largest media markets."
Cronkite leaders will spend the next few months designing the new enterprise, starting with combining the school's immersive professional programs with Arizona PBS.
An expanded version of the school's TV newscast, Cronkite NewsWatch, which covers public policy news around the state, will give Arizona PBS one of the nation's only daily local PBS newscasts. A new study by the Radio Television Digital News Association found that only 16 of the nation's 170 PBS stations have some kind of daily local public affairs programming. And most of those are not newscasts but public affairs interview shows, such as Eight's award-winning "Arizona Horizon." Some of the other established Cronkite professional programs that will become part of Arizona PBS include multiplatform daily news bureaus in Phoenix, Washington and Los Angeles, which provide news coverage to professional media outlets across the region; an innovation lab that creates new digital media products for clients; the community engagement Public Insight Network Bureau that serves news organizations nationally; and the Carnegie-Knight News21 investigative multimedia initiative whose publishing partners include The Washington Post and NBCnews.com.
Cronkite plans to add new immersion programs in business reporting and sports within the next six months and will look to other disciplines across the university to create other professional programs within Arizona PBS.
"As a veteran newsman now on the Cronkite faculty who has been immersed in the reconstruction of American journalism, I could not be more excited," said Leonard Downie Jr., the former executive editor of The Washington Post who helps lead the News21 program. "This is a very important development, not just for journalism education and the development of outstanding journalists for tomorrow, but also for the transformation of the news media in the digital age. "The future of news depends on the kind of 'teaching hospital' innovation and training that the creative combination of the Cronkite School and Arizona PBS will make possible," Downie said. "At the same time, it promises to provide residents of the Phoenix area and much of the rest of Arizona with significant public service journalism in a university-based non-profit model that could serve as a blueprint for universities and public broadcasting stations everywhere."
ASU also hopes other media organizations will bring their ideas to Cronkite to experiment on the Arizona PBS platforms. "There remains a tremendous need for reinvention and disruptive innovation in today's news industry," Callahan said. "Our Arizona PBS initiative can provide a place where commercial news operations can try out their ideas." Kelly McCullough, a Cronkite alumnus and general manager of Arizona PBS, said his team is excited about Eight becoming a more integrated part of the university while continuing to serve Arizonans at the highest levels.
"We will continue to proudly bring Arizonans all of the quality programming they want and deserve," McCullough said. "And now, as part of the Cronkite School, we will be able to develop new local content to complement our current signature PBS programs — everything from 'Arizona Horizon' and 'Horizonte' to 'PBS NewsHour,' 'NOVA' and 'Downton Abbey.'"
Arizona PBS reaches nearly 1.9 million households and 4.8 million people across 80 percent of the state. Located in the 12th largest media market in the U.S., it has more than 1 million weekly viewers and the fourth-highest prime-time viewership per capita among the nation's major market PBS stations. Eight also has the second-largest viewership of the 57 university-operated PBS stations.
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Are you interested in rehabbing properties for profit? If so then this blog post will help you know what to do, what not to do, and will give you 4 deadly reasons not to over do it on rehabs (because it will cost you a lot of money and headaches if you do)…
There are a lot of rehabbing shows on TV, and they can be pretty entertaining to watch. Unfortunately, too many people see rehabs as an easy and fun way to get rich quick, which rehabs are most definitely not! Yes, it is possible to make good money on rehabs but it's also possible to overdo it and end up losing money. Here are 4 deadly reasons not to over do it on rehabs.
4 Deadly Reasons Not To Over Do It On Rehabs
Reason #1. Your Budget Can Easily Go Out The Window
On a rehab, you set a budget of money and time – how much money you want to spend and how much time you plan to spend it in. Unfortunately, it's very easy for that budget to go out the window and you may end up spending more money and more time than you intended.
This can happen for any number of reasons but it especially happens when you over do it because even simple additions to your plan can increase the money or time you need to spend.
Reason #2. People Will Change It Anyway
Buyers want a house they can move into right away. And some buyers might want a house that is done up really nicely, although most buyers are looking for something plain that they can add their own personality to.
In fact, some buyers may even change the décor as soon as they move in, so your expensive and fancy paint job or cupboard doors might end up being covered over! Just stick with plain and neutral decoration to stay in budget.
Reason #3. Money Is Only Made When You Sell
One of the most overlooked reasons for why you shouldn't over do it in your rehab is because you only make money when you sell. The longer you are on the property working, the longer you delay your income.
You need to put together a straightforward plan, get in there, do the work, and then get the house sold ASAP. Overdoing it will only delay you.
Reason #4. You Are In The Rehab Business
You are in the rehab business, not the home decoration business. Your job is not to shock people with how beautiful the house is or how good your taste is in paint; rather, your job is to create a nice house that someone will want to pay you for. Period.
It's easy to go overboard and do too much on rehabs but if you follow these 4 deadly reasons not to over do it on rehabs then it should help you make more money and keep more of that money as profit.
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This is a belated tea tasting note, only drank it 5 times, and am now being very careful with its usage as i can't easily buy it (it's sold in a specialty Japanese gourmet store in O'Porto).
So far my favourite chocolate flavoured tea!
and i don't even consider myself a rooibos person…
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See the Ridiculous Faces of the 2012 Olympic Weightlifters
Ah, the agony and ecstasy of Olmypic competition. When it comes to weightlifting, it's usually more of the former.
You have to kind of feel sorry for professional weightlifters. All year these pumped-up competitors have trained for their big day. But when their moment in the spotlight comes, the look on their face is less triumphant and more "Mommy, help me!"
We've previously seen how the mix of intense concentration and basic physics can result in some truly hilarious diving faces. Now, witness how the effort of lifting massive tons of weight contorts these athletes' faces into truly odd shapes.


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Once again, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) is compelled to raise a petition and protest against the unrelenting plan of the Federal Government of Nigeria to introduce Islamic financing into a secular state in violation of Section 10 of the Constitution.
According to this section in the Constitution, the Nigerian State is Secular and Government is expected to be neutral on issues involving religion. By promoting a sectional religious financial policy, the Government is violating both the spirit and the letter of Section 10 of the Constitution.
The Christian Association of Nigeria has been protesting against this aberration since the Osun State Government, under Governor Rafiu Aregbesola embarked on this violation of the Constitution. Rather than stand in the defense of the Constitution, it is disappointing to note that the Federal Government, is pursuing what is out rightly a confirmation of an Islamization Agenda.
The recent floating of Sukkuk Bond by the Federal Government is not only sectional but illegal and a violation of the Constitution. Every law that has been promulgated to back the Sukkuk issuance and promote an Islamic banking system in Nigeria is ultra vires, illegal, null and void.
Islamic finance is financing which conforms to the doctrines of the Islamic law known as "Shari'a". The sources of Shari'a (in hierarchical order) are as follows:
(1). The Qur'an;
(2). Sunna (the teachings and practices of The Prophet Muhammad); and
(3). Ijtihad and Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence).
There has never been a time that Nigerians held a Referendum or convened a Constituent Assembly that passed a resolution that the nation has transmuted into an Islamic State.
Therefore, the manipulations and scheming to smuggle the country into a full blown Islamic state should stop. These manipulations became apparent with the smuggling of Nigeria into OIC in 1986, by the Ibrahim Babangida Military junta.
Our objections to the Sukkuk Bond and all forms of Islamic financing are as follows:
- Funds raised under Sukkuk MUST be used for Shariah compliant (halal) activities. Nigeria is not a Sharia compliant nation, it is a Democratic country. Nigeria cannot operate two National Ideologies.
- The Sukkuk shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as well as the Islamic Law of Mu'amalatmaliyyah. We insist that there cannot be two laws for one nation.
- Sukkuk is ASSET BASED banking system unlike the conventional banking that is ASSET BACKED. While under the conventional banking system, the borrower provides collateral to back the loan and retrieves his asset after the loan is redeemed, under Sukkuk, the loan is BASED on an asset which is land and irredeemable. The Sukkuk holder (lender) accepts land as asset on which the loan is based. At no time does the title pass to the customer, nor is it expected to pass. If the customer wishes to retrieve his asset at a later date, a separate agreement has to be drawn up. This in our view, is a sly and treacherous attempt to sell Nigeria to Arab Islamic Nations. It infringes on the sovereignty of Nigeria as the loan giver becomes part owner of the land of the receiver.
- The operation of Sukkuk is based on Islamic value system and Sharia Jurisprudence. This makes Sukkuk unconstitutional.
The IMF says that the issuance of Sukkuk by non-Islamic states/countries is a breach of the religious neutrality of the government of such state.
The Federal Government must dismantle all legal and institutional framework established to promote Islamic Financing in Nigeria. The NEW RULES/AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Section 313(6) of the Investments and Securities Act 2007, and all other forms of law guiding operation of Sukkuk issuance in Nigeria should be repealed, forthwith.
In the alternative, legal redress willl be sought to defend the Sovereignty and territorial integrity of Nigeria if the National Assembly failed to checkmate the Executive on this unconstititional action.
We affirm that the territorial integrity of Nigeria is undermined through the issuance of Sukkuk in the country. We hope that the Federal Government shall desist in its policies of unbridled religious sectionalism.
We seek your support and assistance in making this CAN position known to the whole world.
Thank you.
Rev. Dr. Musa Asake, General Secretary, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)
19th September, 2017