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Men's Health Contributing Editor and Military Correspondent Bob Drury has been nominated for three National Magazine Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. He has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, and Darfur among other sites. He is also the author, co-author, or editor of nine nonfiction books, including the New York Times bestselling HALSEY'S TYPHOON, LAST MEN OUT, and THE LAST STAND OF FOX COMPANY, the recipient of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's 2010 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for nonfiction.
His Kindle Single, SIGNATURE WOUND, is available from Amazon, and his latest book, THE HEART OF EVERYTHING THAT IS -- also a New York Times bestseller in hardcover -- was released in paperback by Simon & Schuster Publishing in September, 2014.
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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's heroism and courage in World War II.
They were known as "Rudder's Rangers," the most elite and experienced attack unit in the United States Army. In December 1944, Lt. Col. James Rudder's 2nd Battalion would form the spearhead into Germany, taking the war into Hitler's homeland at last. In the process, Rudder was given two objectives: Take Hill 400 . . . and hold the hill by any means possible. To the last man, if necessary. The battle-hardened battalion had no idea that several Wehrmacht regiments, who greatly outnumbered the Rangers, had been given the exact same orders. The clash of the two determined forces was one of the bloodiest and most costly encounters of World War II.
Castle Hill, the imposing 1320-foot mini-mountain the American Rangers simply called Hill 400, was the gateway to a desperate Nazi Germany. Several entire American divisions had already been repulsed by the last hill's dug-in defenders as—unknown to the Allies—the height was the key to Adolf Hitler's last-minute plans for a massive counterattack to smash through the American lines in what would become known to history as the Battle of the Bulge.
Thus the stalemate surrounding Hill 400 could not continue. For Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, there was only one solution: Call in Rudder's Rangers. Of the 130 special operators who stormed, captured, and held the hill that December day, only 16 remained to stagger back down its frozen slopes. The Last Hill is replete with unforgettable action and characters—a rich and detailed saga of what the survivors of the 2nd Ranger Battalion would remember as "our longest day."
November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the Toktong Pass, a narrow gorge that will need to be held open at all costs. The mission is handed to Captain William Barber and the 234 Marines of Fox Company, a courageous but undermanned unit of the First Marines. Barber and his men climb seven miles of frozen terrain to a rocky promontory overlooking the pass, where they will endure four days and five nights of nearly continuous Chinese attempts to take Fox Hill. Amid the relentless violence, three-quarters of Fox's Marines are killed, wounded, or captured. Just when it looks like they will be overrun, Lt. Colonel Raymond Davis, a fearless Marine officer who is fighting south from Chosin, volunteers to lead a daring mission that will seek to cut a hole in the Chinese lines and relieve the men of Fox. This is a fast-paced and gripping account of heroism in the face of impossible odds.
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The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power—Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the thirteen colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world.
This is the setting of Blood and Treasure, and the guide to this epic narrative is America's first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone—not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women who witnessed it.
This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America's "First Frontier" that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice.
It's 1942, just after the blow to Pearl Harbor and the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, and the United States is reeling. A group of raw US Army Airmen travels to the embattled American Air Base of Port Moresby at Papua, New Guinea. Their mission: to protect Australia, to disrupt the Japanese supply lines, and to fly perilous reconnaissance runs over the enemy-held strongholds. Among the men are pilot Captain Jay Zeamer and bombardier Sergeant Raymond Joseph "Joe" Sarnoski, a pair of swashbuckling screw-ups whose antics prevent them from being assigned to a regular bombing crew. Instead, they rebuild a broken-down B-17 bomber from spare parts and christen the plane Old 666.
One day in June 1943, a request is circulated: volunteers are needed for a reconnaissance flight into the heart of the Japanese empire. Zeamer and Sarnoski see it as a shot at redemption and cobble together a crew and depart in Old 666 under cover of darkness. Five hours later, dozens of Japanese Zeros riddle the plane with bullets. Bloody and half-conscious, Zeamer and Sarnoski keep the plane in the air, winning what will go down as the longest dogfight in history and maneuvering an emergency landing in the jungle. Only one of them will make it home alive.
With unprecedented access to the Old 666 crew's family and letters, as well as newly released transcripts from the Imperial Air Force's official accounts of the battle, Lucky 666 is perhaps the last untold "great war story" (Kirkus Reviews) from the war in the Pacific. It's an unforgettable tale of friendship, bravery, and sacrifice—and "highly recommended for WWII and aviation history buffs alike" (BookPage).
In the final days of 1944, Admiral William "Bull" Halsey is the Pacific theater's most popular and colorful naval hero. After a string of victories, the "Fighting Admiral" and his thirty-thousand-man Third Fleet are charged with protecting General MacArthur's flank during the invasion of the Philippine island of Mindoro. But in the midst of the landings, Halsey attempts a complicated refueling maneuver—and unwittingly drives his 170 ships into the teeth of a massive typhoon.
Halsey's men find themselves battling ninety-foot waves and 150 mph winds. Amid the chaos, three ships are sunk and nearly nine hundred sailors and officers are swept into the Philippine Sea. For three days, small bands of survivors battle dehydration, exhaustion, sharks, and the elements, awaiting rescue. It will be up to courageous lieutenant commander Henry Lee Plage to defy orders and sail his tiny destroyer escort, the USS Tabberer, back into the storm to rescue drifting sailors.
Revealing a little-known chapter of WWII history in absorbing detail, this is "a vivid tale of tragedy and gallantry at sea." (Publishers Weekly).
Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud's powers the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States and the loyalty of thousands of fierce fighters. But the fog of history has left Red Cloud strangely obscured. Now, thanks to the rediscovery of a lost autobiography, and painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the nineteenth century's most powerful and successful Indian warrior can finally be told.
In this astonishing untold story of the American West, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin restore Red Cloud to his rightful place in American history in a sweeping and dramatic narrative based on years of primary research. As they trace the events leading to Red Cloud's War, they provide intimate portraits of the many lives Red Cloud touched—mountain men such as Jim Bridger; US generals like William Tecumseh Sherman, who were charged with annihilating the Sioux; fearless explorers, such as the dashing John Bozeman; and the memorable warriors whom Red Cloud groomed, like the legendary Crazy Horse. And at the center of the story is Red Cloud, fighting for the very existence of the Indian way of life.
"Unabashed, unbiased, and disturbingly honest, leaving no razor-sharp arrowhead unturned, no rifle trigger unpulled....a compelling and fiery narrative" (USA TODAY), this is the definitive chronicle of the conflict between an expanding white civilization and the Plains Indians who stood in its way.
In a gripping, moment-by-moment narrative based on a wealth of recently declassified documents and in-depth interviews, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin tell the remarkable drama that unfolded over the final, heroic hours of the Vietnam War. This closing chapter of the war would become the largest-scale evacuation ever carried out, as improvised by a small unit of Marines, a vast fleet of helicopter pilots flying nonstop missions beyond regulation, and a Marine general who vowed to arrest any officer who ordered his choppers grounded while his men were still on the ground.
Drury and Clavin focus on the story of the eleven young Marines who were the last men to leave, rescued from the U.S. Embassy roof just moments before capture, having voted to make an Alamo-like last stand. As politicians in Washington struggled to put the best face on disaster and the American ambassador refused to acknowledge that the end had come, these courageous men held their ground and helped save thousands of lives. Drury and Clavin deliver a taut and stirring account of a turning point in American history that unfolds with the heart-stopping urgency of the best thrillers—a riveting true story finally told, in full, by those who lived it.
Now The Mafia Cookbook is reprinted with Cooking on the Lam -- adding thirty-seven original new recipes and a thrilling account of Dogs's recent years since he testified against the Mob in five major trials, all told in his authentic, inimitable tough-guy style.
The new recipes are simple, quick, and completely foolproof, including such classic dishes as Shrimp Scampi, Tomato Sauce (the Mob mainstay), Chicken Cordon Bleu, Veal Piccata, Marinated Asparagus Wrapped with Prosciutto, Baked Stuffed Clams, Veal Chops Milanese, Sicilian (what else?) Caponata, Gambino-style Fried Chicken, Lobster Thermidor (for when you want to celebrate that big score), and desserts rich enough to melt a loan shark's heart. Readers can follow these recipes and learn to cook Italian anytime, anywhere, even on the lam, even in places where Italian groceries may be hard or impossible to find. Tested by Mob heavy hitters as well as FBI agents and U.S. marshals, these recipes are simple to follow, full of timesaving shortcuts, and liberally seasoned with Joe Dogs's stories of life inside -- and outside -- the Mob. This is the perfect cookbook for anyone who wants to make the kind of food that Tony Soprano only dreams about.
In A Dog's Gift, award-winning journalist and author Bob Drury movingly captures the story of a year in the life of paws4people and the broken bodies and souls the organization mends. The book follows the journey of pups bred by the organization from their loving, if rigorous, early training to an emotional event that terry and Kyria have christened "the bump," where each individual service dog chooses its new owner through an almost mystical connection that ignites the healing process. incorporating vivid storytelling, insights into canine wisdom, history, science, and moving tales of personal transformation, A Dog's Gift is a story of miracles bound to be embraced by not only the 60 million Americans who own dogs, but by anyone with a full heart and a loving soul.
Every war has its "signature wounds," injuries inflicted by frightening new weapons and tactics the U.S. military has never faced before. Blistered flesh from mustard gas in World War I. Petroleum burns from oil and gas igniting on the surface of the Pacific in World War II. And now, lost legs, hands, and most devastating of all, genitals, as a result of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in today's war in Afghanistan. Men's Health contributing editor Bob Drury, a veteran reporter of both the Afghan and Iraq wars, delivers his most hard-hitting and important dispatch yet--the unforgettable accounts of U.S. soldiers who have suffered these very personal wounds. Their intense tales of battlefield survival are just a prologue to the unimaginable fights they face once they're stateside. This is essential reading for truly understanding what our fighting forces put on the line--and lose--every single day.


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Mentor: A Must-Have
No matter what point you are at in your life, having a mentor to influence and guide your decisions and outlook is extremely important! A mentor will not only supply you with valuable, meaningful guidance, but they will help you discover who you are both personally and professionally. Keep reading to find out more about the importance of a positive influence!
Above all, keeping relationships and connections to those who have positively influenced your life is a significant component of achieving success. Whether you are a student, graduate, employee, or any adult, there is always room to learn more about the world. There is an endless number of potential mentor figures who you will encounter throughout your life. This may include a professor, boss, hiring manager, recruiter, family member, guidance counselor, or someone you cross paths with while pursuing and expanding your professional career. Keep these people in mind, as it may become easy to overlook someone who could end up being your lifelong mentor. Always feel confident and encouraged to reach out to those you feel are an influence or role model in your life! As we've said before, people love to talk about what they do. If you reach out, you are nearly guaranteed a coffee date or quick meeting to learn more about your next potential mentor. Don't hesitate! Not only is this a networking experience, but the email you send or conversation you initiate may be the key to opening a gate for a relationship that will benefit your life for years to come.
An extra plus of your relationship to your mentor is the support you will receive! This person is always on your team and ready to be your personal cheerleader. As we all know, it's a great feeling to know that someone is on your side, cheering you on, and available at any given time to offer a few words of encouragement.
In addition to creating a meaningful and lasting relationship, having a mentor will provide you an enormous amount of knowledge you may have never known before. A mentor is often someone who's status is relatively superior to your level of expertise (whether a professor-student relationship, boss-employee, etc.). For that reason, this person has likely built their career over a number of years and has acquired a surplus of knowledge to help guide you to one day reach the same status as they have. Additionally, in building their career, it is likely that they have built an enormous network of connections for you to potentially take advantage of. Even more so, a mentor is someone to bounce your own ideas off of and receive constructive criticism from. We like to think of this person as a "professional brother or sister."
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An aspect of having a mentor that can be easily overlooked is their version of "tough love." Mentors may often set deadlines and specific requirements to help you reach your goals. While this may seem like a burden, there is no better way to ensure that you will complete your work and reach your best potential!
We hope that by reading this you now understand the importance of having a positive influence in your life. And remember… mentors are free! If this article has not yet convinced you, hopefully, the price tag has. Now go out there and find your own mentor!
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Owen Jones breaks the liberal-left's taboo on anti-Semitism
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Owen Jones's piece in yesterday's Guardian – 'Antisemitism has no place on the left. It is time to confront it' – acknowledges the fact that this foul poison exists not just on the traditional extreme right, but also within the pro-Palestine movement and sections of the left. To some of us, this is merely a statement of the obvious, and something that we have been banging on about for years. But the importance of Jones's piece cannot be overestimated: much of the left (and that includes the Guardianista liberal-left) refuses to acknowledge that the problem even exists. It is to Owen Jones's credit that he has broken this taboo.
Jones's article has its shortcomings: he repeats, for instance, the old canard that "Some ardent supporters of the Israeli government oppose all critics of Israeli policy and accuse them of anti-Semitism (or, if those critics are Jewish, of being "self-hating Jews")": I, for one, have never heard such arguments being used by defenders of Israel, although the claim that they are is treated as an established fact by 'anti-Zionists'.
And Jones does not deal with the crucial issue of 'absolute anti-Zionism' – a more widespread and pernicious problem on the left than crude, racist antisemitism. 'Absolute anti-Zionism' is opposition to the very existence of the Jewish state. From that all the overt anti-Semitism and covert softness on anti-Semitism to be found on the left and within the PSC and BDS movements, follows. It is the so-called 'One-State solution' and is the thinly disguised sub-text of slogans like "Palestine must be free – from the River to the Sea." It is the policy of the SWP and much of the rest of the British kitsch-Trot left. Stalinists of the Morning Star variety in theory back the Two States position, but you'd be forgiven not realising this from what they say within the labour movement and write in the Morning Star. Until he very recently clarified his position, and came out clearly for two states, it seemed quite possible that Jeremy Corbyn was a one stater.
And on the subject of Corbyn, Jones's piece is also weak: it's simply not good enough to argue (as does Jones) that "He [ie Corbyn] could not possibly have known the personal backgrounds of every individual who has joined him at the many rallies he has attended over the years." Whether Corbyn knew the politics of each and every one of the many anti-Semites he's been filmed and photographed alongside, and in some cases is on record defending, is not the issue: the issue is that now that he does know who these people are, he should clearly denounce them and disown them by name – instead of blustering about how he deplores all forms of racism and is in favour of peace. And, surely, Corbyn knew exactly what the politics of Hezbollah and Hamas were when he welcomed them as "friends." For the record, I make these comments as someone who has just voted for Corbyn.
For sure, Jones's piece does not go far enough, or make its case as plainly as it should: but it's an important breakthrough for the 'anti-Zionist' liberal-left, and all the more welcome because its published in the absolute anti-Zionists' respectable, mainstream mouthpiece: the Guardian.
Above: Jones (left) with arch-critic Alan Johnson after the publication of Jones's Guardian piece
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Ellen Leinwald said,
John Rees: 'I back the resistance in every form it takes against the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.' With friends like this, JC won't be needing enemies.
Political tourist said,
The AWL ain't half got a bee in their bonnet over anybody criticising their dreadful record on Israel.
Funny it wasn't the old two nations theory when it came to Scotland.
A socialist fig leaf hiding their pro British tendencies.
Jim Denham said,
The idea that the trivial grievances (real and imagined) and studied victimhood of petty bourgeois (and big bourgeois) Scot Nats is comparable to the events that led to the creation of the state of Israel is, at best laughable, and worst sick. Yet a lot of Scot Nats deny Israel's right to exist.
Mike Killingworth said,
Tallk's cheap. Care to name names (ideally with links)?
Glasgow Working Class said,
You only need to have a close look at certain Scottish individuals that are pro Palestine and anti Israeli. You will probably find they are sympathetic to
fascist PIRA. Some of them claim they are not anti Jewish but then do not have the bottle to tell the real truth.
So why are they so obcessed with Palestine? Why not the Kurds, why not the Red Indian? why not the Maori and Aborigines, the South American indigenous people, could it be because there are no Jews involved? And It did not evade me that many Palestinian supporters wear the Yes badge.
Political tourist said,
Shouldn't you change your name to Ulster William.
Glasgow Working Class said,
Pt. Same person that cannot explain Tartan Tory policies. Ulster William sounds like a good proddie name although Billy is preferable.
Glasgow Working Class said,
Strange that when the Isrealis respond to attacks the Palestinian supporters can be on the streets the next day with their prepared banners. Seems to me they are puppets for the Islamic fascist Hamas and Hezbollah.
Steven Johnston said,
I'm still trying to find the nation that belongs to the workers, when I come across that on the atlas it will get my full support. Unitl then, every country, is a capitalist country ergo it does not belong to the workers ergo it does not deserve my support. What do other socialists think? To renounce this idea pretty much mean you'd have to renounce socialism.
Thomas Grubb said,
Interesting to compare this with Owen's piece on antisemitism in the Guardian a year ago, which largely failed to acknowledge antisemitism on the left: http://www.theguardian.com/…/anti-jewish-hatred-rising-anti…
But it's encouraging to see such a prominent left-wing journalist now tackling this issue.
Thomas Grubb said,
Sorry, here's the correct link: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/11/anti-jewish-hatred-rising-antisemitism-meaning
Glasgow Working Class said,
SO YOUNG Owen is playing the politician with the right to change his mind whether or not he means it. If he keeps supporting Corbyn he will never get a seat in Parliament.
Mark said,
I think the issue is that he continues to limit anti-semitism to explicit mentions of Jews, when the real problem is the mass 'anti-Zionist' campaign that usually operates on an anti-semitic logic in an entirely unconscious way. If you tell these social justice champions that they might be being a little bit racist they'll be genuinely perplexed that you could even have implied such a thing. I've tried to detail it here – http://www.whiskyandtea.net/2015/08/28/antisemitism-poisons-left/
Jim Denham said,
Good piece, Mark.


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In this past year, news surrounding energy security occurred at a dizzying pace, with the 2016 presidential election, major shifts in transportation amid the growth of autonomous vehicles, and OPEC cutting production the major highlights. We've covered these topics and more in a variety of stories, infographics, and videos. Here are 10 standout pieces.
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Novotel London Canary Wharf opens to first guests
AccorHotels today opens its new flagship Novotel in London's Canary Wharf to guests.
The hotel, which represents a £90 million investment from AccorHotels, situated at 40 Marsh Street and at 127 metres high, is one of the tallest buildings in the area, with 360 degree views of London taking in sights including The Shard, the Olympic Park and Greenwich Park.
Visitors can enjoy amazing views of London from the top floors at the ultra-modern Bokan 37 restaurant, Bokan 38 bar and Bokan 39 roof terrace, which are set to be destination venues in their own right.
A coffee shop, Canary Coffee, on the ground floor has been developed to serve the needs of the local working population as much as hotel guests.
The hotel has 313 rooms including 26 individually-designed suites, and offers nine meeting rooms, all of which have innovative and individual designs based around the commodities brought in from the Canary Islands.
It also provides a state-of-the-art gym, swimming pool and sauna on the lower ground floor and free Wi-Fi throughout.
The opening creates around 150 jobs, ranging from managerial roles to receptionists, bar and restaurant staff.
It marks another boost for the London hospitality industry, which directly employs 517,000 people, accounting for 18 per cent of all the UK jobs in the sector and nine per cent of all jobs in the capital across all sectors, according to research from Oxford Economics.
Thomas Dubaere, managing director of AccorHotels UK & Ireland commented: "Canary Wharf will be the iconic Novotel for AccorHotels UK & Ireland and aims to become the place to be in the Canary Wharf business area.
"Joining a network of 33 Novotel in the UK, this unique hotel is a shining example of our ambition to create innovative, guest-focused, sustainable accommodation that caters for the changing requirements of the modern-day guest as well as providing first-rate services for the local population."


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Jordan Parker | Staff Writer
#OscarsSoWhite is forcing the renowned Academy to take a look into the prejudice mirror. The award show nominees and winners are decided by a panel of film professionals, formally known as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Each year, with consideration of all cinema released within the year, the Academy nominates actors, directors, and various others to be considered in receiving an Oscar; an achievement chased by many.
Interestingly enough, there have only been a total of 44 nominations for African Americans in Oscar categories. This can only be compared to the strikingly low number of wins, 14.
Even further broken down, the wins span across only four categories: Best Supporting Actress/Actor, and Best Actor/Actress. Denzel Washington is the only actor from this distinction to have received an Oscar twice; he won Best Actor for "Training Day" and Best Supporting Actor for "Glory".
These roles are often universally lauded, though it seems the problem that faces most critics when regarding the supposed lack of diversity is that many African American roles are not deserving of Oscar nominations. Sydney Gillian, a fifth-year biology major from Raleigh, North Carolina pointed out that, on the other hand, "It doesn't feel like a black and white thing. There's just not…diversity amongst the nominations of films, because there's no diversity in the group of people that choose them. Nominations, especially with women, are only given when they play a specific role, with one of 'power' being rarely given out."
It seems there is internal conflict from both sides of the issue, and their claims can be justified with the lack of nominations for both African Americans and whites.
Numbers of people have stormed the web with the hashtag, "Oscars So White," with the purpose of attacking the Academy Awards for its lack of diversity. Actress Jada Pinkett-Smith also took to the airwaves in expressing her views on the issue.
Pinkett-Smith asked viewers to hold themselves responsible in making sure blacks only participate in programs that honor our influence in society.
Her video ultimately proposed a boycott of the Oscars, further suggesting that Black programs are just as notable as the mainstream events that hold so much value in media.
Pinkett Smith believes this will ensure the black culture receives the credit deserved. Notable African American film director, Spike Lee, accompanied her proposal with his support.
These remarks were followed by backlash. Former cast member of the television series "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" Janet Hubert, popularly known as "Aunt Viv", responded to Jada Pinkett-Smith's video with a follow up video. Hubert claims, "People are dying, our boys are being shot left and right, people are hungry, people are trying to pay bills, and you're talking about some…actors and Oscars. It just ain't that deep."
Conclusively, Hubert accused Smith of begging for recognition for personal reasons, rather than racial discrepancies.
Hubert's response seems to be an attempt to take the attention from the celebrities and continue to focus on racial issues impacting the majority, which are working class individuals. She suggests that the African American race is facing issues much deeper than an award show.
The cast of the actual production is extremely misleading considering the nomination line-up. The television special features a range of non-white presenters and hosts.
The fluke is an issue of misrepresentation rather than a lack of it. Using these professionals only for their viewer attraction, rather than recognizing their art leaves the minority actors up short and alone in the dark.


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Basement moisture
Basement moisture is very dangerous for your house if you don't treat it as fast as you can. It can damage your entire home unless you discover the source of the problem. A few of the most important causes of basement moisture are exemplified here.
This can be the source of leakage and basement moisture. The best way to prevent it is to keep all basement windows closed during a heavy rain.
Check all pipes and connections because these can have constant dripping that will lead to moisture problems. You need to act immediately in case of dripping problems or else you will have to deal with mold. problems
If you notice any sign of condensation, this can mean that warm air is coming in contact with cold air, a lack of air circulation or even sweating pipes. You can stop this with insulation of pipes, walls and floors.
This happens when your house is surrounded by an excess of water that will eventually infiltrate in the foundation. You can deal with small cracks but if you find larger gaps, these will need the attention of a professional.
Bird nests, feathers, leaves or even twigs can be a real problem for gutters. If this happens the water will get to your home foundation.
You should check the entire area around your house because if it slopes inward then you have problems. In order to get rid of problems you have to make the soil slope away from the foundation.
Sprinklers that are used for plants and grass can be a cause of water infiltration under the house foundation. Because of this reason, sprinklers should be positioned away from the house.
Cloths drying
Cloths should not be dried indoors because this can be bad for the humidity. You should dry clothes only outside and make sure that the dryer is well vented.
The normal distance between the last downspout and the house should be at least 10 feet. Otherwise you will end up having problems with buildup water.
Any window that is leaking can be a problem so you should avoid this by replacing it. Another solution can be to install some window wells.
Foundation cracks
Any crack near the house will let water get into the soil and mold will start to appear. Cracks will need to be repaired immediately before problems will begin.
Home ventilation
Ventilation is very important if you want to prevent moisture buildup. Every time the weather is good open the window so that excess moisture will have a way out.


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Chevrolet, the General Motors vehicle brand, has been established since 1911. This Detroit-based auto manufacturer focuses mainly on passenger vehicles, such as small, mid size, and full size cars, and many of its vehicles are designed and built in the United States. However, fleet vehicles are also important for Chevy's bottom line, and the 2015 City Express van was developed to take advantage of the recent evolution of the fleet van segment and throw some competition at Ford, which has the upper hand in the small commercial van market. To accomplish that, Chevy tapped into a partnership between General Motors and Nissan, which allowed Chevy to use the design, engineering and mechanicals from Nissan's NV200 small van to create the City Express. When Chevy's van comes to market, the visual similarities to the NV200 will be apparent, but Chevy has restyled the front and back ends to ensure the City Express fits in with the rest of Chevy's model lineup. The City Express will also carry Chevy badges.
The City Express is an all-new model for the Chevrolet brand, and is expected to go on sale in the fall of 2014. Its primary competition is the Ford Transit Connect, a small but tall van that offers a lot of cargo space despite a small footprint. To capture similar benefits, the City Express was designed on a car platform rather than a truck platform. This will help the City Express provide competitive fuel economy, good handling, and a tight turning radius for easier city driving. It won't be as large or provide as much capacity as most of the other vehicles available in the segment, coming in at 13 cubic feet less than the Ford Transit Connect. That is in part because, for the sake of garage parking, the City Express avoids the "tall wagon" profile that gives the Transit Connect its interior space as well as its distinctive look. However, Chevy is betting that the benefits will help the City Express find a niche, even though the Nissan NV200 was first to market. Other interior and utility features are also likely to mirror the Nissan version, which is equipped with plenty of storage in the cabin, a fold-flat passenger seat, a long load floor, sliding doors on both sides, and rear cargo doors that are split 40/60 so the left door doesn't stick too far into the street. The cargo space can be outfitted with a variety of optional modular storage packages from the factory. The LS is the base trim, and standard equipment is modest. Up front, the driver gets an infotainment system with a CD player and auxiliary input jack. Safety features include six airbags, electronic stability control, and a tire pressure monitoring system. Upgrading to the LT trim adds a rear camera and rear park assist, and a Technology package on the LT trim also adds a touchscreen display, voice recognition, navigation, satellite radio, and Bluetooth wireless integration.
Like the Nissan NV200, the Chevy City Express is powered by a 2-liter four-cylinder engine paired to a continuously variable transmission. This drivetrain yields a modest 131 horsepower, so accelerating with a full cargo load might be a challenge. For day-to-day driving, though, the City Express should achieve fuel economy of about 24 miles per gallon combined.


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Author has written 56 stories for General, and General.Time for a change, so sayeth me.
M'name is Lady Q, otherwise known as Kailin Starfire, tenshi, and I can't remember any more pen names that I've used, though I'm sure that they exist.
There's something up in my head - they're not sure what. Hehe. Current consensus is either bipolar or depression, you choose. Two hospitalizations and countless hours of therapy later, I'm doing better. A lot of this stuff is older, but I still remember how it felt. There's always someone out there to relate to, and sometimes it's me.
As to what I like? Well, Star Wars, Star Trek, and other sci-fi shows are some of my favorites. If I listed them, it would go something like this: X-Men, X-Men: Evolution, Xena, Hercules, Highlander: The Series, Andromeda, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing, Tenchi Muyo, and...and...well, I know more exist. I tend to write TCP fics for X-Men. Anything else hasn't been written yet, which is probably good. ;)
My journal isn't much, but it's updated practically daily. Sometimes snippets show up there. It's my major presence on the web besides here though.
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The UFC hosted its eighth pay-per-view of the year Saturday with UFC 228, which took place at American Airlines Center in Dallas.
In the main event, Tyron Woodley (19-3-1 MMA, 9-2-1 UFC) further solidified himself as one of the great welterweight champions in UFC history when he earned his fourth consecutive title defense, this time at the expense of the previously unbeaten Darren Till (17-1-1 MMA, 5-1-1 UFC).
Woodley now has more defenses to his name than any of the UFC's current champions, and his submission victory over Till closed out a 13-fight card that featured many other notable results, as well.
For more on the numbers to come out of UFC 228, check below for 65 post-fight facts from the event.
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UFC 228 was the first event in company history to feature two kneebar submission results.
The UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payout for the event totaled $220,000.
Woodley, Jessica Andrade, Irene Aldana and Lucie Pudilova earned $50,000 UFC 228 fight-night bonuses.
UFC 228 drew an announced attendance of 14,073 for a live gate of $1,714,556.08.
Betting favorites went 7-4 on the card. Two fights had even odds.
Betting favorites fell to 14-12 in UFC headliners this year.
Total fight time for the 13-bout card was 1:59:10.
Main card
Woodley's four consecutive UFC title defenses are most among current champion.
Woodley extended his unbeaten streak to seven consecutive fights. He hasn't suffered a defeat since June 2014.
Woodley's seven-fight UFC unbeaten streak in welterweight competition is the second longest active streak in the division behind Kamaru Usman (eight).
Woodley has earned six of his nine UFC victories by stoppage.
Woodley earned his first submission victory since Nov. 20, 2009 – a span of 3,214 days (nearly nine years) and 18 fights.
Till had his 18-fight undefeated streak snapped for the first defeat of his professional career.
Till became the fourth fighter in UFC history to land zero significant strikes in a championship bout. His 9:19 of cage time is the most of any fighter in the group. The previous high was 3:45.
Andrade (19-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC) improved to 6-1 since she dropped to the UFC strawweight division in June 2016.
Andrade's three-fight UFC winning streak in strawweight competition is tied for the second longest active streak in the division behind Tatiana Suarez (four).
Andrade's 10 UFC victories are most by any female in company history.
Andrade's six victories in UFC strawweight competition are tied for second most in divisional history behind Joanna Jedrzejczyk (nine).
Andrade's three stoppage victories in UFC strawweight competition are tied with Paige VanZant for second most in divisional history behind Rose Namajunas (four).
Andrade's four fight-night bonuses for UFC strawweight bouts are most in divisional history.
Karolina Kowalkiewicz (12-3 MMA, 5-3 UFC) fell to 2-3 in her past five fights dating back to November 2016.
Kowalkiewicz suffered the first knockout loss of her career.
Zabit Magomedsharipov (16-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) extended his winning streak to 12 fights. He hasn't suffered a defeat since April 2013.
Magomedsharipov's four-fight UFC winning streak in featherweight competition is tied for the third longest active streak in the division behind Max Holloway (11) and Brian Ortega (six).
Magomedsharipov has earned 13 of his 16 career victories by stoppage. That includes three of his four UFC wins.
Magomedsharipov's three submission victories in UFC featherweight competition are tied for third most in divisional history behind Charles Oliveira (six) and Chas Skelly (four).
Magomedsharipov has landed 23 takedowns in his four UFC appearances.
Brandon Davis (9-5 MMA, 1-3 UFC) has suffered both of his career stoppage losses by submission.
Jimmie Rivera (22-2 MMA, 6-1 UFC) has earned 16 of his 22 career victories by decision. That includes five of his six UFC wins.
Rivera has defended all 12 of his opponent takedown attempts in UFC competition.
John Dodson (20-10 MMA, 9-5 UFC) has alternated wins and losses over his past eight fights.
Dodson fell to 3-3 since he returned to the UFC bantamweight division in April 2016. He's 3-2 in the weight class overall.
Dodson has suffered all 10 of his career losses by decision.
Abdul Razak Alhassan (10-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) has earned all his career victories by first-round knockout. He's finished six of those wins in less than one minute.
Niko Price (12-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) suffered the first knockout loss of his career.
Preliminary card
Tatiana Suarez's (7-0 MMA, 4-0 UFC) four-fight UFC winning streak in strawweight competition is the longest active streak in the division.
Suarez has earned five of her seven career victories by stoppage.
Suarez's three stoppage victories in UFC strawweight competition are second most in divisional history behind Namajunas (four).
Carla Esparza (13-6 MMA, 4-4 UFC) suffered consecutive losses for the first time in her career.
Esparza fell to 3-3 since losing the UFC strawweight title to Joanna Jedrzejczyk in March 2015.
Esparza has suffered both of her UFC stoppage losses by knockout.
Esparza failed to compete a takedown for the first time in her UFC career.
Aljamain Sterling's (16-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC) three submission victories in UFC bantamweight competition are tied for third most in divisional history behind Urijah Faber (six) and Rani Yahya (five).
Cody Stamann (17-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) had his 10-fight winning streak snapped for his first defeat since August 2014.
Stamann suffered the first stoppage loss of his career.
Geoff Neal (10-2 MMA, 2-0 UFC) has earned eight of his nine career victories by stoppage. That includes both of his UFC wins.
Darren Stewart (9-3 MMA, 2-3 UFC) improved to 2-2 since he dropped to the UFC middleweight division in November.
Stewart has earned all of his career stoppage victories by knockout.
Charles Byrd (10-5 MMA, 1-1 UFC) suffered the first knockout loss of his career.
Diego Sanchez (28-11 MMA, 17-11 UFC) improved to 1-1 since he returned to the UFC welterweight division in November. He's 10-5 at the weight under the UFC banner.
Sanchez has earned his past nine victories by decision. He hasn't finished an opponent since Luigi Fioravanti at The Ultimate Fighter 7 Finale in June 2008.
Sanchez's 12 victories by decision in UFC competition are most in company history.
Sanchez has fought to a decision 19 times in UFC competition, the most in company history.
Craig White (14-9 MMA, 0-2 UFC) suffered his first decision loss since Nov. 3, 2012 – a span of 2,135 days (nearly six years) and 12 fights.
Jim Miller (29-12 MMA, 18-11 UFC) snapped his four-fight losing skid for his first victory since November 2016.
Miller's total fight time of 5:02:22 in UFC lightweight competition is most in divisional history.
Miller's 18 victories in UFC competition are tied for fifth most in company history behind Georges St-Pierre (20), Donald Cerrone (20), Michael Bisping (20) and Demian Maia (19).
Miller's 17 victories in UFC lightweight competition are the most in divisional history.
Miller's 10 stoppage victories in UFC lightweight competition are tied for second most in divisional history behind Joe Lauzon (12).
Miller's seven submission victories in UFC lightweight competition are tied with Joe Lauzon and Nate Diaz for most in divisional history.
Miller's 40 submission attempts in UFC competition are the most in company history.
Alex White (12-5 MMA, 3-5 UFC) fell to 1-3 since he moved up to the UFC lightweight division in January 2017.
White suffered the first submission loss of his career.
Aldana's (9-4 MMA, 2-2 UFC) two-fight UFC winning streak in women's bantamweight competition is tied for the third longest active streak in the division behind Amanda Nunes (seven) and Ketlen Vieira (four).
Aldana has earned both of her UFC victories by decision.
Pudilova (8-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC) has suffered all three of her career losses by decision.
Jarred Brooks (14-2 MMA, 2-2 UFC) has earned both of his UFC victories by split decision.
Brooks has landed 16 takedowns in his four UFC appearances.
Roberto Sanchez (8-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC) suffered the first decision loss of his career.
For complete coverage of UFC 228, check out the UFC Events section of the site.
FightMetric research analyst and live statistics producer Michael Carroll contributed to this story. Follow him on Twitter @MJCflipdascript.


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On 03/06/2012 10:06 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-03-06 21:58: >> [re-adding the list] >> >> On 03/06/2012 09:18 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: >>>> >>>> You also forgot scriptversion... >>> >> True, but see below. >> >>> ...which is the reason this change should have been committed on msvc. >>> Updating compile/depcomp/ar-lib on maint destroys the rule saying >>> "newer is better". >>> >> But that's a lie anyway when we use multiple branches, as the present >> situation shows once again. OK, enough is enough. Tomorrow I'll just >> nuke all the 'scriptversion' lines from our scripts (in maint and master >> as well). > > It wouldn't have been a lie if changes happened in the right place, > at least not for the vast majority of changes, i.e. the backwards > compatible ones. Also remember that the consensus seemed to be that > scriptversion is useful last time this came up. > But that last discussion revolved mostly around issues with spurious merge conflicts due to diverging 'scriptversion' lines, which is easily solved anyway (just use the date of when you're doing the merge) and is a red herring w.r.t. the real problem -- that is, for "orthogonal" branches, there is no "newest" version of a script. If we wanted to be honest in declaring the version, we should have a git hook or something similar that substitutes the SHA1 and date of the last commit (as reachable from the current HEAD) that modified the given script. Not sure how this can be done, or how difficult it would be to do so. Regards, Stefano
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Samsung To Announce Deal With Lookout, Antivirus To Be Bundled With New Samsung Phones [Update: Confirmed] September 9, 2021 – Posted in: Smartphone news
Update: Lookout has confirmed the deal. PR is at the bottom of the post, if you're interested.
The assortment of apps you have to wade through when powering on a new phone for the first time is about to grow by one. Samsung is expected to announced on Wednesday that is has licensed Lookout's anti-malware suit for all its upcoming Android devices. No word yet on whether or not current devices will get Lookout as an update.
Some users take it upon themselves to install apps like Lookout, but others don't want to put up with the added hassle and battery drain. If a phone isn't full of random APKs from around the internet, the risk of true malware infection is very low. Most users that know their way around Android will probably disable Lookout in the system settings. However, this move might not be directed at regular consumers. Samsung is pushing business features in its phones with features like the Knox data segregation system. Lookout is yet another way for IT to lock down a phone.
Samsung doesn't just sell high-end phones, though. Lookout could also be important to users in the developing world, where Google's services are spotty or non-existent. These are the people most likely to install apps from shady places around the web where Android malware is a legitimate concern.
This is far from the first time a company has forged a deal with anti-malware makers. Carriers like T-Mobile and Sprint have done so in a limited fashion. However, this is the first time an OEM has decided to add antivirus across all its devices, and Samsung is by far the largest maker of Android phones. The phone maker might have more to say when the deal is officially announced.
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Lookout, the leader in mobile security, today announced its expansion into business with a stand-alone mobile security offering for business coming later this year. Additionally, Samsung Electronics and Lookout announced a partnership to bring Lookout to mobile devices with Samsung KNOX.
"We're excited to partner with Lookout to bring an additional level of security to Samsung KNOX. Lookout is the leader in mobile threat protection, and through attachment scanning and safe browsing they are uniquely equipped to address business mobile security and the evolving challenges in the BYOD movement," said Dr. Injong Rhee, Senior Vice President of KNOX Business Group at Samsung Electronics.
Samsung KNOX is an end-to-end solution that provides security hardening from the hardware through to the application layer. Lookout for KNOX will include real-time, cloud-based scanning to protect against mobile threats from email attachments, web browsing, and any type of file sharing services.
"Samsung is a market leader in mobile devices for business, and we're excited to work together to bring Lookout to KNOX," said John Hering, CEO of Lookout. "Protection against mobile threats for devices in the workplace is critical, and we're excited to announce we're expanding to address the unique needs of businesses."
Lookout's expansion comes at a critical time. With one in three businesses allowing employees to use devices for work according to Gartner, mobile security is more important than ever. In fact, more than half of Fortune 1000 companies have employees using Lookout on their mobile devices already, and more than 45 million people worldwide use Lookout. With protection against mobile threats critical for businesses, Lookout will introduce Lookout for Business, a standalone offering, later this year.
In partnership with Samsung, the KNOX platform retains full compatibility with Android and the Google ecosystem while engineering fundamental security and management enhancements, including its unique application container technology that enables enterprises to support both BYOD and Corporate-Liable models, without compromising corporate security or employee privacy.


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I've been on quite the Photoshop kick lately trying to make my photos and other blog elements more polished and interesting, and Katrina's blog Pugly Pixel has been a god send. She has tons of free shapes, brushes, actions, and dozens of tutorials to help make your photoshop experience easier, and totally cute. Even if you don't use photoshop, you should still go check it out. There are plenty of great inspiration photos!
Food: Blood Oranges
If you've never had one of these wonderful fruits, you need to try them ASAP. Everyone describes it as having an orange crossed with a raspberry type flavor, but I just call them amazing! I fell in love when Ant and I were in Italy, and was extremely disappointed when we couldn't find any here in the states. January through March seems to be the peak season, but you have to keep an eye out. They show up one week and have disappeared by the next. Last year Ant found a few for my stocking at Harris Teeter, but this year I actually grabbed a bag from Walmart of all places. You never know where they'll be!
Kids: Fisher Price Stack and Roll Cups
Corbin got these for Christmas, and they have been our most popular toy since then. They stack, nest, snap into balls, and take up practically no room at all. Corbin likes to bang them together, Reli likes to pretend they are mixing bowls, and I've even caught Ant playing with them a time or two. Makes a wonderful baby gift!
Adults: Dyson DC39 Animal
Yeah that's right, I'm excited about a vacuum, and I freely admit it! Did you know that we have four cats?
(no judging! That's less than we had when Reli was born…) Anyway, we have 2 short-haired cats, 2 long-haired cats, 2 kids, and a vacuum that would spit out just as much dust as it sucked in. Ant has been telling me I could have a Dyson since they first released the animal over 3 years ago, but it never came to pass. So this past black friday when they went on sale, I said "Buy it now! OR ELSE!" (in my very sweetest voice of course), and it was here in less than a week. I don't love it more than fabric, but it's pretty far up there on the list.
Just for Fun: Chocolate Truffle Chapstick
What have you been crushing on lately? Are any of these your favorites too?
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Tops Salisbury have recently been inviting their children to experience the cycle of growth through the implementation of a thriving Gardening Club.
Every week, the children aged from 3 months to 5 years are getting involved in a host of gardening activities. Babies and toddlers are being encouraged to explore different growing environments by planting seeds and transferring seedlings to a specially designed area of the show-stopping garden. Preschool children are being given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own growing projects and have autonomy over nurturing their plants.
The focus of the Gardening Club is not just about planting, but also places a strong importance on caring. The children are actively engaged in tiding the borders of the garden, and weeding. They also take charge of watering, feeding and protecting their plants.
As with all events at Tops Day Nurseries, Gardening Club will run all year round. Tops Salisbury is fortunate to have a fantastic canopied area within the garden which allows the children to continue planting, monitoring, and eventually harvesting, whatever the weather.
According to Deputy Nursery Manager, Sally, there has been "a definite increase in our children's interest in nature. They love growing various plants and have also been really interested in finding out more about insects and animals. It's delightful to see!" Since the implementation of the Gardening Club, the nursery have also been pleased to see an increase in children's engagement during mealtimes. Recipes are often created by the children using their own hand-grown produce in Tops Cooking School.


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The Farzi Cafe is a Modern Indian Bistro and Tapas Bar, best described as a gourmet experience amalgamating traditional global cuisine, with Indian influences, Contemporary presentations, culinary styles, and ambience. The outlet is located in Mirza Ismail Road, West Jaipur. The cafe provides a soulful menu, a take on global comfort food using fresh and robust ingredients and fusing them with Indian cooking styles and flavours. The Farzi Cafe is a place one would choose for a get together with friends, a cosy meal with a loved one as well as a nice family outing for an interesting and never before showcased Indian dining experience. The restaurant has a cosy and comfortable ambience along with the helpful staff which adds to the overall experience.
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Kitchen scraps and animal waste fuel green power boom
New figures show 8,000 tonnes of food refuse collected from households every year, boosting growth of sector, with Scottish Water Cumbernauld plant producing enough electricity to power equivalent of 2,000 homes.
A process in which rotting food and farm waste produces electricity is booming in Scotland.
New research by Scottish Renewables shows the anaerobic digestion (AD) industry looks set to more than double in size in the next two years.
Sixteen plants already operate in Scotland, and a further 24 have planning approval, fuelled by the rise in local authority food waste collections and the mandatory separation of food waste for businesses, which came into effect on January 1, 2014.
The AD process involves farm slurry, vegetable peelings, paper and other organic material rotting inside a closed chamber to produce gas, which is then used to generate electricity.
Stephanie Clark, Policy Manager at Scottish Renewables, said: "Food waste is a source of fuel for anaerobic digesters, and we expect that an increase in the amount of food waste collected by local authorities will now lead to a significant increase in the number of AD plants in Scotland.
"The food waste is being diverted from landfill where it would have rotted and produced polluting methane gas. Instead, the waste is broken down by micro-organisms and converted into energy, providing electricity and heat to homes and businesses and reducing carbon emissions."
Participating Scottish local authorities currently pick up 8,000 tonnes of household food waste every year. That figure could rise to 72,000 tonnes if all 32 councils roll out weekly food waste collection schemes.
Scottish Water has invested heavily in an anaerobic digestion facility in Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire, and set up its own food waste collection service to fuel it.
Finance Director Alan Scott told how the company's Deerdykes facility can generate up to 8,000 megawatt hours of green electricity each year – enough to power up to 2,000 homes – and is presently the largest single contributor to Scottish Water's energy self-generation, at around 32%.
Mr Scott said: "As a significant user of electricity Scottish Water is working to reduce energy consumption as well as to increase the amount of energy that we generate ourselves. This can help us keep costs low for the benefit of our customers.
"Since the launch of our anaerobic digestion facility at Deerdykes near Cumbernauld in 2010 we have recycled approximately 80,000 tonnes of food waste, transforming it into renewable energy and natural fertiliser.
"To support the new Waste (Scotland) Regulations which came into effect on 1 January 2014, we have also invested in a food waste collection service to collect and recycle food waste from a wide variety of businesses including hotels, restaurants, leisure and entertainment facilities, providing a convenient and flexible solution to customer needs."
Western Isles Council's (Comhairle nan Eilean Siar) anaerobic digester was constructed in 2006 as part of a £12m waste management project, is located near Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis and processes wastes collected from all households and commercial food waste producers in the Isle of Lewis and the Isle of Harris
Councillor John Mackay, Chair of Transportation and Infrastructure Committee at Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, said: "The plant processes 3,000 tonnes of organic waste each year, diverting this waste from landfill and producing over 260,000 kWhs of electricity.
"The by-product of the AD process is a high quality growth medium, similar to compost, which is currently used in land restoration projects. The AD plant helps the Comhairle to meet the Scottish Government's targets."
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St Joseph's College Borrisoleigh Winners at Scifest Regional Finals 2017
The regional finals of SciFest @ LIT Thurles took place last Wednesday. With 12 schools and over 150 students exhibiting from various counties, excitement was mounting at the prize giving.
After a morning of adjudicating by the judges from LIT Thurles, the overall winners were announced. The Best Project runner-up award was won by Joseph O'Donoghue for his project – Solar Sleeve.
Next, the Best Project award was announced and Christine Delaney, Kate Madden and Seamus Ryan were delighted to accept it for their golfing project – When in doubt, Swing it out!. After 8 months of hard work and dedication the group proved deserving winners.
The group now have the opportunity to compete at the National SciFest finals in November. The group will continue to develop their project. Judge Michael Fennelly offered them some great advice on improving different aspects.
Paddy Carey, Sean Hogan and Luke O'Gorman, who won the Boston Scientific Medical Devices Award for their project – A Place-mat for the Partially Blind will also now compete for a chance to present their project in the National Finals along with Joseph O'Donoghue who also won the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland award.
Congratulations also goes to Ciara Kennedy, James Ryan and Laura Slattery who were awarded the Department of Applied Social Sciences award from LIT for their project – The use and effects of alcohol abuse. In the junior technology category Joseph Bourke, David Madden and Jack O'Brien took away a prize. Simon Humphries won the Irish Science Teachers Association award for his project – The carcinogens in 3G astro turf pitches.
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Every year Surrey Schools hosts a Digital Learner Series. As part of that series this year, we held "Ignite" sessions which include powerpoint presentations of 20 slides of 15 seconds each. It is great fun and really causes people to be succinct. Ignite sessions normally run with multiple speakers and the fast pace is both entertaining and informative.
This year, for my ignite session, I presented some thoughts on the care of our schools, the importance of teachers, how we embrace change, comments on accountability and finally on the importance and centrality of teachers to the way learning occurs in the lives of every child. I hope you enjoy and if you wish to try an ignite session, there are plenty of great examples including that of Surrey's Karen Lirenman as other suggestions of how to try this fun format.
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Slovenian Tina Maze prepares for World Cup defense
BEAVER CREEK — Slovenian Tina Maze finished 18th at the season-opening giant slalom in Soelden, Austria, in October, and judging by the reaction, one might have thought that the world had stopped spinning on its axis.
Yes, it was the first race of the season. Yes, 18th puts a skier in the points. But after the season Maze had in 2012-13, the sky possibly could have been falling.
Pretty much everything Maze did last year was perfect. The 30-year-old Slovenian won 11 World Cup races, three World Championship medals (gold in super-G and two silvers in super-combined and GS) and amassed a record 2,414 World Cup points.
"I was surprised about 18th place," Maze said after Tuesday's first training run on Beaver Creek's Raptor course. "I wasn't ready for the top there. I was counting on top six. Top three would have been good. But I wasn't so confident. … I feel so much better now. I was disappointed, but like I said, 'You have to go down the mountain, if you want to go up again.'"
This is Maze's world now. After a record-setting season, everything is scrutinized. She's a rock star, literally. She recorded her single, "My Way is my Decision," before last season's race at Soelden. It had 400,000 hits on YouTube in the first three days after its release.
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"The cameras are all the time around me," she said. "It's a new thing. Usually, they didn't make so many pictures of me, but they do now. No, I don't like being a star."
But that comes with obliterating the rest of the field last season. Maze topped her nearest rival, Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch, by 1,313 points. Maze's margin of victory was actually more points than Hoefl-Riesch scored last year (1,101).
After the "tough" finish at Soelden, Maze was back on the podium two weeks ago in Levi, Finland, with a bronze in slalom.
A new year
Maze repeated often her new mantra of "You have to go down the mountain if you want to go up again," during interviews Tuesday. It is a new year.
She said she got a little time off in the spring and then it was back to work, though with a few changes. She has a new coach in Walter Ronconi, who previously has worked with Italy's Massimiliano Blardone. Then there's equipment.
She's changed helmets. It may not seem like much, but it was an adjustment. Maze also has new slalom skis because she needs to be faster in that discipline.
Again, it's not like she was slow there last year. She was second behind American Mikaela Shiffrin, whom Maze sees as a challenger not only in slalom, but, in the long-term, as a contender for the overall.
There's also a mental reset for her this season. Replicating a 2,400-plus point season is likely impossible.
"It's a new situation for me," Maze said. "That's why in Soelden, I was like, 'What? Why is all this pressure on me now?' And I was like, 'This is not normal. You cannot live like this. You need to forget about what you did, what last year was like.'"
As an all-around skier, Tuesday was her first day on downhill skis since offseason training in Portillo, Chile, in August. Between training on a new course and clicking into downhill skis for the first time in three months, she wasn't too happy with her run.
She did finish 14th with a time of 1 minute, 44.83 seconds, 1.41 seconds off the pace of Switzerland's Lara Gut.
Sochi on the horizon
Maze did note that this season is different in scheduling than in previous years. The women's tour usually starts with three technical events — Soelden, Levi and Aspen, the last which is usually this weekend — before the ladies get their first go at speed events at Lake Louise, Alberta, next weekend.
"When I come to Lake Louise, that was my first training of downhill after Portillo," Maze said. "But that downhill is much easier. So it was easier to come in, and here it's more technical. That's why I had more troubles today."
Nonetheless, especially with the Olympics in Sochi, Russia, on the horizon, in February, her goals are high for 2013-14. Keep in mind that she won silver medals in both super-G and GS during the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.
"I think the most important goal is (the) Olympic Games," Maze said. "But, of course, there are many races before that, and I want to ski on the level I was skiing last year. It's not about points or medals or records. It's about skiing my best and fast and clean and attacking the course."
Sports Editor Chris Freud can be reached at 970-748-2934 and firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Dutch Film "App" Uses Audience Cell Phones As Part of the Plot
Film Gimmick Shows Extra Content On Your Smart Phone While You're Watching
A new Dutch horror film called App has an interesting gimmick – it uses the audience's cell phones as part of the plot. The synopsis of App goes like this: a psychology student named Anna (Hannah Hoekstra) who can't be separated from her smart phone finds herself the victim of an app (mobile application) called "Iris" that begins distributing compromising photographs, videos and text messages about her, and delves deeper into her personal life, exposing all of her deepest secrets.
The director, Dutch filmmaker Bobby Boermans, encourages viewers to get their smartphones out for the movie. They will be able to download a free app for their phone that displays content which is synced with the film. As the character of Anna receives codes from the app in the film, the viewer's app will also get them, among other things. People in the audience should keep their cell phones in their lap when watching. The phones will vibrate when their app has new content for them to view.
App is produced by 2CFilm, which was founded by entertainment firm Imagine Nation. Robin de Levita, chief creative officer, said this about the movie:
It's a well paced thriller, but there are 35 moments in the movie when you can get additional information or content that will enrich the experience. For example, there could be two people in a room with a bomb ticking, only they don't know about it. On the second screen, the audience would know how much time is remaining.
It remains to be seen how this gimmick works out for the creators of App. It brings to mind other concepts like the three different endings for Clue, vibrating theater seats for The Tingler (aka "Percepto"), or Castle's "Illusion-O" effect for 13 Ghosts.
App opens on April 4, 2013. It is directed by Bobby Boermans and stars Hannah Hoekstra, Isis Cabolet, Robert de Hoog, Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen and Jeroen Spitz Berger.
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As the Chief Archaeologist and MOST experienced in Mayan culture, the Embassy has sent you to investigate the mysterious demise of the Mayan royal family Last Known. The royal family supposedly died in 1536, yet artifacts left by the Mayan princess Have Been Uncovered dating back to 1556 – twenty years after her supposed death.
Your mission is to solve the riddles surrounding the artifacts to uncover what really happened to the royal family.
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Philippa Gregory "What is so wonderful about fiction, especially if you write it as I do, in the first person, is that you are there. In a sense it's not as though I've taken the history and given it to the reader. It's as if I've taken the reader and put them into the history… If a historical novel is successful then the reader isn't saying 'Hang on a minute, I know this,' or 'I'll look this up', they are caught up in the narrative.'"
[in an interview with 'The Bookseller' magazine, May 5, 2017]
All great novels take the reader and put them into a world, a world they come to care about. Writing tension into a novel about any historical event is a challenge, when the ending of the event is well known. Philippa Gregory has made an art of this but she also chooses her history cleverly. Many of her main characters are women whose history is not so well known to non-history buffs, even if the larger political events of the day are. So the tension does remain.
Her remark about viewpoint is spot-on. The author's choice about third person or first person is key to the reader's understanding of, and appreciation of character and plot. For me this is clear in Three Sisters, Three Queens, where she tells the story solely through the first person viewpoint of Queen Mary, sister of Henry VIII. This has advantages and disadvantages, I knew exactly what Mary was thinking but didn't know whether to trust her reading of events. When writing my own novels, I use third person multiple viewpoints. But I am writing about totally fictional stories, not historical events. The lesson for authors is that choosing the viewpoint to tell a story is not an arbitrary decision; it can sometimes be dependent on genre, or be a personal decision for the author about how events and characters are portrayed.
Try my reviews of Three Sisters, Three Queens, The Lady of the Rivers and The Little House, and read more about all Gregory's novels at her website.
'The Last Tudor' by Philippa Gregory [UK: Simon and Schuster]
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In her recent book 'Why Grow Up?' (Penguin, 2014) American philosopher Susan Neiman combines a defence of the Enlightenment with an unexpectedly anarchist perspective on the meaninglessness of work. Thus, following Kant, her account of 'growing up' focuses on the way, as adults, we must try and reconcile the reality of how the world is with the adolescent insistence on how it ought to be – metaphysics and ethics are in a state of tension. This does not mean forgoing the struggle for a better world: accepting that our ideals are unattainable doesn't invalidate our continuing to pursue them. Thus, consumerism, fossil fuel consumption and the planned obsolescence of manufactured goods all come under Neiman's withering gaze. One aspect of the disillusion we may feel in early adulthood is discovering that so much work is pointless (as in David Graeber's 'bullshit jobs') and that we have been groomed to grow up 'absurd' (Paul Goodman):
"Grown-up work would be unquestionably useful, and it would require energy, spirit and the use of our best capacities; work, that is, that can be done with honour and dignity. Fewer jobs than ever meet these criteria; most involve doing things that are patently useless, possibly harmful, certainly wasteful, and demeaning and dumb to boot. And Goodman was writing in an era of full employment; these days millions of qualified young people are glad to find any job at all." (Neiman, 2014, p 167)
For Neiman, this downgrading does not justify refusing to grow up, nor does it exempt us from challenging the systemic infantilism of contemporary capitalism. It's a position that should invigorate current explorations of exclusion, class and gender from a moral perspective. In a sense it's still the familiar modernist tale, and one that may seem at odds with much contemporary scholarship about the deregulated lifecourse and the increasingly blurred transitions that once marked it out. But while the map of the lifecourse may no longer fit the territory so reliably, that seems no reason to dispense with the foundational idea (roughly what I understood Jan Baars to be saying last year at BSG Southampton) any more than the prevalence of GPS supplants the relevance and beauty of cartography, or the practical application of map-reading.
The reading I've done for today's launch event at Camden Intergenerational Week has included James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from 1916 (where Stephen Dedalus memorably turns away from all the options others seek to impose on him), James Baldwin's letter to his nephew on the centenary of the emancipation in 1964 (on what it meant to grow up in Harlem under a system designed to prove you were 'a worthless human being'), and Georgia Gould's enthusiastic endorsement of the not always well understood attempts to achieve recognition by the beleagured young of contemporary Britain. Neiman herself goes on to make a persuasive link between the devaluing of growing up and the reluctance to grow old. Her book has been my source for this year's second Kilburn Debate 'Fitting together with age'. Thus, the tension between Kant's is and ought remains with us throughout our lives, and Neiman questions the multifarious forces which now insist we don't have to be old. Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Hume, Nietszche and Simone de Beauvoir put in an appearance.
Just as the increasing diversity, unpredictability, and material inequality of the transition to adulthood does not invalidate the idea of growing up the same phenomena affecting later life should not undermine the case for becoming, identifying with, and (crucially) pronouncing ourselves to be old. Neither the construct of agelessness, nor the social model of disability have fully addressed the prospect of life's finitude as it now confronts so many of us. A counter-argument can be made, of course – there are no absolutes here. The pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski, for example, produced a luminous recording of Mozart's last piano sonata at the age of 95, gave his final concert at the age of 99, and died in 1993 at the age of 101, a week after giving a piano lesson. Perhaps, this unusual, highly specialised, experience of agency meant he did not encounter the sense of limits I believe it's important to evoke. I doubt it, however, and think it will be the experience of most of us who survive to such an age – a substantial minority of us in circumstances that leave a lot to be desired. As a condition being old will have several characteristics, I argue: a sense of the encroaching end; an ability (a willingness) to look back with some degree of satisfaction; a readiness to attend to the overlapping complexity of memory and present sensation; and a positive reinforcement of the validity of age from those around us. This point is central, reinforced by one of the few reflective texts written by someone who identified herself as old. The precision and poignancy of the following is characteristic of Florida Scott-Maxwell:
"We have reached the place beyond resignation, a place I had no idea existed until I had arrived here. It is a place of high energy. Perhaps passion would be a better word than energy, for the sad fact is this vivid life cannot be used. If I try to transpose it into action I am soon spent." (The Measure of My Days, 1968, p 69)
This frank emphasis on her incapacity is a persistent theme:
"I don't like to write this down, yet it is much in the minds of the old. We wonder how much older we have to become, and what degree of decay we may have to endure. We keep whispering to ourselves, "Is this age yet? How far must I go?" For age can be dreaded more than death… But we also find that as we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearable. Too often our problem is the fervour of life within us. My dear fellow octogenarians, how are we to carry so much life, and what are we to do with it?" (ibid, pp 138-139)
Scott-Maxwell's is a moral and spiritual perspective, rather then political. But that final sentence is significant in her willingness to identify a constituency, to speak to her peers. It introduces my fifth criterion: politics. Without a constituency no shared politics is possible. I've come to believe things won't change for us in the 'fourth age' until we identify it as meaningful and defensible, a space that deserves a language and is one we choose to occupy.
The glaring absence at the centre of virtually all related campaigning has been the voices of the very aged. The women like Rose Hacker and Diana Athill who've written as residents of the Mary Feilding Guild home in Highgate over the last 20 years may be from a cultural elite but they are an important resource. It will make a great difference to the way such voices are received if we look forward to their condition, and learn to identify with this last unpredictable phase of our lives. So, however much I grumble at the prospect, and whatever oppressions I confront, I hope I get old before I die – a lyric for which Pete Townshend, 70 next week, may even now be groping for the tune.


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We unleashed our designers on InVision Studio to see what they could quickly create—and the results don't disappoint. Check out round 2 of our Studio jam sessions below.
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The real fun comes after we launch InVision Studio in early 2018, when we get to see the inspiring things you're creating. Until then, enjoy these sneak peeks.
Studio jam #1: Noam Liss, Enterprise Product Designer
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"Turned to #InVisionStudio to quickly concept a mobile app idea that would take @usemuzli's design inspiration with me, on the go!" @noamliss
Studio jam #2: Steven Fabre, Studio Product Designer
Check out smooth, advanced swipe interactions in this Apple Watch prototype. The animation moves naturally and in sync as you swipe.
"Mixing it up in #InVisionStudio with light mode today ⚡. You'll spot some new, smooth, advanced swipe interactions in this Apple Watch prototype." @stevenfabre
Studio jam #3: Charles Patterson, Mobile Product Designer
Charles did a quick jam in Studio, creating an entertainment/movie themed UI. Layout, design, and animation—all in under 15 minutes.
"Light mode = on ⚡ Made this in under 15 mins using #InVisionStudio ? What's your fave, light or dark mode? Or both!" @charlespattson
Over the next couple of months, we'll be dropping more design jams on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about Studio here, and make sure you sign up for early access to stay in the loop!
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Barn kittens anyone?
(This post is specifically for my stepdaughter today...) We have a mother cat that is not friendly. She is elusive, I don't know where she came from. I've never pet her once. We even caught her once, took her to a neighbours farm that needed cats for his cow barn - she came back home. She has produced a lot of 'mousers' - infact way too many mousers for this farm!! The majority of all of them orange. Well, we all knew she had had another batch, but never could find them, until Thursday! I was grading beets, looked over in the corner of the barn by the big straw bails and saw little kittens playing in a basket! Ben and I caught them all by Saturday (4 in total) and brought them in the house to 'calm them down'. The last thing I want is more wild cats on the farm! Anyhow, last night they all got out of their cage, were howling all over the house and all day today I could not find them. Well, I kid you not, while I was doing my 3 previous blogs regarding 'crop


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The Hampton Inn Logan is located in the heart of Logan, Utah with flair of a town in America's heartland. We offer a free hot continental breakfast, indoor pool, hot tub, exercise room, business center and wireless Internet access in our lobby and breakfast area. Our 52 beautifully appointed guest rooms include Free High Speed Internet Access, coffee maker, iron with ironing board, hair dryer, and free local and 800 number calling. Our six studio suites also include plush king sized beds, wet bar, microwave, refrigerator and plenty of room to spread out. Dining, shopping and movie theaters are all a short distance from the hotel.