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(visited by Jeremy Watson and Steven Mansfield)
13-Jul-2005 - As the previous incomplete visit established, this Confluence Point lies inside the Australian Defence Force Mount Bundey Military Training Area (MBTA) where access is strictly controlled. However, Defence came to the party and we found them to be most reasonable, accommodating, helpful and deadly efficient throughout.
Thank you ADF, my sincere thanks for supporting this confluence visit because we caused you quite a bit of work; we are impressed not only with your efficiency but with your consideration and flexibility.
My two page application, complete with maps, received the following rather awesome response: "Your request to access the MBTA to undertake an activity under the auspices of the degree confluence project is granted based on your party agreeing to the following conditions:a. Access will only be allowed when military use of the TA provides a safe window of opportunity for the activity;b. Access will only be allowed at a time when Range Safety staff are available in location to monitor and control the activity; c. All persons involved in the activity must formally sign the attached MBTA General Access Request and agree to abide by conditions of entry as stipulated in Range Standing Orders; d. All persons involved in the activity must indemnify the Commonwealth against all acts of negligence, deliberate act and/or omission as detailed within the attached MBTA General Access Request;e. You may be required to accept conditions stipulated within an Environmental Certificate of Compliance for any activities conducted by you on the TA;f. Before you enter the TA, you will be required to attend a safety briefing at Range Control and be prepared to meet a number of safety criteria, these may include reporting onto and off the range, your being escorted during periods of access into any areas of potential danger and the maintenance of communication schedules while on the TA. I wish you all the best with your project."
Well, we were happy to do all of those things and more but we still couldn't get in for three months because the Northern Territory Government had closed the only access, the gravelled Jim Jim Road, because of Wet season flooding. Then there was an armoured regiment in there training for Iraq. As a result this project stalled awhile.
Once the landscape had dried out, and 2nd Cavalry had gone to Iraq, Range Control at Robertson Barracks, Darwin checked us out and decided that we could be trusted on range unescorted but would carry a radio and report throughout. We also got permission to cross the perimeter fence, at just the point we wanted to instead of using the gates; this cut our walking down to 14.7 kilometres and meant we could get my definitely non-4WD station wagon right up to the entry point on a now reopened and nicely regraded Jim Jim Road.
Range Control also moved some feral pig shooting contractors out of our sector for the day in case we looked too much like pigs. So, drive two hours from Darwin, check in at the MBTA, pick up the radio, get a briefing, twenty-two kilometres down the gravel road, slip through the perimeter fence at a gully crossing and we are on our way.
We first tried following this nice, shady dry gully but it meandered around and didn't stay so dry, reverting to billabong and buffalo wallow at intervals. It forced us to climb out and wade through kilometres of this dry spear grass instead. The grass was tedious but large sections of it had burnt out and the going there was easy enough.
Steve took us on a compass bearing for three kilometres without any correction from me and the GPS and passed within eight metres of the CP! Not bad through trees where you can't walk in a straight line and good training for our next week's rogaining. Got in, got out, celebrated at the Bark Hut Inn on the Arnhem Highway on the way home, back in Darwin in time for tea, no problems, another mission accomplished.
A military training range doesn't immediately suggest itself as a wildlife refuge but this often seems to be the case and is certainly so at Mt. Bundey; the ADF is extremely environmentally aware and looks after this piece of Australia very carefully. The range effectively fences off a huge area of the Northern Territory and tightly controls any human activity inside so that there is little or no adverse effect on the local flora and fauna; in fact, by controlling feral pig and buffalo and managing a fire regime it is probably better off than if it were left truly wild.
The MBTA is right next to Kakadu National Park but is of great natural significance in its own right. It is a refuge for the endangered Gouldian finch and provides a valuable early Wet season feeding and breeding habitat for waterbirds, crocodiles and amphibians. It contains a high diversity of significant fauna habitats including the seasonal Melaleuca and grassland floodplains, which we walked through, and the permanent waterholes in the Mary and Wildman Rivers, which provide valuable Dry season refuges. It also supports ecologically and botanically significant monsoon rainforest patches, which form less than 0.2 per cent of the vegetation cover in the Northern Territory and provide important seasonal refuge for species such as the Rufous owl.
I think that the Australian Defence Force would appreciate it if this CP was considered done once and for all; we used up quite a bit of their time facilitating this access and although Defence was faultlessly supportive first time around I would have every sympathy with them if they were less enthusiastic about a repeat. If it is ever done again I would leave it to the ADF to do it themselves.
...and don't even think of doing this on the sly and go trespassing. Even if you manage not to get shot, lasered, blown up or run over by an ASLAV the ADF will become very interested in you. They keep close watch over this range and for good reason, when confluence hunters aren't here this is one of the things that goes on . The 2nd Cavalry Regiment shown here at Mt Bundey in 2004 was training for Iraq and was deployed with the Al Muthanna Task Group, Iraq at the time of this posting. This range is serious.
Coordinator's Note: As this point is inside an active military training area we would discourage future visits to this confluence point.


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Most furniture designers put function over form, but why not have both? Mundane items like tables, bookcases and lounge chairs take a turn for the strange and surprising in these 15 incredibly artistic furniture designs, including benches with tentacles, tables with galloping legs, dressers that seem to be in the process of exploding and chairs that are as much fine art as a place to sit.
Tables Inspired by Galloping Horses
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With serpentine legs that resemble nothing so much as octopus tentacles, the 'r.n.i.' series of tables by Chul An Kwak is actually inspired by images of running horses. Sculpted from wood, these designs offer the same sort of flat surface you'd see in a conventional table but with legs that seem kinetic and alive.
Gravity Lounger
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The Gravity Lounger by Varier Furniture has an unconventional design, but it certainly looks comfortable. The makers claim that sitting in this chair is "probably the closest you'll ever get to zero gravity", reclining to the point where you feel almost weightless. It can also be positioned upright to work at a desk.
Woodloops Maze Bookcase
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The Maze Bookcase by Woodloops offers an entertaining, eco-friendly way to store and display books and décor. The designer says that Woodloops furniture, made of FSC-certified wood, ""covey our original views to common behaviors, weaving known circumstances into new and curious concepts".
Recycled Metal Alien Table
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You probably wouldn't find this in a museum curator's home, but it's amazingly artistic all the same. This Alien-inspired table is supported by a sculpture made almost entirely from recycled materials like spoons, wrenches and car parts. The makers of this unique piece also create tables and chairs inspired by Star Wars, and you can have one of your own for $150 and $4,500.
Tentacle Bench
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The Tentacle Bench by Carpenter's Wood Gallery seems to have a mind of its own, with curvilinear wooden slats collapsing into a pile to one side of the bench and then traveling up the wall like ivy.
'In the Woods' Balanced Stacks of Found Chairs
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'In the Woods', a project by British artist Karen Ryan, is really more art installation than functioning furniture, but it's quite striking and it's got a message, too. Ryan says the project, which was made using found chairs, is "a reaction to the ever increasing consumer mountain of design and design waste. The struggle that I have with my conscience at the irrelevance of creating yet another one-off design object against a global backdrop of poverty, violence and greed remains a permanent dilemma in my creative process."
A Stool for a Man's Jewels
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If you're in the habit of lounging around reading newspapers while in the nude – and a man – perhaps this stool is just what you've been dreaming of. It's ergonomically designed to fit the, uh, male form perfectly. It's just a prototype for now, though, so unfortunately you'll have to wait a bit to get one of your own.
Ghostly 'Slow White' Tree Branch Furniture
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Dutch designer Bo Reudler created the 'Slow White' series of furniture as a sort of protest against the controlled way in which nature is usually presented in design. Reudler rejected the process of using a computer to design furniture, instead setting out to gather branches that could be transformed with his own two hands into tables, chairs and bookcases that have retained their connection to nature.
Loopy Lounger
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It's a bit loopy, but the bent-wood 'Artistic 4 Chaise' fits the curves of your body within its unusual design. Handmade from British Oak, this lounger will certainly be a conversation piece in any home or outdoor area if you've got $6,500 to drop on it.
Compelling Bookshelves Made of Twigs and Found Boxes
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Like Bo Reudler's 'Slow White' collection, these bookcases by Peter Marigold are inspired by the natural forms of wood, but they take the concept of using found objects a bit further. The shelves are made from remnant boxes and packing materials, and the way the branches extend beyond the top shelf gives the sense that they're still growing.
'Trap' Beds
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Would you want to sleep under a bed canopy that looks like it was designed to trap you? These playful designs were created for an annual hotel art installation, and the one on the right turns the safety and comfort of a bed into something sort of unsettling. At left is a design that accomplishes the opposite, with a nest-inspired design that seems welcoming and safe.
Artistic Meta-Bench
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Benches don't have to be bland and boring. This unusual, artistic design by Yvonne Fehling and Jennie Peiz features a long and narrow stretch of wood that seems to have swallowed a number of wooden chairs. The resulting composition allows face-to-face conversation as well as isolation from the rest of the people seated on the bench, and the fact that the wood grain is aligned on every piece gives it a cohesive look that tones down a bit of the chaos.
Calypso Multi-Function Seating
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Bizarre yet beautiful, this futuristic-looking piece of furniture aims to provide a number of functions while maintaining the streamlined look of modern design. It's a love seat, a couch, a chair and a table. Folding wooden supports provide a platform for your notebook computer, the chairs can be flipped to sit side-by-side or to face each other and the whole thing can be folded flat into a coffee table when not in use.
Wacky, Imaginative Kids' Furniture
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Why shouldn't kids' furniture be just as imaginative as children themselves? Straight Line Designs creates whimsical furniture that looks like something out of a Tim Burton movie. From tables and clocks that look like they're about to spring to life to melting dressers and tin-can benches, these remarkable pieces are ideal for the young or young at heart.


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Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
18555 Oklahoma 47 Alt
Cheyenne, OK 73628
18555 Oklahoma 47 Alt
Cheyenne, OK 73628
I had the opportunity to visit Washita Battlefield National Historic Park in May 2009. I stopped at this site on my way from Fort Sill, OK to Fort Lee, VA. My visit to this site is notable in that I almost stepped on a sunbathing rattlesnake on the battlefield trail! (Three photos below.) After coming within an inch of stepping on the snake, I immediately jumped to my right into some brush. That may have been the most athletic move I have made to date! Nevertheless, I did learn an important lesson that day... To keep an eye on the trail every now and then while exploring outdoor historic sites.
This site is very well preserved and falls against a now peaceful Oklahoma plains backdrop. The battle took place on November 27, 1868, and is sometimes referred to as the Battle of Washita River or the Washita Massacre. Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer led federal troops in an attack on the peaceful Cheyenne village of Washita. The leader of the Cheyenne in this village was Black Kettle, who was also the leader of the Cheyenne village that was attacked at Sand Creek in Colorado by American forces under Colonel John M. Chivington on November 29, 1864. (Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time…)
Casualties of this battle included Black Kettle and the Captain Louis Hamilton. Hamilton was the grandson of the American founding father Alexander Hamilton. Debate still exists to this day as to whether Washita was the site of a battle or massacre. Custer would later die at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana on June 25, 1876.
Below is a more in depth write up from the National Park Service website, along with some photos that I took during my visit to the battlefield.
"As the nation expanded, the world the American Indians knew changed. Although some tribes accepted the changes, others took up armed resistance against the United States, whose government continuously broke its promise to protect American Indian territory. As the Indians fought to protect their land and way of life, the United States armed forces under the command of Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer sought to end Indian raids by weakening their arsenal and destroying their morale at the Battle of Washita. Today, the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site protects and interprets the setting along the Washita River where Lt. Colonel George A. Custer led the 7th U.S. Cavalry on a surprise dawn attack against the Southern Cheyenne village of Peace Chief Black Kettle on November 27, 1868. The attack played a significant role in the Indian Wars, a tragic clash of cultures that is part of the American story.
The United States government established a permanent Indian frontier that reserved the land west of the Mississippi for America's aboriginal peoples. The reservations, officials hoped, would not only keep white settlers from intruding into the American Indians' territory, but would also provide a home for displaced eastern tribes. Although congress believed this effort would please the Indians and bring peace to the region, only a few Plains tribes accepted life on the reservations, while others became hostile and resisted as the situation forced their people to share what little land they had left with tribes that were not indigenous to the area.
The differences in the cultural traditions between the eastern and western tribes were not the only factors to cause friction in the region. By the 1860s, the notion of Manifest Destiny and the Gold Rush swept the nation, forcing western tribes to not only share their lands with displaced tribes, but also with land-hungry and gold-seeking settlers who believed they were destined to expand across the Indian frontier. Aggravated by the white encroachment, numerous bands of American Indians--including the Arapaho and Cheyenne of the Arkansas territory--began attacking white settlers as they traveled west on wagon trains and stagecoaches. As a result, the Federal Government began negotiating peace treaties with tribal leaders, hoping to restore order in the region and end the American Indian raids.
On November 29, 1864, as Chief Black Kettle was pursuing a policy of peace with American officials, Colonel J.M. Chivington and his troops attacked and destroyed the chief's village that was allegedly under the protection of the US Army. Although the village at Sand Creek flew an American flag along with a white flag to demonstrate that the people were at peace with the United States, the troops killed and horribly mutilated 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women and children. Known as the Sand Creek Massacre, the attack on Black Kettle's village resulted in several retaliatory raids led by Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota warriors, who along with Black Kettle had survived the dreadful and unwarranted attack.
In an attempt to make peace with the raiding tribesmen, congress established a federal peace commission to end the raids and assign each of the Plains Indians to reservations in present day Oklahoma. The peace commission and the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and other tribes signed the Treaty of Little Arkansas on October 17, 1865, and the Treaty of Medicine Lodge on October 1867. According to the terms of the treaties, by ending the raids, the Plains Indians would receive permanent homes, weapons, food, blankets, clothing and other goods.
Because congress failed to ratify the treaties quickly and many of the annual supplies for the reservations did not arrive, some tribesmen became hostile and encouraged others to resist life on the reservation. By the summer of 1868, operating with bands of 50 and 100 warriors, the Plains Indians were officially at war, killing and destroying the camps of all who invaded their lands. Unable to control these warriors, Major General Philip H. Sheridan developed a strategy to deal with the Plains warriors, whose warfare tactics made them difficult to defeat.
Recognizing that the seasons set the pattern of war for the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Kiowa warriors, Sheridan initiated a winter campaign to attack the Plains Indians when they were most vulnerable. As avid horsemen, the Plains warriors relied greatly on their horses during war, often fighting in the spring and summer when war ponies were stronger from eating grass. Since horses had minimal food during the winter and blizzards forced the Plains Indians to seek refuge near river valleys, Sheridan wisely attacked the Indians during the winter when they least expected it. If his men succeeded, Sheridan hoped the winter campaign would destroy the morale of the Plains Indians who believed the winter months protected their people from enemy attacks.
To lead the campaign, Sheridan chose Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer's 7th US Cavalry, who on November 23, 1868 set out from Camp Supply to the Washita River valley where 6,000 Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Kiowa had set up camp for the winter. After journeying through the snow, Custer and his men reached the Washita Valley shortly after midnight on November 27 and silently positioned four battalions around the sleeping Cheyenne camp that coincidentally belonged to Chief Black Kettle. At daybreak, Custer led his battalion straight into Black Kettle's village, while Major Elliott, Captain Thompson, and Captain Myers attacked from the northeast and southwest. As the troops charged in from all directions, few Cheyenne managed to seek refuge and return fire.
The army destroyed the village and more than 100 Indians in the village died, including Chief Black Kettle and his wife Medicine Woman Later. Of those who survived the attack, a few escaped, but most became prisoners. Black Kettle, a respected Cheyenne leader, had sought peace and protection from the US Army and had signed the Little Arkansas Treaty in 1865 and the Medicine Lodge Treaty in 1867. Sheridan's campaign and Custer's victory shattered the Plains Indians' security and morale, and after recognizing that winter could no longer shield their people from enemy attacks, the tribes began to accept reservation life bringing to an end their armed resistance.
Today, at Washita Battlefield National Historic Site visitors can see where the battle occurred and explore the visitor center at the Black Kettle National Grassland District Office. In the Cheyenne communities, visitors may camp, fish, and hike trails."


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Renewable energy deployment stalled out last year, raising alarm bells about the pace of the clean energy transition.
In 2018, total deployment of renewable energy stood at about 180 gigawatts (GW), which was the same as the previous year. It was the first time since 2001 that capacity failed to increase year-on-year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Adding 180 GW of clean energy is a massive total, but still falls short of what is needed to clean up the electricity sector. It equates to roughly 60 percent of what is needed each year in order to meet long-term climate goals, the IEA said. The agency said that the world needs to add about 300 GW of renewable energy each year through 2030 in order to meet the targets laid out in the Paris Climate Agreement.
Worse, last year, CO2 emissions from energy rose 1.7 percent, setting another record high at 33 Gigatonnes. So, while emissions need to decline sharply, they haven't even flattened out yet. Renewable energy continues to grow, but so does demand for oil and gas.
"The world cannot afford to press "pause" on the expansion of renewables and governments need to act quickly to correct this situation and enable a faster flow of new projects," Fatih Birol, the IEA's Executive Director, said in a statement.
"Thanks to rapidly declining costs, the competitiveness of renewables is no longer heavily tied to financial incentives. What they mainly need are stable policies supported by a long-term vision but also a focus on integrating renewables into power systems in a cost-effective and optimal way. Stop-and-go policies are particularly harmful to markets and jobs," Birol added.
For the last four years, growth of wind had slowed, but the gap was made up by faster growth from solar. The difference in 2018 was that solar's exponential growth flattened out. The reason for that lies in China, where the government pared back incentives on solar in order to cut expenditures and cope with grid integration challenges, the IEA said. Still, China added 44 GW of solar last year, the most by far out of any other country and nearly half of the 97 GW global total. But that was down from 53 GW that China installed in 2017.
Costs continue to fall, making renewable energy the cheapest option in many markets, which should ensure strong growth going forward. In the U.S., wind and solar are now cheaper than operating existing coal plants in much of the country. In fact, in April, renewable energy surpassed coal in terms of electricity generation for the first time, accounting for 24 percent of the total, compared to coal's 20 percent market share.
But, despite the momentum, the transition is not fast enough. A new UN report finds that the world is facing a mass die-off of biodiversity, with as many as one million plant and animal species at risk of extinction. Also, the world is on track to blow through its carbon budget within 12 years.
Because of this urgency, a wave of new policies supporting a faster roll out of electric vehicles and renewable energy is inevitable. At the state level, renewable energy mandates are proliferating. In the Democratic primary for president, candidates are trying to outdo each other in terms of ambition on clean energy and climate change. For instance, what was once considered an extreme position, such as banning oil and gas drilling on public lands, has now become a mainstream position in the Democratic Party, at least for the candidates running for president.
Another example of the shifting Overton window came in late April when former Texas Congressman and presidential contender Beto O'Rourke recently called for $5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years in an effort to cut emissions to zero by 2050. It's ambitious by any measure, but faced some pushback for not going far enough, which says a lot about the growing concern about climate change. In fact, climate change ranked as the top issue for Democratic voters, according to a recent poll.
The oil and gas industry has enjoyed a golden era under the Trump administration, but it may only be temporary.


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Just in! News of a brand new ongoing title from UK publisher Time Bomb Comics...
Since 2007 Time Bomb Comics has been publishing critically acclaimed one-shots and graphic novels. A regular exhibitor on the booming comics convention circuit, the public face of Time Bomb Comics is Steve Tanner who, with his passion for the medium and penchant for garishly patterned jackets, is the driving force behind the Birmingham based Indie publisher.
Now, nearly ten years on, Tanner has decided to do something different through Time Bomb Comics that marks a step-change for the brand by creating and publishing what is intended to be an ongoing title: Flintlock.
"I'm describing it as adventures in the eighteenth century!" he enthuses. He explains that the book will be a shared timeline anthology that features regular and rotating characters – and each story in Flintlock will take place at some point between 1701 and 1800. He reveals that he has created a number of original characters who will make their debut throughout the series, including pirates, rogues, samurai, law enforcers and highwaymen.
Time Bomb Comics first became known to many for their historical horror mash-ups featuring the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin, so will Flintlock just be offering more of the same?
"Well, the era is the same!" Tanner admits. "Researching the Dick Turpin stories really opened my eyes as to how rich the eighteenth century was as a setting, and sparked off for me a real fascination with the period. I used to think it was the boring bit between the middle ages and the Victorians – how wrong I was!
"Part of that may be that we still only really see the 18th Century distilled through the novels of Jane Austen and the like. Beyond that there's a world in transformation with some wonderful opportunities to tell some good stories. That said, the opportunity to create a unique highwayman character as part of the Flintlock universe was too good to pass up – and Lady Flintlock is very different to my take on Dick Turpin!
"Actually, both the stories that feature in Flintlock Book 1 have female leads. As well as Lady Flintlock we have Shanti the Pirate Queen. Shanti is Asian – from India – very different from the traditional pirate. There's so few Asian characters in British comics so I'm interested to see how she's received."
Over the last 9 years Tanner has evolved Time Bomb Comics from what was essentially a platform to promote his own work into something more far reaching with a wide range of creators featured in a diverse range of titles. But why would a small publisher known for producing one-shots and graphic novels suddenly embark on something perhaps considered more ambitious?
"The last full comic I wrote for Time Bomb was Dick Turpin and the Crimson Plague back in 2011 – and a story actually scripted in 2010. Since then I've been fortunate to publish some great books featuring some great creators – including some who inspired me to start up Time Bomb in the first place – but I wanted an opportunity to wear my grand Creator hat again, which to be honest had been lying forgotten in the corner gathering dust."
But although Tanner has written the stories himself, he has recruited some talented artists to help him tell them. United States creator Anthony Summey is the artist on Lady Flintlock and brings a clean, classic style ideally suited to adventure storytelling. He's no stranger to Time Bomb or the subject matter either, having drawn Christine Logan's "The Dandy Highwayman" short story in the 2015 released Bomb Scares horror anthology. Also on board is newcomer Lorenzo Nicoletta, who is the artist for Shanti, and marks the first UK appearance for the Italian creator. Finally, another Bomb Scares alumni – Bolt-01 - has provided the lettering throughout.
Time Bomb Comics successfully released Bomb Scares in October last year using Kickstarter the crowd-funding platform is being used again for the Flintlock Book One.
"I'm revisiting it simply because the Bomb Scares campaign I ran last year proved to be so successful," Tanner explains. "It enabled me to reach a readership that otherwise I wouldn't have. As a pre-order model it seems to work providing you're fair to your supporters and sensible in your expectations. It's not the be all and end all - if the Kickstarter fails Flintlock will still be published – but the Kickstarter allows people to get the book for a great price and with some extra Flintlock goodies if they want it!"
The campaign for Flintlock Book 1 runs on Kickstarter from 1st – 31st March.
Flintlock Book One will be officially launched on 23rd April at the Birmingham Comics Festival.
For more information see the Flintlock facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/Flintlock-800342190110598/


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As the interviewer points out, McDonald's has bent over backwards to accommodate the food faddists in recent years, but, for people like Banzhaf nothing is ever enough. The interview soon turns into a slanging match (it's from Fox News), and neither side makes a very good case. In the end, Banzhaf resorts to gloating about how that he's "winning" (although all the lawsuits he has filed against McDonald's have failed).
Don't expect a reasoned debate, but scholars of the slippery slope will enjoy counting how many times the tubby legal vulture equates McDonald's with the tobacco industry.
"But even though study after study have [sic] shown soda to be a significant contributor to America's staggering obesity crisis, he says there is too little 'solid evidence'… Allison has said such studies haven't been rigorous enough to prove soda contributes to obesity, but critics say his skepticism stems from his financial ties to entities such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi and the American Beverage Association, who, critics say, have paid Allison to poke holes in the scientific consensus."
The problem, as Butterworth points out, is that "study after study" has shown nothing of the sort. Soda is no more fattening that fruit juice and the epidemiological evidence linking it to obesity is weak. If that weren't enough, it turns out that studies funded by the food industry are less biased than those funded by the state. This is an example of "white hat bias", ie. distorting information to advance fashionable causes. It is perhaps the main source of bias in epidemiology today; certainly it is the most under-reported. We come across a lot of it on this blog.
When you piece all these elements together, the ABC news piece increasingly looks like journalists taking on the role of hitmen in an academic vendetta, one in which they are clueless about the underlying data but absolutely certain that the conventional wisdom is right.
And so, the result is that thanks to ABC's totally misleading account of the evidence on sugared drinks and weight gain, Allison will almost certainly be removed from legitimate debate, tarred forever with the insinuation that he is merely a shill for industry.
The whole story of how this man has been vilified is fascinating and important. Please go read.


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[Makes 8 large]
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon baking powder
50 grams raw sugar
250 grams fruit mince
1 egg
1 cup milk
80 grams melted butter, cooled
- Sift the plain flour, baking powder and ground cinnamon together into a large bowl, then add the raw sugar, stirring it well.
- Add in the fruitmince and stir again, breaking up any clumps and ensuring it is evenly distributed through the flour.
- Lightly whisk the egg and milk together, then add it and the melted butter to the flour mix - stir gently until just combined.
- Scoop out into cases and bake in a preheated 180°C/350°F oven for around 20-25 minutes or until golden and cooked through.
- Cool on a wire rack.
Whether eaten warm or cold, they are sure to go quickly.


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NY Times says Obama Links Israeli-Palestinian Peace to US National Security
New York Times
April 14, 2010
Obama Speech Signals a U.S. Shift on Middle East
By MARK LANDLER and HELENE COOPER
WASHINGTON It was just a phrase at the end of President Obama's news conference on Tuesday, but it was a stark reminder of a far-reaching shift in how the United States views the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how aggressively it might push for a peace agreement.
When Mr. Obama declared that resolving the long-running Middle East dispute was a "vital national security interest of the United States," he was highlighting a change that has resulted from a lengthy debate among his top officials over how best to balance support for Israel against other American interests.
This shift, described by administration officials who did not want to be quoted by name when discussing internal discussions, is driving the White House's urgency to help broker a Middle East peace deal. It increases the likelihood that Mr. Obama, frustrated by the inability of the Israelis and the Palestinians to come to terms, will offer his own proposed parameters for an eventual Palestinian state.
Mr. Obama said conflicts like the one in the Middle East ended up "costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure" drawing an explicit link between the Israeli-Palestinian strife and the safety of American soldiers as they battle Islamic extremism and terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Mr. Obama's words reverberated through diplomatic circles in large part because they echoed those of Gen. David H. Petraeus, the military commander overseeing America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In recent Congressional testimony, the general said that the lack of progress in the Middle East created a hostile environment for the United States. He has denied reports that he was suggesting that soldiers were being put in harm's way by American support for Israel.
But the impasse in negotiations "does create an environment," he said Tuesday in a speech in Washington. "It does contribute, if you will, to the overall environment within which we operate."
The glimmers of daylight between United States and Israeli interests began during President George W. Bush's administration, when the United States became mired in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Three years ago, Condoleezza Rice, then secretary of state, declared during a speech in Jerusalem that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians was a "strategic interest" of the United States. In comments that drew little notice at the time, she said, "The prolonged experience of deprivation and humiliation can radicalize even normal people."
But President Bush shied away from challenging Israeli governments.
The Obama administration's new thinking, and the tougher policies toward Israel that could flow from it, has alarmed American Jewish leaders accustomed to the Bush administration's steadfast support. They are not used to seeing issues like Jewish housing in the West Bank or East Jerusalem linked, even by implication, to the security of American soldiers. Some fret that it raises questions about the centrality of the American alliance with Israel, which the administration flatly denies.
"In the past, the problem of who drinks out of whose well in Nablus has not been a strategic interest of the United States," said Martin S. Indyk, a former United States ambassador to Israel and the vice president and the director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. He said there was an interest now because of the tens of thousands of troops fighting Islamist insurgencies abroad at the same time that the United States was trying to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.
"Will resolving the Palestinian issue solve everything?" Mr. Indyk said. "No. But will it help us get there? Yes."
The administration's immediate priority, officials said, is jump-starting indirect talks between Israelis and Palestinians. There is still a vigorous debate inside the administration about what to do if such talks were to go nowhere, which experts said is the likeliest result, given the history of such negotiations. Some officials, like Gen. James L. Jones, the national security adviser, advocate putting forward an American peace plan, while others, like the longtime Middle East peace negotiator Dennis B. Ross, who now works in the National Security Council, favor a more incremental approach.
Last week, National Security Council officials met with outside Middle East experts to discuss the Arab Israeli conflict. Two weeks before, General Jones and Mr. Obama met with several national security advisers from previous administrations and discussed putting forward an American proposal, even though it would put pressure on both Israel and the Palestinians.
Several officials point out that Mr. Obama has now seized control of Middle East policy himself, particularly since the controversy several weeks ago when Israeli authorities announced new Jewish housing units in Jerusalem during a visit to Israel by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Mr. Obama, incensed by that snub, has given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a list of demands, and relations between the United States and Israel have fallen into a chilly standoff.
"The president is re-evaluating the tactics his administration is employing toward Israel and the entire Middle East," said Robert Wexler, a former Democratic congressman who resigned in January to lead the Center for Middle East Peace, a Washington-based nonprofit institution that is working for a peace agreement.
"I don't think that anybody believes American lives are endangered or materially affected by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," said Mr. Wexler, who has close ties to administration officials.
"That's an oversimplification. However, you'd have to have blinders on not to recognize that there are issues in one arena that affect other arenas."
For their part, administration officials insist that their support for Israel is unwavering. They point to intensive cooperation between the American and Israeli militaries, which they say has allowed Israel to retain a military edge over its neighbors.
The sense of urgency in Washington comes just as many Israelis have become disillusioned with the whole idea of resolving the conflict. Mr. Netanyahu's right-wing coalition government has long been skeptical about the benefits of a peace deal with the Palestinians. But skepticism has taken root in the Israeli public as well, particularly after Israel saw little benefit from its traumatic withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.
Among American Jewish groups, there is less skepticism than alarm about the administration's new direction. On Tuesday, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a powerful pro-Israel lobbying group, publicized letters to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, signed by 76 senators and 333 House members, that implored the administration to defuse tensions.
In an open letter to Mr. Obama from the World Jewish Congress, the organization's president, Ronald S. Lauder, asked, "Why does the thrust of this administration's Middle East rhetoric seem to blame Israel for the lack of movement on peace talks?"
Mr. Lauder, who said the letter was scheduled to be published Thursday as an advertisement in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, said he discussed the letter with Mr. Netanyahu and received his support before taking out the ad.
A photo caption in an earlier version of this article erroneously identified Ramat Schlomo as a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. It is a neighborhood of East Jerusalem.


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1. Confirmation Policy:
Upon Booking, An invoice will be sent to your mail & within 12 to 24 hours the booking confirmation with additional details will be sent to your mail.
2. Cancellation Policy:
Note: Following Cancellation policy will be followed for departures booked on or before 31st May 2021-
1) Cancellation up to 7 days before the start date of the trek: Get a complete cash refund (minus 5% transaction fee). The money is refunded to the same bank account, credit, or debit card from where the payment was made.
2) Cancellation during the last 6 days before the start date of the trek, and not counting the day of the trek: Full refund with 100% of the trek fee in the form of a Trekmunk Trek Voucher. Valid for 1 year from the date of issue. Can be used on any Trekmunk trek.
3) Cancellation on the start day of the trek, or no show on the start day of the trek: Unfortunately, no refund.
For more details, go to https://www.trekmunk.com/cancellation-policy
3. Refund Policy:
Any refund applicable will be processed within 10 to 15 business days as per the company policy.
4. Postpone/Transfer of a booked trek:
1. You can postpone your booked trek for a period of two months (61 days) but we will charge a 20% processing fee. The last date for the postponement will be 15 days before the start of the trek. Failing to book the slot in 2 months (61 days) time, would be considered a cancellation with no refund of any kind. Postpone of a booked trek can only be done once.
2. You can transfer your booked slot for the trek to any fit person till 15 days before the trek. You just have to mail us the request and rest we will handle. The new person has to get all the mandatory documents duly signed for the trek.
More Information:
1. We Trek for a Cause: For overall development of the areas we run our operations in, we donate Rs 100/- per booking from our profits which are used for the upliftment of the local people and conserving nature. We have named this initiative as - Trek for a Cause. For more details, follow: https://www.trekmunk.com/trek-for-a-cause
2. We are paperless: We are focusing on Sustainable Tourism and to do that we are trying all measures to convert our trek operations to be Eco-Friendly. Going Paperless is one step closer to our aim.
3. Single-Use Plastic: Trekmunk does not encourage the use of single-use plastic items. We are ensuring that our team is working together to reduce the problem and educate those around them. We will send you instructions on how to go plastic-free on your adventures.
4. Preparing for your Holiday: Getting some additional exercise makes a lot of sense to spend time before coming on a trekking adventure. The fitter you are, the more enjoyable you will find the experience. Hiking in the hill country is the best training but jogging, squash and swimming are also good for developing cardiovascular fitness and stamina. To read more on how to get fit, follow: https://www.trekmunk.com/get-fit-for-trek
5. Electricity Supply & Plug: You will get electricity supply till the starting point of the trek. If not Indian, We recommend you check if you require an adaptor for your electrical items at: http://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/
6. Currency: The unit of currency in India is the Indian Rupees.
7. Health & Vaccinations:
Severe Allergies: If you have a severe allergy please inform the Trekmunk office before you travel. We will do all we can to help, but we cannot guarantee an allergy-free environment on trekmunk trips. You will need to carry your own treatment for the allergy with you, as 'adrenaline auto-injectors' are not carried as standard by our leaders and staff. You should inform your leader on the arrival of your allergy, and let them know where you keep your adrenaline pen.
Vaccinations: You should contact your doctor or travel clinic to check whether you require any specific vaccinations or other preventive measures. You should be up to date with routine courses and boosters as recommended e.g. diphtheria-tetanus-polio and measles-mumps-rubella, along with hepatitis A and typhoid. Malarial prophylaxis is not usually required for trips in the mountains, however, if you are visiting rural and remote low lying areas then they might be necessary.
8. Passport & Visas/Identity Proofs: If foreigner, Validity for 6 months, should have blank pages, and should be kept with yourself all the time.
9. Water: If you are on a trekking or cycling holiday, water is supplied to fill up your individual bottles. This will be boiled or filtered. Additionally, you should take purification tablets or a filter bottle (such as a LifeStraw, Sawyer Filter) to treat your water when in towns or where water is not supplied. We do not encourage the purchasing of single-use plastic bottles.
10. Altitude: This adventure involves going to a very high altitude. This is not something that you should worry about; the human body is quite capable of adapting to a very wide range of altitudes, but it is important that we follow some simple rules in order to acclimatize successfully. We will send you the information in your mailbox about Acute Mountain Sickness and trekking in high altitudes. On this trip, we carry bottled oxygen for use in emergencies.
11. Guidance on Tipping: Tipping is the accepted way of saying thank you for good service. Normally the guide and any other trek staff are given their tips at the end of the trek and this is best done as a group. The main guide will make sure that the tip is appropriately distributed among all the staff members on the trek.
12. Spending/Emergency Money: Approximately Rs. 8000-10000/- (in Indian Currency)should be carried for miscellaneous expenses including porter and trek crew tips, drinks, soft drinks, etc. We recommend that you carry your travel money in the form of cash as the availability of ATM is less in these remote areas. This can also serve as your emergency spending money.
13. Travel Insurance: It is recommended to have travel insurance for these kinds of adventures. When taking out insurance please ensure the policy you choose covers you for the activities and altitude included in your itinerary. We will ask for the Travel Insurance Details over a mail. Indians can buy insurance from us while booking the trek.


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My birthday is -very- close to the 10th. I was thinking of bringing down a sheet-cake (from Costco) along with some milk (need to break out my physics book and verify that a cooler filled with ice will keep it cool enough over 3 hours, but I suspect yes...). Or is food something banned by the library?-edit-Reading http://www.multcolib.org/services/meetingrooms.html I don't see any -hard- reason I couldn't. The room's primary use will be our meeting, at which my own personal generosity would merely be a kind of refreshment; though I do wonder if 'cake and milk' constitute 'light refreshment' or not; for the moment I'll err towards the side of yes, as it is not a complete meal, but something along the lines of 'donuts and coffee'.
hmmm this is on my one year wedding aniversery..........
I'm holding this as a place for me to put my answer; it is unfortunately to late tonight for me to call and ask soI will have to verify that cake and milk are okay as refreshements tomorrow. Hope the answer can wait till then!Right now, I also agree that a simple sheet cake and some milk are certainly not even on the grounds of a lightmeal, but you never know how each library operates, and I have not dealt with this one previous to this meeting.VERDICT: Yes! Cake and Milk are totally Kosher! (Well, maybe not kosher, but certainly okay!) ^_^ Just remember whats in the cake so the allergy prone around us know if it's safe or not!~Ally
But what if the cake is a lie?
I will be there!
The cake is never a lie, it's always the pie that's the lie!Is it okay if I also bring a cake? a little one from beaverton bakery. (use to work there and loves the cakes.) And I can bring the gallon of skim milk and someone else can bring the 1% or 2%. (since the skim is what I'll be drinking) ^^
I might get to, I have to get my fav but it's too rich for most people. ^^; fudge cake with fudge filling and iceing draped with white ganache. What should I get for the other?
Turns out I will be there! With pants on, even!
Looks like I won't have to bring much Pocky with all that CAKE there.
*realizes everyone is asleep*
Fun meeting. Thanks for all the treats. Panel forms available this early, oh my!
so when is the next meeting? and where is the video?


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The story begins as Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, at this time unknown to another, simultaneously undertake the same plan: to steal from two members of Lankhmar's infamous Thieves' Guild, who had just previously stolen from a gem merchant.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser faced each other across the two thieves sprawled senseless. They were poised for attack, yet for the moment neither moved.And so begins the most famous partnership in pulp fantasy.
Each discerned something inexplicably familiar in the other.
Fafhrd said, "Our motives for being here seem identical."
"Seem? Surely must be!" the Mouser answered curtly, fiercely eyeing this potential new foe, who was taller by a head than the tall thief.
"You said?"
"I said, 'Seem? Surely, must be!'"
"How civilized of you!" Fafhrd commented in pleased tones.
"Civilized?" the Mouser demanded suspiciously, gripping his dirk tighter.
"Take care, in the eye of action, exactly what's said," Fafhrd explained. Without letting the Mouser out of his vision, he glanced down. His gaze traveled from the belt and pouch of the one fallen thief to those of the other. Then he looked up at the Mouser with a broad, ingenuous smile.
"Sixty-sixty?" he suggested.
The Mouser hesitated, sheathed his dirk, and rapped out, "A deal!"
Emboldened by their initial success as a team -- and spurred on by their lovers -- they decide to strike against the Thieves' Guild itself, about which Fafhrd boasts:
"I am not a coward!" he cried. "I'll dare the Thieves' House and fetch you Krovas's head and toss it with blood-a-drip at Vlana's feet. I swear that, witness me, Kos the god of dooms, by the brown bones of Nalgron my father and by his sword Graywand here at my side!"Unfortunately for them, things do not turn out quite as planned. The Thieves' Guild of Lankhmar does not appreciate being made to look foolish, not once but twice by the same freelancers and, with the help of a sorcerer in the employ of its guildmaster, exact revenge upon the pair, a revenge that in turn pushes them to the brink and forever forges the bonds of friendship between them.
He slapped his left hip, found nothing there but his tunic, and had to content himself with pointing tremble-armed at his belt and scabbarded sword where they lay atop his neatly folded robe -- and then picking up, refilling splashily, and draining his mug.
The Gray Mouser began to laugh in high, delighted, tuneful peals. All stared at him. He came dancing up beside Fafhrd, and still smiling widely, asked, "Why not? Who speaks of fearing the Guild-thieves? Who becomes upset at the prospect of this ridiculously easy exploit, when all of us know that all of them, even Krovas and his ruling clique, are but pygmies in mind and skill compared to me or Fafhrd here? A wondrously simple, foolproof scheme has just occurred to me for penetrating Thieves' House, every closet and cranny. Stout Fafhrd and I will put it into effect at once. Are you with me, Northerner?"
"Of course I am," Fafhrd responded gruffly, at the same time frantically wondering what madness had gripped the little fellow.
"Ill Met in Lankhmar" is an excellent story and a good introduction to Leiber's fantasy world and characters. All too often, prequels written years after the fact feel off in various ways, as if the author couldn't quite remember what it was that inspired his earlier writings. That's not true of "Ill Met in Lankhmar," which, if anything, feels even truer to these characters than some of Leiber's earlier efforts. Reading this tale, it's hard not to see in it the literary protoplasm out of which D&D arose. So many D&D staples, most notably the very idea of a Thieves' Guild, are presented here in glorious form, making it an enjoyable way to see where Dave and (especially) Gary got the ideas out of which they created this game we all so love. Read it, if you've never before had the chance; read it again, if you have. It's a great story by a great fantasy author.


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In a move aimed at bolstering small business cash flow and reducing compliance costs, the Australian government has announced an extension of the $20,000 instant asset write-off for another 12 months. This extension, part of the 2024–25 Budget released on 14 May 2024, will see the measure continue until 30 June 2025.
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It's important to note that while these measures have been announced, they are not yet law. The Treasury Laws Amendment (Support for Small Business and Charities and Other Measures) Bill 2023, which includes provisions for the $20,000 instant asset write-off for the 2023–24 income year, is still before Parliament.
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The Thinking Skills & Heuristics Series focuses on the underlying processes and strategies essential to problem solving. Each book introduces various skill sets and builds upon them as the level increases. The 6-book series covers the following thinking skills and heuristics:
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Update: This bill was greatly improved with amendments, but EFF still was unable to support it. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed H.B. 2730 on June 2, 2019.
A bill introduced in Texas threatens the free speech rights of 28 million residents by making it easier to bring frivolous lawsuits against speakers and to harass or intimidate them into silence.
EFF has long been concerned about these types of lawsuits, called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, or SLAPPs, as they use legal claims as a pretext to punish individuals exercising their First Amendment rights. That's why EFF supports efforts to limit or prevent SLAPPs.
28 states have so-called "anti-SLAPP" laws, which provide invaluable protections to speakers exercising their First Amendment rights, both online and off. While the laws vary, they typically allow the target of the SLAPP suit to quickly get a court to decide whether the case can go forward, and often require the party bringing the claims to demonstrate they have legitimate legal claims. Anti-SLAPP laws also often allow a victorious target of a SLAPP suit to recover attorneys' fees from the party who brought the meritless claims.
Without anti-SLAPP laws, plaintiffs could bring a meritless claim against speakers that they have no intention of winning—just to stop the speech or inflict financial stress by forcing those targeted by the suits to pay for attorneys to defend against meritless claims.
Texas has one of the premier anti-SLAPP laws in the country: the Texas Citizens Participation Act, or TCPA. The law currently applies to a broad range of protected First Amendment activity, including discussing matters of public importance or speaking at a government proceeding. A bill introduced earlier this month, H.B. 2730, would gut these and other important protections.
The attempt to substantially weaken and narrow the TCPA is particularly concerning because, since its passage in 2011, the law has disposed of numerous lawsuits filed against Texans who were exercising their free speech rights.
Some examples of the TCPA's success at stopping meritless lawsuits include:
- A Dallas area couple who were sued by a pet-sitting company when they left a negative Yelp review
- Individuals who complained about using a "fascia blaster" treatment on Facebook, which prompted the company selling the product to sue
- Anonymous speakers who posted comments on a nonprofit's website avoided being unmasked by a group of lawyers seeking to find out their identities
- An online critic of a multi-level marketing company was sued after publishing blog posts that were critical of the company
If H.B. 2730 passes, the protections enjoyed by the speakers described above and others will be severely threatened. The bill eviscerates several key protections of the TCPA.
First, the bill narrows the scope of activity protected by the law in a way that will allow those bringing lawsuits against speakers to make an end-run around the TCPA's protections. In short, H.B. 2730 will allow plaintiffs to argue that the because they are alleging the speech was defamatory, the TCPA simply does not apply.
The bill also removes key definitions that explain what type of activity is protected by the TCPA, creating uncertainty for speakers as to whether the law would protect them, which will chill speech.
Additionally, the bill exempts lawsuits that are based on alleged breach of non-disparagement clauses. These types of contracts are notoriously speech restrictive and have been used by websites and other online services to limit users or customers' ability to criticize products or services. Worse, these terms are often buried deep in form contracts.
H.B. 2730 would also exempt the TCPA from applying to a procedure under Texas law that allows parties to attempt to unmask anonymous online speakers without first filing a lawsuit. EFF has been particularly concerned about the use of this pre-litigation discovery process to target anonymous speakers because it can be abused to harass speakers rather than vindicate legitimate legal claims.
We filed a brief last year in support of anonymous speakers who posted on the employer review site Glassdoor after a business attempted to use Texas' pre-lawsuit discovery process to learn their identities. Although the Texas Supreme Court declined to rule that the TCPA applied to the pre-suit discovery process, its ruling had the practical effect of protecting anonymous speakers.
If H.B. 2730 passes, litigants will likely increase their use of Texas' pre-lawsuit discovery process to attempt to unmask anonymous speakers. That result may well succeed in scaring off online critics, and chilling speech.
The TCPA needs to be defended. It's a law that's protected the free speech of more than 28 million Texans, and is a national model for other states.
If you live in Texas, tell your representatives to oppose H.B. 2730. The Texas Protect Free Speech Coalition is organizing opposition to the bill, and the group's website has sample letters and information to help you make your voice heard.
Regardless of where you live, join us in advocating for new federal anti-SLAPP protections that will protect those sued in federal court. EFF has supported such measures in the past and will be pushing for them again this year. Last year, we also launched an anti-SLAPP coalition of non-profit groups, to make sure that dissenting voices aren't drowned out when they're hit with a SLAPP. Rolling back laws that protect speakers from harassment isn't the way to go—in Texas, or anywhere else.


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Pointing Fingers at FolkloreWhere to look for blame in Missouriby Christopher Balzano It's hard to put a warning on local ghostly folklore. It creeps into the personality of a place, feeding on universal themes and attraction and becomes a living, breathing thing that begs to be heard. By its very nature, it draws us in, and asks us to become part of the story. They are tales told during sleepovers and campfires, sometimes even as cautionary tales told by parents with pointed fingers, but they become the narrative of a location, the reason why the house is left unoccupied or the sign is posted. The lure to be part of the story and to test whether the tale could possibly be true is too strong. What fun is it to just hear the story anyway? It's the easiest way for an ordinary person to be part of something extraordinary. This week that attraction led to tragedy. In Poplar Bluff, Missouri, five teens were testing the validity of a local ghost story by parking on train tracks that are supposed to be haunted and waiting to see the apparitions that are supposed to invade the car. As the train drew closer, the car refused to start again, and two of the teens who could not get out of the car were killed while a third who rushed back to help them was seriously injured. The children were trying to get a look at the two ghosts said to haunt the tracks, both of which supposedly died in a train accident that killed several people in the early 1900s. One is of a woman who lost her small child during the accident and who asks people who stop on the tracks for helping finding them. The other is a man who was decapitated and is seen searching for it in a ditch nearby. Other activity includes car radios being played with and an unexplained fog that clouds up the windows. If any of this sounds familiar, it should. The same story is probably told in your town or a town nearby. Everyone knows the tale, and it speaks to something inherently sad and attractive at the same time. We might not all believe in ghosts, but people tend to believe in the mythology surrounding ghost stories. Tales like this have all the earmarks of appeal: an accident that is plausible, a loss of life, a spirit unable to get to the other side because of unfinished business, children trapped in time. Throw in a specific location and the story that other people have witnessed it, and you too can be part of the legend that is too good to not be true. The truly frightening part of a story like this is that when something like this happens, it only strengthens the lore of the story. Why was the car unable to start again? As time goes on and the names and faces of the victims fade, people will speak of the man who held them in or the angel who pulled the last girl to safety as she tried to help. At Session House, a dorm at Smith College in Massachusetts, there is a tradition of looking for the ghosts that haunt the building on Halloween night. One year a student got hurt falling down the stairs, but over the years the story became more sensationalized. She now is said to have died and is also haunting the college. And that is the way it goes, half truths become cemented and unquestioned fact. It is not the first time something like this has happened. The most famous story happened almost six years ago when a group of teens trespassed on a property in Ohio, and one, Rachel Barezinsky, was shot in the head and barely survived. There have been other reports of teens getting hurt or lost looking to follow up on a local legend, but the tragedy in Missouri might be the most dreadful because of the loss of life and the way it played itself out. These stories appeal to people who look for ghosts, but the youth have always felt the stronger pull. Long before Ghost Hunters there was Bloody Mary and Suicide Rock down the street. In the coming days there will be plenty of blame. Already people have pointed to Web sites such as StrangeUSA.com and the proliferation of ghost investigation television shows. People have said the trend of kids to want to legend trip too often leads to things like this happening, which is, of course, the kind of exaggeration that leads to legends in the first place. The fact of the matter is that people find these places and have found them long before there were lists of haunted places on the Internet. One administrator of a popular site that lists locations to find ghosts and ghostly legends has made it very clear where he stands. "If a place makes it to my site it is because a lot of people in that town know about it." In other words, responsibility does not land on him because they were going to find in anyway. Of course, this is only part of the answer. In actuality, today's climate of investigating and tripping is different from the past. Social media is the campfire of today, Web conferencing the sleepover. People hear the stories from their friends or passed down from the older kid next door, but they also search them out. The information put out there often becomes the stepping stones for thrill seeker. Instead of a trickle whispered about, the information becomes a faucet, but this does not mean any of these sites or the producers of a ghost show are responsible. There may truly be no blame. The folklore overrides the commonsense of the moment. Thinking educating teens, while a valuable endeavor in other respects, would have stopped this is like thinking teaching gun safety to gang members will stop drive-bys. In the moment there is only the story and something in us that we can only partly explain. It is the reason we watch scary moves or our minds wander during rainstorms. 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At least 25 people, including the deputy commissioner of Quetta, 14 students of a women's university and four nurses were killed on Saturday when a bomb tore through a bus, followed by a suicide attack and a gun-battle in the Bolan Medical College hospital, where the injured students were taken for treatment.
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An intelligence official, who requested not to be named, told Dawn.com that a female suicide bomber managed to sneak into the university bus. "When all the students gathered inside the bus, she blew herself up", he said.
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It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Melissa Block.
Egypt is in its third week of crisis. Last night, there were more bloody street clashes in Cairo, and the nation remains deeply divided between Egyptians who support the deposed president and those who welcome his ouster by the military. Some Egyptians are stuck in the middle. They're not fans of the former president or his organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, but they also worry that if the military is left unchecked, Egypt will once again become a repressive police state.
NPR's Leila Fadel reports from Cairo.
LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: Tamer Marei runs his hands across the piano keys at this social club in central Cairo. He points out the two bars, the two decks and the multiple lounges where intellectuals, top security officials and secular Egyptians socialize.
So this is really for the upper-class.
TAMER MAREI: Yes, upper-class place and mainly seculars.
FADEL: But among his upper crust friends here, he is in the minority.
MAREI: Nowadays, I feel alone.
FADEL: Tamer is dissenting voice among liberal and secular Egyptians who wholeheartedly backed the military ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. He might not agree with the Brotherhood's Islamic project, he says. He wouldn't vote for them in upcoming elections. But what happened to Morsi is a sign, he says, that what Egyptians call the Deep State is rising again. And many here are naively welcoming its return.
MAREI: They are regaining power. This worries me very much because this will implies on freedom, freedom of speech, media freedom - all of this will step back. Democracy will step back.
FADEL: The Deep State is a term that refers to the entrenched bureaucracy, police, and intelligence services that underpinned the Mubarak-era autocracy. Tamer believes the Deep State is using this opportunity to eradicate the Muslim Brotherhood and reverse the few gains of Egypt's uprising against Hosni Mubarak.
MAREI: The main thing that is worrying me, the division in the society and the empowerment of the Deep State. This is awful for me. This is getting me personally to square one.
FADEL: His friends now jokingly refer to him as a Brotherhood sympathizer, he says. His wife won't sit with him at the club anymore. She supported Morsi's ouster. Tamer, a leftist Arab nationalist, is an unlikely defender of the Brotherhood. But attacks by the security forces on Brotherhood protesters, as well as the shuttering of Islamist TV channels, have given him pause. More than 90 people have been killed since Morsi's ouster. The majority were Morsi supporters.
MAREI: The Deep State want the Muslim Brotherhood vanished forever. So this will continue.
FADEL: Egyptians turning on each other instead of corrupt state institutions is what scares him the most. Outside this social club, his fears of division and an emboldened police force are playing out across Cairo.
FADEL: Overnight, clashes between the police and supporters of the ousted president left at least seven pro-Morsi protesters dead and more than 200 wounded. And yet, many Egyptians are turning a blind eye to the apparent excessive use of force by security services.
A few liberal and revolutionary voices are sounding the alarm but as quickly as they do, they are demonized by their counterparts as terrorist supporters or members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Rabab el Mahdi is a left-leaning political scientist and activist.
RABAB EL MAHDI: There has been enough pumping up and enough stimulation and hatred speech on both sides. This is now turning into physical violence.
FADEL: Many of the Islamists are turning this into a religious fight, calling their opponents infidels, she says. But the other side's rhetoric is just as vicious.
MAHDI: There has been an equally fascist narrative on part of many of the so-called secular media outlets.
FADEL: El Mahdi blames the Brotherhood for bringing Egypt to this point. She says it tried to co-opt the security services to bolster its own power. But she warns that revolutionaries who supported the military's ouster of the Islamist president could face the same fate if they don't quickly mobilize.
MAHDI: This might be our last chance to save this revolution. If we do not act fast, if we do not build on our mistakes throughout the past two and a half years, the police state will be restored in much more vicious ways.
FADEL: Leila Fadel, NPR News, Cairo. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Pen and Ink Drawing with Dimensions 16″ x 11″
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Post Diploma in Sculpture at Faculty of Fine Art, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda – 1990.
Diploma in Sculpture at JNTU College of Fine Arts, Hyderabad – 1986.(Gold Medal).
Worked and resided at Kanoria Center for Art, Ahmadabad – 1987 – 88.
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Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! I beg of Thee by Thy Name through which He Who is Thy Beauty hath been stablished upon the throne of Thy Cause, and by Thy Name through which Thou changest all things, and gatherest together all things, and callest to account all things, and rewardest all things, and preservest all things, and sustainest all things—I beg of Thee to guard this handmaiden who hath fled for refuge to Thee, and hath sought the shelter of Him in Whom Thou Thyself art manifest, and hath put her whole trust and confidence in Thee.
She is sick, O my God, and hath entered beneath the shadow of the Tree of Thy healing; afflicted, and hath fled to the City of Thy protection; diseased, and hath sought the Fountainhead of Thy favors; sorely vexed, and hath hasted to attain the Wellspring of Thy tranquillity; burdened with sin, and hath set her face toward the court of Thy forgiveness.
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Thou, in truth, art immensely exalted above all else except Thyself. Thou art, verily, the Healer, the All-Sufficing, the Preserver, the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.